Chapter 465: A Real Man Should Eat Nuclear Bombs
Chapter 465: A Real Man Should Eat Nuclear Bombs
Fang Cheng rapidly sorted through his skills mentally and decided to upgrade Tide of Blood from Lv3 to Lv4.
Tide of Blood Lv3 currently had (147/300) Proficiency. The level 3 ability consumed 5 Proficiency points per life.
Life: -31
Remaining: 468
Tide of Blood Lv4 (1/400)
He upgraded Tide of Blood to resist Isis’s blood manipulation. Without this, his own blood would kill him instantly upon approaching her, making combat impossible.
Next, Fang Cheng pushed Vector Control from Lv1 (90/100) straight to Lv4.
Level 1 required 20 Proficiency per life, while level 2 needed 10 per life.
Reaching level 4 consumed 81 lives immediately.
Life: -81
Remaining: 386
Vector Control Lv4 (1/400)
Though losing so many lives hurt, they’d be wasted anyway if he kept dying repeatedly without defeating Isis. Better to spend them boosting his abilities directly.
The upgrades happened instantly in Fang Cheng’s mind. Meanwhile, Isis finally moved.
She abandoned their cat and mouse game, suddenly closing the distance between them to reappear before him.
Wait –
Through shifting perspectives, Fang Cheng realized Isis hadn’t flown to him. She’d yanked him toward herself unnoticed.
“Let’s see how many times you can revive.”
Isis tried manipulating Fang Cheng’s blood to force another suicide.
This time, resistance emerged.
The level 4 Tide of Blood greatly strengthened Fang Cheng’s blood control, complicating Isis’s attempts to hijack it.
Though his blood churned violently, Fang Cheng didn’t die instantly like before. The upgrade worked. He activated Vector Control to crush the rebellious blood.
“Hm?”
Isis’s eyes flickered with surprise. Controlling his blood had been effortless earlier – now she couldn’t.
Fang Cheng seized the moment. Lunging forward, he thrust his left middle finger at Isis while activating Paradise.
His instincts screamed this was his only chance to use mother’s middle finger. If Isis noticed the trick, she’d never fall for it again.
Paradise hit Isis, freezing her in confusion.
Simultaneously, Heart Awareness scrawled “DANGER” across Fang Cheng’s mind.
In the next moment, he felt excruciating pain as his entire body was instantly sliced into countless fragments.
Before dying, he realized Isis had struck him before he could react.
Life: -1
Remaining: 385
When Fang Cheng revived, Isis had already escaped Paradise.
With over 100 meters between them, Isis spread Idealism across a 1000-meter radius, trapping Fang Cheng again.
Fang Cheng tried to dodge but found his body frozen.
Seeing blood control failed, Isis used Idealism to seize Fang Cheng’s entire being.
She crushed him effortlessly, his Lv4 Vector Control proving useless.
Each revival plunged Fang Cheng back into Isis’s killing range.
Life: -1
Life: -1
Life: -1
…
Within moments, Fang Cheng died over a dozen times. Only 372 lives remained.
Isis found her rhythm – killing him instantly upon revival, allowing no counterattack.
Yet she didn’t notice Fang Cheng reappearing closer each time.
Their final confrontation began under 50 meters apart.
Reviving this time, Fang Cheng immediately upgraded War God Bloodline (81/100) to Lv4.
He needed speed, strength, and resilience to withstand Idealism.
Life: -82
Remaining: 290
War God Bloodline Lv4 (1/400)
The upgrade triggered instantly.
His hair whitened. Crimson irises expanded across both eyes, emitting bloody red light.
Black Patterns veined his body, even reinforcing bones with metallic enhancement.
Isis’s attack came crashing down, pulverizing Fang Cheng’s body.
Flesh tore audibly as wounds bloomed everywhere, organs and bones fracturing.
But Vector Control combined with War God Bloodline let him endure – his first survival against Idealism.
“Blocked?”
Genuine shock crossed Isis’s face.
Not just his defense stunned her – how had he grown stronger through repeated deaths?
This was even more absurd than Idealism.
Fang Cheng had healed his body’s wounds and teleported across the 50-meter distance between them, hurling paradise at Isis.
After activating paradise, a bone-deep chill gripped him, as though he’d been thrown into a frozen wasteland.
He recognized this as Iyaya’s corruption seeping into him, but there was no time to dwell on it.
Isis lashed out again, shredding his newly healed body into pulped flesh and blood before becoming trapped in paradise.
Any non-fatal injury meant nothing to Fang Cheng.
He teleported directly before Isis and drove his left middle finger deep into her chest.
Upon impact, a devastating shockwave exploded from her body, shattering everything in the surroundings.
Vector Control and War God Bloodline allowed him to endure the blast, but his restored body became riddled with fresh wounds.
Simultaneously, the Life number in his retinal display plummeted:
-3
-3
-5
-7
The toll of attacking Isis with his mother’s middle finger was horrifying.
Over thirty lives vanished instantly – far more than when he’d killed Uehara Takashi.
Yet Fang Cheng sensed the finger had barely pierced Isis’s body. Killing her remained distant.
Three seconds flashed by. Isis’s eyes snapped open as she teleported 1000 meters away.
Her white dress now gaped open at the chest, exposing a bloody cavity stretching below her collarbones.
Crimson stained the fabric as blood flowed freely before clotting.
