At the same time.
Thick smoke still rolled violently above the scorched earth as the temperature inside kept climbing!
The massive energy released by the explosion tore up the ground for hundreds of meters around. Countless rocks, sand, and dust were blasted into the sky by the heat. Soon the top of the mushroom cloud spread outward like it wanted to cover the entire moon.
But right as the mushroom cloud formed, a figure wrapped in crackling electricity burst through the top.
"Fuck! I'm going to kill all of you!" Stormfront, who had barely escaped with her life, hovered high in the air. She looked like absolute shit.
Gone was her usual calm confidence. The pain in her legs twisted her face in agony.
Her legs were a bloody mess, some parts already carbonized. Only her upper body was relatively intact.
"You bastards better wait for me. This isn't over until one of us is dead!"
If she had hesitated for even one second, she would have been a charred corpse right now.
Luckily Stormfront had survived plenty of close calls. Rage didn't break her reason. She knew she wasn't in any shape to keep fighting right now, so she turned and flew toward downtown Philadelphia.
"Leaving already? A little too late for that." Ivan's voice drifted from behind her.
Ivan still wore Yuuji's face, but unlike before, two extra arms had sprouted from his back. Their palms faced downward, releasing telekinetic waves at extremely high frequency. That was how he had caught up to Stormfront.
"You've got three seconds to get the fuck out of my way!" Stormfront turned to face the obviously hostile supe and threatened him in a low voice.
"Three… two…" Ivan smiled and slowly raised his right hand, extending his middle finger, ring finger, and index finger. With each second of the countdown, he lowered one finger.
"Butcher agreed to your terms. I'll give you three times that, and I can recommend you join The Seven."
Obviously Stormfront's offer didn't move Ivan at all.
"One!"
The second the last finger dropped, Stormfront realized something was wrong. She swung both arms and tried to use her speed to escape the man in front of her.
"A little bird caught in a net isn't going anywhere." As Ivan clenched his right fist, dozens of invisible tentacles spreading from his body had already silently surrounded Stormfront.
"Your power is interesting." Through changes in the surrounding air currents, Stormfront's sharp senses detected an invisible net around her, tightening like it wanted to trap her completely.
"Idiot. You think a net can hold me? Keep dreaming."
Since he wouldn't play nice, she would just kill him and leave.
Stormfront's eyes crackled with electricity. A spiderweb of lightning spread from her palms. Under the glow, Ivan's tentacles became faintly visible.
The moment they made contact, the lightning spread at terrifying speed. In an instant, a massive electric net bloomed and lit up the night sky.
Ivan reacted just as fast. The second his tentacles touched the lightning, he severed the connection between them and his body to stop the electricity from reaching him.
"One second is all I need."
Ivan tore open the front of his shirt. In the strong wind, a thumb-wide gap stretching down to his stomach became visible.
The eighteen eyeballs hidden on both sides of the gap all glowed with dazzling blue light at the same time.
Seeing that beautiful and deadly blue glow, the familiar sense of danger surged through Stormfront again. She didn't hesitate. She vanished from her spot instantly.
But her supersonic speed was nothing compared to the speed of light. A thick blue laser shot out and half the night sky turned blue. Even Butcher and the others ten kilometers away could see a blue beam nearly piercing the sky.
Too bad it was still a little slow. The blue laser sliced through Stormfront's left arm like a hot knife through butter.
"Fuck you!"
Stormfront had never come this close to death before.
Where the hell did that monster come from? That level of laser intensity would have been too much even for Homelander.
The blue laser vanished in an instant. The eighteen eyeballs inside Ivan's body had turned to charcoal and automatically fell out of the gap. The massive energy drain was too much even for him. That was exactly why he had only made eighteen eyeballs.
Seeing that most of his stamina had been sucked dry, Ivan forced himself to focus and kept releasing telekinetic waves to chase Stormfront.
Stormfront was badly injured and couldn't maintain supersonic flight.
"Fucking lunatic! That kind of attack had no cost? And you're still keeping up!" Stormfront turned her head and looked back in horror to see Ivan right behind her, showing no signs of running out of stamina.
Truth was Ivan was pushing himself hard. If he gave up now, everything would have been for nothing.
"Come here." As the distance between them closed, Ivan swung his right arm. A transparent tentacle shot out and wrapped around Stormfront's right leg, yanking her toward him.
Under Stormfront's terrified gaze, countless bone spikes sprouted from Ivan's left arm and spread open in the wind like a growing thicket of thorns.
Then blazing hot wings three meters long wrapped around Stormfront. Molten lava-like fire glowed through the gaps between the feathers like crisscrossing rivers of magma.
"Arrrgghh!!!"
The extreme heat made Stormfront scream like a demon. Her eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and every inch of skin on her body were burned away.
Right as she was on the verge of death, Sizzle~!
A red laser shot in from the distance and pierced straight through Ivan's chest.
Ivan looked down at the charred hole in his chest and let go of the dying Stormfront.
Stormfront had completely lost consciousness. She fell from the sky like a piece of dead wood.
Ivan fell with her.
He had completely exhausted his stamina. Homelander's attack had destroyed his heart and most of the organs around it.
"Who the fuck are you?"
Homelander, who had flown in from afar, caught Stormfront's body and flew over to Ivan.
Looking at the body falling with almost no life left, Homelander felt a little disappointed.
But right then, the corpse's head suddenly turned toward him and whispered, "Heh~ Guess?"
"Die!" Furious, Homelander's eyes glowed red again.
But just as the laser was about to hit Ivan's head, his body turned into countless glowing particles and vanished right in front of Homelander!
[Fantasy World: Demon Slayer]
[World Level: Two-star]
[Player Stay Duration: Two years]
[Friendly reminder: Time flow in the fantasy world is 150:1 compared to the main world]
At the same time, Doppelganger received a timed text from Ivan along with a one hundred thousand dollar transfer notification.
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