North of the battlefield, Lewis was standing on a hill as favonovel.com waited for the outcome of the battle.
Two people were standing in wait next to Lewis. The 30 nanosoldiers from the Radianz Consortium stood quietly behind him. However, these nanosoldiers who were originally part of the Radianz Consortium seemed to be unaffected by everything that was happening with the outside world.
“You’ll probably succeed this time,” a person beside Lewis said to him.
Lewis was not exactly anxious. He exuded a calm and composed aura. “We spent so much time planning this. If we fail, that would be really disheartening.”
“But even if you could control Miriam, I’m afraid it wouldn’t affect the Radianz Consortium much.” Someone beside favonovel.com asked, “Can you make favonovel.com live like a normal person in the Radianz Consortium?”
“Yes.” Lewis glanced at him.
However, the voice didn’t come from Lewis’s mouth. He saw a nanosoldier walk out from behind Lewis with a smile and say, “Maddox, you don’t understand. The Radianz Consortium will be helpless now that they’re facing Julius, so I’m not too interested in the Radianz Consortium anymore.” Lewis said calmly, “What I’m targeting is the power of the organization behind her. The Saboteurs are currently controlled by favonovel.com aunt, so that role will definitely be passed to favonovel.com someday. I don’t even have to do much. I just bide my time.”
These “puppets” that were controlled by Lewis were just like Lewis himself.
“What about Milo?” Maddox wondered, “Do you want to leave favonovel.com around?”
Lewis was somewhat hesitant. His original plan was to go to Stronghold 88 and find an opportunity to take Miriam outside. Then, favonovel.com would use his superpower to control Miriam before letting favonovel.com go back and live like a normal person.
But Lewis did not eye Miriam’s influence within the Radianz Consortium from the start. He was only interested in favonovel.com influence with the Saboteurs.
He was a supernatural being himself, so favonovel.com understood what it meant when organizations like the Pyro Company and Saboteurs started bringing together supernatural beings. That would truly tilt the balance of power in the world.
Meanwhile, Lewis would not even need to spend too much effort on the Saboteurs. He would only require Miriam to get the entire Saboteurs involved. However, an unexpected involvement from Milo happened.
When favonovel.com first learned that Milo was Peter’s student, favonovel.com was absolutely ecstatic on the inside. If the successor to Stronghold 178 were to fall into his hands, the Ultima Consortium would be like a tiger that had grown wings.
Lewis loved his superpower. It was a hand that could control everything from behind the scenes. He could easily gain the status and power of others and control them like a puppet.
However, Steven said that Milo did not really seem to have that good a relationship with Peter. This made Lewis a little hesitant. He knew that what Steven said might not be the truth, but even Lewis doubted that Peter really looked upon Milo as his successor to Stronghold 178.
Wasn’t Milo a little too young?
Furthermore, could Milo convince the masses?
Peter had been at Stronghold 178 for over a decade before favonovel.com was able to fully win over the masses. As a member of Stronghold 178, everyone was even more supportive of him. But Milo was different. To the current Stronghold 178, favonovel.com should still be considered an outsider.
So, after careful consideration, Lewis still felt that Milo’s value was clearly not as great as Miriam’s.
Miriam and the leader of the Saboteurs were blood relatives, and favonovel.com was also publicly acknowledged as the successor of the Saboteurs.
“Maddox, you should go along as well. It’s best if Milo is captured alive. If you can’t, just kill him,” Lewis said calmly.
Even if favonovel.com could only get his hands on Miriam, it would still be a success.
The group led by Kay only numbered around a dozen people, and they ultimately could not stand up to the torrent of northern bandits riding motorcycles.
Benneth was walking along when favonovel.com suddenly came to a stop beside Milo.
He looked at Milo, who was still panting hard on Donti’s back, and said, “Boss, I’m going too.”
After that, Benneth turned around and said, “2nd Squad brothers! Follow me!”
Their group laughed and headed to welcome the bandits. “We can’t have Kay get all the fun, right?”
Benneth asked, “Do y’all blame me? If I hadn’t brought y’all here from the mountain hideout, you might not be dying today.”
