Like an eternity, yet also like a fleeting moment.

The Mind Monkey Staff stabbed straight into the giant beast’s descending palm.

The staff head, inlaid with the golden band, scraped against the golden octagonal shield of the A.T. Field, producing a series of dazzling sparks.

Squeak—

The shrill sound of the A.T. Field belatedly echoed through the city.

Even with the soft, thick layer of pale world lichen providing some cushion, a large amount of glass on the surrounding skyscrapers shattered.

“Roar!!!!!”

Otachi roared from above, stacking its left forelimb on top of its right,

Pressing the full weight of its upper body onto its palms, determined to flatten all obstacles with the A.T. Field as a shield.

“Hmph.”

Li Ang's will spread out in all directions.

The pale world lichen he had released earlier rapidly transformed the soil environment beneath the surface, solidifying the ground.

Meanwhile, Li Ang’s hand firmly gripped the Mind Monkey Staff, his entire body's spiritual energy pouring into it like a raging river, causing the staff to continue expanding.

“Rise!”

The gigantic Mind Monkey Staff withstood the A.T. Field, pushing back against the kaiju’s forelimb, lifting it high into the air.

Otachi instinctively stomped its feet on the ground, lowered its tail, and shifted its center of gravity to maintain balance.

However, the power of Li Ang and the expansion speed of the Mind Monkey still exceeded its expectations.

The giant beast's massive body was forced back,

Its hind claws tearing two wide, deep trenches into the lichen-covered ground.

Boom!!

The constantly retreating Otachi crashed heavily into a skyscraper.

Visible shockwaves rippled through its spine and muscles.

Its forelimb, held in place by the Mind Monkey Staff, smashed into the building’s floors, sweeping away computers, desks, and chairs in the office cubicles.

But it wasn't over yet.

Li Ang used alchemy to reshape the ground,

Marsh god power poured into the pale world lichen, reinforcing the soil.

The ground beneath Li Ang's feet seemed to come alive, rising slowly forward like a wave,

Carrying the sky-supporting Mind Monkey Staff, continuing to advance.

Crack crack—

As the skyscraper groaned and crumbled, the A.T. Field surrounding Otachi flickered.

Finally, the golden shield disappeared.

Sizzle!

The Mind Monkey Staff, unimpeded, advanced like a hot knife through butter,

Easily piercing Otachi’s two palms, its momentum undiminished,

Thrusting into the kaiju’s neck, on the right side, through the wound Crimson Typhoon had created.

The kaiju roared,

Blue blood splattering like ink from the wounds on its neck and palms.

Wherever the blood landed, whether on the steel-reinforced skyscrapers or the pale world lichen,

Everything melted and dissolved, billowing with thick smoke.

“This, this…”

In the command center, everyone stared blankly at the changing battle situation on the screen.

Was this really something a human could do?

“Impossible, absolutely impossible…”

Newton Geiszler, the head of the Kaiju Biology Department, stared blankly, repeatedly muttering those words.

He was a senior monster enthusiast at PPDC.

Although he had been researching deep-sea creatures, dissecting their organs, publishing scientific papers, and providing scientific basis for the PPDC to defeat the deep-sea creatures,

That didn’t prevent him from harboring a sense of fondness for those powerful and formidable kaiju.

This fondness,

Wasn't the fanatical worship of the Deep Sea Cult, who regarded the kaiju as true gods,

But more like…an admiration for the power of life itself.

“Only an A.T. Field can counter an A.T. Field!”

Newton Geiszler suddenly reacted, slamming his hand on the table, “Even a ten-thousand-ton water pressure machine cannot destroy a kaiju without an A.T. Field!

Something’s not right!”

“Calm down!”

Hermann Gottlieb, a physicist from the Kaiju Science Department, grabbed his agitated friend and said in a deep voice, “Look at the data on the monitor!

This Mr. Li has a Hume index as well.

Secondly, Otachi voluntarily cancelled its A.T. Field just now!”

“Voluntarily cancelled?”

Stacker Pentecost turned his head sharply, looking at Hermann, his face a mixture of astonishment, confusion, and sudden realization, “Not good!”

He pursed his lips and pressed the communication button on the table, just about to say something,

When he saw Otachi’s mouth curl into a sly, almost human-like smile on the big screen.

Buzz—

The kaiju’s body once again crackled with the A.T. Field.

And this time, the area of the golden shield was larger and wider, its light more brilliant and dazzling,

Enveloping Otachi completely, without any blind spots,

Locking the Mind Monkey Staff firmly within the shield.

“Hmm?”

Li Ang pulled hard on the Mind Monkey Staff, but the staff seemed to be fused with space, completely immovable.

Moreover, as the A.T. Field continued to exert pressure,

The surface of the Mind Monkey Staff emitted a tooth-aching, piercing friction sound, the entire staff vibrating slightly, as if it could break at any moment.

“Using itself as bait, at the cost of injury, to lure me into attacking,

Then suddenly activating the A.T. Field to trap my weapon…”

Behind his monocle, Li Ang’s eyes were like an unwavering ancient well.

The A.T. Field was indeed worthy of its reputation, a veritable “absolute terror domain.”

Within its range, all supernatural powers were severely weakened.

Even the Mind Monkey Staff could no longer continue to expand.

However, not being able to expand didn’t mean it couldn’t change…

Li Ang stopped pulling on the staff,

Instead, he opened his arms and embraced the Mind Monkey.

“Small!”

With a soft shout, the Mind Monkey rapidly contracted,

Before Otachi could react, it withdrew from the range of the A.T. Field.

The [Mind Monkey]’s “as you wish” effect was to inject spiritual energy to change the size and weight of the staff.

Once the injection of spiritual energy stopped, it would automatically revert to its initial state.

The A.T. Field was certainly overbearing, capable of forcibly stopping the effects of the Perfect-grade equipment [Mind Monkey], but the A.T. Field was not pure spiritual energy and could not prevent the Mind Monkey from returning to its original state.

“What tricks can beasts employ?”

Li Ang kept the Mind Monkey at fifty meters long, as thick as a bowl,

His feet stomped on the ground,

His knees slowly bent,

His figure suddenly leaped up,

Wielding the Mind Monkey Staff, drawing a crescent arc in the air, smashing down on the kaiju’s head.

Otachi seemed to realize what was about to happen, standing upright on its hind legs, doing everything in its power to expand the A.T. Field to its maximum.

Clang————

Visible shockwaves reverberated violently in the mid-air of the city,

The fine rain falling from the sky was also scattered and shattered by the airwaves, the rain suddenly stopping.

Otachi’s eyes rolled back, staring blankly at the Mind Monkey Staff that had smashed onto its neck, breaking it at a 90° angle. A hint of meaning that humans could not understand flashed in its orange-yellow eyes.

“A.T. Field?”

Standing in mid-air, right hand gripping the Mind Monkey Staff, left hand holding the deep-sea creature’s pineal gland, golden light radiating from his body,

Li Ang looked indifferently at the slowly falling, thunderously crashing Otachi, and said calmly, “Sorry, I can do it too.”