Rise of the Dark Witch

The pupils on the eight-clawed sea monster's head were larger than those of an elephant, looking down at the city below.

This once prosperous city, home to millions of people, has now been reduced to ruins by strong winds, heavy rains, and tsunamis.

Only a few scattered extremely tall buildings are still barely above the water.

However, it is not satisfied with this result.

It's not enough to just turn into ruins.

It will make this city even more fragmented and destroy it even more completely.

One of its tentacles was raised high.

It was a huge tentacle more than a kilometer long!

The standing tentacles are like half of an Optimus Prime spanning the world, full of majesty and oppression.

People who saw this scene through Lucy's live broadcast couldn't help but widen their eyes.

"What does it want to do?"

"It raised its tentacles...does it want to climb onto the mainland?"

"It should be preparing for an attack, right? Maybe it wants to completely destroy the city that has been submerged in the sea?"

"This coastal city has already been reduced to ruins by the 100-meter-high world-destroying waves. Is there any need to continue to destroy it?"

In the midst of people’s complex emotions of doubt, confusion, fear, etc.

The eight-clawed sea monster's raised tentacles suddenly slammed down!

It's like a thousand-meter-long whip hitting the city hard!

The speed was unimaginable, and the end of the tentacles reached a terrifying speed exceeding three hundred times the speed of sound.

Click!

Its tentacles whipped across the city at a speed that cameras couldn't capture.

Then.

Rumble——

The continental shelf is sunken and broken.

Everything within a radius of several kilometers, whether it was trees, asphalt roads, or reinforced concrete buildings... everything was instantly reduced to powder!

It's as if these things are originally fragile things made of powder.

At the same time, a terrifying crack hundreds of meters wide and tens of meters deep continued to spread on the ground into the distance.

This crack actually stretches for dozens of kilometers!

Destroyed a city dozens of kilometers away!

"Wow wow wow——"

On the helicopter in the distance, Lucy, who was broadcasting live, screamed in horror.

Due to the impact of the shock wave, the helicopter she was riding in shook violently, as if she had been stuffed into a running drum washing machine.

Parts kept falling from the helicopter.

The helicopter sometimes dropped dozens of meters and sometimes rose dozens of meters.

The live broadcast footage was shaking violently with the helicopter, just when everyone thought the helicopter was about to crash and Lucy was about to die in the line of duty.

The helicopter actually managed to stay steady!

Lucy, who was surviving the disaster, breathed in air.

"Uncle Gus! I love you so much!"

"You are indeed the best helicopter pilot in the world!"

Lucy, who narrowly escaped death, was so excited that she wanted to hug the helicopter pilot, Uncle Gus, and take a bite.

But Uncle Gus, who was sitting in the driving seat, had no happy expression at all.

His face was pale and without any blood. He was in a daze and only relied on instinct to mechanically control the helicopter.

In the chaos just now, he actually lost his mind and screamed like Lucy.

He had no memory of flying the helicopter.

As for why the helicopter didn't crash?

It's definitely not because of his good driving skills.

While Uncle Gus was still reminiscing about the feeling of death just now.

Lucy has jumped at the chance to go live.

She focused her camera on the eight-clawed sea monster and the huge crack that appeared on the ground.

"Is this the true face of El Niño?"

"It attacked just now..."

"Oh my god! Did you crush the entire city into powder with one blow?"

"Could it be that the cracks in the ground were caused by it?"

"This crack, which is tens of kilometers long, can already be ranked among the top ten longest canyons in the world!"

"This is just a random blow from that monster!"

"What kind of terrifying power is this!"

"The earth mother goddess Gaia in myths and legends is nothing more than that, right?"

Lucy yelled without caring about her image.

The whole person looked so frightened that he was about to lose control.

Yet no one looked down upon her.

Even those who were not there but saw this scene through live broadcast were shocked.

Many people were so frightened that they could not even breathe while holding their chests.

I don’t know how many people were scared to the point of peeing and losing control of their bowels.

Many people knelt down directly on the ground, saying that the eight-clawed sea monster was a messenger sent by the gods to punish them, and that they humans should let the beasts kill them without any resistance.

