Chapter 1015: Lost Soul

In the Huaxu Kingdom's command center, while there were indeed some minor frictions, overall, aside from Li Tianyang, everyone else felt jubilant.

The more high-level superhumans from the joint forces that Zhang Yi killed, the greater their chances of ultimately winning this battle.

However, it was still too early to celebrate just yet.

Because their ultimate goal in landing on the island wasn't to kill anyone.

It was to obtain the Divine Source!

One Divine Source could, at the very least, create one Epsilon-level superhuman.

To put it bluntly, the value of a single Epsilon-level superhuman was equivalent to the combined value of the vast majority of people on the entire island.

If the joint forces got their hands on it first, they would still be the ultimate losers.

...

At the temporary command center of the Colombian Navy.

Oppressive.

Silent.

The atmosphere inside the command center office was terrifyingly deathly still.

The officers watched helplessly as Christina fell in battle.

They stood ramrod straight, each secretly glancing at General Huo En in front of them from the corners of their eyes, not daring to breathe too loudly.

Just from his back, they could feel that this general's fury had reached its absolute peak.

Another member of Hell's Lock had fallen!

This time, unless they obtained the Divine Source, they would face their greatest loss since the apocalypse!

When they returned to the naval base, he would definitely be stripped of all rank and would never have a chance for promotion in the navy again!

Although, so far, it wasn't due to failures in combat, and he didn't bear much fault.

But when things went wrong, someone always had to take responsibility.

As the overall battlefield commander, he couldn't shirk the blame.

General Huo En clenched his fists and slammed them hard onto the command console.

His eyes were bloodshot, his teeth clenched so tightly that his gums bled.

"We cannot continue like this! This guy is more troublesome than imagined."

"Right now, we no longer hold any advantage on the battlefield."

He turned his head, his eyes ferocious as he glared at his deputy, Lieutenant Colonel Keludi.

"Deploy Soul Reaper!"

He said coldly.

Along with his words, the hearts of everyone present also turned cold.

Keludi swallowed hard and asked with difficulty, "Do we really... have to go this far?"

Even Cadillus, who had been watching the show with his arms crossed, showed a change in his gaze when he heard the name [Soul Reaper].

He sighed, as if reminiscing about something.

General Huo En roared, "We have no way back now! Three members of Hell's Lock have already fallen, causing a severe imbalance in our combat power!"

"Even if we send other superhumans to the island now, we'd just be delivering them as easy prey to that bastard called [Chaos]!"

"We cannot afford to lose this battle! No matter the cost, we must win!"

General Huo En waved his hand. "Right now, I am the highest-ranking officer here. Follow my orders. Hurry up, release Soul Reaper!"

The officers looked at each other. Although they didn't want to see that monster reappear, they truly had no other options now.

At the operation console, several operators brought up the operational diagram of the flagship.

The screen showed the entire structure of the flagship.

The screen zoomed in, all the way to the deepest part of the flagship.

There, beneath layers of armor, was an iron box resembling a coffin.

The operator's hands trembled as she looked at General Huo En.

"General, please input the command."

An operation panel appeared before General Huo En. He hesitated for a second, then quickly input the release command.

A moment later, in the lowest level of the flagship, there was a sealed room.

This room was filled with transparent liquid, the most dangerous organic solvent. An ordinary person would rapidly turn into an ice sculpture upon contact with even a trace.

Thousands of cubic meters of space were filled with this solution.

"Gurgle~"

The sound of flowing water was heard. A hexagonal mark appeared on the floor at the bottom of the room.

Then, a section of the floor began to slowly rise.

The floor rose higher and higher, revealing what was beneath it—a coffin made of some unknown black metal.

It was entirely pitch black, non-reflective, as if even light passing by would be devoured by it.

Thick, heavy metal chains dragged it, slowly floating to the surface of the solution.

The room door opened.

Dozens of fully armed Colombian superhuman soldiers, armed to the teeth, pointed their guns at it as if facing a formidable enemy.

Even though they knew the coffin before them was sufficient to seal an extremely powerful superhuman.

But the monster inside that coffin had once cast an immense shadow over them.

Anyone who thought of his name would shudder.

Usually, within the Colombian Ocean Fleet, very few dared to even mention his name.

Everyone referred to him as "you-know-who."

He was the nightmare of the entire Colombian fleet.

Under the escort of the soldiers, the massive black coffin was placed onto a launch platform.

A superhuman who appeared to be an officer came to the operation console and sent a ready signal to the command center.

They immediately began operations, transmitting all of Zhang Yi's personal information.

"Soul Reaper, your mission is to kill him!"

The command was simple and direct.

Because he couldn't understand overly complex orders.

Inside the black coffin, a pale and ugly head suddenly opened its eyes.

This was a face that didn't look like that of a living person, with a terrifyingly large head, much like a human head boiled in a pot.

His pupils were as small as grains of rice. Electrodes inserted into his head directly fed the intelligence on the target [Chaos] into his brain.

Then, they pressed the launch button.

The flagship's launch bay doors opened.

The black coffin was catapulted toward Star Island like a missile.

It was a rather ridiculous action.

Because they didn't even dare to let the person inside out to send him to the island.

[Soul Reaper], the double-edged sword of the Colombian Navy.

Strictly speaking, he was a failed experiment from the [Super Soldier] project.

Out of the one thousand soldiers with superhuman potential initially selected, only Cadillus ultimately succeeded.

Almost all the rest died.

But [Soul Reaper] was an exception. He survived, but he almost completely lost his reason, retaining only his instinct for killing.

Most of the time, he was just a killing machine, only occasionally remaining clear-headed.

So when he appeared, more often than not, the first people he killed weren't the enemy, but Colombian Navy personnel.

As a joking matter, far more Colombian soldiers had died by his hand than enemies.

But the Colombian Navy chose not to destroy him, instead preserving him.

Because such a pure and dangerous killing machine would eventually come in handy.

For example, right now.

Author's Note