Pfft—

The legendary Night Demon Blade sliced instantly into the neck that had already been burned nearly to melting by the Dragon Breath.

[Ding! You have killed a Hunter. You gained base experience: 500]

Almost before the other Hunters could react, Lynn’s Left Hand suddenly opened a massive maw, swelling to the size of several people, and swallowed another Hunter whole in one bite.

Sizzle, crackle—

The nearly dissolved Hunter kept spitting and sparking, but it did nothing meaningful.

[ Ding! Your Left Hand devoured a Hunter. You gained friendship experience: 100]

Little One (✪﹏✪) said, “That was mine—delicious—wah—”

[ Ding! Little One’s Affinity toward Zuo Zuo -1]

[ Ding! Zuo Zuo’s Fear of Little One +10]

The Left Hand immediately (✪x✪) shook its head frantically, decisively shut its mouth, then the whole arm twisted in an instant and turned into a long sword blade.

Lynn exclaimed, “You can turn into a sword too?!”

The Left Hand (*｀皿´*)ﾉ flailed wildly, carving deep wounds across the Hunters’ bodies as it danced.

Pfft—

The dextrous Left Hand, transformed into a ten-meter-long blade, cut through the Hunters like dumpling wrappers, suppressing them.

Lynn was astonished but not outdone. Using Flesh Calamity, he bit a Hunter’s head off one by one, unleashing a surge of Dragon Breath with each bite.

No wonder it was his own Left Hand!

It actually had such an awesome trait!

He felt like he was playing some overpowered slaughter simulator!

If weapons can change, maybe other things can change too?!

For example…

Ah! Not saying more now — if he got the chance, he would definitely explore Zuo Zuo’s extensibility and potential thoroughly!

Lynn immediately perked up.

Pfft—

[ Your combat ability +1]

[ Ding! Your combat ability +1]

And in the next moment, with Little One joining in, the Hunters who had nearly lost all resistance under the Dragon Breath instantly became Little One’s feast alone.

Lynn used the opportunity to slam through a huge wave of Combat Ability and Firearm Mastery gains!

…

“That damned human!!”

The Heart-Devouring Demon glared at the dark footage coming from the corridor, his entire body close to bursting with rage.

The corridor’s surveillance had already been utterly destroyed by the earlier roaring flames, but the feed kept spitting out notifications of the Hunters’ annihilation, continuously telling him that the guy had broken through their defenses and rushed into the base.

But he no longer had time to deal with that intruder!

Two Headhunters on the ground had almost devoured the Hanging Tower;

they could join the fight at any moment!

But it was almost over anyway!

The data that needed to be transferred had already been sent to a secure location!

This place was useless now!

“If you’re so eager to barge in, then you’ll stay here forever!” the Heart-Devouring Demon snarled.

He quickly linked his consciousness to the base’s main control console.

“Prepare to initiate base self-destruct measures!”

“Permission authentication… highest-level authentication successful… command sent… base self-destruct measures initiating… current countdown: 10 minutes… all personnel, evacuate immediately!”

A shrill alarm blared through the entire base.

Everyone inside heard the explosive synthetic voice from above and panicked.

“Self-destruct?!”

“Are you kidding?! We haven’t evacuated!! We haven’t left yet!”

“Hurry! Go to the fold-jump hall! Now!”

Many members yelled.

At a time like this, they didn’t care about defying orders.

If the self-destruct started, they would be buried in the inferno with the base.

In the fold-jump hall, the Heart-Devouring Demon, flanked by dozens of Demonkin Association executives, shoved the doors open and strode grimly toward the fold-jump device.

“Is the fold-jump position set?”

“Coordinates confirmed. Most of the precious data has been transmitted. We can depart at any moment!”

“Good. Activate the fold-jump device!”

“Yes!”

Hum—

The massive machinery in the hall roared to life. A blinding blue light surged and began to gather in the center, slowly forming a blue light curtain.

“Fold-jump device activated… coordinates locked… fold-jump gate generating… countdown 10, 9, 8…”

The Heart-Devouring Demon gritted his teeth and stared back.

“It won’t end that quickly. We’ll see about that. One day, when the Colossus is born by my hand, every one of you will pay for today!”

But just as he finished speaking, the hall’s light violently flickered.

Then—crack.

The whole hall suddenly plunged into darkness, then emergency red lighting flared back on.

“Warning… base power core damaged… power efficiency reduced to 3%… fold-jump activation failed…”

Hum—

The blue light curtain that had almost formed instantly dimmed and shattered.

“What’s going on?!”

The faces of the dozens of executives beside the Heart-Devouring Demon turned pale. He was violently shaken, suddenly realizing something.

He stared, trembling, at the emergency beams that had lit up because the power supply had failed.

“Could it be…”

He instantly linked his consciousness at top speed to the base’s deep power supply core.

On the monitoring screens for the energy core stacks, which were sputtering and flickering due to power loss, the Heart-Devouring Demon saw a scene that nearly shattered him.

“This… this is…”

He reeled back in terror.

Within his conscious view, the hundreds-of-meters-high reactor core that powered the entire base now displayed a huge transparent hole.

Accompanied by a few sparks and explosions, it was faintly recognizable.

It seemed something had, not long ago, smashed straight through the core’s power supply facility.

A clear outline of a huge human head appeared on the core, and atop that head a "tai"-shaped humanoid contour was visible.

“……”

Sizzle—

Two streams of sparks shot from the pierced energy core.

The Heart-Devouring Demon stood dumbfounded, his mind blank and buzzing;

he couldn’t form a sentence.

That brazen outline hurt more than having a dozen burly men stomp on your most precious parts while jeering—it felt like being slapped across the face a dozen times and then watched with a leering grin as someone left.

That feeling…

“Argh!!!!”

He threw his arms wide and howled at the sky;

the humiliation made him cry.

What was the most despairing thing?

Was it the three Root-level Headhunters? The latest_epɪ_sodes are on_the NoveI(F)ire.net

Or the toppled Hanging Tower?

No!

The most hopeless thing was that he had just initiated the base’s self-destruct, the fold-jump had coincidentally failed, and now he was trapped inside a base about to explode…

The sensation…

“I’ll kill you! I’ll f***ing kill you all!!”

The Heart-Devouring Demon sounded half-sobbing.

Once self-destruct starts, no permission can stop it.

To prevent enemy intrusion and sabotage of power supplies, the self-destruct was originally designed with its own emergency power system…

It’s ruptured!

It’s really going to rupture!

And almost immediately afterward, a deafening boom rang out.

From the southeast of the fold-jump hall, a Root Rider—riding Little One and firing wildly—broke through hard steel with a crash, drifted, sparks everywhere, and skidded to a stop inside the hall.

“Found you, heh heh heh—” (laughter turning creepier)

Blood streaming down his face, Lynn smiled faintly, shouldering the Arm of Dragon Breath and riding Little One. The muzzle of his .44 revolver was pointed straight at the Heart-Devouring Demon’s head from a distance.

Behind them, looking out from the gigantic mouth they had smashed open, you could clearly see a straight line that ran neatly from the base’s outer corridor all the way here.

The outline was clear, with all kinds of postures.

Perfectly straight.

This was literally—ramming—straight through…