Cruel Reality: Taken Down

Time returned to the present. Boom!

The sudden thunderous blast instantly tore apart the silence of the Research Department's detention area.

The Soul-Guided Elemental Bombs densely buried throughout the prison block detonated at the same moment.

The force of the explosions immediately swallowed everything around them.

The shockwaves produced by the exploding Soul-Guided Elemental Bombs spread wildly in every direction from the cells.

Chunks of stone fell from the walls, kicking up clouds of dust. Flames soared into the sky, illuminating the entire dark detention area and turning it into a burning hellscape.

The violent explosions were clearly transmitted to Xu Ziqian's ears through the soul-guided surveillance screens.

These Soul-Guided Elemental Bombs were masterpieces he had carefully modified, their power precisely calculated and calibrated.

With their Soul Power suppressed, this was undoubtedly an inescapable death trap for Shrek Soul Masters who possessed only six or seven rings.

Before such violent explosions, these gifted Shrek Soul Masters were as fragile and helpless as ordinary people, blown to pieces in an instant.

Severed limbs flew through the air, while blood rained down in droplets, filling the air with a pungent stench of blood.

Their screams and cries were mercilessly drowned out by the explosions, leaving behind only a scene of horrific ruins.

Yet from within those ruins came several desperate screams.

Several of them had reacted quickly enough to survive with the instant soul-guided shields and Soul-Conduit Milk Bottles they carried, but that did not seem fortunate for them at all.

Although they had reacted swiftly, they could only save themselves. They had no power to rescue their other companions and could only watch helplessly as the comrades they had spent every day with died before their eyes in the most miserable manner.

The surviving Inner Court disciples no longer possessed their