45: Slaughter of millions

On Izumo Gozen's hideous demonic face, the triumphant, sinister smile was instantly replaced by extreme horror and disbelief!

He could clearly feel that his full-force sword strike, powerful enough to split mountains and cleave seas, seemed to have hit not the flesh of a living creature, but the hardest stellar core in the universe!

A massive, irresistible recoil force traveled up the sword, numbing his arms!

"It must be that my strength isn't enough! Break for me—!!!"

Extreme shame and fear instantly engulfed him!

Izumo Gozen let out a hysterical roar! His muscles once again bulged wildly!

His gnarled blood vessels protruded like earthworms!

He poured all his demonic power into the great sword without reservation, already using every ounce of his strength!

The blood flame surged wildly!

The sword hummed, unable to bear the strain!

However!

Crack! Crackle—!!!

An ear-piercing cracking sound rang out!

That blood-flame great sword, condensed from pure demonic power and supposedly indestructible,

actually cracked into countless spiderweb-like fissures, centered on the point of contact with its tip!

Immediately after, with a loud bang!

The entire great sword completely exploded, transforming into fragments of dark red demonic fire splattering across the sky!

"Pfft—!"

Suffering a backlash of power, Izumo Gozen violently spat out a large mouthful of blood!

His massive body staggered backward from the recoil, his eyes filled with incomprehensible terror and bewilderment!

His full-force strike... didn't even scratch this monster's skin?!

This thought, like ice water poured over his head, instantly froze his mind.

But,

Su Chen wouldn't give him a chance to think.

A terrifying tentacle, already poised and ready, like a colossal pillar supporting the heavens, instantly wrapped around Izumo Gozen's five-meter-tall demonic body, bringing with it a terrifying wind pressure that crushed space!

"Ya... Yamete—!!!"

Izumo Gozen only had time to let out a high-pitched scream, distorted by terror!

The tentacle suddenly tightened!

Like a ten-thousand-ton hydraulic press closing instantly!

Squish—!!!!

A horrifying thud, a mixture of bone shattering and flesh being crushed, erupted, making one's scalp tingle!

Hard demonic skin as red as blood? Steel-like gnarled muscles?

Before absolute power, they were like soft tofu!

The five-meter-tall demonic body, under the gaze of billions of horrified eyes, was instantly squeezed, deformed, and burst apart like a frog strangled by a giant python!

That hideous head, along with its massive crimson demonic horns, exploded like a ripe watermelon!

Red and white matter, mixed with shattered bones and organ fragments, spurted out like a fountain from the gaps in the tentacle!

Shuten Dōji, Izumo Gozen, who just a second ago exuded a terrifying Tier 27 aura and was regarded by the Japanese as their savior and an invincible symbol,

the next second,

was reduced to a steaming, unrecognizable pile of meat paste, casually discarded on the ground by the massive tentacle!

Instant kill!

An absolute, crushing instant kill!

The entire Fusang instantly fell into a dead silence!

All Japanese who witnessed this scene, whether through early warning aircraft, drones, or by chance from distant tall buildings,

whether they were fervent supporters of the Dominion or ordinary citizens filled with terror and despair,

all felt as if their throats were choked, their minds blank!

Their eyeballs almost popped out of their sockets,

their faces showing only extreme, incomprehensible terror and bewilderment!

"Lord Izumo Gozen... was... was... instantly killed?!"

"No... impossible! That was Lord Shuten Dōji!"

"Baka! Didn't Minamoto no Yoshinobu just say he could easily slay this Kraken? Is this 'easily'?!"

"Mon... monster! A true monster!"

At this moment,

Shuten Dōji's explosive flesh and blood energy, like scorching lava, poured into Su Chen's veins!

Not only did it not calm the billions of whispers in his mind, but it was like pouring a ladle of ice water into a boiling oil pot!

"Roar aoooow—!!!"

Su Chen roared skyward, his sonic wave shattering residual glass within a thousand-meter radius!

The intense pain and desire for destruction completely crushed the last dam of his sanity!

He needed to vent!

He needed to devour!

He needed to unleash the soul-tearing pain upon this land he detested!

Boom—!!!

His massive body suddenly trembled violently!

Sizzle—!!!

Countless deep purple destructive lightning bolts, as thick as buckets, shot out wildly from every energy node on his body, like raging pythons escaping their cages!

Instantly intertwining and spreading! A terrifying lightning domain, covering tens of kilometers, constantly expanding, roaring and leaping, violently unfolded over the ruins of Tokyo!

Crackling—Boom!!!

Wherever the giant lightning net passed, all life was extinguished!

Fleeing crowds were instantly carbonized and vaporized in the dazzling purple light, leaving no ashes behind!

Skyscrapers, like a jungle of steel, twisted, melted, and collapsed with a roar, like candles under high heat!

The earth was plowed into bottomless charred ravines, and the seawater was electrolyzed and boiled by the violent energy, evaporating into a sky-obscuring, pale white dense fog!

The entire Tokyo Port District, along with the million surviving beings within it, was instantly transformed into a desolate, smoldering, and arcing scorched earth purgatory under the wild dance of lightning!

The immense life energy released from the instant annihilation of over a million lives, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, was frantically devoured and absorbed by Su Chen's body, which was like a black hole abyss!

This world-destroying scene was instantly transmitted globally via high-altitude early warning aircraft and surviving cameras in the ruins!

In an instant—

The world fell into a dead, speechless silence!

"God... the entire district... is gone..."

"Instantly killing a Tier 27, destroying millions of lives with a wave of a hand... this... this isn't a giant beast! This is a walking natural disaster!"

"Divine Summer... what kind of monster have they awakened?!"

"Absolutely do not provoke Divine Summer! Absolutely do not provoke Lord Kraken!"

High-ranking officials from various countries were soaked in cold sweat, trembling as they issued the highest level of avoidance directives.

Goryeo reacted the fastest,

President Park Jeong-hwan screamed with a ashen face during a live broadcast:

"Goryeo! Voluntarily increases the monthly 'meat' tribute to Divine Summer by 500%! We humbly ask Lord Kraken to appease his wrath! Goryeo is willing to be a vassal of Divine Summer for generations! We beg for protection!!!"

Within Divine Summer, the internet completely exploded:

"Holy crap! Lord Kraken is invincible! Well killed! Little Fusang deserves it!"

"Hahaha, where's Minamoto no Yoshinobu? Where's your Fusang divine might? Come out and show off?!"

"Shuten Dōji? One tentacle, instantly killed! Half of Tokyo? Leveled by one lightning domain! Awesome! So damn awesome!"

"Boasting about conquering Divine Summer? In less than an hour, their home was wiped out! So funny!"

The Fusang archipelago, meanwhile, was completely swallowed by bloody terror and despair:

"Devil! A devil from the abyss!"

"Minamoto no Yoshinobu! It's you! You madman ruined Fusang!"

"the Dominion, get out! Give us back our homes!!"

"Amaterasu Omikami... please save us..."

Above the ruins, curses and wails intertwined into a desperate dirge... In the Prime Minister's residence,

Minamoto no Yoshinobu's face was twisted like a demon's!

He stared intently at the Tokyo Port District, now reduced to scorched earth on the screen, and the surging tide of curses below, his knuckles turning white as he let out a bestial growl:

"No... impossible... Izumo's Onikiri clearly hit his forehead! Why didn't it shatter?! His defense... how could it have become so formidable in just one day?!"

At this moment,

he finally understood what the silence of Hattori Hanzo and Yoru Hime meant—death!

They had probably died under this monster's tentacles long ago!

Their plan had a fatal misjudgment!

This monster's evolution speed far exceeded their wildest imagination!