Chapter 824 - 696: Domineering

Thud.

The Flame Demon God named Amy gently landed at the edge of the forest and began to stride into the dense woods.

The soles of its feet burning through fallen leaves and turning sand to molten, leaving behind a trail of flaming footprints. The large iron cage in its left hand was also glowing red with the escaping heat waves.

However, the three players imprisoned within the cage didn’t feel a thing.

A barely millimeter-thick layer of gauzy shadow hovered over their bodies, courtesy of the original nine-ring protection magic [High-level Shadow Realm Invincibility Technique] created by Merlin.

The original invincibility technique could only be used on a single target, consuming a certain amount of precious metals to make one immune to any external harm during spellcasting.

However, Merlin’s self-created magic enveloped both the target and himself with coordinates from a pocket space.

Any external attack, whether physical strikes, energy attacks, or ethereal mental assaults and meme pollution, would first layer on a thin shadow, transmitted to the Shadow Realm,

thereby achieving a group invincibility effect.

The cost was that Merlin had to fully concentrate on guiding the spell, and those affected by the invincibility technique couldn’t use extraordinary power.

"... As they say, people die for wealth as birds die for food. Should’ve known better than to wade into murky waters."

Leaning against the iron cage, the hacker in a checkered shirt, whose eyes and entire eye sockets had been replaced by electronic eyes, sighed. He was known as [Black Trojan Horse], Level 31,

a longtime friend of the Mediterranean-haired [Sunset Melting Gold], both middle managers in the Whale Song Guild.

Black Trojan Horse reached out to grasp the cage’s bars, but the Shadow Realm barrier meant his fingers never touched the surface.

Yet he felt a clear scraping sensation at his fingernails’ tips—the cage was inscribed with densely packed, barely visible runes, continually emitting magic power.

If Merlin lifted the [High-level Shadow Realm Invincibility Technique], these runes would instantly amplify in power, unleashing effects of magic ban, silence, and soul-stealing to firmly immobilize them.

In other words, they were now trapped inside the iron cage.

"So, does this minor difficulty shatter your resolve?"

The male ninja with a Middle Eastern face glanced at Black Trojan Horse. "The backbone of Whale Song that I remember wasn’t so sullen."

This fellow wore a headband with the word [Domineering] in gold on black fabric, a gray night outfit, metal protective arms, and two katanas strapped to his back.

His multifunctional belt held a series of shurikens, kunai, smoke bombs, and senbon needles.

A Middle Easterner dressed as a Japanese ninja was one thing.

Even more hard to take was that his belt’s two straps read in Japanese, "Honor in death, shame in life,"

and in Persian, "Everywhere is Karbala, every day is Ashura."

The ninja’s killing field ID was [Hassan], Iranian, Level 32, the fifth vice president of the Middle Eastern guild [Saladin’s Eagle].

[Saladin’s Eagle] is a medium-sized guild on a global scale,

but in the Middle East, it’s a top-tier big guild, backed by sovereign funds from countries like Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Qatar.

These countries are Sunni, theoretically not too friendly with Shiite Iran.

They took in Hassan partly due to geopolitical considerations, and partly because Hassan was indeed formidable.

"..."

The ridiculed Black Trojan Horse’s eyelid twitched, while Merlin stroked his beard and sighed, "Save your breath and conserve your energy. Someone will come to rescue us."

"Where’s the cavalry coming from, in this godforsaken place?"

Hassan unceremoniously criticized: "Old man, you’ve just gotten too old, too lacking in verve! If you ask me, just blow up with the Demon God already!"

Faced with direct criticism from the five-levels-lower Hassan, Merlin’s blood pressure rose slightly, but he held it down.

He was old, had wisdom, and knew that Hassan meant no harm—in fact, he was a genuine ninja.

In the late 1970s, after the success of Khomeini’s revolution in Iran, Iranian TV faced censorship, many Western programs were restricted, resulting in a shortage of children’s shows. This led to the introduction of many non-violent, non-sexual Japanese animation works, planting a subtle fondness for exotic cultures in many Iranian youth—Suleimani knew karate.

By 1989, a remarkable figure had brought ninja culture to Iran, establishing a ninja martial arts training camp outside Tehran, earnestly teaching the use of katanas, bows, scythes, and kunai, silently infiltrating and honing assassination techniques.

Over thirty years, over 20,000 ninja have graduated from the training camp, one-third of whom are women.

Hassan was a product of the training camp. Coincidentally, the killing field connects countless worlds, with a power system that encompasses everything, so he cultivated chakra and became a genuine Wood Leaf Ninja.

Considering that chakra is a kind of childhood discipline, and he was too old when he encountered extraordinary power, he supplemented his flaws by stealing domineering aura from another script world based on the classic hot-blooded shonen manga "One Piece".

Except, the One Piece world he went to didn’t seem quite serious.

Instead of "Dominating everything,"

it became "Bullying everything."

The weak need to bully, the strong even more so. Through bullying, one can enhance their domineering aura.

