novelraw Chapter 25 : Massacre and Beheading
Chapter 25 : Massacre and Beheading
Chapter 25: Massacre and Beheading
“Golden Splendor” KTV.
The infamous den of extravagance in Jiang City was still ablaze with dazzling lights and decadent luxury.
Amid the deafening music, countless men and women twisted their bodies wildly in the dance floor, releasing their excess hormones.
No one knew that a storm was about to descend upon this place.
“Bang!”
The thick glass doors of the KTV shattered under an invisible force!
Glass shards exploded like scattered stars, flying in all directions. Accompanied by the shrill wail of the alarm, the sound instantly tore through the debauchery.
The music stopped abruptly.
Everyone in the dance floor froze, staring in shock toward the entrance.
A man in a courier’s uniform, wearing a cap and a mask, stepped in from the broken doorway, his entire body emanating a chilling killing intent.
“Damn it! Where did this lunatic come from?! He dares to wreck Brother Fa’s place!”
The suited guards at the door were the first to react. Cursing, they grabbed the riot batons beside them and rushed toward Zhang Jie.
“Get out of my way!”
Zhang Jie’s eyes were devoid of emotion—only a blazing fury burned within them.
He didn’t even glance at the approaching thugs. He simply swung his hand forward.
“Whoosh—!”
A compressed air current, nearly invisible to the naked eye, lashed out like the whip of an unseen giant!
The guards charging at the front didn’t even touch Zhang Jie’s sleeve before being hurled backward as if struck head-on by a speeding truck. Blood sprayed from their mouths as their bodies smashed into the lounge seats, leaving the place in chaos.
The entire hall instantly fell into a deathly silence.
Everyone stared, dumbfounded, at the unbelievable scene before them.
“Ah——!”
A shrill scream shattered the stillness and detonated the panic.
Guests screamed and shoved one another as they stampeded toward the emergency exits. Chaos erupted.
Inside the Emperor’s VIP room.
Wang Defa, who had been enjoying a beauty feeding him grapes, jumped in fright at the sudden commotion outside.
“What the hell is going on out there?!” he roared into the intercom.
A terrified voice came from the other end: “B-Brother Fa! It’s bad! A… a monster broke in!”
“Monster?”
Wang Defa kicked the woman beside him away, nearly stumbling from his cursed, weakened body.
“Useless! All of you are useless! Stop him! Everyone, go!”
He screamed in panic, for he knew it must be someone from 【Radiance】 coming for revenge!
……
In the narrow hallway, dozens of alerted thugs—wielding machetes and steel pipes—blocked the only passage.
“Brothers! Brother Fa said, whoever cuts him once gets a hundred grand!”
Tempted by the reward, the desperate men’s eyes turned blood-red as they roared and charged at Zhang Jie.
But they had no idea what kind of monster they were facing.
Zhang Jie moved.
He rushed forward, his speed surpassing the limits of human sight!
In the thugs’ eyes, his figure split into dozens of blurred afterimages, impossible to track.
All they felt was a cold wind brushing past their necks.
“Pfft!”
The Scar-faced man leading the charge still wore a cruel grin when a thin line of blood suddenly appeared on his throat.
He clutched his neck in disbelief as blood spurted through his fingers, his body collapsing limply to the floor.
He never knew how he died.
The slaughter began.
Zhang Jie’s figure became a whirlwind of death in the narrow corridor.
Under his control, the air itself turned into countless razor-sharp blades.
Every flicker of movement, every wave of his hand, carried invisible wind-edges slicing through the air.
With each wind-edge that flashed, someone fell silently—hands clutching at their throat or heart.
The corridor filled with screams, wails, the splatter of blood, and the dull thuds of bodies hitting the ground.
This was no battlefield—it was a slaughterhouse.
A one-sided massacre of mortals by a transcendent being.
The remaining thugs completely broke.
Watching their comrades die mysteriously one after another, seeing that ghostlike figure flickering through them, the last remnants of courage shattered.
“G-ghost!”
“He’s not human! He’s a demon!”
They threw down their weapons, crying and screaming, scrambling to crawl away—anything to distance themselves from the god of death.
Zhang Jie ignored the scattering rabble.
He stepped through the corridor strewn with corpses and stopped before the ornate, dragon-carved door of the Emperor’s suite.
He raised his foot—and kicked it hard.
……
Meanwhile, in the abandoned textile factory on the outskirts of the city—
The “beheading” operation targeting Liu Gang and Sun Na had entered its final stage.
“Report! The target aggregate’s outer armor has sustained extensive cracking! ‘Wallbreaker,’ prepare!”
A commando captain in exoskeleton armor reported calmly into the communicator.
Soon, two soldiers carried a strange-looking device toward the crumbling steel fortress.
It was the high-frequency sonic oscillator known as the “Wallbreaker.”
One soldier pressed the emitter tightly against the most fractured section of the fortress wall.
“Activate!”
“Wmmm——!”
A piercing sonic wave erupted instantly!
Visible ripples spread across the steel surface like waves on a disturbed lake.
The multi-ton fortress quivered, cracks spider-webbing outward.
Another soldier seized the moment, aiming a liquid-nitrogen sprayer at the fissures and releasing a torrent of ultra-cold frost.
“Zzzzzz——”
White vapor spread rapidly. Under alternating extreme heat and cold, the steel groaned under the strain, becoming brittle and fragile.
Inside the fortress—
Liu Gang and Sun Na bled from their seven orifices, their minds reeling from the assaulting sound waves.
Liu Gang could feel his psychic link to the fortress being forcibly severed.
His final line of defense was about to collapse.
“Roar——!”
In the last fading flicker of consciousness, Liu Gang drew upon the iron will of a soldier and unleashed one final, defiant roar.
He poured every remaining drop of his psychic energy outward!
In that instant, the steel fortress seemed to come alive!
“Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!”
Countless sharp spikes of twisted rebar and iron, several meters long, shot out from the inner walls like the quills of a furious porcupine!
A soldier who failed to dodge in time didn’t even have a chance to scream—his exoskeleton armor, designed to withstand heavy bullets, was pierced instantly by multiple spikes, pinning him dead to the wall.
But that was Liu Gang’s last act of resistance.
After the outburst, he could no longer hold on. His vision went black, and he lost consciousness completely.
“Boom——!”
Deprived of psychic support, the steel fortress collapsed, crumbling back into a heap of twisted scrap.
Among the debris, Liu Gang and Sun Na lay exposed beneath cold gun barrels like two lambs awaiting slaughter.
Inside the mobile command vehicle—
Colonel “Thunder Hawk” watched the two dying figures on the screen, a mocking smile tugging at his lips.
“So this is the so-called transcendent that everyone praises?”
“Pathetic.”
To him, so-called supernatural power was nothing before the absolute might of state machinery and advanced weaponry.
“Assault team, prepare to enter. Capture the targets.”
He gave the order casually.
……
“Bang——!”
The door to the Emperor’s suite in the KTV burst open under Zhang Jie’s kick.
Inside, Wang Defa cowered in a corner of the sofa while a few loyal bodyguards shielded him.
“D-don’t come any closer!”
Wang Defa’s voice trembled as he looked at the man standing in the doorway like a god of death.
Zhang Jie said nothing. He only stared coldly at him with eyes blazing with fury.
Then, his figure vanished once again.