“This case is abominable. But thanks to our quick response, all hostages were rescued. My only regret is that the perpetrator is still at large…” Liu Yuxuan spoke to the reporters on the television.
She had earned a great commendation. Liu Yuxuan was going places, that was for sure…
Li Weiwei stayed the night and the Li clan fetched her the next morning. But before leaving, Li Mo gave her ten talismans, ten earth qi jades, and a defensive magic weapon.
Experts Alliance’s headquarters.
Lan Yue stood with a frown before the door. He had been waiting for an hour already.
“Vice-chief Lan, please return. Chief does not want to see you.”
“Did chief really say that?”
“Yes. They were his explicit words.”
“Please tell chief this whole incident is suspicious. But the fault does not lie with me, nor the Zhuge brothers. It is all that mystery man’s fault.”
“Is there anything else?”
“Does the offering still need to be prepared?”
“No, chief said he will handle it personally.”
Lan Yue nodded and cupped his hands to the door before leaving.
Mobei Province’s great desert.
Two hideous humanoid bugs stood before the ruined Gate. Their hands glowed blue in an attempt to restore it.
Hum~
A stable Gate soon appeared.
“Kaskk, you’re something alright. The Gate’s been destroyed for so long yet couldn’t learn anything about it?”
“Rosa, how dare you talk to me like that? You are an Experts Alliance’s elder. Who was it I wonder that brought the culprit here? It goes the same to you. The Gate’s been destroyed for so long and what have you been doing all this time?”
“I am handling an important matter right now.”
“Enough excuses. My Cricket race hates those like you the most, the ones trying to shift responsibility. I always acknowledge any mistake I make.”
“Fine, this one’s on me, alright?”
Humph!
Kaskk snorted and entered the Gate. But the next second he came out screaming bloody murder. His face was filled with blood and wounds.
“What’s wrong?”
“That man does not do things half-measure!” Kaskk’s tone was icy.
“It’s not just this Gate destroyed, but all of them…”
“And they can’t be restored.”
“Who did this?” Rosa roared.
“I never imagined the Experts Alliance could hide such a dreadful man…”
“Impossible! The Nine-headed race, the countless other races as well, would’ve noticed someone destroying the Gates and wouldn’t just stand and let him do it. They’d never let that happen!”
“Thousands of years of hard work gone, just like that?”
“Ahhh~”
Rosa shrieked, releasing a sonic wave that rattled the sand half a mile high in ten-mile range.
“We must catch that bastard and rip him limb from limb!”
Kaskk shouted, “How’s being belligerent going to help? How are we going to draw in Earth’s cultivators now?”
“What are you scared of? Did you see anyone on this planet stronger than us?”
Rosa got silent, recalling precisely the man who ruined the Gate.
Not even Rosa, the strongest of his race, could destroy all Gates in one go.
“The Earth’s limit is the fifth level. We are invincible in this level!” Rosa believed it.
“In this world, strong beings are everywhere. Don’t think too highly of yourself, Rosa. If we were strong enough, wouldn’t the ten strongest races of the universe include ours as well? Do you think we can compare with the likes of them?
“We toiled thousands of years, and for what? To pave the way for those powerful races and reap our rewards?“
Rosa fell silent.
“We have an opportunity here.”
“What opportunity?”
“With the Gates in shambles, without a Void Beast magic weapon, not even the five strongest will come to Earth. Not when the journey will take ten thousand years.”
“Rosa, where are you going with this?”
“Our lives can go for ten thousand years at most, right? So you tell me, is it better to be someone’s dog, or your own king?”
“Kaskk, what say you?” Rosa’s eyes shined. They really did, in a fluorescent light.
“Even with the Gates restores, we’d be nothing more than another race’s lap dogs. So why don’t we settle here, as kings?”
“We will rule this planet for ten thousand years. And, who knows, we may even find that sacred treasure. Then, we will need not fear the ten great races, nor the five strongest.”
“Kaskk, you’ve got my attention.”
“Ka-ka-ka…” Kaskk let out a creepy laughter, “It’s decided then, my friend?”
“That’s right!”
“Ka-ka-ka~
“Ku-ku-ku~”
They both burst out laughing.
A team came to investigate the cause behind the sandstorm when a huge hand pressed them into the ground…
“From now on, I am the king of Earth! Ka-ka-ka…” Kaskk cackled in the air.
Whoosh~
Thousands of fluorescent lights shot for a village at the edge of the desert, razing it off the face of the Earth…
“As of now, Earth has two equal kings. King Kaskk, and me, King Rosa!”
Rosa shouted from above the ruined village.
“Let us begin. We shall show the weak humans of Earth the horrors of the fierce races of the universe. This is the only way to make them submit!”
“I will lead my Glimmer race west!”
“I will take my Cricket race east!”
“Begin!”
Kaskk and Rosa’s genocide had begun.
They wanted to rule Earth, to establish their might.
Kaskk took his race’s warriors, leaving a trail of destruction through a city. No gun and no missile could scratch him, not even a nuclear warhead.
“Puny earthlings, kneel! Shout the name of your kings, Rosa and Kaskk or die like maggots!”
“Evil spawn, cease this savagery!”
Ten figures flew over, barring Kaskk’s army’s path.
The human’s cultivators and gifted steeped in.
“Here is the 13th on China’s Heaven Board. Die, beasts!”
“Death to all who oppose me!”
Kaskk grew ten kilometers big in a blink, swallowing the ten people whole.
“Anyone else?” Kaskk roared.
Kaskk led the Cricket race all the way to the capital. The national army’s aircrafts intercepted him, but nothing worked.
Kaskk’s army was unstoppable…
“Beast, die!”
A hand sized turtle shell flew at Kaskk’s army. Before it hit, it grew to a hundred meters, killing tens of Cricket warriors…
The shell then spun back in Daoist Kame’s hand.
Daoist Kame was unable of flight, but his shell wasn’t just for defense but attack as well.
“Old Kame, how can you forget me when it comes to hunting demons and defending the nation?”
Boss Boar was riding his boar next to Daoist Kame.
“Us as well.”
Xin clan’s siblings came.
Clang!
A blue light went for Kaskk. He used his claw to stop it, but it passed right through instead.
The blue light was about to make another pass. Kaskk jerked and used a nearby Cricket warrior as shield, who died on the spot.
The blue light flew away, in the hands of a youth in white on the ground.
A flying sword!
“The 1st on Heaven Board, Zhou Mengxian!”
Everyone cried out in shock.
“Friend Boar, it’s been a while.”
The youth in white, stepped forth. Despite the miles between them, he crossed them in that instant.
