Forced Kill

Supernatural Creature: Therand Dual-Blade Man.

Status: Growing.

Information Fragment One: There was a terrifying urban legend in the Divine Eagle Federation: a young man named Therand became an excellent sewer repairman because of his unusually long arms. But the filthy, foul-smelling work made his wife despise him and his children avoid him. In the end, when his wife cheated on him, he killed her and his children with a pair of kitchen knives. The enraged public hanged him and slit open his mouth to vent their anger.

Information Fragment Two: The legend was, of course, false. But as one of the horrors exported by the Federation, the fear of people around the world gave birth to a supernatural monster. Other than killing, it had no other obsession.

Information Fragment Three: It possessed terrifying speed, immense strength, ghostly blade techniques, and only one weakness was...

As the information fragments flowed past his eyes, Tang Qi swiftly raised his head. A warm current spread through his body, easing the pain within him as his remaining strength rapidly gathered. Tang Qi raised his arms once more.

Without hesitation, he pulled the trigger.

Bang

Roar~

The tall Dual-Blade Man had just stepped past a pile of corpses. Its wide mouth, split all the way to its ears, had only just formed a savage grin when it was greeted once again by that exaggerated handgun.

This time was slightly different from before. The light bursting from the muzzle was no longer golden, but a deep blue that rippled like water.

At the same time, a dragon-like roar crashed into the Dual-Blade Man's ears.

Transcendental Power: Dragon's Might!

Buzz!

Even though it was only "false" Dragon's Might, it still possessed the power it should have had.

Almost imperceptibly, its body froze for an instant.

Though the time was incredibly brief, it was enough at this moment.

By the time it came to its senses after the first bullet entered its forehead, its ghostly speed had already been greatly affected. Although all six arms swung at once and effortlessly sliced apart every remaining Sea Demon Bullet,

the properties within the one bullet embedded in its forehead erupted as well.

Curse Breaking!

Exorcism!

A vast expanse of deep-blue ripples burst forth, holy power surging as it began to break curses and dispel evil.

"No!"

"Hiss~ hisss!"

The Dual-Blade Man screamed miserably. Its head was corroding at a visible rate. Not a drop of blood flowed out; its flesh merely turned brittle and rotten. Its already ugly head now looked like an overripe avocado.

The effect of a single bullet soon passed, and it broke free from its agony. There was no longer any pleasure in toying with "cockroaches" in its eyes; they were wholly consumed by killing intent. Its six arms seemed about to swing simultaneously in the next instant.

With its bizarre speed and terrifying strength, the "monsters" watching from the shadows had no doubt that it would slice that pitiful human into minced meat.

Until, in the next instant, a crisp sound suddenly rang out.

Crack!

What had been crushed?

Before anyone could think further, an incomparably beautiful figure appeared behind Tang Qi. It was the phantom of a female creature, with a human upper body and a fish's lower body, blue hair, and gem-like eyes.

That appearance closely resembled the Siren of legend, capable of bringing forth the most beautiful songs.

Yet at this moment, what she brought was not a beautiful song.

"Hiss~ yah!"

Sound waves—visible rings of sound waves instantly reverberated through the alley as the Siren opened her mouth and wailed.

As the initiator, Tang Qi was immune to Siren's Wail.

But the other living beings in the alley could not do the same.

The Dual-Blade Man's furious expression lasted only half a second. Then it had no choice but to crouch down in agony and try to cover its ears. After discovering that was useless, it could only crash around like a headless fly. Its dreadful strength and speed wreaked terrible destruction upon the alley.

Fortunately, because Tang Qi was the source of the sound, it instinctively avoided him.

But elsewhere was not so fortunate. For instance, the desire-slave painter whose throat Tang Qi had already cut—his corpse was directly minced into pulp.

The Dual-Blade Man's supernatural level was clearly not low. The effects carried by Siren's Wail were confusion or death.

It fell into confusion, but it could not die.

As the sound waves began to fade, it gradually started to regain its senses.

So at that moment, Tang Qi helped it.

He did not use Blood Python No. 1. Perhaps due to its special attributes, the Dual-Blade Man's resistance to Supernatural Firearms was simply too high.

A strange excitement suddenly appeared on Tang Qi's face, a flush creeping over it. He sprang up like an enraged lion and pounced toward the tall Dual-Blade Man. But upon drawing close, Tang Qi became a cunning hyena, dodging the six arms wielding kitchen knives in an ungainly yet extremely practical posture.

Whoosh!

The two quickly closed into melee range.

"Chaga!"

Tang Qi roared. Still caught in the lingering aftereffects of confusion, the Dual-Blade Man instinctively turned around, and then it saw a pair of terrifying hands forming a strange gesture before viciously plunging into its rotten avocado-like head.

Splurt~

Juice splattered everywhere. Blood mixed with flesh even splashed onto Tang Qi's face, but he did not so much as blink. He merely glared with wide eyes and roared again, "Look into my eyes!"

Buzz.

Whoosh!

The Dual-Blade Man's mind, newly drowned in pain, was not functioning very well. It looked over once more.

Then it saw a world filled with endless golden flames.

Furnace Eyes!

Intimidation effect activated!

The Dual-Blade Man fell into a daze and offered no resistance to Tang Qi's next action. Tang Qi was practically hanging from its body. One hand reached through the rotten flesh and gripped the fragile skull within, while the other suddenly pulled back and clenched into a fist as faint Golden Flame surged out.

Then, with a boom, it exploded.

Another head burst apart before Tang Qi.

Brain matter and blood splattered together. The tall, thin body collapsed, and its six monstrous arms drooped as kitchen knives clattered to the ground.

In the Newton District, within the Dark World, the newly risen strongest anomaly had died just like that?

It had indeed died.

The moment its head exploded, the status bar in the interface before Tang Qi's eyes changed to dead.

And in the eyes of the anomalies lurking in the shadows, a hazy wraith slowly rose from Therand Dual-Blade Man's corpse. It was the shadow of a tall, thin young man. Unlike the terror of his physical body, the only similarity was the madness in his eyes.

This was its wraith, and also the source of its Supernatural Power—a thing capable of gathering terrifying power.

The monsters in the darkness were utterly shocked by this sight.

Although the newly born Predation Order was still far from complete, Therand Dual-Blade Man had temporarily claimed the top position through terrifying strength. Usually, when it set its sights on prey, the other monsters chose to retreat.

The monsters drawn here by Misfortune Magic had never imagined that it would die here.

After the shock came boundless excitement.

The strongest "moth" was dead. Without its intimidation and restraint, the other moths would no longer care about anything else. They would swarm forward and divide the corpse among themselves.

Tang Qi sensed the source of that malice—the thoughts of those monsters.

So at that moment, he let out a cold snort.

With a ripping sound, his palms, covered in brain matter and blood, suddenly pulled out of the Dual-Blade Man's head. Then, before the horrified eyes of all the monsters, they fiercely seized the wraith that was about to disperse.

Boom~

The moment the Golden Flame ignited, the moths in the shadows lost their urge to rush into the fire and instead scattered in terror.