The United States was the sole superpower of the old world, the Blue Star. After its battle with the Bear Country, it inherited everything, gaining dominion over the entire world. Its power radiated into every aspect of the globe: economy, culture, food, and military. In the past, some with ulterior motives promoted it as a beacon of human civilization. A scholar of Inazuman descent even wrote "The End of History" for the United States, praising it endlessly.
However, as the world entered the age of the internet, the beacon's fig leaf was gradually torn away, revealing its hypocritical nature. The so-called civilization and beacon were merely tools for its hegemonic pursuit. Setting aside the daily gunfights, the existence of child laborers working until five in the morning and the fact that most states supported child marriage made it difficult to fathom that this was the world's only superpower. It was no wonder the old world appeared so turbulent, with such a nation dictating global order.
But all of this vanished with the arrival of the apocalypse. The descending monsters shattered the already weak order. The United States was completely reduced to a mad battleground where everyone fought for survival. The sins committed on this land were forgotten after being purged by the encroaching dark demons. Humans and monsters alike lost their sanity, transforming into monstrous aberrations under the influence of the dark demons.
Yet, when Chen Luo arrived at the former capital of the United States, he displayed surprise and solemnity for the first time. The once prosperous skyscrapers and streets had disappeared, replaced by an overwhelming expanse of dark red as far as the eye could see. A carpet of dark red flesh paved the ground and submerged the buildings. Human and monster limbs occasionally churned on the flesh carpet, seemingly still alive.
Under Chen Luo's gaze, these fleshy masses twitched and moved outwards, having consumed the entire city and still craving more. There was no trace of any other monsters; only this boundless ocean of flesh. The bizarre scene, enough to drive humans to madness, filled Chen Luo with genuine disgust. However, he did not immediately incinerate this blasphemy. Instead, he looked solemnly towards the center of the flesh ocean.
As if sensing Chen Luo's gaze, the center of the flesh ocean slowly converged and rose, forming a platform made of limbs. When the platform was fully formed, an old man Chen Luo had seen on television appeared abruptly atop it. The old man wore a suit, his hair was white, and his face was lined with the aura of decay. His eyes were closed, but the aura he exuded made Chen Luo himself take notice.
Undoubtedly, the monster before him was Domain-level, and its current domain fluctuation strength was at least 100. For comparison, Dragon Lady's boundless Dragon Slumber domain had a domain fluctuation of at least 60. This monster, wearing a human guise, surpassed Dragon Lady in pure domain power.
Before Chen Luo could speak, the old man, who appeared to be the President of the United States, slowly opened his eyes. They were entirely black, devoid of whites, and looked at him with an eerie darkness. As his lips moved, the blood sea beneath him, composed of limbs, vibrated in unison. At that moment, Chen Luo seemed to hear a voice formed from the malice of countless beings:
"Welcome to humanity's lighthouse, yellow-skinned monkey!"
The contemptuous address displeased Chen Luo.
"Great Thousand Blazing Fire!!"
Chen Luo raised his right hand high. Glazed flames flowed from the void, converging around his arm to form a colossal, thousand-meter-long glazed divine sword.
Slash!
Without any further words, the divine sword tore through the space in its path and descended fiercely from the sky!
A hint of shock and anger flashed across the President's face:
"How dare you?!"
Before his words could finish, the monster with black eyes, along with the flesh platform beneath it, was vaporized. The residual force of the sword strike cleaved a tens of thousands of meter-long rift through the flesh ocean below, extending beyond the city before finally stopping. The glazed fire sword's attack inflicted immense damage on the flesh ocean. Countless human faces appeared on the surface of the blood sea, their eyes streaming with tears, emitting piercing screams!
[You have been attacked by the Domain-level monster "This World's Darkness"]
[You have obtained partial information about the monster]
[This World's Darkness (Sin Derivative)]
[Race]: Human(?)
[Level]: 0-30 (Undeterminable)
[Description]: The history of the United States is a history of war and sin. They seized land from the indigenous people and exported war to the entire world. Peace was anathema to them; profit was their sole pursuit. All human morality, in their eyes, was an obstacle to capital accumulation. Even humans themselves were merely a cost to be optimized in the eyes of capital. And when those dying rich learned of the game, a plan was born. A plan to drag the entire world into the apocalypse...
[Congratulations, Conqueror Chen Luo, for discovering the hidden boss of this world. Worldview unlocked.]
The screams of countless faces produced an indiscriminate mental attack. Upon hearing the screams, Chen Luo's vision was flooded with the immense suffering these people experienced in life. Guns, drugs, violence, crime, exploitation – these pains formed tangible damage, simultaneously attacking Chen Luo's mind and body.
"Qi and Blood Martial Arts! Suppress it!"
*Buzz!*
A surge of crimson qi and blood power instantly shook off all damage. Chen Luo then looked curiously at the furiously churning flesh ocean on the ground:
"This thing is a hidden boss? And the description says it's related to the apocalypse?"
"Get out here! That last strike definitely didn't kill you!"
Chen Luo's voice completely drowned out the screams, but on the flesh sea below, only the constantly appearing screaming human faces remained, with no one responding to Chen Luo's words. Seeing the monster's defiance, Chen Luo frowned and swung his glazed fire sword again. Wherever the blade passed, the flesh ocean visibly shrank.
As the flesh ocean receded, the screams of the human faces grew more desperate, and the attacks they formed became increasingly bizarre and powerful. However, under the suppression of Chen Luo's qi and blood power, these ghostly tricks could not harm him in the slightest.
Only when the entire flesh ocean had shrunk by a third under Chen Luo's slicing did a resentful voice hastily cry out:
"Stop hitting!"
Chen Luo's lips curved slightly.
As expected, when dealing with these American beasts, one had to beat them into submission first.