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"Would you look at that? You’re a quick one, aren’t you, vampire dude... heheh; wonderful, excellent. I was scared this bout would be over the instant my fist made contact with you!! Hehehe, my apologies for misjudging you; but men, you are a quick one; and again, when it comes to physical strength, Michellelians do not disappoint."
’Hehe, this man thing is fucking something else. What the heck is this? Well, it doesn’t matter; my odds of winning are still really goo-HAA..ugAHA!!! H-H-Ho...how is this possible? That, no, this shouldn’t be right; why has the opportunity of success faded so quickly?’
Merciless thought to himself as Black Tail gave him an updated assessment.
’Chance of winning: 0%; a sudden increase in both aura and destructive potency; suggestion run!!’
’0% ha; hahaha... the bastard can disguise his aura; now that is fascinating, but men, so this is a superhuman. I must admit, I’m surprised they were that physically gifted.’
Merciless remarked to himself, monologuing to himself; originally, he had previously looked down at this man. But now he was in a strange situation, having to look up to him since the guy’s speed and strength behind his casual attacks alone were actually capable of one-shotting him and sending him flying out of bounds. However, at the same moment, the earth beneath the two men’s feet began to abruptly shake. Surprise both Merciless and Zane, but neither of them takes their eyes off the other.
On the other hand, a perfect 500-mile-radius sphere began to explode into the sky, with massive chunks of the ground beneath rising to the heavens. 50 miles above from where they used to be, the clouds were becoming closer and closer; the radiant starry sky flashed down onto the two of them, some clouds gradually becoming within reach as a big pillar of earth could be seen far and wide, stationed far above the horizon.
Weird trees all around them, a poisonous environment all the same, and yet, despite Merciless facing tremendous odds at this particular instance. He did not want to give up; there was no way to defeat Zane if Black Tail’s words were to be taken seriously. Even yet, the Michellian remained firm; if he was going to lose anyway, he intended to do it with his honor still intact; as such, Merciless dropped his pride and looked Zane dead in the eye, and requested.
"Man thing... no, my apologies, you are no mere man thing. *sigh!* warrior of man, present to me your name."
Merciless inquired of Zane, who gave him a strange look because Merciless’ attitude toward him had shifted dramatically. Vampires are considered to be proud, never bending their heads to anyone; however, this vampire recognized his presence.
It puzzled Zane since he knew how these blood suckers were, so seeing someone of noble stature, especially someone of their kind, ask for his name was a huge honor, or so many would say. On the other hand, Zane appeared to smile sincerely as he giggled to himself and spoke to Merciless.
"You are a strange one, vampire du... yeah, it does seem a little disrespectful to call you that, right? So I’ll just call you Merciless. Now, Merciless, I am no one special; just call me Zane."
"Zane the superhuman; a fine name suited for a warrior; very well, I’ll remember that; now, Zane, I’m going to come at you with all I have. I want you to treat me with the same consideration; I may not appear to look it, but this body of mine can take on even a nuclear bomb at point-blank range; so don’t you dare hold back; you hear me; I want to feel the caliber that is you."
When Merciless said this, Zane laughed slightly as he responded.
"A strange one you are indeed, but either way, if it makes you feel better, I will use as much power as I need to for this sparring match."
A surge of blue plasma covered Merciless’ whole body as he began to float in the air. Zane watched on, peering at Merciless from below, and was surprised to see the vast coat of raging blue plasma surrounding him begin to shrink slowly but steadily. As it began to spin at high speeds around both of Merciless’ fists, the energy was collected in a single spot for each hand. Zane was surprised by what happened next, though! Since he did not anticipate Merciless breaching the laws of physics right in front of his very eyes.
Because, when the collective blue twin balls of concentrated plasma surged around Merciless hands, they began to change significantly, with the plasma ball resembling a spherical gauntlet and the gauntlet itself looking like a pair of spike balls of Fay or Morningstar. However, the energy contained within them was or had, by some miracle, solidified around Merciless’s hands, as he had casually created a physical plasma weapon.
"Wowhahaooo.... Now that’s flashy as hell. Good! good! That looks like something that is going to hurt a whole lot. Hahaha.... alright Merciless, come at me."
Merciless didn’t need anybody to remind him that his desire for battle was more important than anything else right now. As a result, by magnifying even more plasma over his entire body, together with the support of his wing and Black Tail handling navigation as a whole, he blasted his entire body at Zane, converting the air like an iron wall, giving him enough leverage to employ his superhuman strength to jump toward the opponent while spewing plasma-like jet trusters from his arms and legs to increase his total speed.
