In the Sand Village, the clones are everywhere, and the Arkham game begins

Chapter 494 Asura One-horned Immortal
Shimizu had actually wanted to go to the House of Evolution to find Genus for a long time.

The location is actually within a general range, because the Hero Association has relevant information, and it's quite detailed.

Because the information was provided by the zombie man, it was a potential high-level threat, and because it used humans as experimental subjects, it was a harmful threat. It had more than one monster of the demon level or above, and there was also an Asura rhinoceros beetle whose strength was considered powerful among the dragon level. The remaining minions were all good tiger level fighters such as the psychic slug, the frog man, and the mantis man.

This is actually a rather terrifying force.

Only S-class heroes with top-tier strength can defeat Asura Rhinoceros Beetle; the same applies to Demon-level monsters, which also require the intervention of S-class heroes.

A single Beast King is not something that weaker S-class heroes like Sexy Prisoner or Tank Top Master can handle.

In other words, if the Hero Association wants to take down the House of Evolution, it will need to deploy at least two or three S-class heroes, along with several A-class and B-class heroes to assist in dealing with those Tiger-level monsters, and there is a high possibility that it will result in significant casualties.

It's fair to say that before the emergence of Boros's Dark Pirates and the Monster Association, it would be hard to find a monster organization stronger than the House of Evolution.

Once action is taken, the towns near the House of Evolution will likely be destroyed.

Since the House of Evolution has not gone out to cause widespread destruction and is relatively stable, and its strength is enough to make the Hero Association wary, the Hero Association will not take the lead.

Although the Hero Association is named after heroes, it is not actually a purely heroic organization. Although due to the founder and the social environment, it still retains its original intention in most of its work, it is also a huge organization with hundreds of professional heroes as the main body, a large number of wealthy and powerful people as support, and talents and elites from all walks of life as assistants. Naturally, it will weigh the pros and cons.

Before the House of Evolution takes the initiative to emerge and causes damage to the outside world, the Hero Association will not intervene without absolute certainty and without the possibility of causing significant casualties.

Putting aside everything else, if the operation fails and is exposed, the decline in public opinion, public confidence, and support for the association will be enough to give the association a headache.

Of course, this situation generally won't happen, because if the House of Evolution were to display such terrifying strength, the Hero Association would definitely find a way to mobilize multiple S-class heroes, or even deploy Tatsumaki as their ace.

Just like the Monster Association.

The existence of such organizations has truly posed a significant threat to the Hero Association.

Of course, the fact that the Monster Association captured the association's major shareholder and his son, as well as the founder Argni's son, was also an important factor that led the Hero Association to mobilize all its top fighters.

Therefore, even Tatsumaki, the ace of the association, will not take action until the House of Evolution truly displays its destructive power. Although she appears to be a legitimate little girl, Tatsumaki is not stupid and naturally worries that she will be deceived and that her powerful strength will be used by others.

If the House of Evolution shows any signs of rioting, Tornado will naturally be dispatched immediately to suppress it.

With this kind of strength, Shimizu definitely wouldn't have been confident of breaking in alone before.

No matter how talented Genus was or how tempting his research results were, Shimizu didn't dare to go.

Now that he has the Scorching Core, Shimizu is confident that he has the ability to threaten even peak Dragon-level monsters. Below the peak Dragon level, there shouldn't be any monsters who can rival him.

While the Asura Rhinoceros Beetle in Asura Mode is indeed very strong, it probably hasn't reached the peak of the Dragon level.

Because if he truly possessed the peak of the Dragon level, then Genus definitely wouldn't be able to contain him.

The peak of the Dragon level is almost close to the peak of combat power in the One-Punch Man world.

Aside from those few who possess the power to destroy the earth's surface, sink continents, or even pierce through the earth, those at the peak of the dragon level are practically invincible.

Aside from Tornado, Blast, and Saitama, almost no one is confident in killing a peak Dragon-level monster. Even the powerful Bang and Bomb brothers, who would definitely be considered top-tier S-class monsters, couldn't kill Elder Centipede when they teamed up to unleash the Sky-Rending Fist. They couldn't even inflict serious damage; instead, they broke its outer shell, causing Elder Centipede to shed its skin.

