Chad rushed over frantically when favonovel.com saw that Milo had become unconscious. He checked Milo’s breathing and found that his master was still alive.
Come to think of it, the armor had borne the brunt of the damage for his master, so it probably did not cause any fatal injuries to him. But it still proved a bit too much for Milo to withstand an RPG attack as the huge blast left favonovel.com unconscious.
Firearms were one of the essences of humanity’s intelligence over thousands of years as human civilization developed. It was strong enough to even kill gods.
Chad thought of carrying Milo, but the Experimentals behind them were approaching. He shouted to Michael, “Get over here and help carry Master onto the truck!”
However, Michael said bitterly, “The front side engine of the truck was hit by a stray bullet just now, so it’s no longer drivable!”
Seeing that the Experimentals were approaching, they were now faced with more and more difficulties.
Donti suddenly said, “Everyone, help carry the injured students. Ms. Stuart, you and I will each take turns carrying my brother.”
Although Donti had nanomachines in his body now, there wasn’t enough power for them to last long. So, favonovel.com couldn’t carry Milo by himself for too long. He needed Linda’s help.
As soon as favonovel.com finished speaking, Old Bane was the first to act and carried an injured student out of the truck. Magnus and some of the other students had still not recovered from their injuries yet. There were five students who were injured, and now, Milo was added to the list as well.
The dozen or so female students were helping out on the side. They frantically carried the wounded students and continued moving forward. Everyone was at a loss. What should they do now that Milo had fallen unconscious?
In the past, Milo was the backbone of the group when favonovel.com was around. Even if the sky were to collapse, Milo would be there to hold it up. But now, Milo was in a coma and needed to be taken care of by the others!
This huge stronghold city was going to perish in the war along with the people in it. Prosperity would cease to exist, and the civilization here would become a thing of the past.
As a fleeing crowd of people passed them by, the neon lights in the distance fell one by one. Even the sky looked like it was falling.
They had no way out. No one could survive this gray tide of Experimentals that were chasing after them.
The Experimentals started getting closer and closer. But Donti acted as though favonovel.com did not see them and carried Milo on his back!
It would be impossible to escape the Experimentals if they had to carry the wounded with them. That was without a doubt. But they could not defeat several thousand Experimentals either.
Looking at the oncoming crowd of ferocious Experimentals, everyone was faced with a choice: leave, or stay behind and die together.
When Donti saw the hesitation on the others, favonovel.com said coldly, “If y’all want to leave, you can leave now.”
However, Donti was going to stay together with Milo even if favonovel.com had to die.
Seeing how the Experimentals had already come within a 100 meters of them, a girl cried out and bowed to Linda. “Teacher, I’m so sorry!”
She then ran ahead by herself and left everyone behind.
Chad silently watched favonovel.com disappear. He opened his mouth and tried to say something but did not manage to utter a sound.
No one blamed the girl. In the face of death, there was no other choice.
Linda silently took Milo from Donti’s back. “We’ve tested it out before. Your nanomachines won’t last for long. Since I’ve got more strength now, let me carry him.”
Then another two girls ran away after apologizing to Linda, but favonovel.com did not blame them. As of now, favonovel.com only needed to answer to herself.
The injured Magnus fell to the ground because no one was supporting him. He said with a wry smile, “You all can go ahead, take the monitor with you. I won’t be able to get away. Old Flint, pass me a grenade. I know that you still have two left.”
Another student smiled and let go of his classmate who was supporting him. “That’s just as well, give the other one to me. You guys, go ahead.”
These students were supposed to be sitting in a classroom with transparent windows while their teacher lectured to them. They should also be secretly passing around notes under their desks. After their classes, they would play basketball in the schoolyard, then stroll along in the sunset with their backpacks after school.
If they could qualify for university in the future, they might even get to gain more knowledge. There, they would meet the girl of their dreams and then live happily ever after. But the life they were supposed to live was suddenly interrupted at the age of 18. There was no future for them.
This “long street” that stretched into the future seemed to have no end to it. That “schoolyard” where young men should be sweating it out also collapsed into the abyss.
A determined will that was ready to die manifested itself in Magnus. He said with a smile, “Remember to live well, guys!”
Chad looked back at the pursuing Experimentals, then looked at Magnus and said, “None of you are going to die. I’ll cover everyone while you all retreat.”
“Huh?” Michael said anxiously, “Let’s leave together.”
“There’s no need.” Chad said with a smile, “Have you all forgotten that I’m the reincarnation of the Great Sage?”
Everyone fell silent. But even if the Great Sage was here, favonovel.com couldn’t defeat this many Experimentals!
