Chapter 128: Chapter 128: Progress of Both Sides

Translator: 549690339

Simultaneously as Cass battled with the two henchmen.

The scene shifted to the clown.

He was being held in the air by the neck with one hand by Togu.

Squeak, squeak! (Suffocating sound!)

The clown seemed to be about to die from the attack of molten lava heat.

However, what Togu caught was only a ‘Small Body Balloon’… which slowly deflated as the air leaked out.

The actual clown was floating right above, holding a red balloon.

Seizing this opportunity, he made a vertical descent.

He held a heavy hammer in both hands, aiming a full-powered strike at the top of Togu’s head.

Boom!

The ground cracked open.

The ground where Togu stood sank nearly half a meter deep.

This could be considered the clown’s full-powered hit in his current state.

Moreover, due to the immense shock, the hammer’s surface was completely broken.

Togu’s head was fully embedded within the broken hammer.

But…

Togu’s right arm swiftly reached out to grab the clown without any signs of injury.

The clown looked helpless at his sight, “Togu, you masochist, you’re too tough!”

The clown’s agility was quite impressive.

The moment the hand was reaching out for him, he made a three-and-a-half turn in the air by stepping on his clown shoe, thus increasing the distance.

During this, all kinds of projectiles were shot.

Poisonous throwing knife,

Clay bombs,

Fine needles,

Various metallic collision and explosion sounds echoed within the alley.

The clown on the ground swung his head from side to side helplessly.

“Ah… Is this interesting? None of this is hurting you.”

The dust cleared away.

Togu stood in place, unscathed.

The clown’s hammer had been completely melted.

Moreover, part of Togu’s body that had been hammered into the ground, causing molten lava patterns to scatter in all directions, transforming the alley into a hellish zone.

The situation started to heat up.

At this moment, from another end of the alley, Cass and the others emerged.

The clown wiped the sweat from his forehead and whispered, “These little guys are pretty tough, much more formidable than the previous teams that came to the town… Come on! If you take down Togu here, my grand plan can be successfully implemented.”

Squish, squish, squish (the sound of flesh expanding and bending)

The clown’s body was undergoing an unprecedented transformation.

Regarding the essence of [Clown – Pennywise].

Even Han Dong, who was the first to encounter the clown, couldn’t speculate.

The clown could pull out all kinds of tools from his body, grow four ghastly grasshopper legs from his waist, and when the left half of his body was heavily damaged, he could regenerate at a super-fast speed within a short time.

Now, he was demonstrating a new ability.

The clown kept stuffing red balloons into his mouth, causing his body to continuously inflate, turning into a fat clown.

His oversized body occupied almost half the street… he did this to increase his resistance to attacks.

After the successful inflation, the clown and Cass exchanged glances.

The fat clown and Cass launched their attack simultaneously, enclosing Togu on both sides.

At the same time, a large number of red balloons floated within the alley.

People like Cass could grab the string of the balloon with one hand for a quick airborne relocation, to prevent accidentally falling into the lava while evading.

Koslin, inside the three-story building, had already set up his sniper rifle, with a special ‘Holy Water Armor-Piercing Bullet’ loaded.

Some of the Seed Energy was consumed, a part of it belonged to the “Machinery” energy, which could be directly applied to any type of machinery for modification and strengthening.

For a moment, the barrel of Koslin’s sniper rifle extended further, and the air pressure inside increased even more.

Pulled the trigger!

Boom!

The recoil pushed Koslin, who was lying on the ground, back about ten centimeters.

Thanks to the steam arm armor, his shooting accuracy for a static target can reach 99.93%!

An armor-piercing bullet containing high concentration of Holy Water, hit the temple precisely, while Monk was being attacked from both sides.

Sparks flew…

The bullet flattened instantly when it came into contact with the skin.

Of course, the penetrating power of this kind of bullet is not to be trifled with.

The temple was pierced open, but inside it was blocked by layers of high-density purgatory iron chains… The bullet could not penetrate it, and even a single chain was hard to stir.

That was when the gunpowder inside the armor-piercing bullet ignited.

Boom!

The fierce explosion in the tiny space splattered high concentrations of Holy Water everywhere.

Clang! It could be seen with the naked eye that a small part of the iron chains slowly moving within the wound was corroded, but immediately, new chains replaced it.

The Holy Water was indeed effective, but it didn’t work as well as predicted.

However… being able to injure Monk Togu meant that there was a possibility of defeating him.

The purgatory battle was still ongoing.

The perspective shifted.

[Clown’s House – Secret Basement]

During Han Dong’s upgrading process of the Faceless Skull, the entire basement was affected… to be exact, it was contaminated.

The original neat and bright basement, with walls painted with various clown patterns.

It slowly became reminiscent of the ‘Portable Prison’ that Han Dong controlled.

Massive cracks appeared on the concrete wall and semi-solid tentacles emerged from the gaps, swaying bizarrely in the space.

The upgrade process of the “Faceless Skull” was unique.

The moment the upgrade started, and tentacles covered Han Dong’s skull, his consciousness was no longer here.

Instead, he found himself in a small harbour town named [Innsmouth].

The gloomy and dark sky,

The fishy smell pervasive at the dock,

It was a Western harbour town from the early 1990s, merged with a strange sea monster style.

Here,

Han Dong was fully immersed, forgetting everything about [The Return of the Clown (Surface Chapter)], forgetting Holy City – Nointana.

A literal memory replacement.

Here, he was a fisherman, he had no relatives, no friends, just a small wooden house on a pier area that was less than ten square meters.

He spent more than twelve hours fishing at sea every day.

Because the harbor area was disorderly, many dead marine animals were piled up here, including some giant octopuses, with an overwhelming fishy smell… but Han Dong had already grown accustomed to it.

Due to the tide and climate, the small wooden house where Han Dong lived was extremely damp all year round, but he didn’t mind at all.

He continued to live like this, without desires or demands.

Even when the water level in the small house reached half of the calf, Han Dong didn’t care, he didn’t repel seawater at all, and continued to live as usual.

Even when the seafood he caught began to grow small octopus tentacles on their scales, Han Dong didn’t mind, the cooked product had a unique taste mixed with fish and octopus.

Thirty years passed by.

Slowly, Han Dong discovered that he had grown gills and webbed feet,

Occasionally, small octopus tentacles would grow out of his beard as a substitute for stubble when he shaved,

He no longer had any qualms about stuffing raw fish into his mouth,

And found himself spending more time on the sea, so much so he didn’t want to head back home.

One day, Han Dong steered his fishing boat away from his usual fishing area and ventured into the deeper sea… In the dim glimmer, he seemed to see a giant octopus shadow beneath his little fishing boat.