Ten kilometers away from HQ City, thirty thousand meters up in the sky.
A giant butterfly, ten meters wide and entirely blue, appeared. Its head was a massive insect brain made of blue crystal, with a pulsating ball of blue lightning where the brain should be, and huge blue compound eyes resembling beautiful crystals.
The butterfly had no legs; instead, its abdomen morphed into over twenty blue tentacles, each thirty to forty meters long, with faint blue lightning constantly flickering around its body.
'Begin the entry!' A star seal was imprinted on one of its tentacles, relaying a notification from An Conghao.
'Understood. Is it finally my turn to appear?' A respectful female voice came from the butterfly.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Its wings flapped, and it rapidly approached HQ City.
Following the first appearance of Bart (a combination of dinosaur and demon gene plus a human soul)...
...it was the second demon to appear: the Electro-Magnetic Storm King Butterfly, born from the combination of the ancient Uranus Butterfly (which could grow up to three meters), the demon gene, and a human soul!
"Let me give HQ City a grand opening!" The Electro-Magnetic Storm King Butterfly sounded slightly excited; the urban area of HQ City was right before its eyes.
Its body reached thirty thousand meters above the city center. Given the concentration of satellites above HQ City, it was detected as soon as it appeared.
Inside the command center below, a young man suddenly changed expression, stood up, and shouted toward Ruan Meng's back: "Team Leader Ruan, a Monster has appeared twenty-five to thirty thousand meters directly above us!"
Then the image on the large screen suddenly switched, showing a blue, tentacled butterfly Monster on a small portion of the display.
Ruan Meng looked at the screen, his eyes flickering. "Is the Monster Association finally making a move? With the Director tied up and five team leaders missing from the fighting force, this is indeed the best time."
After a moment of thought, he ordered without turning around: "Call Ming Wang and his people into action. We cannot let this Monster attack freely."
Ming Wang and the others have been idle for too long; it's time for them to act.
Bang! Just then, a loud noise echoed into the command center from afar.
Ruan Meng, who had just finished giving the order, changed his expression slightly and immediately looked at the surveillance feed of the first building in the bottom left corner. At the intersection, the four members led by Ming Wang were already fighting the King of the Deep Sea.
The loud noise just now was the sound of their clash reaching this location.
"That butterfly Monster is changing!" Martial Bear beside him suddenly shouted.
Everyone nearby quickly looked at the butterfly Monster on the screen, seeing a ring of continuously expanding blue lightning appear around it.
The lightning bolts were tiny but dense, and after expanding to a hundred meters in diameter, they formed a constantly flickering ring of thunder and lightning encircling the butterfly.
"What is that?" Inside the command center, everyone put down their work and looked up at the screen.
Only the staff monitoring the urban energy reactions shouted in horror as they watched the rapidly soaring values on their computer screens: "High-density energy accumulation detected overhead!"
At the same time, after accumulating a massive amount of energy in the sky, Chen Yu excitedly said: "Let the world witness my first move!"
Buzz! The Electromagnetic Burst surrounding the hundred-meter radius suddenly erupted, spreading outwards from the center of HQ City at extremely high speed.
Sizzle! Sizzle! The Electromagnetic Burst swept over the buildings below. Power was cut to the city's skyscrapers, traffic lights went dark, and communications were severed. This affected area was still rapidly expanding.
Especially the central command center, which was instantly swept by the Electromagnetic Burst. The screens monitoring the entire city suddenly sparked with electricity before immediately going dark.
The indoor lights also vanished, plunging the entire command headquarters into darkness.
Everyone fell silent for a moment, followed by a continuous chorus of panicked voices.
"All equipment is damaged!"
"Mobile phones have no signal, and neither do satellite phones!"
"We have lost contact with the outside world!"
Listening to the voices in the room, Ruan Meng's expression grew grim in the darkness. He shouted: "Silence!"
Buzz! A special wave swept across the room, and everyone's panicked emotions were instantly forced to calm down.
As all electronic devices in HQ City failed and contact with the outside world was cut off.
One kilometer away from the Command Center building, on the rooftop of a hundred-meter skyscraper.
Lei Xiangchen was wearing a red suit and carrying a one-meter square iron backpack on his back.
A white, arm-thick tube extended from the backpack, connecting to a half-white, Third Eye helmet covering Lei Xiangchen's eyes.
