Chapter 288: The Rampaging King

After leaving the battlefield, Huo Ye Yingsi carried the weakened Anku back to the multinational restaurant.

Huo Ye Yingsi, looking at Anku's condition, inferred that Anku might have lost more than just a cell coin, as if something more important were missing.

After placing Anku back on the bed, he quickly ran out of the multinational restaurant.

After leaving the restaurant, he headed to the headquarters of the Hongshang Foundation.

Using Huo Ye Yingsi's credentials, he successfully obtained access to the office and also met Hongshang Guangsheng himself, who had been assisting them all along.

"President Hongshang, I want to know the cause and detailed process of Oz's rampage 800 years ago," Huo Ye Yingsi requested of Hongshang Guangsheng.

Seeing Huo Ye Yingsi arrive, Hongshang Guangsheng was not very surprised; instead he warmly welcomed him and had no intention of hiding anything regarding Huo Ye Yingsi's question.

"Under the alliance of Eagle, Tiger, and Locust, the original King intended to absorb the power of all Core Coins."

Hongshang Guangsheng, with a serious expression, walked up to Huo Ye Yingsi and turned on the display screen on the table.

On the screen, Oz stood in the center of the cathedral; in the dim light filtering through the windows, only a vague outline was visible. As he moved forward, a yellow tiger claw was the first to become visible through the light.

The darkness did not last long; when the cathedral's flames rose, Huo Ye Yingsi's pupils tightened slightly,

because he saw several monsters called Greed lying on the steps of the cathedral, which he knew very well.

But what surprised him was not that; a figure wrapped in red flame descended from the sky, illuminating the place.

Thus, Huo Ye Yingsi saw him at first glance.

This person had a pair of bright red wings behind them, and their entire body was covered with colorful feathers.

"Anku," Huo Ye Yingsi murmured, looking at the figure standing before Oz.

His body blocked half of Oz, but his face remained fully exposed.

It was a flawless face covered in golden feathers, standing arrogantly before Oz.

In stark contrast to Anku, the Greed lying around now wore faces of agony, mouths agape, howling.

"800 years ago, Greed were also regarded as enemies, just as they are now."

With a "Bang" sound, Hongshang Guangsheng skillfully uncorked a bottle of red wine, and the blood‑red liquid surged into a tall goblet.

He raised the glass, toasting the King of 800 years ago.

"However, among the five Greed born together, one chose to cooperate with the original King, fighting the other Greed."

"That special being is called Anku."

"It seems fated that in the present, Anku also chooses to cooperate with the current Oz—that is you, Huo Ye Yingsi."

As Hongshang Guangsheng explained, the displayed battle grew even more intense.

Under Anku's and Oz's attacks, most of the various Core Coins were gathered into the King's hand.

At this point, having defeated all the Greed, it was time to reap the harvest, and also the moment for the King to fulfill his promise to Anku.

When several Greed had completely lost the ability to resist, a golden claw pierced Anku's body from behind.

On that golden claw, several bright red Core Coins stood out prominently.

Cell coins fell from the wound in his body, and Anku, who had cooperated with the King, also fell into the Greed's aftermath.

The King ignored Anku's complex gaze; perhaps Anku did not expect the King to betray him at this moment.

Standing by the window, the King looked at the Core Coin in his palm and tossed it upward. The scanner at his waist slid open in the air, and the power contained within the Core Coin was fully unleashed by Oz.

Crimson eagle, golden tiger, azure whale, ash‑gray rhinoceros—these are the Alchemical Art's carefully selected animals, each representing the most distinct trait of its species.

Then, the auras formed by those Core Coins all converged onto Oz's body at that moment.

As the power peaked, the ash‑gray, rock‑like hue spread from Oz's body.

The overwhelming force instantly enveloped the defenseless Greed, and the four Greed bodies were shattered under the dazzling light.

The only one untouched by this force, Anku, feeling his missing Core Coin, reached his right hand toward the light.

In the final second before the rampaging power vanished, Anku's right hand seized his own Core Coin.

Boom! Nearby objects converged uncontrollably.

Finally, the rampaging King sealed all the Core Coins.

With that, the Core Coins drew the curtain.

"The original King had a strong desire, but when a vessel is nearly full, injecting desire again causes an overflow of power, leading to a rampage," Hongshang Guangsheng said.

"However! Huo Ye Yingsi, the massive desire in your heart has been emptied, so among the candidates to become Oz, you have almost no chance of rampaging."

Hongshang Guangsheng answered honestly.

"Rampage?" Huo Ye Yingsi asked, looking at the skyscraper soaring into the sky, and pulled a coin case from his pocket.

Opening it, inside were all the Core Coins collected during this period, in addition to Anku's own consciousness coin.

When carrying Anku back, he took Anku's coin case with him, not to hoard them, but because they were necessary.

Through the video just shown and his understanding of Oz, these Core Coins should prove useful.

Huo Ye Yingsi looked at the now stationary positioning, put away the coin case, rode the piloted merchant vessel, and rushed to the target location.

This must be the current nest of the bird-type Greed.

When Huo Ye Yingsi arrived at the place, night had already deepened, and the streets were completely silent.

He pushed open the door and entered the building, but inside was pitch black; only the moon hanging high in the sky shone through the windows, faintly illuminating the interior so the view wouldn't be plunged into total darkness.

Jiang Xia closed his notebook and observed the bird-type Greed dormant inside the cultivation chamber.

The "self" that fought for survival outside, terrifying Anku, was actually a clone he created using human desire through Alchemical Art.

Actually, Jiang Xia had other ways to free Anku from Quan Xinwu; with his current abilities he could do many things, but this plan was the simplest and most worry‑free.

Speaking of it, the Core Coins made by Conglomerate X that he had seen before his transmigration gave him inspiration; the cloning technique wasn't difficult for him, only the need to create a defective product that perfectly matched Anku required a bit of effort.

Fortunately, he had the living sample of Anku.

By absorbing Anku's cell coins, he could re‑refine a bird-type Core Coin that perfectly fit the defect and merged with Anku.

"Is it here?"

Jiang Xia sensed something, and then his figure gradually merged into the darkness.

(End of chapter)