save the bachelors

Chapter 5157-5160 [Slaying Ludendorff]

“Diana, that smoke…” At this moment, Xiang Nan suddenly pointed to the plumes of black smoke rising in the distance, “Ludendorff is over there, that’s the chief’s signal…”

The chief was an Indian, and Indians liked to use smoke to transmit signals.

Diana immediately mounted her horse and galloped off in the direction of the black smoke.

Xiang Nan quickly followed.

Diana sped along and soon arrived at Samir, Charlie, the chief, and the others.

"Diana, over there~" they pointed in the direction Ludendorff had gone.

Diana immediately rode over there and found that it was an airport, which was already brightly lit.

Many German soldiers were loading shells onto bombers, while others were patrolling and guarding the airfield.

Even as she was speeding along, she still managed to spot Ludendorff entering a tower thanks to her keen eyesight.

Diana then rode her horse close to the barbed wire fence surrounding the airport, and with a powerful leap, she jumped over the fence and into the airport.

She then drew her Godslayer Sword and slashed several German guards to death. Afterward, she drew her Lasso of Truth and threw it, tearing down the guards on the tower.

Immediately afterwards, she leaped up and was already on the tower.

Inside the tower was an office, where a telegraph operator was sending out telegrams.

Diana stepped forward and, with a shout, removed the iron door to the office, then walked into the office.

Upon seeing this, the telegraph operator immediately rushed forward to try to subdue her, but Diana lightly flung him away, and he fell from the tower.

“Interesting~” Ludendorff couldn’t help but say upon seeing this.

He never expected that Diana, who had just been dancing with him, would have such high combat skills.

"Unfortunately, I have other things to attend to now, so I can't keep you company any longer," Ludendorff said, taking out his pistol and firing a shot.

Diana raised her arm guard to block the bullet, which was deflected and struck Ludendorff's pistol.

With a loud bang, the pistol was blasted out of its chamber by a bullet.

"Who are you?!" Ludendorff asked in surprise.

“You’ll find out soon enough,” Diana said, stepping forward and brandishing her Godslayer sword.

Upon seeing this, Ludendorff immediately took out a vial of medicine from his pocket, broke it open, and inhaled it.

Then, a strange light emanated from his body.

It turns out that the drug he had just inhaled was a chemical agent developed by Dr. Maru. It could greatly stimulate a person's potential, thereby unleashing tremendous strength and speed. However, the effects were not long-lasting and could only be maintained for a short time.

As Diana approached him, preparing to plunge the Godslayer sword into his body, Ludendorff suddenly roared and shoved her away.

His strength was so great that even Diana was unable to withstand it, and she crashed into the wall, even losing her Godslayer sword in the process.

Immediately afterwards, Ludendorff picked up the heavy typewriter and hurled it at Diana.

Fortunately, Diana had a high level of physical defense and managed to withstand the blow.

But Ludendorff persisted, leaping to Diana's side and punching her.

His punches were incredibly powerful; each punch produced a crackling sound, clearly exceeding the speed of sound.

Diana quickly swung her arms to block, but still found it very difficult.

This only strengthened her belief that Ludendorff was Ares, the God of War. Otherwise, how could he have performed so powerfully?

……

Seeing that Diana had taken his punch, Ludendorff angrily grabbed her shoulder and slammed her to the ground. Then he picked up Godslayer and stabbed Diana with all his might.

“Despite your skill, you are still no match for me,” Ludendorff said coldly.

But Diana clasped her hands together and gripped the sword tightly, preventing it from advancing any further.

Ludendorff was taken aback.

Just then, Diana spoke up, "That's not necessarily true."

It turned out that Ludendorff's potion had worn off, and his strength was rapidly diminishing.

"This is impossible!" Ludendorff exclaimed in surprise upon seeing this.

Diana, however, had already leaped up and simultaneously delivered a side kick that knocked Ludendorff to the ground, causing the Godslayer Sword to slip from his grasp once more.

Once Ludendorff lost the effects of the drug, he was severely injured and could only struggle to his feet to try to escape.

"I am Diana from Paradise Island, daughter of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons! Your world-destroying rage is destined to be extinguished!" As Ludendorff staggered away, Diana formally declared his death. "In the name of all goodness in this world, I will fulfill the Amazons' mission and make you disappear from this world forever!"

With that, she swung out the Lasso of Truth, pulling Ludendorff back as he tried to escape, and then raised the Godslayer Sword and pierced Ludendorff's chest with a single blow.

Ludendorff let out a mournful cry, then lost his heartbeat and collapsed to the ground.

……

Diana looked around with delight, but was surprised to find that although Ludendorff was dead, the German troops in the airport had not surrendered, or seemed to have just woken up from a dream.

Instead, they continued loading shells onto the planes and patrolling the airport area as before...

"How could this be? How could this be?" Diana was completely bewildered.

"Diana, Diana~" At this moment, Xiang Nan caught up.

“I killed him, but nothing stopped.” Diana looked at Xiang Nan with a bewildered expression. “I killed the god of war, so the war should have stopped.”

"This is what we urgently need to do now. We need to destroy those poison gas bombs, hurry up!" Xiang Nan urged her.

“No, all of this should stop.” Diana was still puzzled. “Why are they still fighting? Why are they still trying to release those poison gas bombs?”

“Diana, we don’t have time to argue now, you have to come with me right now,” Xiang Nan urged.

“Ares is dead, they can stop fighting, why are they still fighting?” Diana questioned Xiang Nan.

“I don’t know, I don’t know…” Xiang Nan shook his head and said, “Maybe, maybe it’s just human nature. Maybe not all humans are kind, whether Ares is there or not, maybe this is just what humans are really like.”

"No, no, no..." Diana refused to believe it.

From a young age, she listened to her mother Hippolyta and believed that humans were kind, brave, and passionate, and that they turned bad because of the seduction of Ares, the god of war.

She firmly believed this, so it was naturally difficult for her to accept Xiang Nan's words now.

“Alright, we can talk about this later. Now you need to come with me…” Xiang Nan advised.

“No, no, it can’t be like this, it can’t be like this.” Diana still couldn’t accept it. Faced with Xiang Nan’s invitation, she chose to back down step by step. “They are killing each other, killing those men, women, old people, and children they can’t see… It must be because of Ares, not because of their nature…”

(End of this chapter)