In the radio drama, Superalloy Darkshine killed Asura Rhino Beetle in fifteen minutes. However, due to his own inner characteristics, Superalloy Darkshine suffered losses against Garou before he became a monster, President Acid after he fused with his gums, and Golden Sperm. His strength was at most that of a Dragon Peak gatekeeper.

Only those who can pass through the black light are qualified to be considered at the peak of the dragon realm.

This is enough to show that the Asura Rhinoceros Beetle hasn't even reached that level yet.

Even if a peak Dragon-level enemy were to appear, Shimizu would have the confidence to escape unscathed, and might even be able to try and eliminate it by leveraging the high burst damage of the Scorching Core.

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The city of W, where the House of Evolution is located, is not very close to the city of D, where Shimizu is located.

In the original timeline, Genos and Saitama started from the neighboring Z City and traveled for quite some time before arriving at W City.

If Shimizu were to follow the group of strange people directly from D City, in addition to Z City, he would have to pass through Y City and X City to reach W City. It would be roughly from the northernmost point of the supercontinent to the city closest to the easternmost point.

Doing that would definitely be a waste of time.

Shimizu didn't know if Genus had already made all the arrangements before coming to cause trouble for him, but he didn't intend to give the other party any more time. He directly activated the teleportation aperture twice and successfully arrived in W City within a few seconds.

Guided by the armored gorillas and the others, Shimizu arrived at the House of Evolution in less than two minutes.

Since Shimizu controlled both the Earth Dragon and the Frog Man, the two weaker non-psychic monsters, with his illusion magic, he didn't need to worry about them deliberately leading him astray.

"Is this the House of Evolution?"

Shimizu ignored the old building in the forest, stomped his foot on the ground, then gathered energy in his right hand and, with the support of his mental energy field, threw a punch into the ground.

A large crater was blasted into the ground.

Genos, who was sitting in front of his computer watching the surveillance footage, suddenly jolted awake and hurriedly ran towards the room behind him.

How come you came so quickly?
Don't you need time to travel?
And how did he manage to punch right through to this area?

Does that mean that the eight-story building I used for cover above, and the layers of mechanisms and traps I prepared on the ten floors below, were all ineffective?
According to the surveillance footage, even the armored gorilla and the telekinetic slug were turned against them by the other side using unknown methods. Now, he can only pin his hopes on the Asura rhinoceros beetle, which, although powerful, is also cruel and uncontrollable.

Fortunately, the enemy has been lured out by its own large number of clones.

And next...

"Hopefully, they can both suffer heavy losses, just as I've thought."

Genos quietly hid in the most secluded and secure room underground.

In a room of the House of Evolution, Shimizu glanced at Genus's location but ignored him for the time being. Instead, he unleashed several sword energies, annihilating the Armored Gorilla, the Psychic Slug, the Earth Dragon, and the Frog Man.

They were useless. At the same time, within Qing Shui's perception range, a powerful entity was rapidly approaching him.

"Aha, ahaha! Ugh, ugh, ugh!"

A strange creature covered in brown carapace and with pointed horns on its head charged toward Shimizu Hajime like a dump truck, crushing countless Genus clones and walls in its path.

"it's him!"

The Genus clone, held in the hand of the Asura Rhinoceros Beetle, pointed at Shimizu standing at the end of the tunnel and shouted.

"Come on!"

This clone, dressed in a suit and disguised as the real Genus, was crushed into minced meat by the Asura Rhinoceros Beetle.

"Aha, now that you know the way, you're useless! Hey, you're that hero Genus was talking about, right? As long as I kill you, I can get out of here and then rule the whole world!"

The thick lips of the Asura rhinoceros beetle's ugly face stuck out its fat tongue, and it laughed loudly at the clear water.

As the most powerful creation of Genus, the Asura Rhinoceros Beetle has always believed that it is a creature far more intelligent and powerful than all humans, and is capable of perfectly replacing them.

After all, he had been confined to the House of Evolution since he was created. Genus did not dare to teach him knowledge because the thing was too ferocious. No matter how many clones went, they would be killed, so there was no point in teaching him. Therefore, Asura Rhinoceros Beetle had not read many books and had not seen much of the world. He did not know how big the outside world was or how strong the strong were.

