The Lost Gem Meat and the Primordial BB Corn That Ruled the Hundred-Li Wasteland

The smoke over the wasteland had finally cleared.

Fierce Beast corpses lay still across the ground. The evening wind carried away the last trace of blood, and the land shed its recent violence and chaos, returning to a long-forgotten peace.

The six stood on the empty plain. Their newly evolved bodies still gave off a faint, gentle glow. Every muscle and bone, every strand of Nen, was at a new peak.

After a bloody battle against the beast tide and a leap to a higher level of life, they finally began to relax.

Only Saitama remained crouched where the Gem Meat had been.

The ground was spotless.

No shimmer. No halo. Not a trace of lingering vitality.

The top-grade Gem Meat had been as big as a calf, condensed from a thousand-year-old primordial giant beast. Genos had refined it to its purest essence, and after the six absorbed every bit of that essence, not a crumb or a trace of warmth remained. It had vanished completely.

A faint, divine aroma still lingered in the air, but the ingredient itself was gone.

Saitama stared at the bare ground for three full seconds.

Then his shoulders slumped, his face a picture of utter despair.

"It's gone?"

"How did none of it survive?"

He scratched his bald head, sounding genuinely heartbroken. His usual easygoing calm was nowhere to be found.

"I thought with a piece of meat that big, there'd at least be some scraps left. I could've grilled them for a late-night snack."

"But there isn't even a bite left! What a waste!"

The others couldn't help smiling at the sight.

Who would have thought that the invincible man who had dragged a ten-thousand-meter Primordial Mammoth with his bare hands and barely cared about differences in strength would fall apart over a