Konoha's Mission Master

"But I cannot guarantee that..."

After all, the Angel King is a force at the pinnacle of the world's power, and who can guess what she's thinking? The information we have so far is not based on speculation about her actions in recent years.

Genos raised an eyebrow and asked.

"Are you scared?"

"Of course I'm scared, I'm scared."

Yakumo shrugged and answered very seriously.

"You're interesting."

Genos didn't see the fearlessness of a hero in Yakumo, yet this person... did things that only heroes do.

Now Genos is curious about what exactly is driving Yakumo... to keep moving forward.

"I'm off first."

With bright blue flames erupting from its back, Genos flew like a meteor towards the distant active volcano, its body accelerating and leaving a trail of blue light in the air.

His figure was gradually covered by volcanic ash in the sky.

Yakumo led the three of them slowly closer to the volcano. The surrounding temperature continued to rise, giving people the illusion of being scorched by fire, and the air was filled with the smell of sulfur.

There were no plants to be seen on the streets. Red flames floated on the solidified black volcanic rock, as if it contained extremely unstable energy that could devour life at any moment.

This active volcano is located outside M City. It is about two thousand meters high and has many honeycomb-like holes about five meters high. Various kinds of fiery red monsters live inside it.

Their bodies are covered with mysterious red patterns, and they absorb the heat energy of the volcano to enhance their strength while they are dormant. A continuous stream of magma from deep underground converges here from afar.

At the crater, which resembles a giant lake, the Lava King lies dormant, its body mostly floating on the surface of the lava.

It was clearly humanoid, but its body was covered with thick red rocks, with golden liquid like magma flowing in the crevices. The flame-like patterns on its armor were even denser, almost covering its entire body.

In particular, the patterns on his chest were more complex, resembling a constantly twisting and changing flame.

At this moment, Genos was suspended fifty meters above the crater. None of the nearly one thousand lava monsters in the volcano noticed his arrival; they were all fast asleep, clinging to the flowing lava.

Click, click click click.

This was the sound of machinery operating. Genos removed a huge bomb weighing about two hundred pounds from his back. He said that the bomb was made of a kind of refined gunpowder that had been compressed more than a hundred times through a special process.

The explosive power of this bomb is equivalent to five tons of C4.

Genos casually tossed the bomb toward the crater. The bomb had no detonator; the high temperature of the lava would detonate it instantly, igniting the volcano within the confined space.

According to calculations, the boiling lava will flood the entire M City and may even affect several surrounding cities occupied by monsters.

This was Genos's plan. Even if the two of them couldn't kill the powerful Lava King, destroying the volcano would be equivalent to destroying the Lava King's armory.

Those Tiger-level and Demon-level monsters... are simply unable to be immersed in the molten lava.

Even though Dragon-level monsters are stronger, they can't stay in the water for long.

After dropping the bomb, Genos began to quickly rise to avoid being affected by the air turbulence caused by the explosion.

Seeing that the bomb had been thrown, Yakumo immediately reconstructed several layers of blood-red vines in front of the three people, making them resemble a hard shield. Genos had once described the power of this bomb.

This is the limit of human technology... compressing specially made gunpowder a full hundred times without destroying its internal structure, and even increasing the bomb's power due to the compression.

One second, two seconds, three seconds... four seconds... five seconds.

The black bomb fell into the lava, and the explosion did not keep Yakumo waiting for long. Almost instantly, a terrifying shockwave spread from the waist of the active volcano to the surrounding area.

In an instant, the sky and the earth shook.

The volcano's outer wall shattered completely in less than a second under the force of the explosion. Large amounts of magma gushed out from the broken parts and spread wildly in all directions, like demons from hell bursting out of the gates, intending to destroy everything in sight. It quickly extended for hundreds of meters.

Guided by the force of the explosion, Yakumo witnessed the fury of nature; the black stones... flew around like cannonballs, their power enough to easily pierce through steel plates.

Countless plumes of smoke billowed into the sky from above, completely obscuring the surrounding sky like a layer of gray, dark clouds.

The next second, magma erupted into the sky, eventually spreading out under the force of the impact, like fireworks exploding in the sky. Countless golden specks of light fell like a meteor shower, then solidified as the temperature dropped.

Boom, boom, boom.

The massive boulder was thrown against the defense formed by Yakumo. The enormous impact startled Yakumo, who was ultimately impressed by the power of technology, truly a culmination of thousands of years of wisdom.

An angry roar erupted from the volcano, deafeningly loud.

Amidst the apocalyptic scene, the Lava King stood up straight!

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Chapter 383: The Prelude to the Battle

In M City, the moment the volcano erupted, the Lava King awoke from his slumber and was immediately confronted with a scene of apocalypse. The strange beings struggling in the lava were all his descendants.

Golden magma dripped from the surface of the Lava King's body, which was about five meters tall and radiated terrifying heat.

Its head is square, with a thin red line extending from its eyes to behind its ears, and finally extending to its brain.

