The Power of Man and God

It was a very ordinary night. Heming had only slept for a little over two hours. He walked outside the tent and watched the Scout Bat circling above—a tool he himself had once relied upon, and now, there was one more person who depended on it.

What exactly was his relationship with her? Heming pondered. Friends? Colleagues? Cousins...

Heming stood outside, lost in his wandering thoughts for quite a while, before returning to the tent to begin practicing the Pitch Black Heart Method. Now, Heming could clearly feel a sliver of energy growing within his body. It wasn't much, and the energy refused to coalesce, but this had to be a breakthrough development.

At the Scout Bat's warning pulse, both Heming and Rie woke up simultaneously. Heming gestured for Rie to stay inside, then leaped out. Outside, a person wearing the Pitch Black special-issue uniform was restraining the Scout Bat...

"I am Guangcheng Heming, dispatched by the Okinawa branch of Japan for a capture mission. The mission is now complete, and I was preparing to rest with my perimeter team before leaving," Heming stated briefly, hoping to prompt the other party to declare their intentions.

After releasing the Scout Bat, the man apologized to Heming. "I am the current leader of the Urban Action Team for the Africa branch of Pitch Black, Guangcheng Mingjie. I received a call from Qiming, so I brought my team members here to investigate what you discovered... Wait, what is this? You need to contact Qiming immediately. Tell him to call the nearest Special-Class personnel and have them rush over. Tell them an S-class creature has been discovered..." He didn't finish his sentence, instead sprinting rapidly toward the direction Heming had come from.

Heming understood perfectly why the man's tone had shifted so abruptly. The situation was critical, and Heming didn't waste a second; he pulled out his phone and dialed Qiming's number directly.

"Hello, Qiming? This is Heming. I'm still in Meihe. An S-class creature has appeared here. Mingjie told you to contact the Special-Class personnel to come over," Heming said, quickly relaying the necessary information.

"What? Fine. You go follow him and take a look. I'll contact the others now. Remember, don't get too close, don't bring Rie with you, and tell Mingjie to hold on!" Qiming seemed to sense the gravity of the situation and wasn't as casual as usual. He hung up the phone after giving his instructions.

Heming first ran back into the tent and said to Rie, "An emergency has occurred. I need to go check it out. You stay here and let the Scout Bat continue patrolling."

Rie didn't know what had happened, but she nodded slightly...

Now, Heming could also directly sense the powerful energy fluctuations in the distance. These must be Mingjie's...

"Team Leader, what do we do? I can't hold it anymore! Its energy is too strong!" a person in a black cloak shouted.

"Let go, I'll handle it. Headquarters has already been contacted, and reinforcements should be here soon," Mingjie replied. He drew the large blue blade from his palm—this was his weapon, the Deep Blue Evil Rhyme. (Deep Blue Evil Rhyme: Legend has it that the god's pet swordfish, Deep Blue, was sentenced to death for attacking something in the deep ocean. After its death, the god commemorated it by forging its body into a great blade.)

With the restraint broken, the Mi Magic Beast (one of the African tribal divine beasts: bull's head, horse's body, snake for a tail, and bird-like claws) charged madly at Mingjie.

The Mi Magic Beast had appeared once a long time ago. Back then, it had severely wounded a Pitch Black Level-1 operative before escaping. Encountering it in a place like this might be fate, as the Level-1 operative it had wounded last time was none other than Mingjie, before he had become a team leader.

Last time, in an African wildlife preserve, Mingjie had suddenly encountered the Mi Magic Beast, and both sides had engaged in combat. Before long, the Mi Magic Beast used Fire Rain. The damage Fire Rain caused to vegetation was unimaginable. Mingjie had no choice but to prioritize protecting the plants; he released his energy to block the Fire Rain, and in the process, he was struck heavily by the beast's snake-tail, resulting in his severe injuries. By the time his original team leader arrived, the Mi Magic Beast had already fled...

This time was different. Mingjie could fully let go and focus on dealing with the Mi Magic Beast. Meihe, this polluted place, didn't have plants that feared fire like those on Earth, and Mingjie had no need to protect anything here...