There was also a massive green bead in the center of the backpack.
Chen Yeliu stood beside him, looking at him with curiosity. "Is this the lab's latest gear? By the way, is this thing really useful? I can't sense any energy signature from it."
Hearing this, Lei Xiangchen's mouth curved slightly upward. "Yeliu, this thing is anything but simple. Supervisor Dong and two others worked overtime to build it for me so I could test it in the field."
As he spoke, he raised his hands and placed them on his temples. "It's a Monster weapon capable of blending Mental power with other energy to transform it into a dual-attribute attack."
Buzz, buzz, buzz!
Buzz! As his words fell, Lei Xiangchen moved his mind, and the backpack behind him began to operate, emitting bursts of rumbling sounds from within.
A beam of white light began to gather at the Third Eye location on the helmet, causing a slight ripple in Lei Xiangchen's heart.
Ordinary Mental-type abilities can only affect living beings; they cannot easily blast apart buildings or destroy armored vehicles like other Awakened Ones or Monsters. But now, with this equipment, a Mental Awakened can also blast apart buildings.
Whoosh! As the Mental power mixed with the energy from the backpack, the white light on his forehead suddenly burst forth, leaving a white trail in the air before successfully hitting a building one kilometer away.
Bang! A seven-to-eight-meter wide gaping hole was blasted open seventy-plus meters up the building, sending large amounts of broken glass, rubble, and furniture tumbling down.
Following this explosion, in the streets and alleys several kilometers away from the Command Center building.
A middle-aged man in black walked out, a vicious smile spreading across his face. "Is it finally our turn to act?"
Rip! His body rapidly expanded, tearing his clothes, and a 2.3-meter-tall, single-horned Rhino Monster appeared.
"Hahaha, this is going to be a grand carnival!" Excited laughter came from behind him as one person after another walked out.
Rip! Rip!
The sound of clothes tearing rang out consecutively as they rushed toward the Command Center building.
Looking down from the sky, Monsters appeared one after another in the streets surrounding the Command Center building. They had only one goal: to capture the Command Center building!
Inside the Command Center building.
Ruan Meng looked at the crowd and was giving instructions: "Immediately notify all Awakened Ones to enter combat..."
Bang! Before he could finish speaking, a massive sound came from upstairs, and the entire building began to shake.
"This is bad! Lots of Monsters have appeared outside!" A roar came from outside, and Ruan Meng's expression changed.
Bang, bang, bang!
Then bursts of explosions came from outside.
Ruan Meng turned to Martial Bear and Wang Li and quickly said: "Team Leader Wu, Team Leader Wang, it seems this place is their target. Now that there are only three of us here, we must fight!"
"Hahaha! Ruan Meng, why the long speech? If we must fight, we fight! Do you think I, Martial Bear, am afraid of them?" Martial Bear laughed loudly, turned, and strode outside.
Not fighting since the start of the battle had been killing him.
"No need for more words, I am fully prepared." Wang Li left this sentence and turned to exit.
Ruan Meng looked at the staff inside; these people were just ordinary individuals. He shouted: "Everyone, head to the underground shelter!"
As soon as the words fell, everyone in the room immediately squeezed through a small door nearby.
Ruan Meng quickly walked outside. This location gathered the remaining Awakened Ones in the city. Excluding those who died or were injured fighting the Flesh-and-Blood Beings, there were still over eight hundred combat-ready individuals.
"Kill!"
"Kill these Awakened Ones! The world belongs to the Monster Association!"
"I belong to your mother! Eat this Big Health Care package from your dad!"
The main entrance was one hundred meters ahead of the Command Center building. Hundreds of Monsters and Awakened Ones were mixed together, fighting fiercely on the street outside the gate.
These Awakened Ones had been guarding the building since retreating, and were now locked in combat with the charging Monsters.
Several kilometers overhead, inside a cloud, Han Qi and two others watched the battle below, a malicious grin appearing at the corners of their mouths.
"Let's go down. It's time for us to make our move!" Wei Gaocheng was slightly excited.
This battle against almost the entire main force of the Xuanjian Division plus the Level Five members of the Bureau of Gods was destined to be fierce, and he couldn't wait.
"Don't rush. First, let these cannon fodder test how many Level Fives are down there." Han Qi reached out and pulled back Wei Gaocheng, who was eager to soar down.