Is Domination Really This Simple?

Domination—was it really this simple?

The engineers had frantically installed a hundred aircraft engines on the two Floating Fortresses!

Combined with Drifting Glyphs, they could raise their cruising speed to 600 kilometers per hour!

The enormous roar could be heard from dozens of kilometers away.

"Those two fortresses carry half of our combat forces. The other half will remain behind to protect Yunhai City." Li Chunhong was weighed down by worry, his brow tightly furrowed. "Thankfully... we've also developed some cold-resistant glyphs. If we truly had to rely on Old Delhi, we'd be in serious trouble."

A pilot from Sydney City suddenly said, "Yunhai City's industrial capacity truly is formidable. It ranks among the top tier of all these cities."

"But what if even the hydrogen bombs don't work? What if we lose the battle? What then?"

"Sigh, that possibility exists, but we can't delay any longer... If we want to survive, all we can do is gamble!"

Li Chunhong thought to himself, Yao Drizzle was severely injured last time. Even if it really comes running over here, we probably won't be the first to bear the brunt of it.

Besides, we still have one chance to use the "Light Screen"...

That thing was their final trump card!

Chinese Parasol Tree Dream Realm.

"Have we made contact yet? Why... why is there still nothing..."

After putting in tremendous effort, the group found that the Opium Poppy Tree branch would only glow, offering no response whatsoever.

Lu Qingqing's little face was filled with despair, her eyes moist. She was afraid that her Older Brother was already dead...

The Pangu Continent was so vast, and they had been out of contact for so long. It would have been perfectly normal for something to have happened...

The other staff members were equally ashen-faced.

This time, no one would come to help them.

In the end, Colonel Li Jun let out a sigh, his gaze turning resolute. "Qingqing, keep trying to contact them here. We have to leave the dream realm and make some preparations for battle."

"It seems the war outside has already begun ahead of schedule."

Lingbo City.

Radioactive dust spread through the city. Skin exposed to it burned fiercely.

But no one had the time to care about that anymore. Today would decide life and death!

After being subjected to a barrage of saturation bombing, Yao Drizzle had retreated dozens of kilometers before launching another assault.

It seemed highly cautious, as though it had "smelled" the ever-spreading radioactive dust and knew it was something bad.

It changed direction and began tirelessly freezing the city with frigid winds.

God's Skill—Absolute Zero!

In only a few moments, the temperature had dropped to minus one hundred degrees Celsius. Frost like white snakes crawled across the surfaces of the buildings.

Ordinary glass windows could not withstand such cold and shattered one after another. Even the concrete had frozen into cracks.

High-rises began collapsing. The famous War Memorial Pillar suddenly split open along its walls and plunged headfirst to the ground, its purple granite shattering into fragments like porcelain.

"Keep warm! Run the thermal power plants at full capacity!"

Lingbo City had long been prepared. Its shelters were buried deep underground and protected by geothermal heat.

Their thick walls were made from insulating materials, making it difficult for the freezing cold outside to penetrate in a short time.

The military camps were also inscribed with cold-resistant glyphs, while thermal power stations operating at full capacity supplied an endless stream of heat.

Thus, several areas throughout the city continued to maintain reasonable temperatures, standing stubbornly like weeds in a gale wind.

"Report! It has charged in again!"

"It has used some kind of defensive ability!"

The hearts of the officers tightened as they all looked toward the sky.

Within the gray haze, densely packed shards of ice appeared—more than a million in total!

These ice shards formed a glittering, diamond-like shield that enveloped Yao Drizzle's main body.

"What kind of ability is this?"

In truth, humanity only knew that its name was Yao Drizzle. They knew absolutely nothing about its specific abilities.

The moment they saw those millions of ice shards, every commander felt a sense of foreboding.

"Northern military camp, launch the missiles!"

Diggedit practically roared the order: "Don't worry about wasting them! Fire the entire stockpile at once! Saturate it with attacks!"

This time, they were using thermobaric weapons, each one like a heavy torpedo taller than a person.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The instant those thermobaric weapons exploded, the air seemed to be torn apart by an invisible force. Scorching fireballs suddenly swelled, devouring everything around them.

A massive shockwave radiated wildly outward from the point of explosion!

Its power rivaled that of a small nuclear bomb, turning the frigid air into a blast of heat.

"Did it work?"

The savage bombardment continued for an entire minute.

