I Have Countless Weapons Like This

Zhao Bai and Mei exchanged a glance, nodded in perfect unison, and said together:

"We have our own procedures and strictly follow the rules. We won't act according to your wishes, so Mr. Chen should just watch quietly from the side."

"What else could we do besides kidnapping them?!"

"All the ranch workers have run away, and the water and electricity have been cut off. I can't manage that many cattle alone, and I still have to negotiate with those bastards who take wages without doing any work!"

Mr. Chen was unusually agitated. "If this continues, the losses will only grow. If the ranch is still operating normally, it'll attract an investigation from the securities commission. Once they decide it's operational fraud, our missile test base will be gone!"

So that was what he was worried about...

Zhao Bai had thought Mr. Chen was worried about the cattle. He really hadn't expected him to be worried about this testing ground.

Still, that concern was perfectly reasonable. Aside from Canada, with its vast permafrost, and Lubyanka in Siberia, only sparsely populated Australia had enough land to lease such a huge site at once.

"Don't worry. We'll handle it."

Zhao Bai forced himself to reassure him, sent Mr. Chen away from the scene, then hurriedly pulled Mei along and drove toward the source of the flames.

The closer they got, the more intense the heat became.

Worried that the car might explode, Zhao Bai and Mei got out and continued on foot. The temperature had already exceeded forty degrees Celsius, and everything in sight was gray and desolate.

After only a few steps, Mei felt sweat completely sticking her clothes to her body, and she was already showing signs of dehydration.

"Careful. Walk behind me."

As Zhao Bai spoke, his right hand slowly settled at his waist. Ice Lotus Sky seemed to answer his call, trembling faintly. Zhao Bai inhaled and drew the blade in one fluid motion, without the slightest hesitation.

A chill spread through the air. Mei suddenly felt her entire body relax, and the oppressive heat vanished without a trace.

"Your sword..."

"A weapon developed by St. Freya. It was originally meant to keep sashimi fresh while I sliced it, but its output is too strong, so it can do plenty of things besides slicing sashimi."

Zhao Bai spouted nonsense and casually made up a backstory for Ice Lotus Sky. The hand holding the blade pressed down slightly, and his entire body drew taut like a bowstring, radiating astonishing sharpness.

"A quick-draw slash?"

"No. Dimensional Slash."

The moment the words fell, blinding ice and snow abruptly engulfed the sea of flames. From sky to earth, then from earth back to sky, deep blue frost flowed throughout heaven and earth.

Chapter 24: I Have Countless Weapons Like This

A knife for slicing sashimi?

Indeed, sashimi prized freshness above all else. Meticulous chefs believed metal knives left sashimi with a metallic odor, so they disdained iron tools and used ceramic knives instead.

But Zhao Bai was on another level.

He used neither metal nor ceramic. He used technology.

Ice Lotus Sky appeared as pure, transparent pale blue because it had no shape at all. Its hilt was a controller that fixed the space three feet ahead, causing the atoms to stop moving completely. What followed was Absolute Zero.

The transparent icy blue visible to the naked eye was actually a mixture of solidified air. Vast flakes of nitrogen snow precipitated from the air, creating the effect of drifting snowflakes.

Without exaggeration, this blade, like a Fusion Warrior, was the crystallization of the highest level of ancient craftsmanship.