Chapter 663: You Are Weaker
Boom!
The precise balance of physical mass was instantaneously disrupted. Candlelight registered that her hand felt as if it were encased in roiling molten magma; under the severe kinetic release, this mortal's muscle density had multiplied across several thresholds in a single micro-frame, an unmatched, terrifying force violently exploding from within his torso.
Candlelight forced her eyelids up. Tracking the sky-tearing column of golden Ki and superheated blood mist flaring from his flesh, she stared at the Reincarnator whose features had contorted into a monstrous mask of pure cruelty, her uninflected voice dropping to a freezing register:
"Is this the absolute threshold of violence your vessel amasses by plundering the proprietary Sephiroth of our lineage?"
Kaito Shirogane's eyelids lowered. Having been forcefully stripped of the perfect internal loop anchored by his [Stairway of Eternal Return], his newly evolved physical vessel had naturally reverted to a baseline that lacked the structural capacity to safely endure an active Eight-Fold Kaio-ken without experiencing cellular decay.
Even throttling his engine back to a Six-Fold Kaio-ken output placed an exceptionally high, punishing load directly across his skeletal and meridian pathways.
"Muttering redundant calculations... is every block of meat generated by the Dragon species restricted to a low-tier metric of this classification?"
His vocal cadence was flat and cold, sounding as if it were issuing from the absolute floor of an abyss—yet the thick white exhaust huffing from his lips carried the superheated thermal heat of raw volcanic steam.
Kaito's point-blank Dodon Ray cleanly and flawlessly blockaded the imaginary mass of the [Hollow Technique: Purple] Shadow had compiled by mimicking Satoru Gojo's formula. Simultaneously, the dense blocks of his back muscles remained wound dangerously tight, clamping Candlelight's arm within his spine like an unyielding iron vice.
He cede absolutely zero processing to logging the physical agony of a hand-blade puncturing his flesh; or rather, to a predatory baseline like Kaito Shirogane's, a localized traumatic puncture of this caliber was an intense source of pure sensory ecstasy.
It was an exquisite stimulus that forced his nervous system to process his own material existence as monumentally more vivid, raw, and alive.
Creeeak, creeeak.
Candlelight's uninflected composure failed to present a single wisp of panic, yet her sharp intuition distinctly captured a terrifying reality: the skin, the flesh, the complex network of fine dragon scales plating her limb, and the underlying skeletal matrix—structures mathematically engineered to operate at a density far surpassing a standard pure-blood dragon—were being systematically crushed, flattened, and physically contorted beneath his raw muscle pressure.
Fine rows of obsidian dragon scales began to rapidly web outward from the base of her neck, her sensors capturing a stygian, monumentally terrifying aura bleeding from his cells.
This freak... was by no means a standard Reincarnator.
This unadulterated wildness, this absolute violence...
"You absolute—"
Pfft!
A colossal cloud of superheated blood mist violently exploded across local space. Maintaining the copied neutral infinity constraints of the Limitless, Shadow's pupils violently contracted. Within her incandescent golden vertical slits, the chronological progression of reality was moving at an exceptionally slow, frame-by-frame crawl—yet her arrays could merely capture a single frame where the black-haired man's silhouette executed a subtle micro-twitch.
In the very next fraction of a second, Candlelight's entire biological framework violently detonated into a spray of fresh essence, her presence cleanly and instantaneously erased from the coordinates.
Rumble!
An absolute, hundred-meter vacuum crater was violently gouged straight into the open ocean blocks, the white-hot sonic cloud trails generated by the displacement only just finalizing their trajectories across the sky several frames later.
Kaito Shirogane executed a heavy pivot of his neck, his skeletal joints emitting a rapid succession of sharp, mechanical cracks that cleanly replicated a primeval leviathan unlocking its physical frame after a prolonged slumber.
He aggressively thrust his left hand forward, driving the hyper-concentrated golden Ki-Wave to flare with monumental intensity, forcefully shoving the distorted, purple-crimson energy matrix straight back toward Shadow's face.
Millimeter by millimeter, he advanced across the waves, tracking his focus straight toward her coordinates.
