(PS: I spent a few minutes revising this part. There were originally several hundred more words after it, but after thinking it over, I decided cutting it here would have the best cliffhanger effect... Was I really trained in the art of cliffhangers? =-=)
With an expressionless slash, Wu Pifu cut down a screaming fifth-generation being, reducing them to mangled flesh in less than the time it took to blink.
"No!"
Screams reached Wu Pifu's mind through psychic power—not from one person, but a whole group.
"What have you done?!"
"How dare you? How dare you!!"
"Don't think you can do whatever you want just because you're an Originator! Multidimensional Universe Civilization has no need for a tyrant like you!!"
Wu Pifu could not even be bothered to spare a thought for those absurd, panicked voices filled with weak fury. He merely raised his blade, sensed briefly, and slashed. A retreat trajectory line burst forth, carrying him a thousand miles away. At the same time, the ground beneath him collapsed and peeled open. In a military fortress below, protected by countless drones, a panic-stricken man looked up at the sky.
"Wait—"
With several swift flashes of the blade, the man got out only half a word before being chopped into pulp. Within five steps, all his defensive measures were as flimsy as paper. Even his contingencies—existing solely as mental consciousness after bodily death, or more extreme methods such as having his true soul escape—failed completely. In an instant, both body and soul were utterly destroyed.
After that slash, Wu Pifu rose into the air again and hovered in the void. He sensed once more, then raised his great blade again.
"Wait! Originator, you can't do this!"
"We are saving Multidimensional Universe Civilization! We are the bigger picture!"
"Everyone, stop wasting