Chapter 916: The Day of Hunting Gods

Chai Ming and Gong Feiyu.

These reinforcements from the Hanging Gardens had pierced through the barriers of space.

Their fleet had found a way into this world through a weak point in the Divine Hole created when the False Gods invaded this realm.

Utopia City had chosen to let the False Gods enter, giving other forces an opportunity as well.

Among Train Conductors, the Emperor's Order had never been the only powerful faction.

Even though the Hanging Gardens had once fallen,

as long as the Top-Tier Train Conductors remained, humanity could recover and set out again, no matter how many times it was destroyed.

Chai Ming, Gong Feiyu, and the others from the Judgement Department.

As soon as they appeared, they headed to various locations to engage the False Gods' believer legions and protect the ordinary Train Conductors.

Compared to the Emperor's Order, the people of the Judgement Department were positively upright.

Heinris's expression was grim.

He glanced at the countdown over there.

Two hours.

With the Hanging Gardens' fleet and the arrival of the Top-Tier Train Conductors, their combined strength could match Utopia City's forces.

That meant the Emperor's Order could spare its hands to hunt the False Gods and rescue Fan Huo.

Well.

Rescuing Fan Huo could come second.

After all, there were still two hours.

How could they pass up the chance to seize a False God when one showed up?

Besides, there were still nine Divine Cores.

Especially the three from the B-grade Gods.

Menrojina's gaze, hidden behind her veil, fell upon the Fishman God.

“Mm... A B-grade God's Divine Core should be enough to unlock one chain.”

Wu Yuanshan casually drove the Divine Dragon to strike a high-ranking Apostle into a cloud of blood. As she looked at the Titan Mammoth, nearly as large as all of Utopia City, her eyes burned with excitement.

“Interesting. A creature this big should give me quite a bit of strength when I eat it, right?”

One of the Zodiac Cards behind her spun excitedly.

The enormous phantom of a black wild boar let out a roar.

【Zodiac Card: Pig】

【Zodiac: Pig's Sloth】

【Pig: Eat, eat, eat】

Wu Yuanshan gently licked her lips, which were painted with pale red lipstick.

“I should be able to keep increasing my stamina with this one's core.”

Lin You scratched his head as he looked at the only birdman left. He wanted to attack, but then noticed Ye Qiyan standing nearby.

“Senior Lin You, how about letting me handle this one?”

“Aw, fine, fine. Looks like I won't get those three B-grade Gods, huh? Hmm... Brother Ye should be fine, right? He already used that Blasphemy Card, too. Oh well, haha. If he can't beat it, I'll just go help him. Brother Achuan, keep fighting that brat. I'll gladly take these few C-grade Gods off your hands. Oh, and little wife, you're coming with me! These are your former kind, after all.”

Grinning wickedly, he patted the dragon girl beside him, whose chest was flat and whose appearance was rather androgynous. She dodged Lin You's hand in utter humiliation.

“I-I’m warning you! Don’t push me too far. I’m the great Great Dragon God, I...”

“Are you coming or not?”

Lin You pulled out an enormous dragon spear.

“...Damn you! Just you wait! Once my child hatches from its egg, you’ll let me go!”

“Tch. We’ll see about that.”

The Great Dragon God, or rather, the former Great Dragon God, transformed into an elegant white dragon a thousand meters long.

Lin You stood atop its head, and the dragon spear in his hand continued to grow larger.

“Woohoo! Brother Fan Huo, I’ll save you later! It’d be a shame if someone snatched these away first.”

On the execution platform,

Fan Huo remained silent.

Standing beside him was a young man named Dorrs. He watched the Emperor's Order members receding into the distance and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He looked at the calm Fan Huo beside him and, for some reason, felt a surge of anger well up inside him.

“Mr. Fan Huo, it seems they don’t really want to save you. You must be disappointed.”

“Heh...”

Fan Huo gave a cold laugh.

“What is there to be disappointed about?”

Dorrs frowned.

“They never even considered helping you. It looks like these people came to Utopia City for reasons that have nothing to do with saving you. As members of the same organization, don’t you feel heartbroken? Aren’t you angry?”

More mockery appeared on Fan Huo's face.

“What is there to be angry about?”

“I’m asking you!”

The inexplicable agitation inside Dorrs made him punch Fan Huo in the face.

Fan Huo, whose abilities had all been sealed, fell to the ground and spat out a mouthful of blood. Yet the smile on his face did not fade in the slightest.

“Your heart is in turmoil. Can someone like you really bear the weight of War, kid?”

Dorrs was the young man to whom Heinz had given a War Card.

He had been waiting here for the moment the ritual, whose true power only Heinz knew, was completed. Then he would kill Fan Huo, take his nine War Cards, and gather them into the Ring of War.

But for some reason, standing beside Fan Huo always made a strange restlessness and unease rise within him.

【“Where exactly is Lord Heinz? Can we really carry out the plan? The people from the Hanging Gardens are here, too. How are we supposed to hold out for the final two hours?”】

He felt a little desperate.

He had meant to vent that despair on Fan Huo, but instead it had turned into an even more intense agitation.

“I am the Lord of War chosen by Lord Heinz! You have only two hours left to live, and you still dare to mock me!?”

“Heh...”

Fan Huo said nothing, only continued to laugh coldly.

Inside his body,

the item set in motion by a wisp of smoke was providing him with power.

Two hours?

Someone else saving him?

It wouldn’t take that long.

He would save himself.

And this Utopia City that sought to deny and reject War?

He would show it what true War was.

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“Hey, hey, hey! Long time no see, Altos! Have some chocolate.”

The Hanging Gardens' flagship approached Ye Qiyan.

Gong Feiyu stood on board and cheerfully tossed him a small package.

“Chocolate with almonds and pistachios. It's a specialty of the Hanging Gardens. It’s really sweet.”

Lisette, who had been standing behind Ye Qiyan atop The Hunt, gracefully caught the package with a Second Hand bolt.

“Gong Feiyu! Could you please act a little more responsibly?”

A vein bulged on Chai Ming's forehead. He deeply regretted resigning, and regretted even more handing the position of Judgement Department Minister to someone so unreliable.

“Oh... Ah, no, that’s not right. Ahem, Mr. Chai Ming, I’m the Judgement Department Minister. You came here aboard the Judgement Department's ship, so I’m ordering you to go fight that... what’s his name? Heinris.”

Chai Ming ignored her orders and went to the front of the battleship, looking straight at Ye Qiyan.

“Altos, the Hanging Gardens didn't come to help you. Our only shared goal is to deal with Heinz. He wants to stand before all of humanity and become a barrier. I cannot allow that. You can handle the False Gods. The Judgement Department will do everything in its power to find Heinz. Today, we are allies.”

After saying that, he headed straight for Heinris, who was pursuing Ye Qiyan, without looking back.

“Tch~ Such grand words, but in the end, you’re still just trying to save someone~”

Gong Feiyu's breezy jab made Chai Ming stiffen in midair for a moment. He said nothing, and went to meet Heinris.

He unleashed power several times greater than what he had possessed back in the Hanging Gardens, and opened up a brand-new battlefield against Heinris.