From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Chapter 682 "Ruling the End"

"my Lord!"

Inside the command center, the general's lips trembled. "This isn't a conventional weapon, this is..."

His words were abruptly cut off by a sudden silence.

As all the instruments malfunctioned and the lights went out, people saw the figure in the red cloak already hovering outside the command center window.

Under his gaze, the bulletproof glass began to crack, and the dragon emblem gleamed with a blood-red luster in the sunlight.

Cracks spread across the bulletproof glass like a spiderweb, making a teeth-grinding "crackling" sound. The officers in the command center instinctively stepped back, and someone bumped into the equipment on the platform. The blue tactical map twisted and dissipated in the air.

"Fire! Fire!"

Wow——!
The moment the general's roar subsided, the entire floor-to-ceiling window shattered with a deafening crash.

Tens of thousands of shards of glass floated in the air, as if time had stood still—

Until the figure in the red cape slowly stepped in, Homelander's boots crunched on the broken glass, making a crisp crushing sound, and each step made the floor tremble slightly.

The security robots were the first to react.

Six combat units descended from the ceiling, their multi-barreled rapid-fire cannons spewing torrents of scorching metal.

The bullet struck Homelander's chest, sending up a shower of sparks, but it couldn't even scratch the surface coating of his tight-fitting combat suit.

The man tilted his head, his ice-blue pupils glowing red—

Ri~——咻——!
Two scarlet beams of light swept across.

The robot's titanium alloy frame snapped as if a hot knife were cutting through butter, and plasma gushed out from the cut, splashing an eerie blue fluorescence onto the wall.

The upper body of a robot that had been cut in half was still twitching, its mechanical fingers still pulling the trigger, firing the last few bullets toward the ceiling.

"Heavy Armor Squad, in position!"

Numerous soldiers clad in heavy power armor burst through the wall, their shoulder cannons simultaneously charging, with a dark blue plasma condensing at the muzzle.

Homelander remained expressionless, then suddenly clapped his hands.

boom--!
The Homelander's slapping motion caused the air to "plasmaize," and the shockwave from the fireball erupting in the confined space overturned a large number of control consoles.

In the scorching heat, the soldiers' screens captured the figure slowly approaching. The red cloak remained motionless in the heatwave, and the surface of the combat uniform was covered with nanoscale energy barriers.

"Change to armor-piercing rounds!"

The captain roared as he switched weapon modes.

But it's too late.

The man from the motherland suddenly accelerated, becoming a blood-red afterimage.

The scene of the first soldier's helmet and head being punched into his chest cavity, with his spine piercing through the back of his power armor, looked just like an exploding pomegranate.

The second person tried to block, but the entire robotic arm was ripped off. Instead of lubricating fluid, the broken hydraulic pipe sprayed out fragments of internal organs squeezed out by the high pressure.

Blood mist filled the command center.

A technician huddled in a corner witnessed the most horrific scene: Homelander grabbed the last soldier by the throat with one hand and lifted the one-ton power armor into the air.

The soldier's frantically kicking legs suddenly stiffened—

Two laser beams shot out from Homelander's eyes, instantly vaporizing the head inside the helmet.

When the headless corpse was carelessly discarded, the dull thud as it hit the wall made the technician wet his pants.

Buzz~! Buzz~!

The alarm suddenly became shrill.

Homelander turned to look at the sky and, through the broken ceiling, could see two battleships, each over a kilometer long, descending.

These steel behemoths unfurled all their cannons, and the glow of their main guns tinged the clouds with purple.

Homelander, having completed his mission to destroy the command center, left the room and came outdoors through the broken ceiling, "standing" in the air.

Further away, three mech squadrons were gathering on the outskirts of the city, their composite armor gleaming coldly in the rising sun.

Chaos is now spreading throughout the UED capital.

In the commercial district three kilometers from the command center, people taking a lunch break stopped in their tracks.

Some people pointed to the sky and exclaimed, while others took out their mobile devices to start filming. The red-cloaked figure floating in the shadow of the battleship looked like a vengeful angel from mythology in the morning light.

"Mom, did a superhero step out of a cartoon? Didn't you say cartoons are all lies?"

A child asked innocently.

Ri~咻————! !

Before his mother could answer, two scarlet beams of light pierced the sky.

The light was so dazzling that all the photographers' phone screens went blank due to overexposure.

