Chapter 317: Chapter 212: The Spirit is Indestructible, the Flesh Reconstituted! The Sinking of Fusang Island! The Call for Nuclear Arms!_2
*I guess I won’t live much longer anyway.*
Yeah, no matter how powerful a Mutant Beast was, when faced with real modern weaponry, it ultimately was just a mass of living flesh and blood.
Humans, it was only by mastering the power of firepower that they truly reigned over all other beings.
Whether it was Martial Arts or genomics, both were merely paths to self-transcendence, but when it came to destructive power, how could they compare to modern weapons?
Xia Country was able to still stand firm today, becoming a global powerhouse, gradually expanding its territory, attracting all kinds of smaller countries to seek protection—all that was partly due to the development of Martial Arts, but more importantly, it was because of their already incredibly strong military might.
In the live-streams of various countries, netizens all let out a collective sigh of relief.
No one wanted their peaceful society to be torn apart by monsters like this. In the footage, Orochi was blasted into a bloody mess by missiles, its four tails blown several miles away, reduced to bloody spray.
On its necks, only three heads remained, and of their bright red eyes, only one was left.
The trees and swamps on its back had been utterly flattened, and its underbelly was even worse—several missiles had blasted gaping, festering wounds. For hundreds of kilometers around, the Pacific Ocean in that moment was stained in swirling dark green and crimson.
Helicopters cut through the sky, ships dove beneath the waves, preparing for the final offensive.
"We are about to achieve ultimate victory! This Orochi is not a disaster, but a godsend! According to assessments from our research institute, its power equals that of four or five ordinary Sixth Rank Mutant Beasts—this is the strongest creature on land."
"And in the face of our great Fusang Nation, it doesn’t stand a chance!"
"Fusang, banzai! Long live the Emperor of Fusang!"
The Prime Minister on TV was beyond passionate, thrusting his fist to the heavens. Fusang’s genetic research had lagged far behind. Xia Country and Freedom Country both had their own research into the flesh and blood of Sixth Rank Mutant Beasts, but after today, the tables would turn!
If they managed to recover Orochi’s corpse, whether by extracting the venom from its underbelly that could corrode cosmic metals, or harvesting its flesh and blood that contained unlimited energy, they would both serve to strengthen Fusang!
His own lifespan, perhaps, might even be extended once more. *When you thought about it that way, what did a little extra military spending matter?*
Xia Country, Freedom Country...
From now on, Fusang would be the third great nation!
*This is a gift from heaven! We must not let it slip through our fingers!*
Crowds of Fusang citizens emerged from hiding, dancing and singing in the streets, a happiness like they had never known radiating through every heart.
As everyone gazed up at the big screens in the streets, watching the fighter jets get closer and closer to Orochi, waiting for the horn of victory to sound—
On the Pacific Ocean, the three hanging heads suddenly let out deafening roars. An invisible power erupted from them, and the fighter jets in the sky, affected by a magnetic field, instantly lost control, swaying and crashing into the ocean below.
And the bits of flesh and remains blasted apart by missiles came floating together in an instant, forming masses of revolting, disgusting meat.
The entire scene was terrifying and nightmarish.
Thunder roared, and in the midst of hurricane winds and torrential rain, the Pacific erupted in gigantic waves. Amid Orochi’s roar, endless surges of water collided with the dark clouds, forming tornadoes in the storm, hurtling straight for Fusang!
*That speed was insane, that ferocity, unimaginable.*
Even though Fusang’s military launched a quick response, a barrage of missiles blasting toward Orochi again—
This time, however, Orochi’s body was perfectly hidden within the hurricanes, monstrous waves, and torrential rain.
Chunks of flesh rolled ahead, while ocean fish too slow to escape got fused into the flesh, forming a gigantic orb that blocked the way in front of Orochi.
Even if hit by missiles, the flesh sphere could reassemble itself in just a few breaths.
"Wha...what the hell is this monster...?"
A soldier stationed along the coast couldn’t help but stammer, his voice trembling. In his mind, he once again recalled the rumors he’d heard about Orochi’s horror in the past.
