Skinwalker Belle – Chapter 482 – Light-element Assassin

Western Sichuan Base.

The roar of engines tore through the clouds.

Massive searchlight beams crisscrossed the night sky, illuminating the tarmac as bright as day.

One after another, heavy transport planes bearing the old Federation insignia screamed down for landing.

As cargo doors opened, battle-worn defense soldiers guided tens of thousands of survivors down the ramps.

The crowd was dense, yet strangely silent.

Every face bore the numbness of having survived catastrophe and the awe of the unknown.

Underground Command Center.

Chu Chen crouched in a spacious tactical chair, peeling open a White Rabbit candy and popping it into his mouth.

Dark circles hung heavy under his eyes, yet his gaze was sharp as a blade.

On the electronic screen covering the entire wall, dense clusters of red dots were rapidly disappearing.

This was the real-time monitoring map of one hundred and three Rifts worldwide.

“Scorched Earth Plan complete.”

Chen Mo stood to the side, holding a battle report.

“The nuclear strikes on nine Rifts precisely cleared out this batch of Dragon Clan forces. Preliminary estimates put enemy kills at over two thousand.”

Chu Chen chewed his candy, saying nothing.

His gaze was locked on an independent data stream in the lower right corner of the screen.

It was the cross-dimensional signal from Azurewood City.

“What’s the situation in Azurewood City?”

Chen Mo flipped to another page.

“Su Yue sent a brief report—the million Mutated Beasts have all been eliminated. Lords Long Teng, Long Yi, and Long Yan personally held the line, coordinating with Copperbeard’s Crystal artillery positions. We’ve now entered the one-sided Crystal harvesting phase. The energy shortage at the armory is completely resolved.”

“Just as expected.”

Chu Chen swallowed the candy.

Suddenly, a ripple spread through the center of the command room.

No energy warning whatsoever.

Even the highest-grade detection instruments hadn’t sounded.

The air seemed to be cut open by an invisible pair of scissors as Zhou Ming stepped out from the void.

His already robust physique seemed to have condensed further.

Rеаⅾ оո КаtRеαdіոɡСafе

The aura of a seventh-rank spatial Evolved being no longer radiated outward—it was fully restrained and internalized.

Standing there, he was like a black hole that didn’t exist.

“Welcome back.”

Chu Chen tossed him a can of cola.

Zhou Ming caught it steadily, popped the tab with one hand, and took a long gulp.

“Lily’s mission on her end is complete.”

Chu Chen looked at him, a flicker passing through his eyes.

“What’s your current limit for Spatial Leap?”

“There is no limit.”

Zhou Ming set down the can, his tone calm.

“As long as there’s a clear spatial coordinate, I can open a small Portal between any two points on the Dragon Spirit Continent and Blue Star at any time. Single-person or small-team passage is no problem, but aside from myself, only Evolved beings up to the fifth rank can pass through.”

The command room fell silent for two seconds.

Chen Mo drew in a sharp breath.

This meant Blue Star now possessed an absolute troop deployment channel that ignored distance and physical defenses alike.

“A strategic weapon.”

Chu Chen gave his four-word assessment.

He jumped down from his chair, walked to the main console, and pulled up the global Rift distribution map.

“The Scorched Earth Plan was just an appetizer. The nuclear strikes cleared out the trash below the sixth rank. What comes next is the real fight.”

Chu Chen’s slender fingers swept across the screen.

“The Dragon Clan won’t take this lying down. Based on the energy index projections of the Rifts, within at most five days, a true eighth-rank Evolved being will force their way across dimensions. That’s when the real battle begins.”

He pressed the communication key, connecting to a dedicated channel.

“Lu Yuan, Zhu Yan, report your positions.”

The sound of howling wind and muffled explosions came through the communicator.

“Rift Number Forty-Nine. Just finished clearing it.”

Zhu Yan’s voice came through with a slight wheeze, and in the background there were sounds of heavy objects collapsing.

“Commander Chu, there are more seventh-rank Purebloods here. We just ran into two early-stage seventh-rank ones.”

“Can you handle them?” Chu Chen asked.

Rеαd οո KatReаԁіngСаfе

“Already handled.”

This time it was Lu Yuan who answered.

His voice was surprisingly steady, without the usual flippant tone.

Chu Chen glanced at the energy monitoring waveform on the screen, and a smile tugged at the corner of his mouth.

“Looks like you’ve digested it well.”

“Thanks to Lei Jie’s half bottle of raw essence, and the Crystals from these Pureblood Dragon Clan members.”

Lu Yuan chuckled softly on the other end of the communication.

“Chu Chen, no need to plan routes for us anymore. Send us the coordinates of all remaining seventh-rank Purebloods. We’ll just plow straight through.”

The communication cut off.

Three thousand kilometers from the Western Sichuan Base.

The Altai Mountains.

Rift Base No. 49 had already been reduced to a sea of fire.

Zhu Yan stood atop the corpse of a Pureblood Dragon Clan member over fifty meters in length, holding a freshly excavated seventh-rank ice-type Crystal in her hand.

