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Huo Xianfeng’s entire bold move was truly too sudden and caught Jiang Ci completely off guard. Or rather, a normal person would never do such a thing. Jiang Ci had even considered the extremely low possibility of another kiss, but he never expected that the other would perform such a provocative maneuver.
The small scratch itself wasn’t painful, and if Huo Xianfeng hadn’t been staring fixedly at that spot earlier, Jiang Ci wouldn’t have noticed the small cut at all. However, when this tiny wound was suddenly touched by something warm and wet, the sensory nerves in that area became exceptionally sensitive.
“Stop…”
The rich alpha pheromones seeped in from the wound, almost instantaneously causing half of the omega’s limbs to soften.
“Huo… Xianfeng…”
A strange, tingling sensation surged into his brain like an electric current. For Jiang Ci, who had already received a temporary mark, the alpha pheromones were like an addictive drug, making him almost forget what he was doing.
Jiang Ci subconsciously swallowed several times. After the initial intense struggle that lasted a few seconds, he now found it difficult to even call the other’s name.
Then, the young man’s movements suddenly halted. He finally withdrew from this excessively intimate behavior and turned around.
If Jiang Ci could see Huo Xianfeng’s expression at this moment, he would have noticed that the dumbfounded look from earlier had vanished without a trace, being replaced by a sharpness akin to a blade.
But at this moment, the omega, stimulated by the alpha pheromones, had no time to pay attention to anything else. He was tightly gripping the young man’s shirt collar, controlling his softened legs, and trying to quickly calm himself down.
Just as Huo Xianfeng turned his head, a bright flash of light reflected in both of their eyes.
“Not good—!!!” Jiang Ci immediately planned to deploy the Bai Ze for defense, but before he could give the order, the young man embraced him around his waist.
Boom—!!!
The next moment, a light cannon strike arrived abruptly, and the explosion directly shattered the walls, breaking them in the blink of an eye. The level 2 alarm, which had been screaming since the beginning, instantly escalated to level 1. The red light from the alarm on the ceiling spun in circles, while the chaotic sound of footsteps echoed from all directions.
“The explosion came from the mecha repair room!!!”
“Retrieve the surveillance footage and conduct an immediate investigation!!!”
“Confirm that all the security units are in position…”
“……..”
At the same time, Huo Xianfeng stood on the shoulders of the Forbidden Abyss and gently placed Jiang Ci down. Everything was shaking violently; the glass elevator was cracking into pieces, and the ceiling above was breaking apart.
Jiang Ci squinted his eyes and, amidst the torrential rain of debris, immediately identified the owner of the sneak attack.
—Leinster!
A white mecha emerged from the wreckage of the shattered column, and perhaps due to space constraints, it had only partially assumed its complete form, standing about twenty to thirty meters tall.
“How hypocritical, Huo Chao!!!” Leinster’s voice was hysterical—
“Clearly, you are the greatest beneficiary!!! Clearly, you have been the most favored person by the Pope since the beginning!!! All the Illusory God Church’s resources and assets have been given to you…”
Huo Chao?!!
Jiang Ci suddenly turned his head to look at the young man beside him. He saw that the young man’s complexion was slightly pale, with a furrowed brow, appearing to be not in the best condition.
Could Huo Xianfeng be Huo Chao?! This doubt flashed through Jiang Ci’s mind like thunder, and he couldn’t find an answer. So he asked:
“Is it you?”
Just three words, without a specific reference, but Huo Xianfeng understood what he was asking. Everyone who saw him thought he looked like Huo Chao, and even the Leinster in front of them was completely convinced that he was the great savior and… the traitor of the Illusory God Church.
Even Huo Xianfeng, in his mind, glimpsed fragments of incomplete memories about Huo Chao.
But is he really him?
Huo Xianfeng covered the side of his face, feeling a headache so intense that he couldn’t focus on thinking about this matter.
“I don’t know,” he mumbled.
Jiang Ci was carefully observing Huo Xianfeng’s expression. At this moment, the latter’s face was pale with a slight frown, showing a hint of pain on his face. It wasn’t the mental anguish from recalling the past, but a physical pain happening uncontrollably.
“Huo Xianfeng, you…”
At that moment, he suddenly turned his head, sensing something, and looked down.
“Die—!!!”
Leinster raised the cannon’s muzzle, and the surrounding area turned red, resembling melting iron. In just a few seconds, the next wave of energy gathered.
—It was already too late to transform the mecha!
