"Is your Golden Finger an armory?"
Wang Xu's face was cold, his thread lines whipping through the air without pause.
"Once I'm done with the Gatling, I'll let you taste machine guns, mortars, armor piercing rounds, missiles, and even a small nuclear bomb."
"To deal with you, I've risked everything I have."
Lucien spoke with complete seriousness, making every word sound believable.
Wang Xu's expression stiffened, dread sinking deep into his chest.
The terrifying part was that Lucien's claim might actually be true. A Gatling gun, a rocket launcher, grenades, all had already appeared, so it was entirely possible that his Golden Finger really granted access to military grade weaponry.
High powered thermal weapons were something Wang Xu absolutely could not resist.
What did Lucien just say? A small nuclear bomb?
My goodness.
The more he thought about it, the more panicked he became. The other party's Golden Finger was outrageous.
Meanwhile, he had no Golden Finger at all. Even if his sixth sense counted as one, it was the most pathetic type imaginable.
His mentality was collapsing.
"If you have the guts, fight me fair and square."
Wang Xu's face twisted with frustration as he tried to force Lucien into direct combat. Anything else felt far too suffocating.
Lucien would conserve energy while he would be forced to burn through his own. With such an imbalance, he would inevitably lose the advantage.
And he hadn't forgotten that this guy's personal strength was already frightening, not to mention that he had now become a demon.
"I am fighting fair and square right now."
The Gatling barrel cooled. Lucien raised the rocket launcher and fired straight at Wang Xu.
He immediately pulled back. The moment the explosion went off, Wang Xu burst out of the fireball and appeared where Lucien had been, but Lucien had already retreated again.
Lucien remained calm, drifting backward through the air while reloading. The moment the launcher clicked into place, he fired another rocket.
The two tore through the city, explosions erupting in their wake.
Local police fought to evacuate the civilians while government troops rushed in.
Their firearms and artillery were outdated, barely equivalent to World War I level weaponry.
The battle was no longer just between Lucien and Wang Xu. The local military had joined, but most of them simply marched toward their own doom. Their weapons did nothing. Not even a scratch.
Meanwhile, a casual strike from Lucien or Wang Xu could flatten an entire street.
Before long, the rockets in Lucien's launcher were depleted. Wang Xu seized the opening, appearing directly in front of Lucien. His transparent threads slashed toward Lucien's waist.
To Wang Xu's shock, Lucien did not dodge.
His sixth sense screamed danger, but it was too late.
Lucien's hand shot forward, plunging into Wang Xu's abdomen. A faint shattering sound followed, glass crunching. The green liquid inside the crushed vial leaked into Wang Xu's body, corroding his organs.
Wang Xu punched Lucien, sending him flying like a fired cannonball. Lucien tore through the street, carving a long trench before skidding to a stop in it, coughing blood as the cells of his lower body writhed and regenerated.
"What did you do to me?"
Wang Xu could already sense that something was horribly wrong. His body was weakening.
"Guess."
Lucien floated upward, lower body regenerating rapidly, new flesh forming up to his knees within moments.
"Damn it, that was Tamayo's medicine, wasn't it? How could you possibly have obtained it?"
His abdomen crawled and twisted as shards of glass forced their way out. Wang Xu's expression turned ashen.
He knew exactly what this was.
"It seems you know the plot. Yes, it is the medicine Tamayo developed for Kibutsuji Muzan. It restores demons to human form, forces aging, slows cell division, and once those take effect, it begins destroying cells."
"I prepared it specifically for you."
Lucien had intentionally taken the blow earlier in order to slip the vial into Wang Xu's body. Even the opening he showed was deliberate.
"You couldn't have found it."
Wang Xu had searched for Tamayo himself, hoping to use this very medicine against Muzan.
But he never succeeded.
Tamayo's home was protected by a Blood Demon Art barrier. She moved frequently. And Wang Xu had been busy hunting demons and Pillars, constantly missing her.
By the time he went again, she had already joined forces with Oyakata sama and Lucien.
Then came the Infinity Castle. He had visited the Demon Slayer Corps Headquarters, but it had already been reduced to rubble.
He recognized the arc but didn't know which Pillars were left or how to access the Infinity Castle.
Lucien didn't bother answering his questions. Instead, taking advantage of Wang Xu's weakened state, he raised the Gatling. The barrels spun up, unleashing a stream of bullets.
Da da da…
"You bastard."
Wang Xu's face twisted with rage. He shot upward, threads lashing onto distant clouds, dragging himself rapidly through the sky.
He needed to shake Lucien off and find somewhere to purge the medicine from his system.
"Trying to run?"
Lucien immediately gave chase, soaring upward. The Gatling continued spitting fire as he pursued, denying Wang Xu any chance to stabilize.
In aerial movement, Wang Xu was completely inferior.
Lucien had mastered flight since awakening his Ki, enhancing it with Soru, Thunder Breathing, and his own speed focused techniques. His acceleration stacked frighteningly well.
Wang Xu, meanwhile, swung through the air using his threads like Spider Man. Naturally, he fell behind.
The Gatling suddenly clicked, entering its one minute cooldown. Lucien dismissed it and brought his hands to his waist, forming a cupped shape.
A sphere of brilliant blue Ki gathered between his palms. White rays shot outward, illuminating the sky.
Even the sun dimmed against that light.
Wang Xu sensed a massive spike in energy above him. His sixth sense screamed danger. He looked up. His pupils shrank.
His face turned completely green.
That was…
"Kamehameha."
The azure beam roared downward like a divine hammer. Wang Xu had no chance to defend. The force slammed him toward the ground.
For a single breath, the world fell silent.
Then the impact ruptured the land. A towering mushroom cloud rose. A wave of destruction blasted outward, splitting the earth, raising hills, and tearing apart everything in its path. Smoke rolled across the sky, smothering the clouds.
When the dust finally settled, a circular crater more than a hundred meters wide glowed with residual heat.
Lucien hovered high above, panting, pale faced.
That technique consumed an enormous amount of his energy.
He stared into the crater.
Wang Xu lay embedded in the earth, only half a body remaining, coughing blood endlessly, yet somehow still alive.
"You… cough… you actually know Kamehameha…"
Despair filled his voice.
This guy was not only shameless, he was catastrophically powerful.
He even knew Kamehameha. How was that fair?
Lucien narrowed his amethyst colored eyes at the dying Wang Xu. He did not speak.
He simply moved.
Villains always died because they talked too much. Lucien remembered that clearly.
Channeling his Ki, he summoned a golden draconic aura behind him. The spectral dragon roared, shaking the earth as it launched forward.
The ground split apart once more as the avatar of Ki surged toward Wang Xu.
"Damn it."
Wang Xu never expected Lucien to be so cautious. Though he looked half dead, he had been preparing a final counter.
But Lucien refused to give him the opportunity.
No talking. Just another long range strike, deadly and merciless.
"God Slaying."
Wang Xu raised his last remaining hand. Sixteen blood soaked threads shot outward, colliding with the incoming dragon with a violent crack.
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