Her Dragon Scales coverage was higher than before, and the golden Dragon horns on her forehead gleamed with a dangerous light.

Her peak seventh-rank Semi-Dragonification state made her look like a humanoid beast of prey.

But at this moment, her gaze was locked dead on the man a hundred meters ahead.

Lu Yuan stood in the snow.

He held no weapon in his hands.

Two early-stage seventh-rank Pureblood black dragons flanked him from left and right.

These two black dragons had just crawled out of the Rift. Their body scales were harder than steel, radiating the terrifying pressure of seventh-rank powerhouses.

“Tear him apart.”

The black dragon on the left spoke in human tongue, its massive Dragon Claws tearing through the air, aiming straight for Lu Yuan’s head.

Lu Yuan didn’t move.

He simply raised his head.

Those eyes, once clearly black and white, now swirled with pure golden light.

“Too slow.”

The moment the words fell.

Rеаd оn KatRеaԁingCafe

Zhu Yan only saw a blinding aurora flash across her retinas.

No sonic boom.

No surge of airflow.

The speed of light transcended the laws of physics.

Lu Yuan’s figure vanished from where he stood.

The next instant, he had already appeared on the spine of that black dragon.

His right hand formed a blade with fingers extended, Light Element highly compressed at his fingertips, forming a three-meter-long golden Light Blade.

Shhk.

No resistance whatsoever.

The Pureblood black dragon’s scales, which even a nuclear explosion couldn’t completely destroy, parted before the Light Blade like a hot knife through butter.

Lu Yuan swept his arm, and the black dragon’s head shot skyward, neck blood gushing like a fountain.

The other black dragon let out a terrified roar and spread its wings to take flight.

“Did I say you could fly?”

Lu Yuan’s voice sounded right by the black dragon’s ear.

Too fast.

So fast that the black dragon’s neural reflexes couldn’t keep up.

Lu Yuan stomped down on the dragon’s wing root, and the Light Blade pierced into the back of its skull, precisely extracting a Crystal radiating dense energy.

The massive dragon corpse crashed to the ground, kicking up a blizzard of snow.

From the moment Lu Yuan vanished to the moment both early-stage seventh-rank Pureblood Giant Dragons lay dead, less than a minute had passed in total.

Zhu Yan stood atop the frost giant dragon’s corpse, her hand gripping the Crystal tightening slightly.

She knew Light-type Ability was powerful. She knew Lu Yuan was a genius.

But just a few days ago, this man could only rely on his speed to dance around her, stalling for time with those ridiculous tricks.

And now, having devoured a large quantity of high-grade Crystals and officially stepped into early-stage seventh-rank, Lu Yuan had finally revealed the terrifying lethality of Blue Star’s number one genius.

Absolute speed.

Combined with the absolute cutting power of compressed Light Element.

This was the true strength of a seventh-level light assassin.

Lu Yuan tossed the blood-stained Crystal in his hand, then turned to look at Zhu Yan.

Reaⅾ οո KаtReαdіոɡСαfе

The coldness on his face vanished instantly, replaced by that infuriating grin.

“What are you spacing out for, Yanzi? Did my heroic display just now sweep you off your feet?”

Zhu Yan’s eyelid twitched. She leaped down from the dragon corpse and tossed the ice-attribute Crystal into her storage pouch.

“Call me Yanzi again, and I’ll sew that mouth of yours shut.”

She said coldly, but the killing intent in her voice had clearly faded.

Lu Yuan shrugged, walked over to her side, and handed her the black dragon Crystal he’d just dug out.

“Here, dark attribute. Not exactly compatible with your Golden Dragon Bloodline, but the energy purity is decent. Chu Chen said your bloodline activity is too high—absorb some foreign energy to balance it out.”

Zhu Yan glanced at the Crystal offered to her, then looked at Lu Yuan’s eyes, which had returned to normal.

She didn’t refuse. She reached out and took it.

“Your speed… is faster again.”

Zhu Yan gave an objective assessment, a rare occurrence.

“Of course.”

Lu Yuan raised his chin smugly.

“I’m a genius. Even a seventh-level peak expert can’t touch a single hair on me if I don’t want them to. Once I hit eighth level, I’ll shave that Dragon Emperor’s beard clean off.”

Zhu Yan let out a cold laugh.

“Don’t get ahead of yourself. Chu Chen just said the real hard fight is still ahead.”

She raised her wrist and glanced at the coordinate map Chu Chen had just sent to her communicator.

“There are still forty-three Rifts left. The number of seventh-level Purebloods stationed there is multiplying. The Dragon Clan seems to have noticed our clearing operation.”

“Perfect.”

Lu Yuan stretched, his bones popping in a series of cracks.

“I was getting bored killing sixth-level small fry anyway. Seventh-level Crystals are the real deal.”

The two walked side by side into the depths of the blizzard.

Just then, the communicators on both Lu Yuan’s and Zhu Yan’s wrists emitted a piercing red alarm.

A maximum-level crisis warning.

Chu Chen’s voice came through the channel, speaking rapidly, having lost his usual composure.

“Lu Yuan, Zhu Yan, a high-energy reaction is approaching your position!”