Isis’s brow furrowed when Idealism failed to heal the wound, though it stemmed the bleeding.
Fang Cheng watched her from afar, frustration twisting his features.
The mother’s middle finger inflicted lingering harm rather than instantaneous damage – an unexpected revelation.
With only three seconds of vulnerability, Isis would undoubtedly guard against repeat attempts.
His remaining Life number read 257. Would even that be enough?
“So you wield your mother’s body.”
Isis fixed her gaze on Fang Cheng’s raised left middle finger, eyes blazing. “This justifies your destruction.”
“Try me.” Fang Cheng jabbed the finger skyward. “Next time, I’ll keep stabbing until you’re dust.”
Surviving Idealism’s assaults was his only path to victory.
“Hey! Hey! Hey!”
A woman’s voice crackled through his mind, electrifying every nerve.
Fang Cheng immediately recognized the voice as that of the nine-tailed fox.
“This is the exclusive communication channel of your favorite monster. An N5 bomb currently hovers above you, set to drop and explode 90 seconds after your detonation signal – blasting you sky-high. Repeating: this is your favorite monster’s…”
The nine-tailed fox vanished after her rapid announcement, undisguised schadenfreude coloring her words.
Fang Cheng stared blankly. Since when did N5 bombs hover over people’s heads?
He instantly knew Kanzaki Rin’s handiwork. Only she and Asaka Akihime knew his secret of multiple resurrections.
Asaka Akihime would never devise such husband-murdering schemes – only stone-faced Kanzaki Rin would casually arrange his demise.
That terrifying woman! I’ll settle this later.
Isis attacked before he could dwell on it.
She closed the distance between them, predatory gaze locking onto his neck.
Fang Cheng raised defensive arms too late – his neck already twisted violently, vertebrae and throat veins snapping.
Isis abandoned total destruction tactics, concentrating her Idealism power into precision strikes that pierced through both Vector Control and War God Bloodline defenses.
Life: -1
Remaining: 256
Reviving again, Fang Cheng felt fresh stiffness in his neck.
He blocked Isis’s grab with Vector Control, teleported toward her and unleashed paradise.
Eerie whispers crawled into his ears, freezing his blood.
As Isis hesitated, Fang Cheng teleported into grappling range, locking her in a bear hug.
The bomb’s 90-second delay meant needing to stall Isis for ninety endless seconds.
This realization flashed through his mind as his body ballooned into a ten-meter giant.
Then came the self-detonation.
BOOM!
Suburban skies lit with fiery plumes as smoke pillars clawed upward.
At Mechanical City’s outskirts, Kanzaki Rin spotted the blast through binoculars.
“Launch it,” she ordered into her radio before dragging Asaka Akihime from the construction zone.
Eve remained motionless atop her building.
Kanzaki Rin’s command reached Kujo Yuri at the launch base.
Kujo Yuri triggered the N5’s fuse from the command center, relaying confirmation to Sato Hayato.
Sato Hayato hovered invisibly 5000 meters above Fang Cheng and Isis’s battlefield – undetected by either.
Upon receiving Kujo Yuri’s signal, he released his mental powers’ grip on the bomb.
The N5 began its deadly descent as Sato Hayato fled at maximum speed.
No one knew exactly how destructive the N5 bomb would be.
Sato Hayato didn’t want to taste this nuclear-level weapon, so he fled as far as possible.
The bomb took roughly 90 seconds to free-fall 5000 meters through the air before hitting the ground.
Down below, the explosion from Fang Cheng’s self-detonation had disappeared. He died again while Isis remained completely unharmed.
Only the mother’s middle finger could injure her, evidenced by the lingering blood hole in her chest.
When Isis prepared another attack, Fang Cheng suddenly yelled: “Wait! I know where the mother’s other body parts are!”
He calculated that surviving 90 seconds through direct combat would cost too many lives.
Better to stall using conversation than waste lives needlessly.
The mother topic seemed most likely to hook Isis’s interest.
It worked. Isis stopped mid-strike. “Where?”
“I’ll tell you,” Fang Cheng lied while mentally counting seconds, “if you first explain the mother’s origins.”
Isis smiled. “Why seek knowledge when death approaches?”
“Curiosity drives human progress,” Fang Cheng answered solemnly. “Even facing death, I’ll use my last spark of inquiry to contribute to mankind.”
“You still consider yourself human?” Isis tilted her head.
_Shit. Wrong wording._
Fang Cheng coughed. “Let’s say I want closure before dying.”
“The mother’s story…” Isis paused, then narrowed her eyes. “You’re buying time?”
Accustomed to mind reading others, she’d grown sluggish dealing with Fang Cheng’s unreadable thoughts.
Seeing her realization, Fang Cheng unleashed paradise.
Whispers filled their ears. Freezing cold enveloped them. Ghostly hands materialized from the snowy land behind Fang Cheng.
Clenching his teeth against hallucinations, he teleported and grabbed Isis still trapped in paradise.
Avoiding his middle finger attack, he instead used Vector Control and War God Bloodline power to lock them together.
Isis broke free from paradise and reached for Fang Cheng’s neck when something fell from above.
She glanced upward – then screamed as bright light burned her eyes.
The N5 bomb detonated overhead. A hemisphere of high-temperature fury and crushing pressure erupted downward, followed by instant vacuum.
Idealism’s 100-meter defensive barrier shredded like tissue paper.
Still embracing, Fang Cheng and Isis vaporized completely.