Chapter 425: Origami

The explosion's roar was deafening; waves of shockwaves rolled along the tunnel walls, making the ground tremble and shake.

"I saw them."

Erchashu's expression was solemn; through the feed of several reconnaissance drones around the corners, he clearly saw three familiar figures flash past inside a structure resembling a pedestrian shopping street.

Bai Ma Mubei, Changsun Yao, Nicolas.

These three players each employed their own methods to struggle against a giant.

The giant stood nearly 4.5 meters tall, completely naked, without gender.

Its gray-green muscles were massively swollen, tendons knotted like tree roots, arms hanging down to its knees, moving on all fours in a gorilla-like posture.

Where its eyes and mouth should have been, only three dark hollows remained.

"Su-per! Heavy! Punch!"

Bai Ma Mubei stomped her right foot against the brick ground, crushing a deep crater, then leapt upward while kicking her left leg backward from a bent knee.

Her thigh and spine aligned into a straight line, using body momentum to unleash her right fist—wrapped in ghostly blue flames—straight into the giant's chest.

Boom—

The giant was slammed backward, crashing through several food stalls and triggering a natural gas explosion.

Flames erupted, smoke filled the air, yet Bai Ma Mubei, now on the ground, showed no sign of triumph—her expression remained tense.

She had maintained high-intensity combat for some time; her palms had split at the hukou, bleeding profusely. Sweat had not yet dripped before being vaporized by her body's heat.

Crack.

Without flinching, she used her left hand to snap her severely dislocated right arm back into place, shouting: "Changsun Yao!"

"Stop shouting!"

On the rooftop of a two-story building nearby, Changsun Yao roared, yanking a cloth bag from thin air, pulling open its mouth, and releasing countless paper airplanes.

【Item Name: Divine Paper · Mourning Bird】

【Type: Consumable (100 per set)】

【Quality: Rare】

【Effect: Boom. Boom again. Can be remotely detonated, causing explosive damage equal to 60 times its own weight in TNT equivalent】

【Cost: 20 Spirit Points】

【Cooldown: None】

【Usage Condition: Folded by hand and breathed upon at the nose】

【Note: The paper airplane of childhood—now finally back in my hands~】

Changsun Yao, as chairwoman of the mid-sized guild 【World Nuclear Peace House】, plus local power broker, information peddler, and middleman in Yin City, was extremely wealthy.

Her chosen power system was called 【Divine Paper】, allowing her to cast spells using paper—perfectly balanced for offense and defense, with no real flaws except the paper's special material and exorbitant cost.

One A4 sheet weighs about five grams; sixty times that equals three hundred grams. Each set of one hundred paper airplanes equals thirty kilograms of TNT.

A NATO M67 grenade contains only 180 grams of explosive; a 155mm artillery shell holds no more than seven kilograms. Yet the Mourning Birds Changsun Yao now released totaled one hundred sets.

Countless paper airplanes, swarming like locusts, surged under Changsun Yao's other skills toward the blazing ruins.

The specially fireproof paper ignored the flames from the natural gas explosion, allowing the massive swarm to directly slam into the giant.

Snap.

Changsun Yao snapped her fingers; three tons of TNT detonated instantly. Reinforced concrete buildings collapsed like tofu; all structures within a hundred meters suffered severe damage.

The blast wave echoed and reverberated through the tunnel; one hundred sets of Mourning Birds equaled two Russian FAB-3000 aerial bombs—weapons designed to destroy industrial facilities, dams, and underground structures. A direct hit would not just kill carbon-based life—it would shatter even steel warships. Yet amid the blazing fire, Changsun Yao showed no joy, only gulping down a healing potion from a Red Bull can—the Mourning Birds consumed spirit points both during folding and detonation.

Boom!

From beneath the ruins, a massive, powerful hand casually shoved aside the crushed concrete walls above it.

The gray-green giant climbed out; the terrifying explosion of two aerial bombs had left a deep, bone-exposing wound on its chest—but that was all.

Muscles writhed and regrew, sealing the wound. Skin on its arms, calves, and back split open like a shrimp's molt, sprouting grotesque bony spines.

"Woo—"

The giant tilted its head upward, emitting a cry that sounded like weeping or roaring; from its three hollows flowed gushing blood-tears. Then it gripped two lumps of concrete packed with twisted rebar and hurled them—one forward, one backward—toward Changsun Yao.

【Divine Paper · Light Shield】

Changsun Yao spread both palms; over a thousand A4 sheets unfurled before her, forming a circular shield that covered the multi-ton concrete projectiles.

"Watch out!"

Bai Ma Mubei, still standing in the middle of the street, narrowed her pupils—the concrete hurtling through the air was a feint; the giant himself kicked off the ruins like a cannonball, charging straight at Changsun Yao.

【Divine Paper · Titanium Spear】

Too close to dodge, Changsun Yao shifted her hand gesture, breaking the circular paper shield into individual pieces that reformed into a knight's lance, its surface gilded with titanium alloy sheen, spinning rapidly as it stabbed toward the giant's heart.

The giant blocked with its left palm; the high-speed friction between palm and paper spear generated heat and smoke.

Flesh wore away—the torn paper spear pierced through the giant's left palm, but that was exactly what it wanted—it clenched its hand tightly, gripping and snapping the spear. Its right hand then shot out abruptly.

In haste, Changsun Yao released a new batch of paper, surrounding her body to form an eggshell-like elliptical structure.

This technique was called 【Divine Paper · Eggshell Cocoon】, offering protection equivalent to underground granite cover.

The expected sensation of being flung backward by impact never came.

The giant seemed to know the strength of this paper shell—it did not punch or kick, but instead gripped the top and bottom of the eggshell with both palms and squeezed inward.

The eggshell emitted a grating, teeth-on-edge creaking noise; sheets of white paper stretched, cracked, and peeled off until it disintegrated.

Pop!

The eggshell burst open—but Changsun Yao was gone. In her place was a red magical crystal.

Nicolas, the Lv27 mage from the guild 【Clock Tower】, emerged from the shadows.

His lips moved rapidly as he chanted a spell, remotely detonating the magical crystal, channeling its stored magic into chains that bound the gray-green giant's limbs.

The magical chains carried searing heat, burning the giant's flesh and rising in black smoke.

The giant struggled twice, found it couldn't break free, and the magic array hovered in midair, unaffected by the collapse of the floors.

After a one-second pause, the giant actually dropped to one knee on the spot, using bone spurs that had grown savagely from the sides of its knees to pierce through its wrists, and with a tearing sound, severed both its own palms.

Along the way, it broke free from the chains binding it.

Immeasurably deep self-healing, crushing lv29 close-combat ability, inexhaustible stamina, immunity to the vast majority of magical control. Extreme stats, extreme power.

Even Bai Ma Mu Bei, who had seen plenty of grand scenes, couldn't help but show a wavering expression on his face at this moment.

The giant used its newly grown palms to snap off both its legs; the muscle at the severed cross-sections of its limbs writhed, regenerated and restored, and even more ferocious bone spurs grew out.

"Woooo—Boom!"

The first wooo was the giant once again roaring toward the sky, venting its boundless fury,

The boom of the roar was the Blood Lion roaring as it drove a hundred-ton heavy truck, charging through the air, slamming the giant heavily into the corridor wall.

Meanwhile, Li Cheng and Grey Rain, who had gotten off the vehicle ahead of time, dusted themselves off and walked toward Longsun Yao and Bai Ma Mu Bei. "We meet again. Can you believe how absurd this is?"

(End of chapter)