novelraw Chapter 184: Black City Official
Chapter 184: Black City Official
Su Zhan stood proudly atop a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
The grayish-white mist energy swirling around his body flowed quietly.
Several Poison Frog Beasts were completely enraged by their companions' gruesome deaths and that terrifying aura.
After roaring, they simultaneously pounced from different directions!
Giant claws swiped, long tongues shot out, and poison sacs swelled attempting to spray venom!
Su Zhan didn't even bother dodging!
His claws covered in Mist Energy casually swept forward!
"Screech—!"
The hard giant claw of the Poison Frog Beast charging at the front rapidly dissolved and disintegrated upon contact with the mist-covered claws!
Immediately after.The claws advanced unhindered, easily tearing apart its entire front limb along with nearly half its shoulder!
Mist energy coiled upward, frantically corroding and expanding!
Su Zhan mentally upgraded his evaluation of Mist Energy's power by another level.
Compared to other tools, this was equivalent to an imitation tool.
The kind of corrosive power that completely defied reason.
So physical resistance was useless—you'd need magical resistance instead.
Without even looking, Su Zhan swung his claw backward!
"Thump!"
A barbed tongue came speeding toward him.
He caught it in his mist-covered palm!
The barbs and force capable of piercing steel plates couldn't budge him in the slightest!
Mist energy instantly corroded upward.
The tongue visibly turned ashen, withered, and snapped!
Su Zhan stepped forward following the momentum.
His other claw directly plunged into the abdomen of a Poison Frog Beast on the side that was swelling its poison sac!
The sac instantly ruptured, venom splashing onto his scaled, mist-covered arm, yet it couldn't cause any damage whatsoever.
Instead, it was rapidly neutralized and evaporated by the Mist Energy!
Five fingers clenched! Savagely yanked outward!
A mass of internal organs and tissues corroded beyond recognition were brutally ripped out!
His tail swept casually like a steel whip!
"Bang!"
A Poison Frog Beast attempting to ambush him from behind was directly smashed apart like a rotten watermelon!
Pure power overwhelming them!
Absolute defense ignoring them!
Terrifying corrosion of mist enchantment!
Su Zhan was like a walking disaster.
Rampaging recklessly through the remaining Poison Frog Beast horde!
The Poison Frog Beasts' giant claws were torn apart by him, their thick hides easily pierced by him, their venom immunized by him, their long tongues snapped by him!
Not a single monster could withstand even his casual strikes!
Not a single attack could make him retreat half a step!
The street shook violently under his rampage.
Severed limbs and venom splattered everywhere.
The death wails of monsters rose one after another.
Within just a dozen or so breaths.
The last Poison Frog Beast was gripped by its upper torso with one hand, his mist-covered claws deeply embedded in its flesh, corrosive white smoke continuously billowing out.
The monster struggled futilely, its single eye filled with primal fear.
Su Zhan's cold vertical pupils showed no fluctuation as his five fingers suddenly exerted force!
"Crunch!"
Half of the monster's torso was brutally crushed!
Casually tossing the remains aside.
Su Zhan scanned his surroundings.
On the street, nothing remained that could stand.
The slaughter was complete.
Pure stats, violence that crushed everything!
One word.
Satisfying!!!
Su Zhan stood at the center of the piled-high Poison Frog Beast remains.
His cold vertical pupils swept over the mess covering the ground as he slowly raised his claws.
Su Zhan leaped up, landing nimbly atop a overturned bus nearby, standing at the high point of this slaughterhouse.
After steadying himself.
Centered on him, he began absorbing life essence.
Below, from those massive, ugly Poison Frog Beast corpses, wispy strands of pure white mist began to drift.
Slowly rising, converging toward Su Zhan standing high above.
Continuously flowing into Su Zhan's body.
As the life essence was extracted, the Poison Frog Beast corpses below visibly shriveled, withered, turned ashen, ultimately losing all vitality completely.
Transforming into grayish-white dust.
Su Zhan stood quietly with closed eyes.
The minor consumption from the previous battle was instantly replenished, and the power limit that had already increased due to advancement seemed to loosen slightly again, slowly advancing deeper.
Absorption complete.
Strength refined further.
However, after advancing a major realm.
This much life essence still hadn't allowed him to advance a minor realm.
Still only Medium-risk First Tier.
And by the way.
Now when he absorbs life essence from mist creature corpses, he no longer needs physical contact.
Using just mental power, he can draw that life essence into his body.
As long as the distance doesn't exceed 50 meters.
It works.
Su Zhan reluctantly shed his Aberrant form.
The dark scales covering his body receded, the thick tail retracted, and the swirling Mist Energy quietly withdrew into his body.
He changed back into his previous clothes.
Su Zhan returned to that ordinary young man appearance wearing the flashy fluorescent jacket.
Only his eyes were deeper and colder than before.
Approximately three or four hours later.
The thick grayish-white mist surrounding them began rapidly thinning, finally dissipating completely.
The dazzling neon lights of the distant Black Gold Casino projected down again, illuminating this neighborhood that looked like it had been ravaged by a storm.
The street was empty, full of the mess and severed limbs left by the battle.
Su Zhan walked expressionlessly to three different locations.
Bending down smoothly, he picked up three heads by hand.
They were precisely the heads of Wang Peng, Skinny Monkey, and Iron Wall—the three Transcendence Society Aberrants.
These were the passing evidence for this year's assessment.
The mist completely cleared.
At the other end of the street.
A large crowd stood densely packed at the casino entrance.
Leading them were several individuals with steady auras.
Clearly Awakened individuals with considerable strength as guards.
Behind them followed a large group of staff wearing casino uniforms.
Along with some onlookers.
People stared wide-eyed, unable to believe the scene before them—this ruined neighborhood that looked like it had been plowed over, and...
That young man standing alone at the center of the ruins.
Casually holding three dripping heads in one hand, wearing a fluorescent jacket that starkly contrasted with the bloody scene.
Su Zhan held the heads, his gaze calm as he looked toward the stunned crowd at the casino entrance.
People murmured among themselves.
"All the people on this entire street! They were all alive and kicking just now... gamblers, drinkers, solicitors... at least several hundred people, right? And just like that... just like that they're all gone? Not even a single complete corpse can be found?"
"That person in the green clothes holding those... who is he? He killed three Aberrants from that ghost mist and just walked out like that? What about the others?"
"Probably... all dead."
...
"Make way! Black City Enforcement Team!"
A shout came from the other end of the street.
The crowd quickly parted.
A team of enforcement officers wearing unified black uniforms, bearing Black City insignias, walked briskly over.
They moved swiftly and orderly, carrying obvious killing intent and the authority of public officials, their demeanor completely different from the casino's private guards.
The leader was a middle-aged man with resolute features.
His gaze swept over the devastated street.
His brow furrowed tightly, finally settling on Su Zhan holding the three heads.
The arrival of Black City official personnel.
Instantly solemnized the tense, panicked atmosphere around.
Clearly, in this chaotic city, the real official power still held sufficient authority.
Su Zhan's eyebrows raised slightly.
Well now.
Black City officials.
Actually, Black City's officials were divided into two authorities.
One was the Daxia official authority, and the other was the Black City Lord's official authority.
The team before him was clearly the Black City Lord's official authority.
And this Black City official authority held far more prestige in this area than the former.