Strongest Superhuman System - Chapter 835

Chapter 835: Last Stand
The Anima King roared in pain as he felt the lightning agitate his injuries! He raised his hand and activated the mana surge, sending a blast straight for Mark! Mark used his gauntlet and blocked it, and the blast barely glanced off the side of Mark’s face, tearing his ear to pieces as it passed!

Mark ignored the injury and planted his feet on the ground before sending another punch straight into the exposed rib of the Anima King!

BOOM!

The punch this time sent tremors through the Anima King’s body and he roared in pain as he was thrown back from the force! The Anima King knew that at this rate, he was going to get killed by Mark before he was able to regenerate, and he decided that he needed to force his body to heal without caring about the loss of his forces.

At this time, the Anima King had been holding back from absorbing too much mana from its anima subjects because he knew they were fighting against the humans on the other side of the world. If he took too much mana from them, then their forces would weaken, and they wouldn’t be able to put up a good fight. But in the moment of its own weakness, the Anima King felt an emotion that was all too familiar to humans.

It felt the need to preserve its own life.

It didn’t care how much mana was taken from the other anima. It didn’t care if the other anima lived or died! All it wanted was to get enough power to stop the human King!

The Anima King summoned mana from all the weaker anima in the world! All the anima below Elder Eldritch immediately felt a massive drain on their mana that sent them tumbling to the ground in dead heaps by the hundreds of thousands as the Anima King took everything from them!

The sudden urge in mana made the Anima King double over in shock as his skin began to bulge and ripple from an over-influx of mana! The Anima King was used to taking mana in small amounts, so taking this much mana from its subjects was making its body deform as it tried to contain all the mana that was suddenly thrown into it!

The Anima King needed to release all of the power that had accumulated inside of him, and there was only one way it knew to release that power! The Anima King sent a burst of mana to its missing arm, healing all of it in one go, and it brought both hands together and pointed them at Mark as it’s hand started to glow with a green light!

On the other side, Mark knew this was it. This was the attack that was going to make or break this fight, and Mark gritted his teeth as he called on all the mana inside of him.

Then, Mark broke his limiter!

[The User has sent mana to this arm]

[The User has sent mana to this arm]

[The User has sent mana to this arm]

[The User has sent mana to this arm]

[The User has sent mana to this arm]

[The system has detected an excessive concentration of mana in the user’s right arm! The system advises that the user remove some mana to preserve his limbs! If the user releases the mana in his arm, there is a 79% chance the user will lose it!]

Mark gritted his teeth and planted his feet while moving into a runner’s pose! Mark couldn’t falter!

Not now when he was so close to the finish line! If Mark didn’t do this, then there was nothing that would stop the Anima King from getting back his full strength and killing him! This was Mark’s last chance!

Lightning danced across Mark’s body as Mark felt the [Lightning Surge] skill come to life and then Mark activated the [Healing Aura] skill around his body and unleashed a sheen of mana to cover him in a last-ditch attempt at defense before he blasted forward!

BOOM!

The Anima King saw what Mark was doing, and he could feel the intense mana that had gathered in Mark’s fist! The Anima King narrowed his eyes and unleashed all of the power that it had gathered in one massive blast of concentrated mana that tore through the landscape like a fucking Gatling gun!

TWOOOMM!!

The Gatling gun covered everything in front of the Anima King, bathing the world in green mana and destroying everything that it came into contact with! The Anima King did not relent as he continued his onslaught, but the Anima King was shocked when he felt something move in his peripheral! The Anima King’s eyes moved down and his eyes met with the bloodshot and bleeding eyes of the human King!

“RARRRRGGGHHH!!”

The Anima King roared in agitation as he increased his output, but Mark didn’t even bother defending himself anymore as he used his left gauntlet to block the worst of the Anima King’s attack before his right hand blurred upwards toward the bulging body of the Anima King.

[Divergent Fist]!!

[Arcane Fist]!!

[Sonic Impact: Lightning]!!

Once more, the world imploded!

KA-BOOOOOOOMMM!!

Raging fire and thunderous anarchy tore across the landscape in a ball of pure and uncontrolled mana! The world shook, the heavens trembled, and the very force of the earth shivered from the impact!

The already widening tear between the European continent finally grew too large to hold itself up, and the eastern part of the continent began to flow away from the whole, leaving a massive gaping maw where the continents had once been!

A hurricane surged to life from where the impact had started, tearing across the area and carrying rock, dust, and soot all over in its mad geyser!

This continued for more than two minutes before it slowly began to settle to reveal what was left of Germany.

The land had been ravaged, the seawater boiling over and spilling into the edges of the continent, and the eastern part of the continent that had broken off was slowly beginning to submerge itself underwater to disappear like a forgotten remnant of the battle between two gods.

And in the middle of this carnage lay two bodies.

The Anima KING lay on the floor, its red eyes wide open. But there was no life to be seen in them. The entire left side of its body, where it had received the punch from Mark, had been eradicated—torn apart and scattered on the wind for the vultures to feast upon. Its body was broken, and its jaw was shattered. In its right hand, it held a black gauntlet.

Beside the Anima KING, Mark lay lifeless on the floor. He was lying on his face, but there was nothing that could hide the black scarred skin that covered the entire left side of his body.

The gauntlet on his left hand was gone. The Anima KING had grabbed it, and Mark had been forced to let go of it during their final encounter. Mark’s right hand, from the elbow down, was completely gone.

[Mark!? Mark!? Mark, come on! Mark! Fucking hell! You can’t die, man! You can’t die! Mark, talk to me, you bastard!]

Mark’s comms had fallen off sometime during the final encounter, but Pat’s voice echoed through it nonstop as he begged for any sign of life from Mark.

There wasn’t even a twitch from Mark’s body, and Pat felt tears coming to his eyes as he ran a hand through his hair.

Pat had never cried even once in his entire life—not even when his parents died four years ago. But now, Pat couldn’t stop the waterworks as he felt his heart breaking into pieces.

Mark was dead.