Kill the Sun - Chapter 657

Chapter 657 – Meat Cube

Over an entire year passed.

During this year, Meat Cube City did not change.

Everything was as it always was.

Today, Nick looked at the city with a determined expression.

'Finally. Took long enough,' he thought.

Nick looked at his right hand and clenched it for a moment.

He felt powerful.

'I think I should be something like 59 or 60 years old by now,' Nick thought. 'Becoming a Mid Specialist at such an age should be considered very young.'

Nick wanted to release a breath.

'Or a Mid Fanatic, I guess. The fact that I'm a Specter is also the very reason why I am advancing so fast.'

'If I still were a human, even with consuming a Late Elder, I would need around five to ten years to advance a level.'

'Meanwhile, I advanced two levels in five years.'

'My speed of advancement is even faster than the speed I had when I became an Expert.'

'Usually, advancement slows down with power growth, but that wasn't the case for me.'

Nick furrowed his brows.

'Although, it is slowing down. The first level took me two years, and the second level took me three.'

Naturally, the way Nick advanced seemed amazing. After all, he only needed to cause some suffering somewhere, and he would keep advancing without doing anything else.

However, this didn't work forever.

While Nick was still receiving suffering from Markus Julius, the rich people and leaders of Crimson City were no longer suffering.

They had all gotten used to their new lives, and the grieving families had mostly overcome their grief by now.

Nick was barely gaining any suffering from Crimson City anymore.

The suffering he was collecting from Black Mine City was also starting to shrink.

Water Pillar City was still in the middle of a transformation, and it gave the most suffering to Nick.

Nick knew that the suffering from Black Mine City would almost completely vanish within the next ten years, and Water Pillar City would also significantly reduce.

Nick was advancing quickly right now, but he also caused a lot of suffering.

'The Zephyx I require will only grow as I become more powerful, and I need to keep at it.'

'However, I still have to keep in mind that I live to help humanity, not benefit from its suffering.'

'If I prioritize my own power, I won't be better than all the rich people I hate.'

'I have to be careful.'

Eventually, Nick focused on the city again.

'As a Mid Fanatic, I should be powerful enough.'

The next moment, Nick seemingly vanished.

In truth, Nick had partially transformed into mist.

All the years of focusing on manipulating Zephyx weren't for nothing.

Nick had enough control over his power to change the color of his mist and to partially transform his body.

This gave him a method to travel through the air without needing to become a Demon or having his primary ability active.

By partially transforming the tip of his extremities into mist, he could expand the "area of his palms and feet".

His misty hands could take up a much bigger area in the air, and Nick could use the power of his physical body to push himself off the air.

In short, Nick was traveling across the air, similar to how a lizard or a spider ran across the water.

The comparison was not perfectly accurate, but it was accurate enough.

Doing that was the smartest choice. After all, it had been doing that for decades, and it was receiving plenty of meat while doing exactly that.

So, it was just there, waiting for further orders.

The Hero took out his next delivery of meat and dumped it into the Meat Cube.

A moment later, the meat started to get absorbed by the Meat Cube, and a ton of Zephyx was released.

For the next hour, the Hero focused on absorbing the Zephyx produced by the Meat Cube.

Then, he left.

Meanwhile, Nick just waited.

He was waiting for something specific.

Nick waited in this Containment Unit for over two weeks.

Every day, someone would arrive to deliver the meat.

And then, two weeks after arriving here, the thing Nick was waiting for happened.

This time, two people entered.

One was a middle-aged man with a casual expression, while the other was a young woman, who was barely wearing anything.

The middle-aged man looked well-groomed and wore the spotless uniform of a Governor.

Naturally, he was the Governor.

The young woman had impressive breasts, which were covered by a thin strip of fabric, and she wore red heels that seemed almost impossible to walk in.

This was a very unusual outfit for a woman in these parts.

However, she wasn't really a woman.

She was a Specter.

In fact, she was Lust's emissary.

She was the one who could order the Meat Cube around.

When Nick saw them, he knew that the time had come.

This was what he had been waiting for.

About once a month, the Governor secretly took Lust's emissary with him to the Meat Cube.

This was the order of Lust's emissary.

She was only an Early Fanatic, and she knew that she wouldn't be able to win in a fight against the Governor.

The Governor was human, and the emissary knew that humans tended to act illogically sometimes.

Because of that, she had given a failsafe order to the Meat Cube.

If the Meat Cube didn't get to meet the emissary once every two months at least, it was supposed to kill the Governor and the city.

Therefore, the Governor brought the Specter to the Meat Cube once every month.

This meeting was supposed to remind the Governor about who was truly in charge.

As the Specter entered, the Meat Cube's consciousness stirred, and it communicated with the Specter.

"Show me your Specter Core," the emissary ordered.

Naturally, this order was Nick's doing.

The Meat Cube was trained to follow orders without questioning them.

So, it complied.

Its Specter Core was slowly pushed out of its shell.

The emissary and the Governor looked at the Specter Core with confusion.

Why was it showing its Specter Core?

BANG!

Suddenly, a spear hit the Specter Core, and an instant later, the Specter Core broke into pieces.

The Meat Cube was dead.