Chapter 522: Ancient Ruins Expedition 2


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    After he somersaulted andnded, Garen stood steadily, he then felt like he just came out of a brawl.


    "At least 15 points of power, that was terrifying.." he mumbled, the first sh with the shadow was actually a minor scuff, whereas the second time was its full power. Luckily Garen had familiarized himself with Secret Techniques and other martial arts, so that even if he could not use his unique abilities, as a Master-level Secret Technique userparable to the King of the Century, all the high leveled power leveraging techniques came gushing, and were still simrly strong.


    Five times the power for one unit of strength, under the use of strongbat Secret Techniques, it was as though multiplying your own power by five against an opponent which is all brawn. This is the peak efficiency of the King of the Century. Let alone the fact that Garen actually surpassed that realm, he hapletely understood the Secret Techniques and himself, and has almost reached a level ofplete transparency.


    The reason it was "almost", was because there was one final point which he had notpletely understood yet, which was the talent pane in his brain.


    After defeating the shadow, Garen took out a match and torch from a bag in his robe. He lit up the match, and its tangerine-yellow spark fell on the torch, kindling the cotton cloth doused in oil.


    This torch was specially made, with its handle hollow, within it was arge amount of fuel. It bore a simr concept to an alcoholmp, which could burn for an extended period, until the oil in the torchpletely ran out.


    The bright light then illuminated a radius of four to five meters, and a faint smoke simr to that of a kitchen gas stove had since traveled further.


    Garen checked the surrounding stone walls while holding the torch; there were no signs ofbat either, even the ck needles in his hands had suddenly disappeared.


    "Since Cthulhu King has invited me in here, there should be a high possibility of meeting up at the end, walking further in should bear some results." Even though he didn’t find any remains of the shadow, he had a rough estimation in his thoughts.


    This shadow was very strong, in this environment which suppressed unnatural powers, only with the body of form 5 which endured many years of fusion power was he strong enough to handle it.


    If it were any other regr totem user, they would probably be shredded into pieces with the initial "greeting". However, Garen had his doubts, even if he could not use his unnatural powers, he might be able to tame some mutant creature, or use Obscuro’s derivator to forcefully control therger mutants, and bring those in to fight the shadow.


    As to why Cthulhu King and Divine God Pce Master were not doing this, perhaps there were other reasons.


    Torch in hand, he continued advancing.


    The tunnel ahead of him gradually became wider, and the atmosphere was once again filled with the faint blue mist. His surroundings cleared up again.


    Garen extinguished the torch. With his eyesight, the blue light sufficed to provide a clear field of vision.


    After an unknown period of time, Garen stopped twice midway and ate three times before the tunnel’s topography finally had some change.


    The blue mist turned pitch ck once again, the tunnel was thrown into darkness.


    Bam!


    Arge shadow pounced again, this time from behind Garen. Like arge pile of ck mud, it didn’t make any sound, much like an inanimate material being sshed onto Garen.


    Without hesitation, Garen did a back spin kick. This time he did not reserve any power, all the raging power in his body was leveraged. With a ferocious spin, the tip of his leg conjured deafening howl, simr to lightning.


    Bam!


    The speed of the shadow was obviously of no match for Garen. Even its ambush was instinctively countered by Garen with a kick. In that split second, it was smashed against the wall on the right like a cannonball, smashing the abnormally sturdy walls into smithereens.


    The shadow gradually disappeared, the tunnel returned to its previous calm. Only the rumbling of the debris from the wall was present.


    Garen gasped for a while. Obviously the regenerative properties of the NIne-Headed Hydra had been suppressed. This one explosive disy of power had left the usually strong Garen fatigued.


    "Looks like my body’s endurance is mainly dependant on Nine-Headed Hydra’s vitality.... Without the unique powers, these immensely explosive moves seem to be unsuitable..."


    It was like a mixture of steel and cement, together they could sustain huge loads, but the steel within was removed, the remaining cement would be much more brittle.


    Likewise, the Nine-Headed Hydra’s unique power was the steel of the cement in its genes.


    As the capacity of the body had been drastically reduced, coupled with the consistent use of such explosive moves, there would naturally be arge load on the body.


    As Garen thought about this, he couldn’t help but to think about the other two people. Divine God Pce Master may still be fine, he already possessed strong and bnced build, but it may be tough for Cthulhu King.


    With such extreme suppression of unnatural power, that’s obviously his strongest handicap.


    Under this environment,, his abilities will be drastically lowered, making it extremely though for him, perhaps even worse. Of course, one cannot assume he didn’t have a workaround.


    Following the shadow’s destruction, the tunnel quickly returned to its light blue state. By the looks of it, the tunnel will only turn dark when the shadow was attacking.


