A mob of clones

Chapter 490: The Monster and the King Snake
One day after the events of Vaccine Man and Superman…

Inside the X City Hero Association branch venue...

"Huh? Let me join the Hero Association as a hero? Are you sure? A-class heroes are okay~, but S-class? Are you sure?"

"My strength may not be enough, right?"

In the VIP reception room, he came here at the invitation of a group of staff members. At this time, he looked at the head of the X City Hero Association branch who was more or less a celebrity in front of him, and he neither directly agreed nor rejected the other party's proposal.

To be able to become the head of a city's hero association, one should have some experience.

At the very least, we should have a rough understanding of the strength of each hero.

Similarly, since the other party invited himself here, he should have some judgment of his own. Either he saw him rescuing people in the ruins, or he saw the process of his battle with the super-powered man.

Although One Punch Mist Core roughly knows the approximate strength of each monster and hero in the original work.

But those are just reference comics and anime after all.

There are also many different versions of One Punch Man, including anime and comics.

One Punch Mist Core is not completely sure which version of combat power is followed in the One Punch Man world he is in now.

Maybe you will reach the state of "light sigh".

If you want to figure out where your own strength lies, in addition to fighting yourself and having a comparison with a third party is also a good option.

Therefore, he still wanted to see how the little fighting ability he had demonstrated before ranked in the eyes of these "professionals".

"After all, it's a place as big as a city. The head of the Hero Association should be able to judge the strength of heroes and monsters."

However, as soon as this thought came to One Punch Mist Core's mind, he couldn't help but think of the treatment Saitama had received, and he immediately became a little less confident...

"These guys should have some professional knowledge..."

The head of the opposite branch naturally had no idea about the question that Yiquan Wuhe was thinking about.

Seeing Yiquan Wuhe being so humble, the smile on his face suddenly became more friendly.

Among the stronger superpower users in the Hero Association, few have really good tempers.

The most typical ones are naturally Tornado and his sister Fubuki.

Although they are not difficult to serve or talk to, it is still quite tiring to get along with them. The branch president took these issues into consideration at the beginning, so he personally took action. Now it seems that his worries are unnecessary...

"Hey~, little brother Mist Core, look at what you are saying~"

"The weirdo you defeated earlier, if we were to talk about the level of disaster, the superhuman would definitely not be lower than the demon."

"Even if she faces Ms. Jigoku Fubuki, who is also a superpower, she may not be able to win."

"If you hadn't stopped that guy when he started, I'm afraid that within a few seconds, the surrounding blocks within a few kilometers would have been destroyed."

"We just experienced a dragon-level disaster. If we want to transfer other S-level heroes to City X, it will probably take at least dozens of minutes."

"By then, we don't know how much damage will be done to the heroic rescue teams and civilians, how many buildings will be destroyed, and how many people will lose their homes."

"Not only did you rescue so many people during the disaster, you also prevented the disaster from happening again. This is what you deserve..."

……

The branch president in front of him said a lot of polite words, and didn't listen much to these One Punch Mist Cores. He just found a powerful opponent among them - Fubuki.

One Punch Mist Core briefly recalled the combat performance of various versions of Fubuki in his memory, excluding some versions that could not pass the review.

The strongest among them was about the lower S-class level, and used a telekinetic shield to block the full-power energy cannon of the dragon-level monster dog, Pochi.

Without talking about the performance of various versions, judging from indirect reasons, because Sweet Mask occupies the first place in Class A, Fubuki has no confidence in defeating Sweet Mask and getting the first place, so she has been staying in the first place in Class B.

That is to say, her positioning should be stronger than other A-level heroes~, which is roughly consistent with her performance.

If the superhuman's strength can be compared to that of Fubuki, then the performance of instantly killing the superhuman with a punch of mist core is indeed a relatively medium level of strength among S-level.

However, Yiquan Mist Core knows his own situation.

He relied more on the advantage of others while the snipe and the clam fought each other, and also carried out sneak attacks without any moral principles.

If a fight really came to a head, Yiquan Wuhe felt that he, who had just rebuilt the new limiter, should be about evenly matched with the superhero.

