The moon was dark, the wind was high, and clouds stretched across the sky for miles.
Flames blazed like a festival bonfire. The air carried the fragrance of white phosphorus and ashes, like flowers in bloom.
On such a fine night, Jiang Xuan suddenly felt the relaxed delight of celebrating the New Year.
Though a whole crowd of enemies close at hand could have killed him ten times over with one careless mistake, his mood was so wonderful it felt as though he could take flight, his body impossibly light.
Like a cheerful young man in some game lowering his head to look at his cards: hmm, Ancient Ingot Blade, Wine, Iron Chain, and one Strike...
So he could no longer hold it in and threw back his head in song.
"—Now we're talking!!!"
Jiang Xuan grinned, then could no longer contain his wild laughter. The heavy machine gun spinning faster in his hands erupted in an instant with terrifying Blazing Light enough to pierce the entire battlefield of ruins.
Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat—
Mercury surged like a flood, flying from the instantly superheated rotating chamber at thirteen hundred rounds per minute. Countless sparks gathered into a line, and that streak of silver light, rapidly evaporating and dispersing, spread through the barrage into a flowing surface like clouds and water.
The silver light howled forth like a sickle.
A miserable scream tore from the lizard-mutated Chosen One's throat. Scales thick enough to withstand point-blank shotgun fire cracked and warped in less than a second under the impact of the silver light. Then, vast amounts of flesh flew everywhere, rising into the sky alongside sprays of blood.
An arm as thick as a Giant Tree seemed to have been shoved into an invisible meat grinder. Bone was exposed in an instant, yet even the