Now that he had the Reality Stone firmly in his grasp, he had no interest in causing any more trouble. Just as he was about to turn around, he suddenly heard a strange noise.
His expression shifted slightly, but his tone remained calm yet authoritative. "I have always respected your contributions to protecting the Earth. For Ms. Agatha's sake, let this matter rest."
"But if anyone remains obstinate and insists on provoking us again, then don't blame me for leaving room for maneuver."
"We will not be held responsible for any harm to innocent people or damage to buildings that may occur."
Agatha was taken aback, thinking he was warning the Britain.
She replied in a deep voice, "Mr. Vitas, rest assured, I don't think the Britain Prime Minister is that short-sighted."
The words had barely left his lips when a furious roar suddenly erupted across the skies above London:
" Vitas, come out here!"
Brian, who had just stepped out of the spatial rift, landed near the ruins of the Buckingham Palace. Looking up, he saw a shockingly huge crater lying across the ground, surrounded by broken walls and lingering smoke.
His heart tightened, and he immediately rushed to the crowd of onlookers by the roadside, urgently asking:
"What happened? Where is Buckingham Palace? Where is Her Majesty the Queen and the Prime Minister?"
Upon seeing him, everyone gasped in surprise.
" Captain Britain! You're still alive? That's wonderful!"
They all say you were killed by that demon!
"The captain is back! We're saved!"
"Please avenge the Queen and those who died unjustly!"
"My Milais... she's gone, killed by that Devil himself, sob..."
He razed the palace to the ground...
A torrent of cries and complaints flooded in, and Brian grew angrier with each word, his face turning ashen. He never expected that the man would not only kill all the Divine Punishment Knights on the spot, but also, relying on his absolute strength, blast the Buckingham Palace into ruins.
The execution of the queen, the symbol of the nation, resulted in the deaths of thousands of civilians.
This is an unforgivable sin.
As the city's recognized guardian, his heart was filled with rage. He suddenly leaped into the air, soaring thousands of meters into the sky.
With his left hand gripping the Amulet of Life and his right hand holding the Sword in the Stone, he roared to the heavens, " Vitas, come forth! Let us fight to the death!"
In the distance, amidst the clouds, Chen Xiao looked up at the figure engulfed in flames of fury, a slight smile playing on his lips, "You really think you can defeat me with just two divine artifacts?"
Before he finished speaking, his figure shot through the sky like an arrow, covering more than ten kilometers in an instant, leaving only a blur.
A thousand meters above the ground, Chen Xiao stood with his hands behind his back, gazing at Brian a hundred meters away, his tone indifferent. "What, you escaped with your life, and you're in such a hurry to come back and die?"
At this moment, his every move exuded a villainous aura.
A hundred meters away, Brian's eyes were bloodshot, his teeth clenched. " Vitas, why did you slaughter those unarmed ordinary people?"
"Slaughter? No, you're mistaken." Chen Xiao shook his head slightly, his tone casual to the point of being almost cold.
"I just struck casually, to say hello. The Buckingham Palace collapsed; it's just unlucky. As for the passersby caught in the aftermath, they were simply very unlucky."
"If we really want to find fault, we should blame Rudoston. If he hadn't started this, none of this would have happened."
"Of course, you can also blame Britain. If they hadn't put him in charge of the lab, approved the formation of the Knights of Divine Punishment, and approved that three billion dollar budget request..."
"If none of these things are done, then none of this will happen. Don't you think so?"
He spread his hands, his expression calm. "In the end, I was the first to suffer. But why do you all treat me like an unforgivable scourge?"
"Should I deliberately die in Qigela so that you all can have your way?"
"Some people pocketed the money and left, while others took my gene sample to study even more terrifying powers. Isn't that perfect?"
Upon hearing Chen Xiao's words, Brian's apple bobbed slightly, and he was momentarily speechless, only slowly shaking his head. "Even if what you say makes sense, it doesn't mean you can wantonly slaughter the innocent."
"You are the one who started this catastrophe. Those children who lost their parents, those partners who lost their loved ones, those ordinary people whose families were torn apart... you must bow your head and admit your guilt for them."
Before he could finish speaking, Brian's eyes suddenly sharpened like knives, and the divine sword in his hand hummed and trembled, emitting golden light. " Vitas, no matter how you try to explain yourself today, you cannot escape judgment."
"This is the first time in my life that I have felt such a burning desire to kill someone, wishing I could erase you with my own hands."
Chen Xiao chuckled and shook his head, "They dare not root out the problem, dare not hold the Britain leadership accountable, but instead, they cloak themselves in righteousness and call for my execution."
He was never a kind person, and he had no attachment to this world, but he was never ambiguous about his grudges.
The so-called heroes, who shout about light and order, are in reality nothing more than a group of sophisticated egoists who consider themselves right and only believe in their own ideas.
The disdain on Chen Xiao's lips was like a flame licking dry tinder, completely igniting Brian's anger.
Even though he was furious, he remained on high alert, his left hand amulet glowing with a warm green light, protecting his entire body. He dared not forget that the Mutants before him was faster than he could have imagined; the slightest lapse in concentration would result in his head being severed from his body.
" Vitas, submit to the law!"
A sharp shout rang out as Brian raised the Sword in the Stone. In an instant, an immense pressure swept across the sky, and a golden sword beam that tore through the heavens shot up, so intense it seemed to cleave reality in two.