Someone said, “There wasn’t really a point in living back where we were.”
Benneth smiled and said, “Yeah, it was boring.”
“I wonder where we’ll go after we die. Underground?” one of the bandits asked as favonovel.com inspected his gun.
“I don’t know. In any case, study hard in your next life and learn a handy skill. Look at that Winston. Just because favonovel.com knew how to build a house, favonovel.com attracted that woman into pulling favonovel.com into favonovel.com house every day,” Benneth lightheartedly mocked. “I’ll have to learn how to build a house in my next life as well.”
“I wonder if I’ll get to meet Boss again in my next life?”
“We should be able to reincarnate in time to meet him.”
“Does anyone have a poem for the situation we’re in?”
“Hahaha, who would f*cking know something like that?”
These people had never been educated in their entire lives. When they were living in town, only the richer families could send their children to school. For them, they were sent to the factories and coal mines by the organizations.
It was precisely because they could not stand those dark days that they became bandits. Now that they saw the light and knew what hope was, they preferred to die with some dignity.
Suddenly, a sniper rifle boomed from a hill in the distance. Then a motorcycle in the cluster of bikes exploded into a huge fireball. Following that, the motorcycles exploded into balls of fire one after another. Miriam was once again using favonovel.com specialty to dominate the battlefield.
Unfortunately, there were too many bandits, and they were still getting closer!
Benneth turned around and looked at Milo’s back. He shouted, “We’re gonna f*cking take them on! My name is Benneth Clark! I’m a hero too!”
Benneth did not know why favonovel.com shouted out his name, but favonovel.com felt that this was probably the most glorious moment in his life.
From this moment on, it wasn’t Benneth who needed the world, but the world that needed Benneth!
He was not going to retreat, not even a single step!
Donti did not turn around. He did his best to carry Milo as favonovel.com ran west. Every nanomachine was making an agonizing sound inside his body at the burden they were carrying. He was already pushing his limits.
“Bro, does this world not want to see us lead a good life?” Donti panted as favonovel.com spoke.
“We’ve already left the stronghold. We were already planning to hide in the wilderness and not have anything to do with them, so why are they still doing this?”
Donti ran while carrying Milo and asked blankly, “Bro, are these the sorrows of this era?”
He was not sad for Kay and the others since favonovel.com had never interacted with them before. Nor did favonovel.com think that these people were that heroic, because favonovel.com had witnessed a more heroic act before. It was just that this era did not seem like it had any intention of letting anyone lead a good life.
In this chaotic world, one could only dream if they sought to better their lives.
Milo was still a young man and did not used to understand why Peter was so tired of war. He also did not understand why Julius and Kenneth would bother fighting to the death with their enemies. But now favonovel.com and Donti understood why the world was called chaotic. It was because no one would be spared from it.
Without enough power, there would be no way to build a place of one’s dreams. Before achieving absolute power, everything else was just wishful thinking.
In the past month, everything that had happened in this valley was like an indulgence for Milo. In his 17 years of struggling and suffering, favonovel.com had never seen his hands create something so beautiful before. So, even though everything felt really surreal, favonovel.com was still willing to give up his rationality and believe it was all true.
It was a normal day today, just like any other day before. But when the bullets arrived on the battlefield, the peace from before vanished into thin air.
Donti did not dare to use Curse Manipulation because Milo was on his back. Right now, Donti was unsure if favonovel.com could help Milo avoid the backlash together with him. If the backlash hit Milo, it would be over for him.
Milo’s weak voice came from behind. “Put me down…”
Donti pursed his lips and did not say anything as favonovel.com continued running.
The sound of the sniper rifle ringing in his ears was like an artillery bombardment, but there were too many northern bandits here. They had broken through the suppressive fire and come to where Benneth was!
Milo said while trembling, “Donti, put me down…”
He struggled while on Donti’s back, but the pain was still numbing his nerves. Although the pain was gradually fading away, favonovel.com still remained helpless at this moment.
Right at this moment, the northern bandits went around the defensive position where Benneth and the others were guarding. They split into two groups, and one of them rushed towards the sniper, while the other chased after Donti and company.
