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Just then, the sound faded into the distance, and the security personnel breathed a sigh of relief.

Outside the manor, Kayn gripped his massive scythe in reverse, the tip of which carved into the ground, leaving a long trail – the sound the guards heard.

Laast: "Hey kid, you still haven't answered why I wanted to see your mother first. Be reasonable! I've asked you so many times, you have to give me an answer. You'll need my help to blockade this area later."

Kayn: "Why ask a question you already know the answer to?"

Laaste: "Hehehehe, I knew you were going to kill your mother. What a pity, she seems to have committed suicide beforehand. And I smelled a familiar scent. The thing that possessed your mother's body must also be a sealed artifact, and it must have escaped!"

Kayn remained silent, not intending to refute Rhaast's words. He simply continued his ritual, knowing that none of those who attended this banquet would leave alive!

Laast: "Don't stay silent again. How about you hand over your body to me? I'll go and cut down that sealed artifact. That's desecrating your mother's body. How can you do that? Oh, right, you're going to kill your mother. How about I kill the sealed artifact, and then you cut down your mother's body? That would be considered completing the objective."

Kayn was getting annoyed by Rhaast's constant nagging. After confirming that Kayn was a quiet person, Rhaast began to harass him relentlessly.

"Shut up!" Kayn used some force, pressing Rhaast deeper into the scythe with his internal power.

Laaste: "Wow, the filial son is angry! The filial son is angry! I'm so scared! By the way, you said you wanted to inherit your father's will, does killing your mother count? Then you really are a family of filial sons~"

Boom! The blue flames on Kayn's body suddenly surged upwards, rendering Rhaast speechless. However, Rhaast knew that his words were not meaningless. If this continued, Kayn's mind would eventually become unbalanced, and that would be the moment he could break free.

Just as the banquet was about to officially begin, Kayn finally completed a full circle around the manor. The marks left by his scythe on the ground connected together, and a faint blue flame began to burn in the center of the circular marks.

"Burn! Fire born of shadow! Burn away everything in this world for me!"

Kayn raised his scythe and pointed it to the sky. The flames around him surged as he spoke, and clusters of deadly fire and shadows intertwined in the sky above the manor, completely sealing it off from the outside world.

Sizzle... sizzle...

Poor network signal... severe signal interference... disconnected from the central network... please reconnect to the network...

The security personnel's system began to display a series of alarm messages. The two men exchanged a glance, a sense of foreboding creeping into their hearts.

Meanwhile, in the central area of ​​the banquet, previously filmed videos of Yin and his mother's painful survival flickered a few times before dimming. These videos, stored on the central network server, could not be played normally once the internet was disconnected.

The various high-ranking officials and capitalists invited to the banquet also noticed this discrepancy. In this era, the difference between local and online services becomes apparent in the instant of internet outage.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the Chief of the Garrison wiped the sweat from his brow. "Please remain calm, everyone. It's likely that a cosmic ray explosion has occurred, affecting the network's operation. After all, the equipment here hasn't been maintained for far too long."

The mayor walked over with his hands behind his back, staring intently at the Chief of Police, and began a one-on-one conversation, demanding, "What exactly happened?!"

"I don't know, it's just an equipment problem, it'll be fixed soon," the garrison commander said cautiously.

The mayor nodded, walked to the podium, and continued to reassure the invited guests below.

The garrison commander, his fists clenched, stared nervously at the doorway. To outsiders, it seemed he was worried that this incident would affect his promotion.

But only he knew that he was cursing. Which idiot chose this place as the target of the attack? The people here were not particularly important. With the central AI and the city's central server, replacing a batch of parasites or promoting a batch of parasites would have the same effect!

Even targeting the city center buildings would be better than this; isn't this just a waste of the organization's resources?!

There aren't many sorcerers in the organization who can influence such a large area. Isn't this just messing around?!

Which idiot was in charge?!

Chapter 179 I've Endured This Shot for Twenty Years

Just as the mayor was calmly inviting guests, two heads rolled in through the door.

