One Punch to Slay a Demon
The horizon.
The entire sky collapsed without warning!
Thick, churning dark clouds, like boiling ink, instantly swallowed the blazing sun, turning the desert into a desolate, leaden gray!
"Boom--!!!"
Thick, pale lightning, like a giant python, tore through the sky; the deafening thunder wasn't an explosion, but a continuous roar, like that of a cosmic beast from the abyss! Boom!...
The air became thick and cold, carrying a suffocating, decaying feeling that devoured all life. The wind was no longer wind, but the wailing and howling of some living thing.
"It's here! Alioth! It's here!!!" Nova shouted in the blue cage, his distorted face completely overwhelmed by fear, like a rabbit seeing its natural enemy.
Whoosh!
Wade, who had been crouching on the ground drawing circles, suddenly sprang to his feet, drew his twin swords, and nervously stared at the apocalyptic scene. "Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap! This special effects must have cost at least a billion dollars!"
Logan's muscles tensed, his steel claws snapping open as he growled, interrupting Deadpool's rambling. "Shut up! Idiot! Prepare to fight!"
Johnny's flames roared to life, but the flames trembled like Parkinson's, and his voice quivered. "Boss... this thing looks dangerous! How about... a strategic retreat? Get out of here?"
Only under the parasol.
Click... click... click...
Chen Tian slowly munched on a potato chip, then took a swig of iced cola, letting out a satisfied sigh, "What's the rush? It's enough distance for it to crawl for five minutes. It won't reach here for another eight minutes."
He even changed to a more comfortable "Ge You slouch" position.
In the distance, the churning dark clouds began to churn and coalesce.
An unimaginable, colossal silhouette, obscuring the sky, loomed faintly in the clouds!
It resembles a chaotic mist that devours the starry sky, or a writhing mountain range formed by countless twisted souls!
Its mere proximity caused the entire sky of shops to groan!
Countless tiny grains of sand and stones defied gravity and floated up, drawn into the writhing darkness by an invisible force!
Boom!!! An unprecedentedly massive bolt of lightning struck down, briefly illuminating the core of the monster—a bodyless entity within which a pair of eyes shone with an orange-red light.
Waaaaaah!!!
A terrifying buzzing sound, exceeding the limits of hearing and piercing the soul, suddenly spread out!
The air vibrated violently, forming visible shockwaves that crashed down on Chen Tian and his companions like a tidal wave!
"Oh my god!!!" Johnny's flames were almost extinguished by the soul impact, and he nearly fell from the sky.
Deadpool clutched his ears, his expression utterly terrified beneath the mask. "Aaaaaah! My ears! My brain! It's in! Something's throwing a heavy metal party in my head! And it's fucking death metal!"
Logan groaned, blood seeping from his nostrils, but with Beast- like willpower, he remained rooted to the spot, his steel claws digging deep into the ground.
Nova huddled in the corner of the cage, trembling, too weak to even scream.
The soul shockwave, like a world-ending tsunami, carrying the force to destroy everything, slammed into the shield that Chen Tian had deployed.
Buzz----!!!
The shield collided violently with the invisible shockwave and Oblivion!
A blinding surge of energy erupted! The light barrier rippled violently, as if it were about to shatter at any moment! A thick layer of sand beneath their feet was instantly scraped away!
However, behind the light curtain...
The parasol remained completely still.
The beach chairs are as stable as a mountain.
Chen Tian even tore open another bag of potato chips, this time tomato flavored.
"Tsk," he frowned, speaking softly but clearly through the deafening roar, towards the direction from which the shockwave came, "It disturbed my eating."
Deadpool scrambled to his feet, staring at the Armageddon scene outside and the perfectly stable resort inside, his eyes nearly popping out of his mask. "Boss! Do you offer free shipping on these protective shields? Send me the link! I want to buy ten! No! A hundred!!"
Logan wiped the blood from his nose, watching Chen Tian's leisurely back, then looking at the terrifying, misty behemoth in the distance, slowly but steadily advancing despite the soul-shaking impact, like hell itself Descent...
He uttered a single word. "... Damn!" He was overwhelmed with mixed feelings, but more than anything, his understanding of Chen Tian's outrageous strength was being refreshed.
