97: Next

The entire Teaching Building was shaking violently; the flesh and blood on the walls writhed frantically like living creatures, and the ceiling was falling off in huge chunks. The Principal was thoroughly enraged.

Just then, the dilapidated door of the Broadcasting Room was kicked open.

"Fang Che!"

Jiang Ning was the first to rush in, carrying a fire axe on her shoulder.

She froze for a moment upon seeing Fang Che, who was shirtless and covered in blood, but her expression changed instantly as her gaze shifted past him to the collapsing, giant face of the meat mountain outside the window.

Following close behind, Teacher Qin Bing arrived, supporting the pale-faced Mu Waner.

Su Qingxue and Gu Nanzhi followed at the end. When they saw Fang Che's condition, their hearts jumped into their throats.

"Fang Che, are you alright?"

Teacher Qin Bing's voice trembled. She stepped forward quickly, and her eyes turned red the moment she saw Fang Che's mangled right hand and the blood still smeared on the corner of his mouth.

"It's nothing, just minor injuries."

Fang Che grinned, but the movement disturbed a broken tooth in his mouth, causing his features to scrunch up in pain instantly.

"Is it all taken care of?"

He looked at Jiang Ning and Su Qingxue.

Jiang Ning slammed her axe onto the ground, creating a dull thud.

"Of course! That crappy sign at the Academic Affairs Office was smashed to pieces by my axe!"

Su Qingxue also nodded. Her breathing was unstable, and she seemed to have suffered significant mental exhaustion.

"The Rule Source in the Principals Office has also been destroyed."

"Fang Che, don't push yourself. Let me heal you first!"

Green light had already begun to gather in Teacher Qin Bing's hands.

But no sooner had she finished speaking than the ground beneath their feet suddenly sank, and the entire Broadcasting Room, along with the surrounding walls, collapsed downward!

Everyone lost their footing, and cries of alarm erupted.

A few seconds later, the violent shaking stopped. They discovered they were no longer in the Teaching Building, but had returned to the center of the massive flesh altar from before.

The three flesh pillars surrounding the altar had snapped, but the giant meat mountain statue, composed of the remains of countless students, had not fallen; instead, it had become even more terrifying.

Its size had tripled, resembling a true mountain of meat. Countless twisted limbs and mutated tentacles writhed frantically on its body, emitting nauseating tearing sounds.

The school rule nameplates that had originally restrained it were now all shattered.

"What's going on... Its aura... it's gotten stronger!"

Su Qingxue's Heart of Frost allowed her to keenly perceive energy fluctuations, and the color drained completely from her face.

Fang Che's expression was grave as he stared fixedly at the rampaging monster.

What followed would be a pure fight to the death.

He knew clearly that his body's load had long since reached its limit, and the side effects of the adrenaline enhancer were hammering his nerves in waves; he was holding on purely by willpower.

"Everyone, fall back!"

"Su Qingxue, help me control the field!"

"Teacher Qin Bing, be ready to heal at any time!"

"Jiang Ning, you and Gu Nanzhi protect Mu Waner and the others!"

His gaze swept over everyone and finally settled on the roaring meat mountain.

"I will kill it."

A soft green light enveloped Fang Che recklessly, and the mangled, bone-deep wounds on his body healed at a speed visible to the naked eye under the divine radiance.

While Teacher Qin Bing was healing him, Fang Che moved his mind, and an adrenaline enhancer obtained from the Infirmary appeared in his hand out of thin air.

He didn't even hesitate for a moment; without looking, he drove the needle, which glinted with a cold metallic sheen, deep into his neck.

"Boom!"

A scorching, violent energy exploded instantly from his neck, sweeping through his limbs and bones. It intertwined with the warm power of Teacher Qin Bing's healing spell, sweeping away the intense pain and exhaustion of his overdrawn body. In its place was an unprecedented, explosive power that felt like it would tear his muscles apart!