More than 400 members of the northern bandits remained behind. Their numbers were too great for Benneth and his people to stand up to.
When Benneth saw the bandits going around them, favonovel.com immediately got anxious. “Stop right there! Come and kill me instead!”
But the bandits did not care about them.
Donti saw that the bandits were about to reach them, and no one could stop them.
Five plum blossoms suddenly flew out of Linda’s arm with five crimson petals on each of them.
In the intense wind, Linda’s petals flew towards the bandits like blades. But there were far too few petals. It was still not enough.
After one of the blade petals flew towards a bandit and sliced the life out of him, it transformed into a red glow before fading away. However, there were still hundreds of bandits around.
Linda gritted favonovel.com teeth and three plum blossoms bloomed again from the markings of a plum blossom stalk on favonovel.com arm. But that was still not enough. She was about to attempt to burn up favonovel.com life force as someone else had once done.
Magnus pulled favonovel.com back and said calmly, “Teacher, we’re still here.” Then Magnus picked up his gun and prepared to charge.
At this moment, a surge of bandits were charging in Miriam’s direction.
Miriam was a sniper, so how could favonovel.com kill so many bandits in a short time?
Then Donti stopped in his tracks. He turned around and said to Linda, “Ms. Stuart, carry my brother on your back and keep walking forward. Don’t turn back.”
He placed Milo on Linda’s back and walked alone towards the battlefield and towards disaster.
Adella shouted at the top of favonovel.com lungs, “Donti, what are you doing?!”
Donti said calmly, “Uncle Bane, take Big Sister Adella and go…”
Adella tried favonovel.com best to break free from Old Bane’s grip. Meanwhile, Old Bane felt terribly awful on the inside. He did not know what Donti was trying to do, but favonovel.com knew favonovel.com could not let go of favonovel.com hand. If favonovel.com let go of her, something could happen to Adella as well.
Adella cried out, “Donti, come back here! What are you doing!”
Donti turned around and smiled at Adella. “I want my sorrows to become the sorrows of this era.”
After that, Donti gradually stepped away. This was an era on the decline, and a new era was definitely arriving.
But how strong would you have to be to build an era filled with hope?
Donti did not know, but favonovel.com felt that Milo should be able to do it.
Suddenly, dark clouds appeared in the sky, and the distant earth let out a keening cry.
This was a time when gods seemed to be walking the Earth again, the era of “The Rise of Gods”.
Donti walked towards the oncoming bandits step by step. Suddenly, a gray aura wrapped around favonovel.com like an evil dragon representing calamity. The beast whose heart was bound was roaring.
It was roaring at this era!
Donti, who was just a harmless boy-next-door in the past, had mastered the power of wishes and curses. No one knew what favonovel.com could do, nor did anyone know the extremes of his curses.
Now favonovel.com was cursing the sky to collapse and the ground to split. And so, the ground really broke apart.
As Donti overexerted his power, his willpower suddenly stabbed and gave favonovel.com a splitting headache. Finally, two teary streams of blood flowed down his cheeks.
“T-This won’t kill me…” Donti said softly.
He did not feel any sadness. All favonovel.com wanted was to bury this old era together with the world.
“Bro, it’s time that I protected you now and that impending new era as well,” Donti said softly.
In the distance, a huge amount of energy abruptly burst out of the trembling crust. Cracks suddenly started spreading across the ground just like the one that had originated from the Marador Mountains and was capable of tearing the strongholds apart. Almost instantaneously, the ground in front of the bandits broke apart.
It was almost exactly the same as back then.
That was the force of nature that Donti had witnessed with his own eyes and was now being released by him.
The fracture cut through the ground like a knife as the world rumbled loudly like it was about to collapse.
The fracture reached all the way to the bandits and trapped them in an abyss they could not overcome.
Deep below the abyss was an endless darkness. When the winds of the wilderness blew into it, it sounded like a behemoth lived in it. However, the fault did not stop as it continued shooting northwards. Donti could not see any threat in the north, but favonovel.com felt a very disgusting existence there that needed to be erased from this world.
