Swallowing the Stars: Starting with the Battle of Geniuses

Chapter 56 A Pack of Wolves Devouring the Sun

That's not all.

Even after pooling everyone's resources and making such meticulous preparations to ensure everything was perfect, the experience of fighting Berlan brought a different kind of insight than ever before.

Perhaps it was through painful reflection that the simulated human deeply realized its own shortcomings after this battle, and its strength improved again over the next ten years.

Even without a complete manual, the simulator is able to unleash the full power of the World-Destroying Heaven-Burning Blade's final move relatively normally!

"This is definitely the closest I've ever come to success."

"Let's give it a try!"

Hunzhen stared intently at Bolan, when he heard a teasing voice beside him.

"Hey, I heard you were completely indifferent to Death before, saying you'd never even heard of him. But out of all these people here, you're the most excited one? Flame Demon, you wouldn't happen to be some legendary, nearly extinct species called 'Tsundere,' would you?"

It was Luo Yang looking at him with a playful smile.

"Get the hell out of here!"

If it weren't for the need to prevent the illusion curtain from showing any flaws, Hunzhen would have kicked it directly.

He rolled his eyes, snorted, and explained, "I only heard rumors before, you guys said he was so strong and invincible, and to be honest, I didn't really believe it until now, but... after seeing this, who can complain?!"

Hunzhen pointed at the contestants who were being eliminated like rain, his face filled with fervor: "You're right, if I miss this challenge, I'll truly regret it for the rest of my life!"

"Forehead……"

Luo Yang couldn't help but take a step back.

It is well known that, compared to a madman with unpredictable temper, a fanatical psychopath is even more dreaded.

That's roughly the situation I'm describing.

However, with these two interruptions and the conversation that sounded like an impromptu stand-up comedy routine, the tense and excited emotions in everyone's hearts calmed down a bit.

At least, after witnessing Hunzhen's fanatical demeanor, the feeling of invincibility suddenly faded a bit when looking at Bolan from afar.

Luo Yang said, "Flame Demon, just like we said before, with you in charge, the moment you remove the illusion veil will be our signal to make our move."

Hunzhen nodded: "I know. Until then, just watch quietly."

Hunzhen's calm demeanor impressed Luo Yang, who couldn't help but smirk, "Heh, you rascal."

The expeditionary force then fell silent.

Everyone knows that this is just the calm before the storm.

In the distance, Berlan continued his indiscriminate attacks.

Some people hid in sturdy buildings, trying to delay the attack by making it much more difficult to destroy the buildings than to kill the people wandering outside.

But Bolan seemed completely unconcerned about the consumption of power. Even though forcibly destroying the buildings made of B9-grade materials would consume a considerable amount of energy, he still chose to kill all life within his perception range.

As he swept through, he had already slaughtered tens of thousands of people in a very short time.

The name of Death grew ever more renowned.

With just one more day, Berlan was confident he could eliminate all the participants in the entire Second World region and end the qualifiers two days ahead of schedule.

In the blink of an eye, more than half of the approximately 10,000 participants in this area had been eliminated.

Berlan continued forward, when suddenly, an energy several times stronger than the previous resistance shot out from below.

"Um?"

"Were they lying in ambush on me?"

Berlan's gaze swept across the scene, and the figures of the expeditionary force immediately came into his view. He murmured indifferently to himself, remaining completely unmoved.

These people are indeed much stronger than the previous group.

But for Berlan, it was the same strength that could be dealt with with a single strike.

"Death! Don't underestimate us!"

A dazzling golden sword burst forth from the side.

Using the attacks of numerous mentalists as cover, Luo Yang launched a rapid advance towards Bo Lan.

"A little stronger."

Bolan looked at Luo Yang, who had suddenly entered his domain encompassing a kilometer radius around him, and silently commented, "But, that's all."

At the edge of the domain, a phantom suddenly appeared, its blood sword carrying a hundred-meter-long stream of azure energy that sliced ​​Luo Yang's figure into dust.

"Luo Yang!"

Shocked voices rang out from the expeditionary force.

They knew Bolan was strong, but Luo Yang was also the second-ranked player in the Second World Region!

But just like that... he was killed by Death's sword?

After the immense shock, the geniuses did not choose to back down.

Those who have come this far are all people with outstanding mental fortitude. Since they chose to take action, they were determined to challenge Berlan even if they had a numerical advantage. Now that things have come to this, they are even less likely to back down!

If you don't even dare to draw your sword against Berlan and test your strength on a virtual battlefield, how can you claim to become a strongman in the future?

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It was like a final celebration.

When the expedition team's whereabouts were exposed and they all attacked Berlan, the thousands of contestants who had already been killed and were already fearful launched another attack on Berlan.

Imagine the astonishing and immense spectacle of thousands of people uniting as one to attack a single person!

Even viewers who were initially skeptical of the geniuses' futile attempt to challenge the system were inevitably shocked when they witnessed this scene on screen.

however……

Faced with an absolute disparity in strength, courage, perseverance, resilience... everything seems meaningless.

Countless people were slaughtered like ants.

Every second, dozens or even hundreds of contestants were cleaved in two by Berlan's sword and blasted into dust.

"this……"

In just over ten seconds, an audience member who was about to shout, his passion stirred by the scene, was suddenly doused with cold water and fell silent.

Just then—

The fiery realm invaded Berlan's greyish-white realm.

"It's the Flame Demon!"

When some viewers noticed that Hunzhen was approaching Bolan at high speed with the scorching heat of hell, Bolan, as the person involved, naturally noticed Hunzhen's presence even earlier.

He raised an eyebrow, a rare occurrence for him: "He's stronger than anyone before. If I weren't here, he would be number one in this region."

Despite accurately assessing Hunzhen's strength, Bolan remained calm and composed in the face of Hunzhen's attacks.

The area shrank instantly.

This scene caused Hunzhen's pupils to shrink, and he couldn't help but let out a helpless sigh: "It's definitely not as beautiful as I imagined."

Despite having an absolute advantage, Bolan did not underestimate Hunzhen's sudden attack and chose to consolidate his domain.

If Hunzhen's chances of "injuring Bolan" had previously increased to 50% due to various factors, Bolan's action instantly dropped the success rate to below 10%.

"but……"

Hunzhen grinned: "That's good! Otherwise, even if we succeeded, it would feel like an unfair victory!"

At this moment, Hunzhen was more than 200 meters away from Bolan. He was still more than 100 meters away from the range where he could reach the maximum power limit of Ziyang Cutting Dawn and have a slight chance to injure Bolan!

(End of this chapter)