*Maybe this really was the wrath of a god!*
"Boom!"
The tidal surge was first, slamming directly into the military defense line on the shore. Thousands of soldiers were swept away by waves mixed with venom and blood, not so much as a splash escaping—their lives erased instantly, absorbed into that growing blood sphere.
The blood sphere kept rolling larger, from the army, to the coastal civilian homes.
Fighter jets in the sky, navy cruisers at sea—all of them were absorbed into the blood sphere.
This counterattack from Orochi was more ferocious than anyone could have imagined.
No bullet or shell did anything but scratch an itch on Orochi’s body. Skyscrapers collapsed, black smoke billowed, dark clouds shrouded the whole city. Lightning streaked down one after another, venom flooding with seawater into every corner.
Countless people thrashed in the venom, dissolving into grotesque lumps of flesh, grafted onto Orochi’s body.
"Ah!"
"Oh mighty god, you—"
"Orochi, I knew we never should have angered Lord Orochi!!!"
No matter how much they screamed, everything in that apocalyptic scene dissolved into nothing. One after another, livestreams cut out, and billions across the globe fell silent.
"Prime Minister, evacuate now."
On the screen of a skyscraper, even the Prime Minister was dragged away by the Defense Minister. The whole display was struck by lightning seconds later, bursting into ruin.
The three monstrous heads, battered by rain and thunder, suddenly turned toward a helicopter fleeing frantically.
"Holy shit, I nearly died. How are the missiles suddenly useless!"
"They do work, didn’t you see the flesh get blasted away? But fuck, this Orochi can re-form! What the hell is that ability? Re-forming—how could anyone kill it? You’d have to use nukes!"
"Nukes? Fusang doesn’t have any! I just hope this monster doesn’t show up in Xia Country!"
"Say no more, we’ve already received emergency notifications—coastal city folks need to start evacuating bit by bit. We’d better get ready for Orochi’s arrival, too."
"This beast is way too strong, only nukes will do. Even if Jiang Tian himself came down from the Universe right now, it wouldn’t help. The so-called Ames War God piloting the nuclear Overlord Mecha, he’d get vaporized in a second. Fusang was so powerful, and now a whole coastal city’s just wiped off the map! Not a single survivor! This isn’t some Mutant Beast—this is a natural catastrophe! Hell, even movies wouldn’t dare make something like this!"
Even netizens from Xia Country were starting to panic, especially those along the coast, who began packing their bags.
*If Xia Country was so rattled, what about Fusang!*
All of Fusang was already tiny, barely deserving the name of a nation—really, just a small island chain.
When Orochi truly descended, everyone on the coast wished they could grow wings and fly away at once.
The Prime Minister, Defense Minister, and other political bigwigs scrambled onto planes and fled to Freedom Country at the earliest opportunity.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Tsunami! Earthquake!
Monstrous disasters engulfed Fusang, the earth splitting open, whole cities drowned beneath the sea.
*It all happened so fast, the military couldn’t even react. Countless weapons were swallowed up by the waves, rendered useless.*
Fusang’s livestreams all went dark.
Netizens worldwide flooded into Xia Country’s streams, watching as once-mighty Fusang disintegrated, cries of agony beyond number, hell on earth playing out in real time.
The reconstructed iron tower toppled once again.
Temples where priests once knelt, washed away and pulverized into debris by dirty water.
Of all Fusang, only the true elite had managed to escape early. The rest would all perish, without exception.
Fusang—wiped out!
Destroyed—by the very Orochi from their own legends!
The whole world was stunned.
Inside the streams, all the netizens sat in silence.
No one could have expected a monster as horrifying as this to suddenly appear in an era when things were looking up for the world as a whole.
Not even missiles could finish it off.
Nukes. Only nukes!
In that moment, under the official accounts of Xia Country and Freedom Country—
Countless netizens flooded in.
They called for nuclear weapons to be unleashed!
Though, it was certain there were still some lucky souls alive in Fusang now—
But... if they didn’t drop a nuke now—
By the time Orochi finished wiping out Fusang—
The whole Xuanxing would be plunged into an apocalyptic nightmare.