If Hassan were a normal two-dimensional anime fan growing up in a normal cultural environment, he would have probably sensed something was wrong. Unfortunately, he’s not normal.

Instead, he thrived, effortlessly mastering the domineering aura.

Returning to the real world to reread the Naruto manga further deepened his delusion.

No wonder Death Fire Sea is considered a family, because apparently Naruto has domineering aura too!

Otherwise, there’s no way to explain the mysterious behavior of Wood Leaf Village’s villagers.

In a world where the strong can destroy cities with one strike, and where there is an immense gap between Transcendents and mortals,

the villagers of Wood Leaf Village remain unyielding, the Uchiha orphan is to be bullied, the Hyuga family’s young lady is to be bullied, the demon fox vessel Jinchuriki is to be bullied,

the handsome ones are to be bullied, the ugly ones are to be bullied, those who study well are to be bullied, and those who do poorly at studies are to be bullied.

And the ninjas who are stoned, cursed, nicknamed, and ostracized by the villagers of Wood Leaf Village, including the spiritually bullied-to-suicide White Fang of Konoha, Hatake Kakashi,

Naruto, Sakura, Ding Ci, Kai, Little Li, Hinata... the more the ninjas are bullied, the more they enjoy it, and they each awaken the Fire Will, voluntarily protecting Konoha.

With this mindset, Hassan, whose brain works differently, managed to integrate chakra and domineering aura, creating his own Domineering Ninja Way.

Stopping gods kills gods, stopping buddhas kills buddhas, and in a few years, he quickly climbed to Level 32.

On par with Zheng Zha clashing Bloodline energy and Inner Strength. Truly, a great inventor of the killing field.

The Black Trojan Horse took a deep breath, the Shadow Realm barrier blocked out the sulfurous toxic smoke in the air, he stood up in the iron cage, observing the Flame Demon God.

"...The outer flame temperature is about 2000°C, the inner flame temperature about 800°C, and there’s a cluster of blue flame at the brain area, suspected to be the thinking center."

Without using Extraordinary Power, the Black Trojan Horse used the advanced electronic eye installed in his eye socket to analyze, "If you consider the occasional spark emanating from the blue flame as brainwave signals,

then it’s almost as if it’s sleepwalking unconsciously, completely different from the other Demon Gods that trapped us previously."

"Not bad eyesight."

Hassan praised, "Truly an eye for detail."

"..." The Black Trojan Horse’s forehead veins slightly bulged, I’m just switching to an electronic eye, is it worth constantly mentioning?

Compared to those cyborgs who can’t find two or three pounds of flesh on their bodies, this is already quite good for me!

The Flame Demon God indeed ignored the players’ discussion, walking into the dense forest by itself, heading to the spot where the sun-absorbing chicken had just scratched the ground.

It looked at the dug-up ground, tilted its head, and let out a confused whimper,

pausing for a few seconds before surprisingly ignoring the anomaly, placing the metal bomb clasped in its right arm on the ground, still holding onto the iron cage with its left hand, and started clawing at the soil with its right hand.

The flames melted the soil and rocks into solids, speeding up the digging process, and quickly the Amy Demon God dug a large hole in place, revealing a circular spatial rift about ten meters in diameter,

the other side of the rift was completely dark, leading to another space.

And the Flame Demon God, embedded with full crystals, placed three bombs around the rift. Then, pressing the button, ancient Hebrew text immediately floated from right to left on the top of the bomb.

[Remote Detonation Ready]

Even the dullest person should have realized by now that this is a specially made bomb to destroy the spatial rift.

As the Flame Demon God was about to jump into the rift and disappear, the sun-absorbing chicken finally could not hold back any longer, undoing its transformative demon art, returning to its original size,

rushing forward a few steps, launching a kick, a chicken claw launched at the Demon God’s face.

The impact of this kick was so massive that the Spiritual State Maxwell, Su Jie, and Claudia were all thrown out of the chicken beak by inertia,

carrying spiritual umbilical cords, drawing arcs in the air, meeting the bewildered eyes of the other three players in the iron cage.

Merlin is a top mage, Black Trojan Horse has top-tier electronic eyes, and Hassan is a ninjutsu expert, all can see the invisible spiritual bodies, and see them mouthing for help.

The next moment, the Flame Demon God stumbled from the kick, the sun-absorbing chicken landed steadily,

while Maxwell and the others’ spiritual bodies were retracted back into the sun-absorbing chicken’s crop by the spiritual umbilical cord.

"They..." The Black Trojan Horse hesitated.

"Are calling for our aid." Merlin nodded gravely.

"Aren’t the three of them minors?"

Hassan stood up, eyes sharp, saying, "Seeing your seniors, and not using honorifics, how impolite."

"..."

The Black Trojan Horse and Merlin both looked sideways, dude, the three of us being locked in an iron cage doesn’t exactly give us the right to talk about others.

And considering the situation, you’re still thinking about bullying?!