The two heads, rolling side by side, were filled with puzzled expressions, as if asking: "Brother, how did you lose your head?"

Don't ask me, bro, you've already lost your head.

This scene, witnessed by the guests, instantly caused chaos in the entire venue. Everyone began to push behind the mayor and his entourage, while the surrounding intelligent defense robots were fully activated and converged on the door.

A phantom figure radiating surging blue flames floated in through the doorway. The enormous scythe behind the phantom figure intimidated the entire venue. This is a weapon of slaughter, meant to take your lives!

Laast: "Hahaha, kill all you want! Don't worry about the blade cutting, enjoy your killing spree!"

With a series of swift movements, more than twenty robots in the venue turned their guns and locked onto Kayn using various methods.

Tap tap, tap tap.

One after another, gunshots rang out, and wave after wave of short-frequency energy rays crisscrossed the venue.

Shadow Step!

Kayn raised his scythe and vanished from everyone's sight in an instant. Then, amidst the robots' "target lost" alarm, he landed right in the middle of the robot swarm.

Giant scythe sweeps!

The giant scythe drew a large circle, sweeping directly across the waists of the surrounding enemies. For these guarded robots, this one strike was enough to render them useless.

The shields on the outer armor were completely shattered in a flash before the shadow flames, and the main bodies made of secondary materials could not withstand the giant scythe's cutting; being split in two was their ultimate fate.

The Chief of the Security Forces watched Kayn's killing spree and suddenly laughed. "It's good that the organization's leader hasn't lost his mind."

The mayor, who was in the crowd, caught the smile of the chief of security. A thought flashed through his mind, and he immediately squeezed over there. The chief of security was in charge of the city's defense, and he must have a personal teleportation device on him!

A sharp blade pierces through!

Kayn wielded his scythe with agility, slashing forward several times and carving out narrow channels filled with shadowy flames. One after another, the shadowy blades rose into the air along with the advancing flames, completely obliterating the remaining robots into a pile of wreckage.

"Quick! Give me the teleporter! Get me out of here!" the mayor ordered the chief of security, his hand reaching into a pocket he had been covering.

*Slap!* The Chief of Police slapped the mayor's hand away and gave him a cold look.

The mayor hesitated a bit. It didn't seem wise to provoke the Chief of Police now. He should hurry up and find a way to get out alive. He was confident that he could control him once he got out.

After all, in terms of connections, lineage, and everything else, the mayor far surpasses this chief of police who climbed up step by step through basic hard work.

While this infighting was raging, Kayn had already charged into the crowd. None of these invited guests were innocent; the amount of blood on their hands was probably far greater than that of the Chief of Police.

Afterimages flashed through the crowd, and one head after another fell to the ground.

The protective gear they wore was the highest-grade civilian version, which is what makes them rich. As for why they didn't use the military version, it's because all the military versions had been requisitioned by the Chitauri King for the army's logistics.

The civilian-grade shields are not as strong or adaptable as those of the now-broken robots, and they can't even make Kayn's scythe stumble.

A dozen seconds later, besides Kayn, only a few of the city's top officials remained standing in the room.

Kayn walked step by step toward these guys, his imposing aura terrifying them.

"Stop it! I beg you! Show me whatever solution you have! I saw you smile!" The mayor quickly knelt down in front of the garrison commander, pleading with him repeatedly.

At this moment, everyone's eyes were focused on the Chief of the Guard, and even Kayn wanted to see what other skills this guy had up his sleeve.

The garrison commander sighed, put his right hand into his pocket, and took out a gun.

The mayor looked at the gun and felt it looked familiar, but couldn't remember where he had seen it before. Maybe it was in an equipment exhibition hall?

That must be the teleportation gun!

The mayor immediately clung tightly to the leg of the garrison commander, refusing to let go no matter what.

"No need, Mayor. Turn off the shield and I'll take you away right away."

