Krauser slowly raised both hands high. The air across the entire rooftop seemed to be sucked toward him!
An energy even more terrifying and condensed than before—a dark gold hue—began frantically gathering and compressing between his palms!
"Kaiser Wave!"
"You should feel honored to die by this technique!"
Krauser roared, pushing that massive energy sphere—large enough to level this entire skyscraper, blazing like a miniature sun—toward Cloud!
In that instant, the entire night sky of South Town seemed to be completely illuminated by this dark gold "sun"!
Mr. Big had already been scared witless, scrambling and crawling to a corner of the rooftop, trembling uncontrollably.
He knew his life might end here tonight.
Yet facing this world-ending strike, Cloud's face showed no trace of fear.
Instead, an incredibly fervent smile appeared!
"Bring it on!"
He took a deep breath, pushing his Kusanagi Heavenscorch Scripture to its absolute limit!
Absolute Domain: 38%—fully activated!
"Let me show you what a real sun looks like!"
He slowly raised his right hand, also assuming a "projectile" stance.
A small, seemingly insignificant pure golden flame slowly gathered at his fingertip.
Then, he gently flung it forward.
"Heavenscorch Scripture—Orochinagi!"
That tiny golden flame, the instant it left his hand, expanded exponentially!
It instantly transformed into a golden fire dragon dozens of meters long, its entire body blazing with golden flames, incredibly lifelike—an Eastern divine dragon (or to Western eyes, a great serpent)!
The golden flame dragon coiled and roared, carrying supreme divine might capable of incinerating all creation, and collided head-on with that dark gold "Kaiser Wave" beneath South Town's night sky!
In that instant, the entire world seemed to split into two colors!
One half—the dark gold representing darkness and destruction!
The other half—the pure gold representing divinity and purification!
There was no thunderous explosion.
Only a silent contest of higher-order "laws"!
In the end, Cloud's Battle God Golden Flame—fused from the Blood of Kusanagi and Battle God's Will, purer and more domineering—proved superior!
The golden flame dragon let out an earth-shaking roar and forcibly... swallowed the dark gold Kaiser Wave whole!
Then, its momentum undiminished, it charged toward the already dumbstruck Krauser carrying world-purifying divine might!
"Im... impossible!!!"
Krauser let out the most resentful, most incredulous roar of his entire life!
He poured everything he had into erecting layer after layer of dark energy shields before him!
But before that golden flame dragon, all his defenses were as fragile as paper—torn apart and incinerated in an instant!
"Pfft—!"
Krauser sprayed out a mouthful of blood. His entire body flew backward as if hit head-on by a maglev train at full speed, screaming as he smashed into a building in the distance.
He crashed through the solid wall, leaving a massive human-shaped hole—his fate unknown!
The rooftop returned to silence once more.
All that remained was the figure slowly lowering his hand, faint golden flames still dancing around him like a god or demon incarnate.
And... a bald-headed underworld godfather cowering in the corner, completely petrified.
Cloud slowly turned his head to look at the utterly stone-faced Mr. Big, a gentle, harmless smile spreading across his face.
"Mr. Big, my apologies. I hope that little entertainment didn't frighten you?"
Mr. Big: "..."
Mr. Big looked at the warmly smiling young man, then at the human-shaped hole in the distance still smoking with black wisps, and swallowed hard.
He felt he might have made both the best and worst decision of his life.
What he'd recruited wasn't an "ally."
It was... a true god more terrifying than Geese and Krauser combined!
He was even starting to wonder if his proposal to "split things fifty-fifty" had been a bit too... suicidal.
Perhaps...
Offering all of South Town on a silver platter and begging this lord to take him in would be the wisest choice?
...
After Cloud used a magnificent "Orochinagi" to send the invincible Dark Emperor Krauser flying like a "home run ball," South Town's entire underground world fell into an eerie, storm-before-the-calm silence.
Geese, the "Underground Emperor," made no response whatsoever.
He was like a venomous spider lurking in darkness, quietly waiting for prey to walk into the web he'd already spun.
On the other hand, Mr. Big—who had narrowly "survived"—completely transformed into Cloud's most loyal "lapdog."
He not only voluntarily opened up all his intelligence networks to Cloud but also ran around attending to his every need, serving tea and water, practically ready to kowtow on the spot and call Cloud "Godfather."
No joke—after personally witnessing that "battle between immortals," if he still harbored even a hint of disloyalty, he wouldn't be Mr. Big—he'd be Mr. Pig!
And it was precisely because of this that a piece of top-secret intelligence regarding "Joe Higashi" was rushed into Cloud's hands.
...
Chinatown, Hundred Herbs Hall.
"Geese Tower, basement level three, maximum security detention area?"
Cloud looked at the intelligence in his hands, his brow furrowing slightly.
"Is this reliable?"
"Absolutely reliable!" The subordinate Mr. Big had sent to report bowed and scraped, his face full of flattery.
"This came from our mole inside Geese Tower, risking their life to get it out! They say that Muay Thai king called Joe Higashi had one leg broken and is being held there as backup material for experiments."
"Experimental material?"
Hearing this term, everyone present's expression turned ice-cold.
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