"Hiss!!!"
The fifty-meter-long serpent body lay casually atop the honeycomb-like buildings, its waist two meters thick. Its dinosaur-like head swayed gently, bucket-sized eyes fixed on Wu Yan below, cold and brimming with killing intent.
The soft flesh around its mouth twitched as though it were sneering. It let out a loud hiss at Wu Yan, the sound wave sweeping away dust and rubble and blasting toward him.
Orochi:
Standing beneath that enormous snake head, Wu Yan fought to suppress the trembling in his body. He gripped Tessaiga so tightly that the web between his thumb and forefinger split open and blood dripped down, yet he paid it no mind. He merely stared up at Orochi, bitterness filling his heart.
He had never expected that Orochi King had not used its true strength in their previous battle at all!
But it made sense. At only level 50, it might have been able to defeat any one of the massive number of monsters here, but that was not enough to suppress monsters in such numbers.
To keep that many monsters in check, it needed at least its current level, as well as that body that surpassed everything else!
Orochi! Orochi King's true form!
Level 60! Seventh tier!
With Tessaiga, Dragonscale Armor, and 'Turbulent Return of Celestial Dance,' Wu Yan could challenge the level 50 Orochi King across one tier. With Dragonscale Armor's powerful defense and the overwhelming attack power of 'Turbulent Return of Celestial Dance' and Tessaiga, he could even slay Orochi King beneath his blade.
But crossing two tiers...
Even with B-rank equipment and gold-grade armaments, that was impossible—unless, like the monster army before, he relied on terrifying numbers and launched a relentless, suicidal assault in waves.
But could one person do it?
The answer... was naturally yes!
Under that icy gaze, Wu Yan took a breath and raised his sword-bearing right hand, pointing it at Orochi.
Run? In this cave sealed off from heaven and earth, where could he possibly run?
So there was only one choice: fight!
Of course, charging in blindly would only lead to death. But he must not forget that Wu Yan's true trump card was those 8,300,000 Item Points!
Setting everything else aside, as long as he exchanged for a bottle of 'Brilliant Breath,' the coming battle would definitely not be without hope!
'Brilliant Breath' could forcibly place the body in an 'uninjured' state. Once he drank it, he would be practically invincible for three hours!
That was Wu Yan's chance!
At that moment, Orochi held nothing but killing intent and smug satisfaction in its heart.
In its imagination, once it revealed its true form, that ant should have been filled with fear and despair. Then he would start running, and Orochi could toy with him, vent the resentment in its heart, and finally finish him off.
Yet that damned ant showed no fear at all. Not only did he not flee as expected, he even dared to point his weapon at it.
In an instant, Orochi's smugness completely transformed into boundless killing intent.
Engulfed by that killing intent, Wu Yan's entire body stiffened, and he began trembling uncontrollably. He ruthlessly mocked himself in his heart, then gritted his teeth and forced his bones to remain unyielding as he prepared to open the system list and exchange for 'Brilliant Breath.'
"Yan, the next battle belongs to me!" A flash of lightning streaked from afar to Wu Yan's side. The sound of BiliBili crackled endlessly as Mikoto stood there, looking up at Orochi with battle intent blazing in her eyes.
"Mikoto!" Wu Yan paused halfway through opening the system list. He stared at the suddenly appearing Mikoto in astonishment, but joy rose in his heart.
That's right, Mikoto was still here. I'm not alone!
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