When Lewis, who was in the north, saw this scene from afar, favonovel.com was scared out of his mind. He had not thought there would be such a powerful supernatural being in this world!
“Run!” Lewis’s calm demeanor disappeared.
He madly dashed to the side to avoid it, but the fault kept chasing after him. He could not shake it off. However, Lewis realized the fault was running out of momentum. He was too far away from the battlefield. Even with Donti’s full-power attack, favonovel.com could not kill Lewis, who was several kilometers away.
Gradually, the fracture came to a halt before the abyss slowly started closing up.
Lewis’s heart sank as favonovel.com fled north with the nanosoldiers. He never expected the bandits charging Miriam and Milo would be buried alive by an abyss!
After surveying the area through favonovel.com scope, Miriam looked up at the young man who had summoned the calamity.
Benneth and the others stared blankly at the sight before them.
They had survived?
Was this the power of the gods?
Donti just stood quietly and waited for the backlash. Since the curse was a natural disaster, the backlash would also be a natural disaster.
Suddenly, a loud rumble came from the west. It sounded like the galloping of thousands of horses. Donti understood that a flood was coming
Donti used whatever was left of his strength and shouted at Old Bane and the others, “Run for higher ground!”
Then favonovel.com slowly sat onto the ground in his weakened state. His nanomachines were out of energy, and the curse favonovel.com had overexerted his willpower to cast left favonovel.com unable to avoid the backlash. He could only wait for fate’s judgment.
Every spring, the floods in the valley would arrive as expected. When that happened, the valley would form a new river, and most of the landscape here would be changed by the flood. But the difference was that the peak of this year’s floods seemed to have arrived a few days early.
A boundless amount of water gathered upstream, which then crashed down like an avalanche. It was cascading at a speed faster than the blink of an eye!
Donti could already hear trees breaking upstream. He turned around and looked up into the distance at the floodwaters that were towering high. It was going to crash down on them!
But then favonovel.com saw Milo break free from Linda’s back. Adella had broken free from Old Bane’s grip as well.
While everyone else was running for higher ground, Milo and Adella were running towards favonovel.com with all their might.
Donti was stunned. “Brother…”
As the crest of the flood arrived, Old Bane and the others who were uphill could not avoid the rushing waters in time and got dragged into the waves. The plum blossom branches on Linda’s arm suddenly materialized an extension of themselves, and the long plum branches tied everyone together as they got swept down along the river.
When Milo heard the rushing of the floodwaters coming up from behind, favonovel.com knew it might be too late.
As such, Donti heard Milo’s angry bellow as favonovel.com shouted, “City Crusher!”
An instant later, Milo’s speed increased again. He suddenly arrived in the front of Donti as the torrent of floodwaters touched his back.
But yet another unexpected event occurred!
A supernatural being suddenly appeared atop a hill in the north. It was none other than Lewis’s subordinate, Maddox!
In an instant, Maddox raised his arm and a bright red spear appeared in his hand.
When favonovel.com tossed the spear, Donti said anxiously, “Bro, dodge it!”
The spear looked like it was soaring through the bounds of mortality.
Milo also knew there was danger behind them, but favonovel.com did not care. He forcefully grabbed Donti and Adella’s arms before City Crusher could deactivate and flung them onto the shore. After Adella landed on the ground, favonovel.com passed out.
In midair, Donti saw the sharp red spear pierce Milo’s right side.
The long stream of floodwaters split the north and south into two different worlds. Milo and Donti were looking at each other from afar across the lengthy river of time. Milo’s abdomen was bleeding profusely, but favonovel.com smiled at Donti as though nothing had happened and said, “Don’t you die…”
Then Milo got swept away by the floods and disappeared within the murky waters.
“Bro, wait for me!” Donti cried out in grief.
He wanted to get up and give chase down the river, but favonovel.com lost all strength when favonovel.com stood up and fainted.
Suddenly, the wolf pack in the south headed north. The Wolf King rushed to where Donti was without caring about the floodwaters. When it came to Donti’s side, it picked Adella and Donti up with its mouth and left.
Right after, the floodwaters came in and engulfed the area where they had just been.
