SCP Corporation: Contain Bonfire-Chapter 71 - Arbitration Agreement D-4_1
Chapter 71: Chapter 71 “Arbitration Agreement D-4″_1
Chapter 71 -71 “Arbitration Agreement D-4″_1
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The three-quarters of the castle were smashed to pieces amid the tremors resembling an earthquake.
Those who had no chance to flee and a portion afflicted with “Beast Transformation Syndrome” became nothing but pulp along with that section of the castle…
The gigantic azure-black palm dissipated into mist after the strike and vanished on the spot, but its residual force continued to reverberate.
The earth still quivered subtly, and an eerie silence descended upon the site with the fall of that mighty blow.
A constant buzzing noise persisted in everyone’s ears…
Those of weaker constitution, like Tang Ken, experienced blood oozing from their ears, collapsing on the spot amidst the spreading shockwaves.
“Gulp…”
Colin swallowed hard, looking at the spot where he had been standing just moments before, unable to help but inhale sharply in shock.
The emergency retreat he had just made, had he been a few seconds slower… he would have become “Colin sauce”.
Fear and after-shock enveloped him deeply.
Fortunately, it seemed that such blows couldn’t adjust their course mid-way; otherwise, escape would have been futile.
Unfortunately…
Their survival was nothing but a problem of whether another slap would come.
“Clang.”
Someone’s weapon hit the ground, followed by more and more weapons dropping, making a crisp sound.
The destruction from that slap brought a profound sense of despair to all.
It didn’t exhibit any flashy tricks, nor did it carry any pollution that forbade direct gaze; it was just a slap thrown from several kilometers away. It was as if a superior being had whimsically shown a mere hint of their power before mortals, nothing more.
Just that alone, so easily, broke through everyone’s psychological defenses, leaving no room for any thought of resistance.
Considering something unforeseen, the old butler glanced at Helena and then Colin, eager to speak but instead coughing a few times as blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.
But, disregarding his injuries, he hurriedly said, “Lord Colin? Your support…”
“Wait… let me check…”
Colin, attempting to sense his mind, paused mid-sentence and his pupils dilated—he couldn’t feel the [Task Bar] in his head!
No, not just the [Task Bar], everything from Bonfire Company on him seemed to have vanished except for the [Storage Room]!
In an instant, Colin’s pupils widened, his spine chilled, and he felt as if he had been dropped into an ice cellar, struggling to speak.
If he remembered correctly…
The countdown for “Task 5” should have already concluded.
But…
‘Have I been… abandoned?’
Colin’s mind was almost blank save for that thought. He could not think of any other reason why not only had the support not arrived, but even the Bonfire Company’s system had disappeared.
At that moment, he suddenly thought of that “former employee” and what he might have experienced.
The thought of his polished, shiny skull…
Seeing his silence, the old butler’s expression was gradually overcome with despair. They had been able to hold on from day one until now all because of the grand assurances Colin had been giving!
“Hahaha, this time, the Evil God truly has descended. There is no chance of survival. I said on the first day we should have taken a chance…”
“Back then, combining your methods, there might have been a chance.”
“As for now, forget the three Virtue Knights of ‘virtue’, even if there were five or even if the king himself came, it would be useless. At most, they could only contend, not save anyone.”
“No power in the Southern Border can defeat Him. Hahaha, let alone defeat, there are hardly any places that can withstand Him, hahaha…”
Calder murmured to himself, a grim smile on his face. Although he did not drop his weapon, he knelt on the ground, stabbing his broken sword into the earth, struggling to maintain his posture.
It wasn’t just him, even the composed Helena was shaken, the blue eyes beneath her gray hood betraying hints of despair.
“Unless the Saintess Herself descends, there will be no more chance…”
“Hehehe…”
A Saintess regent, huh? Calder chuckled weakly, his face pale. His lips writhed as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, he didn’t utter a word—it was likely that even if the Saintess showed up, it wouldn’t change anything.
He didn’t know what kind of power that fabled angel on Earth possessed, but in his eyes, the fallen Saintess of the Church of Light wasn’t even worth mentioning compared to the successfully descended Evil God.
Even if she did come, what then? Could she really rescue them from the clutches of an unknown “Evil God”?
Absolutely impossible!
Moreover, that regent herself, currently trapped within the Catastrophe of the Magic Fog, unable to escape, was hardly in a position to save them, separated by thousands, if not tens of thousands, of miles.
As for the one by his side… Lord Colin.
To be honest, Calder didn’t harbor much hope either. He even felt that dragging things out to this point might have been his true purpose all along.
After all, he had been saying that in a few more hours, everything would come to an end.
If one calculated the time, it should be right about the moment he referred to as “everything will end”—indeed when that giant hand appeared, everything had ended.
Shaking his head, he glanced at the third of the castle smashed into dust and saw blood seeping out faintly beneath the rubble.
At that moment, the sound of a body hitting the ground came from beside him.
Calder withdrew his gaze and looked over to see a soldier who had drawn his sword and cut his own neck, blood spurting from the wound, spreading a red halo on the ground.
From the severed trachea came the gurgling sounds of an impending death…
“Well, that’s not a bad choice, though not severing your neck in one go means suffering a bit before dying…”
Calder diverted his gaze, glanced for a moment at Tang Ken, the physically weakest on the scene, who had passed out from the shock, a hint of envy in his eyes. Then, trembling, he lifted a broken sword, intending to do as the soldier had done and cut his own throat, ending his life.
Rather than face that horrific hand and its terrifying pressure once again…
He chose death.
But just then, in the deathly silent scene, the ever-silent Colin suddenly uttered a relieved sound:
“We’re saved.”
At that moment, lines of information started to appear one after another on his retinas.
[The application for “Judgment Protocol D-4” has been submitted…]
[Target: Select former Containment Subject “0-9 ‘Hunger'”.]
[Initiator: “Bunny”.]
[Brief of the Protocol: This protocol is a spontaneous external armed intervention protocol, needing to be initiated by an Employee, and the activation of the protocol must fulfill the following conditions…]
[1. The catastrophe has been triggered either directly or indirectly by a containment breach of a Bonfire Company’s Containment Subject. Therefore, Bonfire Company is responsible and obligated to recover said Containment Subject at any time and any place, halting the continuation and expansion of the catastrophe.]
[2. The breach Containment Subject is in a state of loss of control, not contained or utilized by other relatively rational individuals or civilizations, so as to prevent unnecessary causality during the recovery process.]
[3. During the recovery process, the initiator must ensure the safety of innocents (for the definition of “innocents,” please refer to article 37 of the first clause of section four of the “Bonfire Protocol”) and avoid involving innocents, causing unnecessary causality as much as possible.]
[4. Initiators must sign the “Liability Protocol L-1”, to ensure that they will not engage in activities beyond the scope allowed by the protocol (Judgment Protocol D-4).]
[5. A complete report must be submitted, and evidence of the current status of the containment subject along with related reports must be provided.]
[6. Not displayed (C Level clearance required).]
[…]
[13. Not displayed (C Level clearance required).]
…
[Under review…]
[Review approved, application complete.]
[According to the content of the protocol, Bonfire Company will provide assistance to the initiator, including but not limited to using “Descent Protocol,” “Judgment Protocol,” “Containment Protocol,” “Bonfire Protocol,” and other related content.]
[The specified execution units for this incident: “Zoo” of the Corps, First Legion, F Level Employee “Colin”.]
[Initiating “Judgment Protocol D-4″…]
[“Judgment Protocol D-4” has been initiated!]
