"Your attacks are ineffective against a god."
Although Nurarihyon split into different clones, he was able to constantly shift and move during subsequent attacks, appearing like a blur, making him impossible to see clearly.
Suddenly, he thought of something, looked at the four-hundred-meter-tall Skyburst standing like a living pillar, and no longer resisted, instead allowing Hachiro to attack.
After Hachiro realized that ordinary attacks had no effect on him, he retreated several tens of meters to maintain a safe distance from the opponent, while contemplating other methods.
However, Nurarihyon continued to actively split, densely occupying the entire street.
"I can also grow bigger." The Nurarihyons said in unison.
Then, his body became distorted and expanded, like lumps of lifeless flesh, and then from his body, plump female bodies continuously grew.
As many clones as there were on the scene, there were as many female body splits, until they grew into strange female giants, eight or nine meters tall, composed of countless female bodies.
This was Nurarihyon's second form, the forest of female bodies representing lust.
At the same time, these female giants began to fuse with each other, constantly growing larger, quickly growing from seven or eight meters to over a hundred meters tall.
From its appearance, it seemed to want to arm wrestle with Skyburst.
Aaron was a little surprised. In the original work, the female bodies were only seven or eight meters tall, but now Nurarihyon had gone down a different path.
Could it be that this was self-correcting evolution based on the enemy's strength?
However, what good was being big if it was soft?
Aaron gave a look, and Skyburst raised his hand and combined into a hundred-meter-thick, hard cannon barrel. Golden light gathered, and he fired a shot.
The entire process took only three seconds.
The dazzling beam of light instantly evaporated the super giant female body that Nurarihyon had painstakingly assembled.
The lingering power of the light beam pierced through the entire city of Tokyo in a few seconds, plowing a tunnel on the ground with a diameter of tens of meters, stretching to the horizon and reaching the underworld.
Flesh and blood were simply a joke in front of the steel giant.
Nurarihyon also seemed to realize that there was a slight problem with his evolutionary direction. Although big, it was soft and useless. He needed to be harder, to increase his strength.
If the female body wouldn't work, then he would be a muscular Barbie.
The largely evaporated female bodies stopped splitting. It quickly evolved to the next stage based on Skyburst's strength.
The soft flesh continuously solidified and fused, quickly combining into a super-large giant full of explosive muscles, with a layer of specialized carapace attached to its body.
Tens of meters tall, like King Kong reborn, even if placed in Attack on Titan, it would definitely be the most striking one.
Nurarihyon had actually skipped the third stage in the original work, the skeletal giant lizard form, and evolved into the fourth form — the enhanced muscular uncle!
However, because Aaron interrupted him, Nurarihyon could only use the remaining blood to condense to the height of a Gundam Robot, still appearing like a minion in front of Skyburst.
Of course, in this form, he combined strength and agility, and also enhanced his defense, making him undoubtedly a thousand times stronger than the fourth form in the original work.
In the original work, Hachiro, controlling the gorilla suit, killed the third-form but was brutalized by the fourth form. In the end, he had to sacrifice the gorilla suit and stabbed it in the back with a nano-longsword, dismembering it.
However, now, Hachiro, also controlling the gorilla suit, was having second thoughts when facing this fourth form.
This guy... there's no way to kill him, right?
He no longer had a Gundam.
"Should I go?" Anzu was eager to try.
She couldn't wait to test the power of the God Cloth on this monster.
Aaron shook his head. "This form isn't enough. Skyburst, help him enter his final form."
Skyburst, transformed into a pillar, attacked again. Without any fancy moves, he took a step forward, clenched his fist, raised his hand, and struck.
Nurarihyon was very agile, lightly leaping behind Skyburst, wanting to deliver a backstab.
But Skyburst's upper body rotated a full 180 degrees, delivering a heavy punch to the stunned Nurarihyon's head, smashing his entire body into the ground.
Nurarihyon's mentality collapsed. Who the hell was the boss?
He had clearly seen it and dodged it, but who would have thought the enemy could rotate its upper body?
Wait, this guy is a robot? Then it's fine.
Nurarihyon lost his resistance and was repeatedly punched by Skyburst, embedded in the ground like a wooden stake. His head was also repeatedly hammered into his stomach.
This form.of Nurarihyon had great physical strength. As expected of a special form evolved based on Skyburst.
If he were allowed to perfectly grow and evolve into a four-hundred-meter-tall super form, perhaps he could barely give Skyburst a satisfying fight.
But now... this is basically bullying.
Masaru's mouth was wide open and hadn't closed since the beginning.
He had never imagined that this world could be so... exciting?
Whether it was Nurarihyon, who had various tricks, or Skyburst, who was silent and dominant, both shook his mind.
"Where is this guy from?" Masaru muttered.
Aaron casually said, "Trash picked up from a junkyard. I just made some small modifications."