Johnny was speechless; the flame burned weakly, like a candle flickering in the wind.
The "mountain range" of Alioth, composed of countless black clouds, had clearly taken over the entire field of vision. It slowly "flowed" forward, and wherever it passed, the earth instantly lost all color, turning into a deathly gray-white!
The sky was completely swallowed up!
It has finally arrived.
Chen Tian put down the bag of potato chips, dusted off the crumbs on his hands, and stood up.
"The distance is just right."
Chen Tian casually waved his right hand.
Swish!
The blue light instantly enveloped Deadpool, Logan, Johnny, and Nova in the cage, and the four figures vanished into thin air, leaving only a cloud of dust in their wake.
Buzz--
The next second, a ghostly blue demonic flame suddenly erupted from Chen Tian's entire body!
The flames were violent and profound, carrying the oppressive power of hell!
His right sleeve instantly turned to ash, his entire arm swelled and deformed, covered in hideous dark blue scales, his muscles bulged, and sharp claws extended from his fingertips—it was the Demon Hand!
Boom!!!
Chen Tian pulled his right fist back sharply, the violent force compressing the air!
At the same time, a blinding white light—the destructive energy of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit —frantically condensed and compressed on the Demon Hand's clenched fist!
Blue flames and white light intertwined, forming a terrifying wave powerful enough to destroy the world!
Whoosh--
Alioth, which had been charging forward with the momentum of destruction, suddenly stopped in its tracks amidst the massive black cloud of countless tormented souls!
Its core, with its enormous Red Eye, suddenly contracted, and its churning mist body began to fluctuate violently and uncontrollably!
An unprecedented sense of deadly crisis caused it to let out an even more piercing roar!
Waaaaaah!!!
The terrifying roar unleashed a tangible gale, the earth groaned and cracked, and debris flew everywhere!
However, in the small area where Chen Tian stood, everything was calm and still; not even the sand beneath his feet had moved an inch.
He looked up at the colossal beast that blotted out the sky, a wild, excited smile spreading across his face.
"Let me warm up a bit, I hope you can handle it."
Before the words were even finished!
Boom!!!!!!!
Chen Tian's right fist, wreathed in blue and white destructive energy, was swung out fiercely like a spear of judgment tearing the heavens and earth apart!
The space in front of him, wherever his fist struck, was like fragile glass, instantly covered with dense, pale cracks!
Space itself has shattered!
Alioth's massive cloud-like body stiffened abruptly, and boundless terror erupted from its orange-red giant eyes!
It tried to hide! But its size was too large, and movement was already slow for it!
There's simply no time!
Pfft--!!!!
The devastating force of the punch, mixed with the power of shattered space, pierced into the core of Alioth's churning black cloud without any resistance, like a red-hot iron piercing into butter!
The power exploded instantly!
Rumble rumble rumble--!!!!
A massive beam of energy, piercing through the heavens and earth, suddenly burst forth from Alioth's "back"!
Wherever it passed, the black clouds and mist collapsed and Oblivion instantly, like snow meeting the sun!
From an extremely high altitude, the boundless black mist that covered the entire sky like a curtain of death was torn open from the very center by this purely violent punch, creating a huge, smooth vacuum crack!
The billowing black clouds were neatly "split" and surged to both sides!
Just like...
This monstrous, sky-covering monster of death was given a massive, heaven-and-earth-piercing middle-part hairstyle!
Click! Click--!!
The ear-piercing sound of space shattering resounded through the heavens!
A terrifying shockwave swept outwards violently from the center of the beam of light!
The remaining black clouds were violently torn apart and blown away!
It was as if a huge hole had been punched through the sky, revealing the desolate depths of space behind it!
Alioth let out a silent, soul-deep scream!
Its enormous cloud-like body, centered on that fatal penetrating wound, began to violently and uncontrollably collapse and disintegrate!
Countless distorted phantoms of souls screamed as they dissipated and vanished from the clouds!
Chen Tian slowly withdrew his fist, the blue flames on the demon's hand gradually extinguished, and his arm returned to its original state.
