Chapter 345: High-Tier Immortality
"Mercenary Tao's perception range is extremely large, visually estimated to exceed 5 kilometers. The bait site has been destroyed."
"Mercenary Tao's regeneration ability and source of immortality exclude negative energy creatures like Vampire Species and Demon Species. Holy magic has produced no effect..."
"That's all. Good luck, Boss Millennium Bug..."
Squelch!
A sound like a watermelon exploding appeared. [Millennium Bug]'s expression grew colder. Sitting on a white clay bird, his flight speed wasn't slow, but his two teammates were too far away. It would take him dozens of seconds to arrive.
[Team member YT10337043 (Cub) has died.]
Millennium Bug immediately turned around and flew in the other direction.
Analyzing the information sent back by [Wildfire] before his death, the members of [Blackwater] concluded that Mercenary Tao must possess some powerful perception ability. At least Wildfire, who fired from three kilometers away, had his position locked instantly.
Therefore, in this operation, [Cub], responsible for support, and [Ghost Wolf], responsible for mobility, placed a decoy item at the three-kilometer mark while hiding their true bodies even further away.
But currently, it seemed they were still found by Mercenary Tao.
Ghost Wolf, surrounded by purple-black mist, also saw the message of Cub's death. His mind was stern, but not overly sad. He just calmly pondered the intelligence sent back by his teammate before death.
All Reincarnators within [Blackwater] shared a consensus: they would constantly send back information about the opponent during battle. This way, even if they died, the team could obtain intelligence, analyze it, and target the enemy, allowing other members to avenge them.
Ghost Wolf stood in this desolate clearing. The withered grass was very tall, almost reaching his waist. Precisely because of this, he clearly saw an unusually strong wind blowing from the distance.
"Mercenary Tao is suspected to possess the ability to manipulate wind."
"Ghost Wolf, retreat first. Mercenary Tao can't kill me."
Millennium Bug gave the order. Ghost Wolf already saw his captain flying towards him in the air. His face and hands were completely enveloped by purple-black mist.
Although he generally served as team logistics, this superpower was actually quite powerful—a rare Space Teleportation-type superpower. Even though he didn't like that work, he had to say he was lucky to hunt a plot character in that world and obtain the superpower he wanted.
"Relax, Captain. I'll collect a bit more information for you before leaving."
The purple-black mist generated from his body possessed the nature of a different dimension, capable of completely teleporting whatever the mist enveloped to a location in his memory.
This ability integrated offense and defense. It was a type that would definitely become considerably strong as long as resources were continuously invested for advancement.
With Ghost Wolf's current ability, he could teleport to coordinates within 100 kilometers. Millennium Bug could appear silently near Mercenary Tao's small building because Ghost Wolf had scouted the location in advance and obtained the coordinates.
If not for his weak combat ability, today's operation should have involved him teleporting Mercenary Tao to the ambush site for the kill.
Buzz~
As if stepping out from the wind, the violently swirling surrounding air gradually calmed down. Mercenary Tao appeared less than ten meters in front of Ghost Wolf. Ghost Wolf confirmed the intelligence in his heart, and the mist immediately enveloped him completely.
"Captain, Mercenary Tao's ability isn't manipulating wind, it's turning into wind!"
"I'll leave the rest to you."
The black mist was dense. The space inside began to rotate, and coordinates began to distort.
Ghost Wolf saw Mercenary Tao just standing in the distance watching him quietly. Was it because he saw through the origin of his ability and didn't want to risk being teleported?
Ghost Wolf felt his body beginning to distort, relaxing slightly. Although this teleportation ability could grant immunity to most attacks, it still had some weaknesses.
Before the teleportation was fully completed, there would be localized areas of his body not covered by the black mist.
Suddenly, Ghost Wolf felt a terrifying aura erupt from Mercenary Tao's body. Like a hurricane passing through, it swept over his body in an instant.
The world seemed to turn black in his eyes. The intense spirit made his mind go blank for an instant.
