Chapter 497

An astonished voice, laced with excitement, rang out.

"Holy shit, did we really run into the boss?"

Who??

He froze for a moment, but his reaction was lightning-fast.

The tentacles on the upper half of his body sank, and he launched himself like a cannonball, vaulting up dozens of stories to cling to the side of a building, looking down.

Meanwhile, the countless tentacles on his lower half erupted, shooting out like straight, long spears, piercing through building after building as they nailed themselves toward the source of the voice.

But...

The buildings, now skewered like a honeycomb, slowly tilted and collapsed, revealing the crowd of animals jostling beneath a purple light screen projected by a magecraft array.

"Holy shit, this boss is badass! A B-rank big shot leading us, a bunch of C-ranks with a joint magecraft array, and we still almost got skewered."

"Momma, I even saw a sonic boom cloud."

The magecraft array was capable of merging their power into one and amplifying it tenfold, even a hundredfold.

It was absolutely the most suitable system for a group raid on a boss; this group of them was confident they could take on a third-rank limit-breaker of any other system.

If there were even more people, they'd dare to start a fight with a fourth-rank.

This group of guys suddenly paused, shouting and hollering.

"Wait, this guy wouldn't be a fourth-rank, would he?"

"No way, if he were a fourth-rank, we'd have been skewered already."

"Then could he be injured? Look at him, doesn't he look like he was slashed by some big shot and crippled..."

The air suddenly went quiet.

Everyone looked at each other, seeing the excitement and thrill trembling in each other's eyes.

A fourth-rank.

If it were a fourth-rank mage, that was the level of a National Master, a tier almost on par with the fifth-rank upper-tier or even limit-breaking powerhouses of other systems.

After all, give a fourth-rank (Super A-grade) mage time to prepare, and they could even kill a fifth-rank upper-tier.

Besides, the value of a mage didn't lie in a frontal battlefield.

In any case, even if he wasn't a mage, being able to slash a fourth-rank was something worth bragging about for a lifetime...

You couldn't beat a full-health one, but a crippled one...

"Hahaha, I told you to come to the Chihaya Ward! Kirito insisted on going to Dragon-Tiger Street. Now look, we'll go back and make him drool with envy."

"Damn it, here, take my seven precious magic gems."

"Hiss~ seven? You're really going all out? I only have three."

"I have two..."

A group of animals, relying on the fact that they were hiding behind a protective barrier, didn't bother to lower their loud voices at all.

Hiruko Kagetane was about to go insane.

I'm a modern person too, okay? Do you think I don't understand you? Before the cataclysm, my world was even more developed.

This group of internet-addicted bastards didn't treat him like a person at all, but as a game boss.

There wasn't a shred of the respect due to a powerhouse like him.

Although he didn't intend to remain human, that was a different matter from others disrespecting him.

"Little brats..."

Amidst the ruins of the collapsed building, a giant mouth full of sharp teeth split open on the stomach of Hiruko Kagetane's upper body, and he roared: "Tell me the situation in this world of yours, which city has the weakest defense and the largest population, and I might spare you?"

Yes.

He didn't intend to stay in this terrifying city anymore either.

But he didn't intend to run around blindly either; what if he stumbled into an even more terrifying place?

After being beaten up for so long, he really had no arrogance left; he just wanted to hold the ritual as soon as possible, complete the sublimation, become a new, great life form, and then settle the score one by one.

Of course, sparing them was impossible.

He just wanted to chew these sharp-tongued brats into his stomach.

But...

"Momma, his belly can talk too? What exactly is this thing's true form?"

"I don't know, didn't they say he was from another world?"

"Is this a person?"

"One thing to say, he is pretty strong."

"With that ugly look, I wouldn't want him even if you gave him to me. I still have to find a girlfriend."

"Girlfriend? I only want to find Kiriko-chan."

"Shut up, you shameless old man, that's my wife."

"Hehe, one thing to say, Kirito's cross-dressing is indeed not bad."

"Get lost, you bunch of gay-ass fags."

"Tsk, just a joke, doesn't magecraft charging take time too?"

A group of animals chatted nonsense, but their hands never stopped.

If nothing else, the coordination of these internet-addicted youths who met playing games was truly strong after ten years of practice.

Even the joint magecraft array they cast was a cut above others.

Even Hiruko Kagetane felt his eye twitch under the intense sense of threat.

No way.

Could these weaklings, whose aura was so faint it was at most the same as those evil-energy infected ones outside, threaten him?

I don't believe it!!!

The next moment.

His upper body on the building wall silently retreated, moving bit by bit toward the distance, leaving his lower body to attract fire.

This wasn't cowardice; this was a strategic withdrawal.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to survive time and time again in those hellish ruins.

Almost in an instant,

Silently.

A radiance like the brilliance of the sun flashed by, and the wall on the thirty-second floor of the building he had been staying in instantly melted in the intense light, leaving a hole that went straight through.

At the edges, scorching lava dripped down bit by bit.

"Damn, he dodged it?"

In the sky above where the internet-addicted youths were, diamond-shaped mirrors surrounded a twenty-four-faced pale blue crystal that looked like an eye, constantly rotating as it formed a star map, and fierce radiance gathered within the crystal.

High-level Magecraft — Eye of Horus (Simplified Version)

A magecraft formed from the Eye of God bestowed by the Holy King, channeling the reflection of the true Eye of Horus located within the Inner Sea of Stars, erupting with an absolute attack that transcended its rank.

Even if Hiruko Kagetane possessed a certain degree of immortality, he absolutely could not survive under such radiance.

Pity.

Hiruko Kagetane was also a man of caution; even if he looked down on them, he didn't take any risks at all.

"This boss doesn't take taunts, that's tricky. I thought powerhouses were all arrogant, but coincidentally, our magecraft specializes in countering arrogance."

"Hero King: 'You were saying?'"

"Nothing, nothing, King of Kings! Your subject is lying flat right here, do whatever you want, just grant me a Holy Grail when you're done."

"Dream on, hurry up, the boss is going to run! At least leave his lower body behind; selling it to the authorities is worth at least two hundred gems."

"Stop talking, my motivation is up! Holy shit, the boss is blood-raged! Second team, second team, are your damn Carthage spears ready?"

"Don't rush us, your first team has two B-ranks, we second team have nothing, what the hell are you rushing?"

"Third team, third team, follow up."

"Fifth team, keep the shields up."

"Second team, it's you second team again!"

Dongjiang Field Ward.

"Trash, trash, all trash."

The burly, white-haired old man Tendo Kisuke roared in uncontrollable anger.

He had ascended to the throne of the highest power as a politician, only for the disaster to come and the world to be destroyed.