The Worldbreak Behemoth hovered in midair, its hundred-meter body blotting out the sun.
The storm wings on its back beat furiously. Blue-black gales swept up clouds of poisonous black miasma, gathering them into a swelling ball of energy before it.
Below, a tide of insects surged in every direction like a black sea, devouring the earth and leaving it riddled with holes.
If that attack landed, every living thing within a hundred kilometers would be wiped out.
Gon, Killua, Leorio, and Genos stood between the beast and the town, their bodies battered and bleeding.
Their Nen and energy were almost spent.
Gon's arm was bleeding. Killua could barely stand. Leorio had only a trace of Nen left, and Genos's Core Furnace shrieked under the strain.
But none of them retreated.
Behind them were hundreds of thousands of civilians who had yet to evacuate.
"ROAR—!!"
The Worldbreak Behemoth let out a deafening howl.
The ball of calamity energy, compressed to its limit, erupted from its mouth and hurtled toward the four of them with world-ending force.
The air burst under the pressure. Beneath the weight of that energy, the ground cracked layer by layer and caved in.
The four closed their eyes, bracing themselves to take the blow.
Just as the energy ball was about to strike—
Hum.
A black, square rift suddenly opened in the ground.
A faint Nen glow lined its edges, like a door swinging open.
A powerful spatial pull surged from within.
Their vision blurred, and all four were dragged inside before they could resist.
BOOM—!!!
The devastating energy ball slammed into the spot where they had stood.
A crater several kilometers wide was blasted into the earth. Miasma and gales swept outward, and several distant hills were leveled.
But no one remained where the attack had