Shadow—who a microsecond ago had proactively weaponized the high-priority defensive metrics of the Limitless to aggressively close the physical distance to Kaito's frame—found herself pinned under the overriding weight of that golden Ki-Wave, forcefully driven backward across the parameter lines without a single option to anchor her stance.
"Why have your arrays ceased their attempts to execute a total structural inversion against my [Ki]?"
The words cleared Kaito's teeth—yet Shadow's pupils violently shrunk as her audio processing arrays sharply verified that his voice had materialized directly adjacent to the blind spot behind her ear?!
Every single scale mapping her reverse-neck armor rigidly stood on end down to the root, an icy thread of pure, primitive alarm locking onto her neural pathways—a sensation her sovereign lineage had failed to log across multiple world cycles.
Regardless of his velocity, the structural parameters of that silver-haired freak's formula theoretically hardcode an absolute, flawless block against physical-side powerhouses. I merely require my processing units to—
Hum~
The local atmosphere was instantaneously and completely wiped into an absolute vacuum. A frantic, runaway kinetic suction field violently ignited from his flank, acting identically to a literal gravitational black hole materializing right behind her spine.
Shadow forced her neck around, only to find the black-haired man chambering his left fist into an extreme rear alignment, a blinding vortex of compressed atmospheric wind already roiling across his coordinates like a full-scale hurricane.
Refraining from even launching the knuckle, the mere prerequisite compilation of his alignment was already outputting a volume of force of this classification. Could his vessel genuinely hold absolute conceptual authority over a sovereign rule like [The Titan of Absolute Strength]?
Kaito Shirogane's expression turned entirely unrefined, primitive, and vacant. His left hand loosely coiled into an absolute fist, the surrounding air currents continuously detonating inside his palm as an apocalyptic volume of raw weight compressed within his knuckles.
The boundless tides of golden Ki were roaring furiously through his cellular tracks.
Deep within his cerebral cortex, his clinical focus meticulously visualized the exact spiritual alignment and sub-atomic essence of the Serious Punch he had historically replicated to flatten Thanos. Although his current anatomical limitations permanently disqualified his engine from outputting that exact peak metric at this microsecond, compiling a strike that flawlessly captured its absolute Form and primitive Intent was more than sufficient to close the board.
BOOM!
The displacement velocity Kaito Shirogane outputted at this microsecond had scaled to an absolute, reality-defying tier that completely bricked the visual tracking arrays of high-order Mystic Eyes or specialized瞳术.
A full Six-Fold Kaio-ken multiplied across the hyper-accelerated output of his active [The Instant · Tier 8]—the exact fraction of a second his fist hammered forward, it acted identically to a literal conceptual razor cleanly slicing through the spatial infrastructure of the world.
The vacuum wave materialized across local parameters a few frames late, completely devoid of sound.
Replicating a pristine, stygian vault exposed to the elements after reality itself is violently torn aside, the moment the knuckle cleared his shoulder, an absolute, sky-spanning fan arc of pure kinetic devastation completely and flawlessly blanketed every single coordinate stretching from his knuckles down to the ocean grid a thousand meters away.
Shadow registered an unmatched, multi-dimensional tide of raw planetary weight slam dead into her biology. The specialized stopping force field anchored before her chest plates was violently and flawlessly disrupted by the vacuum friction fields rippling from his fist, and in the next heartbeat, the devastating concussive force completely and effortlessly pulverized her defensive arrays down to the atom.
BOOM!
Having only just managed to force her frame back to its feet atop the waves, her biology caught in the middle of a frantic self-healing cycle, Candlelight cede zero resistance as the vacuum wave cleanly struck her coordinates alongside her twin.
Roar!
Mirroring the primeval, sky-tearing roar of a dying ocean, the entire regional sea level violently and flawlessly depressed downward by dozens of meters. Suspended at a safe distance outside the perimeter, Captain Marvel and the surviving members of the Avengers roster monitored the parameters via their long-range monitoring rigs, their minds completely paralyzed by the spectacle.
