Conrad's 'Great Fire Breath' technique was truly terrifying.
At least, it looked like it had three-tenths of Admiral Akainu's power.
However.
When it hit the monster, it was—
"Pfft!"
Like a burning match thrown into a wide lake, the flame instantly extinguished, not causing even a ripple.
The monster didn't even pause, still charging towards the city wall.
Seeing this, everyone's expressions turned pale with fear!
Once this monster rammed into the city wall, the seemingly sturdy defenses would inevitably collapse.
Conrad's face turned ghostly white.
The others weren't much better!
"We're finished. Our mission is definitely going to fail this time."
"Forget the mission, quickly think about how to save yourselves! Returning alive would already be a fortune!"
"Once the wall is breached, with so many monster armies charging in, our chances of survival are less than one in a thousand..."
"Are we just going to stand here helplessly? Think of a way!"
"We can't deal with that monster at all. Brace for impact!"
"Where's Leo? Leo hasn't made a move yet..."
"Don't count on Leo. Conrad is already the strongest among our freshmen. Leo is powerful, but how much more powerful could he possibly be?"
...
Faced with the ferocious monster, everyone was helpless!
A feeling of despair began to engulf all the transcendents.
Area 17.
"The monster is heading this way. You should escape quickly!" the female commander, Eowyn, warned.
Joe Root wanted to slip away but hearing her say this, he still felt conflicted.
"What about you?" Joe couldn't help but ask. "Aren't you leaving?"
Eowyn's expression remained calm: "Duty-bound, I cannot retreat!"
A simple sentence, yet it carried the weight of death-defying determination.
Joe Root and the others fell silent.
They didn't notice that their gazes naturally turned toward Ben's position.
"Brother Ben..."
Duminy called out and said, "Let's go quickly! It'll be too late if we don't move now."
At this time.
Some of the transcendents in nearby areas had already begun retreating.
Either running to other sections of the wall or abandoning the wall altogether.
Hearing Duminy's voice, Ben, who had been quietly observing the monster, finally reacted.
"No need to retreat!"
Ben smiled and said, "I can handle this monster!"
Through his careful observation just now, he had a rough assessment of the monster's strength and speed, although its defense and secret methods remained unclear.
However, Ben was confident. Even if he couldn't kill it outright, he could certainly hold it back!
The real reason he hadn't acted earlier was to let the monsters gather up more densely first.
He worried that moving too early would only scare away the rest.
Hearing Ben's words.
Everyone was stunned.
Even Eowyn revealed a glimmer of hope in her eyes.
"Brother Ben, you have a way to deal with this thing?" Duminy couldn't help but ask, "How?"
"With my fists!"
As soon as he said it.
Ben didn't explain further. He directly leaped into the air, soaring rapidly toward the sky.
Under the moonlight.
His figure, like a firefly, instantly attracted countless gazes.
Buzz!
Grandmaster-level Armament Haki activated.
Immediately!
Ben's fists turned black as iron.
The next moment.
Crimson light began to surge on his iron fists, dazzling under the night sky.
Scarlet lightning occasionally flickered around Ben's fists, appearing very strange.
This was the "Fist Bone Impact" charging up.
A terrifying aura erupted from Ben's body, instantly enveloping the entire battlefield!
At this moment!
Everyone could feel the immense pressure from Ben, like Mount Tai pressing down upon them.
Though his figure appeared small, he carried a weight that suffocated everyone.
Expressions changed across the battlefield.
On the ground, all the rushing monsters halted.
Even the monstrous beast itself stopped and looked up at the sky.
High above.
Ben didn't take long to charge up.
When he reached directly above the monster's head, he unleashed his strike.
"Bang!"
A punch shattered the void.
The crimson fist shadow turned into a shooting star, plunging from the sky and striking the monster's head heavily.
This punch was impossibly fast.
The monster couldn't even react—
"Rumble—"
An unprecedented explosion erupted!
It was like a small nuclear bomb detonating on the monster's skull.
The entire earth trembled violently!
The explosion produced an enormous, dazzling light burst, as blinding as a newborn sun.
The world lit up instantly!
The intense light nearly blinded everyone on the wall.
When the brilliant flash subsided, the terrifying shockwave appeared, rampaging in all directions!
"Crack! Crack!"
The heavens seemed to tear apart; the earth groaned in agony!
The violent shockwave obliterated everything it touched.
Countless monsters, without time to even scream, were ripped apart and blown into oblivion.
They couldn't even resist for a single breath.
Blood splattered, minced meat flew through the air!
Mixed with dirt and debris, the scene turned apocalyptic.
...
Very soon.
The shockwave reached the city wall.
"Lie down!!"
A transcendent shouted.
Everyone immediately threw themselves flat.
Afterward, no one dared lift their heads.
They could only feel a fierce wind rushing over them, and the city wall trembling as if it could collapse at any moment.
It took a long time.
Finally, the shockwave dissipated.
When people raised their heads to look at the battlefield, they were all stunned.
A supergiant crater more than two hundred meters wide appeared in the center of the battlefield.
The monster's head was gone, leaving only the massive corpse standing dumbly in place.
Its body was full of torn wounds, its skin shredded layer after layer.
Even the mighty monster ended up so miserably — as for the smaller monsters, they had vanished completely, not even corpses remaining.
Instead, the city wall was painted red with blood.
Not human blood, but monster blood!
In many places, monster body parts clung stubbornly to the walls.
Across the entire battlefield.
Only one person still stood.
Ben!
...
One punch!
Killed the monster, one of the seven fiercest beasts.
One punch!
Cleared all the smaller monsters on the battlefield.
One punch!
Reversed the precarious human defensive line into an absolutely secured fortress.
Ben's punch shattered everyone's worldview!
The transcendents were dumbfounded. They simply couldn't believe that such an overpowering existence could emerge among freshmen.
The locals were also shell-shocked!
They had encountered many alien races before and knew some had strong talents.
But!!
They had never seen an alien as terrifying as Ben!
There had never been one before.
If there had been such powerhouses earlier, humanity would have easily wiped out the monsters!
"This... This..."
"Who is he? How did he sneak in? Is he really a freshman?"
"Yeah! With this kind of strength, you could call him a seventh-order powerhouse, and I'd believe you!"
"Wait, I know him. He's that pretty boy Song Leo keeps—Ben!"
"Nonsense! You call that a pretty boy? What pretty boy punches like that?"
"But he really is Ben!!"
"Wasn't it said that this guy just had a good brain, was good at finding opportunities, and planning ahead? How is he this strong?"
"What talent was that just now? It looks a little familiar!"
"Wait... now that you mention it, I remember. Some time ago in Chicago, during a space-time rift incident, a powerhouse named Jem Odessa appeared. He used a similar move!"
"Right! I remember that video! It really looks the same!"
"So... the big shot Jem Odessa is actually Ben from Chicago University?"
"There are some differences though. Earlier, a slight amount of scarlet lightning appeared on Ben's fists."
"And the Chicago event was two months ago. Clearly, Ben has grown stronger since then!"
"Damn! Now I understand why Leo's missions always get SSS-rank evaluations. It wasn't the Henry Family's talent that made the difference—it was Ben!"
"No... Didn't he have a trash talent? How can he be this strong?"
"Clearly, we misunderstood. Kryptonian talent isn't trash—it's the strongest talent ever!"
"This is a huge secret!"
"But what's the point of knowing it? This is a Lost Memory Spirit Realm..."
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