It's hot... it's like hell...
This is currently the only sensation that everyone can feel on their skin.
The scene unfolding before their eyes felt unreal to everyone.
The explosive power, which was far beyond their imagination, the blast that turned white with heat, and the flames that flowed like liquid all assaulted their consciousness.
It felt like a dream.
They even disregarded the violent ground tremors caused by the explosion.
Because compared to everything they saw and felt, a mere earthquake seemed to have no effect on them.
The mushroom cloud, towering thousands of feet high, continued to rise and flow, while the previously menacing tornadoes had long since been blasted away.
At this moment, the whole world seemed to have accomplished this feat.
Within this mushroom cloud, some people who were still conscious could vaguely see something surging and struggling inside.
Yet it could never escape the terrifying mushroom cloud, constantly being scorched and destroyed.
After an unknown amount of time, the mushroom cloud that had been surging due to the flames finally stopped and then slowly drifted away with the wind.
As the dense smoke dissipated, the area around the Night Star began to blur, and the entire world was enveloped in smoke.
The area at the center of the bombardment by the five Nation-Subduing Bomb had been transformed into a vast, empty plain.
However, if you were to rise up and look down, you would find that it had turned into an enormous crater.
However, the pit was so huge that people didn't even realize that it had an internal curve.
Just like a person standing on a round Earth doesn't perceive the ground as curved.
Among them, the colossal monster that had hovered in the air like a natural disaster had vanished... as if it had been swallowed up.
"How terrifying..."
Keke trembled, and it took her a while to unconsciously utter those words.
The other two were also jolted awake by those words and slowly came to their senses.
"Indeed." Jian Luo swallowed hard. "It's a pity it's too far away; we can't see the specific conditions there."
Upon hearing this, Gu Gongming raised an eyebrow, reached into his robes with his right hand, and revealed two monocles.
He casually tossed one of them to Jian Luo, saying, "Take this one." He then put his own on his right eye.
Jian Luo reached out and caught it, then carried it up with her.
"Me? What about me?" Keke looked on expectantly and pointed weakly to herself.
Gu Gongming pulled out a pair of high-tech-looking binoculars and handed them to the other person, who excitedly accepted them.
The three people's gazes stretched further and further through the lenses until they reached the very center of the explosion.
The stones there are still glowing red from the heat, and the flames continue to burn fiercely.
Suddenly, Gu Gongming saw something, and his pupils contracted.
In the center of a reddish-brown rocky plain, a shapeless mass of flesh and blood was writhing and churning.
Every inch of it was throbbing, and copious amounts of blood stained the ground red from its scarlet surface.
"He didn't die!?"
"As expected." Jian Luo nodded solemnly, "However, He is currently being eroded by nuclear radiation, and if all goes well, He will die from radiation exposure not long afterward."
What is radiation?
"Hmm... You could think of it as an attack smaller than light, capable of easily penetrating your cells and causing the slightest damage."
"Nuclear radiation is one of the most destructive types; at the epicenter of a nuclear explosion, almost no normal living organism can survive."
"... [Ultimate] shouldn't be considered a normal creature, right?"
Gu Gongming remained silent for a moment before speaking. Jian Luo stopped talking and instead nervously observed the state of [Ultimate].
Thump thump--!
Thump thump--!
The flesh throbbed more violently, and the overflowing blood splattered out as the body continued to disintegrate under the ravages of radiation.
The next second, it suddenly stopped beating.
Pfft--!!!
A lump of new flesh burst forth like a boil, and then one piece of flesh after another began to grow.
Seeing this, Jian Luo gritted her teeth in the distance.
"He is indeed able to adapt to radiation, and is now converting the energy of nuclear radiation for his own use."
He grabbed the walkie-talkie to his chest and shouted.
"All personnel!!! Take the pre-boarding medication and proceed to the epicenter of the explosion to eliminate [Ultimate]!!!"
After saying that, he swallowed the pills in his pocket and sprinted away with all his might!
His voice came through the walkie-talkie on his chest to everyone's ears.
After a brief moment of hesitation, the other Night Star hurriedly swallowed the potion and rushed off without a second thought.
"Didn't they say there's nuclear radiation? Wouldn't we be sending ourselves to our deaths if we went...?"
Keke looked terrified, while Gu Gongming had already swallowed the medicine.
"This medicine should be for resisting nuclear radiation; it seems to be iodine tablets."
Although Keke looked confused, she still swallowed the medicine with trembling hands.
After seeing Gu Gongming dash forward under the influence of the feather ornament on his chest, he hesitated and multiplied his own dash by the cube.
A scarlet tentacle burst forth from the constantly crumbling and regenerating flesh, waving in the murky air.
A lump of flesh grew from the tip of the tentacle, which snapped off with a crash and was flung hundreds of meters away as the tentacle was swung.
This method was initially used to expand the radiation absorption range and accelerate the body's recovery.
The crimson flesh throbbed continuously, and its size had returned to the size of a truck.
Just as the scarlet tentacle was about to continue lashing out at the tumor, a twisted, enormous space instantly appeared before it.
A white-haired man flew out from it, holding a Space Slash in his hand as it slid down with the wind.
Pfft!
The thick tentacle snapped in two with a snap, easily sliced in half by the Space Slash, leaving a perfectly smooth cut.
"Hehe! I'll see just how powerful this strongest thing in the world really is!"
Brown tumbled through the air and landed on the ground, waving his hand at the carnage in front of him.
"Open the door, unleash the dogs!"
As he finished speaking, two 'doors' opened from the void, revealing pairs of scarlet eyes.
"Roar--!!!"
A humanoid monster covered in flowing shadows and filled with eerie eyes, wearing a pink shield, charged out.
Like a maddened beast, it pounced on the surface of [Ultimate] and began tearing at it with its two sharp claws.
Pieces of flesh were torn off, and large amounts of blood gushed out.
The tentacle, already severed in two, tensed instantly, and, feeling the pain, lashed out at Xiunuosi.
The thick tentacles struck the pink shield with a loud cracking sound, sending the shield flying backward like a ball, crashing into the distance and kicking up a cloud of dust.
The cold, gloomy smog rose slowly, gradually replacing the surrounding gray haze.
A huge white wolf, like a proud king, slowly walked out of the haze.
"Awoo--!"