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Jiang Ci gripped his long spear, twirled it backward, and the spear’s body flashed a dazzling fan-shaped light before being thrown down.
Swish—!!!
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“Jiang Ci—!!!”
The next moment, a dazzling snow-like light erupted from the silver spear’s body.
Jiang Ci glanced deeply at Huo Xianfeng, then turned towards the center of the light and leaped down.
Boom—!!!
The silver giant mecha was assembled in the blink of an eye, slamming down forcefully on Leinster.
“Holy Wrath!!!”
Even though this sudden move was almost impossible to guard against, Leinster, at the last critical moment, manipulated the mecha Holy Wrath to pull out a round shield for defense.
The towering silver giant stood condescendingly, its spear blade stuck in the gap between the shield and the cockpit, unable to get any closer.
At the same time, Bai Ze’s right arm was raised high and transformed instantly into an icy-cold cannon, pressing directly against Holy Wrath’s head!
If this shot hits, Holy Wrath’s head might be blasted off.
But, after all, Leinster was the Archbishop of the Illusory God Church, more than three hundred years older than Jiang Ci, and a formidable figure from the same era as Zhou Jiayi and Huo Chao. In terms of real strength, Leinster was even stronger than Cruzi and certainly more powerful than Jiang Ci.
Time and experience were a gap that even Jiang Ci, with his exceptional talents, found challenging to bridge in a short time.
“Too naive, brat—”
In that instant, Leinster suddenly raised his dagger and slashed from bottom to top like lightning, going straight towards Bai Ze’s raised arm!
Boom—!!!
Although that fierce, sharp strike was not enough to sever the arm of the SS-Class Mecha Bai Ze, it shattered half of its outer shell barrier, revealing the dense metal skeleton and cable system inside. Similarly, at that moment, the cannon changed its direction and trajectory, and the massive energy cannon, brushing against the side of Holy Wrath’s head, shot into the wall, making the close-range explosion send both mechas flying.
The sweeping shockwave seemed to cover both the sky and the earth, evaporating the bodies and blood in the gravity magnetic field almost instantly.
At this moment, both sides revealed their flaws. Bai Ze had greater speed, but Leinster’s experienced attacks were evidently more sophisticated. After all, Jiang Ci was personally taught by Zhou Jiayi, and had some fixed attack patterns that were easily predicted by Leinster.
Bang!!!
Holy Wrath’s pointed dagger blocked the incoming silver spear, disarming most of its ferocious force. Then, with a sharp clang, it directly pushed it away, aiming directly at its most critical core position.
“Damn it!” Jiang Ci immediately withdrew, and the defense shield in front of Bai Ze’s chest condensed.
In that instant, a shadow fell from the sky like a thunderbolt, piercing directly between the two giant mechas—
There was even a sharp sonic boom due to its excessively fast speed.
It was perhaps an exaggerated and comical scene. The vast difference in size between the two sides was like two beasts battling when a butterfly had flown in between.
However, at that moment, Leinster’s pupils suddenly dilated. He instantly crossed his arms in a completely defensive posture.
Boom—!!!
Jiang Ci watched with his own eyes as the outer shell of the S-Class mecha collapsed and shattered in an instant. The next second, it turned into a white light, crashing into the ground, completely ignoring any obstacles, and directly poking a massive hole through the transport ship.
The transport ship, constructed with the toughest alloy materials for its belly fortification barrier, was like a thin sheet of paper that was punched through by Huo Xianfeng’s fist.
In that instant, the idea that the individual strength of the advanced Zerg’s monstrosity was comparable to mechas was no longer just a phrase in history books but a vivid reality unfolding right before their eyes.
Leinster’s expression fell into blank astonishment.
Suddenly, in this moment, he understood the endearing title the Pope had given to Huo Xianfeng back then—God’s child. Indeed, with such terrifying power, how could it possibly belong to a human?
Boom—
The belly of the massive transport ship suddenly ruptured, creating a large hole. The white mecha shot out like a bullet, plummeting from several kilometers high straight into the ground, creating a colossal crater with a diameter close to a hundred meters.
The royal aura instantly flooded down like a tidal wave, and the entire Winter Day Planet seemed to tremble. The terrifying pressure excited countless Zerg hidden underground, causing them to shiver with enthusiasm, like boiling water in a pot.
[King!!!]
[King—!!!]
This was the true pressure and aura of a king.
They emerged from underground, flooding towards their king’s enemies like waves. Sharp mouthparts rapidly devoured the outer shell of the Holy Wrath, and in just a few short minutes, they had eaten through to the sturdy metal skeleton inside.
