Apocalyptic Villain: Female Leads, Don't Even Think About Running

Chapter 77: Slaying Eijiro's Ability Users

Ye Zian looked at the ability users from the Edo Empire with icy detachment, as if surveying corpses.

"Damn you, I'll kill you," they shouted in rage, brandishing their katanas and charging at him. The figures of the Japanese ability users disappeared from everyone's sight, suggesting they had awakened some traditional Japanese power: invisibility.

Ye Zian's lips curled into an inscrutable smile, accented by the eerie red gleam of his Soul-Devouring Blade, casting an unsettling aura that chilled the hearts of the Japanese ability users.

Could it be that he could see through their invisibility?

No, impossible. Not even thermal imaging could detect ability users with the invisibility power.

Even the movements of the Shadow Walker, a more skilled adversary, couldn't escape Ye Zian's heightened mental senses, let alone these Japanese users whose techniques were amateurish at best.

Especially since acquiring the mental probing ability, the so-called invisibility was laughably ineffective against Ye Zian.

Through this mental probing, he could clearly see red dots slowly advancing towards him. It seemed the invisibility severely limited their mobility, their biggest flaw.

Every action was laid bare in Ye Zian's mind, making them look like laughable clowns.

Suddenly, Ye Zian swung his dual blades, striking an invisible Japanese ability user directly in front of him. A mysterious blood mist appeared on the once-empty ground, and a body split in two manifested from thin air.

The upper half continued to howl, looking at Ye Zian as if gazing upon a demon. Despite their enhanced physical nature, the ability user couldn't die so easily, amplifying their suffering. The invisibility they so prided themselves on had been effortlessly exposed by Ye Zian.

The others quickly raised their katanas, slashing toward Ye Zian. "Damn it, I'll avenge Ozawa!"

Unafraid, Ye Zian met them head-on with his Soul-Devouring Blade. A clash of metal followed, and the enemy's katanas were cleaved in two, leaving the invaders in stunned silence.

'Such a formidable weapon?'

The sound of blades hitting the ground snapped the Japanese users out of their daze.

"Damn it, how can one person be so strong? Retreat!" Honda shouted incredulously, glaring at his broken sword, then barking orders to the others.

Staying would mean more casualties, and with Takeda dead, Honda saw no reason to risk his life unnecessarily.

Upon receiving the command, the remaining Japanese ability users scrambled to flee in various directions. They figured that even if Ye Zian pursued them, he could only catch a few unlucky ones, unable to slay them all, especially with a thousand survivors from the Xiacheng base who might hinder him.

Realizing their intent to escape, Ye Zian raised his Soul-Devouring Blade, drawing on his powers and spiritual energy to activate the Soul Reaping Slash, further bolstered by 20 stored souls, increasing its power manifold.

As the blade absorbed his powers, Ye Zian relied on the spiritual strength from the Chaotic Yin-Yang Art to prevent being drained dry.

A black slash of energy, 80 meters across, suddenly materialized on the empty terrain, moving so fast that it bisected the two thousand attackers present in an instant.

Most normal humans were shredded into a bloody mist, leaving no trace behind. Only a dozen ability users remained, barely alive, in a pitiful state.

The energy had peeled their skin off inch by inch, akin to a painful lingering death, making them wish they were ordinary people who could die without pain.

Ye Zian wasn't feeling great either, using his Soul-Devouring Blade to prop himself up, standing weakly. The energy of the slash, while powerful, had left him utterly exhausted, void of any powers or spiritual strength, feeling akin to a regular person.

"Wow, what a powerful skill, but the side effects are massive too," Ye Zian remarked.

As a legendary red-tier weapon, its energy consumption was immense. Without the spiritual support from the Chaotic Yin-Yang Art, Ye Zian's first-tier abilities would have been completely depleted.

Supporting himself with his sword, Ye Zian approached the survivors. Ignoring their pleading looks, he executed each one, slaughtering them like pigs to prevent them from turning into zombies and to extract information using the Soul Reaping Blade about their plans and how they became ability users.

With each one's death, the truth unraveled before Ye Zian. As he cursed at the deceased Su Chen,

"Su Chen, you truly deserve to die."

Through their memories, Ye Zian uncovered Su Chen's actions before the apocalypse—how he evaded his uncle's men and later found Honda Taro, a subordinate of the slain Japanese politician Takeda Yushin. Su Chen revealed events slated for tomorrow, gaining Honda's trust and shelter in exchange for Apollo's knowledge.

Pretending to aid Honda, Su Chen exploited the chaos to secure a few days' refuge under the guise of exchanging information, waiting for the apocalypse to sever ties.

Honda reported Su Chen's findings to Takeda Yushin, and upon validating the risk around Chishima-ryu activities in Xiacheng, sought further intel from Su Chen.

While wary, Su Chen fabricated stories that coincidentally aligned with Edo Empire's data. On apocalypse day, the Edo Empire mobilized a massive force, sacrificing half to capture the newly formed SSS-class zombie queen, the Snow Maiden.

Being bitten by a zombie offered a small chance of becoming an ability user, but what about a zombie queen?

Through unethical research, Japanese experts concocted a formula that diluted the Snow Maiden's blood and combined it with normal zombie brain matter to fabricate a serum. This serum offered a 1% chance of bestowing unique powers upon the user.

Of course, the remaining 99% either died or became zombies.

Dread filled Ye Zian. If the Edo Empire rolled out this serum nationwide, it could spawn a million ability users. Even if the success rate halved due to weaker constitution, they'd still end up with 500,000 ability users.

However, noting the Empire's reality—90% of its population already turned—only a fraction remained to bolster the government's experiments.

Among the memories he saw, Chishima-ryu had been organizing a resistance among civilians, indicating some glimmer of hope.

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𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝙢𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙢𝙮 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙨𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙢𝙚 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙟𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙮. 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚!

𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗼:

• 𝘽𝙤𝙜𝙙𝙖𝙣 𝙋𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙪

• 𝙅𝙘𝟭𝟮𝟬𝟮

• 𝘼𝙝𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙟𝙖𝙝

𝗔𝘀 𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘂𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸:

• 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀: 𝙂𝙚𝙩 𝟯𝟱+ 𝙖𝙙𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙙 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙚.

• 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁-𝗢𝘂𝘁: 𝙍𝙚𝙘𝙚𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙖 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙨𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩!

𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝘂𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗺𝘆 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝘀 𝗺𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆. 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗲𝘁, 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝘀!

👉 𝙅𝙤𝙞𝙣 𝙣𝙤𝙬: 𝙋𝙖𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙤𝙣.𝙘𝙤𝙢/𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙊𝙛𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙧