The Advance Ad Infinitum, for the first time after gaining 50% Proficiency, pushed all its processing power to modify Kai's body using Biokinesis.
"If you go back to the Book on your own," the Demon King warned the Characters surrounding him, "then I will discard your Tale."
It didn't even matter if that was possible.
If Kai said it, then he would do it, no matter how.
A chill ran down Petyr, Cersei, Rintaro, and Orochimaru's spines, the legendary Sannin hearing Kai's words using the Summoned Reincarnation, Grindelwald.
And, they knew, their master meant every letter of those words.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Petyr let out a titanic, raging shout, booming out of existence.
A hint of shadowy, lightning bolts rumbled around Cersei as she became an icy wraith, disappearing.
The ten Grindelwalds cracked out of sight, too. Regardless of the Mach's number, they were the fastest here; only held back by their reaction speed.
Within the Jaeger, hundreds of hundreds of tiny bots got scattered, repairing the Striker Eureka. Simultaneously, the gigantic robot began letting out a bluish, magical glow, its missile launchers pulsating with something ethereal.
Striker Eureka - Mana Tech!
Inside the Jaeger, Rintaro hurriedly pressed a fist-sized, round red switch. On its surface, there was a design of flowing wind.
Thumm!
Thummmm!
Thummmmmm!!
Three magical pulses echoed throughout the destroyed Cursed Vault of Ice, lightening Jaeger's effective weight with each pulse.
Striker Eureka was meant to fight large targets, like Kaijus.
However, with the sheer number of Kai's enemies, and given their versatility, such an Item wasn't feasible to his fighting style.
It was then the Mad Scientist suggested using the Mana Engineering he and Kai had developed during their over 1000 years of stay on Island X while going through the 3rd Stage of the Tournament of Worth.
And the very first thing Hououin Kyouma had suggested was to tackle the greatest weakness of Jaeger's.
A hissing boom widened the crater, cracking the compressed ice, beneath the blue robot.
Then it blurred out of sight, making even Black Ghost stop licking the lollipop.
In the sky, five Cyborgs stalled the time around the Supreme.
Every inch of Kai's muscles squirmed, his demonic eyes letting out a purple glow. Then they all vanished as if none of them had ever existed in the world, to begin with.
The purple winds wreaking havoc within the Bounded Field had all but gone.
However, one could see the barest hint of a red-purple glint, getting chased by red-yellow trails.
Kai dodged the attacks coming at him from all sides. Fists and Kicks and Slams… at their speed, a casual touch was enough to obliterate flesh, blood, and bones.
Boom!
Bang-Squath!!
Shatterrrrrrrrrr!!!
Nothing intact remained in the icy world now as the Contestants and Characters tore through everything.
One could even see tiny scars running down the sky as it was a defective, black-shelled egg.
Suddenly, Kai's eyes stirred.
The five 009s attacking him, at the speed of Mach 2, paused as if the space itself had grabbed them. Out of nowhere, yellow crystals bobbed up and down in their eyes.
"Explode…" Kai mumbled under his breath.
It was like the popping of a soap bubble.
But the sound within the Cyborgs' heads was nothing less than a star going supernova.
Boooooooooo...…
The 009s didn't even get the chance to hear the end of this explosion.
Knowledge after knowledge, from the most ridiculous mysteries to eldritch entities' greatest secrets, poured out and bombarded their consciousness.
Their eyes lost sight. Their ears began bleeding, losing hearing. Their minds lost all reasoning.
Murasame traced a circular path, surrounded by Kai's palpating Reiatsu, and hacked off Cyborgs' heads, vanquishing them on the spot.
In the distance, Black Ghost frowned, taking the lollipop out of his mouth.
"What did you do?" he asked, narrowing his eyes. "Well… it doesn't matter now, does it?"
65% strength —
Five Cyborg 009s appeared around him as he used Summoning and Multi-Shadow Clone Jutsu. Then, they just melted into the space.
