GA: Chapter 233 – Bidding Farewell to the Past, Looking to the Future; A Slaughter Belonging Only to Him
With a flick of the longsword in his hand, the mutant boar's blood staining the blade was flung away.
Chu Han raised his head. In his line of sight, surrounding him on all sides, were mutant beasts, one after another.
They felt fear because of his strength, yet they refused to abandon their yearning for evolution. Their intelligence, such as it was, hadn't even prompted the thought of bypassing Chu Han under the current circumstances. They simply wanted him dead so they could continue their assault on Yun City.
It was as if they would remain here until either he died or they did.
In a sense, this was a form of obsession.
"Kill!"
The prolonged slaughter had pushed Chu Han into a bizarre mental state. Unable to maintain his clarity, his entire being sank into endless carnage.
In his eyes, the world had long since turned entirely crimson.
Unlike the area-of-effect abilities of Qin Tian, Chen Bing, and Ning Guang, which allowed them to instantly eradicate massive numbers of mutant beasts—and unlike them, who were trained state operatives naturally resistant to the psychological toll of killing—Chu Han was different.
He was relying solely on the physique granted by his Tyrannosaurus ability and the swordplay of the Sword Card to kill the mutant beasts one by one in the midst of the tide.
His hands had long been soaked in blood.
If he had received proper training and possessed a strong psychological tolerance for killing, he might have been fine. But he hadn't.
Nor was he one of those rare, naturally detached individuals who felt nothing when taking a life.
Add to that his Beast-type Tyrannosaurus ability—which inherently carried a powerful bestial nature—and losing himself to the slaughter was almost inevitable.
ROAR!!!
A violent roar tore from Chu Han's throat. With his bestial nature awakened and completely lost to the slaughter, he even threw his sword aside. Facing the charging mutant beasts, he grabbed them with his bare hands, hoisted them up, and swung them like clubs.
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
Beneath the resounding crashes, the surrounding mutant beasts paused briefly. Only after Chu Han hurled the beast in his hands away did they resume their movements.
And then...
Without his sword, despite relying on his Second Sequence talent and the Tyrannosaurus ability to fight for a while, Chu Han quickly began to lose ground.
One after another, mutant beasts broke through his defenses, attacking his body and sending jolts of intense pain through him.
When the pain reached a certain threshold, his muddy, killing-intent-filled eyes suddenly cleared. He couldn't help but gasp.
"Motherfucker, that hurts!"
"What the hell is going on?!"
Now awake and bewildered by the pain, Chu Han scrambled to dodge the mutant beasts' attacks.
But his ability didn't grant him the agility necessary to endlessly evade within a beast tide. Soon, more gashes appeared on his body.
Even with his formidable defense, continuing like this was a dead end.
The most critical thing right now was to find his sword!
But in the middle of this beast tide, how was he supposed to know where his sword had gone?
A look of deep frustration crossed Chu Han's face. Am I really going to die here today?
It wasn't like this at the beginning.
How did he go crazier the more he killed?
He had completely lost consciousness.
Looking at the corpses of the mutant beasts on the ground, he had indeed killed himself into a stupor.
"Wait, I can still sense the Sword Card's presence."
There was nothing special about the longsword itself; the only special thing was that he had used the Sword Card on it. The Sword Card had merged with the sword, and because a connection existed between him and the card, he could sense the sword's location by focusing his mental energy.
Besides that, there was another way.
With a thought, a flash of sword light suddenly erupted from the beast tide to his southeast. He reached out his right hand, and the longsword flew directly into his grasp.
BOOM!
Accompanied by a loud crash, Chu Han gripped the hilt and swung. The violent sword qi, like a crescent moon, reaped the lives of a massive swath of mutant beasts.
Roar... roar...
Miserable wails tore from the mutant beasts' throats—the final sounds of their lives.
Phew...
Chu Han looked around at the mountains of corpses and seas of blood. He couldn't even estimate how many he had killed.
Looking into the distance, the road was littered with the bodies of mutant beasts, large and small. The ground was dyed a deep crimson, and the air was thick with the stench of blood.
This was no longer a battle; it was a massacre.
Even though the opponents were mutant beasts, his feelings were inexplicably complex.
It wasn't out of guilt. No matter how much empathy he possessed, it should be reserved for humans, not these creatures.
