Chapter 678: Psychic Virus

The dragon's body swelled, its sharp wings tearing the air like a blade.

The airflow from its supersonic flight destroyed half of the building's glass curtain wall.

In the sunlight, it looked like sparkling powder.

Raising its head and roaring, the powerful dragon aura firmly locked onto the little girl in midair.

Under its intentional control, the nearby survivors were not oppressed by the dragon's aura.

Otherwise, given their physical condition, they would likely have died on the spot.

But even so.

Seeing this fantastical creature for the first time, everyone stared in shock at the scene before them.

How...

How could there be a monster like a dragon?!

"Hit!"

"Grab...! It...!"

A childish voice echoed in his mind.

For the first time, Lin An sensed a feeling of rage within the black dragon's emotions.

He was somewhat surprised.

Logically, the black dragon had no reason to be angry at the red-clothed mutant...

Grab?

Grab what?

Almost at the same time.

The red-clothed mutant also recognized the black dragon that had once bullied it; its formerly calm face revealed a cold expression.

As if it had learned to behave.

Knowing the black dragon was immune to psychic attacks, it simply spread its hands, and the shards of glass filling the sky like bullets were pinned down, then, driven by psychic power, shot suddenly toward the black dragon.

Psychic attacks don't work—switch to physical!

"Ding ding dang dang"

The incoming shards struck the scales, producing a crisp collision sound.

Limited by the material.

Though the shards could pierce armor under kinetic impact, hitting the black dragon they had little effect.

Its huge mouth opened.

The ferocious dragon's maw aimed to swallow it whole.

The black dragon used to only scare mutants with this trick, but now the little beast actually unleashed a devouring skill.

It seemed about to be swallowed in one gulp.

The red-clothed mutant swiftly turned, its aerial maneuverability far surpassing Lin An's sky-stepping skill.

Just that.

Watching the red-clothed mutant hastily dodge, Lin An felt a hint of suspicion.

Not fleeing, but retreating to his right?

Was he shifting the battlefield to avoid injuring people inside the building between the dragon and the monster?

His heart sank.

Combining what the survivors inside the building had just said, Lin An instantly realized.

The red-clothed mutant was probably not threatening these people.

On the contrary, they were surviving under the mutant's "protection."

A mutant with human-like thinking?

Its mental level far exceeded third rank; he had never heard of such a case.

Howls tore the sky.

Everywhere were the booming sounds from supersonic impacts.

As the battlefield shifted.

The red-clothed mutant grasped at empty air and directly hurled several small buildings from the street toward the black dragon.

Although psychic attacks had no effect on it.

But under strands of psychic power wrapping around it, its enlarged body seemed dragged into a swamp, unable to approach.

"Roar!!"

He felt somewhat anxious.

The little beast instinctively let out a roar.

Compared to its first encounter with the red-clothed mutant, the monster's psychic control had clearly improved greatly.

In just a few seconds.

What had once been a mostly intact commercial district was now left in ruins by the two monsters.

Up to now, the black dragon has basically been pressing the mutant in the fight.

But each time it drew near, the opponent would hurl a building to block it.

For a while, it actually couldn't finish it off.

Seeing this.

Lin An's expression hardened, and he no longer intended to just watch.

As for the little girl, he was determined to kill it on the spot.

Regardless of whether the Red-Clothed Mutant has recovered human reason.

For a monster with thinking ability close to human, this threat is too great.

His figure burst-flashed.

Destruction!

Without holding back.

In his first head-on clash with a Third Rank, Lin An drew Cain's Blade from his ring with a backhand, and the equipment skill activated simultaneously.

In the instant burst of speed, his whole body like a blood shadow, he crossed a hundred meters and instantly appeared above the girl's head.

Downward slash!

Judgment!

In the air, the clear weather suddenly condensed, and a large amount of ownerless electromagnetism abruptly formed condensation.

Triple cross attack.

The downward slash came, and with a sword filled with absolute power, the Red-Clothed Mutant's face flashed a hint of panic.

Combined with her youthful appearance, she instead seemed somewhat pitiful and lovable, making one reluctant to harm her.

But in Lin An's eyes, this was just a monster.

The sword shadow instantly sank into the girl's skull, and the black dragon rushing from beside, ecstatic, opened its mouth again, trying to swallow the girl once more.

「Xiao Xuan！！」

Inside the building.

The man who had come to his senses seemed to be the girl's relative.

Staggering, he stood at the edge of the damaged curtain wall.

He looked at the girl caught in the crossfire with grief-stricken eyes, and his gaze toward Lin An was filled with intense hatred.

He did not understand.

Why did this outsider start killing over a disagreement?

Even his most precious daughter was to be struck down.

What did they do wrong?

The man, unable to do anything, suffered an attack of anger to the heart.

The wound on his abdomen suddenly burst open, blood spurted, staining his clothes.

One could seemingly feel the middle-aged man's sorrowful emotion.

The girl instinctively turned her head to look, her eyes showing some blankness and anthropomorphized sorrow.

But the sword that had cut into her skull pressed down her turning motion.

On Lin An's side, he suddenly sensed some unease.

What strong... defense!

Invincible in all battles, Lin An, who always killed enemies with a single sword strike, for the first time felt the Cain's Blade in his hand as if chopping into dry wood.

Clearly the sword had gone in, but the hard skull nonetheless shook his charged downward slash to the side.

The sword edge pressed against the girl's neck, yet could only cut in a finger's depth.

In an instant, Lin An recalled the scene speculated in the hospital.

Red-Clothed Mutant.

Not necessarily a psychic-power mutant.

Mutation arose suddenly.

Time seemed to condense.

In the high air, at the instant the Judgment's Thunder fell,

The girl slowly turned her head, expressionlessly gripping the Cain's Blade on her neck with her bare hands.

Pushing it open inch by inch.

Skin split, flesh tore.

A deep wound to the bone quickly healed.

"You've been tricked."

The voice was icy cold.

In an instant, boundless scarlet light burst forth, dyeing half the sky red.