And when vision is restored, the first image people see is—

The eyes of the people of the motherland have once again blazed with the red light of destruction.

call out----!!

Two crimson beams of light, like swords of judgment, easily pierced through the battleship's energy shield.

The high-energy laser melted a three-meter-diameter channel in the hull, penetrating the armor layer, living quarters, and engine room, and finally hitting the engine core.

"Warning! Core overload! All personnel abandoned—"

The captain's final command was swallowed up in a dazzling white light.

Boom! Boom!

The chain reaction triggered by the loss of power tore a huge gash in the middle of the warship, and the shock wave threw hundreds of tons of metal structure in all directions.

Burning debris fell like a meteor shower, triggering more than a dozen secondary explosions near the city.

"Battleship is falling! Expected impact point: Central Business District!"

Buzz—whoosh—!

The sirens of the ground-based air defense system blared through the sky.

On the holographic projection, this 1.2-kilometer-long steel behemoth was hurtling toward the ground at a tilted angle, leaving a trail of thick smoke.

Its trajectory covered three commercial complexes, two maglev tracks, and at least twenty residential buildings.

"Evacuate immediately!"

The synthesized voice of the municipal AI echoed on the street broadcasts, but was drowned out by the screams of the crowd.

Office workers tossed aside their briefcases, mothers picked up their children, and the elderly were shoved and fell—

Everyone frantically rushed towards their imagined safe zone.

A woman in high heels tripped and fell on the sidewalk. When she looked up, the shadow of the battleship had already covered half a block.

"Oh, God"

She murmured to herself, watching the massive, sky-covering steel wall draw ever closer.

The UED military, however, turned a blind eye to this imminent disaster.

The remaining battleship's main gun array turned completely, and a large number of plasma macro cannons simultaneously charged, turning the night sky into an eerie purple.

The electromagnetic cannons of the ground-based mech forces roared, unleashing thousands of depleted uranium armor-piercing rounds that wove a deadly web in the air. But Homelander ignored these attacks.

boom--!
He suddenly accelerated, his red cloak leaving a blood-red afterimage behind him. The shockwave from breaking the sound barrier shattered the windows of buildings along the way.

One of the mech pilots stared wide-eyed at the figure on the tactical screen hurtling toward the crashing warship at Mach 7.

"Has he gone mad? That's forty million tons—"

With the battleship only 200 meters above the ground, Homelander finally reached the bow.

Time seemed to freeze at this moment.

He stretched out his arms, his palms bracing against the alloy ram of the warship, his cloak fluttering in the gale.

Boom! !
The shockwave from the impact spread in a spherical shape, causing all windows within a three-kilometer radius to shatter simultaneously.

"impossible"

On the street, a young man wearing glasses was the first to open his tightly closed eyes.

His glasses reflected a surreal image—

The man's arms were bulging with muscles, and his feet were on the asphalt road surface that had been dented due to the recoil.

The battleship, which should have destroyed half the city, was now as if it had been paused, forcibly halted in mid-air by the Homelanders.

The groans of twisted metal echoed through the streets and alleys.

The warship's keel was groaning under the strain, but its descent had indeed been halted.

The father's feet slowly sank into the ground, each step leaving a half-meter-deep footprint in the concrete, yet miraculously maintaining the warship's balance.

"Look! He's changing his falling angle!"

An incredulous gasp erupted from the crowd.

Suddenly, Homelander's arm muscles bulged, and he slowly turned the warship.

The steel behemoth, weighing tens of millions of tons, was pushed little by little towards the artificial lake on the edge of the city, as if it were a toy in his hands.

The stern of the warship grazed a skyscraper, its glass curtain wall cascading down like a waterfall, but under the precise control of the Homelanders, the main structure remained intact.

The UED military's artillery fire suddenly stopped.

All the soldiers stared in disbelief at the scene, and one young private even unconsciously lowered his weapon.

Only static noise filled the command channel until a general's hysterical roar broke the silence:

"Fire! Fire now!"

But at this moment, it seemed that no one obeyed the general's orders.

With a final, deafening roar, the battleship was pushed completely away from the residential area and crashed heavily into the artificial lake.

The lake water was stirred up, forming giant waves tens of meters high, but they were evaporated by the laser eyes of the motherland just as they were about to crash onto the shore.

White steam enveloped half the city, refracting a rainbow-like halo in the rising sun.

When the fog cleared, people saw the Homelanders floating above the lake.

