The King was pinned to the ground once again, his cold eyes locked onto Moses's face as he violently twisted the tail needle that was still lodged in Moses's side.
He was trying to fling Moses off with brute force in this way.
However, Moses's body didn't budge an inch.
[Shadow Anchor]
Moses looked down at the King at his feet with an expressionless face. He had already locked both of their positions using Shadow Anchor, immobilizing not only himself, but also the King, who had been pinned by the black blade.
Immediately afterwards, Moses activated the second stage of Pain Packer: Revised.
In an instant, the Aura around Moses compressed sharply, and a pure black flame condensed out of thin air in front of his face.
If one looked closely, they could just make out a faint red glow flickering deep within the black flame.
'A severed left arm and a punctured side... should be enough of a price.'
M Moses raised his eyes and looked at the black-and-red flame, which radiated an intense heat.
Under the protection of the tribal outfit, Moses could not feel the temperature from the black-and-red flame, but he could see that the surrounding air begin to twist and distort.
The King suddenly looked at black-and-red flame summoned by Moses, and inexplicably felt a sense of threat, and then a trace of uncontrollable fear rose from deep within him.
It was an instinctive fear, branded into the genes… a creature's natural dread of natural disasters.
That flame, which is radiating terrifying heat, was like a volcano on the verge of eruption...
The King's pupils contracted as if he had realized something.
But Moses did not give him any chance to struggle or resist, and detonated the flame without hesitation.
In an instant,
the black-and-red flame, which was only the size of a baby's fist, suddenly expanded rapidly and in the blink of an eye, it transformed into a deep red fireball that emitted dazzling flames and looked like a miniature sun.
It was suspended in the air above Moses and the King.
Astonishingly high temperatures were continuously released from the fireball, like invisible molten lava, pouring down on Moses and the King without mercy.
However, Moses has the heat-insulating ability of the tribal outfit, which can withstand the temperature that could melt steel in seconds.
But-
The part of the outfit pierced by the King's tail had lost its insulating ability.
Because of that, the surrounding heat, like a shark drawn to blood, surged through the gap in the outfit and invaded Moses's body.
Suddenly, a strong burning pain came from Moses's side.
Even so, Moses only furrowed his brows slightly.
In contrast, the King, whose entire body was being scorched by the extremely high temperatures, could no longer keep his face from contorting in agony.
He could shrug off attacks from Moses and Netero thanks to his immense physical strength and Manifested Aura, but he could not completely block the high temperature burning from the 'invisible lava'.
Hiss- hiss- hiss-
The high temperature spread all around, causing the air to be distorted, and even bursts of raging flames were ignited.
Under the scorching heat that could easily exterminate any living thing, visible green smoke continued to emerge from the surface of the King's body.
As his skin and flesh charred, an unpleasant, pungent smell filled the air.
But maybe it was the pride of being a 'King, or maybe it was sheer stubbornness...
The King, who was suffering from great pain, did not utter a word during the whole process and never once stopped trying to break free of Moses's control.
His body, which was burned by the scorching sun, kept bursting out with the power of resistance.
But Moses, with the resolve of dragging the King to death with him, would not let him escape.
It was only during this process of suppression that Moses felt a trace of admiration for the Chimera Ant King.
'If possible, just burn into a charred corpse...'
Moses lowered his eyes and silently stared at the King's body, that was gradually blackening under the scorching sun.
The King's defense is so strong that it can render Netero's 100-Type Guanyin helpless, and can also withstand Moses's attack with all attributes plus Godspeed.
But in front of this scorching sun emitting extremely high temperatures, he was like an animal trapped in a forest fire with nowhere to escape.
This form of attack is comparable to the manifestation of a natural disaster…
Outside the battle zone,
Pouf was blown away by the blast of heat and fire.
His clothes, wings, and even skin were burned in an instant.
But after he withstood the high temperature air coming towards him, he didn't care about the burning pain coming from all parts of his body, and rushed towards the King, who is under the scorching sun, like crazy.
"King!!!"
His facial features were distorted and he shouted almost crazily.
But in a flash, the burning air that filled the space burned his throat.
So much so that his shouting came to an abrupt halt, leaving only a series of incomprehensible hoarse sounds.
Despite this, Pouf kept moving forward through the searing heat.
Compared to his body being burned by the high temperature, Pouf felt as though his heart had already been incinerated to ash...
The power of the scorching sun not only affected Pouf, but also swept towards the battle zone where Morel and others and Youpi were.
Flames visible to the naked eye surged in the heat wave, crashing into them like a tidal wave.
Fortunately, the high temperature released by the scorching sun had already been marginalized and posed no threat to Morel and the others. It only blew them away.
Even the numerous smoke soldiers blown out by Morel were unable to withstand the surging air waves, and they all disappeared in an instant.
However, Youpi stood firm in place, resisting the waves of fire that were coming towards him.
As the firestorm swept past, Youpi seemed not to feel any pain at all, and he did not even glance at Morel and the others who were blown away by the heat wave.
Instead, he looked straight at the scorching fire hanging in the air like a miniature sun.
That direction is also where the King is.
Youpi also heard Pouf's ominous scream just now.
"King…!!!"
Youpi immediately made the same decision as Pouf, and without fear of the overwhelming heat, he ran wildly in the direction of the King.
At this time, Morel and the others, who were blown away by the heat wave, finally managed to steady themselves, and then they all looked up at the crimson fireball hovering above the palace.
"Is that... Moses's ability?!"
The sunglasses on Morel's face fell to the ground, and a look of astonishment appeared in his exposed eyes.
Pouf and Youpi's panicked reactions of made Morel think of some images related to the King in this scene, of the scorching sun hanging in the sky.
And naturally, concern for Moses followed.
Although he and the others didn't have the capacity to track the battle at the King's side, they were able to grasp the information of Netero's defeat and Moses's replacement through the collision of those powerful Auras.
"Move…"
Before Morel could react, a rather tired voice suddenly came to his ears.
Morel looked in the direction of the voice and saw that Knov had come to his side at some point and opened a passage on the ground leading to the Fourth-Dimensional Apartment.
"I was originally worried about how to get you into the Fourth-Dimensional Apartment right under the nose of that monster..."
Facing Morel's gaze, Knov panted slightly. He raised his eyes to the blazing fire in the sky, and said in a deep voice: "Don't waste the opportunity Moses risked his life to give us."
Having said this, Knov paused and wanted to say, 'Leave the rest to Moses.'
But the words that came out of his mouth turned into a sentence that revealed an urging tone: "Hurry up and get into the Nen Space."
"…"
Morel's eyes narrowed.
The members of the Chimera Ant extermination team, who had rushed to regroup, all showed grim expressions.