Chapter 412 - Massacre

Wei En still hadn't recovered from their earlier battle. Her face was pale, and her vital signs were weak. She looked as if a single gust could topple her.

Han Wu stood atop the giant lesser golem, gazing down on her. “Senior Wei, we meet again.”

Wei En’s voice came out low and cold. “You want to destroy my kingdom and then kill me? Have you thought about the consequences? Once we leave this game, I’ll make sure you pay for this humiliation several times over.”

Han Wu answered seriously, “And if I let you go now, would you spare me once the game ends? Senior Wei, stop deluding yourself. You’ve tried to kill me more times than I can count. Do you really think I’d let you go?”

Wei En frowned, unable to stomach a lecture from a junior. She resorted to the same old tactic of shaming him. “What kind of man are you who only knows how to bully a girl like me?”

Han Wu didn’t flinch. “If I’m a useless man, then what does that make you, since I’ve defeated you so many times?”

Wei En’s anger flared. “I won’t forgive you! Once we return to Imperial College, I’ll find many ways to punish you. I’ll make sure you suffer for your insolence today—”

Han Wu scoffed. “Shut up.”

He transformed Everchange into a huge hammer and smashed her to pieces. He then quickly summoned Void Jaw, which devoured her clone and converted it into energy.

Finally, Wei En’s presence vanished, and her kingdom fell with her. Many club members had fled amid the chaos, and none of them returned to check on Wei En’s fate or drag her dying clone away. Not that they could have. After all, Void Jaw had devoured it before it could even fade away.

𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

When the last of the students escaped, only the native humans remained. Almost 70% of them were women; the rest were what Han Wu mockingly called simps. Despite their kingdom’s ruin, the women showed no fear. Instead, they confronted Han Wu with demands for compensation.

First, they insisted he compensated them for destroying their kingdom. He was to surrender his lesser golem army and provide them with 8 million gold coins per month for their expenses from that day forward.

Based on average living costs in the Middle Realm, a family of three could go to bed with full stomachs on just one gold coin a month. Wei En’s kingdom had fewer than 6 million people before the invasion, and some had already fled.

In total, he estimated that Wei En’s kingdom had 5 million people left. If he truly paid 8 million gold coins each month, every person would receive roughly 1.6 coins, which was more than for a family of three to live comfortably for a month.

After that, their demands only grew more absurd. The longer they spoke, the more Han Wu’s anger mounted. He couldn’t fathom how they dared to make such lopsided demands. For a moment, he almost wondered whether he was the one who had lost the war.

In the end, he rejected them, and they turned to deceit and emotional manipulation, resorting to softer tactics like crying, shouting, and even threatening suicide to stir his sympathy.

Han Wu was neither a simp nor a saint. When their theatrics turned into threats, he decided to massacre them. His lesser golems unleashed another barrage from their Magic Cannons, and the entire kingdom was reduced to ashes.

Using Detect, he found that fewer than 10% had survived beneath the rubble. He exhaled in relief. In his view, women who loudly preached independence yet constantly demanded various resources from men were better off dead.

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News that Han Wu had destroyed Wei En’s kingdom spread across the Middle Realm the next day. A kingdom that once commanded hundreds of thousands of soldiers had fallen to Han Wu’s lesser golem army instead.

The factions quickly grasped how strong those golems were, especially the ones equipped with Magic Cannons. Many attempted to contact Han Wu, hoping to purchase the golems and strengthen their own forces, but he ignored every offer. He had long decided not to sell any golems with Magic Cannons until his Transmutation Golem unlocked another ability.

With the great threat of Wei En eliminated, he could finally turn his attention to the treasures hidden throughout the Middle Realm. Without the protection of the Will of the Civilization, the Middle Realm was destined to collapse, and every treasure unique to this civilization had become a one-of-a-kind relic that would never exist again. Anything he found here was priceless, and he intended to search for as many as he could.

Through his network of merchant contacts, he managed to gather bits of information, one of which caught his interest. Rumor had it that a peculiar race known as Flame Demons inhabited a certain mountain range.

Born from fire itself, they could control it at will and were notorious for their greed. They preyed on travelers and seized every treasure they could find. Their leader was the Flame Demon King, and it possessed the Fire Ring, one of the fabled Magic Rings.

The Magic Rings were the Middle Realm’s strongest treasures, and each one would grow alongside their wielder. Even though Han Wu probably had little practical use for the Fire Ring, he still wanted to obtain it.

Han Wu planned to search for it alone, but Qin Shuang somehow learned of his intentions and insisted on joining him. He tried to dissuade her but failed. Her stats now matched his, and she had unlocked three Divine Powers, so she could easily protect herself. Even the Flame Demons posed no real threat to her. Ultimately, Han Wu agreed to let her accompany him.

Following the route described by the merchant, they soon found the entrance to a cave. A wave of blistering heat struck them the moment they arrived.

The hot wind alone was enough to kill an ordinary person, but both of them were Demigods now and could withstand it. They pushed through the scorching air and stepped inside. After exploring for a while, they discovered a peculiar stone wall concealing a hidden corridor.

Han Wu used Detect and found a vast sea of fire at the corridor’s end. Within it, several fiery life forms swam with ease and delight. Han Wu was certain that they were the Flame Demons.