While Austin shoved branches aside and sprinted, a creepy growl echoed throughout the woods.
The sound reverberated in their chests, making everyone's limbs tremble.
"What was that? What is over there?"
All the creatures in the woods peered into the distance but they couldn't see anything in the trees.
"Look!"
someone shouted, pointing at a black humanoid creature that was crouching between two trees.
"Humph!
You can't fool me," a genuine premium-grade divine god said, standing straight up.
He pointed at the black humanoid creature, and a beam of golden light shot out and pierced through it.
"Is that all you've got, poor thing?"
He smiled as the creature crumpled on the ground and whined.
The Metal-destructing Finger was one of his most refined skills. The technique contained the chaotic
law of metal, and its power was fatal.
However, not long after, the smile on his face faltered.
Even after being hit, the black humanoid creature stood and appeared fully healthy. It swung at him.
The black fist resembled a big black sun. It was extremely violent, and its aura was pulsing. Within
seconds, it would break the void.
When he sensed the power that the fist contained, the genuine premium-grade divine god's face turned
pale.
He could feel that the humanoid creature's strike was going to be immense, and he didn't think that he
could survive it.
He turned and ran for his life.
"Ahhh!" Several genuine preliminary-grade divine gods who had been close to him let out screams of
pain.
Due to the impact of the fist, their bodies exploded and they died on the spot.
What scared the other masters even more was that a black tongue appeared and collected the broken
limbs. The preliminary-grade divine gods' flesh ended up in the humanoid creature's stomach.
The black humanoid creature smiled and turned on even more genuine preliminary-grade divine gods.
While they were still in shock, it stuck out its tongue, snapped their necks, and ate their headless, dead
bodies.
In the blink of an eye, it had devoured five genuine divine gods.
"What the hell is this thing? I've never seen anything like it!"
"We need to team up to eliminate it.
Otherwise, more people will perish at its hands."
At this point, they felt in their hearts that there was no way out.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A couple of the genuine premium-grade divine gods released an immense amount of energies and
directed them at the humanoid creature.
Once they hit it, the black humanoid creature exploded and turned into wisps of black smoke.
A cheer erupted in the crowd.
However, there was movement over the creature's remains.
The wisps of black smoke gathered together and transformed into the black humanoid creature again.
"How could this be possible? It was dead!"
All the genuine divine gods gathered a bit closer together for protection.
'This mysterious creature is not only powerful but it also can't be killed.
Even the attacks of several genuine premium-grade divine gods didn't leave a mark, ' they thought to
themselves in horror.
A silver sword appeared and
it chopped the black humanoid creature in half.
It was a genuine premium-grade divine god who had launched this attack.
However, in just a split second, the two parts recuperated and weaved back into its original physique.
The black humanoid creature appeared once again.
'What the hell?'
None of the genuine divine gods could believe what they were witnessing.
'This is unbelievable!
Nothing can defeat it.
How are we going to terminate it?' they wondered, exchanging frantic looks with one another.
The black humanoid creature stuck out its tongue once again, pierced through the heads of three
genuine preliminary-grade divine gods, and dragged them to its mouth.
It swallowed them in one gulp.
"Run!
We have collected almost all the fruits.
It's time to go!"
Immediately, all the creatures turned around and ran as fast as they could to get out of the woods.
They couldn't continue to fight or they would all lose their lives.
Watching the masters scatter, the black humanoid creature let out a vicious sneer.
The next moment, many genuine divine gods screamed.
"Wait! What's going on?
Something is going on with my Divine Accomplishment Fruit!
Ah!
This is not good!"
Looking down in their hands, they saw that the Divine Accomplishment Fruits they had just picked had
turned into white bugs.
It turned out that all the fruits they had found in the woods were not real Divine Accomplishment Fruits.
What was worse, the white bugs were violent and they began to attack the genuine divine gods.
"Ah!
Damn it! A bug has entered my Soul Sea. It is eating my spiritual soul. Help!"
"Fuck off! Leave me alone!"
The genuine divine gods appeared helpless against the attacks since they hadn't been expecting it.
Clung! Clung! Clung!
As they punched and kicked at the bugs, the sound of metal rung out.
The bugs' shells were too hard. Even though the genuine divine gods hit them, they couldn't terminate
them.
Even Austin couldn't do anything to the white bug. Luckily, he already thrown the fake Divine
Accomplishment Fruits away.
The white bugs continued to wreak havoc inside those genuine premium-grade divine gods' Soul Seas.
Startled, those masters roared in a panic.
"Run!
Don't try and fight them!"
the genuine premium-grade divine gods ordered their people.
Immediately, all the genuine divine gods ran as fast as they could in all directions, trying to find the way
out.
While they were on the run, many of them lost their lives.
Some of them were killed by the white bugs. They broke into their Soul Sea and ate their spiritual
souls.
The rest of them perished at the hands of the black humanoid creature. It had caught up with them and
devoured them.
"Damn it! Get lost! Stay away from me!"
an elder in yellow shouted hysterically.
Dozens of white bugs were crawling all over him, and the black humanoid creature had caught up with
him. It stood in front of him, blocking his way.
If Austin were here, he would recognize that the elder clad in yellow clothes was the master from the
Annihilation Mountain.
"Ha-ha!"
The black humanoid creature laughed maliciously as it crouched and stared at the elder in yellow.
All of a sudden, a billowing, black fog appeared out of thin air.
It rolled towards the elder dressed in yellow clothes.
The black humanoid creature hid in the fog, and turned into a black light to take on its prey.
"Argh!
I'm not afraid of you.
Go to hell!"
Despite his words, the elder in yellow was so terrified that his face had turned deathly pale. But he was
tough and he would fight his enemies to the death if it were necessary.
All at once, he released all the energy that he possessed.
It spread in all directions in giant waves.
Soon, the entire space was shaking violently.
Obviously, the black humanoid creature and the elder in yellow were locked in an intensive fight.
But since they were enveloped in the black mist, no one could see what was happening between them.
After a while, the fight stopped.
The black fog gradually dissipated.
Then, a figure appeared.
It was none other than the elder in yellow.
His eyes were completely white, sending chills down everyone's spines.
"Ha-ha! These creatures came from another chaos.
It was perfect. I have been planning to find a good place to heal my injuries.
Their hometown seems to be a perfect choice,"
the elder in yellow murmured to himself, visibly exhausted.
Then he dashed forward.
The genuine divine gods in front of him were running as fast as they could.
None of them paid attention to what had happened to the dead genuine divine gods for they were busy
running for their lives.
The elder clad in yellow clothes whistled.
Then, all the white bugs turned around and flew into his mouth.
Soon, he had caught up with the rest of the fleeing genuine divine gods.
"Wait!
Those white bugs are gone.
There is no sign of that horrible black creature.
That's great!"
The genuine divine gods smiled and slowed down their pace.
At this point, Austin was far away from the woods.
'Lucky me. I made a wise decision.
Those Divine Accomplishment Fruits were all fake just like I thought.
They were just white bugs in disguise, '
Austin thought to himself.
The whole time he had been using his spiritual sense to see what was happening in the woods.
Austin had also witnessed what happened with the black humanoid creature.
"That creature was worse than anything I have ever seen before.
The Land of Outlaw is truly full of dangers,"
Austin remarked.
However, he had stopped paying attention to the woods after he got out of it.
Therefore, he didn't know about the battle between the elder in yellow and the black humanoid
creature.
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