Seeing Enel shooting toward him with his entire body enveloped in terrifying lightning flashes, the pressure indeed felt extraordinary and looked very intimidating. Even several giant lightning bolts in the sky had been triggered by Enel to strike right toward Saitama's body.
However, Saitama stood transfixed without moving even slightly, truly ignoring those lightning strikes. Let alone now wearing armor gifted from the Gold List, even if he wore nothing, with his physical endurance, lightning at this level wouldn't be able to hurt him.
"Only this much?"
Saitama frowned. The muscles in his right arm protruded slightly, his God-Slaying Gloves emitted a dim golden gleam. In an instant, he thrust his fist forward toward Enel's direction.
*SWOOSH!*
A beautiful wave of air flow swept clean the air along the entire spatial path at a speed visible to the eye. Heaven and earth seemed to change color; everything in that punch's trajectory vanished into nothingness, including the air within it.
Because of the sudden loss of air, the surrounding air momentarily stopped before finally being sucked back in crazily. The black clouds in the sky twisted and shattered, even the lightning was dragged into that trajectory. As a result, the punch path that was previously transparent colorless turned into a blue-golden lightning tunnel that was very dazzling to the eyes.
The sky that was previously enveloped in dark clouds instantly became clear again. All clouds seemed to have been completely sucked away, returning the sky to bright clarity!
"Sss—!"
Everyone who saw this sight had their pupils shrink. Although at a far distance, they felt their hair stand on end; even their own bodies felt as if they would be sucked toward there. Truly terrifying power.
Enel's body was right in that trajectory's path. Moments after Saitama launched his fist, he already felt an extremely frightening crisis premonition, which triggered his deepest instinct to immediately flee. He immediately transformed his entire body into lightning element (Logia) and tried to escape as quickly as possible.
However, the wind pressure from Saitama's fist had firmly locked his position. It was already too late to escape now, moreover the space being sucked back would pull him back even if he managed to distance himself. For Enel, this was almost a dead end. Under an attack like this, even if he transformed his body into a natural element, he wouldn't be able to escape the danger of destruction. Saitama's punch was so powerful that even air vanished, let alone him who was in lightning form.
However, right when his body was about to crumble into dust, the space around him suddenly twisted. His entire body seemed to be rotated by something, suddenly sucked into an invisible matter vortex, and disappeared from his place.
"What?!" Everyone widened their eyes staring toward where Enel disappeared. "Was he killed?"
But in the next second, the space beside the black-robed figure twisted again. An invisible vortex appeared, and Enel who had just disappeared was vomited out. He was drenched in cold sweat and almost fell from the air; his Mjolnir hammer also became dim without energy radiating because he lost the strength to support it.
The black-robed figure behind the hood also sweated coldly looking at Saitama. He absolutely didn't expect this Gold List's Third Place could be this terrifying; with just one long-range attack it already made him feel a fatal death crisis. He could sense that the opposing party only punched casually, hadn't even started being serious yet.
Was this Third Place's power? Truly terrifying! He even felt that even if the real "Great Master" were here, most likely he wouldn't be able to withstand this bald man's punch before him, might not even have the qualifications to match him. Because even when facing the Great Master, he never felt helplessness this deep.
Could only run!
If Imu were here, he would definitely pat his shoulder while sobbing: "My brother, I understand your feelings. Back when this person hadn't worn Gold List rewards and suppressed much of his power, I couldn't withstand his punch. Just run, that's the right decision, don't look back!"
At this time that black-robed figure truly wanted to kick that stupid teammate directly into Saitama's face. Enel truly brought disaster to him by having to face a monster like this. However, he was now playing the First Place identity. If his identity was exposed, not just Saitama who wouldn't let him go, the big figures watching below also none would forgive him. Daring to act mighty then wanting to run away just like that? Dream on! He would become public enemy number one.
He was forced to save Enel, because currently he was "First Place." If he couldn't even save his own subordinate properly, how could he be called First Place?
"Good!" A flat praising voice came from behind the black robe. "Your power indeed deserves to be at the Gold List's third rank, not just an empty name. I acknowledge you!"
He pointed toward Saitama with his finger, his words full of acknowledgment tone.
The people below felt envious. To be directly acknowledged by the Gold List's First Place was an extraordinary honor!
But Saitama didn't care. He clenched his fist and said to the black-robed figure: "In that case, attack. Since the day my hair fell out, I realized there's no longer anyone who can withstand my punch. You're First Place, you definitely can. Today, even if I must be punched to death here by you, I'll die without regrets!"
'This madman'
The black-robed figure cursed in his heart, but on the surface he remained calm and unmoved. He shook his head slowly: "A fight between you and me has no meaning. Today I only came to take him away. Train well, we'll have a chance to fight..."
While saying so, he pointed toward Gin who was not far from there. Instantly appeared a twisted vortex space around Gin. Before Gin could react, his entire body was already sucked in. And simultaneously, the black-robed figure and Enel also disappeared.
"Don't run!" Saitama panicked.
After so long he finally had a chance to frontally fight with First Place, how could he be willing to let it go. His entire body suddenly disappeared from his place with terrifying speed. He struck his fist with full force to the place where the black-robed figure had just disappeared.
*BOOM!*
The space in that area shattered into pieces from that punch. A human head-sized spatial black hole appeared, surrounded by fine spatial cracks that emitted extraordinarily tremendous tearing attraction.
This spatial tearing force even made Sengoku and the others feel chills. They could clearly sense they absolutely wouldn't be able to withstand spatial tearing force like that; if hit, they would definitely directly crumble into dust.
However, Saitama stood upright beside that spatial black hole without budging even slightly, with a very sour face. The black-robed figure, Enel, and Gin had just vanished right before everyone's eyes. The extraordinary battle imagined before had already ended before it truly began.
This dramatic change left everyone dumbfounded. What happened? The Gold List's First Place actually ran away?
The people watching below looked at each other. Guy asked: "What's the meaning of this? First Place was scared and ran because of Saitama?"
Tobirama also didn't understand the reason, but he still said warily: "Don't speak carelessly. He already said earlier, that Saitama doesn't yet have the power to face him. Currently there's still a big gap between the two of them. He's First Place, how could he be scared and run because of Saitama?"