I adopted a child demon from the Gap, and I'm a special agent for the Bureau of Supernatural Ab

Outside the building, Li Cheng, through the gap, reached out towards the building's base and clenched his fist. The next moment, the building collapsed with a deafening roar, burying the monster inside.

"Wow, that move by the uncle was really cool!"

Marisa, who was flying to the side, gave a serious thumbs up and said.

"Oh, really?"

He had only damaged the building's load-bearing columns with his cultivation level, and Li Cheng didn't quite understand what that had to do with being handsome.

"Yeah, he's really cool. But it's a bit awkward that he doesn't say anything while making his moves. Maybe shouting 'Destroy!' or 'Crush everything, my right arm!' on the last move would have made him even cooler!"

da★ze!

"I feel that adding those contents would only ruin my image as a mature, older man, and honestly, don't you think those lines are really awkward, especially the last one?"

"You didn't feel awkward at all, and you even had a back-and-forth banter with me. Uncle, you can't possibly be some mature old man anymore."

da★ze～”

The two people in mid-air were still chatting idly, while the ruins on the ground, after the smoke and dust gradually dissipated, revealed something quite different.

"This is……"

The once dilapidated ruins were now covered in black slime. The black stuff was like countless tiny insects, crawling all over every piece of rubble. In the middle of the black mud, there was a blackish-red thing that looked like a tumor, trembling and moving, like a deformed heart.

"This thing should be called the second phase of the BOSS."

Marisa analyzed it in a very serious manner.

"What are you talking about? What does this have to do with Persia?"

Li Cheng, an older man who doesn't play games much, was completely baffled by the descriptions used to describe Marisa.

"I don't know either," Marisa shook her head and said, "It was the princess of Eientei who said that when you encounter a powerful enemy in battle, you change your form and call it the second stage. That's roughly it!"

"This makes absolutely no sense. Oh well, let's just call it a generation gap."

Li Cheng sighed and turned his attention back to the writhing, dark red tumor. Even from a distance, he could sense the immense power it contained, confirming that it was something that had been transformed from the black humanoid monster he had fought earlier.

stab-

Like tearing a piece of paper, a pale hand ripped open the tumor and emerged from it. What followed was a human-shaped body, but without any hair or male or female organs, not even eyes, nose, or ears, only a large, round mouth that looked like an insect.

Li Cheng could feel that thing watching him.

"Watch out, this guy—"

boom!

The black light forced Li Cheng to swallow his next words and dodge first. This attack was so fast that it was almost demonic; even Marisa, who had been strolling leisurely in the pouring black rain, cried out in surprise and barely managed to dodge.

Li Cheng could clearly feel the pain in his arm. He glanced to the side and found that a large patch of his clothes had been corroded away from his left arm, and a large part of the skin underneath had also rotted away. Fresh blood quickly seeped out from it, staining that patch of clothing a bright color.

Is it really that terrible to just get a scratch?

Li Cheng knew that these black tides were very different from what Zi remembered. That thing seemed to be a terrifying entity that could be easily dissolved even by those who had transcended, while what he was fighting in front of him was probably just a piece of dregs that wasn't even a defective product.

Even if it's just remnants, isn't it a bit too much to cause injury to an A-level martial artist by ignoring their physical strength?

Li Cheng covered the festering area that was still spreading, trying to use the power of his realm to heal his wounds, but a cry of alarm from Marisa not far away, along with the sudden whistling of the wind, made him realize that the enemy was approaching once again.

"■■■■■——!!"

The roar was completely incomprehensible, but the rage and bloodlust it contained were crystal clear. The pale, humanoid monster moved from the ground to Li Cheng's side in the blink of an eye. Li Cheng didn't even have time to completely hide his body in the gap; he could only use his hands to shield his head, barely managing a defensive gesture. The next moment, a massive and ferocious force sent him flying.

Click—click—

He hadn't heard the sound of bones cracking in a long time; Li Cheng could hardly remember the last time he'd been hit so hard that his bones had broken. But at this moment, he once again clearly experienced the overwhelming power of being crushed.

His body, unable to stop, was like an out-of-control train, crashing through houses and buildings until he was deeply embedded in a half-collapsed mountain, buried by countless rubble.

"■——！■■■■——！！"

After a series of wild roars that completely lost all sense of language, the thing's mouth suddenly opened wide, and a stream of black light pierced through half the city, directly shattering the mountain where Li Cheng had been blasted into.

"Oh my, is the uncle alright?"

The sudden turn of events startled Marisa. She quickly flew towards Li Cheng's direction, but halfway there, she heard a whistling wind approaching from behind. Instinctively, she swung her broom, turning her direction with an almost impossible agility. The next moment, she brushed past the pale figure, and she could even clearly see the other's large mouth covered with ring-shaped sharp teeth.

This thing is so much faster now.

Marisa only had half a second to marvel before the falling monster suddenly unleashed a jet-black laser beam in her direction. Having already witnessed the horrific state of Li Cheng's arm after being struck by it, she dared not take the hit head-on and swiftly dodged. But the next moment, the beam of light exploded in mid-air, transforming into endless black raindrops, all of which, as if possessing sentience, chased straight towards Marisa.

"Tsk, quite a lot."

Riding her broom, Marisa quickly lowered her altitude and flew at an extremely high speed into a dilapidated residential area. Her excessive speed stirred up dust in the ruins, making it difficult to see what was inside. However, countless black raindrops firmly locked onto Marisa's direction and all followed her into the building area.

boom!

Several streaks of pitch-black liquid slammed into the wall, barely two or three centimeters from Marisa. With a sound like a cannonball exploding, the wall instantly dissolved into a puddle of sludge.

