Demon Face - Bonus Chapter 1
The Three-Headed Giant Beast lived up to its reputation as a powerful being comparable to Mid-rank God, gaining the upper hand in the battle against the dragon from the very beginning.
The Golden Dragon originally intended to follow Gu Ding's will and continue pounding the ground until the entire domain collapsed. But before the third strike could be launched, the Three-Headed Giant Beast leaped up, its six enormous fists, imbued with a gray-green fist force, unleashing a frenzied and irresistible barrage. That fist force clearly carried a peculiar supernatural power.
Left with no other choice, the dragon had to fight back. Its size was no smaller than the giant's, and instead of slamming its massive tail down on the ground, it struck directly at the Three-Headed Giant Beast's fist. As the tail swept across, a sharp Blade Force shot out – the blade of a giant axe, and also a supernatural ability gained after transforming into a dragon.
The Three-Headed Giant Beast's fist force clashed quickly with the dragon's Blade Force. The impact of these different colored energies tore a spatial rift tens of meters long through the space of the Boti Domain, a truly terrifying sight. Moreover, the shockwaves from the impact also created an energy ripple that spread outwards from the domain, like a gust of wind that sent the remaining fifty-odd demigod puppets tumbling about.
Liliath and her group were also clearly affected. With Elsa's help, they barely managed to steady themselves, and Elsa even supported Gu Ding. However, from a distance, Boti saw it as if she was relying on Gu Ding to prevent herself from being blown away.
After the initial attack, the two giant beasts were completely unaffected by the spatial rift and launched a fierce counterattack.
But the Three-Headed Giant Beast had six arms and three heads, while the dragon only had one tail and one head. Furthermore, the Three-Headed Giant Beast was incredibly Combat Strength, so in less than twenty seconds, it gained the upper hand, while the dragon struggled to hold on. The battle between the two beasts caused the ground to tremble repeatedly.
But the battle didn't last long. The Three-Headed Giant Beast deliberately created an opening. When the dragon's tail attacked, it used all six of its hands to block the dragon's tail strike and held onto the dragon's tail tightly. Its three giant mouths then began to bite down frantically.
The dragon let out a painful howl, tightly coiling its arms around the three- Three-Headed Giant Beast's neck and biting down on one of its heads.
By this time, Boti had already fled the scene of the battle and hidden in a shady spot, watching the fight from afar.
The Three-Headed Giant Beast's bite was incredibly fast; in less than three minutes, the energy from the dragon's entire tail had dissipated into fragments. At this point, the dragon had also bitten off one of the behemoth's heads.
The remaining two heads of the Three-Headed Giant Beast suddenly became ferocious, turning their heads to bite at the dragon's head. At the same time, its six hands clenched into fists and pounded wildly at the dragon's body.
As it turned out, his attack method was extremely effective. In less than five minutes, the giant dragon summoned by Gu Ding was blasted in two by the continuous blows of its giant fists, and its head was completely chewed up by the Three-Headed Giant Beast. Its entire body finally disintegrated completely, turning into energy fragments and reverting to its original axe form.
The dragon's mission, in the end, was not completed...
During the fierce battle between the dragon and the Three-Headed Giant Beast, Gu Ding's body was undergoing continuous changes. Only the Sea Emperor noticed all of this...
The dragon's defeat left Liliath and Elsa in near despair. Although the Three-Headed Giant Beast was severely injured, it was still beyond their ability to handle.
Elsa struggled even against demigods, possessing only defensive capabilities. Liliath, a mere gunsmith and only Tenth-Order Gene Body being, had even weaker defenses Elsa; a single blow from an ordinary demigod would be fatal to her. Against a true god, neither of them could withstand a single attack, let alone this guy who nearly killed Bigge with a single punch.
When Gu Ding's brain completely ceased functioning, a black energy slowly dissipated from his body. The black color was extremely faint, making it difficult to detect under the cover of night. However, the black energy resembled twisted tentacles, continuously extending from Gu Ding's body, drawing upon the remaining fragments of energy from the air.
Even Elsa and Liliath were completely unaware of this, because their attention had been focused on the battle between the dragon and the Three-Headed Giant Beast. Now that the dragon had been defeated, they were racking their brains for a solution and hadn't noticed the changes on Gu Ding's side at all.
The countless tentacles that had spread out grew stronger as they absorbed energy, and began to slowly condense into a shape on Gu Ding's head.
Its shape resembled a black Demon Face, sending chills down the Sea Emperor. He had always suspected that something was hidden within Gu Ding's body, like that black virus, which appeared without warning each time, and seemed to devour all kinds of energy, even feeding some back into Gu Ding's body.