Once the shockwaves dispersed, countless commanders stared in stunned disbelief through the surveillance feeds. The shield of frost glimmered with crystalline light. Millions of ice shards spun at incredible speed; at most, less than half had melted. Yao Drizzle's true body had not suffered the slightest damage!

It suddenly launched an attack!

In that instant, its speed surpassed the sound barrier, unleashing a violent sonic boom.

Ice spikes erupted from the ground!

"Fire!" The soldiers opened fire without fear of death, while the anti-aircraft guns on the ground spewed flames!

But the disparity in strength was simply too great.

The military camps firing artillery shells were blown apart by ice spikes in an instant.

More than three thousand soldiers did not even have time to scream. The insulated walls were completely ripped apart by ice crystals.

Their bodies and souls were instantly frozen by the extreme cold, reduced to cold corpses—even though just minutes ago, they had been full of ambition, hoping to stand at the pinnacle of the world. Now, they were all dead.

Yao Drizzle revealed its true body: an ugly human head covered in thousands upon thousands of eyes.

Its grotesque maw spanned a full hundred meters, filled with more than ten thousand teeth.

Even stranger were the tentacles growing from its head, each one resembling a bluish-gray arm.

That enormous mouth suddenly inhaled, sucking in vast numbers of human corpses.

"Crunch, crunch!" The bloody maw began chewing frantically.

The disaster-class anomalous Yao born in the Ninth Era was overwhelmed by the sheer deliciousness of this feast. No wonder it had obsessed over it, its innate instincts constantly yearning for it... Today, it had finally tasted it!

Its feeding speed even slowed, as though it were deliberately savoring every bite.

Frozen scraps of flesh mixed with large clots of blood fell to the ground.

Then the tentacles on its head picked them up and deftly stuffed them back into its mouth.

The horrifying scene was like Human Hell!

Everyone's heartbeat raced. Thousands of comrades had died in an instant, while the thermobaric weapons had achieved virtually nothing.

This anomaly's defensive capabilities far exceeded their expectations!

"Leader, what do we do?"

Diggedit felt a pang of regret. Could he truly dominate this anomaly? If he had truly trusted his Human Compatriots, would the outcome have changed?

"No! The only ones we can trust are ourselves!"

He abruptly issued the order: "Keep firing! We cannot retreat now, and we cannot be afraid. We have no way out!"

Intense gunfire erupted once more. The soldiers fought bravely and fearlessly as their weapons spat merciless flames.

Besides thermobaric weapons and rocket launchers, they also had a small number of glyph shells. But Lingbo City was too impoverished; the combat power of a single city was truly limited to this much.

The ice crystal shield conjured by Yao Drizzle endured the bites of insects.

Human weapons found it difficult to break through its defenses.

God's Skill, Earth Ice Spikes!

One ice spike after another burst from the ground, cracking buildings apart across wide areas.

Without the protection of heating facilities, even wills of steel could not withstand blows capable of easily destroying steel.

Screams and wails rose one after another through the headsets...

Or perhaps the soldiers made no sound at all before falling into the darkness of death.

No one had expected the Yao to be this powerful.

They only knew that time was running out!

Diggedit quickly moved beneath the blood-sacrifice formation through an underground passage.

"There's no other way. Even if we failed to seriously injure it, we can only take this risk!"

"I have to use the power of Domination."

The howls in his headset gradually grew fewer. Before an enemy that could not be defeated, even the greatest courage would falter.

Of the three hundred thousand soldiers, no one knew how many were still alive.

Diggedit emerged onto the surface and faced Yao Drizzle from afar as it frantically devoured corpses.

"My will decides everything!"

"Come!"

God's Skill—Domination!

Red Light spilled from his eye sockets, precisely striking one of the eyes on Yao Drizzle's forehead.

There was simply no way to determine how much spiritual essence Domination would consume; the gap in strength between the two sides was far too great.

He poured everything he had into it!

Then, a mouthful of blood spilled from his throat!

A miracle happened!

Yao Drizzle actually stopped feeding and obeyed his command!

Red Light shone from all several thousand of its eyes at once.

He knew this state all too well. Yao had actually been successfully dominated? So easily?!

Yao Drizzle

A calamity-class anomaly originating from the Ninth Era, with a savage temperament.

Extraordinary Abilities:

Absolute Zero: Lowers the temperature over a wide area. Its bone-piercing frost can freeze the movement of atoms and molecules.

