Conqueror's Haki, Fully Unleashed!

"You call that thing a wolf?!"

Less than thirty meters from the Snow Wolf King, Xu Fan heard the mysterious voice again.

At the same time, everything he knew was completely overturned by the sight before him!

"D-Rank Beast..."

Based on his original guess, Xu Fan had thought the leader of the wolf pack was likely the Lord of this Mountain Forest.

As long as he defeated it, he would be able to claim this place.

And secure precious resources for his country.

That was precisely why Xu Fan had ignored the official warning.

And continued onward.

But he had never imagined that this Lord would be so absurdly massive!

It stood over three meters tall, with eyes as large as iron basins.

Its fangs in particular were thicker than his arms.

If it bit him, bleeding would be the least of his worries.

"I thought the wolf pack's leader would just be more powerfully built, maybe close to five meters long, with superior combat skills."

Comparing the wolf pack leader he had imagined with the enormous creature before him,

even Xu Fan, who was always calm, could not help but complain.

"These are completely different species."

The Forbidden Land Live Stream Room viewers were equally dumbfounded.

They completely agreed with Xu Fan's complaint.

So far...

Every contestant who had entered the Forbidden Land had encountered dangers of varying severity.

A small number had even run into terrifying beasts.

But when it came to the one with the most miserable fate, it was undoubtedly the contestant from Zhayu Kingdom.

Because he was, so far, the only contestant to lose his life.

Yet even the beast he encountered had remained within the bounds of human understanding.

The giant Xu Fan faced now had utterly shattered their worldview.

There was not a wolf on all of Blue Star that could compare to the Snow Wolf King in size!

No...

There probably was not even a wolf half its size!

Most terrifying of all, the authorities had rated this beast as D-Rank!

It had the highest danger rating of any beast encountered by the contestants!

"Run! What are you standing there for?!"

"Please, Daddy Xu, run!"

"Against a beast at that level, he probably can't escape..."

The livestream comments were filled with pessimism.

If Xu Fan had a heavy weapon in his hands,

perhaps he could still turn the tide.

But in reality, Xu Fan only had a Machete tied to a wooden pole.

Even if he drove it in with all his strength, the blade was not long enough to inflict a fatal wound on the Snow Wolf King!

"It's over." Brother Qiang, a Guest in the Live Stream Room, immediately crumbled.

Before absolute power, wisdom and courage meant nothing.

Just one swipe of the Snow Wolf King's paw would be enough to crush Xu Fan to death!

This time...

Xu Fan was truly doomed!

Not only that...

As the Snow Wolf King bared its fangs at Xu Fan,

the other Snow Wolves emerged from behind the Pine and Cypress trees, completely surrounding Xu Fan without leaving even a gap.

Even by a conservative estimate, there had to be at least seventy or eighty Snow Wolves.

Despair...

Xu Fan's Live Stream Room was instantly plunged into unprecedented despair.

He had clearly made it out of the dangerous snowfield.

Yet he had still fallen short at the final hurdle.

"Sigh..."

Even the director sighed helplessly and ordered the staff to prepare to switch the feed.

"It seems Contestant Xu Fan's luck has run out."

Host Xiao Ying and the Warrior King

did not know how to soothe the public's emotions either.

"Our contestant has ultimately paid a painful price for his arrogance." Seeing this, Writer Yuanyuan shook her head with a look of disappointment.

"That is why I said humanity's hope can only rest on the Lighthouse Nation's contestant."

"Only the Lighthouse Nation possesses humanity's most advanced technology and weapons."

"Only they can deal with beasts of this level."

Seeing that Xu Fan was finished, Yuan Yuan no longer held back and openly praised the Lighthouse Nation.

The Warrior King, Brother Qiang, and Director Zhang of the Strategic Deception Bureau were dissatisfied with Yuan Yuan, but they could not say anything at this moment.

What could they say?

The gap between Xu Fan and the Forbidden Land beast was even greater than the gap between an infant and an adult.

How could he fight?

Viewers from Neon Nation began mocking them again.

"It looks like the Yan Kingdom contestant will become the second person to die in the Forbidden Land."

