Smack!
With a muffled thud, the scrawny Frankenstein tumbled to the ground, his body rolling as he landed. Even the scalpel in his hand flew out of his grasp.
Controlling the triceratops, Qin Ming finally managed to bring the charging beast to a halt. Seeing this, he dismounted and strode toward Frankenstein.
But before he could get close, the room's lights suddenly began to flicker wildly, and the machines on both sides started spewing sparks.
This eerie scene made Qin Ming immediately stop in his tracks.
Ahead of him, accompanied by a grating metallic screech, a hulking monster lying on a hospital bed—its body riddled with wires and machines—suddenly let out a roar and struggled to sit up.
The creature's body was covered in stitching marks, clearly pieced together from a multitude of severed limbs.
Most striking of all, a ring of steel bolts was embedded in its head, now crackling with electricity.
It tore the instruments off its body with force. Though the monster's frame was nearly as large as Qin Ming's, it staggered at first as it walked toward the fallen Frankenstein.
With each step, its stiff movements became smoother, rapidly returning to normal mobility.
When it reached Frankenstein's side, it trembled as it gently lifted him into its arms. Gazing at the severely wounded, blood-covered man in its arms, the monster suddenly dropped to its knees and howled toward the ceiling.
"Father! Who did this to you?! I'll tear him apart! I'll—!"
Bang!
Crack!
Before the monster could finish, a gunshot rang out—it was Rika Kasamoto from across the room who had taken the shot.
Reacting instantly to the sound, the monster—its body heavily modified and boasting lightning-fast reflexes—swung its arm without hesitation and intercepted the bullet.
Its reaction was indeed precise, but the problem was... driven by instinct, it hadn't used its own arm to block the bullet—
—it used Frankenstein, whom it was still holding…
BOOM!
The bullet was blocked, yes—but Frankenstein's head was violently swung to the side, smashing into the nearby wall and reducing it to rubble.
Everyone in the room was stunned speechless.
Already severely injured, Frankenstein twitched violently twice from the impact, then stopped moving completely...
"Nooo! Father!!!"
A heart-wrenching scream pierced the room. Seeing his father die just like that in his arms, the monster's eyes turned bloodshot as he wailed to the heavens.
After roaring, he suddenly lowered his head, his gaze locking murderously onto Qin Ming and the others.
"I'll kill you! I'll avenge my father!"
Qin Ming's face froze.
"Wait, hang on... Technically, we didn't kill your father. It was you who swung—"
"REVENGE!!!"
Before Qin Ming could finish, the stitched-together monster roared again. Lifting his own father's corpse, he charged at Qin Ming with clear murderous intent. As he got close, he flung Frankenstein like a weapon, slamming him down!
This time, he was very clearly out for blood!
[Name: Frankenstein's Monster]
[Strength: 60]
[Constitution: 60]
[Agility: 20]
[Spirit: 20]
[Skills: Body of the Monster (A-Rank), Strength Beyond Humanity (A-Rank), Electromagnetic Drive Core (A-Rank)]
[Bio: A creature forcibly brought to life through electricity and stitched surgery—a miracle of unnatural life. Just... a little low on IQ.]
With three A-rank skills enhancing it—two of them being passive, one boosting defense and the other enhancing strength—the physical prowess of the Frankenstein before them was nothing short of monstrous!
Every one of its attacks that landed sent shockwaves through the room, making the very walls and floor tremble!
In just a few strikes, the entire room had been reduced to ruins.
Raising his arm and manipulating blood, Qin Ming tried to meet Frankenstein's wide sweep—wielding his father's corpse as a bludgeon—head-on. But he couldn't even last a full second.
As the blood exploded, his body was flung away, sliding and crashing back several meters before he barely managed to steady himself.
Seeing the monster lift his father's body once again and charge toward him for another devastating overhead swing, Qin Ming's expression turned grim. Then, he suddenly punched the ground with full force.
With a spray of blood, countless streams of blood burst out along the ground! As they surged toward Frankenstein's feet, they transformed into sharp blood pillars, erupting from below!
Struck head-on by the barrage of blood pillars, Frankenstein's lower half was drenched in blood from numerous injuries.
But such pain clearly wasn't enough to stop it.
With a roar, it forced its way through, shattering the blood pillars and continuing its charge.
However, it had barely run two meters before the blood on the ground suddenly liquefied and wrapped tightly around its legs, yanking Frankenstein down to the floor.
Frowning, Qin Ming raised his hand, controlling the blood as he directed wave after wave of it toward the monster in the center.
The thick blood tightly wrapped around Frankenstein's limbs, simultaneously constricting and hardening.
Under this all-around entrapment, even with its monstrous strength, Frankenstein couldn't break free immediately and was pinned to the spot.
Just as the restrained Frankenstein was wildly struggling on the ground, a sharp whistling sound suddenly pierced the air.
It was Angel—the white-haired musclewoman—charging forward at high speed. As she approached, she leapt into the air, dropped her elbow, and came crashing down like a missile.
Super Finisher: People's Elbow!
Boom!
This was the same ultimate technique that had once hit Qin Ming so hard he curled up into a ball. Its power was no joke.
Though it might not rival the cosmic phantom said to kill with a single punch, the impact wasn't much weaker—especially with Angel's considerable weight adding to it.
Hit squarely in the chest, Frankenstein's eyes bulged, his mouth fell open, and a sharp cracking of bones echoed in the air. His chest visibly caved in.
The bandages and stitches all over his body began snapping and unraveling.
Even the ground beneath him split into dense, spiderweb-like cracks that spread several meters in all directions.
With the hit landed, Angel let out a thunderous shout. She jumped again, knees together, ready to slam down another blow straight to his face.
But before she could land, Frankenstein's chest suddenly burst with a blinding electric light.
A moment later—centered on his body—violent currents erupted in all directions!
A-Rank Skill: Electromagnetic Drive Core!
Zzzzzzzzap!
Electric arcs spread outward, instantly blasting apart the blood restraints around Frankenstein, sending them flying in all directions.
Even Qin Ming, who was charging in from the side, was forced to raise his arms and retreat.
This electric explosion possessed terrifying force, flinging away everything nearby!
…Unfortunately, it failed to dislodge Angel, who was falling from above.
Whether because the woman was just that heavy or because the vertical resistance of the move was weak, the result was the same—
Angel, descending from above, had nothing but her hair frazzled by the current. Her body showed no sign of being repelled.
Amid the sparking storm, Angel fell straight into the center of the lightning, crashing once again into Frankenstein's chest.
Boom!
Crack!
Another crisp bone-shattering sound rang out.
(End of Chapter)