As for now, one punch to the mist core is almost enough to ensure victory, but it cannot be an instant kill.

Judging from this, my strength should be at the lower end of the S-level.

In response to this, Yiquan Mist Core frowned slightly, but still nodded in his heart...

"Not very strong~, but if I can maintain my growth rate, it's acceptable."

Yiquan Wuhe raised his head slightly at this time. The president of the branch in front of him was still giving a long speech like a big leader. The general meaning was to persuade him to join the association and get all kinds of benefits.

It feels a bit like promoting online games.

But Yiquan Wuhe was not in a hurry at the moment, as he had already made the decision in his mind.

As soon as they arrived, they went straight to the Hero Association's X City branch. Yiquan Mist Core could guess what these people were planning with his toes.

If he didn't want to come, no matter how hard the staff tried to persuade him, they wouldn't be able to bring him here.

Anyway, my future job is indeed to kill monsters, so what's wrong with getting paid for the same thing?

As for now, it's not a bad idea to wait for the guy in front of me who will pay me salary in the future to finish speaking slowly.

One Punch Mist Core is not so impatient that he can't even finish listening to a person's words...

Isn't it just like the class meeting in the university in the previous life, where the class representative and the teacher talk casually, and the students below are distracted, playing with their phones, eating, and drinking milk tea...

At this time, One Punch Mist Core himself was thinking about other things and recalled the pepper monster...

During the crisis of the beam of light thrown by Vaccine Man, Yiquan Mist Core realized a very important problem that he had previously ignored - not being in the battle place described in the original book does not mean being safe.

The idea of ​​steady development was shattered. If I couldn't become stronger, I would be dead after a while. What would be the point of becoming stronger slowly without any risk at that time?
So, Ippuku Mist Core took a risk and reached out to the monster directly, absorbing the life essence of the pepper monster.

When he absorbed the life essence of fish in the sea to break through the limiter, Yiquan Mist Core was not prepared and did not have a clear feeling.

But after being fully prepared, he felt the source of the power that alienated everything.

"Looking" at the strange cursed energy array in his body that symbolized the second technique, Ichikan Mishinori really didn't know what expression he should have.

This second technique was formed autonomously after One Punch Mist Core ate Pepper Monster, and a strange power from his body surged into One Punch Mist Core's body during the stage of reshaping the limiter.

The previous operation of converting the capsaicin in the anti-wolf spray into flames and burning the super-powered man to death with the One Punch Mist Core was the result of this technique.

And perhaps because the power source of this technique is not as extensive as the memory of the ocean fish, the One Punch Mist Core can even clearly feel the several sources of this power...

The pepper monster didn't lie...

With a slight push of his hand, the normal world in front of the Mist Core suddenly changed slightly.

The indoor environment, which was originally lit normally, suddenly turned into a blue ocean.

This ocean was originally the place where the One Punch Mist Core summoned the fish's memories and recovered the shikigami, but at this moment, there was something slightly different.

As Yiquan Mist Core's fingers moved, a red thread that was buried very deeply in the endless blue ocean was gently picked out by him.

Compared with the vast blue ocean, this thread seems so inconspicuous.

But compared to the blue thread that extends to this room and even to the entire earth, the thread held in the hand of the One Punch Mist Core is so close to the One Punch Mist Core that it can be seen by raising one's eyes...

At this time, the X City Hero Association's branch president's speech was almost coming to an end. After speaking for so long, his mouth seemed a little dry.

Subconsciously, he reached out and grabbed the mineral water bottle beside him, opened the bottle and drank some water to moisten his throat.

But at this moment, Yiquan Wuhe, who had always been in a willing attitude, raised his head without any warning and said to the person in front of him:

"Mr. President, you don't like chili peppers, right?"

Upon hearing this, the branch president on the opposite side was obviously stunned. He even stopped pouring mineral water into his mouth. The mouth of the bottle slightly left his mouth, but the bottle body was still tilted downward.

The mineral water in the bottle instantly spilled all over him, causing him to quickly twist his wrist and subconsciously lift up his clothes...

