One Punch, Head Exploded

Inside the Carilance residence, Lady Audrey looked deeply worried.

The enemy had pushed the flames of war to the outskirts of Lundria. Uruk's fall was practically inevitable. At such a critical time, Hekate had vanished again, while her husband and son were out fighting. She was unbearably anxious and worried.

Natasha comforted her. "Perhaps Hekate has already left the enemy's encirclement. You needn't worry so much, Madam."

Lady Audrey gave a bitter smile. "How could I not worry? She left so suddenly. I'm afraid she was taken away by someone."

A familiar voice rang out. "Mother, Natasha, what's wrong?"

Hekate!

Lady Audrey hurriedly turned around and, sure enough, saw her daughter entering through the door.

"You little troublemaker, where exactly did you go?" Lady Audrey said as tears of joy streamed down her face.

"Don't cry, Mother. It was my fault."

At the time, she had not thought much about it and had gone straight to look for the treasure, without properly dealing with the aftermath. It was only natural for Lady Audrey to worry.

"Mother, where is everyone else?" Only then did Hekate notice the strange silence in the house.

Lady Audrey held Hekate and kept crying. Natasha answered for her, "Former King of Chaos led soldiers through the border defenses and marched all the way to the outskirts of Lundria. Lundria is now completely surrounded. Count Fortes and Brother Revolen have both gone to the outskirts to hold back the soldiers. Sister Edith and Sister Nydia are resting."

"Former King of Chaos?" Hekate was stunned for a moment.

What the hell? It's only been a few days. How is a corpse already out leading soldiers into battle?

She looked toward the sky outside the window and activated her Star Language Ability to learn the latest situation.

Then her brows knitted tightly together.

King of Chaos had been possessed by an unknown Evil Entity, and the soldiers under his command had also received the Evil Entity's aid. They felt neither fatigue nor pain, attacking Lundria day and night. Based on the battle situation, Lundria would fall in half a day.

Count Fortes was injured and unconscious...

Puli was under attack...

Betty was being pursued...

Seeing notification after notification of friends being hunted down, Hekate frowned deeply. She patted her mother's back, signaling for her to let go.

"Mother, I'm going out to take a look."

"No! It's very chaotic outside right now. Some enemy mages have already entered and are fighting the mages of the Uruk Royal Family!" Lady Audrey hurriedly stopped her.

"Mother, even if I don't go out, they'll come in and kill us anyway." Hekate shook her head, gestured for Natasha to take care of her mother, then quickly ran outside.

Outside Grants Academy, Puli and the other students were doing their utmost to stop the enemy from entering and wreaking destruction.

After all, much of the magical research and magical equipment inside the Academy had taken enormous amounts of time to create. Once destroyed, it would be gone forever. It was the legacy of a nation.

"Your country is about to fall, yet you're still stopping us? Hurry up and surrender so we can smoothly take over this Academy!"

One of them snorted. "I'm going to turn this place into a new Chaos Religion and make you slaves of the children of God!"

Puli glared at the Chaos mages through gritted teeth, wishing she could bite them to death piece by piece. This was her school. She would never allow it to be occupied by Cultists!

"Once the headmaster returns, none of you will escape!"

Puli cursed angrily, continuously hurling fireballs at them. Yet they did not even need to defend themselves; with a casual wave, they scattered her fireballs.

The other students' magic was much the same, completely unable to pose any effective threat to them.

Their weak and feeble magical attacks only made the enemies burst into laughter.

Seeing this, Puli felt a little despair. Could they students hold out until the teachers returned?

Following the guidance of Star Speech, Hekate arrived at the entrance of Grants Academy and saw a large group of mages dressed in Chaos Religion robes toying with the Academy's students.

With a flick of her fingers, she gave each of them a Thunder Fire Tribulation.

Thunder rumbled through the clear sky!

Dazzling lightning illuminated every face.

Rumble!

Dozens of Chaos Religion mages at the scene were struck into charred corpses.

Puli and all the students froze. These mages were all High Mages, with even a few Great Mages among them. They had just been struck dead like that?

Had the teachers returned?

Puli hurriedly looked over, only to see Hekate's figure. That small figure floated in the air, casually summoning more than a dozen golden-red bolts of lightning that blasted every enemy to pieces.

The students present stared in shock, their mouths hanging open.

"Who is she?"

"She's so powerful. Could she be Teacher Ivin's friend?"

"Maybe. She's so small."

At that moment, some students from Hekate's year recognized her and hurriedly said, "She isn't a teacher. She's a student from the same year as us!"

"That's right, she's Teacher Ivin's student!"

The scene instantly erupted in shocked cries. A student had killed so many High Mages and Great Mages in just a few moves. If they had not seen it themselves, they would have thought someone was talking in their sleep.

Puli also found it unbelievable, but the truth was right before her eyes.

She wanted to call out to Hekate, but Hekate turned and flew away.

Inside Elais Palace.

The exquisite dress Betty wore was torn in many places, and there was a wound across her abdomen. Blood had dyed her dress red, but she did not dare stop, desperately searching for somewhere to hide.

Her brothers and sisters had all been killed, while the other royal guards were entangled in battle outside the palace. Now, she could only rely on herself.

"Hehehe, cute little princess. What I love most is killing little princesses like you who stand so high above everyone else. Hehehe, I'm going to plunge this knife into your body, dismember you, and enjoy your wonderful screams..."

A person dressed in tight black clothes instantly appeared before Princess Betty, holding a dagger and wearing a perverted smile.

At that moment, countless intense, blinding flashes lit up outside the corridor window, illuminating the entire hallway as rumbling thunder rolled in.

Betty and the black-clad person were both stunned. Neither knew who had cast such an outrageous spell. But Betty quickly snapped out of it and tried to run, only for the black-clad person to grin sinisterly and rapidly close in on her.

At that moment, Hekate punched through the glass and landed in front of Betty.

Betty was delighted. "Hekate!"

Then her expression changed. "Run! This person is a Great Mage. You can't beat him!"

Hekate calmly said, "It's fine. He can't beat me."

"Y-you're a Great Mage too?" Betty asked in shock.

The black-clad person let out a string of chuckles and said neurotically, "Another little brat mage has come. With the strength of an Intermediate Mage, you dare interrupt me? Then you can become material for my pleasure too!"

He raised his dagger and rushed toward Hekate at tremendous speed.

Star of Wind Element!

Speed increased by 100%!

Hekate threw a full-force punch. Her overwhelming strength struck the black-clad person's head at an unbelievable speed.

Bang!

Red and white matter sprayed outward in every direction.

The headless corpse lost its strength and collapsed to the ground.

From childhood to now, Hekate had received the gifts of Physique Enhancement more than a dozen times. Her total strength was nearly more than twenty times her current base physical ability. Blowing off someone's head with one punch was easy.

Betty's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

"Go find some medicine and treat yourself. I'll go help first."

Hekate tore open her dress and examined the wound. It did not seem too serious.

Betty had yet to recover from the shock and could only nod blankly. The reversal had happened so quickly that she was nearly dumbfounded.

Such a terrifying mage assassin had had his head casually blown apart by Hekate's single punch?

Just how strong was she?