Strongest Superhuman System

Chapter 235: Barrage

There were no weaknesses that it did not already account for!

POOFFFF!

Mark put his hand up to his face as he felt a massive amount of gas leaving all the pores on the centipede's body! The centipede poured out the gas from its body and used it as a fan to get rid of the dust and soot in the atmosphere, and by the time it was done, there was nothing around it anymore to prevent it from seeing exactly where Mark was!

But Mark was already on his way to the weak spot that he had seen, so he didn't bother stopping! Mark jumped up to the centipede's back and bolted straight for the third segment of the centipede's body. There was a red spot just below that segment that Mark had seen when his True Sight skill was active, and Mark knew that this segment was the weakest out of all the others.

If Mark could get a clean hit on this part of the body, then the centipede would lose a significant amount of strength!

"RARRRGHH!"

Mark pulled his fist back and yelled in exertion as he jumped into the air! His arm glowed from the massive amount of mana that poured into it, and when he got to the segment, he immediately unleashed a massive blow!

[Critical Hit]!!

Ka-Boom!!

The impact was so intense that it sent Mark flying back from the air pressure alone! Mark tumbled on the ground and rolled for a few meters before coming to a stop, and he immediately sat up and looked to see what sort of damage his attack had caused to the centipede. But Mark's joy was short-lived and his eyes widened in shock as he saw the centipede looking right at him!

There was no sign of damage on its body, and its many legs were scratching against the ground as the centipede prepared itself to grab a hold of Mark!

Mark chuckled low in distress as he slowly shuffled back.

"You've got to be fucking with me, right?"

ROARRRRRR!!

Mark realized at that moment that his critical hit did nothing but piss the centipede off!

Mark immediately bolted off the ground as the centipede dropped its entire body weight on top of where Mark had been sitting! The ground shook, and Mark was thrown across the clearing from the wind pressure as he couldn't get away quickly enough! He tumbled for a few hundred meters before he forced himself to get back to his feet! And he turned around!

"!"

But Mark was stunned when he saw the centipede right there once more. The centipede was not giving Mark any room for breathing as it tried to slam into him a second time! Mark narrowly dodged the hit again, but he could see his own stamina dropping like crazy as he tried to keep up with the centipede. Mark shouted out to the system.

"What is my current power output!?"

[Current Power Output: 80%]

"Why!?"

Mark was pissed immediately! Why the fuck was the system holding him back? But the system spoke up and explained what was happening.

[The power output is a result of the user's own subconscious mind releasing the amount of power it believes is necessary for defeating the opponent. The system has no control over the amount of power that the user releases, so the system cannot increase or decrease it.]

'So it's my fault!?"

Mark cursed angrily as he realized that he was holding himself back. Mark was not surprised about it though. Ever since Mark started to fight against Anima when he got back his system, Mark realized that he was getting too powerful. Mark was getting so strong that he was no longer seeing anything as a challenge.

All the Anima and superhumans that he faced off against were so weak that he was able to destroy them in barely any time at all.

Is that why his subconscious was holding back his power?

Mark loved the thrill of the fight. When he was fighting as the Vigilante Ghost. Every single battle was a fight with his life on the line so he had to bring out a hundred percent no matter what. But now that he had his system back, it felt like he was just gliding through life easily. Mark hated that on a deep subconscious level. He hated how easy it was to win fights.

'I need to use a hundred percent. If I don't use everything that I know for sure that I won't win against this monster.'

Mark dodged around another body slam from the centipede and he jumped far away to give himself some breathing room. Mark turned around to see how far away the centipede was and he was glad when he saw that the centipede was no longer chasing after him. It was now a fair distance away, and it was looking down at the ground while its body wiggled around in a weird dance.

"What the hell is it doing?"

"MARK! DON'T LET IT HIT YOU!!"

Mark suddenly heard a loud shout echo across the entire region, and he realized that it was Alec who had shouted! Mark wondered what Alec meant by that, but he didn't have to wonder for long as he saw the Anima open its mouth wide and shoot out a storm of sharp rocks!

Ratatatatatatata!

It was like a machine gun on steroids suddenly came to life from the anima's mouth, and the anima wasted no time as it peppered the region that Mark had been standing in with its stone bullets! Each bullet was as long as a car and as wide as a human body with sharp edges that embedded them into the ground!

Mark was barely able to get away from there by applying mana to his legs and flying back with all his force to prevent getting hit! The force of his movement was so intense that his shoes were shredded to bits, and he was left in nothing but his torn singlet and his trousers!

'Is that why it has been hitting the ground at this time? It wasn't trying to get me; it was swallowing rocks to gather ammunition!'

Mark was stunned by the ingenuity of the centipede. Is this really the gap between Eldritch and Calamity Class monsters? If it was a calamity that was trying to do something like that, Mark would have found out about it in a split second.

But the Eldritch was so strong, and Mark was so focused on not getting killed by any of those hits that he just didn't notice that there was an ulterior motive behind its movement!

Mark had to attack! Staying at a distance would only give the centipede more room to shoot those stone bullets at him! Mark had to get close to attack the centipede so that it wouldn't have enough room to counter!

Ratatatatatatatatatatata!