The Main Hall of the Kakin Empire's Royal Palace.
The crushing black Nen pressure compressed the air into solid iron.
King Hui Guo Rou's enormous belly.
It was now wedged firmly in a crack in his solid-gold throne.
He could not move a single finger.
Luo Ye wore a pair of worn-out cloth shoes.
He stood in the Main Hall.
The battered ledger in his hand was already open to its last page.
"Ah."
He looked down from above at the empire's supreme ruler.
"It seems His Majesty is very dissatisfied with the VIP Studio's property management services."
Hui Guo Rou was drenched in sweat.
But he could not bear to part with the wealth accumulated in the treasury over centuries.
He abruptly bit through the miniature remote concealed in his teeth.
This was the Kakin Empire's royal family's last resort.
Rumble!
A low, hoarse sound rose from beneath the Main Hall's floor.
Fragments of marble scattered everywhere.
An ancient grudge aggregation over thirty meters long, covered in festering boils, crawled out.
It was the guardian Nen beast that generations of Kakin kings had nurtured through human sacrifice.
It had only just poked its hideous head out of the ground.
It was about to let out a mighty roar at the intruder.
Then it met Luo Ye's pitch-black eyes.
The presence radiating from Luo Ye had been released after he devoured the Dark Continent's world essence.
Just a little of it had leaked out.
The guardian Nen beast's roar caught in its throat.
What came out instead was a whimper, like a husky whose tail had been stepped on.
This monster had slaughtered countless people without hesitation.
Its claws kept digging at the earth.
It steeled itself and crawled back into the hole.
It even thoughtfully filled the opening with