After Su Xiao pressed the detonator, the green light on the bomb in Mars’ hand lit up.
Boom.
A powerful impact rushed straight towards Mars’ face, smoke rose, and a wave of air blew towards him. Su Xiao raised his arm to shield his face, staring ahead.
Even for an SSS level Ghoul, being this close to an explosion would surely lead to severe injuries, but Mars might not die. His stamina is simply too high, plus Su Xiao didn’t receive a kill notification.
The smoke cleared, revealing Mars at the center of the explosion. Mars’ forearm was blown off, large parts of his full body armor were charred, so joints were damaged, and the face armor was dented in, looking quite comical.
"You~."
Mars glared angrily at Su Xiao, seemingly wanting to hurl insults, but his noble upbringing was deeply ingrained.
In the end, Mars didn’t curse out loud but instead charged at Su Xiao with terrifying speed.
Thanks to the earlier explosion, Arima Kishou and Takatsuki Sen were already near Su Xiao.
"All together, or we’ll all die."
Su Xiao brandished his blade and t Mars. Against such a fast and powerful enemy, retreating would only hasten death.
The other three understood that there was no room for reservation now, so they charged forward with Su Xiao.
The explosion earlier had a significant effect, clearing more than half of Mars’ blood bar.
Su Xiao was the first to reach Mars. He now understood Takatsuki Sen’s previous feeling — facing this steel brute brought imnse pressure. Though the opponent only wore a layer of steel armor, it seed as if molten iron was infused inside, making it heavy, solid, and fierce.
Mars extended a large hand towards Su Xiao’s head, and Su Xiao saw a shadow rush towards him. He couldn’t clearly see it was a hand and instinctively leaned his head back. If it grabbed his head, it would be over.
Unexpectedly, Mars feigned an attack, his large hand abruptly shifted direction towards Su Xiao’s shoulder.
This ti, Su Xiao couldn’t dodge; his shoulder went numb, and half of his body lost sensation.
Crrrk.
Su Xiao’s shoulder was crushed, his left arm hung limply.
Kicking off the ground, Su Xiao ignored the stabbing pain from his shoulder and retreated a few steps.
With a ripping sound, a piece of flesh was torn from his shoulder, drenching Su Xiao’s chest in blood.
Cold sweat dripped from his forehead. Mars was undoubtedly the strongest enemy Su Xiao had faced so far.
After Su Xiao retreated temporarily, Arima Kishou and the others rushed toward Mars, various attacks clanking against Mars’ armor.
None among them were weak; Mars was forced back a few steps, his blood bar decreasing slightly.
Arima and the others would not miss such an opportunity, unleashing their strongest attacks, creating sparks as they barely managed to hold their ground against Mars.
From a distance, Su Xiao wasn’t out of the fight. His right hand could still hold a blade, and as long as he hadn’t fallen, he would keep fighting.
Using the chance created by the three holding Mars, he gradually maneuvered behind Mars. After so preliminary exchanges, Su Xiao devised a feasible plan without relying on others.
Enduring many attacks from Arima and company, Mars began to grow impatient.
"You ants!"
Mars roared, charging towards the Priest, completely ignoring the attacks from the three.
The Priest must have had sothing colorful to say, but there was no ti.
Mars’ hand pierced through in a blur, directly impaling the Priest’s chest and lifting him. The gel-like substance inside Mars’ armor began to stir.
"Ah~~, save quickly."
The Priest’s body shriveled at a visible rate, the Heko spike turning to dust instantly.
Mars was absorbing the Rc Cells from the Priest, rapidly regenerating his own blood bar.
Su Xiao, having maneuvered behind Mars, was frustrated. All the hard-earned progress was negated.
Though Arima and Takatsuki were frantically attacking Mars, the damage inflicted couldn’t match Mars’ recovery rate.
Seeing this, Su Xiao was exasperated. Why not just shatter the Priest? Wouldn’t that be more effective?
Takatsuki hadn’t thought of this approach, and Arima had a rapport with the Priest.
Taking a breath, Su Xiao prepared to execute his plan, ready for a desperate gamble.
If successful, they’d achieve great riches; if not, it ant either death or retreat to Reincarnation Paradise, suffering the severe penalty of all attributes -3.
Su Xiao clamped Dragon Slash in his mouth, pulling out a can-like ’bomb,’ with a pull tab on top.
Using his thumb, Su Xiao lifted the pull ring and tossed the can-shaped ’bomb’ towards Mars.
