Infinite Sun in the East China Sea

Chapter 246 Unscrupulous
"Judging from the results of the probe, Esdeath has not left the northern border."

Xu Feng said softly.

In his view, this result was normal.

Esdeath can indeed withstand a nuclear bomb, but that requires her to prepare in advance and to conjure a sufficiently thick ice shield.

She is naturally safe in the ice shield on the northern border, but once she leaves the ice shield and is attacked by a nuclear bomb during her movement, she may not be able to create a thick enough ice layer for defense in time.

In that situation, she would die too.

Xu Feng said with a smile, "Since Esdeath doesn't plan to come to the capital, then the two of us can be a little more unrestrained from now on."

"I was with the Night Raid team just now, and I had to play the 'good guy,' so I couldn't use many of my tricks."

Xiangzi blinked her bright eyes and asked:

"Are they about to mass produce units?"

The ability of the 'Binding Clothes' to forcibly control other people's bodies is considered evil magic by most people.

In order to maintain a positive image in front of the Night Raid Squad, Xu Feng had not used this prop before.

But this thing is very useful for massing troops.

In particular, Xu Feng can mass-produce this equipment, and in half a day at most, he can raise an army of a million.

Given enough time and resources, he could create even more, and it wouldn't be impossible for him to turn the vast majority of people in the world into puppets.

Unfortunately.

The prototype of this equipment, the 'Tuxedo,' has a very low limit and cannot control stronger creatures.

If the target has unlocked their genetic potential or possesses extraordinary energy equivalent to a C-level enhancement, the 'Binding Garment' will no longer be able to be controlled. In addition, the 'Binding Garment' will also fail if the target has a special physique, is equipped with special items, or is in a special environment.

This equipment can only 'drop' some low-level minions.

After obtaining the God's Hand, Xu Feng envisioned using this Imperial Arm to further improve the equipment.

For example, combining 'restraint clothing' with human body modification.

If an ordinary person were to develop this ability, they might not be able to create many cannon fodder, but Xu Feng is different—he enhanced the Swallow-Swallow Fruit and strengthened this ability to the level of Double A awakening.

The Swallow-Swallow Fruit can easily merge two people together.

Given Xu Feng's current skill level, as long as a target enters his 50-meter range, he can use the awakened domain of the Swallow Fruit to modify it.

However, he had only had the Imperial Arm, God's Hand, for a short time and hadn't had time to develop it.

However, Xu Feng was not in a hurry.

This time he received a large number of reward points—just killing six members of the Arctic team earned him more than 20,000 points. If the points reward is included, it would be enough for him to return to this world he had just experienced for more than ten years.

He has plenty of time in the future!
"Let's secretly take over this city first."

Xu Feng looked at the palace and said, "Before we get rid of Bud, this kind of equipment that uses electronic devices to control others is easy to counter. Fortunately, he has been staying in the palace. But if he uses this ability too openly, he may be able to crack it."

Finished speaking.

Xu Feng released thousands of medium-sized drones from the Tun Tun factory. These drones were equipped with grenade launchers that could fire the 'Restraint Clothes' and flew towards various streets.

They detect life signals within the capital and fire specially made grenades at the locations of these signals.

Regardless of gender, age, wealth, or morality, everyone within the area affected by the drone's flight is hit by grenades and becomes Xu Feng's subordinate.

Xu Feng would assign different tasks to each member of the army based on their previous character.

For example, some people would be responsible for the relatively light logistics, providing food for the 'soldiers', or organizing the various modern weapons that Xu Feng created... to be precise, technological weapons that are decades more advanced than modern technology.

For example, some people will become 'suicide warriors'. These 'anthropomorphic creatures' will use their good relationships with the ministers' subordinates to help the 'Binding Cloth' capture more of the ministers' subordinates. If they encounter some ministers' subordinates who are too powerful for the 'Binding Cloth' to control in the future, they will detonate the bombs strapped to their bodies and kill the targets.

These suicide bombers were not equipped with miniature nuclear weapons.

Xu Feng was worried that the explosion would kill too many people and injure key figures, so he only allowed these people to carry one kilogram of total nitrogen ion salt.

Thanks to the drones, thousands of people become Xu Feng's subordinates every minute.

Just half an hour.

