Strange Spoils and the Next Mission Objective

"Give him to me. Eat him!!!!!"

His blood-covered face lifted. Fang Ran had used himself as bait, pinning Fred at close range with his own body. The moment his fanatical low murmur rang through the underground space—

Terrifying darkness emerged beside them. Gluttony, its massive form fully expanded, opened its horrifying "smiling" maw!

The dreadful aura that had previously appeared only from afar now descended at close range. For an instant, all Fred could see was darkness. His expression changed as he flung Fang Ran away like a ragged sack—

And activated the strongest trump card he had prepared with all his might!

A Railgun over three meters long connected to the armor on his arm, forged from steel alloy. Facing Gluttony's abyssal jaws, Fred poured in every last bit of energy and fired!

Then the powerful, blinding energy round struck Gluttony's body, sending ripples across it before quickly disappearing.

The moment he saw that his life-saving trump card had achieved only this much, Fred's eyes went blank. The last thing he witnessed was nightmare-black Gluttony opening its terrifying smiling maw and swallowing him whole.

He could not even escape.

That was his final thought.

Boom—!

In the underground space beneath the manor, Gluttony's serrated maw slammed shut with a thunderous crash like an iron gate closing.

As the dust stirred up by falling rubble from the hall above dispersed, its enormous black body slowly vanished as though dissolving into the air, leaving behind only a figure collapsed on the ground.

Everything suddenly fell silent. The gangsters were gone, and so were the Participant enemies.

In the underground space that now held only Fang Ran, the occasional sound of loose stones falling from above was all that remained.

His entire chin was stained red. The blow he had endured while