S-rank horror

Lin Jin's main body paid no attention to any of this.

He simply stood in the center of People's Square, looking at the enormous rift that had now stabilized.

The entrance to an S-rank Weird Domain.

Beyond the rift, he could sense an immensely powerful presence.

That was the true mastermind behind this incident.

An S-rank horror.

Lin Jin started walking toward the rift.

Suddenly, a voice rang out behind him.

"Lin Jin!"

He stopped and looked back.

Su Qianxue had arrived at some point.

She was covered in wounds, her face smeared with dust and blood, but her eyes were full of worry.

"You're going in?"

Lin Jin nodded.

"That's an S-rank Weird Domain!" Su Qianxue's voice trembled. "You'll die if you go in alone!"

Lin Jin looked at her and fell silent for a second.

Then the corners of his mouth lifted slightly.

It was an expression Su Qianxue had never seen on his face.

It was neither mockery nor indifference.

It was absolute confidence.

"Don't worry."

"I never do anything I'm not confident about."

"It's only an S-rank horror."

With that, he turned and stepped into the rift, his figure disappearing into the darkness.

The Weird Domain World.

The instant Lin Jin stepped inside, he sensed an atmosphere utterly different from the outside world.

The sky was eternally dim, without sun or moon, only layers of churning gray clouds, where distorted faces faintly appeared, letting out silent wails.

The earth was an eerie dark red, and the air was filled with the scent of decay and despair. Every breath felt like drawing the resentment of countless dead into his body.

In the distance, the roars of countless horrors rose and fell, as though they were paying homage to their king.

Lin Jin stood at the entrance and fully activated the Mind's Eye of the Kagura.

His perception spread like invisible ripples, instantly covering the entire Weird Domain.

Here, he sensed the presences of countless horrors.

There were weaker ones, E-rank and D-rank horrors like ants, packed so densely across the land that their numbers were impossible to count.

There were stronger ones, B-rank and A-rank, scattered throughout the Weird Domain's various regions. They were probably its subordinate lords, each presence enough to strike terror into ordinary awakened outside.

And in the deepest part of the Weird Domain, there was a source of power so overwhelming it could suffocate a Domain Realm awakened.

It was S-rank.

A city-destroying level horror.

Equivalent to Kage Level strength.

Within the Weird Domain, that presence was like an abyss, as though it had swallowed all light and hope. Merely sensing its existence would fill an ordinary person with despair that left them unable to resist.

However,

To Lin Jin, this place was practically paradise.

A place filled with World Power everywhere.

Lin Jin opened his eyes, a trace of scarlet flashing through them.

He started walking in that direction.

Along the way, countless horrors surged toward him.

Sensing this intruder's presence, they lunged at him madly, eager to devour this fresh flesh and blood.

Lin Jin did not even stop walking.

He simply strolled onward.

With a casual sweep of his right hand, a wind blade slashed out, cutting several approaching horrors in half. Black blood splashed onto the ground, corroding small pits into it.

He raised his left hand, and a ball of flame flew out, burning another group of horrors to ashes. Those ashes drifted through the air before being blown away by the wind.

His scarlet Sharingan made the occasional horrors that met his gaze freeze instantly, then slaughter one another, tearing into and devouring each other until the last one fell.

Like a killing machine that never stopped, he crushed every horror blocking his path.

[System: Killed C-rank horrors ×30. Gained 300 points of World Power. Current total: 2,780.]

[System: Killed B-rank horrors ×10. Gained 500 points of World Power. Current total: 3,280.]

[System: Killed A-rank horrors ×5. Gained 500 points of World Power. Current total: 3,380.]

System notifications kept sounding, but he did not spare them a glance.

His gaze remained fixed on that direction deep within the Weird Domain.

Finally, he stopped.

Ahead lay a vast plain.

At its center was an enormous creature.

It was a colossal beast over a hundred meters in size.

Its body looked as though it had been stitched together from countless corpses, with human arms, beast torsos, and the heads of horrors, densely packed and layered upon one another like a mountain piled up from remains.

Countless faces covered every part of its body, each twisting and wailing. Those voices converged into an invisible psychic assault powerful enough to instantly break any creature that approached.

It occupied the center of the plain, where the surrounding land had completely rotted away into a pitch-black swamp.

Bubbles kept rising from the swamp. Every time one burst, a small horror was born, then crawled out of the swamp and spread into the surrounding area.

An S-rank horror.

The King of Ten Thousand Corpses.

Lin Jin stood at the edge of the plain, looking at the enormous creature.

The King of Ten Thousand Corpses sensed his presence as well.

The faces covering its body all turned toward him, countless pairs of eyes staring fixedly at this tiny human.

Then it laughed.

Countless mouths laughed at once, shrill, grating, and full of mockery. The laughter became tangible sound waves that shook cracks into the surrounding ground.

"Human..."

It spoke, its voice like countless people speaking simultaneously, mingling together and making the entire Weird Domain tremble.

"How many years has it been... since a human dared step into my domain!"

"The last human who dared intrude was a Domain Realm awakened a hundred years ago. His corpse is still inside my body, part of me."

One of the faces on its body suddenly twisted into the face of a middle-aged man. It was filled with pain and despair, its mouth opening in a silent scream.

"Look, he's still alive. Alive forever, suffering forever. You, too, will become one of them."

"So... have you come to die?"

Lin Jin did not answer.

He simply watched it quietly.

After all, who had ever seen anyone get angry at an ant?

The King of Ten Thousand Corpses waited several seconds without receiving an answer, and the expressions on its countless faces shifted from mockery to rage.

"Insignificant human! How dare you show such disrespect before this king!"

It raised an enormous arm stitched together from over a hundred corpses, its five fingers spreading to blot out the sky.

Its palm slammed down!

BOOM!!!

The enormous palm struck the plain. The ground shook violently, splitting into countless bottomless chasms. Black mist surged from them, corroding everything in its path.

When the dust cleared.

Lin Jin was already standing in a different spot, motionless.

Where he had stood moments earlier, the strike had left a crater over a hundred meters in diameter.

But he was not in the crater.

He stood at its edge, hands in his pockets, his expression calm.

"Decent strength, but... far too slow."

"Are you trying to fan me?"

The King of Ten Thousand Corpses froze for a moment.

Then it flew into an utter rage.

"You're courting death!"