I Will Teach You How to Hunt Gods

Chapter 577 151: Supreme Heaven Purification Field

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Nest City Upper City, in the core area of A District, a tower soaring into the sky.

A middle-aged man wearing a gray exercise suit, covered in sweat, sat cross-legged in meditation at the dark tower base, slowly opened his eyes, while the attendant beside him considerately handed over a prepared dry towel and clothes.

"My lord, Black Burial has successfully been triggered."

The attendant lowered his voice, speaking cautiously, "Almost all of District T has been incorporated into the 'Warlord Domain'."

"Hmm."

The middle-aged man nodded slightly, but did not feel surprised, he casually put on the set of strong clothing.

"Report upwards, this time, I will personally take action."

"Elrond's power is extraordinary, aside from me, there's hardly anyone who can stop it."

Hearing this, the attendant was suddenly shocked.

"You will personally take action? But... your power is too great, it might destroy the whole..."

"No matter."

For the attendant's sudden audacity, the middle-aged man also wasn't angry, just slightly shook his head.

"This battlefield, I will always control it within the Warlord Domain."

"I suppose Elrond won't expand the war scale either."

"We will solve everything there."

Saying this, he turned his head, as if his gaze penetrated the giant tower's walls, also through the neon lights and layers of buildings in the Nest City, towards the black-line sphere of District T.

"For many years, Elrond has always wanted to change this world. To be honest, we also do not know whether such change would be a beneficial mutation making the world better or a malignant cancer destroying order."

"But it doesn't matter, our task is to maintain the stability of the world, to strangle all destabilizing factors in the cradle."

"No matter which path Elrond wants to take, his end will be me, and only me."

"Thirty years ago, I personally crushed his dreams, and this time, it will be no different."

At the end of his speech, he lightly flicked his sleeve, and a towering momentum radiated from around him.

It was rather strange, looking plain and not very tall, yet the middle-aged man standing there was like a fierce tiger descending the mountain, even a trace of its pressure was enough to intimidate the universe.

A tiger that hadn't moved for a long time, now slowly awakened...

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Since the peace treaty of the tenth corporate war was signed in the parliament of Nest City No. 3 Central City, this city, large enough to occupy half a continent, has enjoyed nearly twenty years of peace.

But peace does not mean that past conflicts and hatred will slowly fade away with a piece of paper, but rather that they will slowly accumulate, covered by a false peace, until...

Until the ambitions in people's hearts can no longer be suppressed, until order needs to be redefined by chaos.

Ambitious people, idealists, guardians of order, and the weak swept along by the tide of the times, unable to go against it.

At this moment, they were all thrown into a massive machine called "war", only those who survive... surviving to the end can rule the world.

And a brand new war begins in District T.

That will be the beginning of everything, or the end to both the old era and the word "peace".

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Darkness, who knows how long it lasted.

Yun You felt as if her consciousness was traversing the boundless void, crossing a million miles, drifting towards an unknown shore.

Finally...

After a very long period of waiting, the girl's consciousness returned to her body.

The five senses slowly returned, and she could begin to hear sounds in her ears, and the feeling of the breeze blowing across her skin felt very tangible.

It's just that...

She kept feeling that the surroundings were somewhat noisy, with cheers and screams coming from all directions, becoming more apparent and more urgent.

A faint scent of blood accompanied by gunpowder unexpectedly appeared, snaking into her nose, making her scalp tingle.

The wind also gradually grew cold, turning into invisible blades, piercing the skin with cheering and screaming, scraping the cheeks painfully.

"What is...this place...?"

Yun You was momentarily at a loss, then instinctively used her strength to open her eyes.

After which, a whole new world unfolded completely before her eyes.

What greeted her eyes was a massive, unimaginably large circular structure, situated among the starry sky, entirely constructed from bronze and black rock, sized almost infinitely large; if Yun You's vision weren't decent, she might not have even realized the curvature of the structure's walls, like how one can hardly notice the horizon's curve standing on the ground.

The core part of the structure was a vast sandy space in the middle, at first glance appearing to be made up of yellow sand, but upon closer examination, it was full of human and beast teeth and shattered bones, surrounded by a full circle of humanoid torch statues.

Outside the sandy area, countless stands spread around, distributed like a network of blood vessels, the stands filled to capacity with densely packed spectators...

Spectators from the lowest slums sat at the bottom, climbing the fences on undried brain matter, using chipped pottery bowls to scoop the residual blood from the sandy ground; on the middle stands floated numerous silk canopies embroidered with golden threads, tables adorned with lavish merchants and nobles, tapping the railings with jade rings embedded with human eyeballs.

Scantily-clad maids carried bronze trays back and forth, but what was on the trays was not wine or fresh fruits but freshly severed thumbs, apparently used as instant wager tokens. The dignitaries would use their personal slaves to provide betting funds.

And at the apex of the dome, several grand existences sat on resplendent glass thrones, wearing silver masks, at their feet was an approximately ten-foot wide circular blood channel, with slaves occasionally scooping thick crimson liquid with wooden ladles, tossing it towards the frenzied crowd, each toss would stir a wave of cheers.

Clearly, this was a majestic Great Colosseum.

It had nothing to do with "civilization", it only revered the purest and most direct violence.

Looking at this blood-scented Great Colosseum, Yun You suddenly recalled the "Virtual Duel Arena" she had seen in the Ethernet world previously.

The appearance of both was almost identical, with extremely exaggerated areas and similar violent venues.

Even the disposition of the spectators was completely alike, extremely adoring blood, eager to see more killing.

The only difference was that the virtual battlefield was ultimately false, a digital world constructed by Ethernet using computational power.

Yet everything here was real...

Could it be that the Ethernet's virtual battlefield was imitating this Duel Arena?

"Hoo..."

Yun You shook her head, driving away all those haphazard thoughts.

This issue wasn't important now.

What mattered was, how did Black Burial bring them here? And where were Tian En and Mokaka? Why had they vanished?

Where had they gone? Were they safe now?

Yun You supported herself on a nearby Bone Fence, managing to stand up.

She attempted to activate the communication system in her mecha, but evidently, there was no signal here, even Ethernet couldn't be connected.

She then tried the positioning function inside the Information Reconnaissance Chip, but her location kept jumping all over the place, sometimes placing her at Nest City No. 4, other times at the Moon or Mars. To sum it up, none of them was reliable.

The only thing worth being grateful for was that Master Zero was still by her side, not disturbed by Black Burial's power.

"What on earth is this place? How did it end up bringing me here?"

Yun You glanced around, but she still couldn't identify her location.

She even felt that this place might not even be on Earth...

As she racked her brains to comprehend, a passionate voice suddenly appeared in her ears, echoing in every corner of the Great Colosseum.

"Welcome to the Supreme Heaven Purification Field!"

"Let us praise the Warlord, thank him for reopening the Great Purification Field after many years, allowing us the honor of savoring the taste of blood once again!"

"Praise the Warlord! Praise our great God of Skulls and Blood!"