Chapter 245: Despair at its Pinnacle

If despair had levels, Dong Fengye, who was burning every last bit of his life force at that moment, would surely be at the highest tier.

Well aware of how repulsive spatial abilities could be, the moment Yenir vanished, he knew that all hope was lost.

Overwhelmed by despair and collapse, he even lost the will to continue his attacks on others.

In his surroundings, Yenir was completely nowhere to be found.

This meant either that Yenir’s spatial skill allowed for a teleportation distance far beyond his line of sight, or that his spatial movement was even more nauseating than a simple blink.

That very person might be laughing at him from within a spatial rift!

But whatever the case, he had already been utterly defeated!

Almost simultaneously, Ming Luo and the others arriving from behind were furious and drenched in cold sweat.

Without hesitation, bursts of Spirit Energy struck Dong Fengye with relentless force.

There was no resistance, no attempt to dodge.

Under his gaze, Dong Fengye resentfully looked at the squad members as if accusing one of them for not having provided this crucial information.

Had he known that Yenir possessed a spatial skill, he would never have looked back!

Besides, why wouldn’t the skill’s activation require Spirit Energy? That message was never sent out!

During his dimensional shift, Yenir furrowed his brow; at that moment, he seemed to have detached from the world, standing squarely behind Dong Fengye.

After a brief moment of hesitation, looking at Dong Fengye who had completely ceased his resistance and was teetering on the brink of death from successive skills, Yenir immediately deactivated his skill state.

“Stop!”

“I want him alive!”

With a cold, curt shout, Yenir emerged from the Void and drove his sword straight into Dong Fengye’s spine.

The enemy had lost all fighting capacity; he needed a living prisoner to uncover who the traitor was.

Ming Luo and the others, who had rushed in to attack, appeared to be acting normally, but there was no guarantee that one among them wasn’t a traitor aiming to silence him.

Yenir could tell that once Dong Fengye realized he couldn’t be killed, he was clearly begging for death!

Whether intentional or not, Ming Luo’s delighted expression upon seeing him appeared, and he hurriedly ceased his attack—but the other squad members, either too nervous or otherwise, continued their assault in a hasty manner.

Seeing a blue arrow of light and a Mental Shock heading his way, Yenir’s expression suddenly darkened; he charged forward and took the damage meant for his teammates head-on.

Even with the protection of his Combat Uniform, after two consecutive explosions, he still ended up pale as he took the hit.

“Stop! Stop now!”

Everyone was startled into a frenzy and immediately halted their actions.

“I said stop!”

Suppressing the reverberations in his guts, Yenir fixed his gaze on the squad members with the cold, piercing look of a hawk, especially on the young man with the bow and Captain Zheng Cheng.

These two were clearly giving it their all!

If his willpower weren’t so high, he might not have been able to withstand Zheng Cheng’s Mental Shock.

“I… I…”

He was visibly panicked and full of self-reproach.

When the squad members gathered around him, they looked at him in bewilderment. They hadn’t heard his earlier order and naturally couldn’t understand why Yenir had chosen to keep a prisoner.

Just the thought that not only had they failed to help, but they had even “attacked” Yenir made the Awakener with the bow nearly break down in tears.

“Yenir! We didn’t do it on purpose!”

“I’m… I’m…”

“Yenir! As long as you’re alright, that’s what matters! I’m sorry, I’m really sorry! I was just so worried about you!”

“Get this guy killed quickly! We can’t risk any more complications!”

Listening to the squad members’ explanations and concerns, Yenir remained silent. He was busy discerning who was telling the truth and who was lying.

Had he not heard that one phrase, he never would have believed that the traitor he had casually fabricated actually existed within the squad!

“Yenir!? What are you doing!?”

“You plan to keep a prisoner in order to extract intel on the Japanese and Korean Battle Zones!?”

Ming Luo, trying to suppress the excitement in his heart, instinctively shouted.

He didn’t overthink it; his heart was so elated that he still felt a bit dazed.

It was too awesome! It went off without a hitch!

He had expected Yenir to shine in this instance, but ever since realizing that the enemy was working together, his hopes had dwindled.

All he now wished for was for Yenir to escape—any miracle would do!

But he hadn’t expected that Yenir’s display of strength was monstrously beyond their wildest imaginations!

Seventy Third-Stage mid-level fighters were wiped out as if they were nothing more than dogs.

The endless barrage of terrifying skills made his skin crawl, even though he and Yenir were on the same team.

A complete and overwhelming victory!

Zero losses! An annihilation of the enemy! Such an extraordinarily exaggerated result would surely send shockwaves through the entire Military when they returned to reality!

Once thinking that the Military was overreacting and overly praising Yenir, he now found himself transformed into Yenir’s most ardent ‘fan’.

Once outside, anyone who dared claim that Yenir didn’t deserve this treatment would have his head smashed in!

With strength like this, who in the world could compare!?

Just like him, the other squad members also looked at Yenir with reverence.

It was so exhilarating…

From the start, confidently entering the instance to the crushing despair upon realizing the enemy’s overwhelming power.

From the ecstatic joy when Yenir summoned a nuclear-level attack that wiped out a group to the sheer terror when Yenir repositioned himself

From the awe of watching Yenir instantly take down everyone to his near-death counterattack in a last desperate move.

The emotional rollercoaster was truly unsettling.

In their excitement, the squad members mistakenly thought Yenir was still pondering what intel to extract from Dong Fengye and began to worry, eventually chiming in together:

“Lord Yenir, leave the interrogation to us! You go and rest!”

“This is incredible! I’ve never seen an Awakener as strong as you! I’d bet that if there were a ranking of equals, you’d be number one worldwide!”

“It was so thrilling… without you, Yenir, we’d have been doomed this time.”

“Yeah, Yenir. You go rest!”

Facing the concern and well-meaning words of his team, Yenir merely shook his head slightly.

The next second, he suddenly grabbed Dong Fengye’s hair and forced the enemy’s face towards everyone.

“Tell me! Who is the traitor!?”

Glaring intently at Dong Fengye as if expecting any sign of guilt, Yenir was absolutely confident that if there was the slightest abnormality in his expression, he would pinpoint the traitor.

!?!

At the same time, the squad members shuddered and looked at Yenir in shock.

Trai… traitor!?

There was a traitor among them!?

Wasn’t Yenir holding this man to interrogate him about intel from the other battle zones!?

The squad members, who had been basking in victory moments ago, now all wore expressions of sheer terror.