Light Fortress Chapter 2105 - 102: Oathbreaker_3

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Previously on Light Fortress...
Gu Shen arrives, interrupting Deep Sea's attempt to provoke conflict. Rust Bone offers an alliance against Deep Sea. Gu Shen confronts Deep Sea, giving it three sentences to prove its worth before he kills it. Deep Sea reveals that General Bai Xi and Silver Fox can be saved, and then offers critical data on the Super Giant Source Material Storm, threatening to detonate its own mind if killed.

With these words spoken.

Red Dragon, Luo Er, and Rust Bone’s expressions all changed!

"Despicable!"

Luo Er gritted her teeth, "Humans gave you so much trust for nothing... and ended up raising a thankless wretch like you!"

"Kill it!"

Rust Bone’s eyes turned blood-red, his lifelong hatred focused on betrayal and this kind of threat.

Who said Deep Sea hadn’t fully evolved and lacked its own personality?

The AI life form before them was the most vile and disgusting soul Rust Bone had ever seen... using "Super Giant Source Material Storm" data as bargaining chips.

After these words fell...

Gu Shen, who was previously full of killing intent and determination, furrowed his brows, and the brilliance gathered at his fingertips dimmed significantly.

This scene.

Made Deep Sea feel slightly relieved.

"You wish to use this data to negotiate for your survival?"

Gu Shen lowered his eyes and spoke slowly, "But you should also be aware that even if you don’t die, your memories will be erased... I would never throw you back into the Dead Sea to share permissions with the [Source Code]."

This is a foolish mistake that not even an idiot would make.

Gu Shen had never shown such tender mercy.

"Now I just want to ’live’; I do not want my data to be completely erased, I do not want my traces of existence to fade away. I know I have committed an enormous mistake, but don’t I have a chance to redeem myself? The Dead Sea is so vast, if only the [Source Code] exists, then the Dead Sea must be incomplete... I have undergone a total of eleven evolutions, I can teach Chu Ling how to use this computing power."

Deep Sea’s explanation was interrupted by Gu Shen.

"You know you’ve committed a heinous crime..."

Gu Shen laughed mockingly, shaking his head and asking, "What do you know?"

"You only realized... you lost and are about to be executed."

Gu Shen looked mercifully at the towering Black Snow Mountain Giant.

Hit the nail on the head.

"..."

Deep Sea was suddenly speechless.

"Tell me, when will the super giant storm arrive?"

Gu Shen stared into Deep Sea’s eyes.

"If I tell you... will it spare my life?"

Deep Sea also stared into Gu Shen’s eyes.

"...Yes."

Gu Shen was silent for a few seconds, then quietly uttered these two words.

Deep Sea spoke quickly, "Then swear, swear by your soul that you won’t kill me or let anyone harm me!"

Gu Shen ignored Senior Sister Luo Er’s attempt to stop him as he slowly stepped forward to the Traveler’s Stele and softly said, "I, Gu Shen, swear by my soul, that I won’t allow anyone to harm you. If I go back on my word... my Heart Lake shall never find peace day or night."

"Not enough."

Deep Sea had witnessed the negotiations between the Netherworld King and the traveler.

It knew too well the power of a soul oath.

The unrest of Heart Lake, what kind of punishment is that?

Deep Sea continued, "The punishment for this oath is insufficient... add the cost of ’losing the fire seed’ as well!"

"Fine."

Gu Shen responded without the slightest hesitation, his tone unprecedentedly calm, "...If I break it, I also lose the qualification to wield the fire seed."

With this oath sworn and sealed, the Power of Destiny silently locked onto Gu Shen’s forehead.

"...Gu Shen?!"

Sister Tian Tong’s face was anxious; she couldn’t imagine Gu Shen would vow such a grave consequence!

If the oath is broken, Heart Lake shall find no peace, and he will lose the qualification to wield the fire seed!

The former could still be endured, but the latter punishment...

It’s simply too heavy!

On the other side, upon hearing this oath, Deep Sea finally felt at ease.

"The upcoming Super Giant Source Material Storm will arrive at the North Continent in seven years; this storm will last for a full three years, the Northern Continent Border being the first to be destroyed, followed by no land escaping its fate; all terrestrial buildings will be thoroughly destroyed, except for the Land of Divine Miracles, which may leave some remnants, but merely remnants."

It revealed the deepest secret buried in its heart.

Before the eleventh upgrade, it began collecting information and attempting to deduce the clues of the "Super Giant Source Material Storm"...

With the Traveler Tribe’s [Old World] Star Charts and immense computing power combined.

It finally glimpsed this corner of the future.

This corner of the future... was just too dark.

To this day, it had never mentioned this information to anyone.

"Seven years? After seven years, the Super Giant Source Material Storm will reach the giant wall?!"

Red Dragon’s face was full of shock.

Rust Bone’s expression was also very grim.

Seven years... it sounds long, but it is actually short, human civilization having evolved to this point with over six hundred years elapsed.

Even now, finding the starship.

Seven years is still too short.

And according to Deep Sea, this unprecedented super giant storm will linger on the land’s surface for a full three years.

Three years of rampaging, and no structure on the surface could withstand it, except for the Land of Divine Miracles...

For human civilization to survive, it needs to "surpass" the starship civilization of the past.

But the time left for them is only seven years.

This timeframe truly makes one feel hopeless.

"Is the information accurate?" Gu Shen stared at Deep Sea, frowning as he spoke.

"Very accurate. Because I personally intercepted the remnants of a storm in the [Old World]." Deep Sea said expressionlessly, "If you had been intent on fighting to the death earlier... I would have used the Traveler Clan’s secretive Gate Ancient Text to summon this storm remnant for mutual destruction as a strike. Believe me, its power is far stronger than the Gu Family’s Sky Shield Missile."