Merciless glides down towards Zane, his hand gripped tightly between his plasma gauntlets, which were flashing brilliant blue. As he was currently crashing down towards Zane at a speed that exceeded Mach-5. Merciless then created red lightning around each of his plasma gauntlets, and as he approached Zane, ready to strike him with a powerful blow, and to respond to this, all the superhuman did was casually raise his finger in the air towards Merciless moments before his fist collided with his face, and what happened next was beyond what Merciless was expecting.
Harden plasma—tougher than diamond—with an intense heat of 12,700° Fahrenheit!
Modified plasma spike capable of piercing and ripping steel!
Mach-5 acceleration by plasma manipulation!
Greater acceleration with the assistance of Black Tail, using his wings to glide downward.
Propulsion is achieved by jumping off a hardened wind wall using more than 60% of his overall physical strength!
Superhuman strength is an innate feature of vampires, and Michellian has that trait, but on a maximum level at all times!
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These were coordinated attempts to put all Merciless had and understood into a single strike capable of inflicting a considerable amount of damage on the adversary before him.
But...
Despite all of this...
Merciless looks at Zane, surprised and puzzled...
Because, at that moment, Merciless’ whole force met with Zane’s right index finger; nonetheless, there was no shocked wave, crater, or anything at all. It was as if the impetus behind his strike did not exist at all to begin with.
But he didn’t have time to think about it because, before he could respond, Zane grabbed his lower arm, preventing him from fleeing as he was about to deliver a strong blow to his face. However, before the strike touched him, Merciless’ entire body went transparent; as a result, Zane’s fist went right through him, and like before, one hit was so strong that it generated a powerful air cannon that destroyed many trees in its path.
Merciless, on the other hand, took advantage of the opportunity to withdraw by sinking into the earth with his transparency. His eyesight was a flawless 360-degree radius, with his mind eye engaged, and as Merciless began to phase through the earth, he gazed up above him, and the whole world above him became nothing more than outlines.
He could see exactly where Zane was walking, the clouds, the monstrous birds, and everything else for that matter; even Zane’s organs were visible to him, although there were no openings for him to attack from.
’What kind of ability does he even have? It’s as if he neutralized everything that touched him; all of the momentum I’d built up to make my strike more powerful was for naught. Sigh; so this is a superhuman, certainly an interesting being, but that negation attack is something else.’
’... I need to find a way to overcome his ability to neutralize my strikes as well as the heat from my spiked plasma gauntlets. But the question is how; there has to be a limit to it, right? After all, no power is perfect; yeah, I just need to crack his code, there has to be a secret to it.’
’Hmmm... Let’s think of something Merciless. What attack do you currently have that may work in this case?’
Merciless asked himself as he went through his arsenal of abilities one by one in his mind, till eventually a good idea came into his head.
’His negation power, yes, I noticed it previously as well; those tattoos, only for a fraction of a second, but I definitely caught a glimpse of it. When I punched him, I noticed his tattoo outline glow crimson for a brief instant as that strike made an impact with his finger.’
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’I see; so those tattoos are the source... well, I need to find a means to either overwhelm him or remove those things from his body.’
’And by the looks of it, I will have to try both methods. First, I will see if there is a limit to the negation; if so, I will just overwhelm him with raw power output alone. And if that fails, well, I will have to take the risk of getting close and personal with him.’
With that stated, Merciless continued to defy gravity once more as he appeared from under the ground, ascending towards the sky as he went along, grabbing Zane’s attention, of course, as a result, who at this point just had his hands in his pockets and remarked while looking up at him.
"Agh! Yeah, you did well to avoid that last attack, but you vampires are a headache to deal with. It must be really convenient to phase through walls and surfaces, but I guess that is the power of intangibility for you."
Merciless did not respond; at this moment, he had the high ground. As he gazed down at Zane, who remained unaffected, he began to point his finger at him; his finger started shining a bright blue at the tip, indicating that a large volume of plasma was being transported through Merciless’ fingertips. His left index finger charged up a powerful attack to hit Zane from afar.
*shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!*
Merciless plasma encircles his entire self, shining the night sky and dark forest around him, his finger becoming brighter and brighter with each passing second. Anyone could tell what Merciless was going to do by just looking at him alone.
Zane, on the other hand, simply chuckled as he spoke to Merciless.
"How nostalgic; the way you’re charging up that beam reminds me a lot of an old acquaintance of mine; hahaha... I wonder how Ethan is doing. Oh well, I’m sure he is fine either way; he is with Madam Rusa squad; on the other hand, this attack seems more interesting than the last one. Well, then there is only one way to see if it will work right; go ahead, Merciless, give me your best shot. Still, though, I highly doubt it will leave even a scratch on me."
"Don’t get too cocky now, Zane." The fight has merely just begun; let’s see how long you can maintain that cool of yours; it won’t be long till I figure you out and get past that weird field of yours."
"Well, you are welcome to try; I’m waiting!!"
