Devouring the Stars: Soul Master

Chapter 1: People are devouring, the golden finger is the Ten Thousand Souls Banner
October 12, 2055 AD, City War Base Defense Line 003.

Night falls.

boom! boom! boom!
The sound of artillery fire was deafening, like the collapse of the sky and the cracking of the earth, lighting up the dark sky red.

Inside the steel fortress, Qin Ming stared in amazement at the densely packed and overwhelming monsters that were either ejected from or quickly crawled out from the extremely wide river in front of the war base.

About two hundred meters away, a large number of unknown fish monsters with a length of several meters or even more than ten meters jumped from the river twenty to thirty meters high.

He actually used his body as a weapon and attacked the war base directly.

Bang!
The huge body hit the outer shell of the war fortress, causing violent vibrations.

Under Qin Ming's shocked gaze, these monsters opened their sharp mouths full of fangs and bit the reinforced concrete fortress into pieces.

What the hell is this?

The next moment, countless tongues of fire shot out from the war base and blasted the monster into the air.

The monsters that tried desperately to get close to the war fortress were killed in large numbers and turned into a pile of minced meat.

Large-caliber artillery fired crazily, brilliant sparks exploded on the surface of the river, turning the entire river into a blood-red color in an instant.

But death not only did not scare these monsters, but instead made them even crazier under the stimulation of blood.

"What happened? A dream? Traveling through time?"

Qin Ming stared at all this in a daze, as if in a dream, unable to understand why he appeared here inexplicably.

Everything before my eyes was so real, so real that it didn't seem like a dream at all.

I looked down at myself and found that I didn't know when my casual clothes turned into black combat clothes.

In his hand, he was holding an exaggeratedly large sniper cannon.

Correct!
An extra-large sniper cannon with a barrel that is two meters long and looks like a gun.

Looking around, it seemed like we were inside a fortress. More than a dozen soldiers were operating various guns and firing wildly.

The roar of the machine guns, the sound of bullet casings falling to the ground, and the thick smoke were all too real.

crossed?
Or on the battlefield?

Finished!

Qin Ming felt bitter in his heart, he was just an ordinary person.

What are you doing traveling to this unknown monster battlefield?
Die again?

"The Ten Thousand Souls Banner has recognized its master, 10%... 30%... 50%..."

Suddenly, a tattered Ten Thousand Souls Banner appeared deep in Qin Ming's mind. It was made of bones as the pole and flesh, blood and skin as the banner. The banner was pitch black and moved without wind, and black gas emerged from it from time to time.

Countless secret patterns flashed across the tattered banner, and the words "Ten Thousand Souls" could be vaguely seen.

Qin Ming's eyes widened. He seemed to see the souls of monsters torn apart by machine guns and artillery on the battlefield within a hundred meters being continuously swallowed up by the Ten Thousand Souls Banner like swallows returning to their nests.

"I traveled to the battlefield, and the golden finger is the Ten Thousand Souls Banner?"

For a moment, Qin Ming didn't know whether to be happy or sad.

Who on Blue Star doesn’t know the name of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner?

Before Qin Ming could think, a roar came from his ears.
"Qin Ming, what are you doing? Open fire!"

More than a dozen soldiers in the fort opened fire crazily. Seeing Qin Ming standing there in a daze, squad leader Jia Hong, who was operating a large-caliber heavy machine gun and firing crazily, roared.

Amidst the metal torrent and explosion, a large number of shrimp and crab monsters, five to six meters, or even more than ten meters long, covered with heavy shells, rushed out of the river like prehistoric monsters.

Subconsciously, Qin Ming pulled the trigger.

Bang!
His shoulder seemed to be hit by a huge hammer. There was a violent explosion and the neutron bullet was ejected from the gun. The two-meter-long barrel suddenly burst into flames.

A fish monster that jumped up and was at least seven meters long was torn into a bloody mist in mid-air, and then it pierced through two monsters in succession in front of Qin Ming's horrified eyes.

Is this gun so powerful?
How could he withstand the recoil?

"Ignore the monsters in the river, attack those that crawl ashore, and don't let them attack the base!"

There was a roar.

Ignoring the pain in his shoulder, Qin Ming quickly turned the gun around, although he didn't know why he came here and why he appeared on the battlefield.

But the madly charging monster and the smoke all around him gave him no time to think.

