rpbooks Chapter 456 - 449: Terrifying Destruction
Chapter 456 - 449: Terrifying Destruction
TAP TAP TAP!!
In the surrounding silence, the sound of footsteps was exceptionally clear.
All eyes turned toward the source of the sound.
From within the grand hall’s crowd, a man with an ordinary face, fair skin, and distinct East Asian features walked out, step by step.
He was neither tall nor strong, a stark contrast to Bartmu’s massive, mountain-like physique.
’Someone actually dares to step forward at a time like this? Do they have a death wish?!!’
The crowd, which had been trembling under Bartmu’s terrifying presence, stared with looks of disbelief. Bartmu’s earlier display was no different from that of a real monster; he was not a being that could be defeated by a human.
Watching Zhou Yuanjue walk slowly toward him, Bartmu narrowed his eyes.
He slowly lowered the massive hand he had raised to smash Rita into a pulp, his full attention now on the figure slowly approaching him.
The very moment Zhou Yuanjue appeared, Bartmu—a being who had broken through the limits of the human body—felt an extremely intense sense of crisis rise from the depths of his consciousness.
That sense of crisis was completely incomparable to the two bombs hidden on Rita’s body.
GASP! GASP!!!
Lying on the ground, feeling the intense pain in her chest and watching Bartmu’s attention shift, Rita gasped for air, overwhelmed by the feeling of having just survived a brush with death.
Her body was still trembling so violently that she couldn’t move. She could only manage to turn her head to look at the figure who had suddenly appeared.
’It’s him!!’
Rita couldn’t help but part her lips.
She had a deep impression of Zhou Yuanjue. Under his gaze, she had felt as if he could see right through her. She had previously thought it was just her imagination, but now she knew her judgment at the time had been completely correct.
’Just who is this person?!’
"It seems my gift for today wasn’t just those two fireworks."
Bartmu looked at Zhou Yuanjue, a savage smile spreading across his face.
THUMP-THUMP!!
His heart began to pound like a water pump. A powerful magnetic field emanated wantonly from his body, affecting everything around him.
Scalding blood flooded his body, making his already bloated frame even larger.
At this very moment, Bartmu, the war machine, had fully entered a state of war.
"Tonight, I’ve come to take your life."
Zhou Yuanjue said faintly.
CRACK! CRACK!!
Before everyone’s eyes, his body stretched out like some kind of unfolding machine, growing taller and taller.
Six shimmering Star Points shone through his white shirt, visible to all. Starting from his heart, his body bloomed with Starlight, inch by inch, from the inside out, as if he were a mortal evolving into a Divine Spirit.
BOOM!!
A massive, two-toned silver and red magnetic glow burst violently from his body, instantly enveloping the entire auction hall. Vaguely, it seemed to coalesce into the shape of a giant bird.
Majestic, expanding, shocking...
Bartmu’s expression turned exceedingly grim. ’This immense pressure...’
"Just who are you?!"
Bartmu asked in a low voice.
Zhou Yuanjue didn’t answer him, but suddenly moved.
Before everyone’s eyes, his body suddenly vanished from its spot.
The next moment, accompanied by a visible ring of air, his body appeared in front of Bartmu.
An Orthodox Fist, thrown straight ahead!
Even with his expanded form, Zhou Yuanjue’s fist still seemed tiny in front of Bartmu.
However, the Power contained within that punch was far greater than its appearance suggested.
ROAR!!
Spurred by the immense sense of crisis, Bartmu let out a furious roar. His body visibly shrank by a full size.
He had burned a massive amount of body fat to push his physical functions to their absolute peak.
He threw a punch of his own.
The two fists, one large and one small, collided.
BOOM!!
The floor of the auction hall abruptly sank. The floor tiles cracked inch by inch, and the load-bearing beams buckled under the immense shockwave.
To everyone’s shock, Bartmu’s Flesh Mountain-like body was sent flying backward by the punch like a cannonball, soaring over the crowd and crashing into a high-rise building across the street.
BOOM!!
His flying body smashed a huge hole in the high-rise. The sturdy wall might as well have been made of paper.
’That kind of Power...’
At that moment, Rita forgot the pain in her body, forgot the fear in her heart, completely stunned by this display of pure, brute force.
Everyone else in the room was the same. They turned to look at the figure still holding his punching pose, dead silent.
WHOOSH!!
The next moment, the figure shimmering with starlight vanished again, leaving only a streak of light in the air as he shot off in the direction Bartmu had been sent flying.
In the auction hall, time seemed to stand still.
CREAK!!
CRASH!!
Finally, the shaking building and falling debris snapped everyone back to their senses. Due to the collision between the two, cracks had already appeared on the auction hall’s dome and support pillars. The whole structure now looked like it was on the verge of collapse.
AHHH!!!
The crowd finally let out piercing screams. The scene descended into chaos as everyone began to panic and flee for their lives.
Rita, still on the ground, had to endure the pain from her injuries and join the others in escaping to avoid being trampled by the stampeding crowd. Fortunately, the wound on her chest didn’t hinder her movements.
"Rita! Rita!! Are you okay?"
Just then, led by the man in the black windbreaker, several Liya special agents rushed into the scene and secured the injured Rita.
"Sorry, I didn’t expect that Demon to be so alert."
Rita said, her face pale and grim.
"It’s not your fault. My intelligence network and estimates were flawed. We know too little about beings of this level. Enough talk, let’s get out of here first..."
The man in the black windbreaker shook his head and said to Rita.
BOOM!!
Just then, another explosive sound erupted from the high-rise across the street. This time, the entire building seemed on the verge of collapse.
This terrifying destructive power sent a chill down the spines of the Liya Republic special agents. It reminded them of the Data footage of Bartmu single-handedly fighting an elite marine unit.
"That guy... just who is he?"
Rita couldn’t help but ask the man in the black windbreaker.
"I don’t know. I really don’t know. I have no idea where people like him, who stand at the apex of Earth, come from. I’m sorry, but I’m afraid that even with the full power of our entire nation, we would struggle to make contact with an existence of that caliber..."
"However, this might be a good thing for us. If that person holds a grudge against the Baiyi Organization, we might have an opportunity to talk..."
A sharp glint flashed in the eyes of the man in the black windbreaker.