Everyone who saw this scene through the live broadcast was so frightened.

Lucy, who was at the scene, could still muster the courage to broadcast live, but her body was a little weak, her face was a little pale, and her tone was a little trembling.

I have to say that this Lucy's courage, heart, and mentality are not comparable to ordinary people.

Lucy, who was holding a microphone in her hand for live broadcast, looked at the tentacles raised by the eight-clawed sea monster again, and her body suddenly started to tremble violently with fear.

"It, it raised its tentacles again..."

"Is it planning to continue launching attacks like that just now?"

One blow destroyed everything within a radius of several kilometers, creating a canyon stretching for dozens of kilometers on the ground.

If this horrific attack happens again...

"Uncle Gus, stay away from here! Get away from here quickly!"

"Hurry up!--"

Lucy shouted frantically to Uncle Gus in the driver's seat.

Just because she is able to broadcast live without fear of death does not mean that she is willing to die.

And the purpose of this live broadcast has been achieved.

She already knows the true nature of the El Niño disaster.

She has told the whole world about the terrifying power of the eight-clawed sea monster through live broadcast.

Next, it's time to retreat.

However, in the face of her request, Uncle Gus just shook his head with a wry smile.

"What's wrong? Leave quickly?" Lucy shouted regardless of her appearance.

"The control system of this helicopter is broken. Now it is not under my control at all. Let alone fly back, it can't even land..." Uncle Gus sighed.

"So good?"

Lucy, who was deeply shocked, only felt dizzy.

"I'm sorry Uncle Gus, if it weren't for my request, you wouldn't be trapped here like me."

"We may really die this time. Since we are already dead, let us give this live broadcast a perfect ending at the end of our lives."

Lucy took a deep breath.

The panic and despair expression on his face suddenly disappeared.

What was replaced was a look of determination.

She wiped the tears from her face and straightened her messy hair.

After coughing a few times to adjust his voice.

"Hello everyone, I am Lucy, the chief reporter of Global Star Times..."

"I am currently reporting live on the El Niño natural disaster..."

"It is now going to attack a second time..."

At this moment, Lucy had put her life aside, and all her thoughts were focused on live reporting.

Like those great predecessors who sacrificed their lives heroically, she wanted to continue to perform her duties as a reporter at the last moment of her life.

She pointed the camera at the eight-clawed sea monster that was about to attack again, and explained while putting her life behind her.

Just when the eight-clawed sea monster's tentacles were about to swing down again, she felt like she couldn't survive for a few seconds...

The body of the eight-clawed sea monster actually stopped.

At the same time, an ear-splitting sound echoed across the sky.

call out!

call out!

call out!

Listening to these sounds that are both familiar and unfamiliar.

Lucy couldn't help but raise her head and look in the direction of the sound of breaking through the air.

What caught her eyes were missiles flying through the sky with flames spitting out from their tails.

Thousands of missiles were like meteors, and even the dark clouds in the sky were torn apart, drawing white tracks high in the sky.

This spectacular sight made everyone cheer.

Lucy, who had been waiting for death with a determined look on her face just a second ago, showed the desire for life and the excitement of being able to kill the eight-clawed sea monster.

"The country finally took action!"

"That's right! How can the country just watch this monster continue to wreak havoc?"

"This monster might really be a messenger sent by the gods, but we humans are no longer the weaklings who could only look up to the gods in ancient times!"

"We have the power called technology!"

"Even the sun in the sky is for our use!"

"Abominable monster, let it turn into ashes under the rays of the sun——"

Lucy roared hoarsely as she looked at the missiles tearing through the dark clouds and flying toward the eight-clawed sea monster.

Her mood at this moment was conveyed to the hearts of everyone watching the live broadcast.

People clenched their fists and waved their arms at the highest masterpieces of mankind that were spraying flames and flying towards the eight-clawed sea monster.

Yes, human beings are no longer weak beings at the mercy of gods.

Human beings today have even mastered the power of the sun!

In the face of the power of the sun, even gods must fall, right?

Close.