Feeling the surging power within him, he grinned, flashing a mouthful of white teeth at the worried-looking Teacher Qin Bing and the others, confident and insane.

"Just watch."

The next second, he exerted force with his feet, cracking the ground inch by inch, and he shot forward, proactively charging toward the monster that was a hundred times his size!

"Roar!"

The giant meat mountain statue sensed the provocation, and dozens of thick tentacles tore through the air, bringing with them a sharp whistling sound as they smashed down on him.

"Ice Wall!"

Su Qingxue slammed both hands onto the ground.

A thick ice wall rose from the ground, blocking Fang Che's path of charge.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The tentacles slammed into the ice wall, emitting a deafening roar as ice shards scattered everywhere.

Taking advantage of this gap, Fang Che had already circled to the side of the meat mountain and leaped high, a cold glint flashing from the fire axe in his hand.

"Size Manipulation!"

The axe expanded instantly in his hand, and he slashed fiercely at one of the relatively slender tentacles of the meat mountain!

[Critical Hit triggered! Damage multiplier: 12x!]

The axe blade bit into the flesh, and black blood gushed out.

It worked!

Fang Che was overjoyed. He used the leverage under his feet to spring up again, dodging another tentacle that swept across.

Although this monster wasn't dead yet, his attacks could indeed penetrate its defenses.

As long as he could break its defense, he could kill it!

"Ice Spike Storm!"

Su Qingxue struck again. A large expanse of ice spikes rained down from the sky, stabbing fiercely into the body of the meat mountain. Although it couldn't cause fatal damage, it successfully enraged it and drew most of its fire.

At the same time, the passive effect of Heart of Frost triggered; the speed of all parts hit by the ice spikes slowed down significantly.

This created an excellent window of opportunity for Fang Che to deal damage.

Like a tireless hunter, he moved and dodged across the giant meat mountain. Every time he landed, the fire axe in his hand would bring up a spray of black blood.

[Critical Hit triggered! Damage multiplier: 8x!]

The fire axe slashed across, splitting a section of the writhing tumor directly.

The meat mountain let out a muffled roar, its massive body trembling violently.

[Critical Hit triggered! Damage multiplier: 20x!]

This axe strike was even fiercer; the blade sank almost entirely into the meat mountain, tearing open a hideous gash, and black blood exploded like a fountain.

Fang Che's eyes grew brighter.

Although the Critical Hit multiplier wasn't high every time, as long as there were enough hits, he would eventually be able to deal enough fatal damage!

[Critical Hit triggered! Damage multiplier: 6x!]

[Critical Hit triggered! Damage multiplier: 15x!]

[Critical Hit triggered! Damage multiplier: 3x!]

[Passive triggered: Minimum multiplier for the next Critical Hit increased to 4-103x!]

Fang Che curled his lips into a smile.

Here it comes!

He stomped his feet, using a tentacle for leverage to leap into the air. He flipped, and the fire axe carved a sharp arc in mid-air.

[Critical Hit triggered! Damage multiplier: 4x!]

[Passive triggered: Minimum multiplier for the next Critical Hit increased to 5-104x!]

"Fang Che, watch out on the left!"

Mu Waner's voice rang out suddenly.

Fang Che didn't hesitate at all; he forced his body to twist in mid-air, narrowly dodging the huge tentacle that whipped in from the left.

Boom!

The tentacle slammed into the altar, and the ground sank instantly.

After landing, Fang Che rolled with the momentum. As soon as he steadied himself, he charged out again.

[Critical Hit triggered! Damage multiplier: 18x!]

"Again!"

Fang Che let out a low roar, and the fire axe expanded again.

[Critical Hit triggered! Damage multiplier: 9x!]

[Critical Hit triggered! Damage multiplier: 27x!]

Boom!

As this blow landed, half of the meat mountain's body collapsed violently, and a large amount of black flesh and blood was sent splattering everywhere.

The wounds on its body became more numerous and deeper, and the tentacles that had been flailing frantically began to show signs of slowing down and breaking.