While Zergs were omnivores, their unique racial trait was their ability to extract energy from rare metals, a crucial reason why their organisms could compete with mechas.
At this moment, the young man staggered, and the scene in front of him spun. Suddenly, he dropped to one knee with a loud thud.
“Huo Xianfeng—!”
Jiang Ci jumped out of the cockpit and immediately rushed towards him.
Boom—!
At the same time, this loud noise alarmed the First Legion and even Ye Shu.
The riot in the Cuneiform District, which was originally used to cover Ye Shu’s escape, had become less important because the City Lord had successfully fled.
Ye Shu stood in the cockpit of the fighter jet, looking down indifferently at the terrifying scene below.
At this moment, there was no surprise in his eyes, as if he had expected it long ago.
In fact, the once abundant mineral resources underground on Winter Day Planet were not depleted by mining but devoured by countless larvae.
—Ye Shu knew about this.
Because this was the reason why the Forbidden Abyss asked him to hide it on the Winter Day Planet. At first, when Ye Shu snatched out the Forbidden Abyss, he found countless Zerg eggs on its wreckage. His first reaction was to destroy them, but the Forbidden Abyss said that this was an order from Huo Chao.
What Ye Shu truly hid was not the Forbidden Abyss but countless Zerg eggs.
It was the bloodline that continued the existence of the Zerg race.
As for why it was Winter Day Planet, it was because, among all the cosmic planets explored by humans so far, only Winter Day Planet was the farthest from the capital of the empire, the Eternal Cloud Planet, and also the farthest from the living place of the Church, the Illusion Planet.
These three planets formed a subtle triangle.
At the same time, there were extremely rich mineral resources in the underground of the Winter Day Planet.
—An ideal place to establish a nest for the Zerg race.
The Zerg race was the culprit that destroyed Earth and the direct cause of Huo Chao’s death.
But the Forbidden Abyss told him that this was Huo Chao’s final order. This was clearly a very dangerous and uncomprehensible command.
However, even if this was truly a retaliation against humanity,
if it was that person’s last wish, Ye Shu would become the eternal sinner.
[…Okay.]
At that time, he hadn’t asked why; he just agreed. He didn’t tell anyone about this secret, including Jiang Jingsheng.
Swoosh—
In the distance, chaos ensued. Whether it was the sudden appearance of the Zerg race or the riot in the distance, Ye Shu paid no attention to it. He just looked up at the vast expanse of stars in the sky, murmuring to himself,
“Huo Chao…”
“Is everything happening now… also part of your plan?”
He closed his eyes.
And swallowed down the sentence he most wanted to ask—
…Are you still alive?
After a moment of silence, Ye Shu picked up the communicator and dialed a certain signal.
Ding, ding—
Soon, several blue lights lit up in front of him, weaving together to project a familiar figure.
Ye Shu thought that when he saw that person again, he would be angry, resentful, and unable to control the murderous intent in his heart. However, when he actually saw that familiar face, he unexpectedly found himself unusually calm.
It was as if all the intense emotions and hatred from the past had vanished in the flow of time.
“Let’s talk.”
Ye Shu raised his eyes and met the gaze of the current ruler of the empire.
“—Pei Changyun.”
On the other side, countless Zergs had completely buried Holy Wrath, and the incessant gnawing sounds were simply chilling.
Then, the mecha suddenly erupted with a dazzling flash of electricity,
Boom—!!!
In the massive explosion, Leinster, controlling the mecha, finally managed to escape with great difficulty, rushing straight into the sky.
As the larvae on the ground had not yet undergone the molting period, they had not grown bone wings, so they could only angrily and unwillingly clamor before finally reluctantly burrowing back into the underground.
However, at this moment, Holy Wrath looked completely different from its majestic appearance back then. It was even more shattered than the Forbidden Abyss’ wreckage, like a walking, skeletal corpse.
Dozens of black fighter jets completely surrounded it in the sky, instantly deploying a vast electromagnetic net and issuing a threatening warning!
“The mecha in front should stop action immediately! Stop action immediately! Otherwise, it will be treated as—”
With a thunderous roar, Holy Wrath outputted its last bit of energy and shot brazenly!
Inside the cockpit, Leinster was sweating profusely, and he looked like he had just been pulled out of a deep lake. Perhaps humans always had an innate sense of horror towards non-human monsters, even if humankind was once a powerhouse standing at the top.
