Compared to those mercenaries who strolled leisurely, more focused on showing off than getting things done, Hoshiguma, having come from the Lungmen Guard Bureau, clearly showed signs of steady and solid progress.
She didn't choose the flashy methods of mercenaries but held her large black shield, advancing step by step against spells, firearms, crossbows, and other attacks. Her footprints were very solid, her distance control excellent; even from the drone's perspective, Hoshiguma didn't show even a hint of trembling.
Her whole person was like a stable iron tower, possessing a calmness and rationality an Oni shouldn't have. If it were another Oni, being pressed and beaten like this would probably have driven them completely mad, howling and charging towards the iron box to start smashing walls. But Hoshiguma didn't. She just calmly held that large black shield, slowly walking to the very bottom of the entire steel structure, bracing against the main gate fused with countless iron blocks and simple fortifications.
Then, with a calm, yet inexplicably loud voice that could suppress the continuous explosions and carry across the entire battlefield, she pronounced the death sentence for the criminals in this area.
"The Death Worshippers , due to conducting terrorist attacks against Lungmen, have been classified as a cult organization, and elimination work is now in progress. The evidence is conclusive; your criminal records have already been provided to the Lungmen Guard Bureau. All of you have participated in major sabotage cases and murder cases. I advise you to abandon hope early and surrender to Lungmen."
"Hahaha! Now that you see our defenses, you actually want to recruit us!? Dream on!"
A crazed shriek came from within the factory building.
"The Death Worshippers will never yield! Death is merely our [pleasure/ecstasy - unclear due to missing characters]!"
"I am not recruiting you. I am merely announcing a fact. You will all be crushed by me here."
"Then come on! No one can break our defense! No one can!!! If you want to kill us, then play boxing with steel first!"
"Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking."
Hoshiguma responded indifferently to the voice from inside the room, slowly raising one of her hands, and smashed it forcefully against the iron gate.
With a dull 'thud', accompanied by a gust of wind so strong that even the drones in the sky trembled a few times, Li Lin was surprised to find that the originally indestructible defense line was instantly torn open with a huge crack under Hoshiguma's fist. The entire area was ripped apart by an unimaginable enormous force.
That power even made Li Lin, far away in the command post, subconsciously open his mouth. The violent force brought an unparalleled visual effect. Not only was the entire building ripped open with a huge gash, but even the whirlwind stirred up around due to the detonation issue looked quite domineering. The blowing whirlwind instantly swept away the surrounding hazy dust-filled air, allowing the drone to clearly capture this shocking moment.
"Looks like your spells have been broken. By brute force."
Nothing more than this.
Glancing at the gate area, strewn with wailing victims , Hoshiguma shook her head, looked at the huge rift torn open before her, and waved at the drone.
"…"
Does this Miss Hoshiguma have a nickname like Heracles?
Looking at the green-haired Oni who could uproot mountains and whose aura overwhelmed the world , smashing the entire iron gate with one punch, Li Lin felt that the silly-looking green-haired big sister who had smoothed things over for him was truly someone whose appearance belied their nature . An ordinary punch, yet it created an effect like a howitzer bombardment from his previous life.
The entire iron gate was instantly blasted into fragments. From the drone's perspective, one could even see the wailing bodies of Oripathy patients who had been bracing the door from inside being blown away. The reinforced steel casters at the edges, due to the immense vibration and force, were directly cut in half by the torn iron sheets, clearly not going to survive. Other Oripathy patients inside the factory building also screamed and covered their ears due to the sudden explosion sound that rang out internally, most likely losing some ability to resist.
And taking this opportunity, mercenaries from other areas also displayed their various skills, easily tearing apart the defensive measures of the entire iron building.
However, compared to Hoshiguma's awe-inspiring One-Punch Man feat, other mercenaries appeared much flashier. Although they also directly tore through steel, compared to her, it felt like Hoshiguma, this Lungmen regular army member, was even stronger than imagined.
But in essence, this was merely a show of force by Lungmen's armed forces. Not even a real battle.
Hoshiguma, carrying her huge black shield, strolled leisurely through the factory building filled with the wails of countless people. With unembellished punches and kicks, she directly knocked out or sent flying those Oripathy patients attempting to resist. Li Lin even suspected that the only reason she didn't directly turn these people into human blood bags was due to the risk of infection. And under the drone's follow-cam, which drilled into the factory building, Hoshiguma quickly found the Death Worshipper leader laughing maniacally on a high platform.
Grabbing the Death Worshipper leader like catching a chick, Hoshiguma looked at the maniacally laughing cultist and said in a low voice:
"Before committing crimes, take a good look above your heads. Lungmen is watching you. Don't delude yourselves into thinking you can escape your sins. Lungmen's punishment for thugs will never be lenient; this is what you deserve. We have always been watching you maggots from above your heads."
"Lungmen? You've always been watching us? Hehehehe…"
Looking at Hoshiguma, who was pinching his neck, the Death Worshipper leader's smile became even more twisted.
"What I see above, is only the White Tower of Eden… What can you Lungmen do? Only death is the beginning of all equality—"
Sensing the change in the Death Worshipper's tone, Hoshiguma's expression changed, and she casually threw the cult leader directly towards the ceiling. The Oni's powerful strength directly slammed the entire cultist onto the steel-reinforced top floor of the building materials factory; the immense force instantly shattered countless bones within his body, making this leader spit out a mouthful of blood.
But this also made the runes conspicuously manifesting inside him shine even brighter. In just a blink of an eye, it devoured most of the cult leader's flesh and blood, then emitted a dazzling white light. A scene familiar to Li Lin once again appeared inside the factory. The expanding ball of light swallowed most of the space in the drone camera's view, and the huge explosion sound only reached the live broadcast room about a second later.
'BOOM!!!'
Accompanied by a loud bang, the ceiling of the building materials factory was instantly torn open with a huge gash by the violent explosion.
However, what made Hoshiguma feel somewhat silent was that, at the location of the huge torn gash, what was revealed was not Lungmen's sky. But, like that madman's ravings, a huge White Tower stood before everyone's eyes, towering over Lungmen, looking down upon everything around.
"…This is Hoshiguma, mission leader has self-destructed. Strategic objective completed."
But what did that matter?
Glancing at the huge White Tower, Hoshiguma turned and walked towards those cultists still attempting to fight back, casually smashing an attacker's spine with one punch.
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