Of course, he hadn't forgotten while patting him, and answered the question of the One Punch Mist Core.

"Ah~, little brother Wuhe, I can't eat spicy food when I'm old~. I do prefer lighter foods in terms of diet."

"I wonder why you ask this, little brother?"

In response, Yiquan Mist Core waved his hand to indicate that he was just asking casually, and then loosened the invisible red thread in his hand, raised his eyes again to scan the world in front of him, and looked at the red lines covered by blue, and his heart also had a slight understanding. "If you put it that way, I do understand a little bit."

“Is this how those weird looking people were born?”

"People's inclinations towards various things spread naturally throughout the world, just like the emotional magic power in the world of Jujutsu Kaisen."

"One day, when a thing or its own strength or its own accumulated emotions reaches a threshold, and resonates with those invisible and intangible wills that have been accumulating in the world, those wills will descend, reshape the limiter that has already reached its limit, expand it, and turn it into a monster."

"It sounds a bit like the cursed spirit from Jujutsu Kaisen~"

“But there are some essential differences here.”

"For cursed spirits, the various emotional spells related to their own concepts in the world are the source of their power."

"As for the monsters, these are just steps for promotion. Apart from the fact that they will contribute a little when expanding the limiter, they are no different from non-existent at other times."

"So~are these the weirdos? A collection of internal and external distortions combined together."

Just as the thought of the punch mist core fell on his mind, an extremely cool feeling suddenly surged into his mind.

In an instant, Yiquan Mist Core felt that everything in front of him seemed to become clearer.

The world that was originally filled with overwhelming blue and barely detectable light red instantly transformed into a colorful dream space.

"Oh, it seems that I guessed right. Although I am not the only one doing research on emotional freaks, it seems that the results are not small."

"Then let me see what this incident has given me."

At this moment, the time around the Yiquan Mist Core seemed to slow down in an instant.

He looked up and saw a streak of bright silver passing across the sky at some point. He tried to reach out and touch it, and then he saw a strange scene.

There he saw a classroom.

At this moment, the electric fan on the ceiling was rotating and swinging back and forth, looking like it was about to fall down, and it might really fall from the air the next moment.

Then the rotating electric fan cut the unfortunate students into pieces like a meat grinder...

The next moment, a fist of mist core broke away from the picture and a look of speechlessness suddenly appeared on his face.

"You're right~, I seem to have had this kind of fantasy when I was a kid~"

Then, Yiquan Mist Core reached out again and grabbed the other side, and then grabbed a yellow line.

Then he saw a mosaic unfolding before his eyes. A huge battering ram kept hitting the open city gate, and the screams of the people inside the city gate were endless.

The tragic scene made Yiquan Wuhe look solemn.

However, compared to guarding the city gate, using a battering ram obviously consumes more physical strength. After a while, the battering ram was defeated and remained in the city gate, and a large number of white-armored soldiers suffered heavy casualties.

Both sides can be said to be losing...

While looking at these things, Yiquan Wuhe couldn't help but smack his lips with a sense of unsatisfied feeling.

"If even this thing can become a monster, it would be a bit too scary~, but it shouldn't be possible, right?"

But it seemed like it was just to slap him in the face.

As soon as this thought arose in Yiquan Wuhe's mind, the scene in front of him suddenly reversed.

The next moment, the engineering hammer, which had become soft and weak due to the resistance in the city, shrunk at a speed visible to the naked eye.

There seemed to be an indescribable magical power in the city gate. The army outside the city gate, which had been attacking all of this with great force, seemed to have been drained of all its moisture in an instant.

After only two or three seconds, the originally strong body turned into a mummy and fell on the bed.

At this time, another figure sat up from the bed, licked his lips while looking at the mummy on the bed, then reached out and tapped it lightly to wake it up.

"Wake up, my slave..."

At this moment, his vision was pulled back again by a punch of the mist core.

However, he was not as speechless as he was in the last scene. This time, he frowned slightly, with a thoughtful look on his face.

"The one about electric fans seems to be just a collection of people's fears about electric fans."

