All Things Erasure! The Ultimate Ant King's Arrogance!

The once-lush primeval forest of the NGL Autonomous Nation had become a devastated battlefield.

A uniform smear of bloody pulp clung to the bottom of the vast crater. Its acrid stench silently testified to the crushing defeat that had lasted only a ten-thousandth of a second.

"Th-this... What kind of absurd power is that...?"

Shaiapouf knelt at the crater's edge. His face, once as handsome as a classical nobleman's, was twisted beyond recognition by terror and shock. Blood tears spilled from his straining eyes as he stared toward the place where Youpi had fallen.

As one of the king's three personal guards, Shaiapouf knew how terrifyingly tough Youpi's body was, built entirely from magical-beast genes. Even a direct hit from humanity's most advanced depleted-uranium armor-piercing round could never have scratched him!

Yet one look from the silver-haired man in the sky had left nothing of Youpi!

If a monster like that sets his sights on the king while he's still developing...

The moment the thought arose, an unprecedented chill froze Shaiapouf's soul.

"No! Absolutely not! Even if I'm torn to pieces, even if I burn my soul away, I'll buy time for the king to be born! The king's life matters more than anything in this world!!!"

Shaiapouf let out a hysterical shriek. His once-artistic eyes had gone mad with devotion. He sprang to his feet, and the enormous butterfly wings on his back, shimmering with psychedelic phosphorescence, began beating at a frequency far beyond physical limits!

Bzzzzzz—!

With that violent vibration, Shaiapouf unleashed the survival and infiltration Nen ability he prized above all others—Fly King!

Riiip!

His perfect body broke apart in midair like a shattered hourglass, splitting into hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of minuscule doubles! Each was smaller than the naked eye could see. Carrying fragments of