I! Cleaner!

"Bang!"

With the dull thud of a heavy object hitting the ground, a breakthrough soldier holding a pneumatic shield in the assault team neatly advancing at the base of the Boarding Tower staggered suddenly, rolling his eyes white and collapsing to the ground.

"Enemy attack!"

The sergeant, who noticed the scene, was visibly surprised, immediately commanding the soldiers to disperse and calling for backup support from the rear, hoping for suppressive fire.

However, even though the support team followed quickly, sweeping every possible hiding spot, and even dismantling part of the floorboards, they still could not find the attacker's trace.

What was even more critical was that starting from the first breakthrough soldier falling, it seemed some unknown epidemic was spreading rapidly, as one soldier after another rolled their eyes and fell down.

Regardless of hiding behind the pneumatic shield, the steel beams of the Boarding Tower, or simply retreating into the cleared compartments, they could not stop the mysterious assailant's attack. The soldiers of the breakthrough team not only couldn't locate the attacker, but they also couldn't understand how their comrades were being taken down.

Everyone, clearly hiding obediently behind cover, without any parts exposed, seemed to be named by the Grim Reaper one by one, with one rolling their eyes and collapsing every few seconds, and the reduction rate was continuously accelerating!

"Retreat! Front team becomes rear, breakthrough shield bearers cover the retreat, quick retreat!"

When the thirtieth soldier also lay down, inexplicably losing consciousness, the sergeant, who was gritting his teeth to hold under pressure, could no longer sustain it, directly giving the order to stop the sweep and withdraw immediately, letting everyone involuntarily breathe a sigh of relief.

However, the soldiers didn't relax for long.

Although the number of soldiers suddenly fainting sharply reduced after the assault team started to retreat, in less than ten seconds, the "Grim Reaper," who never showed up, followed in pursuit.

In the soldiers' expressions of terror, people continued to roll their eyes and collapse unaccountably while retreating. Even the supporting team in front began to have people suddenly fall, blocking the way of retreat.

*He wants to annihilate us all!*

Realizing the "Grim Reaper's" intent, the assault group's soldiers became increasingly panicked upon seeing their comrades, whose life and death were unknown, on the ground.

At first, there were still sergeants working hard to maintain order. When the sergeant also rolled his eyes and fell, the originally somewhat orderly retreat turned into a complete mess.

Soldier after soldier, full of terror, threw off their heavy equipment and started to rush down desperately, continuously being tripped by collapsing comrades, and soon themselves collapsing under the "Grim Reaper's" naming.

In just under two minutes, nearly a hundred people were lying on the short five hundred plus steps of the staircase.

Whether it was the assault team that entered first or the supporting team that came after, everyone lost consciousness, uniformly lying on the ground. The large Boarding Tower fell into complete silence, apart from the breathing of the fainted ones, no other noise could be heard.

...

*I got a bit arrogant...*

After confirming that everyone in the Boarding Tower had been knocked out, Leon, who had activated the Holy Spirit Pendant hundreds of times consecutively, couldn't help but exhale deeply, rubbing his throbbing temples.

In not wanting to cause large-scale death, the spiritual shock ability of the Holy Spirit Pendant was stable and efficient, capable of disabling targets without showing up, and the physical expenditure when activated could be paid by [War Opposition]. Theoretically, it was the fastest and safest combat method.

Unfortunately, while [War Opposition] could infinitely replenish physical strength, it couldn't compensate for mental fatigue.

Each time he activated a spiritual shock using the Holy Spirit Pendant, it was leveraging his will to shake the opponent's will, roughly equivalent to someone who trained their iron head skillly opening watermelons with their head one after another, but doing it too much could also cause a concussion.

If it weren't for the unknown nature of the method faced by the assault soldiers causing them to fear quickly and crumble in war intent, just this hundred times of will contests would have been enough to tire him out.

*I must change the approach!*

Estimating his condition, and realizing he couldn't handle so many soldiers only relying on spiritual shocks, Leon immediately shifted his strategy, began to walk back up, and then set up his dust-covered sniper rifle at the midsection of the Boarding Tower.

Indeed, using the Black Goat's ability to provoke the guards into a mutual slaughter would surely ensure his safe retreat. But unlike the Ryan Blood Night incident, the soldiers outside this tower were merely fulfilling their duties and did not commit any unforgivable sins.

He, bearing the [Endless Blood Battle] of Yang Jiao, the [Domination Substitute Death] of Yang Xin, and the [Immortal in Liquor] as the final trump card, certainly had no need for a massacre.

Thus, the current most suitable plan was to temporarily dismantle these soldiers' command systems and then forcibly break out during their command confusion, fake being killed, closing the loop concerning the "Future," and once Joshua's Soul Flame had left, get up to completely break out of the encirclement!

*Sound plan! Let's do it!*

...

Five fully-equipped elite squads, from the first sound of gunfire to the end, had completely been wiped out in just over two minutes?

Looking at the utterly quieted Boarding Tower, the palm of the waiting officer outside began to tremble slightly.

*What exactly is happening inside?*

Those entering the Boarding Tower just now, aside from pneumatic shields and conventional light arms, even had a medium-sized rapid-fire weapon, the kind of configuration for clearing local strongholds in large-scale wars.

Keeping the assault and support teams from falling out of step, maintaining a slow upward advance, even if hundreds of rebels with firearms were ambushed inside, they shouldn't pose any threat.

Even if it were not rebels with guns, but a similarly equipped military unit, with the elite level of breakthrough team soldiers, they should at least hold out for a bit, right? How, within the time to catch a breath, had everything gone silent?

And just when the Guard Troops' commanding officer, looking at the seemingly man-eating Boarding Tower, hesitated on whether to send more men in to investigate, several other troops setting up checkpoints outside urgently rushed over.

"Matthew! What's happening inside?!"

A tall commanding officer, flanked by guards, found his way to the leading officer of the Guard Troops, yanking him and lowly yelling with an anxious expression:

"How did someone slip through when we've set up so many checkpoints?

And also, where are your men? I just saw you send the breakthrough team in, so why is there no activity inside now? What precisely is going on in the tower?"

"In the tower... watch out!"

"Bang!"

With the explosive sound of air being torn apart, a nail suddenly shot out from the middle of the Boarding Tower, piercing between the slits of two pneumatic shields, embedding into the ground nearby with a thud.

*There's actually a sniper?*

Staring at the crater just a step away from them, the two commanding officers, who narrowly escaped death, turned pale, their backs drenched with cold sweat soaking through their uniforms, relieved that the sniper had missed, or else they might very well have had to account for themselves right there.

However, before they could signal the guards after their near-death experience, from the nail-cased crater extended a small dog paw, pushing out a deep purple strange crystal.

*Is this... Thunderstrike Mine?!*

Recognizing the suddenly emerged strange crystal as a Thunderstrike Mine stored in the Sky Clipper's cargo hold, the two commanders couldn't help but contract their pupils, then turned and ran.

Unfortunately, before they could complete their turn, the tiny dog paw struck down hard, shattering the deep purple Thunderstrike Mine, as numerous electric arcs erupted instantly, thoroughly engulfing their figures!