Karl had only revealed a fraction of his strength, yet Mephisto and the others were already extremely wary.
This kid was already powerful, and he had still been hiding his strength?
They could not help but wonder.
What exactly had this kid grown up eating?
He did not seem like a normal human at all.
He was so young, yet he already possessed such terrifying power and such rich combat experience. He was practically a monster.
"Given the current situation, fighting this guy alone is just suicide."
"We attack together," Shuma-Gorath said coldly.
"That's right. Since the three of us have always been against you anyway, let's do it!"
"It was because we didn't attack together before that this kid defeated us one by one."
"As long as we strike at the same time, this kid definitely won't be able to handle everything. He won't be our match at all."
Kaluu also spoke.
Once they made their decision, the three of them exchanged glances.
The next moment, all three of them suddenly vanished from where they stood.
They surrounded Karl in a triangle formation.
Karl showed no sign of nervousness.
A gentle smile appeared on his face as he said, "Ganging up on me?"
"Aren't you three being a little too dishonorable?"
Mephisto and the others had no intention of talking with Karl.
The moment their eyes met, they attacked together.
Shuma-Gorath still used his powerful psychic attack.
His eye widened.
A terrifying burst of psychic power exploded beside Karl's ears.
It was clearly intangible psychic power, yet it directly affected the real world.
In an instant, everything around them changed before that overwhelming psychic force.
The mighty Shuma-Gorath used his psychic power to overwrite and alter reality itself.
Mephisto, on the other side, was not willing to be outdone either.
He muttered an incantation.
A spell array appeared in front of him.
A moment later, a skull emerged from the spell array.
The floating skull exuded an evil aura. The moment Karl sensed it, he felt an instinctive disgust.
He wanted to destroy it outright.
Kaluu, meanwhile, did not attack. Instead, he mobilized all of his psychic power.
He directly suppressed the surrounding spatial power, restraining Karl while also locking down the spatial magic that would otherwise have been usable.
They were clearly three villains, each with their own schemes.
Yet when they cooperated, they worked seamlessly, as if they had already fought together countless times before.
Karl sighed inwardly.
No wonder these three fellows had survived in this dangerous world and even lived so well.
Their combat instincts were not something ordinary people could compare to.
Their first time cooperating was actually this coordinated.
It sounded long when described, but in reality, everything happened in the blink of an eye.
The magic of the two great demons had already arrived beside Karl.
Karl could even see Shuma-Gorath's overwhelming psychic power crashing recklessly through the world.
Without the slightest hesitation, Karl directly transformed into a streak of green light.
Countless pale-green, crystalline butterflies danced through the sky.
The expressions of the two great demons changed.
"The Ancient Body of Hoggoth!"
"Destroy those butterflies, quickly!" Kaluu screamed.
The two great demons reacted, unleashing all kinds of magic through the air.
Unfortunately, it was too late.
How could Karl possibly give up such a perfect opportunity?
"Kill him!"
Karl's heart filled with ruthless intent, and a profound sensation surfaced in his mind.
Boom!
The green butterflies exploded all around them.
A terrifying shockwave blossomed in every direction.
The destructive energy fluctuation caused astonishment to appear on the faces of the two great demons.
Everything around them was crushed.
Even the star at the center of this system was affected, immediately producing a massive eruption.
The light became incomparably dazzling.
And this was only the beginning.
Before the aftermath of the explosion could disperse, Karl had already moved.
Relying directly on his powerful body, he traveled through the enormous magical explosion.
He broke through the tide of energy and appeared directly in front of Mephisto.
A faint smile appeared at the corner of Karl's mouth.
Green light flashed across his body.
Everything around him seemed to speed up.
The Law of Time!
In that instant, his speed surpassed even light.
Although Mephisto realized something was wrong, he could not react in time.
Before his consciousness could even fully process the situation, Karl's fist had already struck his chest.
Time seemed to pause in that instant.
Karl's fists landed on Mephisto like a violent storm.
Mephisto, however, showed no reaction at all.
How fast were Mephisto's reactions?
They were definitely many times faster than the quantum computers of human legend.
His reaction speed might have been measured in fractions of a microsecond.
But under the effect of the Law of Time, that brief instant was greatly magnified for Karl.
Magnified to the point that Karl hammered Mephisto with more than ten thousand punches.
Every punch was thrown with his full strength.
Every punch was capable of sinking a continent on a planet.
Every punch carried Karl's will.
An ordinary fist did not contain much power.
But a fist infused with Karl's will was not so easy to endure.
In martial stories, why did so many powerful figures focus so much on things like intent and will?
It was because a person's will, especially the will of a powerful being, could change many things.
Sword intent and blade intent were the same principle.
Blades and swords were merely weapons. How could they possess will of their own?
It was the will of the person wielding them that gave them meaning.
It was a person's understanding of their weapon that produced completely different forms of intent.
The root of everything was the person.
At this moment, Karl precisely layered his own will into his attacks.
Then he suddenly stopped.
Time around them abruptly began flowing again.
The energy tide slowly dispersed.
Mephisto, standing in front of him, did not move at all.
The piercing energy around them vanished.
Only then did Mephisto seem to react.
He looked at Karl.
"You…"
He only managed to utter a single word.
Then his body trembled. Immediately afterward, his entire body tilted and collapsed.
Then Mephisto disappeared.
No.
It could not be called disappearing.
He had been torn apart directly by Karl's overwhelming power, reduced into particles too small for the naked eye to see.
He had become the most basic energy in the universe.
Even his soul had been shattered and erased by the will contained within Karl's fists.
Nothing remained.
[Ding!]
[You have gained a new understanding of the Law of Force. God-Tier Talent has triggered a hundredfold critical strike!]
[You have mastered Fist Intent.]
Even the system notification arrived late.
Without any warning, Karl had mastered such a powerful attack.
All because the thought of beating someone up had appeared in his mind.
God-Tier Talent!
It was just that powerful.
Just that unreasonable.
But in the eyes of Shuma-Gorath and Kaluu, this became something incomprehensible.
At this moment, the universe fell silent.
The remaining two looked as if they had seen a ghost.
(End of Chapter)
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