The battle was far from over.
More alien giant beasts were surging in from all directions, and Saitama and the Avengers were still under enormous pressure.
As Saitama moved at high speed, dodging and throwing punches, his gaze flashed like lightning, sharply tracking every tiny movement the monsters made.
He'd been through countless battles.
He knew better than anyone that no matter how powerful an enemy was, it had to have a weakness.
Just as he slipped past the pounce of one beast and, with a backhand punch, smashed the armor on its arm into a dented, cracked mess—
the corner of his eye suddenly caught a crucial scene.
Another beast, slightly larger in size and clearly some sort of mini-boss, was gathering power for a devastating energy breath attack.
Beneath the high, rounded bulge of its back shell, a dim, gem-like node suddenly lit up with a blinding ghostly blue glow!
That light pulsed like a beating heart, drawing torrents of power together and funneling them toward its throat.
"The back! Right before they attack, their energy gathers at a point on their backs!"
Saitama immediately bellowed his discovery, his voice cutting clearly into the ears of every Avenger.
"Hit that glowing point!"
"A back node? Got it!"
Steve braced behind his shield, blocking an oncoming strike as he relayed the intel to the others.
"Clint! Natasha! Prioritize the glowing points on their backs! Tony, cover them!"
"So we've got a weak point now? Watch this!"
Hawkeye, Clint, felt his spirits rise and instantly shifted his aim.
He held his breath and focused, drawing his bowstring to a perfect full moon.
A specially made armor-piercing arrow, its head flickering with high-frequency vibrational energy, shot from the string like a meteor,
streaking straight toward the back of a beast that was in the middle of charging power.
"Shff!"
The arrow hit dead on, striking the newly ignited blue node.
But the expected explosion or clean penetration never came.
The shell around that node seemed even harder than the rest of its body.
The arrow managed to drill in only a short distance. The high-frequency vibrational energy burst outward,
but all it did was make the node's glow flicker wildly a few times—it still wasn't destroyed.
The beast roared in pain, its charge interrupted.
With a furious bellow, it swung around and locked its attention onto the attacker who'd ambushed it.
"Normal attack power isn't enough!" Clint reported instantly.
"Let me try the can opener!"
High in the air, Tony saw what happened and immediately locked onto another beast whose back node had just started to glow.
The armor on his forearm folded and rotated, revealing a strangely shaped launcher.
"Try this on for size, sweetheart!"
A small shell, entirely silver-white with a tail thruster spewing blue flame, screamed away from the launcher.
This custom armor-piercing high-explosive round had been designed by Tony specifically to deal with high-intensity energy shields and ultra-hard alloys.
The shell traced a graceful arc through the air and, from a wicked angle,
hit the very heart of the glowing node on the monster's back with pinpoint accuracy.
"BOOOOOOM—!!!"
This time, the explosion's power was on a whole different level.
A searing white flash blossomed outward, accompanied by a violent surge of energy.
The hardened node shattered instantly like glass smashed by a sledgehammer.
Ghostly blue energy spewed out in all directions like rampaging electricity.
The struck beast let out a shriek so piercing it almost didn't sound like it came from a living creature.
Its massive body convulsed violently, and the energy field that had been wrapped around it vanished in an instant.
Its tough shell seemed to lose its support as well, turning dull and brittle.
It staggered a few steps, the light in its eyes going out completely.
Like something that had just had its spine ripped out, it collapsed to the ground with a thunderous crash—
and moved no more.
(End of Chapter)
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