Worlds’ Apocalypse Online

In front of the county administration office.

Corpses were laid neatly in a row on the ground.

The County Magistrate's body had also been put back together, cleaned up, and laid with his head slightly perked upwards.

Several men in official clothing were carefully examining the corpses.

"Most of them were killed in a single strike, swift and nimble" one of them commented.

"As far as I know, the culprit was an Officer. He was alone, but he blew up the administration office and killed so many people, quite the ferocious one" another person added.

"But he only did what he did because of the County Magistrate's actions" someone else said.

All the officials fell silent.

For the past few years, the County Magistrate hadn't reported any village in this county being destroyed.

Everyone thought that everything had been normal, but after careful investigations this time, they discovered that the Five Elements Seals that were provided from above had been embezzled by the County Magistrate without distributing them to the various villages.

And now, several of them have been destroyed.

With that in mind, the officials couldn't help but turn towards the County Magistrate's body.

One of the forensic officers sighed and said: "Cutting someone in half with a single slash, what a fast and ferocious blade will..."

"You're wrong" an official refuted him.

"Sir, where did this humble one make a mistake?" the officer respectfully asked.

The official didn't answer at all.

------he was originally a cold weapon user, as well as a Chosen Saint who was hiding in the Human realm. Although he had temporarily lost his powers, his discerning eyes and experiences were still far beyond normal people.

He reached his hand out to feel the cut on the County Magistrate's body.

This was indeed a wound caused by a blade.

But it doesn't carry any sort of blade will.

The other party's original weapon… was most likely not a blade…

This is a suspicious point.

There was another suspicious point-------

While the County Magistrate was in power, he didn't recruit anyone with talent nor did he do his job to rule and govern the people, he simply recruited a number of thugs to fill up the positions, suggesting that he didn't care about anything.

If one went so far as to be so extreme as to assume the worst, the County Magistrate had purposely tried to destroy all the villages.

For what reason?

The official was a bit hesitant.

He silently formed a hand seal within his sleeves but didn't activate it right away.

------after the Samsara reset, everyone had lost their original strength, but as time went by, some Technique Users had gradually begun to regain their ability to cast spells.

This was a favor from the Samsara itself.

After all, Technique Users weren't normally experts in close combat, so if they didn't possess even a little bit of power, they wouldn't be able to survive at all during this period.

-------of course, spells were still highly restrictive, so it wasn't something one could use arbitrarily.

Many spells required a long downtime to recover energy before they could be used again.

The official stared closely at the County Magistrate's body, greatly tempted to discern the entire truth.

Gritting his teeth, he finally activated the spell.

------Metal-Wood-Water-Fire-Earth, manifest!

He lowered his head and turned his back to everyone else as a flash of golden light appeared from his eyes, purposely avoiding everyone else's gazes.

The official stared closely at the County Magistrate's body for a few moments before the golden light in his eyes gradually faded away.

He appeared relieved and muttered: "…A Chosen Saint from the Beast King realm, as expected, an animal in human skin. He doesn't care about the troubles of our Human realm at all, exactly the same as those Heaven realm bastards…"

The official felt angry and stood up, before mounting his horse without saying a single word.

"Sir, where are you going?" the others hurriedly asked.

"I'm heading back" the official said.

"How should we deal with the situation here?" one of his subordinates asked.

The official smirked and said: "With this one's strength, this one wouldn't be able to kill all of these people while fighting them all at once"

The subordinates were all shocked.

Not even the commander will be their match?

"Then---- what should we do now?" his subordinates asked with a slightly concerned tone.

"Report up and ask for support from our superiors" the official casually replied.

Everyone exchanged glances.

At this point, another report would cost an extreme amount of time. After the reports climbed up the ranks and orders would be issued again for expert Combatants to be chosen, who knew how much time would have already gone by?

By that time, the rogue Officer would have already disappeared completely.

After mounting his horse, the official declared: "Leave some people to watch over the corpses, the others will return with me"

Since their superiors have already issued an order, who would dare to resist the order?

"Sir, yes sir!"

The subordinates could only respond in this manner.

…

Three days later.

Nighttime.

Gu Qing Shan was sitting by a campfire, once again observing the wound on his arm.

The arrow had already been extracted and the wound had already begun to form scabs, but the pain he felt from his arm only became even more intense.

Inhaling a breath of cold air, Gu Qing Shan took out a bottle of fresh water and some dried rations to slowly chew on.

He had always been a picky eater, but if the situation was dire enough and all he had were rations to fill himself, he wouldn't refuse to eat either.

"Strange…"

While eating, Gu Qing Shan appeared a bit puzzled.

In theory, reinforcements should have arrived very quickly after the County Magistrate fired that flare.

But it's already been three days.

There isn't even a shadow of someone chasing after me.

Initially, Gu Qing Shan had specifically chosen the arduous mountain paths to traverse, but after two days of not seeing any pursuers, he had slowly returned to a more levelled path.

------and there were still no pursuers.

At this point, he even had the courage to light a fire.

Gu Qing Shan sighed and casually adjusted his campfire for it to burn a bit more intensely

After killing that County Magistrate, I've finally regained all of my memories.

When I left the Space Vortex behind, I only had seven seconds, and the situation was especially dire.

To lead everyone through that Reality Gate, I had to make everyone fall into a state of slumber.

-----so even now, everyone who was connected to an [Order] continues to remain in a delirious state.

When would I be able to awaken everyone?

Gu Qing Shan thought about it for a long while but couldn't come up with anything, so he took out the Gloom Orchid again.