Lilith slowly landed on the ground, the dragon wings on her back folding as the Bone Tail beneath her skirt lashed out, flicking off the blood covering it.
Those crimson vertical pupils looked down calmly at the dazed crowd.
The Alien Queen stood silently behind her, its dark golden vertical pupils scanning this land that was about to turn into a purgatory with equal indifference.
No one dared to move.
No one dared to breathe.
Until—
"For the Island Nation!"
A hoarse roar erupted from the crowd!
"For Lord Sato!!!"
That voice was like lighting a powder keg, instantly detonating everyone's suppressed emotions to the extreme!
"For the Island Nation!!!"
"For Lord Sato!!!"
Countless people's eyes turned red, burning with deep-seated hatred and madness!
They grabbed anything nearby that could be used as a weapon and launched a suicidal charge toward Lilith's petite figure!
Old men, youths, women—they were all surviving Reincarnators.
They knew they were no match for her; they knew that charging forward meant only death.
But they wanted to buy time!
To buy that final bit of time for Lord Sato!
Lilith looked at the frantically surging Reincarnators; there was no sympathy, no pity, not even a ripple of emotion in her eyes.
She simply took a small step forward.
She took a deep breath.
The next moment—
A shrill Ultrasound screech, sharp enough to tear a soul apart, mixed with her youthful yet cold voice as it suddenly burst from her small mouth!
"BEGONE!!!!!!!!"
A single word.
Like a sonic bomb, it exploded within the crowded space!
The violent sound waves turned into a visible circular shockwave, spreading frantically with Lilith at the center!
The dozens of Reincarnators at the very front had their bodies instantly explode into a mist of blood the moment they touched the sound waves!
Flesh and blood flew everywhere, bones shattered, and they didn't even have time to let out a scream!
The momentum of the sound waves did not diminish as they continued to crush everything behind!
The second row, the third row, the fourth row—
Row after row of people fell like harvested wheat, bleeding from their facial orifices under the impact of the sound waves, unable to rise again!
The frantic charge of those thousands collapsed before that single word!
Those slightly stronger Reincarnators, though they barely managed to survive the direct impact of the sound waves, were already bleeding from their noses and mouths, their ears ringing and ruptured.
They were left with only a final breath, slumped on the ground without even the strength to stand.
Finally, they understood.
The exquisite little loli before them, who looked harmless to humans and animals alike, was an invincible existence.
An unshakable natural disaster.
A—true monster!
Those lucky enough to survive finally broke down.
They threw down their weapons, turned around, and fled frantically in the opposite direction!
Wishing their parents had given them two more legs, wishing they could grow wings to fly away from this hell!
Lilith watched those fleeing backs indifferently and did not give chase.
Because—
Someone would kill them for her.
"Whoosh—!"
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—!"
Dozens of figures suddenly shot out from the surrounding abandoned buildings!
They wore uniform black clothing, their movements swift and ghostly, their auras powerful and cold.
Every single one of them was a Hunter-level existence!
Three of those figures had particularly powerful auras.
Three SS-Rank Hunters!
Behind them, hundreds of Reincarnators dressed in ninja attire followed closely, their movements uniform like well-trained suicide soldiers!
They outflanked and surrounded them at extreme Speed, intercepting all the fleeing survivors!
No shouting.
No warnings.
Only cold slaughter!
Blades flashed, and heads rolled!
Sharp blades pierced through, and blood splattered!
Those survivors who had just escaped Lilith's clutches didn't even have time to feel relieved before their throats were slit one by one by their own people!
One.
Ten.
A hundred.
A thousand.
They even blocked all surrounding escape routes, giving no one the slightest chance.
Blood gathered into streams on the ground.
Wails echoed in the air.
But there was no sign of emotion on the faces of those executioners.
Even if they couldn't bear it in their hearts, even if the hands holding the blades trembled slightly, they still did not stop.
They were killing deserters, putting on a show for that unknown Hunter.
Because only by doing this could they stabilize that unknown Hunter and that terrifying Alien Queen.
Only by doing this could they buy the final bit of time for Lord Sato.
This was the only thing they could do, and the last thing they could do.
Lilith watched silently like this.
Watching the good show these people were putting on, watching them kill each other, watching the blood flow into a river, watching this settlement turn into a literal slaughterhouse.
A faint smile slowly curved at the corners of her mouth.
She knew these people were stalling for time.
But she didn't mind.
Because she also wanted to know just how strong that creature underground would be at the moment its completion was truly finished.
Therefore, she would give him ample time for his transformation; as for the slaughter among these people, she didn't care at all, treating it merely as a performance.
She wanted to know—knowing that she would leave plenty of time for the one underground, knowing that she didn't care about their lives or deaths—what kind of expressions they would have.
The slaughter lasted for a full hour.
When the last survivor fell and the last wail dissipated, this settlement that once held tens of thousands had completely turned into a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
The smell of blood was so strong it was nauseating, permeating every inch of the air.
Blood gathered into actual streams on the ground, flowing slowly along the terrain.
This blood, as if it had life, did not flow randomly but seeped into the ground in a regular pattern.
Toward the same direction.
Toward a certain location beneath the Sports Center.
Finally, the massacre ended.
The three SS-Rank Hunters, leading hundreds of ninjas, quickly moved to the area where Lilith was and surrounded her.
But they did not make a move.
They only surrounded her.
"It seems I truly underestimated you all."
Lilith spoke, her youthful voice as pleasant as a lark's, yet it made everyone present feel a chill in their hearts.
"I didn't expect that when you get ruthless, you even kill your own people."
The faces of the three SS-Rank Hunters turned ashen; they gritted their teeth but could only suppress the anger in their hearts.
Those who died were compatriots, comrades-in-arms, and the last hope of the Island Nation.
But for the sake of the grand plan, they had to die.
As long as there were survivors elsewhere, as long as Lord Sato's plan could be completed, then the Island Nation had a future!
As for the terrifying monster before them...
Just stall a little longer, just a little longer...
The leading SS-Rank Hunter took a deep breath, suppressed the fear in his heart, and spoke in reasonably fluent Chinese.
"Your Excellency, the Dragon Kingdom said back then that it wanted to pacify the internal strife in Asia and even integrate Asia. For you to act so recklessly, have you consulted Luna of the Dragon Kingdom?"
He was stalling for time.
He knew he was no match, and even with those hundreds of subordinates, they were definitely no match.
But he had to stall.
Even stalling for one more second was a victory.