Brother Who Determines the Fate of the Nation: My Great Emperor's Cultivation Level Exposed by

bass!

A visible frost sword aura detached from the sword and struck the relatively vulnerable tip of the black-armored crocodile's nose with perfect precision.

"roar!"

The black-armored crocodile was in pain, and its attack movements became sluggish.

Right now.

Su Ruoruo seized upon this fleeting opening.

At this moment, the SSS-level Phoenix Flame within her body erupted without reservation.

hum!

A divine flame of crimson gold instantly spread from her palm to the entire Cold Light Sword, dyeing the icy blue blade with a layer of dazzling gold.

The two diametrically opposed forces of ice and fire achieved a strange balance in the first-tier magic artifact, exuding a destructive aura.

A sword strike that combines ice and fire!

It transformed into a streak of light that tore through the night.

puff!

The Cold Light Sword, infused with Phoenix Flame, was incredibly sharp; it sliced ​​through the soft flesh of a crocodile without any resistance.

The sword tip pierced precisely, and the raging phoenix flames surged wildly into the black-armored crocodile's brain along the sword's blade.

"Aww..."

The crocodile's roar abruptly ceased, and a final flicker of astonishment flashed in its murky vertical pupils.

The golden flames began to engulf!

His massive body stiffened abruptly, then crashed heavily back into the water, splashing up a huge spray.

One strike, and he was dead.

Su Ruoruo landed on another rock by the lake, her chest heaving violently as she gasped for breath.

That sword strike had almost drained all her strength.

She was just about to breathe a sigh of relief and refill the jug with the hard-won water.

However, at that moment...

Splash splash splash splash...

A series of incredibly loud splashes, so intense they made one's scalp crawl, came from the entire lake.

That wasn't just one sound of water, but hundreds or even thousands of sounds.

Su Ruoruo's heart sank suddenly. She looked at the lake surface by the light of the phoenix flames that had not yet completely died down on the sword.

With just one glance, it felt as if the blood in her entire body had frozen.

Beneath the previously calm surface of the lake, countless pairs of scarlet eyes have emerged.

Twenty pairs, fifty pairs, hundreds of pairs.

Those scarlet eyes shone on the dark lake, their bloodthirsty and cruel light locking onto her.

This is not some solitary Class D ferocious beast at all.

This is a group of D-grade black armored crocodiles.

In the Dragon Kingdom's live stream room, the chat, which had just been boiling over because Su Ruoruo had instantly killed a D-level ferocious beast with a single sword strike, suddenly froze.

"Holy crap... what did I just see?"

"What...what is that? A red lantern?"

"No, those are eyes, all crocodile eyes! My God, she's stirred up a crocodile nest!"

"It's over, it's completely over. Even one was so hard to kill, there must be at least a hundred of them!"

Despair, an unprecedented despair, instantly enveloped the hearts of 1.4 billion viewers in China.

Inside the beautiful national camp.

Alice watched the footage transmitted by the drone, her expression shifting from shock to jealousy, and finally to ecstasy and malice.

"Well done, really well done, little genius of the Dragon Kingdom." She laughed hoarsely.

"Killing the young has brought trouble on the old man. Now let's see how you die."

Princess Victoria and the others also looked on with schadenfreude, as if they could already see Su Ruoruo being torn to pieces by hundreds of crocodiles.

Forbidden Lakeside.

Su Ruoruo felt her hands and feet were ice cold. The pressure from those hundreds of cruel gazes was a hundred times more terrifying than that from the crocodile she had just encountered.

escape.

Only this one thought remained in my mind.

But just as she was about to turn and rush into the jungle, the water on the entire lake began to surge violently.

It was as if some enormous creature was awakening at the bottom of the lake.

Glug, glug.

In the center of the lake, a huge whirlpool appeared out of nowhere and was expanding rapidly.

next second.

Boom!

A column of water, powerful enough to create waves several meters high, shot into the sky.

Amidst the cascading water, a colossal, chilling head slowly emerged from the center of the lake.

That was a giant crocodile, definitely over ten meters long, more than twice the size of the one we had just seen.

Its entire body was covered in thick, black scales, as heavy as real steel, covered with hideous bone spikes and old scars, bearing the marks of time and slaughter.

One of its eyes was blind, and a hideous claw mark stretched from its eye socket to the corner of its mouth, making its already terrifying face even more ferocious.

[Warning! Warning! A contestant from the Dragon Kingdom has encountered a peak-level D-rank ferocious beast, a mutated crocodile king!]

[Analysis: This ferocious beast is very close to being a third-tier superhuman!]

The chilling announcement from the forbidden area revealed its terrifying power!

The mutated crocodile king's intact single eye didn't look at the ordinary tribesmen around it, but instead stared intently at the petite figure on the shore from a distance of over a hundred meters.

Its people died at the hands of this tiny creature.

