Chapter 497

An excited, astonished voice rang out.

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

Who??

He was stunned for a moment, but his reaction was extremely fast.

The upper half of his body sank slightly, then he sprang up like a cannonball, leaping dozens of stories high, and clung to the wall of a building to look down.

Meanwhile, the countless tentacles on his lower body suddenly erupted, shooting out like straight, long spears, piercing through building after building and pinning themselves toward the place where the voice came from.

But...

The building, now riddled like a hornet's nest, slowly tilted and collapsed, revealing the crowd of "animals" huddled together under a purple light screen projected by a magecraft array behind it.

"Holy crap, this boss is insane. A B-rank big shot leading a group of us C-ranks with a joint magecraft array almost got skewered."

"Oh my god, I even saw the sonic boom cloud."

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

It was absolutely the most suitable system for group-fighting a boss; this group of them was confident enough to take on the limit of any other third-rank system.

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

This group of guys suddenly paused, shouting and hollering.

"Wait, this guy can't be a fourth-rank, right?"

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

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

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 would be the level of a "National Master," almost on par with the fifth-rank upper-tier or even limit-breaking powerhouses of other systems.

After all, if you give a fourth-rank (Super A-level) mage time to prepare, it's not impossible for them to kill even a fifth-rank upper-tier.

Moreover, the value of a mage doesn't lie in a frontal battlefield.

In short, even if it's not a mage, being able to cut down a fourth-rank is something worth bragging about for a lifetime...

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

"Hahaha, I told you to come to the Chihaya District. That guy 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 mana gems."

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

"I have two..."

Relying on the protection of their shield, the group of "animals" didn't bother to hide their loud voices at all.

Kagetane Hiruko was going crazy with anger.

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

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

They didn't show even a shred of the respect due to a powerhouse like him.

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

"Little brats..."

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

Yes.

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

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

After such a long beating, he really didn't have any 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...

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

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

"Is this a person?"

"To be fair, he is quite strong."

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

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

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

"Hehe, to be fair, Kirito's cross-dressing is indeed not bad."

"Get lost, you bunch of dead gays."

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

The group of "animals" spouted nonsense, but their hands never stopped.

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

Even the jointly cast magecraft array was a few notches stronger than others.

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

No way.

Could these weaklings, whose aura was so weak it was at most comparable to those evil-energy-infected people outside, threaten him?

I don't believe it!!!

The next moment.

The upper body on the building wall silently retreated, moving bit by bit toward the distance, leaving the 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 light like the radiance of the sun flashed by, and the wall on the 32nd floor of the building he had previously stayed in instantly melted in the intense light, leaving a hole that was transparent from front to back.

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

"Damn, he dodged it?"

In the sky above where the internet-addicted teenagers were, diamond-shaped mirrors surrounded a 24-faced light blue crystal that looked like an eye, constantly rotating like a star chart, and intense radiance gathered within the crystal.

Higher Magecraft — Eye of Horus (Simplified Version)

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

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

What a pity.

Kagetane Hiruko was also a person of the "survivalist path"; even if he looked down on them, he didn't take any risks at all.

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

"Hero King: 'What did you say?'"

"Nothing, nothing, King of Kings. Your subject is lying down 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 away. At least leave his lower body behind; selling it to the authorities can at least get us two hundred gems."

"Stop talking, my motivation is up. Holy crap, the boss is blood-enraged. Second team, second team, have you damn Carthaginian spears ready?"

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

"Third team, third team, follow up."

"Fifth team, keep the shield up."

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

Dongjiang Field District.

"Trash, trash, all trash."

The burly white-haired old man Kiku-no-jo Tendou roared with uncontrollable anger.

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