National Guardian's Gone and We're Done

Chapter 142: Dare to Offend Me, and You Will Pay a Grievous Price

’Its speed is truly incredible. It hasn’t disappointed me at all.’

As Chu He’s gaze swept across the sky, a tiny black shadow quietly appeared.

Like a forgotten speck of dust in the night sky, it tore through the air at an astonishing speed, gradually changing from a blur into something clear.

The small black dot rapidly expanded until it transformed into an extremely emaciated, humanoid Evil Spirit.

Its form was so bizarre it resembled a dead tree gnawed on by hungry ghosts—a shocking sight to behold.

The height of this Evil Spirit was extraordinary.

Like a demon from ancient legends, it stood a full two to three meters tall.

Its arms were abnormally long, nearly reaching its knees. They swayed in the wind like two dead branches, yet contained a heart-stopping power.

Its face was even more terrifying, with a large mouth split open to its ears.

A wet tongue, glistening with a foul sheen, thrashed about wildly inside.

Each swing was accompanied by splattering slime. Wherever the slime touched, the grass and trees instantly lost their vitality.

A white mist of corrosion steamed up, leaving behind patches of withered death.

’This ferocious aura is horrifying!’

Asura thought in alarm.

His gaze locked onto the rapidly approaching Evil Spirit, and a sense of foreboding welled up inside him.

He subconsciously glanced at the photograph in his hand.

The once-still image now seemed to have come to life. Within its empty eye sockets, some kind of power was stirring.

A cold, sinister gaze pierced through the confines of the paper.

It stared straight at Asura, filled with provocation and threat.

"So that’s how it is..."

Asura muttered to himself, his voice laced with disbelief.

With a sudden wave of his hand,

he threw the Curse-bearing photograph far away, as if doing so could shake off the terror that clung to him like a shadow.

But even so, the ferocious aura from the Evil Spirit still followed him, leaving him nowhere to hide.

"Is this the true meaning of a Curse? As long as it has seen you, there’s no escaping death..."

Asura said with a dawning realization.

The surrounding air seemed to grow heavier, every inch of space filled with oppression and fear.

"No wonder you didn’t want me to look at this photo. You already knew the specifics of the Mysterious Power on it, so why didn’t you warn me?"

Katrina asked, looking at Amir with a strange expression.

"By the time I figured it out, Asura had already finished looking at the photo.

When this photo was first thrown over, the outer white packaging shouldn’t have been torn open. Chu He must have used that to avoid being affected himself."

Amir said flatly, "I never expected that Blue Star’s strongest expert wasn’t as arrogant and conceited as we’d imagined."

With a loud BANG,

Asura’s figure was swept up in an invisible storm.

The bizarre Evil Spirit’s charge was like a black cannonball fired from the depths of Hell. It struck him with destructive force, sending him flying.

The air tore apart in that instant, letting out a sharp shriek.

Asura’s feet carved two shocking gouges into the ground, like wounds torn into the earth by a great force.

They snaked hundreds of meters into the distance before disappearing deep into the plains, a testament to the shocking power of the confrontation.

Rage erupted like a volcano in Asura’s chest.

He had never imagined he would be so disgracefully provoked by a low-level Evil Spirit.

This Evil Spirit had no reason, no emotion, and acted purely on instinct.

Yet it dared to offend him, the great Asura. It was simply courting death!

"ARGHHH—"

Following a deep roar,

six thick arms suddenly grew from Asura’s body, each one as hard as ancient wood.

They were covered in Runes that resembled ghostly faces.

These Runes seemed to be alive, squirming under the flesh and flickering with a ghastly green light, releasing a heart-stopping, malevolent aura.

They twisted and contorted as if they were individual, imprisoned demons,

trying to break their bonds and merge with the outside world.

At the same time, Asura’s body underwent an astonishing transformation.

His terrifying three-headed, six-armed form manifested.

Three bluish-black faces were shrouded in a faint, dark cloud, their eyes glinting with coldness and resolve.

His figure rapidly swelled, muscles knotting as an indescribable power surged within him, pushing him to the peak of his strength.

In just a few seconds, he had transformed into a six-to-seven-meter-tall giant, standing between heaven and earth.

Compared to him, the seemingly massive Shy One Evil Spirit now looked as small as an ant.

"You dare to offend me? You will pay a painful price!"

Asura’s voice was like thunder, making the very air around him tremble.

He violently raised a palm as black as night, wisps of Divine Power coiling around it.

It was a power that transcended the mortal world, enough to make any living creature tremble.

As his palm fell, the air seemed to be compressed to its limit,

then it suddenly exploded, forming a visible shockwave that swept out in all directions.

The Shy One Evil Spirit was completely powerless against this force. It was slammed directly into the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust and rubble.

Under Asura’s giant palm, its form seemed so fragile that it could dissipate into nothingness at any moment.

At this moment, the entire space was filled with an aura of terror and strangeness.

Asura’s majesty and power were on full display, making all living beings present tremble.

Chu He was all too familiar with this fluctuation of Divine Power. A faint warmth began to spread in his eyes.

Under the powerful enhancement of the Divine Power,

Asura’s slap carried overwhelming might, viciously slamming the Evil Spirit codenamed Shy One into the ground.

The force instantly turned the Shy One’s body into a gruesome mess, like a pile of sludge.

A smug smile appeared on Asura’s face.

"This so-called number one expert of Blue Star is a real disappointment," he said. "I thought he had prepared some incredible welcoming gift for me.

And here I went and activated my peak state right away, just so I wouldn’t end up like that pathetic fellow DeHart.

To think it was nothing more than this."

"Something’s wrong. Be careful."

Amir said, directly interrupting the gloating Asura.

His powerful Perception Power had already detected a Mysterious Power continuously spreading out from the pile of sludge on the ground.

In fact, after a moment of stillness, this Mysterious Power,

was actually reigniting rapidly in an unbelievable way.

Just a few seconds later,

the slender Evil Spirit slowly climbed up from the ground again, its entire body showing no difference from its previous state at its peak.

It was as if the thing Asura had slapped into meat paste wasn’t this Evil Spirit at all.

"It actually revived? And it revived after an attack enhanced by my Divine Power."

Asura said, full of surprise, and then launched another attack on the Evil Spirit.

This time, Asura’s killing blow was even swifter; he sliced the Evil Spirit’s head off cleanly.

However, it wasn’t long before the Evil Spirit staggered back to its feet.

This time, Asura’s brows furrowed tightly.

"Alright, it looks like you’ll need to spend some time dealing with this thing. But don’t worry, I’ll come help you as soon as I’ve taken care of Chu He."

Amir knew Asura’s personality well, so he spoke to calm Asura’s emotions.

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