"Tsk... Nowadays, cultured villains generally don't talk about low-class ambitions like ruling the world. You should say that the world's resources are limited, so in order to ensure the continuation of humanity, half of the people should be killed after we leave."

Or perhaps, in order to bring peace to a human society constantly embroiled in internal strife, you decide to portray yourself as a powerful villain, a deterrent to all humanity, preventing them from easily starting wars. If you go out claiming you want to rule the world, you won't be able to convince like-minded people to help you, and you're likely to fail.

Shimizu looked at the Asura rhinoceros beetle, which had a pointed head and looked rather dim-witted, and said earnestly.

Fighting a villain who seems too stupid, has too low a level of sophistication, and lacks any distinctive characteristics, even if you win, doesn't bring much sense of accomplishment.

"What nonsense are you spouting? Why go through all that trouble to rule the world? I could just kill everyone!"

The Asura rhinoceros beetle picked its large nostrils and flicked out a booger with disdain.

"Okay, I almost forgot you're not human. You can't use human thinking to try to understand a dung beetle's thoughts."

Shimizu sighed.

"Damn it, I'm a rhinoceros beetle, a rhinoceros beetle! A noble rhinoceros beetle, not some dung beetle!"

The Asura Rhinoceros Beetle roared loudly.

"But you two do look almost identical. Why don't you tell me, what's the difference between a rhinoceros beetle and a dung beetle?"

"Um... the difference, the difference is that the rhinoceros beetle... the rhinoceros beetle, the rhinoceros beetle is more..."

The Asura Rhinoceros Beetle scratched its head, unable to come up with an answer.

Shimizu then spoke up:
"You idiot, dung beetles eat dung, but rhinoceros beetles are even sillier, just like you."

"Ah, right! Dung beetles eat dung, rhinoceros beetles... You bastard! How dare you call me stupid! I'm going to kill you, and after I get out and kill all the humans, I'm going to kill every single dung beetle in the world!"

The Asura Rhinoceros Beetle finally realized that it had been tricked.

With a roar, his massive body, like a heavy crushing machine, crashed into the clear water.

"boom!"

A shiny black metal fist met the Asura Rhinoceros Beetle's forehead.

The Black Warrior, now a nano-weapon, was already incredibly powerful. But Shimizu, having broken through the triple limiter's physical strength and combined it with Reverse Regeneration Triple, Sage Chakra, and Mental Aura, could unleash power far exceeding what he had displayed during his battle with Sweet Mask. Even among Dragon-level monsters, he would be considered quite strong.

Ordinary Dragon-level monsters can't withstand this!

Thick smoke billowed out, and Asura Rhinoceros Beetle and Shimizu's bodies retreated together.

Shimizu staggered back more than ten steps before stopping. In its normal state, the Asura Rhino Beetle was just an ordinary Dragon-level monster. Its entire body flew backward like a cannonball and embedded itself deeply in the wall.

In this encounter, Shimizu gained the upper hand.

"Click, click."

The thick walls cracked like a spider web before collapsing with a crash, raising clouds of dust.

The Asura Rhinoceros Beetle emerged from the rubble, its eyes now red, and its carapace gradually changing from light brown to bluish-purple, with streaks of green patterns appearing on its surface.

Beneath the carapace, the muscles swelled and writhed, and together with the altered shell, they increased the Asura Rhinoceros Beetle's original height of three or four meters to over eight meters.

Asura Mode activated!
"Human, you are indeed very strong, so strong that if I don't activate this state, I am no match for you, and my life would even be in danger. But right now, the one whose life is in danger is you!"

The Asura Rhinoceros Beetle's voice, tinged with rage, rang out, and its giant-like body transformed into a streak of light, hurtling towards the clear water.

In this state, the Asura Rhinoceros Beetle will gradually lose its rationality, but at the cost of this, its strength will also be enhanced, and this effect will last for a whole week.

"Dang~!"

The black steel longsword was drawn, meeting the single horn of the Asura rhinoceros beetle.

The two figures fought with incredible speed, exchanging countless blows in the blink of an eye.

In just a short while, this large forest on the outskirts of W City was devastated.

The ground trembled, countless trees were knocked down by the aftershocks of their battle, and even the surrounding mountains were blown apart one after another during their fight.

This is the power of a high-ranking Dragon-level monster!
It's like a massive natural disaster!

(End of this chapter)