Just as the newcomers of the Seven began to throw themselves into the fight.
Bang!
The town square shook violently.
A ring of dust slowly spread outward.
Alex stood within that ring of dust, holding a rock in both hands. On the surface of the rock, a man's face had emerged.
At this moment, that face was filled with terror.
'Insight.'
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[Name: Croft]
[Life Level: Level 4 (Superhuman)]
[Status: Fear]
[Talent: Petrification]
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Alex examined the face on the rock and smiled, "Goodbye, Croft."
He suddenly exerted force with both hands.
Cracks instantly appeared across the rock and spread toward the human face.
"No! NOOO—"
Alex brought his hands together. The rock shattered at once, breaking into fragments that fell to the ground.
He clapped his hands, pressed his earpiece, and said, "Angelina, have a happy hunt."
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In the distant forest, Angelina, who had been lying in wait the whole time, immediately raised her head.
A faint red glow flickered deep in her pupils.
She was both excited and nervous. After taking a deep breath, she dashed out.
In an instant, she turned into an afterimage, flashing and streaking through the forest.
In the blink of an eye, she left the woods and entered the town from another direction.
As soon as she rushed into the town, she spotted the pitch-black-skinned "Night Servants."
Angelina recalled her combat training with Homelander. She suddenly accelerated, grabbed one Night Servant by the back of the collar, lifted hard, twisted her waist, swung her arm.
A shoulder throw! BANG!
The Night Servant was smashed into the ground by Angelina, head hitting first and shattering on the spot. Red and white splattered everywhere.
Angelina's expression changed instantly. She covered her mouth, staggered back, pressed against the wall, and retched violently.
Suddenly, a pair of arms burst out from a window behind her, viciously clawing at her face.
Several bloody gashes immediately appeared on the girl's pale, delicate face.
Angelina jerked her head up, instinctively grabbed the two arms and pressed down, snapping them on the spot, broken bones piercing through flesh.
Then she lifted her leg and kicked forward savagely, smashing the wooden wall to pieces and sending the Night Servant inside flying backward.
At this moment, the wounds on Angelina's face had already healed.
The injured Night Servant crawled back up, his arms resetting and recovering. He let out a howl and charged at the girl again.
As he lunged out through the gap in the wall, the shadow on the wall where Angelina stood suddenly flickered.
The girl's figure lunged out, claws slashing. While still in midair, the Night Servant shattered into pieces.
Angelina raised her foot and crushed the still-rolling eyeball of the severed head.
She seemed to be gradually getting used to battle and killing. She no longer felt nauseated, and instead rushed toward the other Night Servants, beginning her free hunt.
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In the town square, Alex scanned his surroundings and quickly locked onto the position of "Glutton."
At this moment, a group of animals charged out from the circus.
Tigers, lions, leopards, zebras, hippos, gorillas.
Whether herbivores or carnivores, all of them had red eyes and charged at Alex menacingly.
"Seriously, you plan to use animals to brush me off?", Alex spread his hands.
At that moment, the fastest leopard reached Alex and leapt at him.
Alex's eyes instantly lit up with golden light. Two golden beams tore through the air and sliced the leopard apart.
But before he could sweep the beams across the other animals, the beams curved and shot into the circus tent.
No need to guess. Glutton had absorbed his beams again with his talent.
Alex rose into the air, planning to attack from above, when a black shadow suddenly flashed at the edge of his vision.
The next moment, a figure slammed into Alex.
Alex did not move an inch, but he saw that this flamboyantly dressed man's body seemed boneless, his limbs slithering over Alex like pythons.
Then one arm stretched downward, grabbing a streetlight in the square to use as leverage.
Alex let himself be dragged back to the ground, then tried to force his body apart.
Unexpectedly, this man's body was like rubber. No matter how far Alex forced his arms apart, he could not break free.
"It's useless, Homelander."
"I know you're strong, but against someone like me, who can stretch infinitely, no matter how much strength you have, there's nowhere to use it!"
The "Rubber Man" wrapped around Alex boasted loudly.
At that moment, cheerful music rang out again from inside the tent, followed by figures appearing one after another.
These extravagantly dressed people came out riding unicycles, balancing on balls, doing flips, or walking stacked on each other like human towers.
It was like a full acrobatics troupe.
What was eerie was that all these acrobats looked exactly the same.
Women, brown hair, thick lips, purple eye makeup.
They came near Alex, completing an encirclement together with the animals.
Alex casually used Insight on one of the women.
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[Name: Replicator]
[Life Level: Level 4 (Superhuman)]
[Status: Excited]
[Talent: Self-Replication]
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At this point, Alex had roughly grasped the tactics of the "Black Bat Circus."
They used Glutton as a secret weapon to counter his strongest weapon, heat vision.
They used the Stone Man, Rubber Man, Replicators, and those clearly controlled animals to restrain him while protecting Glutton at the same time.
As for the "Midnight Clown," whose whereabouts were still unknown, he likely possessed some method he believed could harm Alex.
And the key pillar of this entire strategy was, without a doubt, Glutton.
Thinking of this, Alex smiled.
"You don't actually think you have a chance to beat me, do you?"
The voice of "Midnight Clown" sounded from the loudspeakers.
["We don't need to defeat you."]
["Homelander, open your eyes and take a good look."]
["The military, and that so-called Seven, are about to lose control."]
["Once my Night Servants break out of the town and attack the city—"]
["Even if you kill all of us, you've already lost."]
["People will never trust you again, worship you, or support you!"]
["Your myth will end here!"]
Alex shook his head and smiled, "What makes you think I care about so-called trust, worship, or support?"
"I don't need them."
"And I don't need to be defined by anyone."
"Also—"
"How long are you planning to hide?"
"I'm very curious. If I go kill that fat guy right now, will you keep hiding?"
As Alex finished speaking, the Rubber Man wrapped around him sneered, "Homelander, I won't let you break free from me."
"Is that so?"
"Let's see."
Alex bent his waist, taking a starting stance, but lifted his head to look at the sky.
He clenched both fists.
BOOM!
A ring of air blasted outward.
Gravel on the ground began to jump, vibrating faster and faster. When it suddenly sprayed outward in all directions, Alex turned into a phantom and shot straight into the sky.
"AHHHHH!"
The Rubber Man let out a shrill scream. Wrapped around Alex, his arms were forcibly stretched longer and longer.
But Alex was too fast, so fast that the Rubber Man could not extend himself in time.
The Rubber Man felt like he was about to be torn apart. He hurriedly let go of the streetlight.
Just as he felt a moment of relief, he saw Alex continuing to fly upward.
In the blink of an eye, outer space was already in sight.
The Rubber Man was instantly terrified. He tried to scream, but both the pressure and the raging winds robbed him of any sound.
At the same time, the extreme cold at high altitude rapidly froze the surface of his body.
Moments later, the unprotected Rubber Man's blood froze, his body stiffened.
Alex casually slapped him.
He shattered into fragments that fell away.
Alex looked down at the earth and smiled, "You can twist and redirect heat vision, but what about pure physical impact?"
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