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A team of "hunting dogs" lay in ambush in the abandoned city.

The sixth group's current hiding place is also in the abandoned city area.

The most important of the targets that "Hound" claimed to be eliminating was Group Six.

Could this group be targeting Group Six?

Li Cheng felt he was being a bit delusional.

It shouldn't be possible. The sixth group did a very good job of concealing themselves, and there should be no reason for them to be discovered.

"Cheng?"

Zi, who was beside him, suddenly spoke up at this moment.

"Zi, what's wrong?"

Li Cheng turned his head in confusion, only to find Zi Zheng looking at him from behind with a half-smile.

"Don't get distracted right now, Cheng~"

Zi laughed as she quickly slipped into the gap.

Almost simultaneously, a gust of wind swept rapidly from behind his head, accompanied by a shrill roar, and a huge blood-red giant sent Li Cheng flying.

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Chapter 20, Section 282: The Bloody Harvest

Just as everyone realized something was wrong, gunshots rang out from outside, instantly surrounding the small house.

The magical barrier was bombarded by countless bullets, its patterns constantly emerging. Fortunately, Rin had put considerable effort into its design, so the barrier wouldn't be shattered so easily. But soon, Kiritsugu Emiya noticed that the attackers outside the window were carrying out something that looked somewhat familiar.

"boom!!"

The deafening bombardment, accompanied by intense flames that engulfed the entire street, was a concentrated energy bomb with power comparable to a missile. It swept into two nearby blocks, turning the area into a sea of ​​fire.

As for the barrier that Rin had spent a great deal of effort (and resources) to set up, it was naturally crushed without a doubt under this level of firepower.

"...Where did these guys get this stuff from?"

In the critical moment, the group who had escaped the disaster through the pre-prepared tunnel looked up at the area covered by thick smoke and fire, and Rin shouted out with an incredulous expression.

The burning flames blocked the view of the outside world and also blocked the view of the attackers outside, but this was only a temporary measure. If the enemy wanted to search, they could quickly find their hiding place.

However, this tunnel is connected to the surrounding sewers.

"Escape through the sewers, find out their numbers and strength before making any further plans."

As he spoke, Kiritsugu Emiya opened an iron door leading to the sewers beneath the tunnel. But as soon as he opened the door, a follower beside him grabbed him and pulled him back a step. The next moment, a dense hail of bullets covered the spot where Kiritsugu Emiya had been standing.

The enemy has also laid an ambush in the sewers?

……

A heavy, pile-driving force sent Li Cheng's body flying like a ball. The wind howled, stirring up countless dust and garbage from the abandoned sewers, and Li Cheng's body slammed heavily into a sewer wall. The enormous impact shattered the entire wall, along with the ceiling and floor, and in the blink of an eye, Li Cheng was engulfed in the ruins.

To be honest, I feel a little dizzy.

The sudden attack was powerful, but it didn't harm Li Cheng in the slightest. Just moments before the attack, Zi had already activated the power of her realm, and Li Cheng's physical strength was now on a completely different level, so he wouldn't suffer any damage from the attack.

It was truly a setback.

Li Cheng sighed with some regret, propped himself up from the pile of rubble, and paid no attention to the huge figure that was roaring and rapidly approaching.

The force applied to him was something he had tried many times before, but none of them had been as effective as today, allowing him to completely disregard this attack that far exceeded his body's tolerance.

The gap between myself and Zi is just too big...

This fact left Li Cheng slightly frustrated.

The three-meter-tall, red, bare-chested, muscular giant was actually Li Cheng's second encounter with it. He had faced such a monster once before in the maze, and seeing a second one here suggested that it must be a mass-producible biological weapon.

It possesses a top-tier A-grade physique, immune to most weapon and magical attacks, and is also capable of mass production.

Compared to martial artists who might not reach Rank A even after a lifetime of cultivation, and who are prone to sudden death for various reasons even after reaching Rank A, Li Cheng felt that this thing was simply a mockery of those who devoted themselves to cultivation.

"It makes all my twenty-odd years of cultivation seem like a joke..."

Li Cheng sighed, turned around and faced the red giant that had already reached him. He perfectly twisted his waist, arms and fists, releasing his maximum power, and collided violently with the huge monster that was clenching its fist and lunging at him.

In the desolate ruins, a barely perceptible tremor resounded. A section of the already dilapidated road collapsed after the tremors. In the sewers, now covered in rubble, the red giant was sent flying by Li Cheng's punch, crashing into the top of the sewer before being crushed by the collapsing debris.

The effect of this attack was quite astonishing. The monster was crushed under the pile of rubble and seemed to have fallen into a coma, unable to get up for a while. Li Cheng was stunned on the spot because that attack had exceeded his strength limit by several times.

I couldn't even catch a punch from the other person with both hands when we were in the maze, but now I'm beating them up like a ball and sending them flying. I don't remember when I became this strong.

Wait a minute—

Li Cheng suddenly realized what was happening and then noticed the demonic power coursing through his body.

The power of the realm completely altered his nerve responses, strength, explosiveness, and even the flow of air around him, unknowingly raising his strength to a whole new level.

To put it simply, in that instant of collision, the red giant unleashed its full power, while Li Cheng was hit by a barrage of damage-boosting, critical-hit, and vision-enhancing hero attacks, and also received an invincibility buff. The difference in their output instantly reached a terrifying level that was completely incomparable.

A soft laugh came from behind Li Cheng.

What's going on? It's clearly the exact same move I used before, yet it's been strengthened to this extent. It seems I still have a long way to go in learning about higher realms.