Thousands of missiles came to the sky above the Octopus Sea Monster at dozens of times the speed of sound.

When the missiles were about to come into contact with the eight-clawed sea monster, they exploded in advance, and each missile fired dozens of warheads.

Thousands of missiles, carrying tens of thousands of warheads in total.

The power of each warhead is as terrifying as millions of tons of TNT.

Especially when these solar warheads explode, the core temperature will exceed 100 million degrees Celsius!

Being hit by these warheads and shrouded in high temperatures of hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius, even a god will die!

The warheads fell like meteors.

boom! boom! boom! ——

Deafening explosions continued to sound.

The dazzling firelight dispersed the darkness.

Even the dark clouds in the sky were blasted with a huge hole by the aftermath of the explosion.

The explosion stopped.

The fire light dissipated.

People looked at the calm sea.

The warm sunshine shines on the earth through the gaps between the dark clouds.

The figure of the eight-clawed sea monster disappeared?

died?

Turned into ashes under the power of the sun weapon?

"we won!"

"We humans have won!"

"Haha, even gods must succumb to the light of the sun!"

People all over the world are cheering wildly.

Celebrating the death of the Octopus Sea Monster.

Lucy, who should have cheered along, had a serious expression on her face.

Being on the scene, she can feel things that the audience in front of the TV series cannot.

The people in front of the TV just saw the eight-clawed sea monster disappear with the explosion, and the sea returned to calm.

Lucy could see these too.

But she can also "see" things that are invisible to the naked eye.

It felt like being stared at by a hungry tiger. His body became so cold that he didn't even have the strength to move.

This invisible "aura" emitted by the eight-clawed sea monster enveloped a space of hundreds of kilometers in radius.

If the eight-clawed sea monster was just playing, then it is angry now!

The attack just now cannot kill it.

Just let it—

Angry!

For the first time in her life, Lucy felt the "murderous intent" described in the TV novel.

The "murderous intention" that only existed in fantasy pressed heavily on her body from a distance of dozens of kilometers, causing her blood flow to stagnant.

boom!

The sea, which had just returned to calmness, began to boil violently once again.

World-destroying giant waves hundreds of meters high surged up.

A thousand-meter-long terrifying monster emerged from the depths of the sea, roaring angrily at the sky.

After withstanding tens of thousands of nuclear bomb attacks, there were no scars on its body.

Although it was uninjured, the attack had hurt it.

If the attack power were tens of thousands times stronger, it might be possible to kill it.

Unexpectedly, the ants it had never taken seriously would actually hurt it? Is it possible to kill it?

It's angry!

"Ouch——"

It roared angrily, leaving the sea and climbing up toward the mainland.

This is the first time since its birth that it has left the sea.

It wants to go ashore and kill all the damn bugs that dare to hurt it.

When it left the sea and came to the ground, it was not as slow as ordinary people thought because it was too large.

Its speed is indeed "slower" than when it was in the sea, but it can still run at the speed of sound when running at full strength.

A thousand meters tall, weighing billions of tons, and able to run at the speed of sound.

Even if it doesn't continue any attacks, just walking around at the speed of sound in various countries and cities is enough to kill 99% of the people in the world.

In the past, it was just a playful thought, but it turned into a natural disaster that affected the entire world, killing hundreds of millions of people.

Now it has murderous intentions and wants to exterminate the human race.

So how destructive will it be?

Maybe humans will really become extinct because of this?

"Ouch——"

The eight-clawed sea monster roared angrily while charging towards the most populous city nearby.

"It, what does it want to do?"

"The direction it's moving is...it has never actively attacked anyone before!"

"Did the attack just now anger it? Damn it! Why would a mere human attack the messenger of God? Now, we have completely angered God!"

People were scared, shouting, and desperate.

The military who had just launched the nuclear bomb looked at the eight-clawed sea monster that was not only intact but also climbed ashore, and their expressions became extremely ugly.

"What are you doing standing still? Keep firing! I don't believe it can't be blown up!"

"All the nuclear bombs have been used up, we only have ordinary missiles and cannons left."

