Milo had believed it was unlikely favonovel.com would ever again come across those four playing cards favonovel.com had placed on Lewis. But favonovel.com did not find it sad and even hoped favonovel.com would never have to see favonovel.com again.
When his new life began, favonovel.com felt favonovel.com no longer needed to deal with those people from the consortiums like Lewis anymore.
As they had been carefully avoiding the other bandit gangs along the way, Milo was very sure no one noticed their whereabouts and therefore exposed it to Lewis. This was something Milo was most careful about, so there couldn’t possibly be any mistakes. He had even caught the spy who had infiltrated the group in order to keep their whereabouts a secret. He also decided they would have to leave the settlement they had grown familiar with. But despite all his efforts, their whereabouts had still been exposed.
Lewis’s previous route should have taken favonovel.com in the northeastern direction, so based on that logic, favonovel.com should absolutely not be appearing here in the west, especially not in the vicinity of Mt. Galunggung.
Milo knew there could have been more than one spy hidden amid them. Moreover, the spy was so good they did not get discovered even after being put through so many observations and tests. That person could even be a former soldier of the Ultima Consortium.
A second later, favonovel.com heard a rumbling getting closer. It sounded like a large number of people were approaching the dune in front of them. Right after, a muffled explosion rang out.
Milo stood in place and asked, “Did y’all hear something?”
It sounded like something had exploded within a hard metal container before dragging its tail across the air. It then traveled in a crazy parabolic trajectory across the sky and headed towards Milo and the others.
Miriam, who was still searching for a vantage point, suddenly turned to Milo and shouted, “Milo, it’s a mortar!”
With a loud boom, Milo stared blankly at the mortar shell that landed at Winston’s feet. Then favonovel.com was blown into the air.
A large amount of mud and debris was blown off the ground. That female refugee who was in love with Winston ran in tears to the spot where favonovel.com fell. She hugged his head and cried out to him, but the man favonovel.com loved no longer responded to her.
There weren’t any farewells. In a war, there would hardly ever be any chance to say goodbye.
In fact, Winston was planning to marry favonovel.com after they arrived at Mt. Kushui, but favonovel.com just didn’t know how to say it to her.
In the middle of the night, favonovel.com would lie down in the wilderness with his arm cushioning his head and ask Kay, “I’m just a bandit. Do you think I’ll be a burden to favonovel.com by marrying her?”
At the time, Kay and the others laughed and teased Winston for having romantic thoughts. But at this moment, Kay and the others were stunned by the sight of their comrade falling.
“Winston!”
Milo yelled, “Don’t just stand there! Find cover!”
A fit of extreme rage blasted within him. That glimmer of hope that was just starting to bloom in his soul had been utterly wrecked by a mortar shell.
Milo had gotten a glimpse of that hope and their future, but the more beautiful those moments were, the more hopelessness and anger favonovel.com felt now. He had seen that hope before.
The enemy was prepared for the attack as they fired off more than one mortar round towards them. They were going all out to ensure that everyone here would die.
Donti immediately activated his nanomachines and retreated with Adella. The others also quickly looked for concealed spots on the ground to take cover from the shelling in an effort to reduce their casualties.
The mortar shells landed beside them one after another. Within a minute, dozens of bandits were either killed or wounded!
Milo conjured up the steam locomotive out of nothing behind favonovel.com and yelled, “Everyone, hide in the train!”
But at this moment, another mortar shell landed, directly on the steam locomotive. Milo spat out a mouthful of blood.
So, it turned out that favonovel.com would receive backlash whenever the train took damage!
But favonovel.com did not even bother wiping off the blood on his mouth.
“Bastard!” Milo mumbled, “Bastard!”
Milo suddenly charged in a frenzy towards where the mortars were fired from. He went past layer upon layer of smoke in the wilderness like an angry lion with a bloody spear stabbed in its body!
It only took 20 seconds for Milo to cover that short distance of a few hundred meters and come into view of the enemy’s defensive line. As it turned out, they were the Ultima Consortium’s combat troops.
And there were over a 1,000 of them!
Should favonovel.com go over?
If favonovel.com did, favonovel.com might not be able to make it out. But if favonovel.com did not, the mortars would kill everyone behind him.
Milo started charging again at the defensive line of over a 1,000 people. His lone figure on the desolate wasteland made favonovel.com resemble a solitary boat in front of a towering tsunami. At the same time, it also made favonovel.com look like the most brilliant star in the sky!
Milo roared, “Lewis, don’t you want to kill me? I’m right here! Where are you!”
His voice reverberated like a large bell being struck. Milo subconsciously detonated the Explosive Poker cards, and two seconds later, a fireball suddenly shot up in the air at the rear of the defensive line!
That was the “gift” from Milo to Lewis, but favonovel.com hated himself a little at this moment as favonovel.com thought.
Why didn’t I finish off this hyena from the north when I had the chance!
Self-blame, remorse, and anger formed into a killing intent within him!
But after the Explosive Poker cards exploded, there were still no signs of chaos within the Ultima Consortium’s defensive line. This told Milo that something was wrong. It was not the normal way a fighting force would react when its commander fell!
Lewis was probably not dead yet!
How could Lewis still be alive?!
Milo immediately summoned his shadow clone and instantly covered his entire body with the nanoarmor. The two figures abruptly changed their direction on the battlefield and dashed towards where the Explosive Poker cards had just gone off!
Without seeing for himself that Lewis had really died, Milo would never be able to accept it.
A moment later, the shadow clone rushed in against the intense gunfire ahead of Milo and charged straight into the battlefield where over a 1,000 soldiers were holding the line!
The fearsome shadow clone forced a bloody path through the crowd for Milo to follow.
Amid the chaos, Milo held his black saber in one hand while using the other to constantly throw the grenades favonovel.com had stored after pulling out the pins on them.
After favonovel.com ran out of grenades to throw, favonovel.com started throwing the Explosive Poker cards next. The gratitude tokens favonovel.com had originally accumulated to around 900 were decreasing rapidly, but favonovel.com showed no signs of hesitation.
No one was expecting Milo to barge into the defensive line alone, and they didn’t expect favonovel.com to remain unharmed up til now either.
Milo started killing his way through the ranks while the surrounding Ultima Consortium’s soldiers shot indiscriminately at him. However, they discovered that the armored monster and black shadow did not seem like they were affected by the attacks at all.
Someone attempted to aim an RPG at Milo, but Milo deliberately chose to attack where most people were congregated. If the RPG landed there, it would definitely injure many of their own troops!
Milo had single-handedly turned the entire Ultima Consortium’s defenses upside down!
When Milo looked at his surroundings, the image of Winston’s smiling face suddenly appeared in his mind. Then the faces of those around favonovel.com turned into demonic shadows. But that did not matter as dawn was already here.
The gods were about to rise!
In this brand new age of “The Rise of Gods”, superhumans were defined as those who could single-handedly go against a group of people as gods. If this definition held true, Milo was slowly approaching that definition regardless of how favonovel.com managed to achieve it. Although, favonovel.com was still a far ways away from achieving that.
The armor on Milo was riddled with holes as the power for it came close to depletion.
He rushed to the spot where the Explosive Poker cards had blown up, but to his surprise, Lewis’s corpse wasn’t there.
Milo roared, “Come and kill me!”
