On the wedding day, my wife was abnormal

Chapter 1357 Revealed! The Archbishop is actually this kind of person.

Inside the box was a head.

The archbishop's head.

That face, always hidden behind the golden mask, was now fully exposed, its expression frozen in the final moment before death, a mixture of incomprehensible terror and resentment.

In his wide-open eyes, which remained unclosed in death, lingered the endless despair before his soul was completely erased.

"This……"

Lakshmi's body trembled slightly.

She saw it clearly: the archbishop had been blasted into nothingness by his master's lightning ball, leaving not even a speck of dust behind.

But now, Elizabeth has returned carrying his head?

"Your Highness, your predictions are truly prophetic!"

Elizabeth hurried forward, her breath ragged from running, but her sapphire-blue eyes burned with an almost fanatical adoration.

"That old bastard really had a backup plan. The moment you shattered his body, I detected a very subtle spatial fluctuation!"

She pulled out another palm-sized black compass from her bosom, its runes swirling and flickering.

"Thanks to your tracking artifact, Your Highness, I was able to instantly pinpoint the coordinates of his soul's transfer."

As Elizabeth spoke, a bloodthirsty smile curled at the corner of her lips.

"His true form is hidden in an invisible airship thirty nautical miles away, probably thinking he has escaped by shedding his skin."

"So I sailed the Zhenyuan and fired a main gun at him."

"He didn't even have time to think of a last word."

Lin Zhen reached out and took the head into his palm, but did not touch it.

He hovered his fingertip an inch in front of the forehead and gently touched it.

A barely perceptible wisp of golden light disappeared into it.

hum!

Those eyes, which had long lost their luster, suddenly lit up with an eerie blood-red light, and the mouth opened and closed, emitting twisted and intermittent syllables like the friction of metal.

"What exactly are you..."

Those were fragments of the archbishop's remaining consciousness, forcibly activated.

Lin Zhen ignored this last question, and the golden light at his fingertips suddenly intensified.

The light penetrated the skin and flesh, illuminating the internal structure of the skull!

Everyone present witnessed a scene they would never forget.

Inside that skull, there was no brain tissue or blood vessels, but a mechanical jungle made up of countless tiny parts!

Intricate gears, shimmering crystal paths, a miniature energy core, and a fist-sized dark purple crystal deeply embedded in the center!

The crystal's shape was a miniature version of the "Heavenly Revelation Divine Thunder" that Lin Zhen had crushed with his bare hands earlier!

"really."

A cold smile appeared on Lin Zhen's lips as she clenched her fists in the air.

Click!

The head, along with all the intricate machinery inside, instantly turned into the most primitive powder, which scattered like sand between his fingers.

Only the dark purple crystal floated in his palm, trembling slightly.

"So this is the nihilistic party's trick."

He turned around and handed the crystal to Murong Yan, his tone as indifferent as if he were commenting on a pebble on the roadside.

"Yan'er, look, the principle behind this thing is somewhat similar to the spacetime anchor we obtained in Naxxramas."

"But the workmanship is too rough. It is several dimensions behind in terms of both precision and energy level. It can't even be called a toy."

Murong Yan took the crystal and found it icy cold to the touch; her phoenix eyes narrowed slightly.

"So, the leaders of the Nihilistic Party are not made of flesh and blood?"

"More accurately, they are a group of artificial gods who attempt to steal the authority of the gods and put on an iron shell for themselves."

Lin Zhen's eyes held a hint of pure contempt.

"They assemble bodies with shoddy machinery, anchor their souls with this low-class time-space technology, and then add tricks of mind control, thinking they have transcended the mundane world."

He paused, and the warmth in his voice vanished abruptly.

"Most importantly, this kind of thing can be mass-produced."

Upon hearing this, the surrounding air seemed to become a little heavier.

Lakshmi's breath hitched for a moment, his voice strained: "Your Highness... do you mean that the Nihilists have as many monsters like the Archbishop as they want?"

"Theoretically yes."

Lin Zhen played with the crystal, but there was no worry on his face. Instead, he showed a hint of amusement.

"But they clearly haven't even touched the real threshold. Such inferior toys shatter at the slightest touch in the face of the true laws of space and time."

He raised his eyes, his gaze seemingly piercing through the vast emptiness.

"But that does explain why they dare to be so arrogant."

"A group of ants found a piece of red-hot iron and thought they had mastered the power of the sun and could rival the moon in brilliance."

