Kevin Abandons His Humanity: The Holy Mark Plan Sacrifices Hundreds of Millions-A Mad Decision Even Tang San Would Never Dare Make!
Kevin Kaslana.
He simply stood there, doing nothing, but that aloofness and resoluteness that seemed to freeze the soul pierced the eyes of everyone through the Light Screen.
[After a series of plans, including the "Chimera Project" and the "Ganges Sand Plan," were declared utterly failed, I understood.]
Kevin's deep, calm voice rang out, devoid of any emotional fluctuation, as if he were stating a fact unrelated to himself.
[Relying on existing strength and developing in a conventional manner, humanity will never be able to Conquer Collapse.]
[Every seemingly victorious move only pushes us deeper into the Abyss. The evolution of Honkai always outpaces our progress.]
The scene shifts, and countless streams of failed experimental data flood the screen like a waterfall, each red "RROR" starkly alarming.
We're running out of time.
Kevin's voice remained steady, but his words struck everyone's hearts like a heavy hammer.
Tang San's brows furrowed tightly.
He understood this feeling. Back then, during the Sea God Nine Tests, when facing the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and the pursuit of the Angel God and Rakshasa God, he had also experienced this sense of powerlessness when he was driven to the brink of despair.
But what the man on the screen is facing is the despair of an entire civilization.
Since the conventional path is blocked, the only option left is... the forbidden path that no one has ever dared to tread, and which should never be tread.
Kevin slowly turned around, his icy blue eyes showing no hesitation, only a deathly stillness.
[The Final Plan - Holy Mark Plan.]
The word he uttered carried a cold, inhuman quality.
"The Holy Mark Plan?" Huo Yuhao uttered the words subconsciously, a strong sense of unease rising within him. He probed the Light Screen with his Divine Power, only to find himself crashing into an invisible ice wall, beyond which lay endless wails and death.
His face turned pale instantly.
The detailed plan began to appear on the Light Screen.
Those weren't complex blueprints or profound theories, but rather cold, icy textual descriptions.
[Screening all of humanity, forcibly and indiscriminately activating the Honkai Energy antibodies deeply embedded in human Genes — Stigmata.]
[Based on theoretical model calculations, the success rate of this process is less than 0.1%.]
[Of the losers, 99% will directly Honkai into Undead Soldier or low-level Collapse Beast, while the remaining 1% will die directly due to Genes collapse.]
[The successful ones will become super soldiers capable of adapting to the Honkai Energy environment and using Honkai Energy in combat.]
[Using 99.9% of humanity as fuel, we select that 0.1% Core Flame.]
This is... the Holy Mark Plan.
Dead silence.
Utter silence.
If the previous failures brought heaviness and oppression, then this so-called "Final Plan" brings a deep-seated fear and chill.
"Madman!"
Zhou Weiqing was the first to jump up. His eyes widened, almost unable to believe what he was seeing. "This is a complete madman! What kind of bullshit plan is this?!"
"Sacrifice...99.9% of the people?" Xiao Xiao's voice trembled, her face was deathly pale, and her hands were clenched tightly, her knuckles turning white from the force.
"This isn't saving the world!" Bei Bei's voice was hoarse as he stared intently at Kevin's cold face on the screen. "This is slaughtering his own people! He's more cruel than that enemy called Honkai ...!"
"Amitabha." A'Dai (Mandun), who had been resting with his eyes closed, also opened them. Two completely different auras, good and evil, intertwined on his body. "At the cost of the destruction of the vast majority of living beings, in exchange for the continuation of a very few... Such Karma are beyond the capacity of hell to contain."
"They're more than just madmen." The Sea Dragon God King took a deep breath, his tone heavy with solemnity. "This is using the corpses of a civilization to pave a path to an unknown victory. Does such a victory even have any meaning?"
Their questions, their anger, their bewilderment echoed in the empty Temple.
However, at the highest level of the God Realm Central, several former God King fell into an even deeper silence.
Tang San's fingertips trembled slightly.
As a former decision-maker, he immediately saw through the logic behind the plan.
Cold-blooded, ruthless, but... effective.
If you've truly reached a dead end, and all hope has been exhausted, this is the fastest way to generate decisive power.
But the price...
His mind flashed through images of the billions of living beings in the Douluo Continent, the prosperity of Shrek City, and those vibrant faces.
Are we to turn 99.9% of them into "fuel"?
Tang San couldn't accept it. He could sacrifice himself to protect them, but he couldn't bring himself to push them into the fire.
"He... no longer considers himself a 'human being'." Huo Yuhao's voice was soft, yet it clearly reached everyone's ears.
He activated his Spiritual Eye, and the scene he saw was far more terrifying than that of others.
In Huo Yuhao's perception, Kevin on the screen was no longer a human being; he was a block of ice, a sword, a Conceptual aggregate that had abandoned all emotions, all morality, and all humanity in order to achieve the ultimate goal of "Conquer Collapse."
The future he envisioned was devoid of laughter and joy, peace and tranquility; instead, it presented only a blood-red, scorched earth upon which stood several equally cold-blooded "Victors."
"No..." Tang Wulin's voice was deep and powerful, his golden eyes burning with anger, "This isn't the only way. As long as we don't give up, there must be other ways!"
He recalled the war he fought against the Abyss Plane, and the brutal battle ten thousand years ago. Countless people sacrificed their lives, but they died to protect more people, not to be filtered out as cold numbers!
"He abandoned his humanity, and thus he abandoned his right to victory."
Gu Yuena stood beside Tang Wulin, her silver eyes filled with icy coldness. As the Lord of Soul Beasts, she understood best the significance of the continuation of her race. But this continuation was predicated on self-destruction—how absurd, how tragic.
"What a spectacular madness." Rong Nianbing, the God of Emotion, could not feel any single emotion at this moment.
Fear, anger, sadness, despair, and a Sisi... cold understanding.
Countless emotions intertwined, forming a chaotic vortex. He could sense the terrifying emotional storm that would erupt from the humans of that world once the plan was announced.
That would be enough Negative energy to drive Royal Capital mad.
"If it were me, I couldn't do it." The Goddess of Flame leaned gently against Ji Dong, her flame-formed body seeming to dim slightly. "I would rather turn to ashes with my people than make such a decision."