This wasn’t an actual bomb since it couldn’t inflict lethal damage on Mars. Earlier, it failed to kill Mars even at such close proximity, let alone when thrown at his feet.
"Ding, ding ding."
The can-shaped ’bomb’ rolled to Mars’s feet, and with a puff sound, a large area of white mist spread out, enveloping Takatsuki Sen and the others in white mist.
Just as the mist enveloped Takatsuki Sen, the Heko on her body shattered into pieces, and she felt a wave of weakness.
"Rc Cell Suppression Gas."
Takatsuki Sen, the Priest raised in the air, and even Arima Kishou were all affected by it.
Not only those three but Mars was also affected. The red glow inside his armor dimd, the blood bar above his head turned gray, and all attributes significantly dropped. After all, Mars was also a ghoul.
After throwing out the ’Rc Cell Suppression Gas,’ Su Xiao activated the skill of the [Evil Spirits Roar] ring: Roar. He was severely injured now, and the wound on his shoulder was stimulating his pain nerves, causing half of his body to feel numb. He desperately needed the Roar skill to ignore the pain sensation.
As the Roar was activated, the excruciating pain in Su Xiao’s shoulder diminished, and he charged forward with a knife in one hand.
In a few strides, he was three ters behind Mars, who was sluggish in his movents and only managed to fling the Priest aside.
Su Xiao stepped forward and leaped up, the arc on Dragon Slash dazzlingly bright as his arm muscles slightly contracted.
Using the bomb to damage Mars’s armor, the Rc Cell Suppression Gas to weaken Mars’s Rc cells, utilizing the Roar skill to ignore the pain, and striking the most powerful blow.
Weaken the enemy, strengthen himself, and deliver a full force attack to the enemy—this was Su Xiao’s plan: simple, brutal, yet effective.
If this strike couldn’t kill the enemy, Su Xiao could only wait for death or choose to return, but returning would be too costly, with -3 to all attributes greatly diminishing Su Xiao’s strength.
The blade sliced through the air, forming a light blue arc.
Zing!
The blade sang, blood ignited.
One slash and Mars’s head soared high.
Success!
With Mars’s head severed, Takatsuki Sen and the others were staring at this scene. Witnessing the mont Mars’s head flew, the three collectively breathed a sigh of relief.
The three relaxed, but Su Xiao didn’t. Mars wasn’t dead yet; at least, he hadn’t received the kill notification.
The blade in his hand rotated from a forward grip to a reverse grip. If one could observe inside his right arm now, they would see the muscle fibers between his forearm and upper arm had partially torn.
But under the ’Roar’ skill effect, he temporarily ignored this.
The Dragon Slash pierced into Mars’s torso through the severed neck. Under the influence of the ’Rc Cell Suppression Gas,’ the Dragon Slash penetrated deeply.
Su Xiao rode on Mars’s shoulders, stirring the gelatinous mass inside with his blade. He distinctly felt Dragon Slash severing so harder organs.
Mars’s headless body convulsed violently, as if suffering from epilepsy.
"Is this, is this guy crazy?"
Takatsuki Sen, watching Su Xiao stir the enemy’s innards with his blade, subconsciously stepped back two paces, slightly afraid Su Xiao might pounce at her; indeed, Su Xiao seed a bit brutal at this mont.
After a few seconds of stirring, Su Xiao noticeably felt Mars’s body soften, collapsing along with him.
[You have killed: The first ghoul in history, Mars.]
[Since Mars is one of the ghoul originators, you’ve gained 10% World Source, totaling 39.3% World Source.]
After Mars’s death, a brilliant blue treasure chest floated above his corpse.
Su Xiao imdiately retrieved Dragon Slash, picked up the blue treasure chest, and without delay, used his movable right hand to dig inside Mars’s torso, quickly grabbing a hard crystal, pulling out his arm to hold the ’Origin’.
[You have obtained the ’Origin’, do you wish to complete the ’Hidden Task: Source’?]
Su Xiao chose to complete it; ti wasn’t on his side as the shriveled Priest was beginning to move closer, yet he seed wary of the surrounding ’Rc Cell Suppression Gas.’
[You have completed the ’Hidden Task: Source’, obtaining 2 attribute points, and 3 Soul Crystals (Small).]
The ’Origin’ in Su Xiao’s hand vanished. Now, not only the Priest but even Arima Kishou and Takatsuki Sen had hints of killing intent in their eyes.
"Return."
Su Xiao murmured, as the surrounding space started distorting. The sensation of a blow to the head ca, vision darkened, marking the end of his ti in this Derivative World.
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