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Three minutes later, a violent whooshing sound descended from the distant sky.
Illumi and the other two on the church rooftop looked up. A missile whizzed past under the night sky, landing in the city center.
"Boom!!!"
The missile hit the ground. Tens of thousands of tons of TNT equivalent instantly detonated, unleashing an intensely dazzling white light.
A circular vacuum zone formed at the center. The vacuum's suction absorbed everything around it. Subsequently, due to the rapid rise and expansion of pressure at the center, the compressed circular air violently vibrated, and a dazzling semi-circle expanded outwards, engulfing everything in its vicinity.
"Buzz~"
Inside Pyro City, most citizens first heard not the explosion, but a tremor sweeping through their bodies, making their hair stand on end, followed by a buzzing sound in their ears.
"Rumble!!!"
Then came the intense explosion that closely followed. The powerful shockwave quickly formed a massive amount of energy, generating high speed and pressure. The densely covered black-red tentacles on the ground in the city center, responsible for transmitting energy, were instantly pulverized.
Some citizens, being too close to the city center's explosion zone, were even affected by the energy wave created by the shockwave, suffering broken bones and bleeding from all seven orifices.
"Boom!"
A violent gust of wind swept through. Illumi and the other two on the church rooftop tightly gripped the lightning rod, preventing themselves from being blown away by the gale.
After a long while, the aftershocks of the explosion ended, and the city returned to its calm.
"I'll go take a look."
Illumi transformed into a golden eagle, his wingspan a full two meters. He flapped his massive wings and soared into the sky, arriving above the city center.
Looking down at the city center, the entire Pyro City central area, with the altar as its core, within a five-kilometer radius, had been reduced to scorched earth. Nothing remained intact, and no black-red tentacles could have survived such an impact.
"What terrifying destructive power..."
Illumi flapped his wings, soaring high above, gazing at the city below, his vertical pupils trembling, lost in deep shock.
"Yay!"
On the helicopter, the staff sergeant and soldiers looked at the city center, now a ruin from the missile, and raised their hands, cheering loudly.
"You did it! Staff sergeant!"
"Yay! Hahahaha..."
"That damned thing was blown up. Nothing can control those tentacles anymore."
The soldiers cheered freely inside the helicopter, but only Staff Sergeant Ilhan noticed something was wrong and gradually calmed down.
"Since their center was blown up, why are we still being held up by tentacles?"
Ilhan walked to the cabin door and looked at the dark red walls surrounding the city. Cold sweat continuously poured from his forehead.
"Why haven't those walls disappeared!?"
The staff sergeant's words instantly calmed the cheering soldiers. Their throats gulped, and their eyes showed disbelief.
"Rumble..."
Just when most people thought the matter was over, another tremor sounded from the city center.
"Whoosh..."
At the center of the missile's impact, dozens of black-red tentacles violently broke through the debris pressing down on them, their tips wildly flailing in mid-air.
Immediately after, seven blood-red tentacles pierced into a naked, pure white body, slowly raising it into the air.
"That body!"
Illumi, soaring high above, instantly recognized the strange body being held aloft by the blood-red tentacles as the one they had brought out of the ruins.
The black robe on that body had long since vanished. The naked body bore no male or female characteristics, and its surface was covered in numerous dark red seams.
"That orb didn't completely block the missile's damage."
Illumi guessed, but in reality, what he didn't know was that at the moment the missile landed, countless black-red tentacles completely covered and protected the orb, barely withstanding the missile's explosion.
However, the terrifying shockwave directly damaged its body, interrupting its awakening.
"Netero should be arriving soon. I'll go test it out first."
Illumi's entire body was covered in his strongest defense. He flapped his wings and flew towards the strange body being held aloft.
"Gurgle gurgle..."
As soon as Illumi approached within twenty meters of it, he clearly heard the gurgling and swallowing sounds coming from within its body, like someone drinking water.
The seven blood-red tentacles continuously expanded and contracted, delivering a massive amount of blood and energy into the strange body.
"Is it... recovering?"
Illumi's vertical pupils contracted. He clearly saw a tiny seam on the strange body slowly closing.
Although very slow, it was indeed recovering.
"It can't be allowed to recover."
Illumi's heart tightened. He flapped his wings and flew towards the helicopter that was entangled by black-red tentacles.
"Staff sergeant, a strange bird is flying towards us."
The pilot noticed the bird rapidly flying towards them from the front. Due to its strange color, they didn't recognize the species of bird.
"Swish!"
As soon as the pilot finished speaking, Illumi had already approached the helicopter. A flash of white light swept over his body as he transformed into human form, using his momentum to land inside the helicopter.
"Bang!"
With a loud thud, Illumi, covered in his strongest defense, landed inside the helicopter.
"Damn it, what the hell is this thing!?"
A group of soldiers quickly raised their guns, aimed at Illumi, and pulled the trigger.
"Cling clang..."
Bullets struck the strongest defense, sparking and falling uselessly to the ground.
"I'm here to help you."
Illumi had anticipated their reaction, so he let them shoot. Anyway, these attacks weren't even tickling him.
"Stop!"
Staff Sergeant Ilhan faintly heard Illumi's voice. He raised his right hand, and the soldiers immediately stopped firing.
"Who are you!?"
Ilhan questioned Illumi, but Illumi merely raised his arm, pointing at the assault rifles in their hands, his voice low.
"Assault rifles, those things can only tickle it."
"To cause it damage, you need at least something like this."
Illumi pointed at the fixed machine gun mounted on the helicopter.
"You mean..."
"Also, these tentacles can instantly absorb all the blood from a human body."
Staff Sergeant Ilhan's words were cut off by Illumi before he could finish.
"All that blood will become food for that monster, allowing it to recover from injuries."
"Severing the tentacles can effectively curb the monster's growth in strength."
"The monster is currently in a sluggish state due to being bombed by the missile just now."
"Hurry up."
After speaking, Illumi turned and leaped directly from the helicopter, disappearing from the eyes of the many soldiers.
"Quick, notify the other squads."
Ilhan walked to the cabin door, glanced at Illumi, who had transformed into a golden eagle and flown away, then immediately turned back and commanded.
"Repeat everything I just said."
"Never mind, I'll do it myself."