The Sea Emperor searched his database for the Demon Face that had appeared, trying to determine its nature, but found no relevant information. There were only two possibilities: either this thing had never existed since Ancient Era, or its existence was beyond his access privileges. The Sea Emperor's database now possessed advanced access, granting him access to most information, even that of Peak-rank God. If this was the case, it meant that what lay within Gu Ding was beyond the realm of gods... He dared not think any further.
In the void, the enormous Demon Face, nearly a thousand meters tall, silently and rapidly took shape.
When the battle between the Three-Headed Giant Beast and the dragon ended, the enormous Demon Face, which had been in a semi-ethereal state, quickly solidified.
Liliath suddenly noticed the change in the sky above Gu Ding's head and exclaimed in surprise, "What is that?!"
Elsa quickly looked up and saw the terrifying Demon Face. Without thinking, she pulled Liliath behind her and stood in front of her.
"Don't panic, it's a change occurring within Gu Ding's body, and it doesn't seem to be a bad thing so far." The Sea Emperor wasn't really sure whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, but he had to say it that way to reassure Liliath and Elsa.
The existence of that Demon Face was finally discovered by the Three-Headed Giant Beast and Boti in the distance.
A vague sense of unease crept into Boti's heart. She leaped onto the shoulders of the Three-Headed Giant Beast and pointed at Gu Ding's location, saying, "Kill that black shadow!"
However, the Three-Headed Giant Beast just stared blankly at the Demon Face without making any move; instead, its body began to tremble violently.
Boti could clearly sense that the Three-Headed Giant Beast was vehemently resisting her commands—the power of the contract. She could even feel the Three-Headed Giant Beast's emotions within the contract: an extreme fear, a fear that surpassed even the binding force of the contract. It clearly preferred to be obliterated by the contract rather than dare to attack the Demon Face atop Gu Ding's head.
This startled Boti. "What exactly is that Demon Face?"
The moment this thought crossed her mind, she saw the black Demon Face finally solidify completely and exhale a black aura.
That aura condensed into a black sphere in the void, and then suddenly, it extended more than fifty tentacles, reaching out towards the remaining demigod corpse puppets and the Three-Headed Giant Beast in all directions.
Upon seeing this, Boti quickly leaped off the Three-Headed Giant Beast's shoulder and instantly opened the exit of the domain, attempting to escape. However, she was ultimately a step too slow. After one foot stepped out of the domain, her other foot was entangled by a black thread and forcibly pulled back.
Then, the black thread quickly wrapped her up, turning her into a black cocoon.
At this moment, the corpse puppets were also entangled by black tentacles, and they all turned into black cocoons.
The Three-Headed Giant Beast that had been so arrogant and domineering before simply stood there without resistance, its body trembling violently. It allowed the black tentacles to climb all over its body, eventually sealing itself in a huge black cocoon, without ever putting up any resistance.
This scene caused Liliath and the others' hearts to race. The Sea Emperor's initial worries finally subsided; he had been concerned that Gu Ding would indiscriminately attack Liliath and the others. If that were the case, he would be powerless to stop Gu Ding from killing his companions. The power of this black-faced being was beyond the Sea Emperor's comprehension.
Liliath and the others could also clearly see that the black cocoons were shrinking at a visible speed. After several cocoons shrank to the size of mung beans, they flew back into the black sphere in the void.
Then, after each cocoon shrank to a certain size, they all flew back.
The smallest one is only the size of a mung bean, and the largest one, which is wrapped around Boti, is only the size of a thumb.
After the black energy sphere belonging to Boti returned to the black sphere in the void, the entire domain space began to slowly collapse.
In less than two minutes, the cocoon of the Three-Headed Giant Beast shrank to the size of a fist and returned to the Black Sphere in the void. Only then did Liliath and the others notice that the Black Sphere seemed to have grown considerably.
However, the Black Sphere seemed to have a mind of its own, and after fusing with the last cocoon, it shot into the Demon Face's mouth.
At the same time, the entire space that Exclusive Domain belonged to Boti also completely collapsed.
The enormous Demon Face opened its massive maw and sucked in all the fragments of the entire domain before slowly fading away.
Almost simultaneously with the complete dissipation of the Demon Face, on a distant planet, an old man clad in black robes suddenly coughed up blood. A red Demon Head Mark adorned his chest. "The Three-Headed Giant Beast is dead... Boti, no matter who the murderer is, your father will avenge you!!!" (To be continued.)