Power of the King

Red Dust’s face lit up with wild delight. So did the dirt-covered Mo Shi Mo Wang on the other side.

They had thought that with a vicious man like Mercenary Tao appearing, at least half of their controlled Title-level Reincarnators would be sacrificed to wear him down before that madman entered the fight.

They had never expected Mad King to step in after only that idiot Show charged over alone and was beaten by Mercenary Tao to the point where his life and death were unknown?!

"Good! This madman…"

Red Dust immediately withdrew his Inner Force. The low-hanging storm clouds in the sky also slowly began to disperse as though nothing had happened.

Mo Shi Mo Wang likewise hurriedly placed several defensive talismans on himself, his entire body shrinking back in rare apprehension.

The other twenty-odd Title-level Reincarnators had already been ashen-faced. Some had even deliberately hidden beneath collapsed buildings, too afraid to stand, fearing Mad King would order them to fight Mercenary Tao.

Now, they all seemed to come back to life.

Bai Cangshu stood amid ruins nearly a kilometer across, with arcs of electricity still flickering around him. The silver-armored knight lay hundreds of meters away, more than half of his silver armor shattered, blood continuously flowing beneath him.

Bai Cangshu slipped his hands back into his pockets and leisurely walked over to Show, looking down at this Reincarnator with considerable talent for combat.

Unfortunately, the gap between their levels was far too great.

No matter how miraculous one’s talent might be, without sufficient ambition and strength, it could never bloom into a flower of miracles.

Besides…

Bai Cangshu himself was a peerless combat genius.

The corners of his mouth curled upward. He had already cast aside The King of Destiny’s request for him to bring Show back alive.

No, more accurately, The King of Destiny’s request made Bai Cangshu even more interested in killing this fellow.

The so-called Three Supreme Kings always acted as though they were mysterious figures controlling everything from behind the scenes. Bai Cangshu was quite curious—when she had sent him to rescue this somewhat famous silver-armored knight in this space, had she calculated that he would kill him?

Bai Cangshu raised his foot and stomped down.

Boom!

A massive figure over three meters tall, shaped almost like a ball of flesh, suddenly crossed several thousand meters. It moved so fast that the air boomed like a shell leaving its barrel.

A huge foot rose and blocked Bai Cangshu’s descending foot.

The twisted force pressed down on that bloated foot, and flesh and blood exploded in an instant.

"Ha, hahaha… Hahaha!"

Amid the deafening laughter, Bai Cangshu felt an immense, irresistible power gradually lift his foot.

"Rare beast~"

"Mercenary Tao, you truly are the rarest ferocious beast among those useless Reincarnators!"

A thick stench emerged alongside an overwhelming biological rank. Bai Cangshu indifferently watched as words of every color in the void returned, line by line, into the body of the man before him.

The other man’s physical abilities were growing at an unimaginable rate.

Game Over

Level and experience reset to zero.

The Game Over signs above all the slain "players" transformed into various words and converged together. His Power of the King was increasing his strength in this manner.

Crack, crack!

Two excessively powerful forces of physical strength wrestled in the air, making the atmosphere crack and snap. The slightest collision sent fine fragments of clouds scattering.

Watching from afar, Red Dust was not surprised that Mad King could block Mercenary Tao. He was surprised that Mercenary Tao had not been kicked flying by Mad King!

When he had fought Mad King before, Mad King, after swelling his body and absorbing several Reincarnators, had shattered Red Dust’s protective aura with a single kick.

That was crushing power only possible once one’s base Strength exceeded a hundred. And now, Mad King had infected an unknown number of people using a meme.

Even if ordinary people could not provide him with much power, before such a terrifying scale, every tiny increase would produce dreadful results.

What was Mad King’s base Strength now? Two hundred? Or three hundred?

Bai Cangshu raised a finger and pointed it at Mad King’s heart. Golden energy spun violently before shooting out with a hum.

Pfft!

The other man’s body shattered in an instant, yet it recovered in the blink of an eye.

Bai Cangshu saw clearly that a layer of silver radiance within his body was maintaining the shape of a person.

The Silver King’s unchanging King’s Authority trait…

Boom!

Mad King lifted a foot, and Bai Cangshu was blasted away like a cannonball. The air behind him exploded layer after layer as if it were a barrier, Blazing White cloud fragments spreading through the sky.

Bai Cangshu shot through the enormous Sword of Damocles with a hum, then freely turned in midair.

Physical strength at this level was still incapable of making him react at all.

He slowly descended from the sky and, with a soft thud, stepped onto Mad King’s head.

Mad King merely raised his eyes and looked upward. He was not angry, only continuing to laugh loudly. His outer flesh had always been no more than a puppet-like thing.

His understanding of life and ethics was entirely different from that of ordinary Reincarnators, and from the fear held toward him by those he had captured.

He truly believed himself to possess the heart of a Benevolent King.

He had immense patience toward Reincarnators he acknowledged. Just like with this Mercenary Tao—being stepped on by the other man, he did not consider it an insult in the slightest.

On the contrary, he considered it an interaction, a test.

Only when both parties possessed value was interaction necessary. When facing ants, one simply crushed them to death. Why waste a single word?

Mad King knew that Mercenary Tao had a move capable of unleashing destructive power above Fierce-tier. Since Mercenary Tao had yet to use it, did that not mean… he was interested in Mad King as well~

Just like Mad King himself.

Bai Cangshu suddenly raised his foot and lightly stomped. Twisted force violently pierced into flesh.

Pfft!

The next moment, Mad King’s flesh seemed to shatter from within. As blood sprayed outward, chunks of flesh exploded one after another.

Red Dust and the others were all stunned. He had indeed cut apart Mad King’s body before, but the other man possessed the unchanging King’s Authority and could not be killed by such means.

Bai Cangshu lightly leaped away and turned back to see that the internal organs within the enormous skeleton had already scattered everywhere.

A silver figure hugged itself, curled up where the skeleton’s heart had been.

"Mad King, right? The warm-up is over. Come on, use that move of yours~"

Bai Cangshu beckoned with an expressionless face. He showed even less excitement and enthusiasm than when facing Show.

Bai Cangshu had always looked down on Reincarnators who relied entirely on abilities, especially those who piled up their attributes through a group of weaklings.

Only Mad King’s skull remained of his head. It slowly lowered, his jaw opening and closing, but without vocal cords or flesh, no sound emerged.

"Sigh…"

A sigh appeared. The next moment, Bai Cangshu frowned as he saw the silver figure slowly begin to stretch open.

The other man slowly extended one foot, touching the air above the ground. Silver Ripples spread outward in circle after circle.

The next moment, terrifying power erupted from the sky. Bai Cangshu raised his head and saw only the excessively enormous Sword of Damocles falling straight down.

Before it even reached the ground, King’s Authority Power of every destructive color had already begun to collapse. The ionized particles in the atmosphere that Bai Cangshu had gathered with World-Shaking Thunder Roar vanished in an instant.

Bai Cangshu became a streak of golden light and shot into the sky in an instant. Not only him—Red Dust, Mo Shi Mo Wang, and the twenty-odd Title-level Reincarnators hiding in the ruins—

At that moment, all of them unleashed their abilities to the fullest and soared upward one after another.

The next moment, the Sword of Damocles struck the ground. Bai Cangshu saw a distinct black hole emerge from the center of Tokyo, then spread outward in Ripples.

Rumble!

Lu Chen began from the center of Tokyo.