newbobooks Chapter 1236 The Stone of Nothingness
Chapter 1236 The Stone of Nothingness
Gunshots and explosions sounded like a command.
The deathly silence of Honnoji Temple was instantly shattered.
"kill!"
"Charge in! Leave no one alive!"
Yue Fei and Elizabeth's icy voices rang out simultaneously in the dark forest outside the temple.
The next moment, two hundred top assassins from the East and West, who had been waiting for their turn, poured silently into the ancient temple, which had been shrouded in death for a thousand years, from the left and right sides like two black tides of death!
"Enemy attack! There is an enemy attack!"
"Protect the lord!"
Inside the temple, the fewer than fifty guards finally recovered from the sudden and shocking turn of events.
They roared and howled, drawing their katana from their waists, fearlessly facing the two icy torrents of death surging from the darkness.
However, their resistance was so pale and powerless.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
They were not greeted by the sound of clashing swords.
Instead, it was a series of dense, deathly roars of flintlock muskets!
Under the incredibly precise bursts of fire from the sharpshooters of the Divine Machine Battalion.
Faced with the cunning and ruthless assassination skills of the pirate elites.
These so-called elite warriors, known for their fearlessness, were like a flock of lambs to the slaughter.
Their samurai swords hadn't even touched the hem of the enemy's clothing.
Their bodies had already been riddled with holes by the whistling lead bullets, leaving them bloody and mangled.
Screams and wails rose and fell.
But they soon fell silent again.
It takes less than one stick of incense.
The battle was over.
Apart from Lin Zhen and his men, there was not a single living creature still standing in the entire Honnoji Temple.
On that cold rock, eight hundred meters away.
Lin Zhen slowly raised his head from in front of the cold optical scope.
His face, hidden beneath a black mask, was expressionless.
Those deep eyes were equally calm and undisturbed.
It was as if the earth-shattering assassination he had just orchestrated, which was enough to change the entire world order, was nothing more than a trivial, casual act.
There was only one thought in his mind.
"The Stone of Nothingness".
Even that madman Oda Nobunaga had one.
Once that thing is detonated, nothing will grow within a radius of ten miles.
My shot just now was extremely fast and extremely ruthless.
But in the end, was there any chance to stop that madman from pressing the button that would lead to mutual destruction within that one-thousandth of a breath?
he does not know.
This was the biggest and only gamble in his entire plan.
He was gambling with his own gun, faster than that madman's thoughts!
It now seems that he won his gamble.
"Your Majesty!"
Yue Fei and Elizabeth walked quickly to him.
The intense killing intent that had not yet dissipated lingered on both of their faces.
But the eyes that were looking at Lin Zhen were filled with a stronger sense of awe and fervor than ever before!
Especially Yue Fei.
He is now truly and utterly convinced.
Taking the head of a general from 800 meters away is as easy as taking something out of a bag!
What terrifying, divine power this is!
He had never even heard of it, let alone seen it!
He's even starting to have doubts now.
Is their regent still a mortal?
Perhaps he was actually a legendary celestial general descended to earth to assist them in unifying the world under the Great Qian Dynasty!
"Has everything been taken care of?" Lin Zhen's voice pulled his two subordinates, who were still in a state of great shock, back to reality.
"Your Highness, everything has been dealt with!" Yue Fei hurriedly bowed and replied, "The forty-seven personal guards brought by Oda Nobunaga have all been killed on the spot, not one of them escaped!"
“Very good.” Lin Zhen nodded, then jumped off the rock.
"Come on, take me to see you."
As he spoke, he strode toward the death chamber, which was still brightly lit but now filled with the strong smell of blood.
……
at the same time.
Several nautical miles away, aboard the all-black flagship, the "Black Pearl."
Murong Yan stood alone, quietly, in the incredibly luxurious captain's cabin.
Her beautiful phoenix eyes gazed through the huge porthole, carved from a single piece of crystal, at the distant, pitch-black Japanese mainland.
Her heart was filled with unprecedented tension and unease.
Although she had an almost blind and absolute trust in her husband.
But she also knew just how dangerous this operation was.
That's a decapitation strike.
That was to assassinate their supreme commander while surrounded by tens of thousands of enemy troops!
The slightest misstep could lead to utter ruin!
She subconsciously placed one hand gently on her slightly protruding belly.
Feel the strong heartbeat of that little life that is growing vigorously.
Her panicked heart finally calmed down a little.
She was still wearing the same Phoenix Descent Dress that served as her only nightgown.
The deep black of the Su brocade base seemed so out of place in the captain's cabin, which was filled with the aroma of rum and a faint smell of the sea, yet it was also full of a unique and intoxicating allure.
The five-zhang-long, dark gold Suzhou brocade train, like a black tide, covered the entire floor of the captain's cabin.
The giant phoenix, embroidered with real gold thread, has wide-open eyes and is incredibly lifelike.
It seemed to sense its master's tension and unease.
Those golden phoenix eyes were filled with vigilance and worry.
It stood quietly with its owner, awaiting the final outcome that would determine their fates.
When Lin Zhen led Yue Fei and Elizabeth into that meditation room.
Even for ruthless people like Yue Fei and Elizabeth, who had fought their way through mountains of corpses and seas of blood for so many years.
Upon seeing this bloody scene before me, a scene that resembled hell, I was struck by its horror.
I couldn't help but gasp.
The entire meditation room was already in a mess.
The walls, the floor, and the Buddha statues were covered with shocking marks stained with blood and bits of flesh.
The air was filled with a nauseating, eerie odor—a mixture of the smells of blood, gunpowder, and roasted meat.
And that body was already a charred corpse, no longer recognizable as human.
Just like that, quietly, it lay in the very center of the room.
Like a pile of worthless garbage.
“My God…” Elizabeth stared at the corpse, which was no longer recognizable as human. Her beautiful face was filled with disbelief, shock, and horror. “This…this is the power of your…that weapon?”
She couldn't think of any words to describe her feelings at that moment.
Having traversed the world for so many years, she has witnessed all kinds of powerful firearms.
Even her own "Black Pearl" was equipped with the most advanced 36-pounder shipborne heavy gun of the era!
Even those terrifying heavy cannons, capable of blasting a Tier 3 battleship to pieces in an instant.
It would absolutely not have created the bizarre and terrifying destructive effect we see before us!
This is no longer a weapon.
This is magic!
It is death magic from the depths of hell!