The sword of light descended from the sky and cleaved the gymnasium in two.
Even the earth seemed about to be torn apart.
The sword scar, a full ten meters wide, kept extending into the distance, well beyond a hundred meters.
Warned by Sloth, everyone had already retreated far away. As they watched the sword of light fall from the sky, they were left utterly speechless.
Only Sloth let out an enormous yawn.
"That settles it."
With those words, Sloth vanished from where he stood.
When he reappeared, he was already beside Qin Ran, craning his neck to look at the two masses lying in the sword scar.
"So this was what was causing all the trouble?"
Sloth asked.
"Yes."
Qin Ran nodded and looked at the two still-writhing masses, surprise in his eyes.
He was surprised both by their tenacious vitality and by their origins.
After all, the [Dawn Sword] he had just unleashed with Charge-Up had not been Tier V, but Tier VII!
Unlike the first time he had unleashed a Tier VII [Dawn Sword], this time it had been entirely thanks to the [Incomplete Fusion Seed]. The process had surprised Qin Ran even more. He had barely needed to direct anything; the moment he wanted to use [Dawn Sword], the [Incomplete Fusion Seed] had naturally taken effect.
A single slash had grievously wounded the monster before him.
It had rendered all his subsequent battle plans useless.
Still, Qin Ran was happy to accept that.
Even if the [Incomplete Fusion Seed] had vanished completely with that single slash.
After all, the monster before him was no ordinary foe.
It was the one that should have been sealed beneath the kitchen, burned by subterranean fire.
The very creature that the chef who had left him the [Inheritance Crystal] had