Chapter 242: So What If They Go Berserk

The Fear Emperor had indeed reached the brink of revival. From releasing his power to Ability Users, allowing them to evolve to the first and second tiers, then further advancing them to the fourth and fifth tiers.

It turned out that Ability Users’ progression was never due to their own strength or evolution. Instead, it was simply about killing large numbers of humans, collecting their agony and terror at the moment of death through the Blood Sacrifice Ritual, and transmitting it back to the Fear Emperor.

Only after the Fear Emperor regained his strength would he bestow a tiny fraction of power back to the Ability Users. So, “evolution”? It was a deception from start to finish.

Then, the Fear Emperor devoured millions of people, evolving further by transforming those millions of humans who worshipped him and willingly sacrificed themselves into waste. Using this waste as a foundation, he created Fruit Ability Users.

All of this signified the further return of the Fear Emperor’s abilities, bringing him closer to the edge of revival. On the other hand, it also revealed that humanity’s worship of the Fear Emperor was nothing but a joke from beginning to end.

The Fear Emperor neither cared nor valued people. He exploited their worship, devoured their lives, and maximally insulted their highest form of reverence—self-sacrifice—by consuming them, excreting them as waste, and turning them into slave puppets. This was the Fear Emperor’s twisted amusement.

Human worship was worthless in the eyes of the Fear Emperor, only serving to turn them into his slaves.

The Fear Emperor Tree continuously took root and sprouted, occupying the entire city and spreading in all four directions—east, west, south, and north—devouring other cities. Under the vast tree world, people had nowhere to escape, succumbing to its overwhelming strength. In the end, they could only become the Fear Emperor’s sustenance, bringing him one step closer to revival.

Fortunately, there was Kamiyu, and the poison gas Artillery Shells had a special effect against the Fear Emperor Tree, causing it to howl in pain. Kamiyu immediately ordered all Artillery Positions to open fire rapidly and not cease shooting, delaying the Fear Emperor’s revival time.

Stung by the pain, the Fear Emperor summoned his subordinate, Hungry Ghost Shara, ordering him to spare no effort in leveling Kamiyu’s Sanctuary. He could not allow any more poison gas Artillery Shells to fall into the Core Zone and strike the Tree Trunk.

Hungry Ghost Shara dared not defy the Fear Emperor’s decree. Reluctantly, he looked at the slave-control secret technique Scroll in his hand—a Scroll he had worked so hard to obtain, now to be sacrificed to induce berserk rage in the Fruit Ability Users.

With mixed emotions, Hungry Ghost Shara ignited the Scroll and said, “After the Scroll burns, the Fruit Ability Users will temporarily gain fifth-tier strength. However, once the time passes, they will be reduced to ashes. The Fear Emperor’s heart is truly ruthless, showing no regard for his own soldiers.”

Jack said, “Kamiyu, look quickly. The Fruit Ability Users below seem to be turning violent.”

Kamiyu peered through her Scope and saw the Fruit Ability Users in the third formation undergoing Mutations one after another. Some grew black spikes all over their bodies, some sprouted eight legs, some had their bellies split open, revealing sharp teeth like those of a shark, and some even began merging, forming deformed Monsters so grotesque that even Kamiyu found them indescribably repulsive.

Moreover, each of them emitted a powerful aura, so strong that Kamiyu, high up in the sky, could feel their evil and formidable presence.

“Hmm, it seems the Fear Emperor is getting serious. You’d better be careful,” Mephisto chimed in first.

“Don’t be afraid, I’ll protect you.” Jack immediately tightened his grip on the sword and the reins of the flying horse.

Kamiyu said, “Don’t worry, I’m not that weak.”

Jack replied, “This time, you really can’t afford to be careless. The enemy’s aura is incredibly powerful, dozens of times stronger than those lowlifes Qian Long and Hou Ao from before. And there are over a hundred thousand of them. No matter how strong you are, you can’t handle that many enemies alone. Let the artillery position support you.”

Kamiyu shook her head. “No, the artillery’s top priority right now is to hinder the Fear Emperor’s revival. If the Fear Emperor revives now, we’ll be even more outmatched. So what if there are over a hundred thousand? I’ll slaughter them all.”

Before Kamiyu could continue, the hundred thousand berserk Fruit Ability Users surged toward the Sanctuary, ignoring Kamiyu in the sky.

“Hurry, lower the flying horse and fly back! Their target is the Sanctuary. They’re trying to stop the artillery bombardment.” Kamiyu understood their goal as soon as she saw the enemy’s movements.

Mephisto said confidently, “You’d better hurry. They’re moving fast and will soon reach your Sanctuary. Over the past thousand years, I’ve seen too many prodigies meet their defeat. Success and failure hang by a thread—not a single mistake can be made. One misstep, and all the advantages gained so far will be lost, leading to total defeat.”

“Old Geezer, I don’t have time for your lectures right now.” Kamiyu tightened her legs around the horse, leaning back into Jack’s embrace as a support, and adjusted her gun barrel.

“Jack, hurry!”

“Roger.”

The humanoid elephants also began to mutate eerily, their four legs turning into eight, charging faster than tanks. The Hungry Ghost Shara atop an elephant saw a platinum-colored meteor streak across the sky and snorted, “It’s too late to rush back now, Kamiyu. Your Sanctuary will be flattened by my Fruit Ability Users. Each berserk Fruit Ability User possesses fifth-tier strength. How can you possibly fight my hundred thousand alone? One against a hundred, I might believe. But one against over a hundred thousand? That’s pure fantasy.”

Well, next, Kamiyu would show Hungry Ghost Shara what true fantasy looked like.

On the Royal Pegasus, Kamiyu pointed her gun barrel vertically downward, not even needing to aim because the ground was swarming with running berserk Fruit Ability Users, like migrating animals on the African savannah.

Kamiyu whispered softly, “Load: Thunderstorm Bullet, Select: Arc Splash; Stack: Curving Bullet; Select Core Skill: Hammer of the Thunder God. Activate Skill: Headshot Strike.”

The Royal Pegasus’s affix would increase the attack power of Lightning Skills by 200%, and Headshot Strike would also stack triple the power within six seconds.

Kamiyu’s Hammer of the Thunder God was no longer just 1080 times the damage but a terrifying 3240 times the damage.

In a large-scale attack scenario, her Sound of Chaos naturally selected the skill quantity enhancement mode, meaning six Hammers of the Thunder God were fired at once.

Each Hammer of the Thunder God, upon landing, would generate six randomly distributed horizontal lightning arcs to electrocute nearby enemies, resulting in a maximum of 36 lightning arcs.

As Kamiyu finished speaking, she pulled the trigger.

Six platinum-colored vertical lightning bolts shot down from the sky at once, striking among the berserk Fruit Ability Users.

“Boom.” Six heavy echoes reverberated across the entire land, as if the World had come to a standstill.

On the ground struck by lightning, nothing remained. The thirty-six bolts of lightning unleashed all struck the surrounding enemies with perfect Accuracy, reducing every one of them to ashes.

The Enhancement Points gained did not lie—Kamiyu instantly obtained 1,344 Enhancement Points.