Through the tiny Information Bug in midair, Zhou Huai looked down at the chaotic street below.

The three Ancient Awakened Ones who were currently slaughtering everything in sight had already been reduced to chess pieces emitting an alluring luster in his eyes.

Based on Mr. Duan's action of taking Ye Xi away before leaving, Zhou Huai had formed a hypothesis.

These Ancient Awakened Ones who had suddenly appeared all over the world possessed extremely important value to the Dawnbreaker Guild.

Or rather, they were an important link in Mr. Duan's plan!

Since Ye Xi was so important to him, the Dawnbreaker Guild would definitely not sit idly by regarding these three suddenly popped-up Ancient Awakened Ones right before their eyes.

Zhou Huai's fingers tapped lightly on his knees, producing rhythmic, crisp sounds.

"As long as the Alien Parasites I planted within these three individuals are not removed, I can fish, following this invisible thread to unearth the Dawnbreaker Guild's lair hiding in the shadows..."

Before that, he had to control these guys first.

They absolutely could not be allowed to die at the hands of the City Guard, let alone let them run away.

"Insect Emperor Caesar, begin."

Far away at the Divine Dynasty headquarters, Zhou Huai issued an order deep within his consciousness.

The Alien Parasites lurking in the hearts of the three Awakened Ones in the center of the street awakened without warning!

These creatures opened their barb-filled suckers, plunged into their energy cores, and devoured the majestic Divine Power that had accumulated for who knows how many years.

Just like when it devoured the energy inside Natsume Rinku's body, this forcibly extracted energy was converted by the System into experience points, crossing space to feed back into the panel of the Avatar, Insect Emperor Caesar.

【Received 10,000 experience points】

【Received 10,000 experience points】

【Received 10,000 experience points】

...

Dense golden prompt boxes flooded Zhou Huai's eyes.

The thrill of those Level jumps made Zhou Huai smile.

"Not bad..."

Zhou Huai looked at the refreshing experience bar and clicked his tongue inwardly.

"If I could catch all these old monsters waking up all over Tokyo, or even the whole world, and use them as Insect Emperor Caesar's experience supply packs..."

As soon as this thought came out, even Zhou Huai himself found it crazy and alluring.

At this moment.

On the battlefield in the center of the street.

"Bastards! This group of lowly reptiles, kill them! Kill them all!"

The emaciated man at the lead roared, grasping the void with one hand, and the surrounding air trembled with his roar.

He was a Wind-type Grand Archmage from the ancient times. Even though he was currently parasitizing a fragile human shell, he should have been an existence running amok unchecked.

Yet just as he was preparing to release a large-scale skill to completely annihilate the hundreds of City Guards around—

He stopped his movements.

"Ugh... What's going on?!"

His originally surging mana was crazily draining away like the receding tide after a tsunami!

It wasn't just mana.

His heart was clenched by an invisible giant hand, and every beat was accompanied by the extraction of his life Origin.

"My power... Why is it disappearing?!"

He lowered his head in panic to look at his chest, his hands trembling.

That sense of emptiness made him desperately want to grasp something, but he could only let his life flow toward the abyss.

"Leader! My... My body has no strength left!"

The burly man covered in rock armor beside him also let out a desperate lament.

The indestructible layer of armor on his body was cracking and peeling off in large patches.

"What kind of curse is this?! Did these ants do this?!"

Another woman manipulating the whirlwind also collapsed softly to the ground. The tornado that had originally roared in front of her turned into a powerless breeze, blowing onto the City Guards' faces with zero lethality.

The City Guards looked at each other in dismay.

"Commander, are they... done for?"

A field officer lowered his voice, his face full of puzzlement.

How did the monsters that were invincible just moments ago and could flip tanks with a flick of their hands suddenly fall seriously ill in the blink of an eye?

The City Guard leader was also stunned, but he reacted extremely quickly, raising his Magical Energy longsword: "Take advantage of his illness to kill him! Firepower all out! Don't give them a chance to breathe!"

"Dammit... Dammit!"

The emaciated man clenched his teeth, his scarlet eyes turning ferocious.

The situation was unclear, but staying here any longer would definitely result in death!

"Retreat first! Think of a way to kill our way out. Something is wrong with this body, we must find a place to recuperate!"

He let out a sharp screech, overdrawing the final Wind-type Origin within his body, and forcibly whipped up a violent airflow around him.

"Wind Domain — Violent Massacre!"

Countless wind blades, like steel knives slicing through the air, simultaneously blew away a dozen City Guards charging right in front, even plowing several deep trenches into the ground.

Taking advantage of the barrage's pause, he grabbed his two companions and turned into a blurry afterimage, attempting to leap onto the nearby ruined building to escape.

"Escape? The Master said to let you stay, so you must stay."

A crisp girl's voice rang out in midair.

This voice drowned out the clamor of the battlefield.

The emaciated man raised his head.

In the sky stained blood-red by the setting sun, a petite figure was quietly floating there.

That was a young girl who looked to be only fifteen or sixteen years old.

She wore an exquisite sacrificial robe with black borders, her long hair dancing wildly in the wind.

Her gaze was so indifferent that it didn't look human; in her left pupil, a slowly rotating black Manjusaka flower was faintly visible.

Where was there any trace of the pitiful girl who originally curled up in her room, shivering with fear?

"Ant, get lost!"

The emaciated man felt the threat, but his proud self-esteem made him disdain to retreat, raising his hand to cast a Wind Spear piercing toward midair.

Natsume Rinku wore a blank expression.

She raised her right hand, her slender fingers gently pressing downward toward below.

"Word Spirit — Bind."

Ink-thick black energy burst from her fingertips.

That was the destructive spell power fused with the Origin of the Alien Parasites.

"Bang—!"

That originally violent Wind Spear, upon contacting this black energy, dissipated into nothingness like snow encountering the blazing sun.

Immediately after, a huge pressure smashed onto the bodies of the three Ancient Awakened Ones like Mount Tai pressing down on their heads.

"Plop!"

The three people smashed back onto the ground littered with gravel.

The ground was smashed into a deep pit with a radius of ten meters.

"This is...?!?!"

The emaciated man spat out a mouthful of blood, staring at the landing girl with absolute terror.

He sensed that lurking within the body of the girl before him was a terrifying life form that made even a god of the old era like him tremble.

Natsume Rinku landed on the edge of the pit, black spell power spreading beneath her feet. Wherever it passed, the originally hard stones turned into fine powder one after another.

Her temperament changed drastically, and the abyss-like sense of oppression forced the surrounding City Guards to involuntarily step back repeatedly.

"SS-Level..."