The genes carried more humanity...
This granted Pouf higher intelligence, but it also made him more susceptible to emotional influence.
However-
In order to make Pouf a prisoner of his emotions, one had to first break through the barrier constructed by his racial strength.
If Morel, Kanzai and the others were to fight against Pouf...
They likely wouldn't be able to shatter that barrier.
The probable outcome would be Pouf maintaining his composed and elegant demeanor throughout the battle, toying with Morel, Kanzai and the others with his intellect before killing them in a leisurely manner.
But Moses was different.
The overwhelming strength he displayed in an instant directly shattered that barrier.
And thus, Pouf now stood with bloodshot eyes and a twisted, furious expression.
As for whether Pouf was truly narcissistic...
Moses couldn't say for sure.
But regarding the claim that Pouf was the weakest of the three Royal Guards, Moses had already reached that conclusion after their exchange.
Compared to the other two Royal Guards, Pouf's performance in battle is indeed not as good as the other two.
But that doesn't mean that Pouf's Manifested Aura and physical strength are not high enough...
In the original work, Pouf had also taken a hit from the King, but the injuries he suffered were similar to those of Pitou's.
This is enough to prove that Pouf's Manifested Aura and physical strength meet the standards of a Royal Guard.
The problem lay in-
Ability type!
Moses judged Pouf's combat performance as lacking not based on his Manifested Aura or physical strength, but Pouf does not have the kind of oppressive feeling that Youpi and Pitou exuded in battle.
Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say...
The ability developed by Pouf not only failed to further exert the natural advantages of a Royal Guard, but because of the characteristics of the dividing cells, his threat level dropped significantly.
The fact that Moses used shadow spikes to pierce through Pouf's many clones was the solid evidence.
The shadow of the Soul Echo can only exert 100% of its strength in 'human form'.
This is an unavoidable limitation.
Meanwhile, Pouf's Beelzebub allowed him to split into countless clones, but the more he divided, the weaker each individual clone became.
Therefore, even if Moses's shadow mimicry is restricted by the fact that it cannot exert 100% strength without human form, it can still easily eliminate Pouf's clones.
This was precisely why Moses had used the shadow spikes, a move that was actually quite flashy and lacked direct lethality, for the first time in battle.
From this, it can be seen that even if a move or ability is not outstanding enough, as long as it is used in the right place, it will naturally play the corresponding value.
And from the results, Moses's ability restrained Pouf's to a certain extent.
As for the hypnotic scale powder that Pouf used just now, which is a Manipulation-Type ability with sleep-inducing effects...
Moses can simply rely on the mental resistance of [Star of Mankind's Shine] to nullify the hypnosis, which is why he was able to cut off Pouf's hand with that earlier slash.
After several exchanges, Moses could already foresee the general trajectory of this battle.
For him, dealing with an opponent like Pouf wasn't particularly difficult, but it is not easy to kill him either.
'No tendril was implanted...'
Holding the sword in front of him, Moses glanced at the severed wrist of Pouf inconspicuously, but did not see any trace of black tendril.
'Is it because this guy is also a clone? Or is it because his body-restructuring ability can prevent the tendril's invasion?'
Some thoughts flashed through his mind, and Moses couldn't immediately determine the answer.
A cloning ability that allowed for cellular division and restructuring might weaken individual combat strength, but it can also significantly improve the fault tolerance rate.
However, compared to the issue of tendril implantation, what he should do now is to make Pouf unable to split his attention, so as to ensure an undisturbed battlefield for Netero.
Then, before Netero and the King settled their fight, Moses needed to kill the two Royal Guards, Youpi and Pouf, as quickly as possible.
As the thought turned to his mind, a red light flashed in Moses's eyes, and he suddenly stomped the ground and charged at Pouf, launching another attack.
At this moment, Pouf was consumed by rage. Seeing Moses charging at him directly, he controlled the cells at the fastest speed to reconstruct his severed hand.
It is difficult to say whether this ability can be classified as regeneration.
What is certain is that while Pouf is could regenerate his severed hand by restructuring his cells, he will inevitably consume his cell count limit, which will affect the overall strength of his body and even his Manifested Aura.
After his palms were fully reformed, Pouf fluttered his wings and swiftly ascended into the air, while continuing to use the wind to scatter a lot of hypnotic scale powder.
He needed to figure out why Moses remained unaffected despite inhaling the powder.
And even if the second attempt failed, he can still read Moses's mental information by spreading the scale powder, and then formulate strategies based on this mental information.
When Moses looked at Pouf rising into the air to avoid the battle, and the scales and powder flashing with mottled spots of light flying all over the sky, he suddenly stopped.
He neither pursued recklessly, nor he allowed himself to be engulfed by the scales.
Although the mental resistance of [Star of Mankind's Shine] granted him resistance to the hypnosis, Moses knows that in addition to hypnosis, these scale powders also have the ability to read mental information.
Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, he wouldn't give Pouf the satisfaction.
The reason why Pouf succeeded just now was just to create an opportunity for attack.
Unfortunately, the tendrils could not be implanted.
And it would be difficult for Pouf to fall into the same trick again.
'Then, it was time to rely on sheer combat prowess…'
Moses looked up at the Pouf flying into the air. He crossed his left arm horizontally in front of him, then rested the back of his black sword against his forearm, and assumed a stance like a loaded crossbow.
Immediately afterwards, Moses mobilized a large amount of Aura and concentrated it on the black sword, as if he was about to launch an attack in the next moment.
When Pouf, who is in the air, saw Moses below not only avoiding the scale powder, but also taking a stance to only attack from a distance, he couldn't help but be on guard.
He had seen many of Moses's abilities and understood that even if he could dodge Moses's black sword attack, he still had to be on guard against Moses's use of teleportation to connect the attack.
Just as Pouf focused his attention on Moses's powerful black sword, a shadow flew up from the ground behind Pouf and went straight to his back without anyone noticing.
It was the same shadow Moses had initially wrapped around his sword.
When Moses exchanged positions with this shadow and continued to attack Pouf, he did not retract the shadow after exchanging positions.
Instead, through dual manipulation, he'd stealthily guided it to behind Pouf.
At that time, Pouf's attention had been entirely on Moses's shadow spikes and Moses's subsequent attacks...
At the same time, because all the clones were gathered in one place, his field of vision was greatly reduced, so how could he detect Moses's dual operations?