Besides, if he didn't kill them, they would turn around and kill humans.
To this day, the death toll from the previous beast tide remained unknown. It wasn't that the government hadn't tallied it; it was just that many people simply didn't want to look.
"It seems that only today have I truly bid farewell to the past."
Before this, he had been well-protected due to his family's background, and his life afterward had been relatively comfortable. He had never truly understood the cruelty of this era.
He had hunted mutant beasts, but not many.
Mostly just to hone his experience.
A slaughter like this—he had never experienced anything like it.
This was his slaughter. The sword's slaughter.
The gore was suffocating.
He slightly raised his eyes, looking at the mutant beast horde ahead.
Perhaps because of that miserable wail just now, perhaps because they saw him retrieve his sword, or perhaps out of fear—they did not continue their attack.
Perhaps they were hesitating, wondering if they should retreat.
But that was impossible.
Even if they wanted to leave—and the current Chu Han had no mood to chase them—they couldn't.
The mutant beasts at the front realized Chu Han's terror, hesitating between fear and evolution. But the mutant beasts at the back of the tide didn't know his strength.
They were charging forward, actively shoving the hesitating beasts right into Chu Han's face.
Beneath the momentum of the beast tide, they didn't even have the ability to choose.
They could only launch another assault on Chu Han.
Looking at the mutant swarm surging toward him once more, Chu Han lowered his eyes slightly. The hand gripping the sword hilt trembled faintly.
A bizarre aura began to emanate from his body.
Clang!
In the void, the ring of a sword seemed to echo.
In an instant, heaven and earth seemed to pause. Everything around him solidified.
Blood red.
Endless blood red.
An unimaginable imposing aura erupted from Chu Han, a terrifying pressure sweeping over everything.
Bodies felt freezing cold; minds locked in stiffness.
Behind Chu Han, they seemed to see a sword—a crimson, blood-red sword forged entirely from killing intent!
GA: Chapter 234: Swordsmanship Evolving Toward Myth, Corpses As Far As the Eye Can See
"Roar, roar, roar!"
In an instant, their brains seemed to suffer a violent shock; their pupils began to dilate, their bodies swayed uncontrollably, and they collapsed heavily to the ground. The flock of mutated birds in the sky also let out a low cry before falling from the air to the ground.
Under the Spiritual Energy Revival, the way of the sword seemed to be evolving toward myth. It was not just sword energy; even spiritual abilities had emerged.
"This ability is perhaps what novels describe as Sword Intent."
Chu Han murmured.
The Killing Sword Intent condensed amidst slaughter was able to cause such large-scale intimidation upon its first use.
It was unexpected.
However, the consumption was also exceptionally huge. He felt that 30% of the spiritual energy in his body had been depleted in an instant. Moreover, because it was a spiritual ability, he could not use it again in a short time, at least not on such a massive scale as before.
But this was not enough. He looked at the Mutated wild beasts continuing to gather toward this place and tightened his grip on the sword hilt slightly.
Let's take advantage of this time to keep killing!
He also wanted to try to maintain his clarity amidst the slaughter.
The ground had long been stained red with blood, and countless corpses were strewn across the road.
Amidst desperate beast cries, countless Mutated wild beasts gazed at the figure in the distance, who looked like a god and a demon.
"Roar."
This was the last beast cry, and it was the final straw that broke the other Mutated wild beasts.
Finally, those Mutated wild beasts began to retreat, and even started to flee into the distance.
They were afraid.
The fear of this demon had overcome their desire for evolution.
The corpses of one Mutated wild beast after another made them understand that some existences were absolutely impossible for them to defeat!
He was clearly just standing there, yet he seemed like a defense line blocking them from the human city, full of oppression and suffocating.
He stood alone in a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. His original white clothes had long been stained red, which only served to highlight his killing intent.
Chu Han just stood on the spot, watching the flight of the Mutated wild beasts calmly.
At this moment, he still had the ability to continue the slaughter, but there was no longer any need.
He had killed enough.
And there were already enough corpses on this road.
Moreover, he was tired of killing.
"Whew."
Taking a deep breath, a flash of light crossed the blade of Chu Han's sword, and the previous clow cards landed in his hand.
"Thank you."
He expressed his heartfelt gratitude and then put the Sword Card away.
