The Primordial Record

Chapter 1161: Bringing Down The Eyes Of Heaven

Chapter 1161: Bringing Down The Eyes Of Heaven

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The surprising arrival and madness of the famous General Elves was enough to shock everyone, his brutal slaughter at the hands of the guards was even more shocking and if they thought this was the end of the story, something even more sensational began to happen.

To the people of the kingdom, their army was guided by a wise king, and the prince, although lacking martial prowess, more than made up for it with his mind, because it was his

inventions that turned the tides against the Calamity.

This unexpected invention was called Blood Gas, a strange name, but what it did to the bodies of Calamities was so strange and horrifying that the jokes associated with the weapon's name were swiftly silenced.

The blood gas resembled a sphere the size of an apple, it was yellow and red and stank like dead flesh, the first person who saw this weapon had said it resembled a diseased pustule filled with pus and dead blood, this description was not far off because it was warm to the touch and it felt gelatinous.

It was a weapon that was made to be used from a distance, as it should be thrown towards the enemy. The first demonstration of Blood Gas was against a large group of Calamities numbering in the hundreds of thousands.

A couple hundred of these orbs were chucked at the beasts and when they landed on the bodies of some of them, they splattered into pieces, dousing the beasts in foul-smelling liquid that seemed to have a life of their own and crawled into their bodies, and from there everything changed.

These infected beasts turned on their comrades and slaughtered them in a violent frenzy, disregarding any attempt for defense or preserving their lives, they kept killing until they fell apart.

The slimy sludge that had infected them would crawl toward the claws and teeth of the infected, and anyone that survived the mayhem would not take long before they began developing the murderous symptoms and they would pounce on those around them.

This weapon was stunningly effective and just using a hundred of these, nearly clearing out a million Calamity, the only drawback to this weapon was that its effectiveness could be counted in mere hours before the efficacy of the Blood Gas dissipated and a new one would have to be applied, however, with the horrifying killing rate of this weapon it was rare that another batch had to be fired out, which was a good thing because firing these weapons were very hazardous.

According to the statement spread across the kingdom, their prince Shisu was able to create a weapon that could exterminate the Calamity scourge that was far more effective than anything before in their history. In countless homes in the kingdom, the name of the prince became sacred. What the people did not know was that the method of priming these weapons was quite disturbing.

Before any Blood Gas could be thrown, they had to be first swallowed by someone, and after six hours, the orb had to be torn out of the intestines of the poor candidate who swallowed the orb, only then would the weapon be primed, and according to the prince Shisu, special drugs would have to be taken by the candidates to ensure that the pain they felt must be extremely excruciating.

Once proud soldiers of the kingdom became butchers. They no longer charged at calamities head-on, instead, they became the ones responsible for holding down the screaming people as their bellies were torn open.

They first took the worst of the prisoners to be used as incubators, and then anyone who had made any minor offenses, and towards the end of the war, they began kidnapping their people, and those from the surrounding kingdoms. During all of these periods, the king and royalty barely knew the full extent of the people that were killed in order for the soldiers to completely exterminate all the Calamities inside their border.

They were aware of the process all right but chose to underestimate the true scale of the sacrifices that were made to accomplish it. Official numbers were placed at around three hundred thousand people killed, only those aware knew it was many times more, around thirteen million.

There were many times during the night that Shisu would wake up laughing when he thought about the fact that the soldiers did not need to incubate the Blood Gas inside the body of anybody. He had only given that rule on a whim, wondering if anyone would challenge him on his mindless cruelty, but they had all played along, allured by the temptation of an easy victory. From that moment Shisu knew the true nature of the world.

The soldiers returning for their recognition could barely wear a smile, years of butchering people had cleansed all light from their souls, and it would not be long before the true picture of what happened was revealed, but before that could happen, the madness on the royal stage began.

The King had been raging on the laughing Shisu and it was inevitable that he would tear apart the royal robes, and to the people watching in horror at the ongoing event, the king suddenly reared back in horror, and took several steps backward, revealing to the world what could make the furious king afraid.

The body of Shisu was revealed that he had been hiding under his robes, and it was a thing of horror. His chest was packed with boils that pulsed as if they all contained a heart. The King immediately recognized these pulsing sores as the Blood Gas they had been using to cleanse their realm of Calamity, no time in a million years would the king have imagined that this loathsome weapon was grown on the body of his son.

"Where are you going, old man? Come on, keep on beating on me some more." glancing down at his exposed torso filled with pulsing boils, Shisu laughed, "Don't worry about these babies, at this level they are quite inert. What you should worry about is the thousands of Blood Gas I have been depositing into the water supply for the last eight months... daily."

The King pointed at his son with shaking fingers, "You said that it affects only Calamities." "Did I?" Shisu lampooned as he slowly stood up, "I guess I lied."

Most of the people viewing this spectacular event on the mountaintop were not aware of the full ramifications of what Shisu had just said, but the soldiers who had watched Calamities tear themselves apart in such a maddening frenzy almost went insane with fear.

The King looked down at the remnants of Elves his loyal general and the truth of what he had been screaming before he was butchered,

"You are truly evil incarnate, and you will kill us all. Why would you ever do such a thing? Does a thing like you even have a reason for committing such an act?"

Shisu had been trying to mend his torn robe so he could appear a bit regal, looked at the king and frowned,

"What do you mean by such frivolous statements, of course, there is a method to my madness. I am bringing the eyes of heaven to my door and showing it I am worthy. You pathetic maggots would never understand, the true face of reality."