Chapter 825 Explosive

Chapter 825 Explosive

825 Explosive

Eren didn't even want to imagine how many innocent children had been killed - their blood drained until nothing was left - to fill several water tanks.

It was disgusting and filled Eren with anger. The partial Curse Transformation might have been canceled by force, but Eren didn't need Slyver and his curse power to kill the Blaze Patriarch.

He dived downward, dozens of silver droplets conjuring around him. A Longsword Artifact appeared in Eren's hand while the silver droplets burst forth. However, he was teleported away before the droplets could pierce and kill the Blaze Patriarch.

Eren's head flicked to the right, where dozens of powerhouses appeared. It felt like the powerhouses appeared out of nowhere. No. It was more like they had been waiting for Eren. He hadn't been in the Tritan Alliance's territory long, yet the Blaze Patriarch set up a trap to deal with him? That was...

weird...

Hundreds of silver weapons manifested around Eren, who willed them to leap forward and plunge into the powerhouses before they could move against him.

His attacks were fast and deadly like before, but the human powerhouses were not that weak either. The powerhouses who'd appeared out of nowhere were much stronger than the rest. They weren't on par with Evalynn Fang or most other Tier-6 Curse Users yet, but it wasn't like Eren went all out yet.

Eren was forced to hold back to keep the casualties low. The downpour of silver weapons was one of the stronger attacks and probably the strongest he could unleash without harming civilians. Eren held back with his Soultrait and didn't even consider using one of his many techniques.

As for his Cursed Arts, Eren couldn't use them right now, either way.

A few human Awakened couldn't evade the large-scale attack. They either lost a limb or two, survived with a few broken bones, or were killed on the spot. The powerhouse, who'd survived for hundreds of years, accumulating tremendous power and experience, died just like that. It would have been a disaster under normal circumstances, but neither the Blaze Patriarch nor the other human Awakened seemed to care much about the dead. If anything, the deaths seemed to work in their favor.

The smug smile on the Blaze Patriarch's face irritated Eren. The batch who managed to evade the attacks had teleported out of the weapon storm's area of effect. Some glanced over to the carnage inflicted by Eren's attack, but their attention pulled toward the Blaze Patriarch, their eyes filled with fear.

'Is he controlling them? Maybe he blackmails them?' Eren wondered, but it didn't matter.

A powerful shockwave merged with heat, light, and radiation, pushing a massive amount of energy in all directions. The blast wave expanded outward from the epicenter of the explosion at supersonic speed, demolishing all buildings, vehicles, and infrastructure in its path.

Simultaneously, a searing heat pulse emitted, reaching temperatures hotter than the sun's surface. The intense heat ignited fires wherever they passed, causing widespread conflagrations that engulfed buildings, vegetation, and humans.

The combined effects of the blast wave, the heat pulse, and the radiation wave resulted in unparalleled devastation. The entire city was leveled within seconds. Skyscrapers were reduced to rubble, and there was no sign of the former highly efficient infrastructure. Everything was destroyed beyond recognition.

The death toll was staggering, with millions, if not close to a hundred million civilians, killed instantly by the initial blast and the heat pulse. However, that was only the beginning. Many more would suffer agonizing injuries and succumb to the effect of the radiation in the days following the explosion.

In the aftermath, only the strongest Awakened survived.

Eren was unscathed, but his eyes widened in surprise.

"You slaughtered your people," He uttered as a matter of fact, his eyes pulling toward the Blaze Patriarch, whose constitution was much worse than before. He was not yet dead, but without immediate help, the Blaze Patriarch would die soon.

"So what? If that's what it takes to kill you, I'll gladly do what it takes," The Blaze Patriarch responded with a toothy grin before retrieving a large vial of green liquid.

He swallowed the content in a single gulp and gasped for air once he was done.

"Say welcome to my friends," The Blaze Patriarch said, his eyes traveling to the epicenter of the explosion, where a swirl of darkness had formed, "You should know them. Even if you do not know them...they know you."

The swirl of darkness expanded until it formed into a massive portal.

"A Carnage Portal...really?" Eren asked, his expression stiffened. It had been thousands of years since he last saw a Carnage Portal. It was unusual for anyone to use something like this. But then again...it was also rare to see a Vylrean Seal.

Eren's heart constricted as he recalled something from the past. A particular annoying household of the Supreme Human Alliance flashed through his mind.

"You guys are obsessed with me as ever. How about you stop obsessing over me, brothers?"