Conditions

The blue ball of light was made up of tiny electric arcs, but it strangely emitted an inexplicable blue light! It was so fast that it gave Translucent no time to dodge, and he was hit right on the body.

Hughie was shocked by Translucent's shout. He didn't expect that a Supe of the Seven would come here. Hughie reflexively pressed the bomb detonator in his hand.

Bang!!

Translucent didn't have the time to react as the bomb exploded inside him. Coincidentally, the blue ball of light just happened to hit him as well.

Poof!!

A strange sound echoed. If someone slowed down time, they would see that Translucent's entire body was destroyed by the bomb in his body, his skin slowly breaking apart like a dried-up river bed.

The blue ball of light concurrently exploded into countless arcs of blue energy, instantly wrapping around Translucent's breaking body.

The blue lightning flashed and jumped around Translucent's body. It was like countless man-eating bugs that devoured Translucent, down to his skin and bone. It then suddenly shrank into a ball, compressing smaller and smaller until it disappeared!

The process felt like forever, but it actually took mere eight or nine minutes.

Everyone in the room except Li Yue was stunned by the bizarre sight. A living person was swallowed by a blue ball of light the size of a ping-pong ball that Li Yue casually flung. Not even dust was left.

"If that ball had been directed at me..."

They couldn't help but think that in their heart, but they didn't dare to finish that sentence. The answer was obvious: none of them could defend against it!

"This... What... What's going on?"

Hughie stuttered out of fear.

Billy and Frenchie were a bit better at maintaining their composure, but they also stared at Li Yue, waiting for his explanation!

"It's nothing, just a small trick," Li Yue said with a soft voice and a smile as if he had nothing to do with the terrifying scene.

The small ball of energy was similar to the one that Li Yue made in front of Thor while they were in Odin's vault. Only this time, Li Yue tried adding some blue energy from the sea of his soul.

The effect was alright. The explosion range was not as large as a ball made purely from lightning, but it could erase a person without leaving any evidence. It was a very practical skill.

"Now then, I helped you solve your problem. I guarantee that Translucent's corpse would never be found, and they would never connect his disappearance to you. But I hope you could provide an equivalent exchange to me!" Li Yue continued.

His tone of voice had not changed at all. It was as if he hadn't just murdered Translucent! Although, technically, it was Hughie who killed Translucent. Li Yue only helped them hide the corpse!

"Just say the word, we'll do anything that we can!"

Billy immediately replied to Li Yue!

"It's not a big deal. I know that you held hostility against the Seven, and I won't stop you from taking revenge. I just have one condition: leave Homelander alone for the next month and a half.

"Of course, you can collect evidence on the other members of the Seven, but you can't let others notice. Can you do it?" Li Yue said to Billy.

He knew that Billy was the head honcho here. As long as Billy agreed, the others wouldn't object!

"What do you mean conditions? Why a month and a half specifically, not a month or two? What's the difference?"

Billy didn't immediately agree to Li Yue's terms and instead asked in a curious tone.

"You don't need to know this. Do you agree or not?"

Li Yue's tone became a bit cold. There's no way that he would tell them that he planned to evolve his own power slowly and calmly by staying on Homelander's side.

To be honest, Li Yue wasn't a fan of Billy. According to the show, Billy was the kind of person who would do anything to achieve his goal. He had even betrayed his friends several times.

Even when his friend was caught, the only thing on his mind was avenging his wife, whom he didn't even know if she was still alive, at the cost of his friends' life! Being friends with him was enough bad luck for eight lifetimes!

However, Li Yue was too lazy to care about these messed up things. As long as they agreed to his conditions, he would also do the same to them!

"Okay, we agree with your conditions!"

Did Billy have any other choice? Of course not, Billy knew very well in his heart that if he disagreed, he would not be able to get out of there in one piece. His only option was to agree to Li Yue's conditions!

"I hope you can abide by the agreement. You know very well the consequences if you don't!" Li Yue said with a threatening tone.

Li Yue summoned a blue ball in his right hand and played around with it!

Billy and the others took a step back. They didn't even dare to look at the glowing blue ball. Translucent's horrifying fate was still fresh in their mind! There wasn't enough word to describe his terrifying death.

"Goodbye, everyone!" Li Yue left the room after he finished speaking. He still had to wait for Homelander to come back! And he still played with the blue ball in his hand on his way out!

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"Phew... Who the hell is he? How could you find such a terrifying person!"

Hughie couldn't help but breathe out a heavy sigh of relief when Li Yue finally left their line of sight. Li Yue's presence just now was too great. He didn't even dare to breathe loudly, out of fear that Li Yue would throw the blue ball at him in annoyance!

"He's Thunderclap, the Seven's newbies. He took over Lamplighter's seat. I have no idea how he knew us so well. He didn't know just our names, he even knew we locked Translucent here!

"What we do know, however, was the fact that he wasn't outright hostile to us. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to survive the day!"

Billy might not show it as much as Hughie did, but he was also frightened by the ball in Li Yue's hand. Billy wasn't a coward: it's just that nobody could be absolutely calm when facing certain death! Not Hughie, not Billy, and not even Li Yue!

"We just have to comply with his conditions, right?" Frenchie added!

"Of course. He's an ally. It's just a month and a half, we can afford to wait that long.

"And didn't he say that we can use this time to find dirt on the other members? We already knew that our next target was Popclaw!" Billy said!

"Can I quit?" Hughie asked weakly.

Hughie was scared shitless! He still had his father in his family. His own death didn't matter, but he wouldn't be able to forgive himself if his father comes into harm!