    As usual, Garen checked the surrounding for traces, but there weren’t any.


    He tidied himself and continued the journey.


    As he passed through two arched halls that he had seen before, the tunnel became more and more inclined. Now it was obvious enough to feel that he was descending.


    Soon, the darkness engulfed the tunnel again, the tunnel was absent of light.


    Garen focused, waiting for the possible ambush


    Fuu!


    Suddenly, a me was lit head of him. A tangerine-yellow me, bright and scorching.


    Garen suddenly realized he was facing a man in front of him. A man who had his head on mes.


    He donned a ck shirt, and only his head were exposed. It was clear that this was a young man. His eyes were unfocused, but he was gazing directly at Garen. His head had ck curly hair, and his skin was visibly pale from theck of exposure to sunlight.


    Oddly enough, the man’s facial skin was burning along with the me, and it quickly turned burnt yellow, and then ck. Drops of human fatty oil started dripping from the burn, hitting the ground after gliding along the face.


    The man shouted, and quickly flew towards Garen.


    Bam!!


    A ball of blinding me burst and formed a crimson red fireball, and flying through the air.


    Garen was thrown backwards due to the explosion. Both his legs tried hard to anchor him to the ground, his boots were instantaneously torn apart from the tremendous impact, and the soles even started smoking.


    Garen’s hands shot up to protect his chest. His senses told him something was off at that moment, and he instinctively covered his head and torso.


    The explosion dissipated in an instant, leaving only an incessant ringing in his ears.


    Garen put down his smoking arms and examined his injuries; the outeryer of his arms werepletely roasted, his skin was burnt to a hard crisp, and there were even some hints of sma fluid oozing.


    Guu....


    "Compared to before, this one’s got faster speed..." Garen took a long sigh, the man’s suicide bombing charge was unavoidable for Garen. He could only hold up his hands to defend himself, and it ended after the explosion.


    The explosion was very strong, butpared to the surrounding rock walls, Garen’s body was stronger. The surrounding walls lost an entireyer, but only Garen’s arms were hurt. This ce suppresses unnatural powers, and the Nine-Headed Hydra lost its monstrous regenerative abilities, but the basic biological regenerative abilities of his genes was also a league above normal creatures.


    This kind of injuries only needed a few days before it fully recovered.


    As he felt the intense pain on his arms, Garen carefully observed his surroundings, the light blue mist came back, obviously the ambush this time had ended.


    He sat down with his legs crossed. The surrounding stone walls were made from an unknown material, and extremely hardy, such a strong explosion only resulted in the destruction of about a knuckle’s depth of material.


    He dared not advance further; he didn’t know how many suicide bombersy ahead. If there were a lot of them, this journey would then require a better n, and would have to redo his preparations.


    In this situation without unnatural powers, it was very cumbersome to face this kind of


    adversary.


    Jiii..... Jii ....


    There was a hopeful ringing sound in his pocket.


    He quickly took out the dark red button, and gently tapped both sides of the button’s protrusion.


    "Something happened over at your side?" Cthulhu King’s voice crackled across.


    "You felt that?" Garen was surprised.


    "Arge explosion right? It was faint on my side." Cthulhu King replied coldly.


    "I faced three of them before you."


    "So what’s the situation now?"


    "Really bad, most of my abilities were suppressed. Or perhaps not, they felt more like they werepletely wiped away, disappearedpletely. This situation is troublesome." Cthulhu King sounded anxious, his situation over there was much worse than he had estimated.


    "Can we use gunpowder here?"


    "Yes, so long as you’re not using unnatural powers, or anything involving totem’s power or mutated bronze’s pollution. All of those will bepletely suppressed. Buy normal items are not being limited here." Cthulhu King immediately understood Garen’s n. "You mean you want to use gunpowder? Guns?"


    "We could try." Garen came from Earth, so he understood the tremendous power of gunpowder in itster stages, he emphasized a lot more on gunpowderpared to the people of this world.


    "Let’s n it outside." Cthulhu King fell silent for a while and then said.


    "Self-destructing men? I have already passed that stage." a calm man’s voice suddenly came in, it was Divine God Pce Master. "After the fire man, there will be a type of shadow bearing a de. It’s humanoid, with a ck de on his arm. He is strong, I am being blocked here."


    Garen and Cthulhu King’s heart sank, Divine God Pce Master Actually passed the self-destructing men and reached a deeper level, Single ded shadow? There was actually something even more troublesome.


    "Let’s meet up and n it out at first floor, I will get my subordinates to send over something" Cthulhu King muttered.


    "Okay."


    After Garen left a marking on the walls, he immediately left.


    He had to be careful when he came in, observing every detail, so his progress was slow, but it was much faster when he returned, under his full speed, he was leaps and bounds faster than his advancement previously.