Boom!!!
The explosion obliterated and swallowed vast swathes of mountain rock and forest trees. The dazzling flas, monitored by the Shadow, were simultaneously relayed to Guan Tong's eyes far away.
"It really is a long-range bombardnt."
Guan Tong had long anticipated this scenario, which was precisely why his physical body had remained separated from the fragnt.
Otherwise, if the fragnt was on his person and he suddenly suffered a long-range missile strike, even if he didn't die, he'd be severely injured.
Which side would it be?
Guan Tong wanted to know whether this long-range bombing was the work of the Suroma Empire or Sakura Prayer Country.
He didn't need to investigate; he would get the result soon enough.
Because no matter how long-range the bombing was, after it finished, ground personnel would inevitably be dispatched to recover the fragnt.
All he had to do was wait for those people to appear.
After this round of bombing ended, the Commander imdiately gave the order: "Move out."
The special forces team imdiately rushed quickly towards the blast zone.
The Commander was now convinced that the fragnt holder was most likely already dead from the explosion.
Because choosing this mont to launch the surprise attack was the result of Mu Tiancheng's long-planned sche.
Regarding the fragnt's location, the higher-ups had already grasped it. For days, Mu Tiancheng, the instructor of the Chosen Team, had been studying how to seize it.
Considering the holder was likely the Shadow, this powerful Ascendant who had just single-handedly destroyed a small warlord's lair, rashly sending a team to deal with him might not succeed.
Once they failed, alerting the enemy would make subsequent targeting much more difficult.
After his research, Mu Tiancheng made a decision.
He first communicated with the higher-ups of Andai State through diplomatic channels, explaining that Sakura Prayer Country was willing to help them eliminate the enemy known as the Shadow.
The Andai State higher-ups were initially shocked to learn the Shadow was still within their country's borders.
They had all assud the Shadow had left, but according to Mu Tiancheng, the Shadow hadn't left, he had just hidden deep within a certain rainforest.
This made the Andai State higher-ups extrely worried, fearing the Shadow would continue causing destruction. Thus, they readily agreed to Mu Tiancheng's proposal.
After all, although Sakura Prayer Country's national power wasn't on par with Beixing or Suroma, it was still a world power. Eliminating one Shadow was more than sufficient.
After negotiations, Andai State agreed to allow Sakura Prayer Country's warships into its territorial waters and the special forces team into its capital to carry out the operation.
Thus, in Mu Tiancheng's battle plan, he first moved the warships into Andai State's territorial waters, then deployed the special forces team at the edge of the rainforest.
The ti of the attack was set for the mont the tenth rule took effect.
He believed the Shadow would then be focused on one of the eliminated Five Senses, thereby relaxing his guard to so extent.
At that mont, suddenly suffering a missile bombardnt... even if it was the Shadow, this so-called world's number one Ascendant, without any defense, he would only have one path: death.
Then the special forces team would go recover the fragnt and bring it back to Sakura Prayer Country. That way, they could obtain three fragnts and gain the advantage.
As for Suroma's two fragnts, they would find a way to get those later.
At this mont, Mu Tiancheng was aboard the warship, his vision pitch black. Unlike the special forces team, he hadn't taken drugs to blind himself first. Because he wasn't sure if the drugs had side effects and couldn't afford the risk.
And rely being blind for fifteen days was sothing he could completely accept.
After the long-range bombing ended, he imdiately, with the Adjutant's assistance, used a phone to contact the fragnt holder in Sakura Prayer Country, the Chosen Team's Yamata no Orochi.
"Orochi, has the fragnt's location changed?"
"No."
"Good!" Mu Tiancheng clenched his fist fiercely. "This ans the Shadow was likely killed in the blast! And the fragnt, due to its 'indestructible' property, was left behind at the original location."
"..."
After a few seconds of silence on the other end, the call disconnected. Mu Tiancheng wasn't surprised; Yamata no Orochi had always been rather taciturn.
He put down the phone. Although his vision was pitch black, he seed to see a bright future waving to him.
"Next, we just wait for the special forces team to bring back the fragnt!"
...
The special forces team quickly entered the blast zone area. What t their eyes were vast stretches of fallen trees and craters blasted into the ground.
They dispersed into a defensive formation, carefully scouting this area, wanting to find the Shadow's corpse killed by the explosion.
But after a thorough search, they found no corpse. Not even a corpse, they didn't even find severed limbs or blood.
Similarly, they also didn't find the fragnt.
The Commander frowned, reporting remotely to Mu Tiancheng: "Lord Mu Tiancheng, we—"
"Ahhh!!!"
A team mber's scream of agony interrupted his report. He whipped his head around to see a team mber being impaled through the torso by a black spike erging from the ground!