Its imposing aura far surpassed that of any enemy Yakumo had ever encountered.

As the lava gazed upon the ravaged land and saw its own descendants being roasted to a crisp in the boiling magma, its anger grew ever stronger.

As it raged, the temperature of the surrounding magma became even more terrifying, and the struggling monsters were burned to charcoal at an even faster rate. The Lava King was born deep in the earth, and although it was extremely powerful, it was very simple-minded.

Its idea can be categorized as...

To seek revenge against humanity, and to cultivate oneself to become stronger.

More monsters were burned to death in the lava.

The Lava King became even more frenzied and enraged, the surrounding temperature became even more terrifying, and more monsters were scorched to death.

But it was completely unaware that those strange people died because of it.

The moisture in the air gradually evaporates, and the gas becomes extremely dry. The intense hot wind seems to be taking all the moisture out of the body.

"You deserve to die!!"

The Lava King began to absorb the surrounding energy, growing taller and taller, and the flame patterns on its body became even more dazzling.

In the blink of an eye, the Magma King had already reached Genos's side. His right fist was like a golden sun, and with just a simple punch, it brought Genos a deadly sense of threat.

Physically, the Lava King looks quite clumsy, but he is not slow at all. His fighting style is also very simple: after getting close to the enemy, he uses the energy gathered in his right fist to destroy the enemy.

That fist, compressed with high-temperature energy, can evaporate the moisture in an enemy's body the moment it makes contact, turning them into charcoal.

Genos reacted quickly, his blue flames forcibly changing direction, causing his body to shift half a meter to the left, narrowly avoiding the attack.

"drink!"

But then the Lava King's left fist appeared from another direction and suddenly attacked Genos, as if he had anticipated Genos's reaction. Perhaps it wasn't very smart, but its fighting skills were at an extremely high level.

The sound of mechanical conversion rang out, and Genos placed a huge lightsaber, about 1.5 meters long, horizontally in front of him to block the fist the size of a millstone.

A terrifying explosion rang out, and a scorching gust of wind swept through the air.

The clash between the two was a foregone conclusion, ending with Genos being knocked back a hundred meters. This simple exchange allowed Genos to gauge the strength of the Magma King.

"Be careful... he's almost at the depths of darkness!"

Genos roared as he flew backward.

Unexpectedly, the Lava King's strength has increased to such an extent in just a few years. If left unchecked for a few more years... it will definitely become a new god-level monster of the darkest level.

At this moment, he was glad that he had attacked the Lava King a few years earlier, but he was also inevitably worried that his wrong decision would lead to the annihilation of the group.

Yakumo extended his hand to Mori Masako and Yuuki Chiyuki, covering their bodies with armor formed from Wood Release. With the infusion of life energy, the hardness of their armor far exceeded that of steel.

"You two choose a lone Dragon-level monster and surround and kill it."

"Remember to be careful."

With the friendly help of the Lava King, most of the Tiger-level and Demon-level monsters have been wiped out. Only four or five lucky ones escaped the eruption of lava. As for the Dragon-level monsters... they have developed a strong resistance to lava.

After the volcanic eruption, the Dragon-level monsters suffered few casualties, but they were still frantically fleeing into the distance, scrambling to leave the battle zone.

They knew their leader's fighting style very well, and staying here would most likely result in them dying at their leader's hands.

"You should also be careful."

Masako Mori smiled and said to Yakumo that with their combined strength, they should be able to hunt down a Dragon-level monster within ten minutes. She then began using her Sharingan to find a suitable target and quickly locked onto a minotaur-like monster.

"We've found our target, let's go."

"Master, if we can't win, we should retreat."

"I know, just don't stray too far from me."

His Flying Thunder God Technique ability made him more composed, and his mastery of spatial abilities made him virtually invincible.

Yakumo looked at Genos, who was already at a significant disadvantage, and had no choice but to change his original plan, as the enemy's strength had exceeded their expectations.

In a one-on-one fight, Genos cannot stall for too long.

He couldn't deal with those Dragon-level monsters first unless he had Genos risk his life to hold off the Lava King, but if that happened, Genos would definitely retreat without hesitation.

It is now one of the few S-class heroes among humans.

"Then let's give it a try... the real all-out effort."

"Sage Mode, activated!"

With the appearance of the blood-red mark on his forehead, Yakumo's physical attributes began to rise at an extremely rapid pace, especially his intelligence attribute... eventually stagnating at the threshold of 99.9.

Intelligence attribute... A burst of over 100 points only lasts for one second.

We must wait until a more suitable opportunity is found.

Find an opportunity that can decide the outcome.

Yakumo clasped his hands together, and crimson vines grew from the void, slowly wrapping around his entire body. He then used his life energy to enhance the hardness of his armor.

A few breaths...

His height also increased to about three meters.

"Sage Art: Wood Release: Blood Soul Armor".

At the same time, the soul energy residing in his mind began to flow, covering his body surface, allowing his flight speed to reach a new level.