Zane said this in a provocative tone, and Merciless responded by shooting a massive beam of plasma at him while saying.
"Aight then!! If you are so eager to die, why don’t you have a taste for yourself?"
Merciless said these words in a lighthearted but equally frustrated tone. On the other hand, he took his final statement very seriously. This strike was far from feeble; he took every single particle of plasma in the environment surrounding him for a total of 5 kilometers around him. This is the extent of his current plasma manipulation, and when each particle enters his eye’s range of sight, his chimera armor’s omnidirectional perception intensifies the incoming plasma a hundredfold.
Merciless fingertips generated heat waves that spanned kilometers across the esoteric forest. With little prospect of the heat wave abating, both the trees and the ground began to smoke as the heat was starting to concentrate at a single point.
Zane, on the other hand, opened his hands in an arrogant manner, his chest exposed, as he shouted to Merciless, visibly thrilled.
"I’m wide open Merciless, hit me with your all; well, you may try; your plasma means nothing to me either way; I’ve survived being hurled in the sun before; a little heat ain’t doing jack shittt vampire!!"
"Oh, really, you smug asshole, heheh... alright then, why dont you be the judge of that then?!"
"Stasis: Ionized purple!!"
Merciless announced the name of his new ultimate attack, and as soon as he did, a gigantic pillar of intense purple plasma beam appeared in front of Zane, bursting towards him at intense speed—massively faster than light, of course. The enormous beam was so large that it engulfed everything in its path. And as soon as it touched the ground, the entire arena began to quake violently. As the sheer destructive strength of this attack was continually increased by 100-fold every second owing to the particular effects of Merciless eyes.
’Subarashii!!... now that is an attack!’
Zane said this to himself as he glanced up at the massive laser descending on him. At the time, he was talking in his thoughts. His modified brains, manufactured by the augmented team led by Jona Afton at H.A.D.E.S., improved his mental perception by leaps and bounds. The speed with which he could think was ridiculous; what was one second for others around him was six months for Zane as time stopped for him because these special brains were only given to team leaders and above in each squad.
And for now, Zane was in spectator mode, which allowed him to see this slow-moving world as much as he wanted. And that’s precisely what he was doing right now—standing there and monitoring Merciless’ every move. Of course, he wasn’t using his enhanced brain to its full capability. Given that he defined one second as one day from his perspective.
As a result, time actually froze; nonetheless, this attack, which was multiple times faster than light itself, was still advancing swiftly toward Zane in this stopped reality, implying that this monstrous attack speed was fatal in nature. And it wasn’t until Zane changed the perception of reality to a 1:260 ratio that the attack stopped moving, freezing itself in time.
’Hehehe... let’s surprise him by using the chi method I learned from Madam Rusa to fly up to him from behind. The look on his face will be priceless when he realizes that I was behind him the entire ti...
However, at that very moment!
Zane discovered he couldn’t move at all; ordinarily, he could move in this slow-down world if he exploited his ability to the fullest, pushing his body and mind to the limit at the minor or major expense of overexerting his body to a thrilling degree, which was sometimes life-threatening. However, that was not the situation here; it was not because the reality around him was slowing down as a result of his mind’s acceleration. But it was because something was confining him to a single area. Not only that, but Zane was surrounded by a garden of red lightning that assaulted him from every angle.
However, whatever these were, they did not appear to cause him any serious harm. However, the lack of motion made it impossible to move about at all. On the other hand, Merciless looks down at Zane, who is most likely unable to move at the time.
This was given; Black Tail was able to combine plasma manipulation, radiation lighting, absorption, conversion, and consistent intensity all into one to produce a new attack. "Esoteric Art: Stasis: Ionize Purple," combines all of the acquired energy and radiation base abilities into a single ultimate ability.
Ionize Purple used the esoteric effect of his inner, unique plasma, which can freeze a person in place when struck by it. On the other side, he combined this with radiation lightning that hit the target and caused life-threatening burns, as well as radiation poison, which slowly killed the person hit with it. This toxin targets all senses and destroys them from within, as well as damaging cells and nerves. The worst effect of this poison is the chance to give birth to huge fleshy bumps and lumps all over the body.
Combine his distinctive blue plasma and very fatal radiation lightning, both of which were different skills from the aliens he had eaten previously. You gain the new threatening sure-hit ability, Stasis: Ionize Purple, which is an almost inescapable killer move in the truest sense. The light alone from this sure-hit ability causes everyone who is under it to be unable to move since each substance is kept down by this esoteric plasma. While also being burned by the plasma, the intensity increases just a hundred times per second and at a steady interval.