— Mach 3!
…
Three times the speed of the sound.
It wasn't just a number. Or a feeling. There was something truly primal about the moments this number covered. Not to mention, it was instantaneous.
The start was instantaneous.
The crossing of space was instantaneous.
The attacks coming at Kai from five directions were instantaneous.
There was no point in denying it, now. Kai was fast. Not that fast. Even after the monstrous buff given by Kaiju Blood Essence, he just couldn't cover the gap between his Agility and Cyborg 009s innate ability.
However, there was one more thing that was instantaneous.
Lucky Intuition!
Glitch — Wobbuffet!
Kai's demonic, red body pulsed out an orange glow.
At that very exact moment, five attacks landed on him from five directions at the speed of Mach 3.
Five Cyborgs burst into a mass of smoke, an icy wind carrying their ashes away.
Black Ghost's eyes widened.
Skill — Counter!!
…
[
Skill: Counter
Grade: C-
Specification: Counters all Physical Attacks
Note: Physical Attacks are those which will purely affect Contestant's HP
Requirement:
— Mana Consumption: 100 MP
— Health Consumption: 20 SP
Attributes: Covers Contestant's body in an orange hue
Effect: Reflect
— Reflect all Physical Attacks below Contestant's maximum HP limit
— All Damage above Contestant's HP limit will land as it is
— Double the Reflected Physical Attack's Damage
Warning: If the Reflected Physical Attack's Damage is above two times Contestant's maximum HP, then doubling its value will result in failure
]
…
Cersei stuffed the handgun's nozzle in the last 009's mouth and fired.
She huffed and puffed as the white smoke brushed against her bleeding figure.
The Mach 2 Cyborgs were just too fast for her. Her shadow armor granted her much strength, agility, and stamina, but it had its limits. Now, the armor itself was torn at places, thin trails of shadowy smoke rising off it.
Suddenly, her vision went black.
Huh?!
Cersei's entire figure shuddered.
It was like the world itself had blinked at her.
And then she heard it. An explosion like never before. It quaked every fiber of her muscles, the entire shadow armor slipping off her.
Her eyes landed where she had perceived Kai.
Her wrath exploded.
"AHHHHH!"
…
At the same moment,
Petyr slithered between the last two Cyborgs, cutting them off.
His bronze armor was almost non-existent. Only an ancient glow surrounded him now, his eyes glowing hazel and red, shifting colors now and then.
Suddenly, his vision went black.
Hmm?!
Kai's phantom under the effect of Titan's Buff was still behind him. Brokenly, Petyr looked over his shoulder and stared at the phantom.
What he saw, left him rooted to his spot as if someone had petrified him in that instant.
…
At the same moment,
The Jaeger had been blurring in and out of sight throughout the Cursed Vault of Ice.
A massive blade, glowing hot, hacked, falling from the sky and shattered the last Cyborg.
Then, skidding hundreds of meters, it came to a stop. Striker Eureka had lost its left hand, and half of its missile launchers were ruined.
Yet, when the world blinked, its sensors acutely picked up the image.
Within its cabin, Rintaro's face went pale.
…
A moment before,
The 10 Grindelwalds appeared around the 12th-floor Contestant. They were all invisible.
Curses left their wands simultaneously, silently.
Then they broke.
A rain of flaky papers occurred around the shattered, icy peak where the black-haired man stood. In his left hand, tightly gripped between his fingers, was Orochimaru.
He dug his fingers into the legendary Sannin's throat as he saw the inexplicable sight of his Summons and Clones hitting the demon and then vanishing right away.
Crack!
The lollipop cracked under Black Ghost's molars.
"Astonishing…" he mumbled. "No wonder you became the Supreme… Well… Let it end here, then."
Kai's eyes narrowed.
Before he could even have an intuition, his vision went black, and —
Boommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!
— he ceased to exist.
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