That was close, but it worked!

The black rain that hit the wall couldn't be restored and continued to chase after it; this thing was disposable.

Accompanied by countless streams of black rain, Marisa swiftly traversed the narrow alleyways. Behind her, countless houses were dissolved and destroyed, but not a single drop of black rain actually struck her.

"■■■!"

Seemingly realizing that it couldn't catch Marisa this way, the monster moved again, at a speed that exceeded the limits of Marisa's nerve reflexes. The monster crashed through layers of buildings and blocked her path.

shit!

In that brief moment, she only had time to think that.

"Drink!"

Beside the monster, a man burst forth from a dark gap, the two figures tumbling together in an instant before crashing into the nearby ruins. Marisa, caught off guard, followed closely behind, weaving through the gaps in the ruins, while the last streaks of black rain that chased her struck the dilapidated buildings.

Meanwhile, on the other side, Li Cheng, who had just stood up from the ruins, threw a backhand punch, sending the monster, which hadn't even had time to react, flying. The monster rolled down a high embankment and landed in a pile of garbage.

A faint purple light emanated from Li Cheng's skin. Wiping away the fine bloodstains on his head, Li Cheng strode forward, then jumped down from the monster's side, grabbing it from the ground. With his other hand, he clenched his fist again, and with a booming sound, the blow ripped open the monster's outer skin, revealing black, putrid sludge seeping from beneath its pale skin.

Come on!

The fully unleashed demonic power strengthened Li Cheng's body to an unprecedented level. He roared and his body shot out like a phantom. The pale monster roared and threw a punch, but Li Cheng dodged it by the side. His right hand followed up and struck the monster's abdomen. He then hooked his right foot forward, instantly disrupting the monster's balance. Then, a punch, strengthened to the limit by his realm power, slammed down on the fallen monster's head.

The shockwave from the explosion shattered a three-story house fifteen meters away.

"■■■■■——!!"

The monster's roar rang out again. Li Cheng's ferocious attacks seemed to have caused its body to crack all over, constantly oozing black slime. Seemingly finally realizing what was happening, it suddenly reached out and grabbed the fist that the other was swinging at it. Then, it roared and swung its other hand out, but Li Cheng grabbed it instead.

This fierce battle suddenly turned into a pure and primal contest of strength.

"Ugh—"

In terms of pure strength, Li Cheng was at a disadvantage almost immediately. The monster before him was so powerful that it could even be compared to his former teacher, Ji Wen. But then, the power of his cultivation level was naturally mobilized, and Li Cheng suddenly stood up straight, his feet planted firmly on the ground, even showing a faint tendency to overpower the pale monster before him.

If our own strength is insufficient, then let us add the strength of this land!

By connecting his body to the earth and using the power of his realm, Li Cheng transformed his struggle with the monster into a struggle between the monster and the entire ruins.

"■■■■■——!!"

The earth began to tremble and crack. The monster roared even more ferociously, its ever-growing power, after being briefly suppressed, began to counterattack once more. Li Cheng struggled to maintain his strength, completely unaware that the blood vessels in his arms were bursting. Meanwhile, outside him, the floating ruins were beginning to show increasingly severe cracking.

How can it possibly rival the power of an entire land? Just what is this thing?

Li Cheng, who could barely stand, was now filled with indescribable terror at the power of the pale monster before him.

"Don't panic, uncle! I'm here to save the day!"

Marisa's voice suddenly came from the sky. The next moment, a massive amount of magical power suddenly enveloped Li Cheng and the monster completely. Li Cheng almost thought that the other party wanted to pulverize him and the monster together into molecular structures, but the warmth in his body and the gradually increasing power immediately made him realize that the other party was using magical power to protect him.

You can feel that the disadvantage has been reversed.

Li Cheng, who was almost overwhelmed by the monster, slowly stood up again.

"■■■——!!!"

The monster was still roaring madly, but having exhausted all its strength, it was no longer able to put up an effective fight and could only gradually lose ground to Li Cheng in the struggle.

"Destroy me here...!"

Finally, with Li Cheng's roar, the pale monster was slammed to the ground by Li Cheng's blow. The power of the realm was released violently from Li Cheng's hands, directly shredding the monster's body on the spot.

With a muffled roar, the already dilapidated ruins finally collapsed and shattered completely.

……

The eastern foot of the anchorage has been destroyed.

A voice, neither male nor female, echoed in the darkness.

Although even a single anchor wouldn't cause this space to collapse, for the sake of the experiment's stability, the destruction cannot be allowed to continue.

In the darkness, there seemed to be shadowy figures of people moving about.

[Ten hours later, those people will surely begin their second operation. Go, protect the other four anchors, and act freely as long as you don't violate the agreement.]

The pitch-black world seemed to suddenly become empty.

……

I must have heard something.

In his hazy consciousness, Li Cheng seemed to vaguely see something; a jumble of things tangled and twisted, making his mind even more muddled. As if barely waking up from a hangover, clutching his aching head, Li Cheng slowly sat up, opened his eyes, and after an initial daze, stared blankly at his surroundings.

Have I been thrown into a garbage dump?

…………

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Book recommendation: *The Bizarre Adventure of Joestar*

Because of me, Fujimaru Ritsuka fell into a coma, and then she stabbed me, which is fine.

I accept that my spirit origin has been destroyed, right?

But deleting my entire record in the Throne of Heroes is going too far. (Even though it was something I got for free, so it wasn't really real.)

Destroying the body and covering up the evidence is one thing, but you've gone so far as to utterly destroy someone's soul, you bastards!!!

However, let's set aside for now the matter of how to return to Chaldea to seek revenge.