"Crack—!"
The instant its fangs collided with the fist, an extremely crisp sound rang out. Centipede Elder watched as its sharpest forejaw fang shattered beneath the punch, its expression immediately filling with horror!
"Boom—!"
Despite the gulf-like difference in size between the two sides, there was no one-sided crushing outcome at the instant they collided.
Amid a massive sonic boom, a powerful shockwave instantly spread throughout the game arcade. Yoru Machi and Centipede Elder, one large and one small, were both blasted backward by the tremendous impact.
The repulsive force sent Yoru Machi skidding dozens of meters across the ground. Feeling his right hand go numb, he looked up again with an eager expression on his face.
"It's even harder than I imagined. With its regeneration on top of that, it probably won't croak easily. Looks like I can cut loose a little!"
Compared to Yoru Machi, who had only slid back a dozen or so meters, Centipede Elder was clearly in a far more miserable state.
Its long body had originally been charging straight ahead, but the repulsive force bent it into an upright L-shape.
Then, due to inertia, its raised head toppled backward under its own weight and the force of the impact.
Tiger-level monster Junior Centipede, who had been fighting Lily and the others from the Blizzard Group, along with several Monster Association grunts, had been happily trading blows with the weak B-Class Heroes. Before they knew it, however, enormous shadows had swallowed them.
"Boom—!"
Half of Centipede Elder's body crashed into the ground, causing another violent quake.
When the three battered Lily and the others saw the piles of mosaic beneath Centipede Elder, they froze on the spot.
Junior Centipede and another Tiger-level monster, who had just been fighting them and had even driven them into