Upon hearing Leon’s words, a brief look of comfort flashed in the Scorpio Bureau Chief’s struggling eyes, only to be quickly suppressed by the Soul Code, returning to its original state. Grabbing Leon by the collar, he shouted angrily:
"This has nothing to do with you! Tell me quickly! What exactly is your primary objective!"
"Fine, since you’re my senior~"
With a resigned shake of his head, Leon didn’t delve further into the question. Instead, he focused on bending his pinky while tapping the arm of the "Twenty-Handed Puppet" gripping his wrist, and replied:
"My primary objective is to get the people out of Research Zone 1 to avoid them being affected."
Facing the still perplexed Scorpio Bureau Chief, Leon burped and then slightly raised his chin towards the sky.
"See, isn’t the impact coming now~"
Before the bewildered Scorpio Bureau Chief could ask further, an indescribable sense of immense danger suddenly arose from deep within his soul, and accompanying this familiar crisis was a barrage of tens of thousands of missiles trailing flames, roaring in!
Do you know what’s coming now?
As the Scorpio Bureau Chief looked up in shock, his face full of astonishment, Leon smiled and once again activated the [Unfair Snake Pact], switching ownership of the "Twenty-Handed Puppet."
Before I came to find you, Feiliya had already completed the coup, taking people to control the heavy artillery in the Crolock Kingdom. Research Zone 1 had been moved to the outskirts of Crolock Kingdom in advance, just waiting for the neural core to be destroyed, so the parameters could be calibrated and fired, bombarding directly.
And battle is all about playing to strengths and avoiding weaknesses. If we were to compare combat skills, I’d indeed have a slim chance, but if it’s a comparison on Undying Body, ten of you would just be delivering food!
With fury in his eyes, the Scorpio Bureau Chief glared as the "Twenty-Handed Puppet," which had been restraining Leon’s limbs, suddenly turned illusory. Its twenty grotesque arms, hovering between reality and illusion, passed through Leon’s body and firmly clasped its own joints.
Meanwhile, the "eel" that switched with the [Whale and Shark Puppet], causing the neural core to be destroyed, once again appeared out of nowhere at his feet!
"Falling for the same trick twice, you really don’t learn." Tʜe source of this ᴄontent ɪs ɴovᴇl(ꜰ)ir(e).nᴇt
Riding a wave of intoxication, Leon taunted, and during the momentarily immobilized Scorpio Bureau Chief’s lapse, Leon controlled the [Twenty-Handed Puppet] to flip him over, locking his waist with legs and securing his neck with bent arms, executing a textbook ’forceful constraint.’
"Wait... wait a minute!"
Struggling, the Scorpio Bureau Chief shouted:
"Didn’t you find out my weakness? Shouldn’t you..."
Applying restraint techniques he learned from a policewoman, Leon completely subdued the Scorpio Bureau Chief, twisted his hips sharply, and despite the frenetic barrage from puppets, forcibly swung the Scorpio Bureau Chief face-first towards the sky filled with raindrop-like artillery fire.
Crolock Kingdom’s over nine thousand cannons fired nearly fifty thousand shells in two minutes, completely erasing Research Zone 1 from Crolock Kingdom’s map, leaving the wilderness outside Crolock Kingdom littered with countless craters.
"You... cough... you madman!"
After an unknown period, as the smoke finally began to dissipate, two humanoid figures coated in ash, faces indistinguishable, suddenly rose from a massive pit over thirty meters in diameter.
Throwing off Leon, who was behind him, the charred Scorpio Bureau Chief staggered to his feet, roaring furiously:
"Didn’t I hint to you! Just keep stimulating my mind, push my emotions to the extreme, and there’s a good chance I could break free from control! Yet you just straight-up had me bombarded?"
Spitting out a mouthful of soot, Leon, who was blown all over the place by the shockwaves of over fifty thousand artillery shells, shakily stood up and wiped his face, saying:
"Forget how I did it... just answer... did you break free or not?"
Choking on Leon’s question, the Scorpio Bureau Chief looked around at the scattered puppet debris and couldn’t help but curse:
"Do you know how many times I actually died? My puppets aren’t afraid of explosions, but I damn well am!
Just in those two minutes just now, I used over a hundred substitute puppets just to barely survive this bombardment! What if the substitute puppets I prepared weren’t enough, and you actually blew me to pieces?"
"No problem if you died... ugh..."
Ripping off his completely charred clothes, Leon took out a new set of clothes from the Mirror World and put them on, then responded:
"I can fish you out from the Realm of the Dead... I’m familiar with that place too."
For fuck’s sake... In the future, even if I die, I won’t go on missions with this bastard again!
Swearing secretly to himself, with a mournful look as if mourning a parent’s death, the Scorpio Bureau Chief signaled, reclaiming his puppet case, then gloomily asked:
"What about you? Can you hold on?"
Shaking his dizzy head, Leon responded:
"I’m not injured, just blown around a lot, so my head’s a bit woozy... and a bit nauseous... feel like throwing up..."
"Then you just take a break!"
Hearing Leon’s words, the Scorpio Bureau Chief snorted, then, carrying his old suitcase, he surveyed the surroundings before gazing into the distance with a grim expression.
Under the bombardment of fifty thousand shells, the entire Research Zone 1 was obliterated, even its fragmented ruins underwent secondary destruction, truly flattened in the most literal sense.
The only exception was a secret room of about twenty square meters; despite countless bombardments, the small structure created with four walls and a roof stood undisturbed at its original location.
"Prince Andre should be inside."
Noticing the existence of the secret room as well, Leon covered his mouth and reminded:
"Director Edward, let’s go in and drag Prince Andre out to wrap up this mission."
"No need, you wait outside, I’ll handle it."
Walking Leon to the door of the secret room, the Scorpio Bureau Chief explained with an annoyed face:
"I’m not trying to steal credit, you rescued Ruben and the others, so all the credit goes to you. Mainly because Andre’s ability is very special, it’s probably the kind you’re least adept at dealing with, you might easily get ... umm..."
Halfway through his sentence, the Scorpio Bureau Chief’s recently restored soul suddenly stagnated. Upon realizing his soul had completely passed the blockade, the Soul Code that had been suppressing his will shattered.
These shattered Soul Codes didn’t harm the Scorpio Bureau Chief’s robust soul, but they did tangle up his previously smooth-operating soul into chaos once more.
The Scorpio Bureau Chief, with a bewildered soul, rolled his eyes and, to Leon’s shock, collapsed headfirst into a slumber, snoring immediately.
No way... could you at least finish your sentence before sleeping! What the heck is Prince Andre’s ability!