(The Modern Era storyline ends in this chapter, so rest assured, everyone.)
The castle complex was enormous.
It resembled a little town from a fairy tale.
At its very center lay the residential quarters of the Smith Family's core members.
"Activate the signal jammers immediately and turn the power up to maximum..."
Aboard the bus, the Li Family head began mobilizing his people.
The next moment, invisible signal-blocking zones rapidly formed around several nearby hilltops where preparations had been made, as well as around the bus. At the same time, monsters previously assigned to infiltrate underground severed the buried cables.
Of course.
Such crude methods could only block ordinary means of communication.
Certain special communication channels could still transmit messages to the outside world.
However.
The Li Family did not need to intercept every signal.
Blocking the vast majority was enough.
They only needed to buy a little more time.
"Everyone, launch an all-out assault immediately! Leave no survivors!"
"Don't fear death! Even if you die, Xia can resurrect you so you can enjoy another lifetime of wealth and honor!"
Those words were like a shot in the arm, sending the morale of every Li Family combatant soaring.
That was right.
They had Li Xia.
Everyone turned toward their unfathomable junior, their eyes blazing.
"Let me lead the charge."
Li Xia smiled faintly.
He tossed out a purple-and-gold card, which embedded itself in the ground outside the bus. Immediately afterward, a huge hand broke through the soil where the card had vanished. An arm thirty or forty meters long emerged first, then pressed heavily against the ground.
With a single forceful push, Mountain Demon, nearly a hundred meters tall and as massive as a small mountain... rapidly rose from the earth and appeared before everyone.
"Wh-what kind of creature is