The chief of security raised his pistol and pointed it at the mayor's head.

The mayor was overjoyed; had he escaped death?! A narrow escape meant good fortune was sure to follow!

"Thank you, thank you. From today onwards, your family is my family! And I will absolutely not let this enemy go!"

The mayor glared fiercely at Kayn.

Flames flickered around Kayn as he calmly watched them. The gun was just an ordinary gun, one he had seen when he was a child.

"Don't mention it, I've been waiting for this shot for twenty years!"

The chief of security pulled the trigger. With a bang, the bullet pierced through the mayor's skull, half of his head was blown apart, and he fell to the ground, bouncing twice.

The remaining two or three officials immediately dispersed. At this point, even a fool could see that something was wrong. The garrison commander's face clearly showed the joy of revenge!

"Hahaha, that's great!" The Chief of Police laughed wildly. The gun in his hand was familiar to Kayn and the mayor, as it was Kayn's former sidearm.

After Kai's death, the gun was confiscated, and an official who wanted to climb the ranks gave it as a gift to the garrison commander.

“Yin, you look just like your father,” the Commander-in-Chief said, looking at Kaiyin.

Kayn, who could see into people's hearts through the shadows, could no longer tell whether the man in front of him was telling the truth or not. This man was his father's number one political enemy when his father was alive, and after his father's death, he did not hesitate to kick him when he was down. How could he be an ally?!

"Wait a moment, I have something to ask you," the garrison commander said, then pointed his pistol at the other officials.

Their superb shooting skills made it impossible for the Chief of the Garrison Command to even know how to dodge these enemies; it was simply a matter of crushing them!

Before long, only he and Kayn remained in the entire venue.

"Pah! I've wanted to do this for twenty years!" The garrison commander spat on the mayor's corpse.

Then, the Chief of Security walked a few meters in front of Kayn, gestured to his head, and said, "Start the cut here. Please take out the spare chip and then physically disconnect the network. You should have learned this when you were a kid, right?"

Kayn nodded.

"That's good. Please deliver this chip to this location. I beg you, the contents of this chip are really important to the revolution!" the Garrison Commander continued.

After seeing Kayn nod in agreement again, he silently put the pistol on the ground, pushed it towards Kayn, and then slowly closed his eyes.

"Remember to destroy this place, don't leave a trace."

Kayn looked at the heroically sacrificed Chief of the Guard and didn't know what to say; he didn't even know the man's name.

And shouldn't I be the main character today?

With a sense of doubt, Kayn raised his scythe and swung it in that direction.

Sensing the approaching energy, the Chief of the Garrison smiled and said, "Kai, I've come to apologize to you."

After the flames cleaved the chief of security in two, they fell onto the other corpses, completely igniting the entire venue. At the same time, the flames used for sealing from the sky began to fall, and for a moment, no part of the entire manor was not on fire.

Amidst the flames, a hand removed a chip from the head of a corpse, then stepped into the flames and left the massive manor.

Chapter 180 Forward! Target: Recruiting Base

The burning of a massive estate, which resulted in the deaths of all the city's top officials, would be a major event in any other country. However, in this case, it caused not a ripple at all.

The city's central AI took direct control of everything, continuing to maintain the city according to the predetermined process. In fact, from a certain perspective, the city managed by AI was more suitable for the common people than the city that was previously managed by human intervention.

Some laws protecting the poor, which were not yet abolished but were merely restricted, began to be formally implemented for the first time under the control of AI. However, no one knows how long these laws can last. Perhaps they will last until the next wave of parasites arrives, or perhaps they will last until the Chitauri King completely revises the laws.

On a high-rise building in the city, Kayn looked down at the city, which operated like a machine without any change, and remained completely silent.

He had delivered the chip to the designated location, along with a letter. The letter contained little about himself or his father, focusing mostly on describing the cabin in the woods.

Kayn kept thinking that if he alone could gain the power of revenge by entering, what if enough people entered? Would the flames of revolution be ignited completely?