Murong Yan sensed the murderous intent beneath the calmness in his words.

This man was truly enraged.

"Husband, what do you plan to do?"

Lin Zhen withdrew his gaze and smiled, but the smile did not reach his eyes, which held a hint of judgmental coldness.

"Since they are so eager to come and die, I have no reason not to grant their wish."

He turned to Elizabeth.

"Is that stealth airship definitely been completely eliminated?"

“Yes, Your Highness!” Elizabeth immediately straightened her back and said resolutely, “Not even a single fragment escaped!”

"very good."

Lin Zhen nodded slightly.

But that's not enough.

"Issue my order to immediately mobilize all fleets and blockade all sea and airspace within 500 nautical miles of New Batavia."

"Shoot down any unauthorized aircraft."

"Any suspicious vessel shall be seized on the spot."

"I will turn this place into a cage, where not a fly can fly out and not a rat can get in."

Elizabeth felt a surge of heat rush to her head, and she knelt on one knee, her voice filled with excitement.

"As you command, my Lord!"

She got up to leave, but Lin Zhen called her back again.

"and many more."

A golden talisman appeared out of thin air at Lin Zhen's fingertip, its radiance flowing. He flicked it casually, and the talisman hovered in front of Elizabeth.

"This is something I extracted from the soul imprint of that head; it records the coordinates of all the Nihilistic Party's strongholds in Southeast Asia."

Elizabeth's eyes lit up instantly.

"Your Highness, you mean to..."

"Uproot it completely."

Lin Zhen's voice was soft, yet it sent a chill down everyone's spine.

"Those who dare to touch my people should be prepared to be completely wiped out from this world."

"Not a single stronghold may remain."

"Not a single one shall be released alive."

"I will make the word 'Nihilism' disappear from the history of Southeast Asia forever."

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone felt the undisguised rage of a monarch.

Murong Yan reached out her soft hand and gently grasped Lin Zhen's hand, feeling the still gentle warmth of his palm.

"My husband, I'll stay with you."

Lin Zhen turned to look at her, and the sternness in his eyes instantly turned into tenderness.

"No need. Why use a sledgehammer to crack a nut? Leave this dirty work to the people below."

He raised his hand and affectionately stroked the tip of Murong Yan's pert nose.

"Your task now is to rest well. Forcibly traveling through time and space just now has put a lot of strain on your body. Don't push yourself too hard."

Murong Yan wanted to persist, but Lin Zhen stopped her with a look.

"obedient."

Murong Yan felt a warmth in her heart and could only obediently nod.

At this moment, Yue Fei and Alsace arrived in great strides.

"Your Highness!" Yue Fei clasped his hands in greeting. Seeing that Lin Zhen was safe and sound, his tense expression finally relaxed. "The Zhenyuan Fleet is fully assembled and ready to be deployed at any time!"

"very good."

Lin Zhen looked at this pillar of the Great Qian Dynasty.

"Yue Fei, I'm giving you a task."

"Your Majesty, please speak!"

"Lead the Zhenyuan Fleet to cooperate with Elizabeth's pirate alliance and wipe all the strongholds on this list off the map."

Lin Zhen's voice became calm again, but colder than ever before.

"Remember, this is not a conquest, it is a purge."

"I want neither prisoners nor spoils of war."

"I just want results."

Yue Fei was startled; he understood that the prince was truly enraged.

"The last general takes command!"

Lin Zhen nodded, then turned his gaze to Arthas beside him.

The ghostly blue flames in the Death Knight's eye sockets were pulsating excitedly.

"My lord, please grant Naxxramas permission to fight."

"My undead army is already thirsting for fresh souls."

Lin Zhen hesitated for a moment, then slowly nodded.

"can."

"But remember one thing."

"My lord, please give your orders."

"The slaughter of civilians is forbidden."

Lin Zhen's voice remained calm, but Arthas felt an invisible pressure that choked the fire of his soul.

“The Nihilists are the enemy, but the mortals they have misled are not.”

"If I discover that you have indiscriminately killed innocent people..."

Lin Zhen didn't finish his sentence, but that icy will had already made Arthas's rune armor plates buzz.

"Rest assured, my lord, Arthas will never dishonor your will!"

"Go."

Lin Zhen waved his hand.

"I want to hear the first report of victory before nightfall."

"Yes!"