Chapter 496: Weak Punches

Hearing his words, Yuusha frowned deeply.

"What the fuck do you mean by chaos incarnate?" Yuusha asked.

The chief just shrugged.

The next instant, he completely disappeared from where he stood. A massive wall of mud kicked up into the air from the sheer force of his dash.

The chief reappeared directly in front of Yuusha and sent a brutal punch flying straight into his gut. The blow connected perfectly, burying deep into Yuusha’s stomach. The impact sent Yuusha flying backward through the air as he violently coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Yuusha crashed into the mud. He groaned, forced himself back onto his feet, and stared at the chief while wiping his mouth.

"You..." Yuusha panted. "You are strong."

The chief lowered his fist and smiled.

"I know," the chief said smoothly. "Until now, you were just fighting a fraction of... uhh yeah. You were fighting Apostles that held a mere fraction of my power. And you literally had to spend days on end just to kill them. Did you really think that you could fight me? Well, the me right now."

He looked down at his own scaled hands and flexed his fingers.

"The me right now," the chief continued. "I still don’t wield the entirety of my true power even right now. But the amount I have right now is a lot more than what you have fought until now."

Yuusha spat another mouthful of blood onto the ground.

"You just caught me by surprise, old man," Yuusha grunted as he glared at the chief. "How old even are you? Thousands of years?"

"Tens of thousands, in fact," the chief corrected smoothly. "But sure, I caught you by surprise. So what? Fight me then. Show me what you are truly capable of. And maybe... just maybe, I will give you a shortcut to becoming a god."

The demon opened his arms wide.

"After all," the chief said. "You want to take this path by accumulating negative karma. So why not just take my side instead? Prove yourself to me."

"Fuck you, old man," Yuusha spat. "I am not going to prove myself to anyone! I will become the one and only True God! And everyone will kneel to my power!"

Yuusha dashed forward, closing the distance at an extremely high speed. He swung his leg, rotated his upper body with immense force, and sent a devastating roundhouse kick straight toward the chief’s head.

But to his utter shock, the chief just tanked it.

The ball of his foot slammed into the demon’s neck, but the chief didn’t even flinch. He simply reached up and grabbed Yuusha’s leg right where it was, but Yuusha didn’t stop there. He used the demon’s grip as leverage, rotated his torso in mid-air, and landed another heavy kick with his free leg.

Even that didn’t do a single thing.

So instead, Yuusha used both of his legs to grip tightly around the chief’s neck. He pulled his own body upward and launched a rapid barrage of punches straight down onto the chief’s face.

The chief just looked up at him as the fists rained down.

Yuusha punched him once, twice and thrice. By the fourth punch, the chief just started grinning. There was not a single drop of blood on his face and not even a single bruise. He took every single full-powered hit and just smiled right through it like the punches didn’t even faze him.

But Yuusha didn’t stop. He punched him again, and again, and again.

As he rapidly swung his fists, he let out all of his frustrations and yelled at the top of his lungs.

"Just fucking die, you motherfucker!" Yuusha screamed. "Just die! You might tank one or two hits, but let’s see how many you can tank, bitch!"

The chief just continued grinning widely.

He slowly raised his free hand. He calmly placed it directly on Yuusha’s belly, right over his solar plexus. Before Yuusha could even understand what was going on, the chief touched the solar plexus with his middle finger while keeping his palm open and straight.

A moment later, he sent out a one-inch punch.

The force exploded through Yuusha’s abdomen. He coughed violently, all the air leaving his lungs. He wanted to let go of the chief’s head and retreat to catch his breath, but he couldn’t.

The chief had already grabbed him securely by both of his thighs.

Yuusha coughed and hacked. "Bitch..." he cursed weakly.

The chief just looked up at him with cold eyes.

"Is this all you can do?" he asked.

Yuusha gritted his teeth. He threw his head back and bashed his skull straight down into the chief’s face in a brutal headbutt. But all Yuusha felt was immense, blinding pain in his own skull.

The chief just grinned. And then, he began to laugh like an absolute maniac.

"Hahahaha! Ahahahaha!" The chief’s laughter echoed across the bloody clearing. "Oh my god, you are so incredibly naive. Your fighting methods... they are so, so dumb!"

He gripped Yuusha’s thighs harder.

"Do you want to know how actual animals fight?" the chief mocked. "Do you? Have you ever experienced a true fight of life and death? Have you ever experienced being the prey and fighting back for your life? Are you really giving it your all right now? Because it feels like you are just holding back!"

"What even are those weak punches?" The chief sneered. "What’s up with this weak little headbutt? Want me to show you how a real killer fights? You need to realize that at the end of the day, humans are no different from animals. Strip away your intelligence, and you will be no different from apes. In fact, you will be a weaker version of those apes!"

The chief’s golden eyes glowed with malice. "So can you tell me how your ancestors fought thousands of years ago?"

Yuusha didn’t answer. He just pushed his hand against his own forehead to stop the ringing in his skull. He raised his elbow and brought it crashing down onto the chief’s skull, but once again, it did absolutely nothing.