A terrifying pressure, mixed with rage and killing intent, suddenly emanated from it, enveloping the entire lake.

The ordinary black-armored crocodiles around them let out uneasy growls under this oppressive aura.

Su Ruoruo stood frozen in place, not daring to move an inch.

The crocodile king simply floated silently on the surface of the water, watching her with its single, cold eye, yet it brought her an unprecedented threat of death.

The mutated crocodile king opened its gaping maw, large enough to swallow a car whole, and let out a deep, long roar.

"roar--!"

The roar was deafening, shaking the entire lake surface.

Dozens of black-armored crocodiles crawled ashore from the murky lake water and swarmed towards Su Ruoruo.

A large, dark crocodile family trapped her on a rock less than three square meters in size by the lake.

Su Ruoruo's back was pressed tightly against the stone wall behind her, with nowhere left to retreat.

That last sword strike had almost drained all of her supernatural power reserves. Now, let alone another burst of ice and fire, even the thin flames maintaining the surface of the Cold Light Sword made her arm tremble uncontrollably.

She could barely kill one.

Ten heads, even if they fight to the death, might be able to hold them off.

Dozens of them, plus one near-Tier 3 D-level peak crocodile king.

This is a dead end.

Deep in the jungle, about two hundred meters from the lake.

Alice held up her night-vision goggles and could see the scene by the lake clearly.

"Did you see that?" she whispered.

"That ignorant and arrogant girl from China actually ran off alone."

Victoria leaned closer, covered her mouth, and let out a very soft laugh.

"God help her, this is the punishment she deserves."

"Very good."

Yukina's voice came from the darkness further behind, carrying a sinister quality unique to those who have been resurrected.

She had been sent back to the island by the forbidden area's resurrection mechanism just half an hour ago, and the memory of her broken leg was still vivid in her mind.

The excruciating pain of being torn apart fueled her hatred for Su Ruoruo to its extreme.

You could have saved me.

That sword could have saved me.

She chose to watch me die.

"Let her taste what it's like to be torn apart alive." Xue Nai said, emphasizing each word.

Alice patted her on the shoulder with satisfaction.

"Wait patiently, you'll soon see the Dragon Kingdom's national fate punished, like a magnitude 9.0 earthquake."

The group looked at each other and smiled.

In the global live stream, the screen was split in two.

On the left is a scene of Su Ruoruo trapped on a rock in a desperate situation, and on the right is a close-up shot of the Crocodile King slowly approaching.

The barrage of comments in the Dragon Kingdom's live stream room was so intense that it caused the system to lag.

"There's no way we can win. A Tier 1 fighting a peak D-rank opponent? This game is unplayable!"

"Ruoruo, run! Don't try to tough it out!"

"Brother, you can't escape. Didn't you see that there are crocodiles all around? Your escape route has been blocked long ago."

"It's over, it's really over, I can't bear to watch anymore."

"Where's Su Shen? Where is Su Shen? His sister is dying, where is he?!"

Despairing comments flooded the screen, and the hearts of 1.4 billion people were hanging in suspense at the same moment.

Lakeside.

The Crocodile King stopped less than 30 meters away from Su Ruoruo.

It didn't rush forward.

It is waiting.

Once the surrounding tribes have completely closed in on the encirclement.

Su Ruoruo saw it.

To her left, seven or eight crocodiles had already climbed onto the mudflats to her left.

On the right, a dozen or so crocodiles blocked the only opening leading to the jungle.

Behind me was a stone wall.

The Crocodile King is ahead.

Surrounded by enemies on all sides, with no way to retreat.

Su Ruoruo pressed her back against the stone wall, sword tip pointing forward, maintaining her final defensive posture.

Her mind raced through every possible escape route.

but……

No.

Not a single one.

At that moment, what flashed through Su Ruoruo's mind was not fear, but a vague thought.

Bro, is this what it feels like to be driven to the brink?

The crocodile king finally moved.

Its massive body crushed down on the rock where Su Ruoruo was, at a speed completely disproportionate to its size.

at the same time!

The crocodiles on both sides launched their attack at the same instant!

Dozens of enormous mouths, filled with fangs, opened simultaneously and closed towards the small, thin figure.

Su Ruoruo raised the Cold Light Sword and poured the last bit of Phoenix Flame in her body into it, preparing for a final resistance.

Right at this moment.

The moment the crocodile king's fangs were less than ten meters away from Su Ruoruo.

Just as dozens of crocodiles were about to drown her.

Without warning, the sky above the entire forbidden area exploded.

A beam of light crashed down from the center of the sky, ten or even a hundred times larger than any previous announcement of the forbidden area. The oppressive force carried by that beam of light instantly enveloped the entire island and the entire lake.

The crocodile king's charge suddenly froze.

The crocodiles that were closing in also stopped at the same time.

They didn't stop on their own.

It was that oppressive force descending from the sky that directly forced these D-level ferocious beasts to the ground.

