SSS-Rank Awakening: My Talent Multiplies Everything novel Chapter 102

Chapter 102: Cornered.

At the center of the devastated city, a lone man leaned heavily against the remains of a crumbling stone wall.

His breathing was uneven.

His once-pristine armor had been reduced to little more than scraps of battered metal, countless deep gashes running across its surface. Blood seeped from numerous wounds covering his body, staining the cracked ground beneath his feet.

His condition was miserable.

Anyone else would have collapsed long ago.

Yet the green-eyed man remained standing.

His disheveled brown hair swayed gently in the evening breeze as a pair of striking emerald eyes stared forward without the slightest hint of surrender.

He resembled a beast that had been cornered.

Wounded.

Exhausted.

But still baring its fangs.

Standing opposite him were four figures.

They advanced slowly through the ruined street, each step calm and unhurried.

None of them bothered concealing their presence.

There was no need.

The pressure radiating from their bodies distorted the surrounding air, causing fragments of broken stone to tremble beneath their feet.

Cold smiles spread across several of their faces.

To them...

The hunt was already over.

"Well, well..."

One of the women stepped forward, lazily twirling a whip formed entirely from writhing barbed vines.

"If it isn’t our little traitor."

Her mocking voice echoed across the abandoned city.

Beside her stood another woman.

Long ice-blue hair flowed behind her like frozen silk, while a razor-edged ice disc hovered beside her hand, icy mist continuously rolling from its surface.

She looked at the wounded man as though he were already a corpse.

"You really thought you could escape?"

"You actually believed we wouldn’t find you?"

The green-eyed man slowly straightened himself away from the broken wall.

Despite the blood dripping from his wounds. Despite the exhaustion weighing upon every movement...

His gaze never wavered.

"Please..."

His hoarse voice carried surprising strength.

"You know I won’t go down without a fight."

The instant the words left his mouth...

Boom.

A violent pulse erupted from within his body.

The surrounding air trembled violently.

An invisible force spread across the ruined city before crimson flames suddenly burst into existence around him.

The fire wasn’t ordinary.

Each flame carried an overwhelming aura that caused the surrounding temperature to rise at an alarming rate.

The ground beneath his feet blackened.

Nearby rubble began melting.

The flames spiraled around him like countless crimson dragons protecting their king.

The Law of Raging Inferno.

Its very presence seemed determined to reduce everything before it to ash.

One of the men among the eight stepped forward.

Dark, corrupted energy coiled around his body like living serpents, carrying with it a suffocating aura of decay.

He merely smiled.

"You think those flames can stop us?"

He slowly raised one hand toward the injured man.

"Activating your Law in your current condition will only drain what little strength you have left."

"It’ll only make killing you easier."

The green-eyed man answered without the slightest hesitation.

"I’d like to see you try."

Even now...

A fearless smile appeared on his bloodstained face.

"If I’m dying today..."

"I’m dragging a few of you to hell with me."

The man wrapped in cursed energy clicked his tongue.

His expression darkened slightly.

He knew that wasn’t an empty threat.

The man before them was one of the strongest beings alive.

Even gravely wounded. Even standing at death’s doorstep...

A monster was still a monster.

The cursed man slowly extended his palm.

At once, waves of dark energy rippled outward.

The corrupted aura swept across the battlefield before crashing into the injured man.

Almost instantly...

The wounds covering his body worsened.

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