Chapter 321: Battle to Seal Orochi, Frightened by the Game Clearance Animation (Bonus Chapter 15 for Average Subscriptions)

"Boss, you're using Chizuru?" Song Qingfeng's face was filled with astonishment. Previously, he had only ever seen Boss Fang use Kyo and Iori, and rarely saw him pick Chizuru.

At this moment, the first round had only just finished, and Fang Qi still had more than half of his health left, displaying an obviously advantageous situation.

"Eh? Chizuru Kagura?" The Nanhua Heavenly Maiden, Liu Ningyun, looked on with bewilderment. "Can this character really fight until the end?"

She possessed no long-range skills and her combos didn't seem like anything special. When they had chosen her previously, they had played for only a brief moment before abandoning her.

"Yo, playing King of Fighters?" Huangfu Tao, who was still eating instant noodles, simply brought over a stool. Without logging into a machine himself, he sat directly behind Fang Qi to watch.

It happened to be breakfast time, so even Mo Tianxing and the others stood behind him, eating their instant noodles while spectating.

"What is this?" Since they were idle anyway while eating their noodles, even the habitually cold Daoist Xichi looked over with a hint of curiosity.

Soon, a crowd of people gathered behind Fang Qi, both inside "My Space" and within the internet cafe.

Fang Qi's opponent at this moment was the Drunken Fist Master, Chin Gentsai. Initially, both sides fought with caution, but even with their second characters, they had already displayed immense power.

Yet in the next instant, Fang Qi utilized a crouch to evade the opponent's airborne light kick, and the opposing figure had already leapt behind him!

Immediately afterward, the opponent's back was struck by two of Fang Qi's light punches.

This scene might not have seemed like much in the eyes of others, but suddenly, light flashed from the hands of Fang Qi's Chizuru Kagura!

The Desperation Move, "Sanrai no Huzin"!

Chizuru Kagura on the screen transformed into countless afterimages with rotating palms. After the execution of the Desperation Move, the combo surprisingly remained unbroken, followed by an airborne light attack, a crouching light kick, and a light punch leading into a rising dragon!

With operations as smooth as flowing water, the character's fists and palms flew across the screen, the movements so fast they dazzled the eyes!

"...Holy crap! A straight twenty-seven hit combo?!" Seeing this scene, Song Qingfeng's eyes nearly popped out of his head.

"That is incredibly cool!" Lin Shao wished he could try his hand at it himself.

A single combo sequence stripped the health bar from full down to a sliver the size of a thumb.

The opponent was already stunned, and a small follow-up combo finished the match!

"You can even play like this?!"

The boss's execution was simply a feast for the eyes! The crowd watched while eating their instant noodles, finding it thoroughly exhilarating.

"If you strike from behind, a twenty-seven hit combo is quite normal," Boss Fang explained casually at that moment. "However, the opportunities are too rare. If the opportunity is right, a twenty-eight hit combo is no problem."

"...That powerful?"

"Why wasn't I this amazing when I played..." Liu Ningyun stood dazed. One had to know that when she played, let alone a twenty-eight hit combo, she couldn't even escape Boss Fang's "IQ Card" tornado, which was a miserable experience!

Soon, Boss Fang's Chizuru Kagura achieved another three-character sweep!

After a period of time.

Everyone saw that the images on the screen had changed. It was no longer the arena of the King of Fighters tournament, but a massive sacrificial altar!

The surrounding atmosphere grew extremely heavy as purple light soared into the sky, a sight none of them had ever witnessed before!

There was only a single opponent. When the order of appearance was chosen, they saw that the adversary was merely a black silhouette, as if hidden within the darkness of the abyss.

"What is going on?" Ruan Ning and the others could not help but wonder.

"This is getting more and more interesting." Ning Bi crossed her arms over her full bosom, staring at the screen with great interest. "Such a scene has never appeared before."

The spectators eating instant noodles behind him also assumed grave expressions. Even across two screens, they could feel an extremely oppressive aura rushing at their faces.

When the eyes of Orochi Chris in the New Faces Team revealed snake-like pupils, thunder crashed and lightning flashed across the screen. Within the thunderous light, a towering figure appeared, his white short hair flying wild, with a circular emblem branded on his chest that radiated outward like ten thousand beams of sunlight.

The entire person floated in midair, seemingly disregarding the laws of heaven and earth.

The light shimmering across his body resembled the radiance of a god!

"Orochi?!"

"This is Orochi?!"

The system version of King of Fighters was clearly more realistic, allowing people to feel the impact of this moment even more intensely!

A chorus of gasps had already erupted from behind.

Almost at the very instant they spoke, the figure of Orochi before their eyes flashed and vanished!

In the next split second, he appeared behind Fang Qi's Kyo Kusanagi!

"Teleportation?!"