Locked in by the sword light, Chen Xiao stood motionless, as if nailed to the spot, only able to look up and watch the thousand-meter-long, sun-like slash crash down.
The strange celestial phenomenon alarmed the entire city. Countless London looked up in disbelief, but no one realized that Bleach was already hanging over their heads.
Chen Xiao's gaze was calm as he stared at the falling sword light. The violent power that could crush everything and the aura that was sharp enough to sever space and time caused even the invisible Bio-Force Field on his body to ripple slightly.
In terms of sheer power, this strike was indeed terrifying; in particular, the invincible and sharp intent that seemed capable of severing cause and effect was unprecedented.
But just as the sword's edge was about to touch the tip of his hair, he said calmly, "At this moment, I am merely a phantom that does not exist."
As soon as he finished speaking, the space suddenly distorted, and one-thousandth of the energy in his body was silently drawn away.
The next instant, the all-encompassing golden light pierced straight through his body, carrying a destructive torrent, and slammed heavily into the ground.
boom!
Heaven and earth fell silent, and the void trembled.
Where the sword light reached, a massive abyss several kilometers long and hundreds of meters wide suddenly split open in central London. The Havok swept in all directions, buildings collapsed like paper, pedestrians instantly turned into blood mist, sand and gravel rose into the air, thick smoke billowed up, and half the city was swallowed up by a gray-black dust curtain in an instant.
The tremors were felt violently in the distant streets; glass shattered and people staggered, clinging to walls as they stared in terror at the towering column of smoke.
"Help!"
"Run!!"
Screams filled the air, and despair washed over the entire city like a tidal wave.
Hundreds and thousands of cars rushed toward the outskirts of the city, tires screeching and engines roaring.
No one expected that this world-renowned city would actually face this day.
The collapse of the Buckingham Palace at dawn, which killed thousands of people, was already terrifying; who would have thought that Captain Britain would return and cleave London in two with a single sword strike.
The casualties far exceed tens of thousands, even approaching one hundred thousand; it's terrifying.
High in the sky, Brian's pupils contracted as he stared at the ruins below, his face filled with astonishment.
Chen Xiao smiled leisurely and shook his head, saying, "I really didn't expect that you, as the Captain Britain, would be even more ruthless than me. With this sword strike, tens of thousands of people will probably die by your hand."
Of course, this is not sarcasm, but the truth: Brian simply could not control the full power of the Sword in the Stone.
His eyes were bloodshot as he stared intently at Chen Xiao: "Why didn't you block it?"
He only intended to test the waters, so he unleashed power far exceeding what was expected, but he never anticipated that his opponent would be able to evade it with such a bizarre method.
Why should I block it?
Chen Xiao tilted his head to look at him, a hint of confusion in his expression. "Are you really not clear, or are you pretending?"
The wailing and screams below were deafening. Brian's temples bulged with veins, his teeth grinding together. "Today, I will kill you, to avenge everyone!"
Before she could finish speaking, a figure darted over – it was Agatha, her expression anxious.
"Stop fighting..." She had just persuaded Superman Vitas to stop when she turned around and saw Captain Britain stirring up another bloodbath, with a wider impact and heavier casualties than before.
But Brian paid no heed. The golden light of his longsword surged, the amulet glowed brightly, and in a flash, he transformed into a blur, rushing towards Chen Xiao at several times the speed of sound.
puff!
As the golden blade sliced through the air, it forcibly cut a dark crack more than ten meters long, the edges hissing and exuding a chilling aura as if severing the laws of nature.
Clearly, he'd learned his lesson: ranged sword strikes are easier to dodge, while close-quarters attacks are far more lethal...
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Space crumbled inch by inch under the divine sword, the Berserk sword energy surged and raged, turning hundreds of meters into a deathly black hole, where everything Oblivion.
Chen Xiao remained unharmed, simply because Brian's speed appeared to him as slow as a tortoise's crawl.
As for the locking force inherent in the Sword in the Stone, every time it approached Chen Xiao, it was shattered by an invisible force field, leaving not even a trace.
"At that speed, you couldn't even swat a mosquito."
The sound that reached his ears ignited Brian's fury. His divine sword erupted with blinding golden light as he slashed down with all his might towards Chen Xiao's head.
But it was still too slow.
Chen Xiao's figure swayed slightly, and dozens of afterimages appeared simultaneously, while his true body had already quietly moved to the side. The destructive sword light roared through the afterimages, piercing straight into the sky.
boom!
The golden light tore through the stratosphere, shattered the ionosphere, burst out of the atmosphere, and cleaved its way into near-Earth orbit, destroying dozens of satellites in succession before finally dissipating into the vast depths of the universe.
It tore open a terrifying rift that stretched for thousands of kilometers, was hundreds of miles wide in the middle, and almost split half of the atmosphere, shocking the world.
"You'll get a taste of my punch too."
Before he could finish speaking, a chilling voice suddenly boomed from behind Brian. As soon as he turned around, a fist wrapped in blazing golden light rapidly enlarged in his field of vision.
Just as Chen Xiao's fist was about to strike, a layer of dark blue barrier suddenly appeared in front of Brian —the divine artifact, the " Amulet of Life."
boom!