It's the Shadow! The Shadow isn't dead!
The mont this signature attack thod of the Shadow appeared, the Commander's face was filled with shock and disbelief.
After suffering so many missile strikes, how could the Shadow possibly still be alive?!
"Ah!"
"Ratatatat!"
"Don't break formation!"
The attacks from the black spikes kept appearing. The roughly twenty-strong special forces team soon lost seven or eight mbers.
Hearing the screams coming through the communicator, Mu Tiancheng also sensed sothing was wrong: "The Shadow isn't dead?!"
"Yes! That guy is manipulating shadows to attack us!" the Commander shouted. "We can't locate his position!"
Mu Tiancheng was silent for two seconds: "Use your lives to delay him. The Divine Child will rember your sacrifice."
"Yes!"
Mu Tiancheng cut the communication and imdiately ordered the other soldiers on the warship: "Imdiately launch another long-range attack on the target area! The enemy is currently fighting our people; this ti we will definitely succeed!"
The warship soldiers hesitated upon hearing this: "But then our people would..."
"Being able to sacrifice for the country, for the Divine Child, is their honor! Fire imdiately!"
"Yes!"
A new wave of missiles shot out from the warship again, blanketing the target location with bombardnt.
The Commander, having hung up, already knew this outco. He shouted loudly: "Long live the Divine Child!"
Boom boom boom!!!
The new wave of missile bombardnt hit that area. The few special forces team mbers, including the Commander, who hadn't yet been killed by the Shadow, were all blown to pieces by the missiles.
Witnessing this scene remotely, Guan Tong couldn't help but frown and curse under his breath: "Heartless bastards."
He had actually had a faint premonition about this situation, which was why he hadn't used Body Swap to go over imdiately.
But when that faint premonition beca reality, and he saw the remaining soldiers being blown up, he was still sowhat shocked by the cruelty of the one who gave the order behind the scenes.
However, based on these people's appearances, and the Sakura Prayer language that the suspected Commander guy shouted before dying, Guan Tong could determine that the ones who planned this operation were indeed Sakura Prayer Country.
Moreover, Sakura Prayer Country's fragnt holder wasn't a lone individual but affiliated with the governnt. Otherwise, without official support, where would these special forces soldiers and the missiles for long-range bombing co from?
...Fine.
Guan Tong thought to himself. He had originally planned to take advantage of this rule's opportunity to go obtain other fragnts. Now that Sakura Prayer Country had actively co looking for trouble with him, it actually gave him a clear target.
After the second round of bombing ended, another team of soldiers soon headed to the area, attempting to recover the fragnt.
But neither they nor Mu Tiancheng knew that although the fragnt's location hadn't changed, it was wrapped in shadow and located deep underground. Unless they plowed the ground three feet deep with missiles, they simply couldn't find it.
And this second team of soldiers t a fate no different from the first, quickly dying at the hands of the Shadow remotely controlled by Guan Tong.
After failing to contact the second team, Mu Tiancheng understood that this operation had probably gone awry.
He couldn't understand how the Shadow could evade the missile attacks. Even if he had defensive-type items, how could he possibly survive two rounds of bombardnt?
But the facts were right before his eyes, undeniable.
Unwilling to accept it, he ordered: "Bomb it again! This ti, try expanding the range!"
A soldier reported: "Apologies, Lord Mu Tiancheng, the missiles loaded on the warship have been exhausted."
"...Damn it!" Mu Tiancheng cursed, then shook his head helplessly after a mont. "Operation concluded. Return!"
"Yes."
Sakura Prayer Country's warships quickly departed. Not long after, Andai State also dispatched official soldiers to the bombing area to investigate.
Apart from discovering so mangled corpses of Sakura Prayer soldiers, they found nothing else.
The Andai State soldiers looked at the scene and couldn't help but glance at each other.
"They bombed their own people?"
"It looks that way."
"Really don't know what the Prince was thinking, actually allowing Sakura Prayer people to bomb our territory."
"It was all to eliminate the Shadow... wonder if they succeeded or not."
Listening to these Andai State soldiers' conversation, Guan Tong roughly inferred that Andai State and Sakura Prayer Country had reached an agreent.
Andai State wanted to kill him but worried about retaliation or lacked the capability, so they borrowed a knife, allowing Sakura Prayer Country to enter and bomb... As for Sakura Prayer Country's goal, it was naturally to take the puzzle fragnt.
"Very good."
Since that was the case, Guan Tong also had a clear plan.
He would definitely make a trip to Sakura Prayer Country. But before going, he felt it necessary to make the Andai State governnt pay so price for targeting him.
If a person is killed, they die. Even those in the highest positions of power and authority, can they escape this natural law?
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