Chapter 408: Golden Soul, Mercy Release
Whoosh!
Turbid yellow liquid surged out from the ground. The dimly lit Gate of Life and Death opened abruptly. Amidst the screaming of countless Yin Spirits, the faces of Fubuki and others hundreds of meters away turned pale in an instant.
She was almost drowned by that aura of death.
Saitama stretched out his hand. Looking at his glove that seemed to have crossed countless years in an instant, becoming dilapidated, he just released his fist, and the glove scattered into debris.
The land around him also turned gray. All vitality had disappeared.
Saitama looked at the open Gate of Life and Death and the surging flood of death. His figure disappeared suddenly. In the next moment, figures around disappeared one by one. With speed completely uncapturable by the naked eye, Saitama sent everyone away one by one.
When he returned to the original spot, the broken Spirit World entrance and the Gate of Life and Death had disappeared.
Saitama looked at the pool of radioactive blood on the ground and the corpse still standing there. After a moment of silence, he turned and left.
"Mercenary Tao... huh..."
In a certain moment when that punch came just now, he felt a trace of excitement and palpitation. Mercenary Tao was certainly not a powerhouse. Among the monsters he had fought, he probably couldn't even rank in the front row.
But, he had a feeling that Mercenary Tao was a guy with potential. But unfortunately, that was a madman.
After confirming that those people emitting white light on the scene were just standing stiffly without any reaction, Saitama bent his knees and then jumped violently.
Accompanying the cracking sound like the earth splitting, Saitama jumped into the clouds in an instant, then found a direction and fell.
He wanted to clear out all those guys who messed up this world!
"Saitama-kun..."
Fubuki's chest heaved violently. She saw that she and the car had been moved to the outskirts of the city at some point. Only at this moment did she truly feel Saitama's power.
That indisputable, overwhelmingly powerful force made her unable to even generate the emotion of fear.
[Lilith] also walked out of the car weakly. She pursed her lips, looking at the corpse in the distance that only had the lower body remaining, still maintaining the posture of taking a step. That half body no longer grew disgusting granulation as before, showing no signs of recovery.
"Mr. Mercenary Tao..."
Lilith reached out her hand, then dropped it weakly. Fubuki pressed the latter's shoulder; her complexion wasn't very good either.
Even though Bang had told her that Mercenary Tao was most likely a vicious person from another world, and all previous actions were just to gain their trust.
But Fubuki felt that the fact he and Lilith saved her wasn't fake.
Do I have to distinguish whether a person is sincere or fake when saving people in the future?
Heroes... are really complicated.
In the black-and-white world, there were no dimensions of time and space. There was no up or down, no left or right. What the naked eye saw and what actually existed couldn't correspond at all.
This was a completely twisted world.
But in this world, there was peace.
In the shadow of the huge broccoli, Kaito Shirogane suddenly opened his eyes. He saw a pair of eyes—hollow eyes, completely devoid of pupils.
Kaito wanted to retreat, but his body remained in place without moving.
The familiar "Why" began to echo around again. Those were the wrongfully dead spirits of Seasoning City, still unable to rest in peace, asking day and night why they had to die.
"Do you know the answer?"
Mob squatted in front of Kaito, asking like this at this moment.
Kaito suddenly realized his perspective was very low. Mob was currently of normal human size; why did he need to squat to look at him?
In the next moment, Kaito moved his vision and saw that only a small half of his body remained. He immediately looked at the Space panel, seeing a large amount of information already refreshed.
[EX051, you suffered Conceptual Level Attack · Serious Punch]
[Immunity Check Failed]
[Body vitality lost. You entered Dying State]
[Soul shattered. EX051 is about to die...]
[Detected spiritual power injection. Life form conversion in progress...]
[Conversion failed. Detected special constitution · Myriad Tribulations Yin Spirit Yellow Spring Body. Reincarnator EX051 cannot be converted into Spirit Body Creature]
[EX051 is about to die. Data begins to precipitate...]
[Detected special material. Golden Soul Fragment has precipitated]
[EX051, detected special environment. You have entered · Artificial Divine Kingdom · Spirit World Revelation]
...
"You saved me. Why?"
Kaito looked down at himself. Currently, only a small half of his body remained, as if someone drew a circle in front of him, coincidentally encompassing most of his body, and then everything inside that circle disappeared.
Kaito was left with only a small half of his body; even his head only had a large half remaining.
[Serious Punch] not only completely eliminated his cell vitality but also nearly shattered his existence itself—his soul.
The spiritual power on Mob's body surface slowly calmed down. He looked at this guy who was so indifferent even to his own death, feeling pity in his heart.
He lowered his head, picking up the opponent's incomplete spirit.
"I want an answer, Mr. Bai Cangzhu (Kaito Shirogane)."
Kaito's eyes focused on Mob. This guy indeed underwent some change. No wonder the Space issued a special pursuit order—[World Main Storyline].
This guy defined as [Spirit World Evil Lord] actually peered into his true name. This should have been impossible. But then, Kaito realized his soul was almost shattered at this moment, and the opponent also possessed some powerful prophecy ability.
If the Space lost the ability to intervene with him, the opponent could indeed obtain this information.
Mob then gently tossed Kaito's spirit body up, watching the golden soul fragments wrap around the opponent's spirit, preventing him from sinking.
"I can't save you. The one who saved you is him."
Kaito felt a warm aura surrounding himself.
This was... the reward he got from that mission after [Cory] died, the Golden Soul Fragment?!
[Golden Soul Fragment] was marked by the Space as a special material, but Kaito hadn't found a place to use it. The Fairy Master speculated it could be used to forge some powerful items or used in some powerful abilities.
But unexpectedly, it played a role in this form now.
Mob reached out his hand. The golden soul quickly shaped. As if molding plasticine, he completed Kaito's body.
Kaito stood again, feeling the reality of stepping on something.
"So, can you give them an answer, Mr. Bai Cangzhu?"
Kaito frowned, not understanding what exactly Mob meant. Moreover, the opponent seemed to be deliberately emphasizing his name.
In the opponent's eyes, he should be that [Fatalism].
Without waiting for Kaito to think further, the voices of those spirit bodies around became louder and louder, beginning to sound like a tsunami.
What was the scene of hundreds of thousands of people roaring at the same time? The huge broccoli began to tremble and disintegrate in an instant.
Mob also staggered. Kaito noticed that the huge black shadow previously behind the opponent, almost connecting to the Spirit World, had disappeared.
He remembered the black shadow shattered under Saitama's punch. It turned out that part of Mob's power took that blow?
"You don't have an answer..."
Mob seemed disappointed, but the aura on his body surface rapidly became unstable. He looked at his collapsing and falling Divine Kingdom. Losing that power, he could no longer grant peace to these hundreds of thousands of spirits.
The Divine Kingdom was about to shatter.
Mob suddenly turned his head, pinching towards Kaito with one hand. A burst of spiritual power erupted. Kaito was immediately strangled by the neck, his soul trembling violently.
Mob looked at Kaito, who remained calm and didn't struggle, and raised his other hand as well.
"Resist, Bai Cangzhu. Otherwise, I will kill you, then incarnate into the new Mogami Keiji (Most Evil Spirit), and then..."
Pfft!
Kaito's left hand thrust out abruptly, piercing the teenager's chest in an instant.
Mob's body trembled twice. Kaito lifted him up instead.
Kaito looked at Mob. For the first time during killing, there was no cruel look in his eyes.
He knew very clearly that the opponent was begging him to kill him.
This was... Mercy Release (Coup de Grace).
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