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Chapter 179: The Asura Rhinoceros Beetle's Explosive Power
Chapter 179: The Asura Rhinoceros Beetle's Explosive Power
When the Baldy and the Armored Gorilla arrived, Night City, who was fighting the Asura Rhinoceros Beetle, naturally noticed them.
Despite the intense battle with the Asura Rhinoceros Beetle, Night City had yet to unleash his true strength.
Otherwise, the peak Ghost-Class Asura Rhinoceros Beetle, who might be considered a formidable opponent, was no match for Night City. Unless the beetle transformed into another form, it could barely put up a fight against him.
According to the plot of Evolution House, if Night City's memory served him right, the Baldy was supposed to defeat the Asura Rhinoceros Beetle with overwhelming force.
It was only then that Dr. Kinose, the founder of Evolution House, would realize the futility of his research due to Saitama's existence, abandon it, and start selling takoyaki instead.
In other words, the Asura Rhinoceros Beetle should have been Saitama's prey. Night City didn't want to disrupt the plot too much, causing it to go berserk and lose his advantage as a "prophet."
For this reason, Night City had been fighting the Asura Rhinoceros Beetle as if it were a closely contested battle. This wasn't because he wanted to enjoy the fight and was holding back; he was waiting for the Baldy to take over.
Those who have mastered the art of swordsmanship to the extreme have incredibly sharp senses. Even from a great distance, Night City could hear the conversation between the Baldy and the Armored Gorilla.
Night City could also guess the Baldy's malicious intentions with just a little thought.
"I'm putting on a show here, giving you a chance to show off, and you're plotting to claim my compensation? That's intolerable!"
The Asura Rhinoceros Beetle, still engaged in combat, noticed Night City's attention shifting to the other side. Feeling humiliated, he threw a heavy punch directly at Night City's heart and shouted, "In the middle of our fight, you dare to be distracted by other things? You're asking for it, so don't blame me..."
"Shut up! Can't you see I'm thinking?"
Before the Asura Rhinoceros Beetle could finish his sentence, his fist was met with a flash of sword light in the air, and blood splattered everywhere.
Before the Asura Rhinoceros Beetle could even figure out why he was suddenly injured, his head suffered another heavy blow. Night City's side kick sent him flying.
As the Asura Rhinoceros Beetle flew backward, he was utterly confused. No matter how he tried to understand, he couldn't fathom why he was suddenly overpowered. Just a moment ago, his fists could block the opponent's blade, but now he was being suppressed.
The one who had shown a moment of distraction earlier seemed to be his opponent, but why was he the one being punched and sent flying now?
The over-three-meter-tall Asura Rhinoceros Beetle plummeted like a meteorite towards the ground, right where the Baldy was standing. A coincidence? No, it was Night City's deliberate plan!
"BOOM———"
As the Asura Rhinoceros Beetle hit the ground, the entire Evolution House shook violently.
The ground caved in, forming a massive crater in an instant, as if a calm water surface had been subjected to tremendous external pressure.
Standing in the strong wind, the Baldy Demon King maintained his indifferent and mocking expression.
Even as tons of giant rocks flew towards him, he remained unharmed.
However, compared to the Baldy Demon King, the Armored Gorilla, who had been standing to the side, was in a dire situation.
Feeling the powerful gust of wind, he struggled to keep his balance, and the flying boulders forced him to display impressive gymnastic moves to dodge them.
His previous armor had already been shattered by the bald man, and if he were to be hit by these multi-ton boulders, even if he didn't die instantly, severe injuries were inevitable.
"Night City, you can't fight like this. It's too dangerous and will easily harm innocent bystanders."
"Innocent bystanders? I don't see any around here. On the contrary, I only see a shameless baldy trying to run away! I'll beat him up and send him your way, how about that! We agreed to go find that doctor together to settle the account, but you actually wanted to run off on your own. What happened to our lifelong friendship?!"
Looking at the distant bald man, Night City signaled him from afar with an international hand gesture. However, to be precise, Night City was in no position to lecture the bald man.
According to his original script, he was also planning to wait for the bald man to arrive and then pretend to be no match for him, allowing the Asura Rhinoceros Beetle to defeat him, and then let the bald man take over.
While the bald man was playing with the Asura Rhinoceros Beetle, he would escape and find the location where Evolution House kept their funds.
However, he hadn't expected the bald man to be so sneaky and try to run away, or that these two shameless guys would actually think alike.
"You bastards! You've really angered me this time. I'm going to get serious and kill you all!"
As the entire Evolution House shook violently again, a roar emerged from the crater created by the Asura Rhinoceros Beetle earlier.
As the ground began to crack extensively, a large amount of rubble was instantly blasted into the air.
At this moment, the life sensing device inside the sidekick Genos also emitted a series of warnings.
"Night City, Saitama, the Asura Rhinoceros Beetle is not dead yet, and his energy reaction is surging intensely!"
The Asura Rhinoceros Beetle had two states. In its normal state, it had the strength of a Ghost-Class Hazard, as demonstrated earlier.
Its other form was known as "Asura Mode."
When in Asura Mode, the Asura Rhinoceros Beetle would completely ignite its combat instincts and lose all rationality within a week.
At this moment, the Asura Rhinoceros Beetle, originally yellowish-brown in color, had turned completely purple, with green stripes covering its body.
Not only did its physical qualities increase significantly, but its size also grew from over three meters to nearly eight meters!
In its normal state, the Asura Rhinoceros Beetle was a Ghost-Class Hazard, but in Asura Mode, its strength reached the Dragon-Class level.
Although it wasn't as powerful as the previous Vaccine Man, it was no longer the weakest Dragon-Class monster.
Usually, the Asura Rhinoceros Beetle avoided using Asura Mode because, without rationality, it couldn't consciously enjoy the pleasure of hunting its prey.
However, the conversation between Night City and Saitama just now had thoroughly enraged it! It had always believed they were evenly matched, but after fighting for so long, it realized that Saitama had been holding back.
And the reason for holding back was for a ridiculous compensation fee?
It was the Asura Rhinoceros Beetle, the strongest demon of Evolution House! When had it ever suffered such humiliation?
Now, it was going to go all out, first killing Night City who had humiliated it, then crushing the bald man before it, and finally, unleashing a massacre in the town!
(End of Chapter)
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