Saitama's figure vanished again!
This time, he didn't charge toward the massive wound on the beast's chest. Instead, like a nimble fish, he skimmed along the beast's abdomen—slightly pried open by the restraints of the chains of light, packed with gaps between armored plates—and, at a speed the naked eye couldn't capture, launched a desperate thrust toward the heart location the mysterious figure had indicated—deep inside the chest cavity, near the spine!
His right fist clenched tight. All his strength—every last shred of will—condensed into this single punch! His target was the source of that dark energy—the beast's heart!
Saitama's body, like an ultimate blade piercing the darkness, slipped precisely through the seams of the armor and plunged straight into the core of its colossal body!
There was no flesh. No bone. Only darkness—thick and viscous, as if it had substance.
And at the very center of that darkness, a gigantic crystal—house-sized, pitch-black from end to end, its surface crawling with sinister dark-purple runes—was pulsing like a heart. Each beat released surging dark energy, sustaining the beast's movement and defense, while also exuding an evil aura that made souls tremble.
This was its heart—the source of the dark energy!
"Found it!"
Saitama's eyes held not the slightest hesitation. The punch he had gathered with his entire body—without holding anything back—smashed straight into that enormous dark-crystal heart!
There was no earthshaking spectacle to it, yet within it lay power great enough to shatter stars!
Crack—!
A sound so crisp it felt like it rang inside everyone's soul!
Under Saitama's fist, the pulsing dark-crystal heart spiderwebbed with fractures like fragile glass. The rifts spread wildly across the entire crystal!
"ROAR—!!!"
The beast let out the most shrill, most desperate scream of its existence—filled with disbelief, agony, and terror! Its massive body jerked rigid. The dark energy flowing across its surface surged back toward the heart like a receding tide, trying to mend it—
But it was too late!
Boom!!!
The dark-crystal heart detonated completely!
A ruinous dark shockwave erupted outward from the heart's center!
Before the shockwave could reach him, Saitama had already withdrawn and retreated.
With its heart destroyed, the ghostly blue flames in the beast's eye sockets went out in an instant. Its gigantic body, as if every support had been ripped away, collapsed with a thunderous crash—slamming into the already shattered seafloor ruins, triggering the final cave-in. Countless fragments of stone and clouds of dust mixed with the boiling seawater, slowly burying the beast's corpse.
The ruins sank into dead silence—only the flow of seawater and the slide of falling rubble remained.
The mysterious figure's golden radiance dimmed somewhat as they slowly descended, landing before Saitama and Phil and the others who had rushed over. The halo still concealed their face, but you could feel their gaze sweeping across everyone present.
"Thank you for your help," Saitama said, looking at the mysterious figure, giving a small nod.
"No need," the mysterious figure replied, voice gentle yet carrying a strange authority. "Fighting the darkness is our shared mission."
"What you destroyed was an Abyss Throat cult's creation—an Abyssal Guard they awakened at tremendous cost. But this is only a small part of their larger plan."
"Abyss Throat? Abyssal Guard?" Phil frowned. "What exactly are they trying to do?"
(End of Chapter)
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