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Chapter 148 - More Chaos
🕑 Added 2024-10-21 07:00:10 +0000 UTCAt the City Center, the hulking Badang was hugging the leg of the Demonic Tiger and smashed his body on the ground left and right repeatedly.
ROOAAAR!!
The Demonic Tiger was angry at being toyed with by a human like this.
"Hmph! Stupid Tiger, the old you was much stronger than this. Looks like whoever resurrected you couldn't restore your full power, eh?" Badang mocked the Demonic Tiger as he pinned him under the hill-sized boulder again.
Badang conjured a pair of thick boxing gloves made of hard and heavy rocks and then continued punching and smashing the Demonic Tiger's enormous head until it got destroyed.
However, a few seconds later, the black Qi would gather around the bloodied destroyed head and regenerate it again. What a troublesome ability to deal with.
Badang was worried that if they could continuously regenerate like this, sooner or later, they would be exhausted and the Demonic Beasts would turn the table on them.
He knew that the City Lord was dealing with the perpetrator outside the city and had informed her so that she could find a way to stop the ridiculous unlimited regeneration as soon as possible or they might be in trouble.
ROOAAAR!!!
Seeing the head fully healed, Badang resumed punching and smashing it into pulp again.
The same thing happened to the other resurrected Demonic Beasts all around the city center.
However, it was obvious they couldn't keep restraining or killing them over and over because they were slowly getting tired.
Outside the city, Caterina was racking her brain about how to solve this problem.
"Luna, do you have any solution?" She asked.
A white cat with a tiara appeared on her shoulder. "Meow, there's no way other than destroying his formation."
"That's what I thought too, but that's the problem. We don't have a formation expert skilled enough to do that." Caterina shook her head.
"Meowniway, we don't have any choice. Rina, you try to find any formation experts in the city and ask them for help. I'll go help Badang and the others. I want to beat up that hateful tiger." Luna jumped from Caterina's shoulder and headed to the city center.
Right after Luna took off, Caterina sent an emergency request to the Bureau of Investigation nearby to send over all the formation experts they invited to the Holy Cat City as soon as possible.
All she could do now was wait. She wanted to help subjugate the Demonic Beasts, but someone had to keep an eye on the hunched old man. Although he hasn't attacked and moved and from the spot since she came here, who knows what he would do next?
It has only been around an hour since the lockdown started. The lockdown would automatically alert the Cloud Continent's Protector, prompting them to send an envoy here. Only after that would the lockdown be lifted. However, it would take them half a day to reach here. The trapped people in the city could already be slaughtered by then.
Suddenly, Caterina sensed an even thicker, creepy atmosphere coming near from all directions. She instantly flew higher and was greatly shocked by what she witnessed.
Over a hundred streams of river-like dark Qi could be seen flowing from a distance towards her, no, most definitely towards the hunched old man. If the initial amount had caused so much chaos, what would happen if he got more? Catastrophe!
Caterina couldn't wait anymore and went to the East Gate guard station. Her City Lord token could let a few people bypass the Grand Formation, so she could let a few formation experts help her decipher the hunched old man's formation to kill him.
"Kikiki. My power-ups are near. It's so nice seeing them struggle. Chaos, destruction, death, desperation, they are the best feelings! I studied so hard so that I could do all of this! And they are helpless to stop me!" The hunched old man had a villain monologue as he watched the desperate Caterina.
His plan was brilliant! First, he caused chaos outside. After that, the city deployed the Grand Formation, trapping themselves inside, and then he unleashed the monsters among them, creating a bloodbath inside.
Truly ironic, the formation that was supposed to protect them from danger had become their death trap. Of course, this plan wouldn't work without all the death Qi he collected and his masterpiece formation.
He was only a normal member of the Black Hand Cult and since they were already the strongest entity on the continent, there wasn't much to do except for some random missions. Almost everyone in the Makai Continent had joined the Black Hand Cult. Where could he go to cause trouble then? So, he gathered his old friends to return to the Cloud Continent and caused chaos again for fun.