"...Find a way to lead it to an uninhabited area, and never let it reach a large city with a large population."

When people in this world were terrified by the power of the eight-clawed sea monster.

Roja stood up and stretched.

Through the wave of nuclear bombings just now, he had a rough understanding of the strength of the eight-clawed sea monster.

The speed is much slower than that of King Goblin.

In terms of wisdom, it is only slightly higher than ordinary beasts, and cannot be compared with the King Goblin at all.

Then in all aspects except speed and intelligence, strength, defense, size, resilience...etc., the eight-clawed sea monster completely crushed the King Goblin!

A hundred king goblins united, there is a high probability that they will not be able to defeat the eight-clawed sea monster!

"The first level and the second level are obviously only one level apart. Why is the difference in strength so big?"

"Is it because the first level is deliberately set to be weak?"

"Or is the span of strength just that big?"

"Probably not?"

"If the strength span of each level is so large, wouldn't the monsters on the 100th level have strength comparable to that of a fourth-level wizard?"

Roja moved and burst out at twelve times the speed of sound.

He caught up with the running eight-clawed sea monster in an instant and stood in front of the eight-clawed sea monster.

When he stopped concealing his aura, the eight-clawed sea monster's body suddenly stopped.

After being hit by a human missile, the pain caused by the missile made it very angry.

But compared with the threat from life, what is mere pain?

Its eyes as big as a house stared at Roja.

In its eyes, Roya, who is not much bigger than an ant, can actually threaten its life?

…

Facing the eight-clawed sea monster that suddenly stopped, people frowned in confusion.

Wasn't the eight-clawed sea monster just now so angry that he wanted to destroy humanity, running towards the nearest city at high speed?

Why did it stop suddenly?

Dozens of kilometers away, Lucy stood inside the helicopter desperately fiddling with her camera.

She noticed it instinctively.

"There must be something blocking that sea monster!"

"I can feel a powerful aura that can compete with the sea monster's murderous intent."

"Where?"

"Is it another monster?"

"still……"

After searching for a long time, Lucy finally found it.

Looking at the "person" suspended in mid-air wearing bronze full-body armor who blocked the eight-clawed sea monster, Lucy's expression became extremely dull.

The shock in her heart was much greater than when the eight-clawed sea monster revealed its true purpose!

No matter how powerful the eight-clawed sea monster is, it is still a monster.

It's a monster that humans can't understand!

The eight-clawed sea monster may be an ancient sleeping monster, it may come from another dimension, it may be a biological weapon dropped by aliens... there may be too many.

But a man appears who has the power to compete with the eight-clawed sea monster?

Could it be the legendary god?

A magician in a fantasy novel?

A wizard from a fairy tale?

How can human beings have the power to resist world-destroying monsters!

However, whether they believed it or not, this "person" appeared.

…

When people are guessing about Roja's identity.

Roja raised his hand towards the eight-clawed sea monster, "Red Cannon!"

boom! boom! boom! ——

Red fireballs with a diameter of tens of meters shot out from Roja's hands.

If these fireballs hit the ground, each one can bombard the earth with a huge crater several kilometers deep.

Both in terms of power and quantity, they were far superior to the wave of nuclear bombs just now.

Facing Roya's attack, the eight-clawed sea monster suddenly let out a sharp and ear-piercing scream.

"咿咿——"

The eight-clawed sea monster screamed as it turned around and rushed towards the sea.

Its eight tentacles whipped violently on the ground, and its huge body followed this huge reaction force and turned into an off-string arrow that shot towards the sea.

Whoosh!

The eight-clawed sea monster resisted the bombardment of red artillery while running away desperately.

When it returned to the sea, its body had become charred black under the bombardment of red artillery.

puff!

It returns to the sea and dives into the sea!

The huge body that was one thousand meters high suddenly disappeared without a trace!

"Escaped so fast."

Roja came to the top of the sea where the eight-clawed sea monster disappeared.

He lowered his head and looked down at the dark water.

He looked very focused.

Boom!

A huge tentacle suddenly stretched out from the depths of the sea floor, binding Roja's body instantly.

