Chapter 132 | Killing Three Ultra Class Monsters!
The beast’s attack flowed seamlessly, creating an endless, crushing barrage that gave Dexter no room to counterattack.
He was purely on the defensive.
But Flame Burst Step was still active. His speed was amplified by over 500%, and the Slaughter Extraction System had granted him substantial agility bonuses from the monsters he’d already killed. Combined with the physical enhancements from his body-tempering techniques, he was managing.
’This won’t do.’
Dexter realized. If this continued, he might actually be in trouble.
"How long?!" Dexter roared.
"Five more seconds!" Plasmatic roared back as his entire body now wreathed in blinding blue light. The plasma sphere between his palms had grown to the size of a basketball.
Five seconds."
Dexter gritted his teeth and continued to tank the assault. His saber moved in a blur, blocking, parrying, deflecting. The ground beneath him had been reduced to rubble. His arms burned.
Then the goblin commander suddenly glanced at Plasmatic Hero and its gaze hardened as it activated its skill.
"ROOOOOOOAAAAR!"
The sonic-mental assault erupted outward in a wave of devastating psychic pressure. Every hero within a ten-meter radius froze instantly, their minds disorientated as even two heroes collapsed and others stood still in confusion.
However, Dexter seemed to have expected it.
Like the saying goes. ’Bite me once shame on you, bite me twice, shame on me.’
The moment the roar began, he deactivated his Enhanced Hearing and detonated his Abyssal Emperor Flame. The deep violet fire blazed through his nervous system, incinerating the mental attack before it could do anything.
The Goblin Commander was still roaring, expecting everyone to be stunned.
Dexter didn’t waste the opening and vanished, reappearing directly behind the still-roaring creature. He immediately thrust forward with his entire strength.
"Puchi!"
The blade punched through the air and struck the creature’s back.
"Ding."
The saber had penetrated barely an inch when resistance materialized. A layer of dense, emerald mana barrier appeared beneath the beast’s skin, stopping the blade from reaching any vital organs.
Dexter’s eyes narrowed.
Ultra-level beings could condense mana into physical matter and that included protective barriers formed directly beneath their skin.
The beast was essentially wearing a suit of invisible, mana-forged armor.
The beast’s roar cut off abruptly as it registered the pain. Its crimson eyes widened with surprise and then shifted to pure, concentrated fury.
"ROOOOAR!"
It angrily spun around and all four swords swept in a devastating in multiple devastating arcs.
Dexter immediately tried to move but he wasn’t fast enough as one of the beast’s mana blades slices through his shirt and opening a deep gash across his ribs
Dexter hissed through clenched teeth but didn’t falter. He landed in a crouch, one hand pressed against his bleeding side, his dark red eyes locked on the beast.
"THREE SECONDS!" Plasmatic’s voice thundered across the battlefield.
The goblin commander seemed to have heard it too. Its crimson eyes flickered toward the plasma-glowing hero
It immediately turned away from Dexter and launched itself toward Plasmatic, all four mana blades raised, intending to kill him before he could release his attack.
Dexter immediately flicked his wrists and a hairpin needle stabbed through the air like a silent bullet.
The hairpin left his hand like a comet, as it rocketed toward the beast’s back.
The weapon’s built-in Aimlock accuracy found its mark, slamming into the same one-inch wound Dexter had already opened on the creature’s spine.
"Puchi!"
Along with its penetrative ability, it stabbed even deeper this time.
The pain disrupted the beast’s spatial manipulation mid-step, causing it to stumble out of its folded space and materialize ten meters short of Plasmatic.
The beast roared in fury, pain and shock.
Just a bit more and needle would have pierced its heart. It slapped the needle away from its back.
"Everyone, duck!" Plasmatic roared as he released his attack.
Dexter didn’t hesitate. He dropped to the ground instantly. Every hero nearby followed suit.
The four-armed goblin commander was confused at first. Then its survival instincts screamed.
It tried to activate its spatial teleportation, folding space to escape whatever was coming.
But the gravity hero called Graviton among the group had already acted.
The air around the beast thickened instantly as gravitational force multiplied 10 fold. The goblin’s movements slowed drastically as if suddenly made of lead.
The slowdown lasted only 0.1 seconds.
That was all Plasmatic needed.
The hero’s chest plate split open, revealing a blinding core of concentrated plasma energy that had been charging for the past minute.
