The room was a raging storm and everyone trembled. Everyone’s attention was drawn to the splendid bright lights emanating from Kensei Yagyu’s blade. In fact, the hall’s lights were dimmed, creating thousands of shadows that merged together with the blade. It brought death and destruction as it slashed Kaede Hattori.

This attack held all that Kensei Yagyu believed in. It was the perfect integration of his shadow abilities and swordsmanship and was the strongest attack he had ever made.

Right then, a pale white palm reached out from the void and blocked Kensei Yagyu’s shadow blades. Metallic sparks flew from the contact between the palm and the blade.

An increasing amount of pale white palms appeared from blank space and held onto the shadow blade.

Kensei Yagyu’s attack was gradually slowed until it gently stopped in front of Kaede Hattori.

Numerous mysterious figures were looming in the dark. The roof of the hall started to seep with blood and many rotten hands reached out from the ground. The hall was filled with women screaming and babies crying.

Kaede Hattori’s horrific world had arrived.

"Fight?" Kaede Hattori pondered. At the same time, the pale white palms exerted force on the blade. The shadow blade shattered and disappeared into thin air.

Divine Rays of Terror converge towards Kaede Hattori and transformed into a blood red robe around him.

He glanced towards Kensei Yagyu who was stumbling backwards and commented, " This warmup just now was considered a fight?"

As he spoke, stranger and more disturbing creatures started appearing: centipedes with human heads, monsters made of several broken human limbs, and blurred shadows.

Fear crept up everyone’s spine. After seeing Kensei Yagyu’s disbelief, Kaede Hattori shook his index finger and said, "All of you have no idea how strong I am. Such ignorance is the only reason why you dare to attack me. "

As he spoke, the creatures swarmed towards Kensei Yagyu. This time Kensei Yagyu’s blades were no longer as powerful.

The creatures and monsters had no defined form. Some had skin as hard as metal, some spat water and fire, and others could revive immediately after death.

These creatures came from the Divine Rays of Terror. As long as Kaede Hattori’s Divine Rays of Terror didn’t end, there would be an endless supply of them.

When one creature was slaughtered, another two would appear. When two creatures were sliced in half by the shadow blades, four creatures would appear from thin air.

Kaede Hattori stood and watched Kensei Yagyu struggle as the creatures surrounded him, like a cat toying with a mouse.

The battle changed drastically, Kensei Yagyu who had had the upper hand just now, lost his advantage. Although he was not completely defeated, anyone could tell that he could no longer win against Kaede Hattori.

With the spread of the Divine Rays of Terror, Hideki Kujyo was also severely affected. He could not withstand the fear and frantically punched numbers into his phone, "Apollo, what are you waiting for! Hurry! Attack!"

However, no matter how many times he called, nothing changed. Hideki Kujyo’s heart sank. When he thought that the Americans had given up on them, something shifted overhead.

An overwhelming crash followed. To everyone’s disbelief, the banquet hall’s walls started collapsing. After the collapse, American Apostles wearing black shirts and pants were revealed.

The roof caved in. The stones and concrete slabs did not fall downwards, instead, they started floating upwards.

There were 12 blonde foreigners floating above their heads, looking at the Japanese as if they were insignificant ants.

In the middle of the 12 guys was a teenager that had a perfectly proportioned body. He looked as handsome as the Sun God from the legends.

This teenager, Apollo, was the strongest American Apostles that was stationed in Japan.

With him, the 11 Apostles beside him and the hundreds of Apostles surrounding the banquet hall were all floating in mid-air. They were all apostles who had borrowed the gravitational force ability.

Kaede Hattori’s face became solemn. He hadn’t heard anything about this great of a number of American Apostles. The significance of this made him feel disappointed but he could hardly hold a grudge against the lack of information. America knew too many of their country’s weaknesses. Under pressure, their government could only give in.

Starting today, he, Kaede Hattori, would change this all.

"So Apollo, you are finally here?" Kaede Hattori sniggered," Do you think that just by bringing more apostles you can beat me?"

Apollo lowered his eyelids. He neither looked at Kaede Hattori nor Kensei Yagyu. He just calmly said," Hattori, you are walking down a path of no return. Even if you get away today, you will not be able to escape the search for you in the future. Only death awaits you. These are your current circumstances and they will not be changed by one man’s will."

"Cut the rubbish. First, let me kill all of you, then I will get rid of the pests in the government." Kaede Hattori clenched his fists firmly and the horrific world expanded once more. It expanded until it encompassed all the surrounding American apostles.

With an order from Apollo, hundreds of apostles used their gravitation ability. A terrifying and inescapable force acted on Kaede Hattori. Instantly, it shattered several of Kaede Hattori’s bones. His internal organs were bleeding profusely. Blood oozed out from his eyes and nose.

A blinding red light shone out from Kaede Hattori’s body. It transformed into several layers of force fields and defended him from the intense force.

Despite this, the sound of his bones breaking was still heard. It was as if in the next moment he would be torn into pieces by gravity.

When there is a lack of quality, make it up with quantity. Kaede Hattori had strong individual abilities, so the Americans had sent hundreds of Apostles with similar gravitational abilities to fight as a unit.

Only big countries like America had the ability to allow hundreds of Apostles to borrow such a strong ability like gravity at the same time and not be worried that things would get out of hand.

Red veins began appearing in Kaede Hattori’s eyes. In an instant, the creatures of the horrific world began charging towards the surrounding Apostles. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

The layers of blood-red light surrounding Kaede Hattori wrapped around him, turning his body into an enormous blood red cocoon.

The whole hall turned into a fierce battlefield. As Kaede Hattori had to spread the scope of his abilities, Kensei Yagyu was partially relieved from the stress. Kensei Yagyu held out his sword and continuously attacked the few creatures in front of him until he broke free.

Upon seeing Kensei Yagyu who was wrapped by several layers by blood red light, Kensei Yagyu held onto his katana tightly. In a flash, he charged towards Kaede Hattori.

Halfway through his charge, he glanced towards the corner and saw Zhao Yao hiding there, still eating his pudding.

"Moron."

His gaze became solemn as he launched an attack from a distance. He then continued to charge forward.