You're Dead for Sure

At that moment, the Circus Joker who had appeared from thin air no longer wore a smile on his face.

Just now, he had used Illusion Creation to distract Homelander and take the opportunity to inject the 'Holy Blood' granted by the council.

As a Senator, the 'Holy Blood' Brad had obtained was no ordinary version.

It had been modified to preserve the user's sanity to the greatest extent possible while allowing ordinary people to become Supers.

If someone like him, already a Super, used it, the effects would only be even more explosive.

Yet the illusion he had created had not even lasted a second before Homelander broke through it.

"However."

"He touched me just now."

"That makes him a living target!"

Joker pulled out a remote control and pressed it fiercely.

Elsewhere.

Azu scanned his surroundings and spotted Joker and Big Eater. His eyes lit up, and two golden beams immediately blasted toward them.

Big Eater instantly opened his mouth wide. Strange light flickered within it, as if it were connected to another world.

Azu's beams shot into it without stirring even the slightest ripple.

Dimensional Projection!

This Talent had no offensive capability, but it was extremely effective against Heat Ray.

Furthermore, it sent energy-based attacks directly into another dimension rather than storing them inside the fat man's body.

Therefore, there was no such thing as an absorption limit.

Azu clicked his tongue, his body tearing through the air as he pounced toward Joker.

Suddenly hearing something cut through the air, he looked up and saw a tiny black dot rapidly approaching from the distant sky.

The next second, Azu saw clearly that it was actually a missile!

Remembering that Midnight Clown possessed an ability called Absolute Hit,

A thought flashed through Azu's mind. That missile was coming for him!

Without giving it much thought, Azu immediately flew into the sky while contacting Angelina.

"Xiao Na, if you're not dead, keep those two guys tied up."

"Remember, tie them up, don't kill them."

He had not told Angelina to kill them, partly because he was worried she was no match for Midnight Clown, and partly because of the event requirements.

He did not know whether killing an important event target through someone else's hand would be judged as event failure, or cause him to lose a huge amount of rewards.

At that moment.

Angelina, who was tearing a Nightcrawler in half, had red light glowing in her eyes.

She was becoming more and more accustomed to killing.

Now, upon hearing Azu's voice, the red glow in her eyes faded slightly, and she immediately responded.

"By your command, Master."

Watching Homelander fly into the sky, Brad quickly said, "Go, a single Thermobaric Bomb probably won't be enough to kill him."

"Damn it, we really miscalculated this time."

"That lunatic doesn't care about his reputation at all."

Just as Azu had guessed, Joker had launched that missile.

As long as his Absolute Hit came into contact with an opponent, he could mark the target.

Afterward, any item he personally launched would absolutely hit the target.

Homelander had now flown into the sky as he wished. It looked like he intended to detonate or lure the missile away.

If they did not leave now, they would lose their chance.

After all, getting hold of a weapon of such devastating power had already taken him considerable effort.

He did not have a second missile to use.

But just then, something flashed past the corner of Joker's eye.

By the time Brad turned around, the fat man beside him had vanished without a trace.

"Ah, my leg!"

Big Eater's voice rang out. Joker sharply turned his head and saw the fat man lying on the ground, his head split open and covered in blood, clutching his left leg.

His left leg had been broken, the bone even piercing through the flesh as blood flowed nonstop.

It looked like he would be unable to move for the time being.

Beside the fat man stood a woman in tight black leather, her center of gravity lowered. Red light shone from her eyes, sharp teeth bared between her lips as she stared at him.

Brad froze.

This woman's condition looked very similar to that of a mutant who had injected Holy Blood.

Before Joker could figure out what was going on, his vision blurred and a hand was already reaching for him.

So fast!

Hiss!

Angelina's five fingers curled like claws as she seized Joker, but his body burst apart into a mass of soap bubbles.

As the bubbles disrupted Angelina's vision, gunfire suddenly erupted. The bubbles burst, bloody flowers constantly exploded across her chest, and her body staggered backward.

Not far away, Joker did not stop until he had emptied his magazine. Without looking at the result, he turned and ran.

Just then, a tremendous boom sounded from the sky, followed by firelight illuminating the thick clouds hanging above the town.

Flames tore through the sea of clouds and spread across the sky above the town.

The missile had exploded.

The shockwave reached the ground and sent Joker tumbling.

When he climbed back up, he saw Angelina, despite being shot several times, chasing after him as if nothing had happened.

A burst of multicolored light suddenly flashed in Brad's eyes.

He created an illusion.

As a result, Angelina, who had been charging straight ahead, suddenly changed direction and rushed toward the other side.

Seeing this, Joker let out a slight sigh of relief, got up, and ran.

He could no longer care about Big Eater. All he wanted now was to escape this place.

Just then, he felt scorching heat above his head. Looking up, he saw two golden beams descending from the sky.

Just as they were about to hit him, the beams suddenly curved in midair and shot toward Big Eater in the distance.

At the same time, Angelina caught up to Joker's illusion and reached out to grab him.

But she grabbed nothing. The figure before her vanished like foam.

Angelina paused, then turned around just in time to see Azu's Heat Ray being swallowed into Big Eater's mouth.

The girl narrowed her eyes slightly, then saw a figure swoop down from the sky and block the path of the Circus Joker in the distance.

Azu floated in midair, looking down at Joker from above.

Just now, he had flown into the clouds and, as expected, the missile had followed him. So he used Heat Ray to detonate it.

He had not expected it to be a Thermobaric Bomb.

The cloud explosion produced by the missile's detonation, along with the overpressure, thermal field effects, and the scouring blast products of high temperature and high pressure, had blasted Azu several kilometers away.

At the same time, it had truly tested Azu's physical strength.

This was the first time since his transmigration that he had faced a bomb second only to a nuclear weapon.

It would have been a lie to say he had not been afraid. After all, he had never experienced anything like it before.

But Steel Body was no joke. After taking a Thermobaric Bomb at close range, Azu had only felt scorching heat, a powerful impact, and been blasted away.

He was almost completely unharmed.

This gave him an entirely new understanding of his own physical strength.

At the same time, after being blasted like that, Steel Body's proficiency had surged explosively.

But right now, Azu had no time to care about that.

He looked at Joker and smiled. "Do you have any stronger tricks?"

"If not, you're dead for sure."

Brad forced a smile onto his lips. "Not necessarily, Homelander."

"Big Eater can still shut down your beams."

"As for your other attacks, they can't break my Substitution Technique."

Azu gave a cold laugh. "Haven't you realized it? The moment you split up, you had already lost!"

His figure suddenly blurred, turning into an afterimage that shot through the air.

Joker's expression instantly changed. He had barely turned his head when he saw Homelander throw a punch, smashing straight into Big Eater's head in an instant!

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