He shook his hand, watching the black cloud of mist dissipate as if he had merely swatted away an annoying fly.
"Tsk, I thought they could hold out."
Call--!
The billowing black mist of death vanished without a trace in an instant, like a cheap smoke bomb scattered by a gale!
The blinding sunlight scorched the desert once more, the sky a blindingly blue, as if the apocalyptic scene from just moments before was nothing but a nightmare.
At the center of the dissipating black mist, a rectangular orange-yellow portal floated silently, its edges flowing with energy—clearly the style of TVA!
Snap!
Chen Tian the Snap.
A flash of blue light, Deadpool, Logan, Johnny, and the blue cage instantly appeared behind him.
"Huh? Holy crap?" Deadpool looked completely bewildered, glancing at the blazing sun overhead and then at the empty sky. "Where's that huge Alioth? I didn't even get his autograph! Did you swallow it whole, boss? Not even a crumb?"
"Shut up." Chen Tian interrupted his rambling without turning his head. "Go back to your world, or go to TVA?"
Deadpool stroked his chin. "Hmm... It's been a while since I've been back. I need to go back and show Vanessa how perfectly my handsome face has recovered! She must be missing me terribly!"
Logan scoffed, "My world? Ha, nothing worth going back to. This desert is fine." He retracted his steel claws.
"Hey! Don't act like a savage!" Deadpool grabbed Logan by the neck. "Come with me! I'll introduce you to my sweetheart Vanessa and my friends! I promise you'll shine like a wolf again!"
Logan struggled a few times, but couldn't resist this stubborn block of a nut, and squeezed out a single word through gritted teeth. "... Get lost!"
Johnny breathed a sigh of relief, "I have to go back! Susan and Reed must be worried!"
Chen Tian turned his gaze to Nova in the cage.
Nova lunged at the light barrier, screaming hoarsely, "My lord! I'll do as you please! I beg you..."
Before he could finish speaking...
Splat!
The blue cage suddenly collapsed inward! The speed was beyond imagination! Like being instantly flattened by a massive hydraulic press!
Nova inside didn't even let out a scream before turning into a thin, mixed-color mass of flesh plastered on the compressed light wall. Even the bone fragments were pulverized!
The air was thick with a fishy smell.
Chen Tian didn't even lift his eyelids. "Hmm."
He took the Paradox Tablet from behind his waist and tossed it to Deadpool.
Go back by yourself.
After Deadpool took the tablet, he saw that it contained his coordinates from that time, which seemed to be left behind by the Paradox.
He immediately bowed and saluted Chen Tian.
"Boss! Don't worry about me! Tell Spider-Man I'll be back to see him anytime! Love you!"
He pressed a button on the tablet, and an orange-yellow portal opened. He pulled Logan into the portal.
Then, he peeked halfway out of the portal and gave Chen Tian a quick kiss.
"I love you~"
Buzz!
The portal closed, leaving Johnny completely bewildered.
Johnny pointed to his nose. "And... what about me?"
Chen Tian shrugged. "I don't know your coordinates in this world. Come with me to meet the founder of TVA, and he can send you back."
Johnny was speechless and could only follow Chen Tian as the two stepped into the orange-yellow portal one after the other.
Swish!
The scene before your eyes changed instantly!
A huge, circular room in a Central European style comes into view.
The towering circular wall was completely covered by densely packed, enormous bookshelves, crammed with countless heavy ancient books.
In the center of the room stood a huge wooden table, like an island, its surface piled high with messy documents, strange instruments, and... a small dish of cookies?
On the ground, machines of all different styles are piled up haphazardly, and next to a futuristic fluorescent screen may be a bulky old relic full of gears and emitting steam!
Buzz--
In the center of the room, the large leather chair, its back to them, slowly rotated around with a soft sound.
Sitting in the leather chair was a Black man named Kang, wearing a large bathrobe and black-rimmed glasses.
He wore a calm and gentle smile, looking at Chen Tian and the bewildered Johnny with great interest.
"Hoo..." He picked up a cup of black tea from the small cart next to his leather chair, and gently blew on it. "It's been a long time since anyone has visited my place... Hmm? Chen Tian?"