The Creatures That We Are

Chapter 777: Can’t Read the Ending

She had used Disorientation several times in a short span and fought intensely, reaching her limit. She knew that this would be her last time using Disorientation, so she tried her best to make it last as long as she could.

Her throat bulged and her eyes turned bloodshot. Face pale, two thin lines of blood streaked down from her nostrils.

Liao Liao!

You can do it!

Just a little longer, a little longer!

The grim reaper’s standing right behind you. Don’t let them swing the scythe down. If you buy another second, just one second...there will be miracles. There will be.

...

Ring.

Something snapped in Liao Liao’s head. She had reached her limit. Her consciousness was frayed, and her body weak and frail. She toppled backward.

The last thought flashing through her mind couldn’t be more trivial: I won’t get to read the ending of My Buddy is the Chosen One.

Boom!

Two seconds later, she heard a loud bam from the ground. The space distorted strangely as if God had violently torn open the world like a piece of paper.

And the reality wasn’t too far off.

A great golden waterfall of energy shot along the main street of Aurora Town from one end to the other. The blinding golden light filled the space between heaven and earth. It looked like a golden veil had suddenly cut into Liao Liao’s vision. Countless elite monsters flew away, struggled, and melted in the veil, disintegrating into strands of black.

Even those on the rooftop had been lifted off their feet by the resulting currents.

Thankfully, Zhong He had buried his shadow ropes into the concrete floor in time and caught everyone, preventing them from getting swept into the energy that would melt all.

The second before Liao Liao blacked out, she realized what had happened.

Azure Dragon.

...

Earlier, with the ice dragon Six Rime had conjured serving as a stepping stone, Azure Dragon had made another jump in the air and quickly approached the devourer prime flying away at full speed with his companions—Tokoos.

Shit, this lunatic!

Tokoos felt as if a missile was coming his way. He cursed under his breath and quickly let go, hurling Dust, Clear Mirror, and Tia down.

The eyes of two twisted faces on his arms shone brightly. He used Iron Skin and Double at the same time, creating a reinforced double and using it as a shield.

Bam!

Azure Dragon’s punch landed on the chest of Tokoos’ iron skin double. It instantly broke into countless pieces. Still, that offset Azure Dragon’s punch substantially, and having strengthened his real body with Iron Skin as well, Tokoos crossed his arms and endured the remaining force of the punch.

Bam!

While Tokoos didn’t break down like his double, he still ended up thrown into a water tower like a bullet. Then he fell to the clearing below the water tower, rolling a few times on the snowy ground.

Tokoos felt as if his bones had been disassembled. He endured the pain and quickly got to his feet, attempting to run away.

Thud! But Azure Dragon was already landing twenty meters from him, the impact bringing up a ripple of snow.

This is crazy! Are you really a fucking human?!

We’re both the growth type. Why is there such a great difference between us?!

Tokoos clenched his teeth. He knew it was too late for him to flee with Fly. Given Azure Dragon’s speed with his jumps, the man could intercept him midair easily.

And it would be absurd for Tokoos to try to run on foot. Who could outpace that man on foot?

This is the only way!

Tokoos widened his arms. Instantly, the eyes of a dozen and more distorted faces on his arms lit up...

Whoosh.

Tokoos didn’t even have the time to tap into his energy and combine the energy routes in his body. Azure Dragon was already right before him.

It only took 0.1 seconds.

A thousand simple punches.

The punches rained down on Tokoos, giving him no time to react or counterattack. It felt as if Azure Dragon had hundreds of hands, all clenched into fists and landing on all parts of his body.

The punches grew increasingly stronger, and soon, Tokoos’ skin and flesh split. Then his bones broke and his internal organs got blended. The intense pain got shoved into his brain like countless puzzle pieces.

During the few seconds when his consciousness grew dull, all Tokoos could think of was, If I had known this would happen, I should’ve long agreed to be Tia’s dog.

Five seconds.

A thousand punches; no more, no less.

