The People's God: Sacrificing Trillions to Ascend-Chapter 612 - Five Body Cardinals
With a clap, the Great Dragon Ring behind Han Wu turned into the Pressure Ring, and Han Wu reverted to his human form.
“What’s wrong? Giving up so fast? I won’t stop, so die!” Stark shouted as he charged at Han Wu.
He was five meters away when an absurdly heavy pressure forced him to the ground and pinned him in place.
Han Wu approached him, right arm morphed into the largest laser cannon in his arsenal. Energy gathered in the chamber of the cannon.
“You can’t kill me! I’m unkillable here in the Weeping Mines,” Stark said desperately, managing to get the words out despite not being able to move his body.
“Is that so?” Han Wu chuckled. He had used his Life Aspect to infuse the shot with dense Life Energy. “Goodbye, my enemy.”
The laser landed squarely onto Stark’s body. When the microscopic machines came into contact with the powerful Life Energy within the laser, they either dispersed or were destroyed immediately.
Thus, this powerful expert of the Lawless Civilization, bishop of the Machine God Cult, perished.
Han Wu made quick work of Stark’s underlings and obtained a swift victory. In return, he had bought them time to continue excavating the Nanite Mythril. Three days later, Han Wu and the rest had mined out the Nanite Mythril vein.
According to Kerry’s calculations, the fifty-eight ores they mined equated to 11.6 units of Nanite Mythril. However, this didn’t factor in Han Wu. If they allowed him to process the ore, he could increase the amount extracted.
Obtaining the precious Nanite Mythril meant they had completed half of their mission here in the Lawless Civilization. Their sole objective now was to find the cores of the Machine God.
Following the flow of the tiny machines in the air, they tracked the source and soon found the core of the Machine God hidden within the Weeping Mines. As with the others, destroying it revealed a part of the Machine God.
It was a spirit made out of trillions of microscopic machines. The cornered spirit howled out in despair, triggering the microscopic machines into overwork and hastening the process of converting flesh to machine.
In this condition, even living life forms would be turned into automatons for the core to command. Unfortunately, its foe was Han Wu.
Han Wu and his team had infused themselves with powerful Life Energy, which deactivated the tiny machines the moment they infiltrated their bodies. This effortless counter on Han Wu’s end left the Machine God part feeling helpless, and it soon succumbed to a blast from Han Wu’s laser cannon.
In contrast, Han Wu was eagerly awaiting the dropped loot and was already envisioning the additions of a new part and blueprint. But, contrary to his expectations, nothing of value appeared. There was only a single level 10 chip and an abundance of Energy Parts.
At first, Han Wu assumed that he had defeated a fake boss. This was further confirmed when he found footprints near where the core had been.
The Machine God Cult was one step ahead of him. They had already killed the boss of the Weeping Mines and taken the loot. The boss that Han Wu had killed was a mere fake that the Machine God Cult had left behind to maintain the basic operations of the Weeping Mines.
Han Wu was pissed. This meant he would have to invade their base to retrieve the parts, but he didn’t even know where their headquarters were.
Inwardly grumbling, the group left the Weeping Mines. He was at a bit of a loss once they were out, undecided on whether to head back to the college or try to find the Machine God Cult base.
At the same time, in the headquarters of the Machine God Cult, Stark had sent footage from before he died for the cardinals to watch. He had also marked Han Wu’s two assisting automatons and his mechanical dragon arms that could tear mechs like butter.
The five cardinals, known as the Five Body, were thrilled. Even the bishops didn’t know that the cardinal they worshiped wasn't a single person but five.
“We found it! He has to be a vessel of the Machine God, and he has two of them!” exclaimed the cardinal named Zhuo Xing.
You Jin, another cardinal, scratched his bearded jaw. “How could he still enter a restricted zone even after obtaining a part of the Machine God? Does anyone know?”
Silence filled the air. They were the beings in the Machine God Cult with the highest authority and greatest power. The only reason they hadn’t yet gathered all the Machine God’s parts to this day was that those with a part of the Machine God couldn’t set foot into the other restricted zones.
They had tried once, but the moment they did, their Machine God part became berserk and sapped their Life Energy away. Thus, each cardinal only had a single part of the Machine God. This forced them to nurture new cardinals to invade the other restricted zones so they could gather all of the parts. Unfortunately, their success rate remained low even after many years.
The few success stories were already seated here as cardinals. Their previous mission to unlock the seal using the Mechmouse King had been close to fruition when Han Wu had interfered and disrupted their plan.
The one responsible for that plan, Tou Nao, couldn’t endure his anger anymore. “That old coot used the self-detonating mechanical mice to escape with his teammate the last time I encountered him. I can’t believe he’s still alive! I was thinking of letting him live since we could still use him, but his continued existence is nothing more than an insult to me now. That old man must die!”
The remaining four cardinals silently pressed the button to agree. After all, Ji Dezhu was just a regular man now. There was no need for them to worry about the consequences of killing him.
