Chapter 427 - 378: Hand-Tearing a Heretic! And What Are Your Thoughts Now?

Earth Ring·Time Sand Reverse Flow.

Under the influence of the Time Compression Extraordinary Trait, it was the same for all of them: for Battle God Atlas, who was confronting Reinhardt; for Night Goddess Nikos, who was issuing arrogant threats; and even for the black-robed man whose power rivaled Koller’s—the Chaos God, Chaos.

In their perception, Reinhardt’s movements were like a video lagging with high latency.

In a single instant, he had already broken free from Atlas’s attack range and was standing before one of the gun-wielding Infiltrator gods: the Death God, Thanatos!

Atlas snapped his head to look at Reinhardt, who had appeared in the distance. He gripped his Warhammer tightly, his pupils shrinking to pinpricks.

’This guy...’

He had been confident that he had seen through Reinhardt’s Special Ability, which was similar to Time Stasis, and had found a way to counter it. But this terrifying ability, which surpassed the limits of his perception, shook him deeply.

’If that Vengeful Angel’s target hadn’t been Thanatos, but me...’

At this thought, Atlas’s arrogant, disdainful face broke out in a slight sweat.

Meanwhile,

Although Reinhardt had been confronting the heretic named Atlas, he had been secretly on guard against them suddenly attacking the Technician Priests.

Had it not been for Koller and Lu Jia’s timely response...

Even though his power had reached the Domain Level, his expertise lay in head-on assaults and slaughter. A multi-front defensive battle like this was one of his few weaknesses.

Fighting and killing were easy; the hard part was protecting both the Technician Priests and the ship’s control systems at the same time.

And now,

Koller and Lu Jia’s intervention had bought him that one precious, fleeting opportunity.

Just as Koller had suspected, and as Reinhardt had concluded after working with Seventy-Six, this gun-wielding heretic had to be the first to die!

Bullets might have difficulty threatening top-tier powerhouses like them, but for the mortal Technician Priests, it wouldn’t even take an Extraordinary Armament from an ancient civilization—even the most basic standard-issue rifle could blow their heads clean off with a single bullet!

In a flash,

Sensing his companion was in danger, the black-robed Chaos’s expression darkened. He tried to intervene, but under Koller’s Spiritual Pressure, the strain he was under was far greater than the effortless ease he projected.

Beneath the calm, an undercurrent surged.

In a clash between powerful Transcendents, any underestimation or carelessness had only one outcome: death.

’Damn it...’

As he watched from up close, Reinhardt seized Thanatos by the neck with one hand, and with the other, viciously wrenched his chin, yanking him up!

He knew it was too late to save him.

The next moment,

Reflected in Chaos’s trembling pupils, gushing blood sprayed like a firework of death as a jet of arterial blood shot toward the sky!

But he wasn’t the only one to witness this horrifying scene of a heretic being torn apart by hand!

At this moment,

Whether it was the surviving command staff, the Battle Sisters protecting the Technician Priests, or the other four heretics who had boarded the ship...

They all witnessed Reinhardt brutally tear Death God Thanatos’s head from his neck with his bare hands. The dangling spine swayed in the air, still attached to the mangled brainstem and muscle.

The utterly cruel and bloody scene delivered an overwhelming visual shock!

A Clerk from the Ministry of Internal Affairs who had never served on the front lines felt his legs go weak. He stumbled back several steps and collapsed to the floor, his stomach churning so violently he nearly threw up.

The Navy veteran Kurs swallowed hard, looking at Reinhardt’s back in horror.

If he weren’t certain that the man before him was the Administrative Region-certified Imperial Knight, Great Tutor of the Vengeful Angels, Reinhardt, he would have assumed Reinhardt was a rebel who had fallen to the Dark Abyss!

Such bloody and brutal methods were simply unheard of! It was chilling!

Lu Jia, who prided herself on having already witnessed Reinhardt’s combat style, found her sword-wielding hands trembling slightly. The other three young Battle Sisters turned pale at the sight.

They had fought alongside many of the Emperor’s Angels, but they had never seen anyone rip an enemy’s head from their body with their bare hands!

The sound of flesh and bone tearing, of fascia ripping apart, and the enemy’s agonized screams made their skin crawl.

Even the Chief of the Gods, Battle God Atlas, couldn’t stop his eyelid from twitching violently as he witnessed the scene!

Night Goddess Nikos, who was bloodthirsty by nature and took pleasure in it, had thought her own methods of killing that Empire scum with her bare hands were cruel enough.

But in this moment, compared to true cruelty, her methods could almost be called merciful.

Reinhardt released his right hand, and the headless corpse slumped to the ground. Gripping Thanatos’s chin with his left hand, he threw the still-conscious head at Nikos like a baseball, sending it whistling through the air.

The Night Goddess, who just a second ago had been reveling in the thrill of the kill and arrogantly threatening Reinhardt, was forced to catch the head. The immense force of the impact made her arms go numb, and she stumbled back three steps!

Then,

The heretic blood splattered on Reinhardt’s Power Armor was enveloped by his Knight Power, erupting into a skyward torrent of the Flame of Blood Fury. A roaring Destructive Suppression descended upon the bridge once more.

The Aikacia Nozzles, resembling Angel’s Wings, gradually extended backward.

His eyes, burning with Blood Flame, stared at Nikos, who was clutching the head.

"So, what are your thoughts now?"

In that instant,

A strange sense of unreality, of absurdity, rose within her. For a moment, this feeling made her hallucinate that they were the ones fighting for the Empire.

And that this man named Reinhardt was a Great Demon in human form from the Dark Abyss!

The terror of being stared down by a predator, a fear from the depths of her soul, flooded her entire body in an instant.

A stream of azure, high-temperature energy lit up in the reflection of her pupils.

Only one thought remained in Nikos’s mind: ’This is bad—!’

But that wasn’t what terrified her the most. As she tried to use her old trick, hiding her form to evade Reinhardt’s fierce War Axe assault, she was horrified to discover that a right hand had, at some point, grabbed her ankle.

Nelom, who should have died from his organs dissolving, tilted his head to look at her, then grinned.

Seeing this,

Nikos, who bore the name Night Goddess, was scared out of her wits. She never would have dreamed that Nelom, who should have been completely and utterly dead, was still alive!

’How is this possible!’

But because her movement was restricted for that brief instant,

It was already too late to dodge Reinhardt’s fierce assault!

’Bastard—!’

Nikos’s face was a mask of utter savagery. It had always been her who tortured and killed these dregs of the Empire; when had she ever faced a crisis like this?!

Just as the War Axe, burning with Blood Flame, was about to strike her chest,

A massive Warhammer suddenly appeared before her. The moment it collided with the War Axe, the clash of Mighty Power transformed into a devastating ring-shaped shockwave that obliterated everything in its path!

If not for Koller’s protection, not a single Mortal on the bridge could have survived the aftershock of that clash of Mighty Power.

After helping Nikos block the fatal blow, Atlas’s expression was extremely grim. Reinhardt’s act of killing Thanatos right in front of him was a clear sign that he held him in utter contempt!

Facing such an insult, he stared into Reinhardt’s eyes and said in a low voice, "Your opponent is me, Vengeful Angel."