Chapter 164: Is this the end?
"Come on, pull your pants up, we need to go right now. Something terrible has happened."
"Yeah, something definitely happened!
Something like your unhinged trash self coming deep inside me three damn times in a row without even asking for my legal permission!!!"
Sera completely crashed out on the spot!
Her face turned bright red, her voice hitting a screeching frequency that rattled the damp dungeon walls!
Noticeably, her absolute mental meltdown wasn’t about the fact that she had just lost her sacred, prized virginity in a dusty corridor.
Nor was it about the brutal, non-stop ten minutes of wild, relentless pounding that had turned her inner walls into molten lava.
No, her intense pride was outraged over one very specific, unforgivable violation of basic human etiquette:
This Rank-F trash didn’t even have the decency to pull out before shooting his final load!
"There is literally zero time for your dramatic whining. We need to move our asses right now," Kaizen said coldly.
His voice dropped into a flat, dead-serious tone that she had never heard from him before.
There was no perverted smirk, no cocky laughing, just pure, cold aura radiating from his eyes.
Sera paused mid-rant, her eyes blinking in total shock through her messy hair.
"W-What the hell is actually going on with you?!"
"Why are you looking like some generic edgelord main character all of a sudden?!"
Seeing that chilling, stone-cold expression on his face, Sera’s brain instantly snapped out of her angry tirade.
A cold wave of heavy anxiety washed right down her spine.
There was no way an unhinged, shameless degenerate like Kaizen would ever turn this serious unless the entire floor was literally collapsing into absolute hell!
Kaizen glanced back down the dark, twisting corridor, his glowing Ghost Eyes deactivating with a faint sizzle.
"Leo is currently dying on the floor. So are Kaito and Hina."
"The A-Plus rank boss is literally about to turn them into bloody meat paste."
"If we don’t hurry up and get there, they are going to be wiped out completely."
?!
The terrifying words hit Sera like a physical battering ram!
Her face tilted downward, the remaining flush of intense sexual pleasure completely vanishing from her cheeks as total, razor-sharp gravity replaced it.
Without a single second thought, completely forgetting her violently trembling quads, the heavy soreness dripping between her thighs, and the ten minutes of brutal, relentless pounding she had just endured...
She stood straight up, hitched her sticky, torn gym leggings back into place, and aggressively cracked her neck side to side with a terrifying CRACK sound!
"Let’s go. I’m going to kick that damn boss’s ass."
Kaizen paused, his eyes narrowing as he took in her stiff posture and trembling, sweat-slick legs.
"Are you actually ready for this? That boss literally one-shotted Leo in a single second. We need to be extremely careful."
Sera gave him a deadpan, unblinking glare, all traces of her previous humiliation completely erased.
"My friends are dying. There’s no better place to be ready than right now. Let’s go."
They locked eyes for a brief, heavy second.
The unhinged degenerate young master and the battered gym-girl...
And they gave each other a sharp, synchronized nod.
....
The trio wasn’t done yet!
Even with blood dripping down their faces and their bodies screaming in sheer agony, they forced themselves back up onto their feet.
They tried again, this time with a coordinated, high-level tactical approach!
They split up instantly, taking three completely different angles around the massive stone chamber!
Three different attacks detonated simultaneously, landing one right after another in a seamless sequence!
Kaito launched a blazing arc of high-density sword fire, Hina fired a razor-sharp vortex of compressed wind blades, and Leo poured every remaining drop of his mana into an explosive, desperate sprint punch directly to the monster’s spine!
BOOOOOOM! CRASH! EXPLODE!
A blinding flash of elemental energy engulfed the entire altar, blowing stone dust and shattered statues everywhere!
...But to everyone’s sheer, terrifying dismay, the smoke cleared to reveal the monk standing completely untouched!
It simply threw its bald head back and laughed mockingly, tanking all three full-power attacks without taking a single millimeter of knockback!
"HA HA HA HA! Useless!"
"No matter how much you try, even if you brought an S-Rank hunter here, nothing in this mortal realm can harm me!"
"My [Pure Halo] divine protection renders all physical and magical force entirely void!"
This was bad. Very, very bad!
If they couldn’t find a way to defeat this monstrosity, they were all going to die right here in this dark cave!
Forget about defeating him, they couldn’t even put a single tiny scratch on his old, papery skin!
"Whatever this [Pure Halo] trash is, we need to break it immediately!"
Kaito spat, coughing up a mouthful of dark blood onto his broken sword hilt.
"I agree!" Leo yelled, clutching his dislocated shoulder in sheer pain.
"But what even is this Pure Halo?"
Hina asked, wiping a thick stream of blood from her lip while glaring intensely at the monster with her trembling Ghost Eyes.
