Kill and Rob

"Looking for death!"

Wang Gan let out an angry roar, his body spinning rapidly like a top.

With the giant blades on his arms and head spinning at high speed, he formed a terrifying wheel of blades. Everything around him was sliced to pieces, leaving nothing standing in its wake.

Li Ran didn't panic at all. He wielded the Demon Shadow in his hand and easily met Wang Gan's spinning blade storm.

The Demon Shadow in his hand snapped like a demon wolf biting down. Li Ran's hands blurred as he unleashed a series of Magic Shadow Bites, looking from afar like a pack of wolves pouncing on their prey.

"Clang, clang, clang!"

The two forces collided violently, but Li Ran was not at a disadvantage in the slightest. If anything, he looked ready to tear the giant blade storm apart.

"After the Magic Shadow Bite enveloped me, my strength and speed were temporarily boosted. The armor over the areas covered by the Demon Shadow on my arms has also grown stronger. Even taking the damage from this spinning blade storm head-on hasn't shown the slightest sign of breaking apart. No wonder this is a rare skill."

Li Ran grew more valiant as the fight went on. Wielding the Magic Shadow Bite with his bare hands, he tore the terrifying storm of giant blades to shreds.

"Bang!"

The storm collapsed, and Wang Gan's body was sent flying. He crashed heavily to the ground.

He stared at Li Ran in disbelief.

He'd broken his attack with his bare hands?

What was the point of fighting? They weren't even in the same league!

At that moment, one word flashed through Wang Gan's mind: run!

Then Li Ran appeared behind him like a ghost.

Wang Gan's face stiffened as he turned his giant-blade-shaped head around in terror.

A fierce glint flashed in Li Ran's eyes. One of the Demon Shadow's claws smacked Wang Gan's head, and the Magic Shadow Bite clamped down hard on the giant blade atop it.

He grabbed, twisted, and clenched!

"Crack... crunch!"

With a sharp snap, the Demon Shadow's bite warped Wang Gan's giant-blade head and shattered it.

"Ah!"

Wang Gan screamed and swung his arms, forcing Li Ran back. Only then did he escape having his head crushed by the Demon Shadow.

Agonizing pain shot from the top of his head. His face was covered in blood. He knew the giant blade that had formed his head was completely ruined. His head was probably a bloody mess now!

Li Ran casually tossed the shattered giant blade aside and slowly walked toward Wang Gan like a terrifying fiend.

Wang Gan backed away step by step, horrified.

But the cunning fox was behind him. He had nowhere left to retreat.

Wang Gan suddenly realized he'd provoked someone he couldn't afford to offend.

But he wasn't going to sit there and wait for death. "If I can't escape, then we'll die together!"

At that thought, Wang Gan's eyes filled with blood, the veins across his body bulging. Countless blood-red, tentacle-like tendrils emerged from his skin and surged toward his mangled head.

Even if he died, he'd make his opponent pay!

But it was already too late.

With the Golden Finger's warnings, Li Ran could see right through Wang Gan's intentions.

Li Ran swung his arms from afar. The Magic Shadow Bite yanked hard, giving Wang Gan almost no time to fight back. The twin giant blades on his shoulders were wrenched off like machine parts.

A shadow flickered across Li Ran's eyes. Demonic energy surged from his entire body, the passive effect of the Magic Shadow Bite: [Demon Shadow Stomp].

Beneath the night sky, the Darkness Domain maximized the effect of [Demon Shadow Stomp].

With a rumble, black clouds churned!

A vast, indistinguishable mass of clouds and demonic clouds blanketed the sky above the district.

Suddenly, a giant Demon Shadow foot appeared out of nowhere in the dark clouds and came crashing down!

"So strong..."

Wang Gan's eyes still held a look of disbelief. His Steel Body, bones of iron and head of bronze—had they really been so helpless against this kid?

"Boom!"

A deafening crash shook the entire district!

But he never got the chance to regret it. He vanished beneath the giant Demon Shadow foot, like an ant casually crushed by a passing titan.

Once the giant foot disappeared, the Demon King of Killing, Wang Gan, was left a bloody, mangled mess, barely recognizable as human.

[Task complete: Eliminate the murderer]

[Completion reward: Mysterious Power +100, points +1000, special equipment *1]

Hearing the system's cold voice beside his ear, Li Ran felt a weight lift from his shoulders.

This task had been weighing on him like a ticking time bomb, keeping him on edge.

He didn't care what happened to himself; he was worried Wang Gan might set his sights on Su Bingyao and Li Ziyang.

Getting rid of Wang Gan had gone much more smoothly than he'd expected.

If not for having nearly 800 points of Mysterious Power, along with a sneak attack and Scarlet Iris's help, killing Wang Gan wouldn't have been so easy.

Wang Gan's Steel Body in particular meant that ordinary attacks couldn't hurt him at all.

"I'll have to be more careful when dealing with A-rank enemies from now on. This time, my surprise attack worked and kept him suppressed, but what about next time? Will I be this lucky again?"

Thinking about it, Li Ran still felt he'd acted too rashly this time.

Still, at least he'd successfully eliminated the threat Wang Gan posed.

The five minutes of the Magic Shadow Bite's effect had also run out, and it dissipated on its own.

He glanced at Wang Gan's corpse.

He'd once thought he would need to keep his trump cards hidden when facing the Demon King of Killing. Now he'd eliminated him without even using one.

Kinship Summon Card + Bond Card.

Phoenix Flying Together: a bond that boosted all attributes by fifty percent!

His trump card was his wife, Su Bingyao.

He wouldn't use it unless absolutely necessary.

"The task's done. I wonder if this kind of quest monster drops equipment or anything?"

Li Ran walked over to Wang Gan, curious.

This time, the monster hadn't directly dropped something as good as the [Life Drop] he'd gotten from the Mantis Monster.

He rummaged through the body, which was barely recognizable as human.

That was what killing and robbing was all about.

Before long, he felt a spherical object in Wang Gan's coat pocket. His eyes lit up. There really was something good.

But when he held it in his hand, his brow furrowed.

"What is this thing?"

"Squeak?"