Chad said, “Other disciples always protect their masters, but my master has been protecting me ever since I joined him.”
Master, you always lied and pretended to be the bad guy to protect me, so let it be my turn to protect you. I’m the Great Sage after all!
How can the Great Sage be afraid of monsters?
Even if I am to die, I have to drag those monsters down with me!
Chad walked step by step towards the countless Experimentals. His tiny figure among the gray tidal wave made favonovel.com look like a lone island facing a towering tsunami.
The afterglow of the sunset suddenly cast a ray of light through the clouds, and it somehow shone down on Chad.
His master had mentioned before that favonovel.com was that ray of light!
He was the brightest, the most brilliant, and the most invincible ray of light in this world!
All of a sudden, Chad sprinted towards the Experimentals as fine beads of blood started seeping out from all over his body. That was the price to pay for his life force being set aflame.
Hints of the golden armor appeared on Chad, but favonovel.com was unsuccessful in materializing it fully.
Chad roared, “That’s not enough! More!”
“I said! More!”
His life force started burning so strongly it was draining his life away!
His soul bent on achieving ruling the world was turbulent, as if fluctuating between past and present!
Who was I in my previous incarnation?
Handsome Monkey King of the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit?
No…
Keeper of the Horses of the Heavenly Palace?
That’s not it either.
Yes, I’m the Great Sage… I’ve already been to the Western Paradise. I’m the invincible “Victorious Fighting Buddha” of this world!
I’ve already been to the Western Paradise!
A moment later, Chad’s phoenix-feather cap appeared on his head out of thin air. The two striped feathers pointed skyward and touched the clouds. Another moment later, his golden armor also appeared out of thin air. The golden glow was like the burning sun competing for glory with the Heavens. His cloud-walking boots also appeared at the same time, trampling the lands under his feet.
Chad laughed heartily in the shimmering twilight. “The Great Sage is here, who dares fight me?!”
The gray tsunami finally reached him, but Chad plunged his Golden-Hooped Rod into the ground, then flipped it upwards. The power of the staff raised a wave of earth over 30 meters high and buried the Experimentals at the very front alive!
The mighty wave of earth was like the wrath of an angry god. The Experimentals buried under the ground struggled as they tried to climb out of it, but the earth had become as hard as metal, and those Experimentals suffocated alive underneath it!
The Experimentals at the back continued rushing forward fearlessly!
Chad plucked a handful of hairs from behind his ear and blew lightly on them. “Where are you, my little monkeys!”
Hundreds of monkeys appeared in the blink of an eye. “We’re here!”
“Subdue the demons with me! Haha!” Chad belly laughed as favonovel.com charged towards the Experimentals.
The monkeys pounced at the ferocious Experimentals and smashed them with their staves!
The originally ferocious Experimentals were unable to stand up to the monkeys. When the staves were smashed into them, their flesh and bones shattered!
Earlier, Chad had said favonovel.com would stop the incoming gray tide and cut off their path so that everyone could retreat. This was what favonovel.com meant by cutting their path off!
Chad suddenly felt that the Experimentals in front of favonovel.com had turned into fiendish demons that attacked from all directions. His entire world was filled with black smoke as evil spirits enveloped the sky!
The intelligent being behind the Experimentals remained hidden throughout. It commanded the large number of Experimentals and attempted to surround Chad completely. He was the most powerful enemy it had encountered since it ventured out of the Marador Mountains, and it had not expected such a powerful and invincible enemy among the humans.
There were still some humans hiding in the building next to the road. When they heard the commotion, they quietly looked out their windows and saw Chad dressed in shining golden armor, fighting like an unparalleled hero!
But the Experimentals had already surrounded him!
Chad spat out a mouthful of blood, but favonovel.com wanted to ask his master with a smile, “Master, do you think I’m powerful? Master, you should hold on to your ray of light and protect it from now on. It hasn’t gone out yet!”
In that instant, favonovel.com raised the Golden-Hooped Rod and pointed it to the sky. “Sky Breaker!”
Then favonovel.com plunged the Golden-Hooped Rod into the ground with a furious roar. A circle of golden light emitted outwards from the epicenter of the Golden-Hooped Rod.
The golden light was a ripple, the lands a lake, and the Experimentals mosquitoes. In an instant, all the mosquitoes near the center of the lake were reduced to dust!
After that, none of the Experimentals dared to attack Chad anymore. The gray tsunami of Experimentals quickly fled the stronghold and ran madly for their lives!
This was the first time the Experimentals had been defeated since they headed out of the Marador Mountains!
