Astral Apostle - Chapter 539: Massacre Of All (1)

539 Massacre Of All (1)

“The milestone has been completed?”

[Massacre of All] was the same type as [World’s Number One]. They were both milestones triggered a few years ago, and the former milestone needed to accumulate 10,000 kills to achieve it.

Because the conditions were harsh, Zhou Jing had never completed it specifically. He decided to let nature take its course.

In the past few years, he had fought dozens or hundreds of small battles. Every time he led the charge, he would reap a large number of enemy troops. The debut release of this chapter happened at N0v3l_B1n.

Even so, it took a few years to accumulate and approach the milestone requirement.

Tonight, he had brazenly attacked the camp and started a massacre, killing many enemies. Finally, he managed to clear the remaining kill count.

Zhou Jing still remembered that the reward for this milestone seemed to be even more generous than the reward for being the best in the world. He looked at the message curiously.

[You have received 24,000 Astral Points and 280 Information State Particles.]

[You have received [Aptitude Enhancement – Comprehensive (Great)] x1]

[You have received [Support Function Upgrade] x3]

[You have received [Support Function — The Way of Man] (The Way of Man is one where you can substitute in other ways for what you are lacking. You are now able to snatch the other party’s life force when killing the enemy and turn it into Astral Points or the apostle’s Free Attribute Points.)]

[Additional characteristic of the [Massacre of All] milestone: The higher the number the Astral Apostles has killed, the easier it is to intimidate others. However, if not handled well, it can also breed mental demons, evil spirits, and other negative states.]

“Wew, a little fierce.”

Zhou Jing’s eyes twitched.

This wave of Information State Particles reward directly increased Chen Feng’s current progress by 50%.

The last time he checked, his progress was only slightly above 560. Now, it had directly jumped to more than 840. His clearance evaluation had really increased greatly.

Last time, when Bill was placed in the Mutant World for several years to clear the level, his clearance progress had overflowed to more than twice the minimum standard, reaching the evaluation of “Superior.” The clearance reward was very generous.

And now, before Chen Feng died, his clearance progress had already reached about 3.5 times the standard of 240 points. When he became an Eternal, it would definitely be the highest clearance score he had achieved so far.

The increase in aptitude and the upgrade of the support function were both good things. The more, the better.

As for the newly obtained [Support Function – The Way of Man], in Zhou Jing’s opinion, the long-term benefits were higher than the upper limit of the [Character Level System]. It was suitable for apostles who fought all year round.

According to his analysis, these two support functions each had their own focus. One was to quickly upgrade and increase one’s self-protection in the early stages, while the other was a powerful tool for long-term development.

Zhou Jing’s mind raced.

As for the other two opportunities, he decided to continue investing in the map function and the follower function. These were both worth improving as well.

He looked at the additional notes of the last message and came to a realization.

Just like how the milestone [World’s Best] gave him the characteristics of a [Martial Arts Genius], so did [Massacre of All], but it was not obvious. The effect was just to increase his deterrence.

However, the [Fiendish Aura] talent that Apostle #004 possessed naturally had a deterrent effect. Under the combination of the two, it caused the apostle’s talent to mutate… His guess should be in the right direction.

“A mutated talent. It’s said to be condensed from fiendish aura. I wonder if it has a new effect. Could this thing be just a special effect?”

Those Imperial soldiers slipped away determinedly. He chased after them for a while, but he only dispersed the enemy. Seeing that the enemy had mostly fled in all directions, he stopped chasing and returned the way he came.

As for Ling Fengzi, he did not follow and retreated on his own.

The leader hurriedly went forward to welcome Zhou Jing.

“Is Chief injured?”

“Ha, with these useless people from the Imperial Court, how can they hurt me?”

Zhou Jing replied casually.

Having a protective layer of Internal Energy surrounding him consumed more energy. Although he had two First Order Traits, [Rapid Force Recovery] and [Prolonged Endurance], it was not enough to support continuous acitvation. Therefore, he occasionally relied on his powerful resistance to withstand attacks.

His body was naturally not injured, but the leather armor he was wearing on the outside had been torn apart, making him look like he had suffered badly in battle.

He casually tore off the damaged leather armor and checked the Coiling Dragon Spear in his hand. He realized that this spear was also severely damaged. The dragon patterns had been ground flat, and it was slippery under the blood.

He had used this weapon for several years, and under his huge strength, it was already covered in scars. If not for the fact that it was wrought completely from damascus and had a tough exterior, it would have long been snapped.

After tonight’s battle, the Coiling Dragon Spear finally could not take the burden and died of old age.

“Looks like it’s time to change to a new weapon. This spear is only 50 kilograms. It’s getting more and more incompetent to use. It should at least weigh a few hundred kilograms.”

Zhou Jing started laying out his plans.

However, there was basically no need to think about being able to balance a few hundred kilograms spear on one arm. His moveset would also be reduced to next to nothing… Why not just use a hammer instead?

Actually, there was nothing bad about the hammer. It was powerful and heavy. Although he had never specially practiced it before, at most, he would use the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer Technique (read blindly waving and fighting).

Or if he improved it, he would take a hammer from both hands and tie it to his arm with chains. It could even be used as a meteor hammer. On the battlefield, the attack range and lethality were higher than the iron spear. He could truly be said to be a human-shaped meat grinder then.

After all, there was no need to use the exquisite moves of spearmanship to deal with the small fry. He could really consider it when he returned…

He temporarily suppressed his thoughts and looked at the tragic scene on the ground. He felt that there was no need to build a feature here any longer, so he spoke out,

“Let’s leave this place for the officials to tidy up. Let’s treat it as a deterrent to them… we’ll withdraw our troops and return home.”

With that, he retreated with his troops, and the journey was naturally smooth.

On the other end, the wind howled, and the moon was pale.

The entire camp was filled with corpses, and no one was alive.

The originally noisy battlefield was now dead silent.

After an unknown period of time, a general who had fled finally got rid of his fear. He reorganized his troops and carefully returned to investigate to confirm if the ferocious devil had left.

Realizing that the enemy had already retreated, the soldiers could not help but heave a sigh of relief. They felt that they had escaped a calamity.

However, when they saw the bloody scene of shattered corpses everywhere, many people’s faces turned pale, and some even vomited on the spot.

The commander of the troops still had lingering fear. He swallowed and muttered to himself,

“Demon! Criminal Chen must be a man-eating demon! Otherwise, how could he be so violent?!”