"Miss Yao Rao, sorry for the trouble, but could you connect me to the War God Palace's signal? And Venina, too..."
It took a while to get things sorted out.
More than half an hour later...
Luo Feng, Yao Rao, and Venina were all standing behind Capybara, looking somewhat dazed.
Though Babata had felt a great deal of sympathy for them earlier,
she hadn't gone easy on them.
The little girl had actually planned to use Yao Rao and Venina's authorization to hack into the human War God Palace system.
Then she'd take control of its backend!
"Bzzzz!"
"Hum!"
Watching Babata work away in midair,
Capybara was a little puzzled.
"Can you really do that?"
Sometimes, you just had to admit defeat.
Even after being buried underground for fifty thousand years,
the technology Babata had brought with her was far beyond what humanity had at its disposal.
Hearing Capybara's doubts,
Babata proudly lifted her little head.
"Humph, human technology is child's play to me. Look! I'm in..."
Soon, a holographic image appeared before them.
It turned out the War God Palace hadn't been built using technology humanity had developed from scratch.
Instead, countless human experts and scientists had refitted an alien spaceship.
Humanity had only managed to develop about forty percent of the technology on board.
Babata could take control of the entire War God Palace system through its backend without the others knowing.
"All done. I'm now the War God Palace's top administrator!"
Right in front of Yao Rao and Venina,
Babata smugly pressed a button.
"Whoosh!"
A row of figures appeared before them.
They were portraits of the War God Palace's senior members.
At the forefront was Hong, the head of the Extreme Martial Arts Hall!
He wasn't just the War God Palace's highest-ranking member.
He was also widely recognized as humanity's strongest fighter.
As soon as Babata connected to the signal,
several red dots appeared on the map.
The War God Palace's senior members were all heading toward Capybara's location.
The first to arrive was the red-haired man.
By the time Babata detected his signal,
he had already reached the large lake where the Tentacle Beast Emperor had been.
He called down toward the depths.
"Monster Capybara, I know you're here. Come out and fight me!"
So cool!
This man called Hong wasn't just physically powerful. He also had a dark-red domain behind him.
It contained powerful energy absorption and devouring abilities, too.
But compared to Capybara's Black Hole, it was still several levels weaker.
"Heh heh, someone's challenging you. You taking him on?"
Hearing the human expert's provocation,
Capybara didn't really care at first.
After all, that human didn't have what it took to reach ten thousand meters beneath the ground.
But Babata's smug little grin got under his skin.
"What do you mean? Didn't you tell me not to bully humans too much?"
For some reason, seeing Babata's expression
made Capybara want to fire back at her.
He wanted to pinch her little face until it broke.
The two of them hardly seemed like master and servant. They were more like a pair of bickering rivals.
Just like when Capybara had wanted to get up to something indescribable with his long-legged aunt from another species.
That damned Babata had mocked him for it,
saying he was small and short...
Damn it!
"Isn't he humanity's strongest fighter? And he has a domain, too. I think he'd be more useful than that long-legged woman. How about making him your servant?"
Babata soon offered a reason no one could refuse.
It made perfect sense!
Luo Feng might be the so-called chosen protagonist,
but Capybara had already made him his servant before he could even grow into his potential.
Yao Rao might be at the Planetary Level, but she wasn't all that strong.
And Venina, the War God standing beside them, was just a pretty ornament, wasn't she?
There was no way he could take her with him into the universe.
According to the original story,
only two people had left Earth with Luo Feng.
One was Hong, standing right before them.
The other was Thunder God from the Thunder Dojo.
"Fine, you make a good point. I'll take the redhead as my underling!"
Capybara accepted Babata's challenge.
After a series of twists and turns,
the lake in front of Mist Island began to spin rapidly.
A huge whirlpool formed, clearly visible to the naked eye.
Capybara, clad in Cosmic Armor, slowly rose from the center of the whirlpool.
He hovered above the water,
looking up at the red-haired man with his adorable little eyes.
"You're Hong?"
"That's me. Let's fight!"
Hong was direct in both word and deed. If a problem could be solved with his fists, he wouldn't waste his breath.
The moment he finished speaking,
he shot toward Capybara like a red cannonball.
"Good! Let's see what you can do!"
Facing Hong as he plunged down like a falling star, Capybara didn't dodge. Instead, fighting spirit flared in his eyes.
He wanted to find out, without relying on the overwhelming power of his Black Hole,
which was stronger: his Emperor-Level strength and Cosmic Armor, or humanity's strongest fighter!
"Boom!"
Hong's fist was wrapped in a dark-red domain, condensed to the utmost.
It seemed to carry the weight of the entire world as it slammed into the armor on Capybara's crossed forearms!
A deafening explosion rang out!
Centered on the point of impact, a visible ring of shock waves burst outward.
The lake beneath them was instantly pressed into a gigantic bowl-shaped depression, and waves surged dozens of meters into the air!
Capybara felt a tremendous force hit him, sending him sliding back several dozen meters.
He carved two long white trails across the surface of the water, and his armored forearms tingled slightly.
What incredible strength! What a perfectly condensed domain!
Capybara marveled inwardly.
The piercing force concentrated at a single point, along with the strange power of annihilation contained in the domain, was truly dangerous!
Hong was just as shocked!
He'd put everything he had into that punch, drawing on his ultimate understanding of light and the power of domains.
Even an Emperor-Level monster of the same rank wouldn't dare take it head-on.
Yet Capybara had merely been knocked back. He looked completely unharmed!
The defensive power of his armor was beyond belief!
"Again!"
Hong's gaze sharpened, and his figure flickered like a ghost.
His dark-red domain spread to its full extent, transforming the surrounding space into his absolute territory!
Within the domain, light twisted and gravity went haywire.
It constantly weakened and suppressed his opponent, while massively boosting Hong's speed and strength!
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
His attacks came like a raging storm. Fist, palm, fingers, legs—every part of his body became a deadly weapon.
Infused with the power of his domain, they struck at Capybara from all directions!
Every blow was executed to perfection, imbued with a unique Force Application Technique and a hint of the laws of the universe. They far surpassed Yao Rao's whip techniques!
No wonder he's Earth's strongest. His command of domains really is impressive.
Capybara marveled inwardly. Without the Cosmic Armor and the formidable body of an Emperor-Level Monster, he might already have lost.
"But... now it's my turn to fight back!"
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