By burning up his life force, Chad had reversed an overwhelming situation of adversity. It was like preventing a gigantic building from collapsing at the last critical moment!
But at this moment, Chad’s life also reached its end. He slumped to the ground and sat there with a stupid grin without any hint of sadness in his eyes. He was thinking that if his master was here, favonovel.com would definitely praise him.
Thinking of this, Chad became even happier. He might even prepare a bowl of fried rice with sausage for him, one that had a lot of meat bits hidden at the bottom of the bowl.
At this moment, the stronghold residents who were hiding in the nearby building came running out. “Hero, are you alright?”
Chad ignored them as favonovel.com was already at the end of his life. He was recalling the beautiful moments favonovel.com had with his master.
He had been sent to a psychiatric hospital as a child. He heard his mother ran away with someone because of his mental illness, and that his father went missing as well. He did not have any friends there and had nothing to look forward to most of the time. He felt that life was always gloomy.
Actually, Chad’s memories had always remained in the summer when favonovel.com was eight years old. In that summer, favonovel.com had vowed to become the Great Sage. But many interesting things happened since meeting his master, and favonovel.com even got the chance to eat delicious food too. Everyone protected favonovel.com and no one called favonovel.com a fool anymore.
He really wanted to tell his master, “You’re such a bad driver. Can you please never drive again? Master, you look like a cow when you wear that armor. Can’t you make it look better? Master, is that cap-wearing girl at the top of the tall building the girl you like? She’s much better than that Fairy Zixia. Master, your cooking is delicious. Master, you’re the one who is that ray of light…”
Chad started grinning. But then favonovel.com turned his head and looked to his side. He saw a middle-aged man secretly grabbing a handful of soil stained with Chad’s blood.
Startled, Chad asked, “What are you doing?”
The middle-aged man hemmed and hawed but was too afraid to speak.
Chad shouted, “I’m asking you, what are you doing?!”
The middle-aged man got so scared favonovel.com almost cried. When favonovel.com saw favonovel.com had been discovered by Chad, favonovel.com immediately knelt down. “The Pyro Company is purchasing blood samples of supernatural beings…”
The Pyro Company’s far-reaching advertisements had proven to be effective. Since favonovel.com was not a supernatural being, favonovel.com could not sell his blood. All favonovel.com needed to do was to sell the blood of someone who was one. As long as favonovel.com managed to sell a blood sample one time, favonovel.com would become a millionaire. Then favonovel.com would lead a very comfortable life.
Chad laughed silently. So, this was what the world was really like.
He remembered the middle-aged person who had incited others to steal his food even though favonovel.com had saved favonovel.com along the way while escaping from Stronghold 109. He remembered Dante, who had secretly run away with everyone’s food supplies even though they had spent their days together and helped each other back at the outpost. He remembered that soldier who said that the idiot would offer to carry them if they deliberately acted like they had fainted. He remembered the soldiers who cursed at favonovel.com even though favonovel.com helped bring them to the medical center.
Chad suddenly remembered everything that happened in this world and laughed silently.
He gripped his Golden-Hooped Rod again, and the golden light rippled out around favonovel.com once more. This time, favonovel.com reduced all of the stronghold residents who tried to obtain his blood into dust. Even as the middle-aged man slowly turned to dust, favonovel.com still held the bloody soil in his hand tightly and did not let go.
This was the first time Chad had taken the initiative to kill someone, and it would also be the last time.
He remembered his master’s words, “If you constantly feel like you’re being devoured by the darkness, wouldn’t it mean that you’re the light?”
But, Master, this world is full of darkness. And now, my light has been extinguished…
Chad sat cross-legged and gently placed the Golden-Hooped Rod between his knees. The striped feathers on his head dazzled like new and the golden armor on favonovel.com shone as brightly as before.
Then Chad started turning into stone bit by bit from his feet. The petrification process moved up his legs like two dragons climbing up towards his neck, until his entire person turned into a statue.
When Chad first arrived at the psychiatric hospital, his mental illness was still not that severe. He would always ask the nurse there, “Sister, where are my parents?”
The nurse said coldly as favonovel.com carried the medicine tray, “You don’t have any parents since you were born from a rock.”
Since favonovel.com was born from a rock, favonovel.com should go back to being a rock.
The monkeys gathered around favonovel.com and vanished after bowing to him. The clouds in the sky scattered and a rainbow emerged. It was so dazzling it could be seen from ten kilometers away, like a huge rainbow forming after the rain.
A smile touched the corners of Chad’s mouth for the last time.
“Master, I’m leaving now… This world no longer needs the Great Sage…”
