**Chapter: 109
Title: The Monkey King's Challenge
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### **China – Shanghai Outskirts
Wei crouched low, his body pressed against the cracked asphalt as the monkey warriors surged forward like a tidal wave. His fingers splayed wide, his breath steady, without hesitation Wei activated his technique as he says out loud and low,
**"Shen Transformation: Three-Legged Twin Toad."**
His body *morphed*—his limbs elongating, his skin darkening into a mottled, leathery hide. His throat bulged grotesquely, expanding with each deep, guttural inhale. **HRRRRK… HRRRRK…** The sound was wet, primal, mimicking a human like toad Stance,The monkeys however charged, their armored feet pounding the earth. **THUD-THUD-THUD!**
Wei's jaws unhinged.
**FWOOOOOOOOSH!**
A hurricane-force wind blast erupted from his gaping maw, slicing through the front lines like a scythe. Monkeys were hurled backward, their armor crumpling under the force—**CRUNCH! CRACK!**—but more poured through, unfazed.
Wei leaped, his toad-like form arcing through the air. **WHOMP!** He landed amidst the horde, his limbs a blur as he unleashed a flurry of kung fu strikes,
Left palm strike—**POW!** A monkey's skull caved.
Right claw swipe—**SHNK!** Throat torn open.
Spin-kick—**THWACK!** Two monkeys smashed skull-first into a wall, Another grab—he caught a warrior by the throat, lifting it,A spin—he swung both monkeys into each other, their skulls colliding with a sickening crunch.
Wei landed and before he could get his posture right, An axe blade slammed into his back—**CLANG!** from blind spot —and it *shattered* against his toad like skin hardened hide it absorbed the force of the impact. Wei didn't flinch. He pivoted, his leg whipping out in a sweeping crescent kick. **CRACK!** The attacker's ribs snapped like twigs.
But they kept coming. Endless. Relentless.
Wei exhaled sharply, slamming his palms together.
**"Toad Blast: Twin Whealse!"**
**BOOOOOOM!**
The shockwave flattened everything in a fifty-meter radius. Monkeys were *pulverized*, their bodies reduced to paste. Dust and debris mushroomed upward, the force rattling windows kilometers away.
Zichen, perched atop his dragon, smirked. "You didn't need myself after all."
Wei exhaled, cracking his knuckles. "Didn't want to dirty your hands, President" but things didn't turn out the way they expected as more monkey warriors began to fall out.
### **Washington, D.C.**
Meanwhile in Washington The figure that stepped from the burning flames finally emerged—a towering, humanoid monkey warrior.
Its wild, flowing mane whipped in the wind, its sharp fangs gleamed, and its menacing grin revealed an intelligence far beyond the previous attackers
The monkey general—*Anuman*—landed with a **THOOM**, his staff slamming into the pavement. Cracks spiderwebbed outward, the earth trembling under his weight. His wild, fiery eyes locked onto Marcus.
"You killed my Soldiers." His voice was a growl, deep and guttural.
Marcus wiped blood from his lip, grinning. "Oh, so you can talk, a talking monkey Weird, isn't it?"
Anuman's grip tightened on his staff. "No answer?"
Marcus flicked his wrist. "Yeah,We did You bastard." Seymon took a step closer to Cecelia as he said . "This one's different…"
The monkey warrior did not hesitate, after hearing the words from
Marcus , It lunged forward its staff upwards, and then its staff swinging downward which instantly expanded in its size as it got fatter towards Marcus and the rest of the group with enough force to shatter the battlefield, it was fast for Marcus who barely managed to glitch out of range as he wasn't expecting that move, his form disintegrating into colored lines before reforming a few meters away.
BOOM.
The staff struck the ground and a massive fissure split the ground apart, sending shockwaves rippling across the city. Buildings groaned, glass shattered, and the streets cracked like an earthquake had hit,Seymon had already grabbed Cecelia, moving her to safety.The monkey warrior slowly straightened, its body and grabbed its staff and resizing it to normal glowing red eyes locking onto Marcus, who immediately stretched his palm forward.