This was... Conqueror's Haki?!
In the next moment, golden ripples mixed with purple-black killing intent wrapped around a nukite (spear hand) with bulging muscles, stabbing fiercely from outside the black mist.
Crack~ Squelch!
The shield on his body shattered instantly. Then, a terrifying force pierced into his neck. That chill and severe pain made Ghost Wolf sober up instantly.
He looked at Mercenary Tao, whose left hand was completely submerged in his neck. His face distorted instantly. His trachea and throat had been crushed, and his neck was almost completely torn apart.
Am I dying?
I'm dying! At least, I will take this hand with me!
Ghost Wolf opened his mouth to roar. Blood plasma sprayed out in the black mist. The black mist contracted instantly. Space completely collapsed onto a void coordinate and completed the teleportation.
Boom!
The terrifying potential energy of the spatial collapse collided with Kaito's left hand, erupting in an unimaginable shockwave.
Kaito drifted backward instantly. Millennium Bug, flying at high speed from the air, leaped off the clay bird. The bird smashed towards Kaito instantly and exploded轰然.
[Team member GL14775421 (Ghost Wolf) has died.]
Millennium Bug landed on the ground, his hands trembling slightly. Looking back, he indeed saw Mercenary Tao appearing from the explosion, wounds on his body healing rapidly.
The power of his Explosion Release was enough to shatter the opponent's body surface defense, but couldn't kill him.
Moreover... Millennium Bug looked at Mercenary Tao's left hand. That left hand was indeed special. Even Ghost Wolf's teleportation ability couldn't sever it. That arm... was very dangerous.
Kaito looked at Millennium Bug, whose expression remained calm while analyzing his abilities internally. Light flashed in his hand, two Crimson Drop Cards appeared, and the smile on his face became increasingly distorted.
"The reason they died is probably all because they followed a weak captain."
Kaito found himself beginning to understand why villains in many works liked to talk a lot of 'trash talk' before fighting. Because he discovered that when facing a beast disguising itself as a nice guy with rules and rationality, it was hard to resist... wanting to tear open the opponent's chains bit by bit and see what that beast really looked like.
Millennium Bug was stunned, then looked at Kaito with eyes like looking at a dead man.
His two smaller mouths opened again.
"Kneel!"
Compared to extreme Cursed Speech like [Die], the consumption and cost of interference-type Cursed Speech like [Stop] or [Still] were much lower.
As soon as the Cursed Speech came out, Millennium Bug's figure disappeared instantly. He naturally knew high-speed movement like the Body Flicker Technique. Millennium Bug spread his hands. White clay, like unformed gel, was spat out from the mouths in his palms.
Millennium Bug moved quickly around Mercenary Tao, preparing to completely cover him with a large amount of explosive clay, then detonate it to kill him.
Even though Mercenary Tao displayed characteristics of immortality, [Immortality] wasn't absolutely invincible. Most types of Immortality required consuming something to complete resurrection.
As long as he could kill him enough times, low-to-mid-tier immortality could absolutely be broken!
He didn't believe Mercenary Tao could compare to him in this aspect.
Whoosh!
Purple Satsui no Hado ignited like flames. Millennium Bug was impacted by that wave in the face. His facial skin felt as if pierced by countless needles—the severe pain from large-area cell necrosis nerves.
Amidst his trembling pupils, he realized Mercenary Tao hadn't knelt at all. He just made a downward crouching motion. Millennium Bug's eyes moved, noticing blood flowing from Mercenary Tao's ears.
This guy... pierced his own eardrums the moment I activated [Cursed Speech]?!
Through this self-harming act, he prevented himself from receiving the influence of the [Cursed Speech]...
Millennium Bug's eyes moved, seeing the corners of Mercenary Tao's mouth grin. His left hand formed a knife-hand. Purple-black Satsui no Hado, like a fan surface, instantly slashed at his neck.
Squelch!
Blood shot up to the sky. The head rolled a few times, finally stopping in Mercenary Tao's hand.
