This Werewolf-style chaos threw everyone into extreme panic, and that panic was continuously converted into energy for Bison's "Psycho Power Drive" through his network.
In the monitoring room, Bison watched the hellish scene below and let out the laughter of a demon king.
"Yes... yes! More fear! More despair! All of it, become my power!"
Meanwhile, our protagonist Cloud remained calmly standing at the center of the cracked arena.
He was like the eye of a hurricane—none of the surrounding chaos could affect him in the slightest.
He didn't rush to "save the day."
Because his spiritual sense, enhanced by Annihilating Vitality, had already detected an aura a hundred times more terrifying than all the current chaos combined, approaching at an unbelievable speed!
That aura was pure, domineering, filled with the ultimate "killing intent"—as if it existed solely for battle and destruction.
"Finally... coming, are you?"
A smile full of anticipation appeared on Cloud's face.
He slowly raised his head, his gaze piercing through the already-breached dome of the coliseum, looking toward the distant night sky.
A "meteor" burning with ominous red-black energy was tearing through the darkness, plummeting toward the coliseum in a manner that completely ignored aerodynamics!
BOOM——!!!!
An earth-shattering explosion!
The coliseum's high-strength alloy dome was smashed through like paper, creating a massive hole over twenty meters in diameter!
Countless stone and metal debris rained down like a storm!
And a figure, bathed in moonlight and smoke, descended from the sky and landed firmly on the opposite end of the arena!
The newcomer was that legendary "demon" from the backstage lounge—Akuma!
His arrival brought an absolute sense of oppression!
That pure, ultimate Satsui no Hado, like a tangible domain, instantly enveloped the entire coliseum!
Everyone who had been fighting—whether righteous fighters or controlled attackers—froze in place at that moment!
They felt their souls gripped by an invisible hand, breathing itself becoming a luxury!
Those mind-controlled attackers—the fanatical purple light in their eyes began to fade before this purer, higher-level "killing intent," revealing expressions of fear!
Bison's Psycho Power, before Akuma's Satsui no Hado, was like a minor witch meeting a major one—a firefly encountering a nuclear explosion!
"What... what kind of monster is this?!"
In the monitoring room, Bison's smile froze as he watched the figure on screen descend like a demon god.
He sensed from Akuma a power capable of threatening his position as a "god"!
On the arena.
Akuma completely ignored the surrounding chaos.
His eyes, burning with red light, had been locked on one person from the very beginning.
—Cloud.
He walked toward Cloud step by step.
With each step, the alloy arena beneath his feet groaned and dented slightly. The blood-red "天" (Heaven) mark on his back emanated an increasingly ominous, eerie glow.
"Thou..."
Akuma finally spoke.
His voice was hoarse and deep, devoid of any human emotion, as if it were the collective roar of countless souls from countless death matches.
"...hast thou the resolve to die?"
This wasn't a question—it was a sentence!
Facing this entrance and death proclamation that absolutely maxed out the intimidation factor, Cloud laughed.
"What a coincidence." He rolled his neck, producing a series of popping sounds. "I was about to ask you the same question."
His aura also transformed explosively in that moment!
An equally destructive, nihilistic energy—the will of Orochi—awakened from within him!
If Akuma was a "demon" who had fallen into the path of Asura—
Then Cloud at this moment was a god of annihilation who wielded the law of "Nothingness"!
"Demon" and "god" now officially faced off!
"Interesting!"
Unprecedented battle fervor erupted in Akuma's eyes!
He said nothing more, his body sinking sharply into a classic "Ansatsuken" stance!
Endless Satsui no Hado began to gather and compress madly between his hands!
A red-black energy sphere, even larger and more condensed than Ryu's Shinku Hadoken, began to form in his palms!
"Messatsu... Gou... Hadou!"
BOOM——!!!!
A pillar of red-black light containing ultimate killing intent, capable of leveling the entire coliseum, roared toward Cloud!
Facing this "map-wide attack" level assault—
Cloud slowly raised his right hand.
No energy gathered in his palm.
There was only a seemingly insignificant black dot that appeared capable of devouring all light.
"Black Particle."
He flicked it lightly toward that world-ending red-black beam.
The instant that small black dot left his finger, it suddenly expanded!
Transforming into a massive, constantly rotating energy sphere of black that seemed to connect to the heat death of the universe—
BOOM——!!!!
Black "destruction" collided head-on with red-black "killing intent" at the center of the arena!
The instant Akuma's Messatsu Gou Hadou touched the Black Particle, it was swallowed whole by that sphere of black energy!
Like a drop of water absorbed into an endless black hole, it couldn't even create a ripple!
"What?!"
Akuma's perpetually expressionless, ice-mountain face showed shock!
And that Black Particle, having devoured the Messatsu Gou Hadou, continued toward Akuma without losing momentum!
"Tenma Shuretto!"
Akuma reacted with godlike speed. With a low shout, a supremely powerful hand blade carrying space-rending killing intent slammed into the black energy sphere!
BOOM——!!!
Finally, the Black Particle exploded.
A terrifying energy storm, centered on the arena, swept wildly in all directions!
The entire Hong Kong Coliseum, under the impact of this energy storm, began to collapse like a house of building blocks hit by a direct typhoon strike!
Walls crumbled! The dome shattered! The ground cracked!
The fighters and attackers who had been fighting, before the aftermath of this "battle between gods," were swept around like ants, knocked off their feet and sent flying!
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