The meat mountain's roar became even more furious.

It seemed to finally realize that this seemingly insignificant human in front of it truly had the ability to dismember it piece by piece.

Suddenly, it gave up attacking Su Qingxue and the others. All its tentacles retracted violently, then condensed into a massive pillar of flesh, smashing through all the ice walls in front of it, and slammed down directly onto Fang Che's head!

The shadow instantly enveloped Fang Che.

"Upper right! Roll!"

Mu Waner's sharp warning sounded.

Her Eye of Analysis had been staring fixedly at the battlefield, and the moment the monster struck, she had captured the attack trajectory through Dynamic Prediction.

Fang Che had no time to think; his body had already reacted on instinct.

He performed a clumsy side roll.

The huge tentacle slammed into the ground, brushing past his right shoulder, and a terrifying deep pit was smashed into the altar's surface.

Even though it only grazed him, the skin and flesh on his right shoulder were torn open by the terrifying force of the wind, revealing ghastly white bone.

"Hiss!"

Intense pain washed over him, and Fang Che gasped.

"Life Tide!"

Teacher Qin Bing's incantation sounded just in time.

A soft green light enveloped Fang Che, and the hideous wound on his shoulder stopped bleeding and healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Although the intense pain remained, it didn't affect his ability to move.

"Nice work!"

Fang Che gave a thumbs up toward Mu Waner's direction and charged up again, wielding the axe.

[Critical Hit triggered! Damage multiplier: 23x!]

[Critical Hit triggered! Damage multiplier: 17x!]

[Critical Hit triggered! Damage multiplier: 38x!]

Every attack dealt massive damage. With every axe swing, Fang Che left a huge, bone-deep wound on the meat mountain.

The Principal seemed to realize the horror of the ant before it, and it went completely berserk.

It abandoned all defenses, and dozens of tentacles smashed down simultaneously from all directions, covering the sky and sealing off all of Fang Che's escape routes.

This was a fatal blow, concentrating all its power!

"Absolute Zero Domain!"

Just in this desperate situation, Su Qingxue bit the tip of her tongue, forcibly squeezing out the last trace of her mental energy.

An extreme chill spread rapidly, centered on her.

The overwhelming tentacles, along with the massive body of the meat mountain, were instantly covered in a layer of crystalline frost, their movements frozen in mid-air.

Fang Che seized the opportunity. He quickly tied the brass key to the fire axe, leaped high, and arrived directly above the ugly giant face of the meat mountain statue.

The muscles in his right arm expanded to their limit instantly, veins bulging and knotting, coiled and entrenched!

He poured all the strength in his body, along with his ever-rising fighting spirit, into this one axe strike!

A golden axe glow streaked through the darkness, carrying an aura that swallowed everything, and slashed fiercely toward the Principal's head!

The brass key on the axe erupted with a blinding, dazzling golden light the moment it made contact with the monster's core.

"No!"

[EXP +3,540,000! Triggered 47x Critical Hit!]

[Congratulations on leveling up! Current level: LV9!]

The meat mountain statue let out a roar of unwillingness, its massive body split down the middle, and then it collapsed with a boom.

The souls of the hundreds of students it had previously devoured turned into points of starlight, flying out from the cracked flesh and drifting into the distance.

After releasing Absolute Zero Domain, Su Qingxue's mental energy was completely exhausted, her body went limp, and she fell backward.

Fang Che landed from the air and caught her steadily in his arms.

The altar began to shatter inch by inch. From the core of the monster, a wisp of faint black smoke drifted out, condensing into the outline of a twisted human face.

"Do you think... I am the only one playing this game?"

Its voice sounded intermittently in everyone's mind.

"Every station... every Train... is a chessboard."

"You are strong... but have you ever seen... the chess player?"

As the voice faded, the wisp of black smoke dissipated completely.

The entire space began to collapse. The released points of light, representing the souls, converged into a torrent of light, gently wrapping around Fang Che and all the survivors.