When I go back later, I will improve my masterpiece formation more so that it can operate automatically without having me as the source. It's quite boring being stuck in here and my stupid slave is dead. So useless. He continued monologuing in his mind.
"Layla, how's the situation on the surface now?" Leyvi asked.
They had stopped moving and hid deep underground. The earth kept shaking, and the tremors caused by the battle on the surface might have caused the tunnel to collapse if it was a normal tunnel.
Thankfully, Scarlet's dig ability ensured amazing stability to the tunnel. She even made sure to create fake paths so that other people wouldn't find them.
"Things don't look good. More than a hundred thousand people had died since the Demonic Beasts appeared from the museum. They were all caught off guard by the attack. Many people are still fleeing using whatever method they can. Also, some bad people were taking advantage of the chaos to act according to their evil desire." Layla reported. Her eyes were closed as she was getting the live feed from her mini clones.
Her last sentence caused the ladies to be furious. They knew exactly what that meant. People like this were worse than the evil people outside.
"Sigh...I hope Mia and Norin are safe." Anda was worried about them after hearing the number of casualties. She didn't expect for this to happen after they planned to enjoy a few more days in the city.
"What about my family?" Ava and Selene were also worried about their families, hoping they would be safe from the attacks.
"Don't worry, Patriarch Magnus and Patriarch Vitali had safely retreated away from the city center after the Law Enforcement experts came," Layla informed them. Ava and Selene were relieved to hear that.
"Husband, I think we should leave the city," Layla suggested, her eyes still shut.
"Why?" Leyvi asked. He just wanted to hide down here until the commotion was over.
"The Demonic Beasts keep reviving and it doesn't seem that they know how to deal with it. If this continues, they will be overwhelmed eventually. At that time, even we wouldn't be safe here." Layla explained her reasonings.
Leyvi frowned. How did all of this happen, anyway? What kind of power could revive them again and again? Yo, talent bead, give me something like that too.
"Not good! Massive amounts of new black Qi are coming from the East Gate direction! Husband, we have to leave now!" Layla, who was always composed, started panicking now.
"Alright! Scarlet, bring us to the city's border."
"Yes, boss!" Scarlet replied and summoned the forcefield drill.
Leyvi didn't hesitate anymore. If they had this much trouble with the first wave of black Qi, now, an even larger wave of black Qi would definitely be the end of the Holy Cat City. It was a pity. He quite liked this city.
Nala, Ava, and Selene were confused. What are we doing at the border? And how are we supposed to escape from the city? The lockdown trapped us.
The three new ladies hadn't seen Leyvi's Formation Dismantling ability yet, so it was natural they would be confused, but the rest were excited to see it in action again, which only added to the confusion of the three new ladies.
Aren't we in danger now? Why are they excited?
At the city center, Chief Leader Badang, who was resting at the side, watching the City Lord's spirit beast Luna dicing and slicing the body of the Demonic Tiger, suddenly stood up.
"Everyone! Be careful!" He cautioned his subordinates loudly as an immense wave of black Qi crept over like a silent tsunami.
The next moment, the black Qi waves swept over everything in its path.
With the addition of the new black Qi supply, the weakened resurrected Demonic Beasts not only regenerate faster, but their strengths also massively increase, causing the tired Law Enforcement team to be unable to restrain them anymore.
Not only that, they also had an additional problem on their hands. The new waves of the black Qi also resurrected the people who were killed during the chaos.
Although the people who died mostly had low cultivation when they were alive, there were over a hundred thousand of them!
They had started moving towards every corner of the city to attack more people.
The chaos in the Holy Cat City escalated to a whole new level as a result.
Under the ground, the Leyan Family was steadily moving towards the city's border.
"Husband, someone we know is being attacked nearby. Should we help her?" Layla reported.
"Who?"
"Dorin, the reverse harem girl."
