SFS Chapter 253 Negotiating with the Alien Beast
Chapter 253 Negotiating with the Alien Beast
All the strange beasts on the platform raised their heads at the same time.
The Golden-Winged Roc King suddenly spread its wings, its eagle eyes scanning the night sky and locking onto its target.
The Abyss Python King's 1,200-meter-long serpentine body slowly unfolded from the platform, its vertical pupils crackling with eerie green flames.
The nine tails swaying behind the Nine-Tailed Fox King stopped, and its golden pupils narrowed slightly.
Dozens of peak fifth-tier beasts roared in unison, some already gathering their strength.
Three sixth-tier royals, a giant whale beast king, and countless other land and sea beasts—all eyes and killing intent were focused on one point: the human in the air.
Song Chen hovered in mid-air, looking down at the dense horde of strange beasts below.
As the Eye of Truth swept across, the sixth-order spiritual energy points resembled clusters of burning suns, the peak fifth-order points resembled a sky full of stars, and the fourth-order and below beasts were as numerous as grains of sand on the ground.
He's been discovered; he can't hide anymore.
Since that's the case, he's too lazy to pretend anymore.
His qi and blood surged forth without reservation, and heavenly thunder exploded around him. Golden-purple lightning stretched out a spherical field with a diameter of two hundred meters in the night sky, making him look like a shooting star falling to the ground.
He no longer concealed his aura or suppressed his spiritual energy, and stood openly atop the heads of all the strange beasts.
"Whale Steadfast." Song Chen's voice came down from above, clear and steady, without any sense of tension from being surrounded. Instead, it carried a composure that made the alien beast extremely uncomfortable.
Without waiting for a response, he turned to the land-based beasts on the platform.
His gaze swept from the Golden-Winged Roc King to the Abyss Python King, from the Nine-Tailed Fox King to the fifth-tier peak warriors prostrate on the ground, and finally surveyed the entire venue before he slowly spoke:
"I heard you're having a meeting here to elect a new royal family for the mainland and prepare for a counterattack. That's why I'm here."
He took a few steps down and stopped less than a thousand meters from the platform, then did something that none of the strange beasts had expected.
He activated his disguise ability, simulating his psionic energy fluctuations as normal psionic energy fluctuations.
This ability is deceptive in nature and has no offensive power, but at this moment he used it to simulate a specific aura: calm, restrained, and without murderous intent, like a diplomatic envoy handing over credentials.
"On behalf of the Great Xia Council, I am here to give you a chance."
Song Chen's voice echoed in the air; it wasn't loud, but it had a very strong penetrating power.
A moment of deathly silence fell over the platform. Then, the Golden-Winged Roc King's eagle eyes narrowed to slits: "Human, what did you say?"
"I said, I'm here to give you a chance." Song Chen stood in mid-air, looking down at the three royal families on the platform.
"The reason you're having this meeting is simple: the Sirius King is dead, and the land beasts are leaderless."
"The strange beasts of the sea told you that as long as a new royal family is chosen, they can lead you to counterattack the continent, and you believed them."
"But have you ever thought about why they should help you?"
No one answered.
Song Chen answered for them: "Because the ocean needs cannon fodder. Giant whales and sea dragons dare not come ashore. They are invincible in the water, but their strength is reduced by at least 30% once they come ashore."
"They need someone on land to hold off the humans and buy them time to assemble their forces."
"When the ocean army finally lands, do you think they'll care how many land monsters are left on land?"
"You're just a bunch of cannon fodder, being sold out and still helping them count the money."
The Golden-Winged Roc King wanted to refute, but the Nine-Tailed Fox King spoke first.
The Nine-Tailed Fox King's voice remained gentle, but a hint of caution crept into it: "Human, what exactly do you intend to do?"
Song Chen drew the Heavenly Blade, and the aura of the S-rank Nine Heavens Thunder emanated from it.
"I'm here to give you a chance to live."
"If you surrender, the Great Xia will grant you a reserve area to live on; if you do not surrender... your entire race will be exterminated!"
The Abyss Python King's vertical pupils contracted to their maximum size.
It remembered the scene in the water mirror where the golden-eyed black dragon's head was cleaved through by a single blade. Even watching it through the water mirror back then made its heart tremble. Now, the person speaking was standing less than a thousand meters above its head.
"It won't be long before I can slaughter you all like pigs."
Song Chen's tone was not threatening at all, it was just a statement, then he changed the subject: "So surrender, it's your only way to survive."
Jingyi kept his eyes fixed on Song Chen in the air.
It didn't believe Song Chen's words at all.
But it could see that the land beasts on the platform, those peak fifth-tier creatures, those giant snow wolves that had escaped from Siberia, and the ancient crocodiles that had been invited from Southeast Asia, were all swayed by Song Chen's words.
They weren't swayed by the persuasion to surrender, but by the phrase "slaughter them all like pigs."
Because they had all seen the scene reflected in the water mirror.
Jingyi couldn't let him continue.
"Song Chen, you're negotiating with the entire royal families of the ocean and land all by yourself. Where do you get your confidence?"
Song Chen looked down at it: "You'll know once you try it."
On the platform, a ferocious ape king from the Central Asian desert was the first to erupt.
It rose from the edge of the platform, its eighty-meter-tall body trembling slightly with rage, its two thick forearms clashing violently together, producing a deafening metallic clang.
"Surrender? We'd rather die here than be slaves to humanity!"
After roaring out the last word, the Violent Ape King slammed its legs into the ground, its entire body charging towards Song Chen like a cannonball.
Its speed is top-tier among fifth-tier aircraft. Its 80-meter size, combined with the terrifying explosive power brought by its muscle density, caused the platform to dent with this leap.
As its right fist was pulled to its head, the thick keratinous layer covering the surface of its fist rubbed against the air, producing a dark red glow, and its target was locked onto Song Chen's chest.
Song Chen did not draw his sword. He watched the approaching fist of the Violent Ape King, and his Eye of Truth had already broken down the opponent's attack trajectory into dozens of bright lines.
The speed, angle, and peak power of the punch are all clearly displayed.
He turned slightly to the side, just enough to avoid the direct impact of the fist.
Then, he pulled a nuclear warhead out of thin air with his right hand.
This is an eight-megaton nuclear bomb.
Song Chen grabbed the tail of the nuclear warhead with one hand and swung it like a warhammer, smashing it into the face of the Violent Ape King.
The cheekbone of the Violent Ape King was directly smashed by the metal casing of the nuclear warhead, and its entire head was tilted to one side. The impact traveled from its head to its spine and then to its limbs. Its 80-meter-tall body was sent flying as if it had been hit by an invisible giant hammer.
It tumbled twice in mid-air, crashed through the outer edge of the mental energy platform, and plunged into Tokyo Bay, accompanied by pebbles and splashes of water.
The nuclear warhead did not explode, and the fuse did not activate, but the weight of the warhammer itself, combined with Song Chen's arm strength, was enough to physically render a peak fifth-tier ape incapable of fighting.
"I gave you a chance, but since you didn't take it, then die!"
Then Song Chen released his grip, letting the nuclear warhead fall downwards due to inertia.
The right hand pressed the fuse button the instant the nuclear warhead was released from his hand.