Leinster could no longer control the mecha’s core at this point; if he didn’t leave now, he would truly die here. He forcefully hit a button on the control panel and shouted, “Immediately open the space rift! Prepare to shuttle!”
At the same time, in the shattered mecha repair room, Jiang Ci emerged from the cockpit, hugging Huo Xianfeng. The latter’s complexion was pale, and his forehead was burning hot, appearing extremely weak compared to the formidable youth from moments ago.
“What’s going on?!”
Before the medical device could detect anything, Jiang Ci suddenly turned in shock—
At this moment, the four strange machines around Forbidden Abyss suddenly activated, emitting an intense snowy light.
Boom, boom, boom—
The energy wave values detected by Bai Ze soared rapidly, and these terrifying energy waves even surpassed the level of a nuclear explosion. In unison, Xiao X and Bai Ze issued sharp warnings—
“Not good, A-Ci, get out of here!!!”
“A-Ci, run!!!”
The entire carrier shook violently, as if being torn apart by an immense force. Finally, unable to withstand the strain, it collapsed and shattered, bursting into a fierce sea of flames in just a few seconds.
Space was forcefully torn open into a jagged black hole, expanding to a terrifying size within seconds! If one were to look up from the ground, they would see an incredibly horrifying and shocking scene: amidst the fiery explosion, a long rift in the sky suddenly tore open, stretching for hundreds of meters, resembling a fearsome abyssal beast that had opened its terrifying giant mouth.
The initially horrifying sea of flames vanished in an instant, and the entire world plunged into darkness, like a perpetual night.
The insane space rift’s suction pulled everything into it. In this moment, Bai Ze seemed like a tiny light struggling frantically in the storm, almost using all its energy on the propulsion thrusters. However, even though the once enormous silver giant tried its best to resist, it was completely defenseless. The pressure from the distorted space was almost unbearable, and even the double S-class Bai Ze couldn’t withstand it.
The airship carrier’s shattered debris rained down like a violent storm.
Bai Ze could only transform into its smallest defensive sphere to reduce its surface area, attempting to avoid being sucked into the space rift.
At this moment, Leinster rushed over and collided directly with Bai Ze.
The force was simply too deadly. Originally, Bai Ze could barely maintain its position, but after this collision, it was irresistibly swept into the vortex of the space storm.
Holy Wrath extended its skeletal-like hand, with golden patterns suddenly protruding from it. It even forcefully broke through Bai Ze’s defense shield, grabbing the unconscious Huo Xianfeng.
“As the Church’s most precious asset,” Leinster grinned, “come back with me, Huo Chao—!!!”
The next moment, that skeletal hand was abruptly chopped off by a white longsword.
“Don’t even think about it—”
Leinster stared in shock, but he couldn’t even say a word. The dreadful space distortion caused Holy Wrath to disintegrate instantly, disappearing into the black vortex.
In that moment of falling into the space abyss, Jiang Ci could only grab the hand of the young man.
“Huo Xianfeng—!!!”
M1zushi: about Holy Stigmatas, they’re golden lines that appear in a believer’s body and they can strengthen their body
My headcanon is that they look like this 
except golden
Anyway, while I was reading some manwha/manga I finally found some fitting images for that scene where HXF cuddles A-Ci’s inner wrist
Jiang Ci’s fist slammed directly into the glass behind Huo Xianfeng’s ear, producing a terrifying muffled sound. But at this moment, Huo Xianfeng, completely unfazed by the enraged Major General, lazily tilted his head and leaned against Jiang Ci’s wrist.
His hair was quite firm, much like himself, exuding a sharp and bold feeling. When it touched the soft skin of the omega’s inner wrist, it elicited a subtle and tingling sensation.
—This was an intimate and affectionate posture.
first one is BL Kosodate Host wa Koi wo Tonaeru, second one is straight manhwa For better or For Worse
it’s not a wrist cuddle but I think it’s pretty close!
Aaaaaaah, so good!! Thanks for the chapter!!
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Thanks for the chapter.
Just wtf is happening these few chapters like twist is twisting this is too much!
It’s so good!😭
I think i need at least 5 more chapters to figure out what is happening
Thank you for the chapter author!!~~~
I’m a bit confused though
Wow, just when I start reading again, I run into a cliffhanger. What an epic battle. But it makes me really anxious about what will happen next.
Thank you for the chapter~
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thanks for the chapter!
These actions scenes are so good!!
Thanks for the chapter 💞