"ah?"

Before Roja could even utter a exclamation, he was dragged into the depths of the sea by an irresistible force.

"Hiss-"

Thousands of meters deep under the sea.

The eight-clawed sea monster stared at Roja in its hand and roared angrily.

It must kill this human being who can threaten its life!

It grabbed Roja's tentacles and kept exerting force. The bronze magic armor worn by Roja made a "rattling" cracking sound under its terrifying power.

"What a terrifying power!"

"And there is a strong suction force that can absorb magic power from the tentacles. Is this your bloodline talent?"

"But compared to sharing my soul, it's still far behind."

Roja tried to break free from the eight-clawed sea monster, but the opponent's power was too great.

He has hundreds of thousands of tons of strength and can easily lift an aircraft carrier with one hand.

This power can be called inhuman, ranking high among all second-level wizards.

But the power of the eight-clawed sea monster is billions of tons!

The difference between the two is ten thousand times!

Not on the same level at all!

In a simple competition of physique and strength, humans cannot compare with Warcraft.

He was actually able to withstand the billions of tons of power from the eight-clawed sea monster without his body immediately turning into meat. The bronze magic armor on his body was already powerful enough.

"If it were me in the past, it would be okay if I let you crush me."

"It's just that now I have an auxiliary witchcraft magic black cage in my body. It would be bad if the auxiliary witchcraft magic black cage is damaged."

"The Great Barrier—the Irvine Tree World!"

A series of vines suddenly sprouted from Roja's body.

More vines sprouted from the vines.

Thick vines several meters in diameter wrapped around the tentacles of the eight-clawed sea monster.

"Spiritual Soul Transcription!"

The power of soul-sharing attached to the vines continuously absorbs the magic power of the eight-clawed sea monster.

In less than a breath.

The entire eight-clawed sea monster looks like a whale parasitized by barnacles, with vines all over its body.

These thick and tough vines cling to the eight-clawed sea monster.

And there is no need for Roja himself to provide additional demons. They can absorb the magic power from the eight-clawed sea monster and continue to grow.

"Ouch——"

The eight-clawed sea monster struggled wildly.

The vines on its body were constantly breaking and shattering under its terrifying power.

But these vines grow faster than they break!

And every time it breaks, it becomes stronger!

Roja stood aside and looked leisurely at the eight-clawed sea monster that was locked in a bitter battle with the vines.

"My bloodline talent, Soul Sharing, and my witch weapon, the Withered Miteng, are the most suitable for dealing with monsters like you who have no brute force."

"In the past, I was a little sad because the magic weapon Dry Mitō was ineffective against the white wizard."

"Now it seems that the power of Kusheng Mitou is quite powerful."

The eight-clawed sea monster is very strong, but Roja is even stronger!

A monster like this with only brute strength cannot be Roja's opponent even if it is a hundred times stronger.

"It's just that relying on the power of soul transcription, it's a bit time-consuming to kill the eight-clawed sea monster."

"Its size is too huge, and its vitality is too tenacious."

"It's only the second floor of the Endless Tower now. I don't want to waste too much time on you."

If the current fighting method continues, it will take at least several hours to kill the eight-clawed sea monster.

Killing a top overlord-level monster in a few hours is definitely the best among second-level wizards.

The question is, among the students in Magic Machine Academy, which one is not the best among the second-level wizards?

"Let's fight quickly."

Roja quickly made up his mind.

He waved his hand, and vines shot out from his hand, turning into a spherical cage several kilometers in diameter and wrapping the entire body of the eight-clawed sea monster.

He poured magic into the vines.

Tens of billions of units of magic flow through the vines.

He used the vines as magic conductors to set up a witch formation!

"This is my first time setting up a witch formation without relying on the Bone Shout Beast. I wonder how powerful this witch formation is?"

"Witch array, share souls!"

The power of the witch formation, released with tens of billions of units of magic power, cannot be compared to that of a bloodline talent.

Hundreds and thousands of times more powerful!

Especially the magic power used in setting up the witch formation this time comes from the auxiliary witchcraft magic black cage.