Ice Shield: Controls five million ice crystals to form a powerful force-field shield, greatly enhancing defensive capabilities.

Earth Ice Spikes: Ice spikes abruptly rise from the ground, bringing devastating destructive power.

Frost Regeneration: Absorbs cold energy to rapidly recover from injuries. It can even encase itself in ice and enter a state of suspended death after suffering fatal damage, before reviving once more.

Form: 56.2

Qi: 78.2

Spirit: 2.9

Extraordinary Level: Level 7

Diggedit could not help but feel overjoyed. What was going on? Everything had come so easily!

But he soon became aware of Yao's fierce resistance.

It was as though a consciousness was constantly struggling against him within his mind, uttering taboo yet soundless words.

His mind drifted in and out of a daze.

This is bad. It seems I can't control it for much longer. The reason is that the spiritual essence I've invested is nowhere near enough.

If this continues, it will break free! And the mental backlash will kill me outright!

But he no longer had any spiritual essence on hand.

How could an impoverished Safe Zone possibly have so many extraordinary minerals?

Facing his terrifying opponent from afar, Diggedit realized just how alone he was at this moment.

He could see the masses, but the masses could not see him.

Sometimes, he did not want to carry out a massacre either, but reality was always so helpless...

Diggedit placed a private call. "I order the Level C shelter detonated!"

"Chief?!"

"This is the only way!"

"Understood!" Red Light flashed in the secretary's eyes, and veins bulged on his forehead as he pressed a button.

Then he took out a gun, aimed it at his temple, and shot himself dead with a bang.

The earth began to tremble.

Amid deafening explosions, the Level C shelter blew up. Three million people died just like that. There could not possibly have been any survivors.

Even though the explosion was incomparably violent, Diggedit seemed not to hear it at all.

His entire being felt hazy, as though his spirit had left his body, or as though he were dreaming.

He had killed his own compatriots just like that.

The entire world fell into a sea of scarlet.

Countless "spirits," carrying joy, anger, sorrow, and delight, gathered near this unique Mind Beacon inscribed with an array pattern.

Yao Drizzle sensed those specks of light and began to stir restlessly. That was the Idealistic Energy it had longed for...

Yet it was still in a state of domination, and did not attack its master.

"Domination!"

"You damned bastard! Obey my command!"

All the spirits transformed into the energy of Domination and struck Yao Drizzle's eyes.

Its violent emotions seemed to settle down.

The murmuring in his mind diminished considerably, making him feel much better.

It had become more obedient.

"Not enough, still not enough—it will still break free! Do I have to destroy a Level B shelter too?" he murmured inwardly. "Do I have to keep killing my own people?"

"The old dying is one thing, but the Level B shelters are full of young people. I... am I really going to do this?"

"I... I can't do this!"

He clenched his teeth. "In my current state, I can hold out for a while."

"Destroy other cities instead! As long as I gather the spirits of over a hundred million people, I'll definitely be able to control it!" Diggedit reassured himself.

Then, he attempted to issue his first command of control.

"Completely destroy the target ahead!"

Yao Drizzle suddenly exhaled a blast of icy wind. Spikes of ice tore the Level C shelter apart completely—he had to fabricate the appearance that the shelter had been destroyed by the Yao, clearing himself of any involvement.

Then, bracing himself, he retrieved a telegraph machine from beside a soldier's corpse.

He closed the frozen young man's eyes.

"I will win. We will win," he murmured inwardly. "Your sacrifice is meaningful."

He approached the enormous head and climbed onto it, trembling all over. At the same time, he sent an order through the telegraph machine: "Stay in contact with me at all times."

"As you command, Chief!"

The controlled Yao was fairly docile. Its tentacles interlocked like crossed fingers, forming a protective layer that completely shielded him.

Rustling whispers poured into his mind, gradually intensifying the hallucinations in his head.

This control would not last long. The Spirit Attribute of the old, weak, sick, and disabled was at most only 6–8 points; even with a million souls, it was but a drop in the bucket compared to the expenditure needed for control.

Diggedit let out a low roar. "Slaughter the other cities! I'll lead the way."

"Turn all spirits into fuel for control!!"

This mass of dark clouds set off in mighty fashion, thousands of eyes glowing with scarlet, savage light.

First stop—the nearest city, Old Delhi!