Rapid movement was also one of the Mi Magic Beast's ultimate skills. Its bird-like limbs, while not suited for attacking, were incredibly fast when moving. Mingjie didn't remain idle; he utilized his own ability: Hidden Weapon.

Hidden Weapon was an ability that could be useful or useless, depending on the situation. It could be used for many things, especially assassination...

In a head-on confrontation, Mingjie was hardly a match for the Mi Magic Beast. The beast utilized its entire body effectively—head-butting, tail-sweeping, tail-biting, and sudden fire-ball attacks—leaving Mingjie at a disadvantage in every aspect...

Mingjie had pushed his speed to the limit, but Heming, watching from afar, couldn't even track the movements of either side...

Mingjie had already sustained several severe attacks. If reinforcements didn't arrive soon, he might not be able to hold on. After all, how could an assassination team compete with a divine beast that had lived for so long?

"Secret Technique: Blue Halo Spirit-Dispersing Ninja!" Mingjie unleashed his finishing move. This skill involved magnifying his weapon through energy and controlling it remotely.

Without his weapon, Mingjie relied on his energy to defend himself. The Mi Magic Beast didn't attack Mingjie as frantically as before; it seemed to have noticed something.

Massive energy currents surged everywhere. A large blue blade suddenly appeared above the Mi Magic Beast's head. It was too late to dodge, and the Mi Magic Beast was forced to take the violent blow head-on.

A finishing move is a finishing move. That strike finally inflicted massive damage on the Mi Magic Beast. A scar appeared on its back, and it was truly enraged. Flame Meteor—this was its greatest ultimate skill...

Mingjie didn't attack again; he retreated to the side, for he could already sense that the reinforcements were arriving.

A divine beast's ultimate skills were different from a human's. They didn't need to expend their own energy to use them. These special techniques had immense attack power and could be released continuously...

"Huang Ming, guard those Flame Meteors well. Ming Jian and I will handle the beast!" This was Kuo Ming's voice, transmitted directly into the others' minds using energy.

"Hidden Snake Right Negative!" Kuo Ming unleashed his signature technique. The soft sword in his hand spun rapidly, transforming into two hidden snakes that lunged forward. On the other side, Ming Jian held a pale green sword.

"Evil Spirit Endowment!" Ming Jian's ultimate move. Two arms suddenly sprouted from the pale green sword, rapidly extending to attack the Mi Magic Beast. Ming Jian didn't stay idle either; he flicked out another pale green sword.

Now, the Mi Magic Beast was being attacked from both sides and couldn't retaliate. It wanted to flee, but in this situation, escape was impossible. If it continued like this, it would have no choice but to reveal its true form.

With a heaven-shaking roar, the Mi Magic Beast's body burst open...

"Retreat!" Kuo Ming shouted at Ming Jian!

The Flame Meteors had appeared. Huang Ming clearly wasn't overly nervous about the Flame Meteors; he was focused on the battle below. Each meteor was about 4-5 meters in size, their surfaces wreathed in intense flames. If they hit the ground, it was easy to imagine that Meihe would need to be renamed...

Powerful energy fluctuations rippled out. The rapidly falling meteors were covered in blue light, their speed slowing down, and the flames began to fade...

The true form of the Mi Magic Beast, the African Evil God, Gao'erlufeisiteda, the legendary seven-armed, one-eyed god. It had a bull's head, a snake tail, three bird-like limbs, and the rest were human arms holding bone weapons...

Lightning struck instantly. Ming Jian quickly used his sword to block the lightning that was about to arc everywhere. "Huang Ming, hurry! This guy is an Evil God; it has omnidirectional lightning attacks. You hold the line!"

Huang Ming accelerated his absorption of the Flame Meteors. Soon, the Flame Meteors in the sky vanished completely...

Ming Jian drew his signature weapon: a double-edged light blade, similar to a Japanese sword, but double-edged, capable of cutting from either side, with a thrusting point in the middle. Heming had never seen such a weapon and naturally couldn't name it. It was a Chopping Sword used by wandering swordsmen in ancient China, but because of its appearance, it had disappeared before long...

Challenging a god—could they succeed? No one knew. Perhaps everything was already in the hands of the world...