"!!!" Clovis widened his eyes. He couldn’t see the person behind the pillar, but he could guess.
Without hesitation, Clovis struck the sword swiftly, changing his stance a little bit. Once the sword was knocked down, Clovis saw the boss already in front of him.
In addition, Ivan emerged from the wall to hug him as if he wanted to blow up together. Unfortunately for Ivan, Clovis managed to react at the last second, elbowing his chest and breaking one of his ribs.
"Kah." Ivan fell to his knees while clutching his chest.
However, Ivan was just a distraction. The boss had reached Clovis, ready to punch him in the chest. If he could break a few ribs with this punch, he should be able to win even if Clovis joined hands with Jay.
But Jay obviously wouldn’t allow the same thing to happen twice. He tried to cut the boss’s hand. The latter should stop his punch and block Jay’s swing instead.
To everyone’s surprise, Clovis actually shouted, "Jay, pause!"
"!!!" Jay instinctively stopped his swing, recalling how he led his group to defeat because he didn’t follow Clovis’ order.
As a result, Clovis’ got punched in the chest. Jay gritted his teeth and slashed the boss’s arm. Since he didn’t stop the punch, there was no way the boss could avoid this slash.
"Aaaggh!" The boss endured the excruciating pain and stepped away. Clovis actually sacrificed himself so that Jay could cut his arm.
Little did he know there was one big reason why he dared to take that hit head-on. He was already a different person than him in the competition.
Clovis was pushed several meters back, but he managed to maintain his posture. It still hurt, but the punch didn’t break his ribs. He couldn’t help but smile, as if everything went according to plan. This was the power of Another World Mall.
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Clovis shouted without any change in his voice, as though he were telling Jay he was fine. "Jay. Cut him down!"
Jay’s eyes flashed as he swung his blade one more time, planning to split the boss into two. Still, the latter managed to put the knuckle in front of the blade, only allowing Jay to push him back for two meters.
Clovis and Jay immediately rushed to the enemy’s boss to capture him or kill him. This was the original plan either way. If they could use them as witnesses, the city’s atmosphere would return to normal after the terrorist attack.
But because they were too focused on the Tier 4 boss, they didn’t realize that Ivan had already hidden himself again. He was sneaking around the battlefield and reached a spot where he could see all the remaining people on the floor.
"Stop!" Ivan suddenly shouted while lifting up a switch. "Or I’m going to blow up this entire building!"
"!!!" The boss and Clovis abruptly stopped and turned their heads.
"A switch?" The boss frowned.
Clovis observed his reaction, realizing that he didn’t know anything about it.
"I have planted bombs inside this building." Ivan smirked.
"Idiots! Do you think we haven’t checked the floors we have gone to? There are no more bombs on the first seven floors." Rain snorted.
"You’re the one who is an idiot." Ivan snorted. "I planted it after you went up."
"Huh?" Rain glared at him. "You’re just bluffing. You are here by yourself."
"Wait a minute. At first, there are two groups approaching the building. The first group consists of several people, and the second group is only a person…"
"Yeah. You’ve been asking where the reinforcement is, right? That one person is the reinforcement. But it’s not the same reinforcement as what you have in mind. We’ve been buying enough time to plant bombs on the main pillars of this building."
"Main pillars? You bastard!" The boss looked shocked as he came to a realization. "You’re planning to make the entire building collapse!"
The boss was shocked. It turned out Ivan had been using them this whole time. This was the precise reason why he wanted them to make the base located in this tall building. They planned to bury all of them here to erase all evidence.
"!!!" Everyone couldn’t help but raise their eyebrows in shock.
It was true that if they jumped to the nearest rooftop, they might be able to survive. No, even if they jumped to the ground from the seventh floor, they might still be able to survive. However, if they fell here and got buried by all the rubble above them, they would definitely die.
That was Ivan’s plan.
"You…" Captain Han sucked a cold breath. "Don’t be reckless. Let’s negotiate. What do you want?!"
Clovis gritted his teeth as though he had started falling into despair. After becoming his enemy for so long, Clovis must know that Ivan never intended to negotiate.
When Ivan saw that face, he grinned widely. This was it. This was what he had been waiting for. He could finally see that kind of face on Clovis’ face.
"Negotiate, huh?" Ivan had a smug smile on his face. He glared at Clovis and asked, "Why don’t you start kneeling on the ground and begging for your life? Unlike all of you, I have nothing to lose anymore."
Clovis clenched his hands into fists. He looked unwilling, but when Ivan threatened him with the lives of all the people in this building, he seemed to have no other choice.
Clovis lowered his head as though he were about to kneel, but all of a sudden, Clovis suddenly leaped forward as if trying to cut Ivan down before he could blow up the building. Ivan would definitely be surprised by this sudden action, and Clovis’ speed was the fastest here.
But the moment he raised his hand, Ivan was already smiling. "I know you’ll act like this." His hand pressed the button.
Clack!
Boom!