Published: February 12, 2025
CHAPTER TEXT:
The "Two-in-One" attack, a lightning strike covering an area of one hundred square meters, crashed into the building, causing the entire structure to tremble as glass shattered from the upper floors and rained down with a cacophony of noise.
Before the window, Meng Ao had disappeared without a trace, and some areas were even showing signs of minor collapse.
Ye Zhongming merely glanced at the scene, retracted the Thunderous Mechanic, and signaled his team to charge forward at full speed. Without Meng Ao's interference, they reached that floor in just one minute.
He was confident that the people inside wouldn’t escape!
At this moment, in that floor, the mid-level members of the Red Kwanzaa Free Army had just undergone a massive ordeal, and their condition was dire.
Out of more than five hundred people, over a fifth lay on the ground, with half of them already charred corpses. Among the remaining survivors, no more than twenty showed any signs of life!
The others still standing were all in disarray, hair standing on end, their uniforms messy, with many clutching parts of their bodies, faces contorted in pain.
Meng Ao had retreated to the center of the conference room, surrounded by corpses, with no other living soul in sight.
He slowly removed his damaged gloves, ran a hand through his once neat but now tousled hair, his eyes ablaze with fury.
He was angry.
Angry that his attack had little effect, angry that he lost face in front of his subordinates, and angry that he had been injured while losing a fifth of his elite mid-level fighters!
Moreover, the zero durability gloves that, although unranked, had miraculous abilities, were destroyed in this attack!
Without those gloves, his ability had decreased by at least ten percent!
Confidence can be a strange thing; it can swell to the point of bursting when nothing goes wrong, but at the slightest setback, it collapses rapidly.
Meng Ao was experiencing this firsthand.
He was furious and resentful, but did he want to leap down and confront Ye Zhongming and the Cloud Summit squad?
No!
Perhaps just moments ago, he had that confidence, but now it was gone.
The encouraging words he had spoken to his subordinates meant nothing to him. He understood that nothing was more important than life itself; loyalty, perseverance, courage, and everything else were just empty talk. Surviving was the only thing that mattered.
So Meng Ao shamelessly shouted, "Retreat!"
The elite mid-level members of the Red Kwanzaa Free Army immediately turned to descend the stairs.
They didn’t have time to mock their leader because they were thinking the same thing.
In just seconds, they cleared the blocked doorway and were about to rush out, planning to jump out the back windows and regroup with their comrades. At that point, they would use sheer numbers to overwhelm the powerful but outnumbered red dress guard of Cloud Summit.
However, the leading member suddenly stopped, and not only that, but he also emitted an inexplicable cry before starting to retreat.
This alerted Meng Ao that something was wrong.
But now, everyone from Cloud Summit was gathered in front; Ye Zhongming and the red dress guard were both present. Even if there were backup in the rear, how powerful could it really be?
The anger that had brewed within him exploded at that moment.
These worthless fools couldn't even fight back against the Cloud Summit squad, and now they couldn’t even rush outside?
Meng Ao directly shoved past several of his subordinates to reach the front of the mid-level officers, looking up to deliver two punches to the ones who were shouting in confusion.
"Why aren’t you moving? Idiots!"
Without waiting for a response, he sought out the reason himself.
His anger quickly shifted to embarrassment as he saw a large golden-red dog squatting right at the doorway.
Even though it looked somewhat lazy, its massive body and vibrant fur exuded an intimidating presence.
But that wasn’t why the members of the Red Kwanzaa Free Army were frozen in fear; their terror stemmed from the orange magic crystal glowing on the dog’s forehead!