“And this one seems to be a concept that has become a weirdo.”

“So what I’m seeing are emotions that have already become weird, and concepts that are about to become weird?”

"Does this mean that I can use this to track down all kinds of weirdos and choose my future evolution path? That's great."

"I just don't know to what extent I can see with this connection."

He stretched out his hand again and punched the mist core. This time he did not focus his hand on the tiny lights around his body, but instead looked at the thick lines in the sky that were faintly visible and obviously different from the other silk threads.

This time, I reached out and grabbed the Mist Core with my fist, and I immediately felt something different from the previous two times.
The previous two times he punched the mist core, he felt more like watching a video, but this time it was as if he was pulled into a pitch-black space in person. It was truly as if he was actually there and it was incredibly magical.

But just at this moment...

"Boom~"

There was a huge vibration sound, and then the fog core could see the whole picture around it. It seemed to be a huge altar.

These platforms look a bit like a huge pyramid, with ferocious and terrifying monsters standing on each step.

Yiquan Wuhe could feel that everything around him was fake, but when he saw one weirdo after another, he still couldn't help feeling a little palpitation.

Strong~These weirdos are so strong.

One Punch Mist Core can clearly feel that even among the monsters at the bottom of the pyramid, none of them are weak.

The worst monster among them is probably at the ghost level.
And a punch of the mist core moved his gaze over the steps in sections.

Ghost below, ghost in the middle, ghost above, dragon below, dragon in the middle, dragon above...

These steps are like a ladder of strength, and the higher you go, the stronger the monster becomes.

Yiquan Mist Core only saw the middle layer and felt a large group of people who could kill him.

And at this moment, an unimaginable strong sense of crisis suddenly surged into Yiquan Wuhe's heart. This inexplicable sense of crisis made his heart skip a beat.

For a moment, he stopped paying attention to the strange people climbing up the stairs and directly looked up to the top of the altar.

He looked towards the location of the figure that almost frightened him to the point of his heart stopping.

Standing there was a terrifying giant so huge that it was frightening. There was a huge bright moon above his head, and there were huge flesh whiskers on his head. His overall appearance was like a human, but One Punch Mist Core could clearly feel that the seemingly human face was just a mask that concealed his true nature.

As for this figure, even if it is from 2D to reality, One Punch Mist Core will never make a mistake. This is the president of the Monster Association, a villain force in the One Punch Man work - Monster King Orochi!
Almost at the moment when the Mist Core's eyes fell on Wang Dashe, the flesh whiskers on the other party's head began to tremble instantly.

The thick flesh thorns turned into sharp hairs and instantly pierced through the group of monsters lined up in several rows.

In front of him, ghost level, dragon level, all ratings and death are meaningless.

Suddenly, the flesh contracted, and the densely packed monsters around him instantly rushed into the snake's mouth and directly turned into part of his body.

At this moment, it let out a series of hoarse and evil laughs, and its originally huge body instantly turned into a blood cocoon, and then transformed into a feather.

In just two or three breaths, the giant snake that was tens of meters tall turned into a terrifying giant god as huge as a mountain.

The huge figure rushed across the entire altar in an instant. At this moment, the huge altar seemed to have turned into a mold of a giant snake, just wrapping his body.

But the next moment, it broke free of all those restraints and flew up into the sky, revealing a starry night with a bright moon in the sky.

At this moment, the giant snake stood between heaven and earth, as if he was the only one supreme in the world.

However, looking at such a big snake, Yiquan Mist Core did frown slightly.

"No! No, it's not him~"

Yiquan Mist Core could clearly feel that the giant snake in front of him had undergone a horrific transformation and was like a demon. Although it was extremely terrifying, it even made Yiquan Mist Core have no idea of ​​resisting.

However, he did not feel the strong sense of suffocation and palpitations from the other party - it was not him who made Yiquan Mist Core feel a sense of crisis just now.

“Plop, plop~”

Yiquan Mist Core's heartbeat accelerated for no reason, and his field of vision slowly moved upwards.

Then, he saw...

……

(End of this chapter)