Xu Feng had already developed an army of 100,000.

In the manga, Najenda prepared an army of 50,000 and ten Teigu users to deal with Esdeath, so that they could surround and attack Akame to create conditions for a one-hit kill.

Obviously.

Najenda's preparations were completely inadequate; if Akame hadn't unleashed her power, those grunts wouldn't have been able to kill Esdeath at all.

Xu Feng's preparations included: millions of troops armed with various types of technological weapons and skilled in a wide range of skills under the control of the 'Binding Cloth'; tens of thousands of robots of various models and even more drones; thousands of genetically enhanced humans of dangerous species; hundreds of super-large artificial dangerous species; and at least ten Imperial Arms users... with a 50% chance of including Supreme Imperial Arms.

Xu Feng considers himself a reincarnator who enjoys growth.

He also enhanced his developmental abilities.

Therefore, he always believed that time would be on his side.

Whether it's Esdeath, Bud, or the ministers... given enough time, he could easily sweep them all away!

at this time.

Xiangzi suddenly looked up at the sky and said, "It seems that the palace is planning to summon all the civil officials and military officers to discuss the commotion we caused more than three hours ago and the prison break that just happened."

"Hmm, that spy you sent over before seems to be highly regarded! According to the monitoring in its brain, Minister Ernest only spoke a few words to him and asked a few questions; but after Ernest left, his expression immediately became very serious... He became a minister not just because of his cruelty!"

Xiangzi pointed in the direction of several figures in the sky, "To expedite the meeting, Ernest even dispatched his subordinates on flying dangerous creatures to deliver messages." Xu Feng chuckled, "The battle has been over three hours in, and the minister is only now realizing it? I even sent that werewolf zombie to his side, giving him some misleading 'answers' beforehand. The people in this world are really slow to react!"

"After all, this is a technologically underdeveloped alien world without communication devices for rapid communication. To start taking countermeasures in just three hours is actually not a slow reaction speed." Xiangzi didn't think the Empire's reaction speed was slow.

“This is an opportunity,” Xu Feng said.

In the past three hours, he has tested Esdeath and Bud in different ways.

However, both chose to remain inactive.

This inaction will give Xu Feng time to develop, but it also prevents him from finding any weaknesses in the two of them... If the two of them reveal a weakness, Xu Feng can use a high-powered weapon to crush them to death.

After all, compared to the characters in the story, Xu Feng has a huge advantage in movement speed, movement range, and attack distance.

—If Xu Feng hadn't wanted to maximize his profits, he could have flown into outer space to search for asteroids or smelted metals on the moon to create a super-large satellite; he could have accelerated an artificial meteor several kilometers in diameter and crashed it down, which even Esdeath wouldn't have been able to stop.

But if we do that... the vast majority of the world's useful resources will be destroyed in that attack.

The losses are incalculable.

Xu Feng's current plan is to keep looking for or creating opportunities, waiting for Esdeath or Bud to make a mistake.

In Xu Feng's view, the young emperor, or rather the ministers who controlled the young emperor, convened a court meeting with civil and military officials, which was an opportunity.

An opportunity to plant spies within the palace and seize control of the entire palace.

Xu Feng once again released hundreds of drones carrying 'restraint suits'.

"Are you planning to manipulate some officials who enter the palace?" Xiangzi guessed Xu Feng's intentions.

"Yes."

Xu Feng said, "If Minister Ernest stays in the palace, it will be difficult for us to complete the mission quickly. In the two versions of 'Akame ga Kill!', Minister Ernest's abilities are different. Judging from the information we have so far, Ernest's strength is closer to the manga version."

In the anime version, Ernest is just a fat man with extremely poor physical abilities, who is easily killed by the heavily injured Leone.

In the manga, Minister Ernest, in order to live longer, trained rigorously in martial arts at the Imperial Fist Temple in his youth, making him extremely powerful. Even without using his Teigu, he could easily handle Leone in her Beast King form. After destroying Leone's Teigu, he easily defeated her. If it weren't for the Dangerous Beast within the Beast King Teigu fusing with Leone, granting her a second life, Leone wouldn't have been able to even take the Minister down with her.

Xiangzi nodded and said, "That's right... According to my perception, Ernest's willpower is very strong. My mental chains probably can't control him. The ministers in this world are probably as strong as in the comics."