The light creates radiation inside its ray of light, and what is the final outcome of this huge onslaught? Well, the sight of an enormous explosion generating and expanding a giant hot purple fireball and large spherical shocked waves causing the fireball to blow out and kill everything in its path? The sheer strength of this behemoth was overwhelming: the entire region stretched 500 miles across in a perfectly spherical shape and was 50 miles above sea level. This massive edifice, which extended for 30,000 miles, swallowed up the entire arena like it was nothing in the searing purple fireball.
The planet itself began to shake vigorously, with the intensity of the attack only getting stronger by the second. And flames kept getting hotter and hotter until, eventually, the plasma was so hot it began to bend space-time. Everything that was in its way evaporated to nothing, and if you were in space, you would see a bright light that sent powerful shockwaves through the entire planet. Causing superstorms, earthquakes, and the formation of large tsunamis and tornades as even multiple inactive volcanoes began to erupt.
On the other hand, once the siege had ended, there remained a vast gap in the world, a wound that would never heal. There was a gigantic crater 57,000 miles across, 1473 miles below the surface. The ocean water began to tumble down like a waterfall. On the other hand, red lighting remained throughout the large gap after the attack ripped a big hole in the surface.
Merciless gazed down, nothing but a deep hole so far down that he couldn’t see the end beyond the blackness, and the loud rushing sound of ocean water cascading into the gap, echoing loudly as it poured.
’That was the strongest attack in my present arsenal. If that didn’t pass his field, nothing I have now would.’
’Men Abadis’s monsters are fucking awesome; that enormous attack didn’t take anything away from me; I feel like I can carry out that one attack for as long as I want. Of course, I didn’t actually kill him, right? But then and again as well, he wanted to fight and was practically begging to be slain. But, Zane, I have to admit that was a fantastic ba...
"Don’t think you’ve won, vampire! What were your words again? Ah, oh yeah, this battle has only just begun."
Merciless, stunned and out of Reflex, whirled around and attacked Zane squarely in the face, using all of his supernatural strength; however, when Merciless’ hand attacked Zane, targeting his face, his chimera armor fractured like glass, and his fist broke apart. However, as he drew it back, his hand had already healed before he could check it. Zane, of course, was unfazed by the hit.
But it was the startling scene in front of him that left Merciless speechless: Zane was naked, his clothing turned to ash, and his large nine-inch cock was on full display for all to see. But there was not a single mark on Zane; nonetheless, Zane’s current appearance left Merciless wondering himself as to what Zane’s superhuman abilities even were.
Before Merciless, Zane was floating in a thick, bright red cloak of energy, or aura, that was so thick and intense that he appeared to be floating in a bubble of red water.
Merciless gazed on, confused, from under his helmet. His voice was slightly garbled behind his chimera armor as he asked Zane.
"How?"
Zane just snickered to himself as he replied with a smug smile on his face.
"How indeed; Merciless, but men, that was one hell of an attack." You remind me of that woman in a strange sense. Evo, you and her basically share the same odd physical powers. On this planet, she is the only Ex-rank shapeshifter and superhuman we know about. She is the strongest woman to date, with power that rivals that of that fucking wind monster, Wilhelm."
"Sorry, but I’m not sure who these individuals are, but are you certain you’re not a monster yourself? First came negation, then invulnerability, and now flight. What the heck is a superhuman anyway? You seem more like a vampire to me at this point with how nigh-unkillable you are?"
"Heheh, monster... hardly dude, please don’t hype me up; I am one of the weakest superhumans there is. True monsters, in my opinion, are classified as S or above. Don’t even get me started on the X and Ex-rank superhumans. "Those fuckers are basically immovable walls at this point; for me, I am nothing more than a C-rank superhuman."
’C-rank, he is a fucking C-rank?’
’What sort of cruel joke is Mother Nature playing on me right now, calling this a C-rank superhuman? Should I be afraid or amazed? Oh well, it doesn’t matter; the adversary still exists.’
’Although I hate to say it, the chances are not in my favor right now; nonetheless, I must fight until I can no longer. My dignity as Michellian would not allow me to back down, even in a battle, I have no chance of winning; I would rather die than back down.’
’And the fucked-up thing is, I’ve been using one with blood from the beginning to attempt to weaken him by impaling him from the inside out, but even that has no effect on him. What a pain in the ass this guy is turning out to be!
Merciless said to himself as Zane looked at him and questioned him.
"I presume that was your ultimate attack right; shit looks way too flashy for it to be anything normal. If so, why don’t you give up, and throw in the towel, if even that couldn’t move me, then what will?"
Merciless responded to this by extending his arm out and opening his right hand, revealing the manifestation of a frightening red lightning spear in his palms, as Merciless said to Zane.
"Give up?!! HEHE... hardly human!!"
"Oh, well, have it your way; I think I will start getting a little bit serious from here on out though, so don’t break too easily now... ok!!"
