Read Novel Full Chapter 626: The Destructive Strength of a General! [2]
Chapter 626: The Destructive Strength of a General! [2]
Behind the battlefield, Alice silently watched the region constantly torn apart by black energy and silver sword light.
The seriousness within her eyes gradually deepened.
She understood better than anyone how much power Scarlet truly possessed.
If this were not New Dawn, if tens of thousands of ordinary civilians were not standing behind her, if Sarah’s life force had not already weakened to the point where it could disappear entirely at any moment, that battle would have ended long ago.
“How much longer can she hold on?”
Alice withdrew her gaze before looking toward Lily beside her.
Gentle milky-white light continued pouring endlessly from Lily’s palms into Sarah’s body.
But Sarah’s face, which had aged by several decades, still showed no signs of recovering.
Her exposed skin had become almost transparent from its pale complexion.
Even the beating of her heart had become so weak that it could barely be sensed.
Lily remained silent for several seconds.
“I can only temporarily seal the cracks within her Blood Core.”
“What she burned wasn’t merely her power. It was the fundamental life essence of the Vampire race itself.”
“My healing magic can repair the broken meridians within her body. It can keep her heart beating. But I cannot restore the lifespan that has already completely disappeared.”
As she spoke, the milky-white radiance within Lily’s palms grew even brighter.
“If we cannot find something capable of restoring life essence…”
“Even if she doesn’t die immediately… she may never wake up again.”
Alice’s expression darkened completely.
She lowered her head toward the unconscious Sarah before once again looking at the distant figure battling Everest.
A trace of icy resolve gradually emerged deep within her eyes.
“In that case… we’ll make sure she survives until that man returns.”
“No matter what price we have to pay. As long as she still has one breath left, she will not die here.”
Lily nodded softly.
“I understand.”
At the center of the battlefield.
After being forced backward once again by another silver sword strike, Everest finally ceased attacking.
He slowly lowered his head.
He looked at the wound across his chest that continued pouring blood.
Then he looked toward New Dawn’s city walls, still standing proudly in the distance.
The final trace of rationality within his eyes disappeared completely.
He could not defeat Scarlet.
At least… not with his current strength.
But from the very beginning, his objective had never been to prove himself stronger than her.
His goal… was to make Gabriel lose everything.
To ensure that the man who had stolen away the most important person in his life would return only to witness every single person who trusted him, followed him, and waited for him reduced to cold corpses.
Since a conventional assault could no longer achieve that goal… there was no reason to hold anything back.
Everest suddenly raised his right hand.
“All units.”
Every officer and soldier heard it clearly.
“Remove every safety restriction from all Magic Furnaces. All remaining war machines… enter Final Overload Mode.”
The instant those words were spoken, every Edgeborne officer’s expression changed dramatically.
“General!”
“If we remove the Magic Furnace limiters, every war machine can only operate for another three minutes! Once the core energy exceeds its critical threshold, the entire army will—”
“Carry out the order.”
Everest’s icy voice cut him off immediately.
The next second, without waiting for anyone to obey, he directly activated the overload program of every remaining war machine by pressing a button on one of the vehicles.
Buzz—!!
One dazzling crimson light after another slowly illuminated the battlefield from within countless war machines.
The Magic Furnaces that had already ceased operating roared back to life like ferocious beasts.
Energy far beyond each machine’s structural limit gathered frantically within their cores.
Even wrecked machines with barely any functioning weapons remaining slowly raised their cannons under the forced control of the overload program.
One hundred.
Three hundred.
Five hundred.
More and more war machines simultaneously locked onto New Dawn’s camp.
Only then did the Edgeborne soldiers trapped inside the cockpits finally realize what Everest truly intended.
He had never planned for them to leave alive.
Once every Magic Furnace exploded simultaneously… forget New Dawn, the entire western battlefield would be erased in an instant.
And they… would become sacrifices buried within the same explosion.
“Open the cockpit!”
“Damn it! The control system’s locked!”
“Everest has gone insane!”
“He’s making all of us die together with that city!”
Terrified screams erupted throughout the mechanical army.
But Everest acted as though he heard nothing.
Black energy erupted around him once more as he charged directly toward Scarlet again, clearly intending to pin her down with his own life until every overloaded Magic Furnace detonated.
“You wanted to protect them…then let me see… exactly how many people you can save!”
BOOM—!!
Everest unleashed another punch. Scarlet raised her sword to block the terrifying force.
Yet her gaze had already moved beyond his shoulder toward the countless war machines rapidly entering Final Overload Mode.
She could kill Everest. She could destroy every cannon aimed toward New Dawn.
But there were simply too many war machines.
Once even a single Magic Furnace exceeded its critical point, every remaining core would inevitably trigger a chain reaction.
More importantly, not far away, Sarah could no longer withstand even the slightest aftershock.
“Your greatest mistake…”
The calmness within Scarlet’s eyes finally changed ever so slightly.
She slowly raised the silver sword.
A sword cry far louder than before gradually echoed from the blade.
“Was believing that mere piles of scrap metal could force me to retreat.”
Clang—!!
At that instant, every sound across the battlefield disappeared completely.
Between heaven and earth, only that increasingly clear sword cry remained.
Countless incomparably fine silver threads spread outward with Scarlet at the center.
Within moments, they covered an area spanning several thousand meters.
Every overloaded war machine, regardless of how thick its armor was or how deeply hidden its internal mechanisms remained, instantly developed countless perfectly smooth fractures wherever those silver threads passed.
However, just as Scarlet prepared to sever every connection linking the Magic Furnaces together, Everest endured sword light capable of tearing apart everything and forcibly charged before her.
The flesh on both arms was shredded apart.
Blood continuously sprayed into the air.
Yet the twisted smile upon his face only grew even more deranged.
“You’re too late! Everyone will die! And this is the price Gabriel must pay!!”
Far away, the very first Magic Furnace finally exceeded its critical threshold.
Blinding crimson light erupted from the war machine.
The completely uncontrollable energy began expanding at a horrifying speed.
Within less than a single second, it would trigger every other overloaded Magic Furnace nearby.
And when that happened, the entire western district of New Dawn would be reduced to nothing.
Upon the city walls, countless players turned deathly pale.
Alice suddenly stood up, stepping in front of the others.
She had clearly prepared herself to protect Sarah and Lily by force if necessary.
Scarlet, standing directly before the impending explosion, showed not the slightest trace of panic.
She simply gazed quietly across the countless war machines scattered throughout the battlefield.
Then… she slowly closed her eyes.
The silver sword she had held from the very beginning finally released, for the very first time, its true brilliance.