Aside from Xu Feng's incredibly powerful attack, the only thing that could affect the targets inside the palace was Xiangzi's mental chains.

Her Gauss ion sniper rifle could also hit that position, but with so many obstacles in the way, hitting a powerful minister would be very difficult.

Xu Feng said with a sneer, "The prison near the palace is currently empty, so let's take this opportunity to fill it up!"

He instructed, "During the court meeting later, at a crucial moment, use your mental chains to control the young emperor and make him order the arrest of the ministers... The reason? Let's say it was created by the werewolf zombies! Heh, Esdeath's subordinates brought by Ernest assassinating the emperor in court... Don't you think that's interesting?"

Because the werewolf walker possessed firsthand information about the site of the Big Bang, the minister planned to bring that 'subordinate' to the court meeting as well.

The minister knew that this person was highly regarded by Esdeath, and that this special human with the 'dangerous bloodline' was even stronger than Riva, the strongest of the three beast warriors.

—In the world of Akame ga Kill!, there are few hybrids between humans and dangerous species, but those people are often quite strong, and many of them can stand out. The minister had seen several of them when he was at the Imperial Fist Temple.

It's not surprising that someone like Sergei has a wolfhound-like appearance.

The minister planned to take advantage of the prison break incident to promote this subordinate to the captain of the Imperial Capital Guard... The previous captain of the Imperial Capital Guard, Oka, had just died, and the Imperial Capital Guard performed very poorly without its captain during the prison break.

They achieved absolutely no results, were utterly defeated by the Night Raid team, and even had their important Imperial Arm, the Hundred-Armed Titan, stolen.

Now, Ernest desperately needs a powerful person to maintain order in the capital.

Unfortunately, Ernest never guessed that the person he was going to rely on was just a corpse controlled by others.

"Killing two birds with one stone!" Xiangzi blinked. "The only pity is that we lost a powerful zombie; but since it turned Esdeath and Bud against each other, losing an even stronger zombie isn't a waste!"

Xu Feng's plan... is too insidious.

Ernest had already completely grasped the young emperor's intentions. Anyone with a sound mind would not believe that this high-ranking minister would assassinate the young emperor... If he wanted to get rid of the young emperor, he wouldn't need to assassinate him at all.

But if the werewolf walker attempts an assassination, Ernest will be unable to defend himself.

Who told him to deliver the assassin to the young emperor?
Because Ernest held a high position and most officials were his subordinates, even the young emperor or Bud could not kill him on the spot unless he took direct action.

The most likely scenario is that Ernest will be imprisoned.

Once Ernest leaves the palace, once he is freed from the protection of the Imperial Arms and Bud, his life and death will be controlled by the East Blue Team Reincarnators.

Ernest's strength was indeed not weak, but that strength was meaningless in front of Xu Feng.

Even if Esdeath suddenly attacks, the East Blue Team can complete their mission instantly and leave this world.

On the other hand, Esdeath would also inexplicably become a traitor to the Empire under such scheming, and be regarded as a thorn in Bud's side.

The plan wasn't too difficult—Xiangzi could use his mental chains to briefly control the little emperor.

The young emperor's immediate orders after the assassination will be crucial.

That order would allow the officials controlled by Xu Feng to attack Ernest in a seemingly legitimate way... It wouldn't be surprising if some of them were confidants of the ministers. Theoretically, when a group like Ernest's loses power, his subordinates will be the most vicious in tearing him apart—that's how they can distance themselves from the ministers!
Even those who were controlled, after defeating Ernest, would subconsciously believe that they attacked Ernest because of the Emperor's orders, and would not realize that they had been controlled!
Xu Feng added, "One reason for controlling a portion of the officials participating in the court meetings is to have them attack Ernest the moment the young emperor gives the order, so that Bud can't intervene."

"To prevent Bud's Teigu from being destroyed?" Shoko smiled. "Indeed, if Bud loses his Teigu, he's no match for Esdeath at all!"

royal palace.

Just as the young emperor was about to recite his lines as instructed by his ministers, the werewolf zombie who had been kneeling respectfully in the crowd suddenly leaped to his feet.

The sharp wolf claws were aimed directly at the young emperor...

(End of this chapter)