The Atlantic Ocean looked as if it had completed a literal structural tilt.
A massive quadrant of the sea spanning several kilometers had been forcefully shoved downward, leaving the surrounding water walls operating as high-altitude cliffs, frantically spiraling inward to fill the expanding abyssal sinkhole.
"Mother FXXKER!"
"Is that entity genuinely a rogue deity belonging to your All-Father's pantheon?!"
While the remaining corporate personnel were trapped in a state of total cognitive shutdown, Nick Fury had already cleanly and fluently unhinged his jaw to let out a thick stream of sub-atomic curses. The absolute power metrics this Mercenary Tao was outputting had far out-scaled his logical thresholds.
He threw the query straight at the face of an Asgardian Avenger who was currently wrapped in an infinite grid of medical bandages.
Thor maintained an absolute, leaden silence. He had sustained two consecutive, systematic routs at the hands of opposing trans-dimensional factions; existing as the undisputed strongest asset active on the Avengers ledger, and the sovereign defender of Asgard, his warrior ego was flooded with an intensely bitter wave of resentment.
Yet, the material reality of the exchange unfolding before his eyes cede his senses a rare wisp of profound curiosity.
Beyond all shadow of professional doubt, this Mercenary Tao had successfully amassed a threshold of raw violence that cleanly out-scaled the vast majority of the All-Father's lineage—a strength that far transcended the metrics of a native God!
And furthermore... his underlying martial alignment and combat methodology were exceptionally, beautifully refined... acting identically to a fusion that seamlessly paired the supreme physical vessel of a divine race with the hyper-advanced kinetic techniques that only a weak, low-tier species like humanity would spend lifetimes meticulously engineering.
The display didn't stop there. In the very next fraction of a second, his narrow scanning arrays sharply captured a blinding beam of golden luminescence violently piercing straight through the oceanic floor.
That was a highly specialized, unmapped classification of energetic system—a power that completely refrained from retaining a single trace of elemental properties, or anchoring its matrix to a known divine pantheon!
BOOM!
The hyper-concentrated column of his Dodon Ray cleanly impaled the ocean depths, slicing straight through the foundational marine bedrock to initiate a catastrophic tectonic collapse across the sub-surface fault lines.
Kaito Shirogane slowly and methodically depressed his flight altitude to descend from the stratosphere.
At this exact microsecond of his evolution, his physical vessel presented an exceptionally ragged, bloody profile; the immense, suffocating load generated by sustaining a continuous Six-Fold Kaio-ken alongside an active Tier 8 The Instant had driven his anatomy to the absolute brink of total structural collapse.
The infinite network of capillaries anchoring his dermal layers had executed a rapid-fire loop of cellular fracturing and subsequent biological reconstruction hundreds of times over, staining his entire frame a deep, unblemished crimson.
His facial features were layout-wise, astronomically terrifying; dense streaks of dried essence webbed across his muscles like an intricate matrix of execution curses, which, when paired with the increasingly wild, uninhibited alignment of his vacant eyes, forced his presence to perfectly mirror the archetype of an absolute, world-ending Demon Sovereign.
Kaito anchored his boots to hover right above the roiling ocean blocks, looking straight down through his lower eyelids to evaluate the twin dragon-kin whose black and white robes had been entirely reduced to shredded rags. Quite the contrary to their initial human-like appearance, a dense, hyper-packed matrix of fine dragon scales flaring with an alternate black and white sheen had completed total deployment across their skin.
Exiting from their skulls, twin draconic horns had forcefully broken through their derman layers, branching out like jagged, misaligned obsidian crowns resembling elongated antlers.
"Your specialized mechanics lack the programmatic criteria to execute a total structural inversion against a completely un-attributed, raw energetic mass, do they not?"
"And furthermore... when stripped down to your absolute, unrefined core... the individual [Vessel Capacity] anchoring your respective egos is pathetically, layout-wise, weaker than my own~"
Kaito Shirogane split his jaw into a wide, monstrous grin, an uncontrollable, ravenous wave of pure greed automatically and flawlessly flooding his pupils as his gaze locked onto his prey...
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