Without the Sword Card, it would have been absolutely impossible for him to slaughter the entire beast tide single-handedly.
Even less possible would it have been to comprehend sword energy and Sword Intent.
To be precise, the current sword energy and Sword Intent were not things he had understood himself, but rather things that the Sword Card had comprehended during the slaughter under the Spiritual Energy Revival.
He was only able to use them because he had fused with the Sword Card.
"If I had known, I would have brought some wine."
Chu Han casually inserted his long sword into the corpse of a Mutated wild boar nearby, then sat on a nearby Mutated Fox and said with a sigh.
He didn't like drinking, especially hard liquor.
But now, he felt like having some.
"After resting, I should head back early."
"Taking a bath and lying on the bed for a sleep should feel very comfortable."
Chu Han narrowed his eyes slightly, his whole person appearing somewhat lazy.
Meanwhile, reinforcements from Cloud City had also arrived. On the way, they had encountered some attacks from Mutated wild beasts, so they had wasted quite a bit of time.
But after they arrived, everyone fell into a stupor.
What is the concept of thousands of bodies of Mutated wild beasts lying on the ground in swathes?
That is exactly what they were seeing now.
"This is too exaggerated!"
An Ability User from the Spiritual Energy Bureau looked at the scene and said incredulously.
As far as the eye could see, there were only corpses.
Mutated rats, Mutated wild boars, Mutated tigers, Mutated giant bears—under the beast tide, they had gathered together, and then died together.
"This kind of pure slaughter is just too shocking."
"This is more than just resisting a beast tide with the power of one person; this is completely slaughtering through the beast tide with the power of one person!"
"One person, one sword—can it really achieve this level?"
"Novels reflecting into reality; it feels like swordsmanship has also changed because of Spiritual Energy."
"There should be a video after we go back, right? I want to see the whole process."
"You're not the only one who wants to see it."
Everyone looked at the dense piles of corpses of Mutated wild beasts on the ground, their faces full of shock and disbelief.
Also because of these corpses of Mutated wild beasts, they had to get out of their vehicles and walk toward the end of the road deep inside.
The reason was they had to go to provide support!
Although it looked like Chu Han didn't seem to need support.
As they continued to go deeper, the shock and horror on their faces grew deeper and deeper.
Walking all the way, apart from the corpses of Mutated wild beasts, they couldn't even see a single living Mutated wild beast.
Suddenly.
"Officer, this Mutated tiger is still breathing."
A perception-type Ability User pointed to the Mutated tiger nearby and said.
"Finish it off."
"Yes."
Upon hearing the order, he took out his dagger without hesitation and stabbed it into the Mutated tiger's head.
He kept stabbing until the brains spilled out.
Time passed slowly; there were about two hundred people in this support team.
They walked along the road, their expressions changing from initial shock, horror, and disbelief to stiffness now—after a long time of being shocked, that's what happens.
Even for all these Mutated wild beasts on the ground, even if they all went up together, they might not be able to handle them.
Yet Chu Han had actually killed them all in such a short time?
The key is that Chu Han's talent is only Second Sequence.
So far, there has never been a Second Sequence Ability User who could achieve this level.
The gap between Ability Users of different talents is quite large, especially between First Sequence and Second Sequence.
Not to mention Dragon Emperor and others who possessed strong combat capabilities right after their Supernatural Ability awakened during the first Spiritual Energy Tide, even those who have just awakened now and only possess First Sequence talent, as long as they cultivate for a month, their strength will surpass the current Second Sequence.
This is the gap in talent.
Chu Han is the only Ability User who can achieve this level with a Second Sequence talent.
According to the information from the higher-ups, his Tyrannosaurus Supernatural Ability is only used to assist his swordsmanship, enhancing his physique to ensure long-term combat and faster slaughter; in other words, he only used his Supernatural Ability to augment his own body.
Allowing himself to possess greater strength, speed, and stamina, in order to better display his swordsmanship.
But how could he slaughter through the entire beast tide by relying solely on swordsmanship?
Unless, under the influence of Spiritual Energy, human swordsmanship has undergone unknown changes.
Of course, this is just a guess; whether it is true or not will have to wait until they see Chu Han to confirm.
"Look, is that Chu Han?"
Suddenly, someone said excitedly, pointing in a certain direction.
After hearing this, the others also looked in the direction he was pointing.
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