His red cloak remained spotless, and his icy blue eyes swept over the stunned crowd before finally settling on the UED fleet recharging in the distance.

It's unclear who was the first to kneel down, but then came the second, the third...
Soon, the entire street was filled with kneeling civilians.

They looked up at the godlike figure in the sky; some wept, some prayed, and many more simply opened their mouths, speechless.

Inside the makeshift command center, a general, watching the monitors, suddenly realized the true terror of the human empire—

This is not a war at all.

This was a performance that was like a game of overwhelming force.

Ri~ Boom—Boom—!
At this moment, the main gun array of the last battleship burst into a blinding light, and the twelve plasma macro cannons fired simultaneously.

A blazing blue-white beam of light tore through the air and struck Homelander, who was suspended in mid-air, in an instant.

The shockwave from the explosion shattered all the windows of buildings within a 500-meter radius, and people on the ground were thrown over by the blast wave.

"Target hit! Repeat, direct hit!"

The observer's voice echoed in the command channel.

However, as the energy turbulence dissipated, all the officers' faces turned deathly pale—

Homelander remained suspended in place, his cloak completely undamaged.

He slowly raised his right hand, looking at the plasma afterglow surrounding his fingertips, as if he were watching a poorly made fireworks display.

Meanwhile, the three hovercraft carrying Leon, Mike, Chris, and more than ten special operations teams, as well as the prisoners, had successfully escaped the UED's encirclement and pursuit while Homelander was "making a scene".

At this stage, the UED has no interest in dealing with the dozen or so spies from the Human Empire. After all, Homelander alone has almost caused the UED to lose all "face".

"The bio-force field strength remains at 87.8%." Inside the hovercraft, Mike, focused on the screen data, said, "It seems the UED's main gun isn't even enough to tickle you."

Through the rear window of the hovercar, Lyon looked at the god-like figure in the distant sky: "Just how much advanced technology did those lunatics in the Biology Department install on him? I remember decades ago, the Homelanders couldn't even compete with the electromagnetic cannons of a warship."
Not to mention single-handedly supporting a one-kilometer-long ship.

Chris quickly swiped the holographic projection: "Seventh-generation bio-force field generator, antimatter-resistant coating, and a phase shifter reverse-engineered from the Forerunner ruins."

As he spoke, the special operations team commander paused for a moment, then added:

"Of course, the most crucial thing is those Xel'Naga gene fragments. After obtaining the latest data and samples from Universe 18, the Biological Department carried out an iterative upgrade of Homelanders."

In contrast, panic is spreading within the UED's supreme command headquarters.

"All conventional weapons are ineffective!" The technician's voice was distorted. "Nuclear weapons are the last resort, but the detonation yield requires—"

"Shut up!"

A general whose nameplate was labeled "Cohen" smashed the screen beneath the holographic projection with a single punch, shouting, "There are two hundred million civilians in the capital!"

His adjutant suddenly lowered his voice: "General, news just came from the research station. They detected Homelander's biosignals rapidly approaching, seemingly searching for our location, intending to annihilate all high-ranking officers in one fell swoop."

Cohen's pupils suddenly contracted.

At the same time, they are also considering whether to make the 200 million people of the UED capital city perish along with the homelanders who threaten their lives.

Over the capital, the Homelanders suddenly stopped their attack.

He turned to look south, a mechanical precision flashing in his icy blue eyes. The next second, his red cloak billowed, and the shockwave from breaking the sound barrier tore the three fighter jets that were trying to intercept him to shreds in mid-air.

"Target disengaged from the battlefield! Speed ​​exceeded Mach 20!"

The radar operator's voice was filled with despair.

On the holographic map, the red dot representing death is flying away from the capital at an incredible speed.

Cohen slumped in his chair, suddenly realizing the true purpose of the performance—

The people of the homeland were never here to destroy the capital.

The other party was merely a living decoy.

At this moment, on the outskirts of the Seventh Industrial Zone, three hovercars secretly broke through the last line of defense.

Lyon glanced at the chaotic city behind him, shook his head slightly, and said:

"The mission is basically complete. Let the UED slowly catch up. Maybe our actions will allow us to achieve integration ahead of schedule."

As for Homelanders, they are already on the ice sheet far away in Antarctica and are on standby.

Even so, UED dared not act rashly, because from UED's perspective, the "end of domination" represented by Homelanders had only just begun.
(End of this chapter)