**ZZZT-ZZZT-ZZZT!**
In an instant, one towering skyscraper beside him began to glitch,Pixels distorted, lines of code flickered around the skyscraper and then The entire building vanished leaving the ground where it was at clean, and A second later, it reappeared above the monkey directly, Marcus glitch technique allows him to glitch things out and in of existence as he sees fits, the skyscraper instantly plummeting down toward Anuman with its earth shattering force, as the fall closed in a sudden darkness began to cover the sun giving its structure shadow showing on the surface of the ground.
CRAAAAAAAAASH
BOOM!!!!
The building smashed down on Anuman, concrete and steel exploding on impact. Dust billowed in a massive plume. For a moment it was all silence and then
SPLIT.
The skyscraper was suddenly severed in two,Both halves collapsed to the sides, revealing the monkey warrior standing unharmed his hand holding up Its staff which had extended upwards, and with it's extended size slicing the entire building cleanly in half.
Marcus' eyes widened. "Tch."
But it's new size and length Anuman sneered as he pulled it upwards and shoots it straight towards Marcus,
WHOOSH!
The staff moved at lightning speed, slamming into Marcus' stomach but he could react to it.
"Guh!"
He coughed blood, his body sent hurtling backward through the sky,Anuman ran up the staff, his claws outstretched as he closed the distance between him and Marcus and to attack,
**"GLITCH, DAMN IT—!"** Marcus choked, but his ability fizzled. The staff posses properties that suppressed Shen and human energy itself.
Seymon said "Not today, furball!" As He said Manifestation:Twin Bow , and in his hand a bow string manifested,
TWANG! TWANG! TWANG!
Three crimson arrows streaked through the air heading straight for Anuman who snatched them mid-flight one with his right and left hand, the other one with his teeth —**SNIKT! SNIKT! SNIKT!**—and smirked.
Marcus grinned. **"Gotcha, monkey brat."**
KABOOOOOOOOOM!
The arrows detonated , engulfing Anuman in a fireball. The force blasted him off the staff, sending him tumbling through the air. The staff shrunk, dropping Marcus from high above the air,
"GLITCH!" He said
Marcus reformed beside Seymon, clutching his stomach. " that Staff blocks Shen makes you powerless on contact . Don't get hit."
Anuman landed on a rooftop, his fur singed but his grin feral, Seymon nocked another arrow pointing it towards Anuman who was seated on the rooftop just high above them he said , "" What's Your Name General?"
The monkey chuckled and said "Anuman, The Great Warrior ."
Marcus spat. "Great? More like annoying"
Cecelia stepped forward, raising her voice. "We don't have to fight. We can—"
WHOOSH!
Anuman didn't wait. He launched from the rooftop, SLAM!—his staff cracked the pavement where Marcus and Seymon stood. The force sent them flying—CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!—smashing through glass, steel, and concrete but before that happened at the last minute Marcus had glitched Cecelia to safety far away.
Anuman descended, landing on all ground like a wild beast that he is,His red eyes glinted with primal fury as he advanced.
India – The Final Portal
Back in India, Sakamoto, Rajesh, and Jayesh stood before the largest of all black holes.
They moved forward—but when Sakamoto passed a certain threshold, BOOOOOM!, a wave of energy stopped Rajesh and Jayesh in their tracks from advancing with him.
Rajesh slammed into the barrier trying to force his way through but it didn't work . "I can't pass… Jayesh?"
Jayesh pressed forward too, but the air itself pushed him back. "It's not letting us through."
Sakamoto turned. "What's going on?"
Rajesh exhaled. "Whatever's inside… it wants only you. The portal has chosen you."
Jayesh gave a somber nod. "Go. We'll hold the line."
Sakamoto stepped forward alone.