The auxiliary witchcraft magic black cage can store a thousand times the magic power of the wizard himself, and the purity of the magic power is exactly the same as the wizard himself.

In the past, when the witch formation was set up with the help of the magic power of the bone roar beast, the power of the witch formation could only be said to be unsatisfactory because the quality of the magic power of the bone roar beast was too low.

This time is different!

Under the influence of the witch formation, the huge body of the eight-clawed sea monster quickly dried up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In less than half a minute, the huge body of the eight-clawed sea monster had completely withered, and its vitality had completely withered.

Eight-clawed sea monster, death!

The second floor of the Endless Tower, cleared!

"Deploying a witch formation to share souls can both kill enemies and restore magic power. It's a completely useless business!"

Roja had just used tens of billions of units of magic power to set up the witch formation, and the magic power stored in the black cage of the auxiliary magic weapon was almost used up at once.

But after killing the eight-clawed sea monster and draining the eight-clawed sea monster's vitality, all the magic power consumed in the previous battle was directly restored!

Not to mention one magic black cage, even a few more magic black cages can be filled to the brim!

"Next level."

After successfully killing the eight-clawed sea monster, Roja did not stay in this world any longer.

Whoosh!

He returned directly to the Endless Tower and prepared for the subsequent challenge of the Endless Tower.

Only the people in this world were left watching this scene in shock.

Looking at the body of the eight-clawed sea monster floating on the sea, it had turned into a mummy.

"Tu tu tu tu——"

The helicopter's spiral angle turned with difficulty.

The pilot, Uncle Gus, controlled the helicopter to land slowly on a flat place.

"Hahu-hahu-"

Uncle Gus, who landed the plane successfully, was breathing heavily.

"It's a miracle we survived!"

"I feel like my luck in life has run out and I will never fly another plane in my life."

"Miss Lucy, please find another driver in the future..."

"Miss Lucy?"

Lucy ignored Gus' words.

She dragged her photography equipment toward a hillside not far away.

When she reached the top of the hillside panting heavily, she immediately set up the camera and took pictures towards the sea.

Due to the destruction of the eight-clawed sea monster, all the buildings blocking the road ahead were almost destroyed.

So even though she was only on a 100-meter-high hill, she still clearly captured the scenery of the sea.

"Who is that armored man who can fight against the El Niño sea monster?"

"Who will win in a battle between them?"

"Where will the fate of our species go?"

"Will it be destroyed by a sea monster or ruled by a god-like man?"

Lucy was giving live commentary while adjusting the camera.

When she finally adjusted the lens and successfully photographed the sea dozens of kilometers away, she saw the corpses floating on the sea.

Everyone in the world who was watching the live broadcast looked at the screen with blank expressions.

Through the screen, they saw the dead eight-clawed sea monster floating on the sea!

That monster that can ignore the attack of nuclear bombs and has the power to destroy the entire human civilization is actually dead?

In less than half an hour, he was killed?

"Really...dead?"

"El Niño, which has been wreaking havoc for more than a month, destroyed dozens of countries and killed hundreds of people, is dead?"

"Who is that man?"

"Is it a messenger of the gods? Or is it a supernatural being hidden in the darkness?"

"How will you appear in front of us next?"

"As a god, bear our faith?"

"As a king, to rule the entire world?"

"As a demon king, destroy civilization?"

"Mysterious strong man, if you are watching the live broadcast, if you know my existence, if you want to say something to the world, please contact me!"

Lucy kept marveling and telling the camera.

What she said was exactly what everyone watching the live broadcast was thinking.

They all want to know who the mysterious powerful man is.

They all want to know what the mysterious strong man will do.

In the following time, humans all over the world are looking for the mysterious strong man who killed the eight-clawed sea monster.

However, time passed day after day, and the mysterious strong man did not appear in the end.

It was as if it had never appeared.

It's like it was all just a dream.

But the dead people, the disaster-stricken countries, the corpses of the eight-clawed sea monster, everything told them that this was really happening!

Gradually.

The incident became a legend.

A myth that will be passed down forever as long as the human race in this world does not perish! (End of chapter)