Furthermore, it was a teleportation without any warning, unlike mages who required casting time.

Then they saw Orochi release a dark projectile into the back of Fang Qi's Kyo Kusanagi, striking the center of his back squarely. Orochi's hands crossed above his head like spreading wings!

Countless beams of light cascaded downward, filling the heavens and the earth with nowhere to hide, turning the entire screen into a wash of pale white.

With a mere two moves, everyone saw Fang Qi's Kyo Kusanagi lose health instantly until only a tiny fraction remained, just as if he had been hit by Chizuru's twenty-eight hit combo from before!

Huangfu Tao and the others, who were watching while eating, suddenly froze with noodles in their mouths, forgetting to swallow!

The moment Fang Qi's Kyo Kusanagi stood up, without any visible movement from Orochi, a thought manifested, and a brilliant pillar of spiritual energy erupted from the ground into the sky.

Kyo Kusanagi was instantly killed!

"So strong!" Song Qingfeng's mouth hung open, completely forgetting to close it.

From his appearance until now, he had used only three moves to secure an instant kill!

"I didn't play well, I didn't play well!" Boss Fang stretched his hands and took a deep breath, evidently dazed by this direct sequence as well.

He quickly switched to Iori. This time, Fang Qi was much more cautious. The instant the opponent vanished, he executed a predictive backward roll, evading behind Orochi almost at the exact moment Orochi materialized behind him.

A light punch connected into Scum Dipper, followed by a heavy punch into the three-form Hollyhock combo, dropping Orochi's health below two-thirds!

"This predictive wave was awesome!"

"6666!"

"Too precise!"

The spectating crowd had already begun to cheer.

As Orochi hit the ground, Fang Qi quickly closed the distance. Almost at the identical moment the opponent rose and raised his hand to release a dark projectile, Fang Qi subconsciously flashed forward again, perfectly evading the dark projectile.

Fang Qi remained extremely calm, the division of labor between his left and right hands exceptionally clear and without a hint of chaos, unleashing another combo sequence within the flash of fire and flint.

Orochi was likewise capable of combos, utilizing them even more fluidly than Fang Qi, subsequently seizing a gap to execute a light punch rising dragon followed by the Blazing Sun.

Watching the dazzling array of moves on the screen one after another, the crowd was at a loss for words, discovering for the first time that a mini-game within "My Space" could be this magnificent!

With his remaining Chizuru, Fang Qi used almost his last sliver of health to clear the stage in a hair-raising manner. Just when everyone thought it was over, no one expected the subsequent scenes...

Orochi was naturally not so easily slain, and now was the true sealing of Orochi by the Three Sacred Treasures!

The resurrected Orochi descended upon the earth in a divine posture. In the ending animation, freed from the constraints of the in-game moves, his immense power was demonstrated even more thoroughly.

Accompanied by boundless wild winds and thunder, he suspended himself in midair like a deity, effortlessly triggering the Orochi blood within Iori's body, controlling Iori's physical form to attack Kyo and Chizuru.

A terrifying power swept across the entire world!

(Players who have experienced the game should know that Orochi Iori can be selected in 97, and this is the origin of Orochi Iori.)

"..." The spectating crowd could no longer be described as shocked; they were utterly terrified!

Even through the screen, they could sense the immensity of that power, and one had to remember that items unlocked through the game could be purchased and learned.

Which meant this was no illusion!

And in that moment, they beheld Iori Yagami, his eyes crimson with blood, a frantic struggle thrashing within his madness; no one could control him, not even a godlike entity such as Orochi, for the rampaging Iori, summoning the final shred of his sanity, unexpectedly turned and struck at Orochi, catching everyone entirely unawares.

His fierce, powerful claws actually choked Orochi by the throat as terrifying purple flames erupted toward the heavens, in that single instant piercing straight into the sky and tearing a rift clean through the dense, dark clouds!

This was Iori Yagami's ultimate technique, one that had never appeared in '97: the Baptism of the Dream Moon.

"Boss..." Song Qingfeng's voice trembled slightly, "Can we learn this!!??"

It had felt like nothing more than a game before, but seeing it unleashed in reality, it suddenly dawned on them—how the hell could martial arts be this powerful?!

Song Qingfeng and the others were shaking all over, consumed by sheer excitement.

Meanwhile, on the other side, crimson blazes ignited, the terrifying scarlet fire nearly reducing everything in its vicinity to ashes.

"Is this the True Final Secret Ultimate Technique: 'The Formless'?!" Song Qingfeng and the others cried out, nearly losing their voices.

Now this, they truly could learn.

Within a colossal pillar of fire, a silhouette cloaked in blazing embers transformed into a streak of red light, leaving a dense trail of afterimages in its wake due to the sheer, blinding speed.

A heavy punch crashed forward!

The entire world, between heaven and earth, dissolved into a sea of crimson!

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