The crocodile king's thick body crashed heavily into the shallow water, its single eye filled with fear and submission, as it let out a terrified howl towards the sky.

A chillingly cold yet profoundly powerful announcement resounded simultaneously in every corner of the Earth.

[Forbidden Zone Announcement: The Mortal Realm Ranking has been fully settled, and a new chapter of power is about to begin!]

The global live stream went silent for a second.

Then came a tsunami of bullet comments.

"What's going on? A divine decree?"

"A new list? Another list?"

"Wait, if mortals at their peak are already like gods, then what is this new ranking list?"

The second announcement followed immediately!

[The third global ranking, "National Destiny Challenge: The Extraordinary Ranking," is officially released!]

Those who make it onto this list are all beings who transcend the boundaries of mortals and wield extraordinary power!

The fate of the nation rests on the shoulders of our brothers.

An extraordinary list!!

The weight of those four words made everyone hold their breath.

In the Dragon Kingdom's live stream room, the barrage of comments instantly shifted from despair to frenzy.

"The Extraordinary Ranking! Will our Dragon Kingdom still be number one?"

The moment the words "Extraordinary List" were uttered, the world was in an uproar.

If the previous Mortal Limit Rankings only focused on breakthroughs within the scope of human physical abilities...

The word "extraordinary" completely shatters the shackles of the mundane.

This means that a true battle of gods has begun, an era of cataclysmic destruction has arrived.

Leaders from various countries instantly descended into unprecedented frenzy.

In the deepest command center of the Pentagon in America, a piercing red alarm blared throughout the entire facility.

"Contact Arthur immediately, use the highest level of authority, and inject him with all sixteen of the newly extracted mutated superhuman serums. All of them."

"I don't care about the side effects, I don't care if he dies, I just want him to reach the transcendent! Now, immediately, right now!"

In the secret council chamber of the British Empire, the elderly queen removed her crown and issued an order in a resolute tone.

"Activate Stonehenge to perform the most ancient heritage baptism for William; the glory of the royal family rests on this moment."

In the land of cherry blossoms, inside the Prime Minister's official residence, all cabinet members collectively performed the dogeza (a traditional Japanese kneeling gesture), bowing their heads towards the direction of Mount Fuji.

"Please, Lord Miyamoto, for the sake of the Great Sakura Empire's destiny, please make sure you break through."

In the Russian Bear Country, at a secret base beneath the Siberian ice sheet, Ivan's vital signs data flashed on the screen.

"Plan B is activated to carry out the final stage of bio-mechanical modification, replacing his heart with a nuclear reactor. We are going to create a true superhuman monster."

Orders were issued one after another from the highest power centers of various countries, carrying a madness that spared no expense.

It seemed like fate's arrangement, or perhaps a collective outburst of long-suppressed emotions.

At the moment the [Superb Ranking] was announced, the chosen ones from the world's major powers underwent their transformations almost simultaneously.

America, the Pentagon's secret underground laboratory.

Sixteen syringes, gleaming with an eerie red light, were precisely inserted into Arthur's body by the robotic arm.

"Aaaaaaah!"

Arthur's muscles bulged wildly at a visible speed, veins coiled like dragons on his body, and a magma-like red glow emanated from beneath his skin.

Finally, with a loud bang, all the reinforced glass in the entire laboratory shattered.

As the smoke and dust cleared, a figure over two meters tall, exuding an aura of destruction, slowly stood up.

Immediately following, the United States, the land on which the sun never sets.

In the center of the ancient Stonehenge, William, Grand Master of the Knights of the Round Table, knelt on one knee, receiving a blinding baptism of holy light descending from the sky.

His knight's armor melted away inch by inch in the holy light, only to reform into a new set of armor that was even more magnificent and covered with holy runes.

The land of cherry blossoms, atop Mount Fuji.

On the mountaintop, perpetually covered in ice and snow, Miyamoto Hanzo, the grandmaster of swordsmanship from the Shadow Foundation, who had been sitting motionless for several days, suddenly opened his eyes.

He slowly drew the long sword from his waist and gently swung it at a snowflake that was falling in the wind a hundred meters away.

The snowflakes are still falling.

But the next second, it silently split in two in mid-air.

Russia, the land of the Russian bear, the Siberian ice field.

Inside the underground base, Ivan lay on a cold operating table.

His chest was opened, and a miniature nuclear reactor emitting a blue glow was slowly implanted.

The moment his mechanical chest cavity closed, he opened his eyes. One eye was made of flesh and blood, while the other was a mechanical prosthetic eye flashing with endless data.

The whole world has gone mad.

At a time when countries are scrambling to find solutions at the last minute.

The grand canopy above the forbidden area finally descended into its final chapter.

Golden divine runes began to slowly outline and condense on the sky.

[National Destiny Determined by Brothers: The Extraordinary List]

The massive list has officially begun.

The first name will soon be revealed.