"How pitiful. He found such precious resources, yet he has no fate to enjoy them."

"More than that, after the Yan Kingdom contestant is buried here, ten million people will be buried with him!"

"That's why I said the Yan Kingdom contestant cannot compare to our Mr. Mori."

For a moment, the Neon Nation viewers acted as if they had won some great victory, their sense of superiority swelling from within.

Although some Yan Kingdom viewers quickly fired back, more had already given up and accepted the ridicule, with some even leaving the Live Stream Room outright.

They could not bear to watch Xu Fan die horribly.

On the screen...

The Snow Wolves blocking Xu Fan's escape routes bared their teeth with vicious expressions, their front paws constantly scraping the ground as though they were ready to charge.

But just then, the massive Snow Wolf King let out a deep growl.

It seemed to be issuing an order to the pack.

Although the Snow Wolves could not wait to tear Xu Fan apart, they slowly retreated.

Xu Fan stayed alert to his surroundings and immediately understood.

"Does it want to fight me one-on-one?"

Xu Fan suddenly realized.

The Machete he had taken from the Zhayu Kingdom contestant was covered in Snow Wolf blood.

There was even freshly skinned wolf hide in his backpack.

Together with the Sentinel Wolf that had run back earlier,

that was why this wolf pack had mistaken him for an enemy!

For all those reasons, the Snow Wolf King was acting this way!

On one hand, it wanted to avenge its dead kin.

On the other, it wanted to display its strength by hunting him down!

"Just what I wanted."

Xu Fan simply took off his backpack and tossed it onto the ground, gripping his homemade long blade in one hand as he stood his ground!

Even with Mount Tai collapsing before him, his expression did not change!

Although Xu Fan did not want to reveal his trump card too early, now that things had reached this point,

he could only respond as the situation demanded.

Although the Forbidden Land Live Stream Room's viewer count had dropped somewhat because people could not bear to watch Xu Fan die, there were still four to five hundred million people online at once.

They held their breath, not even daring to breathe loudly as they stared intently at Xu Fan.

They wanted to accompany him on his final journey.

At least...

Xu Fan had not been scared senseless at the very end.

He had not disgraced the Yan Kingdom!

"No matter the outcome, I can accept it. Contestant Xu Fan did his best!"

"Heaven truly envies our great Yan Kingdom! Xu Fan was clearly the most outstanding contestant, with physical and mental qualities among the best of all those who entered the Forbidden Land, yet he had to encounter the Snow Wolf King!"

"Wuwuwu, I can't bear to watch."

"Holy shit, that Wolf King is charging! It's so fast!"

The Snow Wolf King pushed off hard with its front paws, its enormous body seeming to soar through the air.

With a single movement, it closed half the distance between them!

Even the world's fastest sprinters could not compare to such outrageous explosive power!

Xu Fan...

could not run at all!

The next second.

The Snow Wolf King lunged right up to Xu Fan and instantly opened its bloody maw.

Saliva dripped from fangs thicker than Xu Fan's arms.

That enormous mouth seemed like a bottomless abyss, capable of effortlessly devouring everything in the world.

At that moment, many foreign viewers thought of a name.

Fenrir!

The giant wolf of Norse mythology!

That's right.

In their eyes, this Wolf King was no mere beast. It was practically a godlike existence!

As a mere mortal, Xu Fan had no chance of resisting!

It was over.

The Yan Kingdom contestant's fate had already been decided.

He would die in the jaws of the Wolf King!

However...

Xu Fan still stood where he was, neither afraid nor retreating.

"Then I can only... fight!"

In an instant, Xu Fan raised the long blade with one hand, his pupils contracting sharply.

A faint aura erupted from Xu Fan's body and spread wildly outward.

Bzz!

The aura was tiny, like a clear spring trickling through a stream...

But immediately afterward, Xu Fan's aura changed in an instant.

Boom!

The force bursting from Xu Fan transformed into a raging sea on the spot, surging forward and crushing toward the Snow Wolf King at terrifying speed!

Vast!

Tyrannical!

Unstoppable!

And this imposing force was none other than...

Conqueror's Haki!