The energy erupted from his chest in a massive pillar of pure, white-hot light—a beam so intense that the air along its path ionized instantly, creating a vacuum corridor that the plasma traveled through at the speed of light itself.
The goblin face change it roared in fury and terror.
It immediately crossed all four forearms in front of its chest, activating its defensive technique.
Instantly, four layers of dense, green mana barriers materialized in front of it, each one thick enough to stop a Superhuman’s full-powered attack.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The four barriers disintegrated as the plasma beam punched through all four layers of defense and struck the beast’s chest with the force of a small star going supernova.
The beast managed to dodge slightly as a massive hole appeared in the right side of the Level three beast’s torso.
Its entire right shoulder and both right arms were destroyed cleanly—vaporized by the plasma energy, leaving behind a cauterized, steaming wound that exposed the creature’s internal organs.
But the beast was still alive.
"ROOOOOOAR—!"
It roar of pain was cut short as Dexter activated GodSlayer Flash.
"Crackle!"
Thunder crackled underneath his foot as another image of Dexter suddenly appeared behind the beast.
Two Dexter appearing simultaneously, all at once.
But then, one Dexter started to fade, it was actually an afterimage.
Dexter stood up straight and flicked the blood off his blade.
For a heartbeat, nothing happened. The beast stood motionless, its remaining arms still raised, its mouth still open mid-roar.
Then a thin line appeared around the goblin’s neck as its head toppled forward, hit the ground with a wet thunk and rolled twice before coming to rest against a piece of rubble.
The massive, headless body swayed for a moment, green blood fountaining from the severed neck, before collapsing forward with a ground-shaking crash.
[Extracted: +10 Strength, +8 Agility, +7 Physique, +5 Mana]
Dexter exhaled slowly.
The heroes around him let out a collective breath of relief.
"You did it!" one of them cheered, slapping Plasmatic on the back. "Nice! Well done!"
"Beautiful shot," another added, giving the plasma hero a thumbs up.
They turned to Dexter as well, offering grateful nods and thumbs-ups. "Good job stunning the beast," the speedster hero said, extending his hand.
Dexter shook the man’s hand briefly, then shook his head. "We need to help the others."
His voice cut through the celebration like a blade.
The heroes’ smiles faded instantly as they remembered the other Level four, Level Two, and Level One commanders were still active.
Kinetic Man and Bullet Spear was still holding the line against the Level Four’s remnants.
Dexter was already moving. "The Level two first. Same strategy."
The five heroes nodded.
***
The Level two commander was still engaged with its group of heroes when Dexter’s reinforced squad arrived.
Two of the heroes were already down, one unconscious, one bleeding from a head wound. The remaining three were barely holding.
Dexter assessed the situation in a single glance.
"Same setup!" he roared. "Gravity hero, slow it down! Plasmatic, charge! Rest of you, keep it contained!"
The heroes moved into position.
The Graviton extended both hands, and the air around the Level Two beast thickened. The creature’s movements slowed down as Dexter charged in.
He engaged the beast head-on, drawing its attention, forcing all four arms to focus on him.
Thirty seconds, Fourty-five seconds.
"NOW! DODGE!"
Dexter flashed sideways. The plasma beam erupted from Plasmatic’s chest for the second time, screaming across the battlefield at the speed of light.
This time, the Level Three beast couldn’t dodge as the beam struck its body and punched through the creature’s body like paper.
Dexter followed up with a slash, severing its head immediately.
The beast didn’t even know how it died as it collapsed.
[Extracted: +7 Strength, +6 Agility, +5 Physique, +3 Mana]
The heroes didn’t celebrate this time. They simply turned and ran toward the next target.
***
The Level One commander fell next.
With the full group of heroes now free to concentrate their forces, the strategy executed flawlessly. The gravity hero slowed the beast. Dexter drew its aggro, tanking its attacks with his tempered body while the other heroes created openings.
Plasmatic charged his beam. Almost a minute later, another smoking hole appeared in a goblin commander’s chest.
Kinetic Man and Bullet Spear Man had finished the Level Four beast at this time.
***
The market district fell silent.
All four commander beasts were dead. Their massive corpses littered the streets, green blood pooling beneath them in expanding lakes. The surviving heroes stood among the carnage, exhausted but alive.
Dexter leaned against a wrecked car, pressing his hand against the gash on his ribs. The wound had actually stopped bleeding by itself.
Moreover, he could actually see his wounds been healed rapidly, visible to the naked eyes.