Above the Green Valley Ruins, heaven and earth trembled.
Having evolved through the complete fusion of the Four Calamities, the Worldbreak Behemoth had shed its initial clumsiness.
Its towering, hundred-meter body filled the sky. Stone-hard armor covered its dark-green insectoid form, its enormous wings stirred up storms, and its black, poisonous miasma corroded mountains and rivers.
After that last exchange, it had fully adapted to the humans' attacks.
The damaged plates of its armor regenerated rapidly, while the shared energy of the Four Calamities surged wildly within it.
Violent hurricanes carried lethal miasma into Botobai's defensive barriers, battering them again and again.
Crack!
Dense fractures spread like cobwebs across all seven layers of the barrier.
The defensive wall that had seemed impregnable was on the verge of breaking.
Once it shattered, the accumulated destructive energy, endless miasma, mutated insect swarm, and rending storms would sweep across a hundred-mile radius in an instant.
Civilians who had no time to evacuate, along with every mountain and stretch of land in the region, would be wiped out in moments.
High above, a white-clad figure slowly stepped forward.
Chairman Netero clasped his hands together, his aged yet upright frame suspended among the clouds.
His vast Nen, honed over countless years, quietly awakened. The martial killing intent that had lain dormant for so long rose once more.
The strongest man of the age, who had rarely fought since the Chimera Ant battle, was ready to personally suppress this ultimate calamity from the Dark Continent.
Just as he raised a hand to summon the 100-Type Guanyin—
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Eight figures of differing builds and utterly distinct auras emerged together from a doorway to the Fourth-Dimensional Apartment. They formed a line in midair, blocking Netero's path.
There was no shouting, no commotion.
They simply stood