Whoosh!
A massive energy sphere sped toward Homeless Emperor.
At that moment, Zombieman's body was suddenly encased in a white sphere of light and floated away into the distance.
"What is this? A protective barrier!"
"Damn it, block!"
Homeless Emperor broke free from his constraints, raised his hand, and a circular light shield appeared before him.
Rumble!
The explosion of the energy sphere immediately engulfed Homeless Emperor, and the shockwave instantly destroyed all the trees within a hundred-meter radius.
'What a pity.'
King secretly thought things were looking bad. Homeless Emperor's greatest weakness was his fragile body. Just moments ago, Zombieman had held an absolute advantage. Now that the opponent had broken free from his constraints, such an attack wouldn't be able to kill him at all.
'Has the Strongest Summoning Technique activated? Of all times, it had to be now.'
King complained powerlessly.
When he first activated the system, he found that he had an S-Class talent, the Strongest Summoning Technique. Furthermore, the talent growth value was at one hundred percent, but unfortunately, it seemed to be a passive skill that couldn't be activated voluntarily.
Now he understood, this skill probably only triggers when he was in a desperate situation.
The one summoned this time was naturally that woman he couldn't avoid no matter how hard he tried—the second-ranked S-Class Hero, Tatsumaki.
"Hmph! King, it really is you."
Tatsumaki slowly descended from the sky.
"Did the association send you?"
On the surface, King maintained an unruffled expression, while inwardly, he was thinking about how to snatch the kill right out from under her nose.
'Since Tatsumaki is here, Homeless Emperor is likely doomed.'
Although Homeless Emperor possessed a powerful energy projection skill, his physical body was, after all, just that of an ordinary person. And Tatsumaki was most adept at using Psychokinesis for long-range attacks, which was the perfect counter to Homeless Emperor.
However, unlike the time he killed Deep Sea King, King didn't dare to easily steal a kill from Tatsumaki. If he was careless and angered her, she would get serious.
"So what if they did? You really love to show off, don't you? It's just the Monster Association, I could handle them all by myself, unlike you, who actually needs someone else to step in." Tatsumaki looked at Zombieman, her eyes filled with disdain.
"Tornado, you've misunderstood. King was intentionally drawing him out to expose an opening, thereby creating an opportunity for me to end the battle." Zombieman frowned slightly.
He was naturally very familiar with Tatsumaki, but he would absolutely not allow her to slander King in front of him.
"I really don't understand. Aren't you supposed to be the strongest man on Earth? You need to let the opponent expose an opening to defeat him? Wouldn't it be better to just kill such a weak guy directly?"
Seeing that Zombieman was actually speaking up for King, Tatsumaki was furious.
"Don't go too far. King naturally has his own intentions, and besides, I was the one who voluntarily requested to participate in this battle."
Zombieman was somewhat dissatisfied at this moment. If not for Tatsumaki suddenly interfering, he and King would have already ended the battle.
"I'm going too far? You mean to say I'm meddling? Hmph! Fine, then I'll leave the rest of the battle to you. I want to see what kind of methods you have."
"You!"
Swish... Swish...
Just as Zombieman was about to speak, several energy spheres suddenly attacked. He reacted quickly, firing his gun and blowing all the spheres apart.
"You bunch of guys, you're truly damned!"
Homeless Emperor appeared before the three of them.
King was mentally coughing up blood. 'She was talking for ages and I didn't say a word, why are you causing trouble now? Now look what happened. With Tatsumaki not helping, what the hell are we supposed to do relying on just the two of us?'
Homeless Emperor wouldn't fall for a trick like that underground ambush again.
"You're really lucky to have survived something like that."
Zombieman was just about to attack when he suddenly glanced at Tatsumaki. "King, I'll leave this to you this time."
He holstered his pistol and yielded the battlefield.
'This is for the best. Let Tatsumaki see the true power of the strongest man on Earth, King. That way she won't be so arrogant all the time.' Zombieman thought silently to himself.
'What the hell kind of nonsense is this? Leave it to me? Didn't you want to be the one to attack?' King was dumbfounded, his face twitching uncontrollably.
He was just standing there waiting to be hit. He'd probably be blasted into dust in less than ten rounds.
"Is it finally your turn, King?" Homeless Emperor's expression was grave.
Hundreds of energy spheres appeared in the air, this opponent allowed for no carelessness.
Thump-thump!
The deafening King Engine resounded through the sky.
Zombieman watched the situation before him without blinking. 'It's here! King's signature King Engine. It's said that no monster who has heard this sound has ever survived, and all of them were killed in a single strike.'
Zombieman kept imagining the scene of King attacking. As for Homeless Emperor, in his eyes, he was already a dead man.
King suddenly spoke, saying something inexplicable, "Enough. You've been watching from the sidelines long enough, haven't you?"
Those present, including Tatsumaki, were confused.
"What?"
Homeless Emperor looked confused, not knowing what King's words meant.
'Could it be reinforcements or another sneak attack?'
Homeless Emperor cautiously observed his surroundings but discovered nothing.
"I was actually discovered? What a terrifying man."
A humanoid monster, entirely black and looking like a Teletubby, appeared before everyone.
Monster Association, Peak Dragon-level, Black Sperm!
King's pupils constricted slightly. In reality, his words just now had been directed at Tatsumaki, trying to force her to attack. He hadn't expected that by a stroke of luck, he would flush out another Peak Dragon-level Monster.
"Black Sperm? Why are you here?" Homeless Emperor looked displeased.
He hadn't expected Gyoro Gyoro to distrust him so much as to send another executive to monitor him.
"Gyoro Gyoro knew you would mess things up, so it specifically had me follow you. Don't worry, if you get in the way at a critical moment, I'll take you out along with them."
Homeless Emperor sneered, "Fine, try it if you have the guts."
After mocking Homeless Emperor, Black Sperm's gaze fell upon the three heroes before him.
'It's three S-Class Heroes. Zombieman doesn't matter, but the second-ranked S-Class Hero, Tatsumaki, is a bit troublesome. Most importantly, even the strongest man on Earth, King, is here. With this dead weight here, the situation is a bit unfavorable.'
Black Sperm analyzed the battle situation silently, while taking a jab at Homeless Emperor along the way.
'Is this guy also a monster from the Monster Association?'
Zombieman was somewhat surprised, but he admired King even more. Even he, who was best at reconnaissance, hadn't detected a trace of Black Sperm, yet King had seen through it at a glance.
"Be careful, this guy is also Dragon-level."
King felt like crying but had no tears. 'Orochi didn't come, right?'