"Is it some sort of passive barrier magic? Maybe that orange robe he’s wearing is a high-tier artifact? Or is he holding some hidden defensive weapon?!"
"Maybe it’s the Buddha statue behind him?!" Leo added frantically.
No matter how hard they scanned him, they couldn’t find a single visible flaw, magic circle, or weakness on his body.
All three of them were heavily bleeding, their mana pools rapidly running dry.
If this battle dragged on for even two more minutes, they would all bleed out on the cold stone floor!
"Whatever it is, if we can’t break that Pure Halo, we are dead meat!"
Hina gritted her teeth, her voice shaking with desperate frustration.
"We can’t even touch him even with our absolute full force! That’s not normal for any ranker at all!"
"She’s right!"
Kaito agreed grimly.
"Two D-rankers and one C-ranker launching a synchronized full-power assault should at least chip a fraction of an A-ranker’s health bar!"
"Under normal circumstances, even an S-Rank hunter would feel a tiny tickle from a direct hit! So this Pure Halo has to be some kind of absolute invulnerability bullshit!"
"Then we destroy it!"
Leo roared, raising his trembling, bloody fists one more time into a fighting stance.
"Pure Halo or whatever, we break that damn shield or we die trying!"
"Foolish mortals! My halo is a divine boon granted directly by my God! You cannot break it—especially not you of all people!"
The Celibate Monk laughed out loud.
Gritting their teeth until their gums bled, the trio launched themselves forward yet again.
Clash! Bang! Boom!
They attacked from the left, from the right, sequentially, simultaneously, pouring every single scrap of their remaining mana into a desperate, chaotic onslaught.
But the result was brutally, terrifyingly identical every single time.
Every blade, every fist, every blast of wind simply dissipated the microsecond it made contact with that invisible, holy barrier.
As the attempts piled up, so did their horrific injuries.
With every passing second, their willpower eroded, and their mana reserves hit absolute rock-bottom.
All three of them were sitting dangerously close to 90% health depletion!
A couple more solid hits, and they wouldn’t just be unconscious; they would be dead meat, permanently deleted from the physical realm.
...And what was even more terrifying?
The monk wasn’t even using named skills, high-tier martial arts, or complex spell matrices!
He was literally using basic, plain-Jane punches and kicks!
Just raw, unrefined, physical stats!
If a simple, unnamed jab from this monster was already taking them to the brink of the afterlife, how monstrously powerful was this A+ Rank entity in reality?!
Realistically? He was an unkillable god to them.
Hina wiped another smear of blood from her trembling jaw, her golden Ghost Eyes flickering dimly as she looked at the towering monster, then at her broken comrades.
’There is no way...’
Hina’s mind spiraled into absolute, pitch-black despair.
’If this keeps going on for even thirty more seconds... we aren’t surviving this. It’s a total, complete wipe...’
"Arghhh! I refuse to die to a stupid, bald-headed monk like you!"
Leo roared at the top of his lungs, dragging his broken leg behind him as he limped desperately toward the monk.
Hina shook her head frantically, tears welling up in her trembling eyes.
’No... please, no! You’re going to die, Leo-kun!’
She could only watch in absolute, helpless horror as the Celibate Monk didn’t even bother to turn his body.
With a single, casual backhand flick of his grey arm—
BOOOOOOM!
A sickening CRACK echoed through the chamber as blood sprayed from Leo’s mouth like a broken fire hydrant!
He was launched across the cathedral like a ragdoll, smashing through a stone pillar before collapsing into a motionless, bloody pile on the dirt floor.
The monk didn’t wait even a fraction of a second.
Zzzzt!
He vanished in a blur of terrifying speed, reappearing instantly right above Kaito!
Before Kaito could even lift his broken sword to parry, a heavy grey foot slammed directly into his chest!
CRUNCH!
"GAHHH!"
Kaito gagged, coughing up a violent mouthful of dark crimson as the stone beneath his back completely shattered, instantly rendering him unconscious.
And then, before the sound of Kaito’s body hitting the rubble even faded... the air in front of Hina turned ice-cold.
WHOOSH.
The Celibate Monk materialized right in front of her face.
Hina froze completely.
Her entire body trembled violently, her quads locking up, her breath hitching in her throat as the towering, skeletal monster stared down at her with glowing red eyes and a wide, disgusting, black-toothed smile.
She couldn’t move a single muscle.
The sheer, suffocating aura of an A+ Rank boss paralyzed her entire nervous system.
The monk slowly raised his grey, withered hand, drawing back a heavy, fatal fist directly targeted at her face.
Hina closed her eyes tightly, tears streaming down her bruised cheeks as her mind went completely blank.
’Is this... is this really the absolute end of me...?’