Chapter 69: Built-in Lightning Rod

Chapter 69: Chapter 69: Built-in Lightning Rod

"Are... are you an idiot?!"

The Fire Sword Hero bellowed, finding strength from somewhere unknown.

The girl jumped in fright, her face turning even paler.

"B-but your sword..."

She had originally planned to run, but the Fire Sword Hero’s sword had happened to fly in her direction.

Without a weapon, how was he supposed to fight?

"Idiot!"

Tears streamed from the Fire Sword Hero’s eyes, which were bruised blacker than a panda’s.

Countless viewers watching the scene also began to weep.

Reality was not a movie.

Everyone hoped to see the hero defeat the monster, but in cruel reality, the hero was simply no match for it.

"How boring!" Looking at the scene, Annie’s previous joy and amusement vanished in an instant. His expression twisted ferociously. "Forget it. I’ve played enough. Just go to hell, the lot of you, and become the doctor’s food!"

At this moment, over a hundred tentacles suddenly surged up simultaneously, raising high into the air.

Oh, God...

People could only silently close their eyes and begin to pray in despair.

Annie didn’t just want to crush these two into mincemeat.

He also intended to unleash final destruction upon the city!

BOOM!

A violent sonic boom echoed like an explosion. The shockwave shattered the glass of all the surrounding buildings, stirring up a sky full of white mist.

It made it impossible for people to see what was happening in the center.

However, the television host suddenly pointed at the sky.

"Look up at the sky!"

The camera shifted. People all over the world could see that the originally bright and clear moon was suddenly covered by rapidly gathering dark clouds.

Immediately after, lightning flashed and thunder rolled.

"Could this be... could this be..." The host was too excited to speak.

The next second, a faint voice suddenly echoed across the heavens.

"Finally... made it!"

It was spoken in Chinese. Although many could not understand it, when the permeating dust gradually cleared, the figure wreathed in lightning became the sole source of light in the darkness.

Everyone went wild!

It was Master Thunder of Hua Xia!

A Golden Core expert! He had arrived!

"At this very moment, friends! At this very moment!" the host shouted, his high-pitched voice trembling. "A miracle that only happens in movies has appeared in reality! Master Thunder of Hua Xia has arrived! He blocked the attack! The Fire Sword Hero is fine, and his girlfriend is fine too! Everyone, will Master Thunder be able to defeat this monster!?"

Although the new hope made everyone extremely excited, they still couldn’t help but feel a little worried.

The despair from moments ago had simply been too overwhelming. This monster was unlike any enemy that had ever appeared on Earth before.

Even when attacked with missiles, it had managed to escape unscathed.

"Damn it, damn it!"

Seeing the Fire Sword Hero and the girl completely unharmed—even hugging each other tightly—Annie was about to go mad.

He suddenly understood his teacher’s words.

Other people’s happiness was his pain!

"I’m not playing anymore! I’m not playing!" he screamed furiously, throwing a tantrum like a little boy. "I’m going to kill you all!"

As soon as his voice fell, the hundreds of tentacles twisted and twirled together, forming a single incomparably thick and massive tentacle. The monster grabbed it with both hands and raised it high into the air.

The muscles on his arms instantly bulged.

Everyone could feel it. This was an attack on a completely different level from before. This was the monster’s true full power. It inspired such overwhelming dread that no one dared to imagine the terrifying devastation such a strike would cause.

Master Thunder... could he block it?

Shen Yun, looking at the massive tentacle raised hundreds of meters high—as if about to pierce the clouds—suddenly felt a strange sensation.

Of course, it wasn’t some vulgar joke about penetrating the heavens.

Rather...

"Idiot," Shen Yun’s calm voice reached everyone’s ears through the media. "Isn’t this just a natural lightning rod? It seems I can attack without holding back."

The moment he finished speaking, a majestic bolt of lightning twisted and crashed down!

Everyone’s vision was completely engulfed by a blinding, searing light. Even with their eyes closed, the blue radiance felt as though it would pierce right through their pupils.

Only then did a deafening roar, like a nuclear explosion, roll down from the sky.

An ordinary lightning bolt could reach a voltage of one hundred million to one billion volts. But right now, this natural lightning rod had helped Little Nine draw all the electricity from the clouds, concentrating it into this single point.

It was likely over ten billion volts.

Even the diameter of the electrical current was nearly tens of meters across, completely swallowing the monster.

There was absolutely no need to check the result.

When the dust finally settled and everyone’s eyes recovered from the sudden flash, only a massive piece of... charred coal remained at the scene.

That’s right. That terrifying electrical current had instantaneously vaporized all moisture. The remaining wreckage was only spared from total destruction because it had turned into an insulator.

"A-amazing!" the host’s voice suddenly soared with passion. "This is absolutely amazing! The monster that effortlessly tortured the Fire Sword Hero, the monster that even the military was helpless against... was instantly killed by Master Thunder! Friends, did you see that lightning bolt just now? I swear, I’m going to get that lightning bolt tattooed on my buttocks! From this day forward, I am Master Thunder’s die-hard fan!"

Shen Yun listened, invisible dark lines of exasperation forming on his face.

As long as the host didn’t tattoo Shen Yun’s likeness in such a place, it was fine.

Wait.

Given the customs of this country, someone was definitely going to do that.

Damn it!

Shen Yun felt the woes of fame even more profoundly.

But right at this moment, tsunami-like cheers erupted across the city. Although everything had happened too suddenly, it didn’t stop the people from celebrating their ultimate victory.

Only those who had experienced despair could truly appreciate the beauty of victory.

At this moment, countless people in this country, and perhaps the entire world, surely shared the same thought as the host.

They fanatically worshipped Shen Yun, who had arrived just in time to defeat the enemy with such crushing superiority.

This was the charisma of the strong.

A strength so profound it commanded worship!

Shen Yun, however, didn’t feel anything in particular. He simply waved calmly at the camera, sending the host into a near swoon.

"Since I’ve already passed the point of no return on the path to becoming a big shot, I might as well enjoy it," Shen Yun thought to himself.

"Master, something’s happening," Little Nine suddenly warned.

At that exact moment, another sorrowful voice echoed through the sky.

"Annie! My dear Annie, how could you just die like this!?"

This sudden turn of events instantly smothered the excited cheers of the crowd.

The camera shifted.

Under the illumination of the helicopters’ searchlights in the sky, people could vaguely see a thick black mist suddenly permeating the air not far outside the city.

Immediately following that, the earth began to tremble violently in successive waves.

Before everyone’s terrified eyes, towering silhouettes stepped forward, one after another.

Five! A full five monsters, even more gargantuan than the last.

And along with them, countless lesser monsters.