Kaito held Millennium Bug's head, looking at the opponent's unclosed eyes, his tone mocking.
"See, I told you you were weak..."
Then he turned abruptly. His right arm instantly became unusually thick. borrowing the momentum of the turn, he threw that head directly towards the colorful sky in the extreme distance—the Spirit World Erosion Zone.
Boom!
Because the throwing force was too great, this head moved with terrifying momentum like a missile launch. It tore through the air with a roar轰然, dragging a white airflow tail, and disappeared directly from Kaito's vision.
[Ajin] was a very special bloodline ability possessing abnormally high [Immortality]. Purely from the perspective of flesh and blood immortality, an Ajin's survival ability was even higher than Majin Buu's cellular-level resurrection, naturally far surpassing the flesh tissue resurrection of Muzan and the current Kaito.
Ajin was a special bloodline that would resurrect regardless of how the body was destroyed. In terms of survival ability alone, it approached the top-tier bloodlines.
But this ability approaching true immortality also had weaknesses. An Ajin's resurrection was close to a concept-level regeneration.
That is, an Ajin's body tissue was actually closer to a special information state. Usually indistinguishable from ordinary human flesh and blood, but after death, the Ajin would have their body information 'read' again and the body regenerated.
Every resurrection would center on the largest piece of body tissue. This resurrection would first recover the lost flesh and tissues in the body, completing the process from decomposition to recombination. If part of the body was too far from the largest body tissue, the Ajin would regenerate a new corresponding tissue.
This special resurrection mechanism spawned a new problem. Just like what Kaito did now, throwing the Ajin's head into a space far enough or even unreachable, the Ajin couldn't recover that part of the body tissue and would choose to regenerate anew.
But with even the brain replaced by a new one, the memories in the former brain naturally couldn't be preserved. In a way, this method could kill the Ajin from a social perspective.
Looking at the headless corpse swaying and falling to the ground, a large number of pitch-black particles were condensing. A new head was generating.
Kaito was curious. In this situation, would this Ajin, who lost Reincarnator memories, still be judged as a Reincarnator?
Kaito felt a sting between his eyebrows. That feeling of being locked on by killing intent made him realize instantly there were still enemies.
In the next moment, he suddenly extended his left hand.
Bang!
Kaito stepped back two steps. A long, narrow golden warhead fell from the palm of his left hand. Electricity flashed twice on his left hand, then disappeared.
[King's Left Arm] was not just hard, but also indestructible by various energies. It was absolute defense in the truest sense.
He turned to look southeast. The shooter was extremely far away, exceeding 10 kilometers, beyond the range of his [Mantra] at this moment.
Bang!
Another special bullet accelerated by electromagnetism shot over, knocking Kaito back two steps again.
The person hiding in the distance seemed to be deliberately provoking Kaito, shooting one shot after another. Kaito retreated step by step. Of course, it could also be to prevent Kaito from trying to kill this Ajin.
"Mercenary Tao, don't rush. I'm coming to kill you..."
The air vibrated rumblingly, like rolling thunder. An incomparably majestic voice moved the air, mixed with powerful internal force.
Just hearing it made one feel their mind affected.
Kaito looked at the Ajin gradually completing resurrection, then at the golden bullets at his feet.
"Ha~ There are still experts?!"
Bang!
Kaito rose from the ground, leaping into the sky. Then, stepping on Moonwalk (Geppo), he leaped forward. He saw on the dilapidated asphalt road, a man with long red hair slowly tearing off his upper body clothes, holding a large saber emitting intense cold air upside down in his hand.
Seeing Kaito approaching from the sky with Moonwalk, [Red Dust] also revealed a fanatical smile. He took a step forward, held the saber with both hands, and slashed down violently.
In the next moment, Kaito felt the air for thousands of meters in front of him evacuated instantly. A huge saber light of hundreds of meters appeared from above the opponent's head and fell in an instant.
[Six Techniques of the Arrogant Cold]
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