At that moment, the scavengers who had stayed on the sidelines to watch rather than join the assault saw the distant crowd fall deathly silent after a flurry of chaotic attacks.
Before they could process what had happened, a blinding light flashed.
When they opened their eyes again, they discovered that the bodies of the thousand-plus attackers from the various factions had shattered all over the ground.
Meanwhile, over a thousand human spinal columns floated in the air.
At the top of each spine was a head, its face frozen in bewildered terror.
"Human Emperor above! What the hell happened?!"
A scar-faced man with the bearing of a soldier gaped at the sight.
Beside him, a companion with mechanical modifications covering half his head murmured, "I... don't know."
As shock gripped the onlookers, the spines and the heads attached to them rapidly warped and dissolved.
The heads stretched and compressed, becoming skull-shaped sword hilts.
Their spines flattened into blades of bone.
Before the surrounding crowd's eyes, the spinal swords gathered under the control of an invisible force, gradually floating over to the person holding the silver-gray umbrella.
A black-haired young man in the crowd stared in shock. "Holy crap, is that a legendary sword immortal?!"
"Mom!! I found a sword immortal!"
While the black-haired youth trembled with excitement, Su Yi held his umbrella and looked down at the two men kneeling on the ground.
Both had clearly been scared out of their wits.
One was the burly Reclaimers member who had tried to extort him earlier.
The other was the Bloodmark Brotherhood leader, whose entire body was covered in dense, blood-red markings.
Both men were deathly pale, their pupils constricted to pinpoints as terror shook them to the core.
They glanced around out of the corners of their eyes and