"Roar--"

Beneath the pile of rubble, the red giant, now fully conscious, roared. It pushed aside the rubble pressing down on it, staggered to its feet, and fixed its eyes, filled with savagery and bloodlust, on Li Cheng.

However, unlike the last time when he could only barely hold his own against it, Li Cheng is now able to completely overwhelm this monster in terms of strength.

Moreover, this monster's aura doesn't seem as strong as the last one. If I'm not mistaken, it shouldn't have the ability to revive continuously.

Thinking this, Li Cheng faced the roaring giant as it charged forward, the booming sound echoing once again throughout the entire sewer.

……

"Hey, can you guys hear something in the distance?"

Rin, who was hiding beside a side road, felt as if she heard a faint roar in the distance, but upon closer listening, she could not make it out clearly and was unsure whether such a sound was actually heard.

"Let's take care of things here first."

Kiritsugu Emiya interrupted her coldly, leaned out halfway, raised his submachine gun, and fired a series of shots into the darkness ahead. Immediately afterward, countless tongues of fire spewed from the opposite side, forcing Kiritsugu Emiya to retreat back to the side path.

The attack on Group Six was carried out by a team of at least fifty people. They appeared to be ordinary people, with vacant eyes and slow movements, wielding various light and heavy weapons as they opened fire on the group. Kiritsugu Emiya suspected that they were all ordinary people being manipulated, a suspicion later confirmed by Rin's magical analysis.

"Tch, how despicable, using a bunch of ordinary people to attack us."

Rin muttered something in annoyance, took out a gem from her pocket, glanced at the smooth, precious gem with a pained expression, then suppressed her sorrow and threw it out. After a magic incantation, the gem burst into a rainbow of light in the dark sewer, and the ordinary people who had been attacking with guns all collapsed to the ground, bleeding from their mouths and noses, unable to get up.

"Half a month's salary gone just like that... These bastards, I'm going to wipe out this 'hound' completely, ahhh—"

It seems that the gemstone we just saw was quite valuable.

However, Kiritsugu Emiya had no time to comfort the dejected Rin. The enemies lurking in the shadows were not just this group of gunmen. He knew that there were at least three A-rank enemies waiting to attack them. The believer and Shiki each held one of them back, but because the opponents this time were quite strong, they had not yet been able to determine a winner.

And now, there is likely another A-rank lurking in the shadows, spying on Kiritsugu Emiya.

Without any hesitation, he pulled the pin and threw a flashbang. The blinding light and sonic boom were crystal clear in the enclosed sewer. At the same time, Kiritsugu Emiya caught a short footstep.

Time speeds up, by two times!

His speed increased abruptly, and Kiritsugu Emiya drew his submachine gun with lightning speed, unleashing a burst of fire at the area from which the footsteps were coming from the darkness. He didn't hear any hits, but he successfully detected the sound of the approaching footsteps.

The other person is charging towards me!

A tearing pain shot through his waist and abdomen in the next moment. Even though he had used his speed to make his agility almost on par with A-rank, Kiritsugu Emiya was still unable to completely dodge the sudden attack. He could only clutch his bleeding abdomen in pain and dodge to the side.

Not seeing the other person, is it invisibility? Or is it refracting light?

If it's magic invisibility...

Kiritsugu Emiya crouched silently in the corner, his right hand reaching silently for the old-fashioned pistol at his waist.

But the second attack did not occur.

Kiritsugu Emiya's expression changed.

Oh no, Tohsaka.

With a loud bang, Rin emerged somewhat disheveled from the sewer's side entrance, her clothes slightly torn, suggesting she had sustained some injuries.

A faint sound came from the sewer to the side. A tall figure crashed through the wall and lay bleeding profusely in the garbage heap in the middle of the sewer, seemingly dead. Shi emerged from the hole in the wall with a cold expression, wiping the blood from his face.

Kiritsugu Emiya noticed that the footsteps had changed direction.

when!

Without even needing Kiritsugu Emiya to warn him, Shiki simply swung his sword lightly and blocked the unseen attacker's supposedly perfect sneak attack.

A roar came from afar, accompanied by the sound of something being smashed.

A woman with a face full of scars roared and brandished two blades, fighting off unarmed followers on the other side of the sewer. They were the closest to the source of the roar. Hearing the approaching sound, the scarred woman was slightly taken aback. The followers seized the opportunity and immediately approached her. With a spell, the woman's heart was crushed by a dark demonic hand.

At that moment, a scarred red giant flew over from a distance and crashed heavily onto the man who had been slain but was not yet completely dead.

Li Cheng, looking slightly dirty and disheveled, ran over, panting slightly, as if he had just finished a light aerobic exercise.

"Hey, what's going on? What are you all doing here?"

He looked at the group of six standing on both sides of the sewer with some confusion, all staring at him.

……

At the same time, outside a large area of ​​the city that had been reduced to a sea of ​​fire, a man with an intricate tattoo on his right cheek took a bite of an apple and looked at the fire with a mocking expression.

"Hmph, I thought it would be of great use, but it turned out to be a complete failure."

He scoffed unhappily, threw the half-eaten apple away, and turned to walk out.

"I initially thought they were just three fairly strong A-level individuals, but it turns out they're two A+, and one even has physical abilities approaching that of a transcendent. What's going on? How could someone with this kind of strength be part of an action team? Are all the top experts these days just bored and have nothing better to do?"

They had initially thought they could create a bloody spree and wipe out Group Six in one fell swoop. However, although their initial preparations were successful, the troops they deployed were simply no match for their opponents. As the fighting progressed, it turned out that their own men were the ones being slaughtered.