"Gravity?"
Li Mude was taken aback by the unfamiliar word. Then he burst into even more derisive laughter.
"Hahahaha! Did I hear that right? Gravity? What the hell is that? Your new Martial Soul?"
The Soul Master officers behind him joined in, laughing uproariously.
"Governor, this kid must be so scared he's talking nonsense!"
"A useless nobody without even a Soul Ring dares to play tricks in front of us!"
"Exactly! Governor, stop wasting your breath on him and order the assault! I'll be the first to charge in and twist his head off to kick it around like a ball!"
Laughter and jeers mixed together, filled with utter contempt for Qin Feng, the "mortal."
As far as they were concerned, the war was already over.
An ordinary person without Soul Power could build the walls as high as he liked; they still wouldn't stop a Soul Saint.
Salas stood at the back of the crowd, watching the idiots still laughing. His body trembled slightly.
He wanted to run, but his feet seemed nailed to the ground, unable to move.
He knew that when that lunatic brought out a new "toy," the show was about to begin.
On the city wall, Qin Feng ignored the mockery below.
He simply lowered his head and looked at the silver metal disc in his hand.
It had a ring of precise graduations and a red button.
This was the Umbrella Corporation's latest concept weapon for individual soldiers—the G-1 Handheld Gravity Gradient Meter.
Its function was simple.
It released a special subspace wave to forcibly alter the gravitational parameters in a target area.
"Ignorance is the root of weakness and death."
Qin Feng said it mildly, as if reading out a verdict.
Then he gently turned the dial on the disc from the preset "1G" to "10G."
Finally, his thumb pressed the red button.
"Bzzzz—"
There was no light, no sound.
Only an invisible wave spread out from the little disc, like the hand of a god gently covering the area at the front of the enemy formation below.
The next second—
A sight that chilled everyone to the bone unfolded before them!
"Ah! My legs!"
"What's happening? My feet are sinking into the ground!"
"Help! The ground... the ground's turned soft!"
Their shrill screams instantly replaced the laughter from before!
At the very front of the enemy formation, several hundred charging soldiers and low-ranking Soul Masters found that the ground beneath their feet had, in an instant, changed from solid earth into a soft swamp!
It was as if an invisible giant hand had slammed them into the ground!
"Thud! Thud! Thud!"
Their heavy armor offered no protection. Instead, it became a deadly burden!
The soldiers sank one after another, the hard earth beneath their feet as vulnerable as tofu.
In just a few seconds,
the several hundred elite soldiers, along with the warhorses beneath them, were all buried waist-deep in the ground, unable to move!
They struggled frantically, only to find their bodies weighed a thousand pounds. Even lifting an arm was almost impossible!
The entire battlefield fell into an eerie silence.
Everyone stared blankly at the "field of human wheat" before them, as if they'd been hit with a paralysis spell.
The wild grin on Li Mude's face froze completely.
The Armored Earth Dragon beneath him let out an uneasy growl, its four stout claws sinking slightly into the ground.
"Th-this... what kind of sorcery is this?!" Li Mude's voice trembled, and the fat on his face quivered.
An earth-type Soul Skill?
No!
There wasn't the slightest trace of Soul Power!
Besides, even the strongest earth-type control Soul Skill couldn't make the ground across such a vast area change so strangely in an instant!
"I told you. This is physics."
Qin Feng's voice, like a devil's whisper, came through the loudspeaker again.
"I just increased the gravity of the ground beneath your feet tenfold."
"And, by the way, your body weight has increased tenfold too."
"How does it feel, Governor Li?"
Tenfold gravity?!
Li Mude's brain buzzed, and his mind went blank.
He finally understood why the soldiers had sunk into the ground!
The ground hadn't softened!
They had become too heavy!
So heavy that even the earth couldn't bear their weight!
"Demon... You're a demon!!" A Soul Elder officer trapped at the front of the formation let out a desperate roar.
He tried to summon his Soul Power to pull himself out of the ground.
But under tenfold gravity, the Soul Power inside him moved sluggishly. Every attempt to direct it felt like trudging along with a mountain on his back!
His pitiful amount of Soul Power couldn't possibly withstand the terrifying force of the entire planet!
"Everyone! Retreat! Everyone, fall back!!"
Li Mude finally snapped out of his shock. Screaming frantically, he tried to turn his mount around and flee.
"Leaving already?"
A cruel smile tugged at Qin Feng's lips.
"Did I say you could?"
He pressed the red button on the Gravity Gradient Meter in his hand again.
This time, he didn't adjust the dial.
Instead, he activated another mode.
[Gravity Pulse Mode, activated.]
"Bzzzz—Bzzzz—Bzzzz—"
An even more terrifying invisible force shook the area at an extremely high frequency!
The soldiers and warhorses trapped in place felt an irresistible force alternately slam them down toward the planet's core and yank them violently upward!
"Crack! Crack!"
The sound of bones breaking!
Under the repeated torment of being crushed down and yanked up, their bodies became like lumps of clay kneaded back and forth by invisible hands!
Blood poured from their mouths and noses, and through the gaps in their armor!
In just a dozen seconds,
the several hundred elite soldiers had become piles of mangled flesh, embedded in the soil after enduring this silent torture!
Not one of them could even scream again!
"Ugh—"
The soldiers in the rear ranks saw the hellish scene and couldn't hold it in any longer. They vomited on the spot.
At that moment, their morale collapsed completely!
Fear spread like the most terrible plague through the remaining four thousand soldiers!
They threw away their weapons and fled in a panic, wailing and running as fast as they could, cursing their parents for not giving them an extra pair of legs!
Their army crumbled like a landslide!
Li Mude stared blankly at the scene before him. The Armored Earth Dragon beneath him had collapsed in terror, pissing and shitting itself.
Only Qin Feng's words echoed madly in his mind.
"What can you possibly use to fight me?"
Exactly.
What could he use?
His Soul Rings?
In the face of someone who could alter the laws of nature at will with "physics," what the hell were his seven rings of light that he'd been so proud of?
"N-no... don't kill me... I surrender! I surrender!!"
Li Mude tumbled off the dragon's back, then crawled to his knees and frantically kowtowed toward the city wall, begging for mercy.
Qin Feng watched coldly, as if looking at an ant that had been crushed underfoot.
He switched off the Gravity Gradient Meter, and gravity in the area returned to normal.
But apart from the bloody muck and twisted armor strewn across the ground, there wasn't a living thing left.
He picked up the radio and ordered Grey Wolf in a voice devoid of emotion.
"Brother Wolf, send out the cleaning robots to clear the battlefield."
"Also, notify Level Four Underground."
Qin Feng's gaze fell on the fat figure kneeling and begging for mercy. His voice was icy.
"It seems the doctor's lab is still missing a sufficiently obese test subject for measuring 'fat-to-energy conversion efficiency.'"
"Bring that man named Li Mude back alive."
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