Through the scope, he locked onto a crab monster that had crawled ashore and was like a living tank.

The monster was moving too fast, Qin Ming had no time to aim, he just pulled the trigger subconsciously.

Bang!
One of Cancer's legs exploded.

But this little injury couldn't stop it from charging. Bang! Bang!
Two more shots were fired in succession, but this time it was even worse, both missed.

Qin Ming, who had never fired a gun before, had a blank mind and just shot instinctively.

It would be strange to be able to hit a monster moving at high speed.

"70%...100%, master recognition completed."

The next moment, a pure soul aura surged out from the Ten Thousand Souls Banner and rushed into his own soul.

What followed was a shock of countless memories.

"RR virus... Great Nirvana... Jiangnan Base City's First Military Academy... City War Base No. 003..."

"Is this the world of swallowing stars?"

Along with the memories deep in his soul, Qin Ming knew where he was.

He actually traveled to the Devouring Star World and became a senior student at the First Military Academy in Jiangnan Base City. He was assigned to the most dangerous City War Base No. 003.

And he possesses the Golden Finger Ten Thousand Souls Banner!
As a famous magic weapon, the Ten Thousand Souls Banner has many uses.

The most basic of these is to absorb souls to nourish oneself and absorb the essence of blood and flesh to strengthen the body.

Imprison the soul to refine "soul soldiers", or refine flesh and blood puppets.

It can also possess more incredible functions as it devours flesh, blood, and souls.

Wait? Devour flesh?
Qin Ming seemed to see blood mist rising from the broken monster corpses beside the fortress.

It's okay to suck souls, but no one else can see it.

Can it devour flesh and blood and form blood mist?
Do you think others are blind?
Immediately, Qin Ming controlled the Ten Thousand Souls Banner to stop absorbing flesh and blood for the time being, and the blood mist that had just formed spontaneously dissipated.

clang!clang!clang!
A sharp and piercing sound woke Qin Ming up. Through the shooting hole, he saw dozens of black bone spurs flying out from the dorsal fin of the monster that looked like a swordfish.
The bone spur flew hundreds of meters and got nailed to the fortress made entirely of reinforced concrete, making a loud noise.

"what!"

A scream was heard, causing Qin Ming to turn his head and look.

Not far from him, a soldier who was also holding a giant sniper rifle fell to the ground, his entire arm torn by black bone spurs.

"Fuck! Medic, help! It's a mutant swordfish at the advanced beast soldier level."

Immediately, a heavy machine gun swept over, beating the mutant swordfish into a bloody mess.

But it was just a bloody mess and could not be killed.

"Qin Ming, quickly kill that mutant swordfish!"

The soldiers around him roared.

"clear."

Without hesitation, Qin Ming gripped the sniper rifle tightly in his hand. The soul energy that continuously flowed into the Ten Thousand Souls Banner made him feel refreshed, as if his soul had taken a tonic pill.

With the blessing of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner, he easily integrated the memories of his original body.

As a top student at the No. 1 Military Academy in Jiangnan, the original body could of course use firearms, and was best at sniper rifles.

Through the sniper scope, the monster's figure, which was originally too fast to be captured, seemed to be in slow motion, and the monster's hideous appearance was clearly visible.

The sniper rifle in his hand is a high-powered sniper rifle specially developed for monsters.

Or maybe this can't be called a gun at all, it's a cannon!
Because its full name is Z-11 25mm heavy sniper rifle (shoulder-fired cannon).

Doped with Kro alloy, it has a maximum range of 3000m and can use a variety of ammunition, such as high-explosive fragmentation rounds, high-explosive armor-piercing rounds, etc., and can easily kill beast soldier-level monsters.

Hitting the vital points can cause effective damage to Beast General-level monsters.

Its power is much stronger than that of ordinary sniper rifles.

Bang!
Qin Ming pulled the trigger.

The bullet penetrated the mutant swordfish's eye socket and skull, tearing it apart completely.

But as Qin Ming watched, its soul was not collected by the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

Qin Ming thought to himself that the collection distance of the Ten Thousand Souls Banner seemed to be only a hundred meters.

"Well done! Quick, concentrate your firepower! Kill that armored crab!"

There were too many monsters on the battlefield, and in a flash, more monsters crawled out of the river.

"Yes! Got it!"

(End of this chapter)