The Strange Egg

Meanwhile, at the Super Martial Alliance headquarters—

"Detecting monster energy signatures now..."

In the command center, the staff stared at the energy readings from the smaller monster that had just appeared, their faces filled with shock. "Level ten?!"

"What?!" Minister Shen and the others were equally stunned. "A Level Ten monster?"

While Level Ten monsters could still be handled by military drones, super martial artists were already completely useless against them!

"How many days has it been? Monsters are already reaching Level Ten..." Minister Shen's throat tightened, his expression grim.

Though super martial artists were leveling up faster too, it seemed they couldn’t keep up with the monsters' evolution speed at all!

"What do we do? Rely entirely on modern weaponry?" Minister Shen frowned deeply, still convinced that depending on military firepower would result in far greater direct losses and collateral damage compared to deploying super martial artists.

"It's attacking."

On the screen, the monster spewed blue lasers from its mouth, only for Ye Chuan to effortlessly block them.

"He’s unharmed?!" Just as many gasped in disbelief, Ye Chuan raised his hand and fired an even more powerful laser, instantly obliterating the monster’s body.

"One-shot? He one-shot it?!" Minister Shen was floored.

Just how strong are you?!

Were they, the old guard, already falling behind the pace of everyone else’s evolution?

Witnessing a Level Ten monster had already shocked Minister Shen and the veterans who’d long believed Level Nine was the peak. But seeing Ye Chuan casually annihilate it felt surreal.

"Minister, should we still notify the super martial artists to head over?" a staff member asked.

Minister Shen fell into heavy silence.

Would it even matter?

Against a Level Ten monster, sending super martial artists would be no different than delivering free experience points.

"No need." Minister Shen sighed, about to say more when he noticed the spatial rift on the screen begin to swirl with violent winds, its eerie blue glow shifting to blood-red.

"What?!"

"Detecting rift energy fluctuations—far exceeding Level Ten!" The staff’s report sent Minister Shen’s heart plummeting.

Especially when a beast several times larger than the last emerged, he cried out in disbelief, "Th-That… was the earlier monster its child?!"

Identical in appearance, differing only in size, it was impossible not to suspect a connection between this colossal creature and the smaller one.

"Detecting monster energy now..."

The staff member’s voice trembled. "Level… Twenty."

Level Twenty.

An unfamiliar, terrifying rank that suffocated the room in an instant.

Level Twenty—what kind of concept was that?

"At this level, drones are useless. We’ll need heavy firepower..." Cold sweat drenched Minister Shen’s forehead. Spatial rifts had appeared worldwide, yet a Level Twenty monster had spawned in their country.

"No time—send reinforcements to Ye Chuan immediately!" Minister Shen barked. Priorities no longer mattered; this monstrosity had to be eliminated before it could wreak havoc.

A Level Twenty kaiju!

But just then, Ye Chuan moved on the screen.

He simply raised his arm again, unleashing another blinding blue laser. The monster disintegrated instantly, not even given a chance to roar.

Minister Shen and the others: "..."

Wait.

Something’s off here.

The space before Ye Chuan was empty. If not for the scattered monster remains on the ground, no one would believe the towering beast had just been one-shot again.

Still hovering mid-air, Ye Chuan gazed down at the rift. "Kill the small one, the big one comes. Kill the big one… shouldn’t the old one show up next?"

The rift pulsed with crimson light, but no stronger monster emerged—just another at the Crystal Realm level.

With his stacked attributes, even creatures of the same realm stood no chance against Ye Chuan.

Pathetic.

"You think I spent all that money for nothing?" Ye Chuan scanned the rift as yet another Godzilla-like beast emerged, radiating Crystal Realm energy and sharing the same lineage as the previous two.

Catching the scent of blood, the beast roared at Ye Chuan.

The sound was so terrifying it rattled windows miles away!

A family reunion?

"Then let’s send the whole family off together. Shaking my house like that—consider it mercy if I don’t grind your ashes to dust." Calmly, Ye Chuan extended his hand once more.

"Time to hang you all out to dry."

Another demonic beam erupted, vaporizing the beast in an instant.

Unbeknownst to him, amid the explosion, an egg-like object tumbled out of the rift, rolling into a dark alley.

It wobbled a few times before settling against a wall, as if hiding.

"Oi, you really think you can escape my senses?"

Ye Chuan’s voice cut through the air as he teleported into the alley via spatial jump. Nothing slipping out of the rift could evade his divine awareness.

"Bzzzt—" The egg, seemingly sentient, emitted a glow and fired a beam at Ye Chuan.

"Tch. So young, yet already so cunning. Annihilate it." The light fizzled uselessly against his magic immunity. Just as Ye Chuan raised his hand, he paused.

Hmm…

A monster egg might have higher research value, no?

"You’re not the same species as those three, are you? Weird. Were they just decoys for you?" Ye Chuan mused.

The egg, as if understanding him, suddenly rolled away, darting deeper into the alley!

"Heh. Roll away all you want—you’ve got my attention now." With a snap of his fingers, Ye Chuan’s telekinesis locked onto the egg, lifting it into the air.

A slight mental nudge brought the egg floating before him.

One meter long, its surface resembled cracked lava rock.

"Interesting." Ye Chuan tapped the egg, then tried stuffing it into his inventory.

No response.

"Guess not." He levitated the strange egg and, like a bowling ball, hurled it into the distance.

"Clang! Clang! Clang!" The egg knocked over a row of abandoned trash cans.

"Strike."

Ye Chuan grinned, summoning the egg back with a wave.

"!!!!!" Furious at being used as a bowling ball, the egg’s cracks pulsed with red light.

"Tiny but feisty." Ye Chuan glanced at the shrinking rift, then left with the egg in tow.