God-Tier Extraction Talent: Reincarnated in a Game-like World! Chapter 624: One Woman Holding Back an Army [2]

Seeing this, Scarlet raised her eyes slightly as she took a single step forward.

Buzz—

It appeared to be an utterly ordinary step.

But the instant her toe touched the ground, her entire figure vanished from where she had stood, crossing several hundred metres in an instant before appearing directly before the foremost ranks of the mechanical legion.

"What?!"

The pupils of an Edgeburn officer commanding the front line suddenly contracted.

Before he could even issue an order, the silver longsword in Scarlet’s hand had already swept gently across.

Slash! BOOM!

The command armour constructed from multiple layers of enchanted metal before the officer, together with the three heavy war machines standing behind him, were all cleanly split apart through the centre.

Even after accomplishing all that, the sword light showed no sign of weakening whatsoever.

It continued carving across the earth before finally leaving behind a long, bottomless sword scar thousands of metres away.

The next second, Scarlet vanished once again.

Left.

Right.

Front.

Behind.

Across the entire battlefield, only one blurred black afterimage after another remained, almost impossible to follow with the naked eye, accompanied by constantly flashing silver sword lights.

And every time those sword lights swept across the battlefield, large numbers of war machines would split apart with thunderous crashes.

Or entire groups of Edgeburn soldiers would find the weapons in their hands neatly severed before they even had the chance to scream.

She deliberately avoided attacking those who had already lost the ability to resist.

Yet not a single war machine that continued advancing toward New Dawn Camp managed to travel more than ten metres beneath her sword.

In less than a single minute, the mechanical battle line that had only just finished reforming was once again torn completely apart by her in the most direct and domineering manner imaginable.

Meanwhile.

At the rear of the battlefield.

Alice had already helped Sarah retreat to a relatively safe location. Lilly, the healer who had joined her later on the battlefield, gently laid Sarah against a still-intact boulder before kneeling beside her and placing one hand upon Sarah’s chest.

A gentle, pure milky-white energy immediately flowed slowly from her palm, pouring into Sarah’s body like a warm current.

However, when she finally finished examining Sarah’s condition, the relaxed smile that had remained on her face disappeared completely, replaced by deep solemnity.

"She’s dying," she spoke softly while continuously increasing the strength of her healing power.

Yet no matter how much that milky-white light poured into Sarah’s body, the latter’s life force, already weakened to its very limit, showed almost no obvious signs of recovery.

This was no ordinary injury.

No matter how powerful a healing skill might be...

It could never restore, in a short period, the lifespan someone had willingly burned away.

A few moments later.

Sarah’s eyelashes trembled gently.

She slowly opened her eyes, looking toward the battlefield in the distance where silver sword lights continued tearing everything apart.

Her voice was so weak that it was almost inaudible.

"Gabriel..."

Lilly’s movements paused slightly.

Alice looked at Sarah with a somewhat helpless expression.

"You’ve already ended up like this, and the very first thing you ask about is still that guy?"

Sarah did not answer. She simply continued staring at the battlefield.

Alice let out a soft sigh.

"Don’t worry. He hasn’t returned yet. But since my sister is already standing here, that madman won’t be able to take another single step toward New Dawn Camp."

Hearing those words, the tightly stretched tension in Sarah’s eyes finally relaxed little by little.

She slowly closed her eyes once more.

And completely lost consciousness.

Alice quietly watched her for several seconds before lifting her head toward the nearly unstoppable figure fighting upon the battlefield.

The corner of her mouth twitched helplessly.

"They’re troublesome... every single one of them. That guy ran off to who knows where, yet everyone he left behind is risking their lives to guard this place for him."

While Alice was complaining, the healing power flowing from Lilly’s hands did not weaken in the slightest.

...

Meanwhile, in the deepest part of the Edgeburn Legion.

Everest could no longer maintain the composure he had displayed earlier.

He stared fixedly at Scarlet as she continued advancing through the mechanical battle line, watching the war machines that had consumed countless resources to create being sliced apart as easily as sheets of paper.

The veins on his forehead and the backs of his hands bulged one after another.

He had originally believed that no matter how powerful Scarlet might be, facing such an enormous mechanical legion would inevitably wear her down until she was forced to retreat.

But...

Even now...

That woman’s footsteps had not slowed in the slightest.

She had not even displayed her true strength.

Merely by swinging her sword in the most ordinary manner...

She had already slaughtered the entire Edgeburn Legion to the point where it had nearly lost the courage to continue fighting.

"Waste..." Everest spoke in a low voice. His tone was hoarse and ice-cold. "All of you... are nothing but trash!"

The officers standing beside him trembled violently but did not dare raise their heads.

"General... if this continues, our losses have already—"

BANG—!!

Before the officer could finish speaking, Everest suddenly swung his right hand.

A violent surge of power instantly slammed into the man’s chest, blasting him through the air before he crashed heavily into a war machine behind him, coughing up a mouthful of blood.

"I never asked about the losses!"

Everest slowly walked forward.

"I only want that camp erased. I only want Gabriel to return and see everything he possesses reduced to ruins."

"I only want him... to experience the pain of losing someone important."

As his voice continued echoing across the battlefield, a layer of energy so deep that it was nearly black slowly poured out from his body.

The surrounding air distorted beneath its influence.

The ground beneath his feet split apart, with hideous cracks radiating outward from his position.

Finally, Everest stopped walking.

Across the entire battlefield, his gaze met Scarlet’s.

"Everyone. Stand aside."

This time, his voice no longer carried madness. It had regained a calmness that made everyone present instinctively uneasy.

The Edgeburn soldiers, who had already been terrified out of their wits by Scarlet’s slaughter, hesitated not even for a moment after hearing the order.

They immediately controlled the remaining war machines as they rapidly retreated toward both flanks, opening an extremely broad passage down the centre of the battlefield.

Scarlet also stopped. She quietly watched the tall figure slowly approaching from the distance.

The silver longsword in her hand still hung naturally at her side.

No emotion could be seen upon her face.

Everest stepped across the endless mechanical wreckage one step at a time.

With every step he took, the aura surrounding him grew noticeably stronger.

By the time he had closed to within less than a hundred metres of Scarlet, that violent, crushing pressure had already become like a genuine mountain hanging above the battlefield, causing countless players watching from afar to unconsciously hold their breath.

"Scarlet Voss," Everest slowly spoke.

"Since you insist on standing here for that man, then I’ll kill you first."

Scarlet looked at him. She slowly raised the silver longsword in her hand and pointed its tip directly at Everest.

"You can try."

BOOM—!!

The ground beneath Everest’s feet exploded apart.

His figure shot forward like a cannonball that had been completely ignited, carrying enough terrifying force to shatter mountains as he instantly crossed the hundred-metre distance, throwing a punch directly toward Scarlet’s head.

The black energy wrapped around his fist compressed continuously as he advanced, eventually transforming into a black sun that seemed capable of swallowing even the surrounding light.

Facing this punch, a punch powerful enough to shake the entire battlefield, Scarlet lifted the silver longsword in her hand gently upward.

CLANG—!!

The instant fist and sword collided...

An indescribably terrifying shockwave erupted.

Mechanical wreckage within several hundred metres was instantly blasted into the air. The earth beneath them shattered like a spider’s web, while even the distant walls of New Dawn Camp shook violently beneath the impact.

And when the endless dust gradually settled, everyone involuntarily widened their eyes.