The air settled down suddenly before rippling outward. Azure Dragon pulled back.

Tokoos was already a gory mess like a red wax statue that had melted by half. Two seconds later, he collapsed bonelessly, blood foams still gurgling from his tattered body.

The devourer prime died with no dignity.

Azure Dragon didn’t even spare the body a glance before turning around. His eyes twitched.

He was standing at the entrance of Aurora Town, and all he could see were dense packs of elite monsters. He could faintly see figures fighting at the end of the road. Six Rime and the others were struggling.

Azure Dragon rushed toward his teammates. Countless elite monsters lunged at him, and he took every one of them out with a single punch. However, they continued to fearlessly swarm up to him.

Azure Dragon killed all the monsters in his way as he ran. Bloody bodies quickly piled up around him. However, he had made little progress. Elite monsters numerous enough to fill his vision swarmed up to him with reckless abandon.

The strong slaughterers didn’t fear death. Since they couldn’t hurt Azure Dragon, they bit him, grappled him, and locked onto his body to restrain him.

The devourers morphed their arms into flexible yet sturdy tentacles, wrapping around Azure Dragon. And the overtakers made wild stabs at him with their bone stings, creating a cage of tightly intertwined thorns.

Azure Dragon was trapped, with little room to move.

Tentacles covered in grayish-green scales wound around his serious face, hissing and slithering like small vipers.

Through the gaps, Azure Dragon could see with his keen eyes that Six Rime had conjured an ice ladder out of the bar at the other end of the town. Reaching the rooftop of the building across the bar, the group failed to run away and ended up in another struggle.

They won’t survive until I make it to them. There’s no time!

Azure Dragon concluded and made up his mind.

He tapped into the deep well of his energy, his body radiating a bright golden light. Despite the tentacles and slaughterers swarming up to him, the golden light shone through like sunlight breaking through dark clouds.

Paying no mind to the enemies, he clenched his right fist and charged.

Despite not having made a full recovery, he decided to make another Strongest Punch with full charge.

One second.

Two.

...

Eight.

The golden light trapped by countless monsters suddenly flickered and leaked out, and the air around Azure Dragon seemed to darken, too. Time froze for a second.

Boom!

Golden light exploded and devoured everything in the area.

The golden line of God returned!

God didn’t even need a ruler this time. The golden chalk could just make a line following the dent that was the main road of Aurora Town.

Swoosh.

The elite monsters crowding the road instantly vanished in the golden line, their deaths an afterthought of the grandiose display.

There had been more than three thousand elite monsters, and there were now less than a thousand.

Huff...huff.

There were no living elite monsters around Azure Dragon. They were either rendered into pieces, or swept away and melted by the energy of the Strongest Punch.

Azure Dragon panted heavily, feeling lightheaded, but he stayed on one knee and didn’t fall.

The battle...wasn’t over yet.

He clenched his teeth and rose to his feet. He had left himself with five percent of his energy. It wouldn’t be enough against Dust and Clear Mirror, but he was a fighter, and a fighter fought until the last second of his life.

Swoosh.

Tia showed up.

The slaughterer prime had parted ways with Dust and Clear Mirror as soon as she landed. She rushed this way as soon as she looked up and saw Tokoos getting thrown into a water tower.

She naively believed that by fighting alongside Tokoos, they would be able to buy some time for their escape. Yet she couldn’t even reach the battlefield before Azure Dragon killed Tokoos. It took only five seconds.

Tia witnessed the terrible death of her companion from afar.

Fear, shock, rage, and sadness translated into a tear of humiliation, falling from her beautiful golden eyes.

I don’t hate you, Tokoos. I’ve rejected you because...I worried that you would get bored of me once you got to know me for real, that you would find out how dull my soul was.

But do we really have a soul?

Fuck, there’s no point in thinking about this... I’ll avenge you, Tokoos!

Tia hid. She waited for Azure Dragon to get swarmed up by the great number of monsters, for him to make a move.

After the Strongest Punch was made, the roles of predator and prey reversed.