The Void was a junkyard. Skyburst's original body was a discarded aerospace carrier. After he modified it, he put it into his small world.
Now it seemed, Skyburst was quite good, at least he could easily beat Nurarihyon.
Thinking about it, Skyburst had a Space Stone isotope engine, some Cybertronian technology, and the undying and indestructible eternal core and Vibranium, Adamantium and Uru.
Masaru kept repeating, "Trash?"
If he's trash, what am I? Trash among trash?
Masaru was speechless.
Anzu, meanwhile, eagerly flew into the sky.
She wanted to see the limits of Athena's God Cloth.
"Enough!"
Bang!
"I said… enough!"
Bang!
Nurarihyon felt like a nail.
And he was being abused like this in front of so many people.
Doesn't he have any dignity?
"I am a god!"
Bang!
After another blow, Skyburst finally spoke, "A god? Such a weak god."
Bang!
"There is only one God in this world, and that is my creator, the great Aaron."
"You? Just an ant."
Bang!
Boom!
Nurarihyon, in his muscular form, perhaps couldn't endure Skyburst's heavy attacks, or perhaps couldn't stand the mockery and exploded.
His tens-of-meters-tall body burst apart with a bang. Amidst the flesh and blood, a huge, continuously rotating spherical object appeared.
Two seconds later.
The spherical object exploded like a cannonball, and metal spheres scattered with the explosion's shockwave, blasting the hundred-meter radius area.
Even Skyburst was forced back two steps by this attack, and then—
"Is that all?"
Skyburst looked at his armor, which had only lost some paint. Although he didn't have many memories, honestly, this power was too weak.
In a normal battle, Nurarihyon hadn't caused him any damage.
No, there was one thing.
It is well known that when Transformers fight, when their movements are too large, they inevitably drop some parts.
Due to his own reasons, Skyburst dropped some unimportant parts, which would regenerate because of his eternal core. In a sense, he was "injured" because of Nurarihyon.
"I have found your weakness, perfect metal defense, but… these all belong to me."
From the flesh and blood of the muscular form, a tens-of-meters-tall final form of Nurarihyon hatched.
However, unlike the original work's flesh and blood body composed of blood and bones, at this moment, Nurarihyon had evolved into a semi-carbon-based, semi-silicon-based life form, like a steampunk style.
His left half was a flesh and blood body, and a beating heart could vaguely be seen.
While the other half was forcibly fused and pieced together from various strange metals. If one looked closely, they could even see crisscrossing screws and smoking pipes.
His right hand was composed of a piston, still constantly emitting steam and making loud noises.
Nurarihyon's appearance was too terrifying and horrific. He was straying further and further down the path of grotesque and distorted.
"I can feel the powerful strength within this body."
Nurarihyon looked down at his current semi-perfect body, especially his crude and poor right side.
"So that's it… flesh is a flaw, machinery is the true way."
"No matter how many times I strengthen my physical body, it can never compare to steel."
"I can become even more perfect, even stronger, and become the God of Machinery."
"Your core and body belong to me!"
Nurarihyon looked at Skyburst's body. He was dozens of times stronger than before, and at this moment, his confidence returned.
"Strange, this guy looks somewhat familiar?" Aaron stroked his chin, lost in thought.
Reika heard him and looked closely, but in the dim light, she could only vaguely see his body's outline, and more was difficult to discern.
"I've got it. Those metals on his body, aren't they the parts that Skyburst dropped?" Aaron suddenly realized.
He saw metal pieces with sun markings on the right half of Nurarihyon's body, which were his exclusive markings.
Nurarihyon, of the flesh and blood type, was instinctively evolving towards machinery because he was brutally beaten by machinery?
However, because the fused metal and the eternal core were too special, Nurarihyon was unable to evolve specifically for them, so he chose to pick up parts and forcibly piece them together.
"So he's a junk collector, a God of Junk."
As soon as these words came out, everyone was surprised.
Then there was a moment of silence, with various expressions.
Originally, they were still afraid of Nurarihyon's powerful vitality and his constantly evolving strange abilities, But now that Aaron said that, all his prestige was gone.
They thought he was so amazing, but it turned out he just picked up everything. No wonder he only had half a body, because there were only that many parts.
Is the current boss… this useless?
Nurarihyon felt a bit embarrassed.
Because he really did do that.
There was no other way, who made the crack too strange?
That metal body was beyond his comprehension. At least in his life as a god, he had never seen such data, to the point that he wanted to evolve but lacked the corresponding knowledge.
Nurarihyon, exposed by Aaron, immediately wanted to abandon Skyburst and deal with Aaron first.
He couldn't deal with Skyburst, but couldn't he deal with an "ant"?
But before he rushed towards Aaron, Anzu stood between the two.
"Don't even think about hurting Aaron, I want to live with him forever."
"In that case, you two can die together!"
Nurarihyon's entire body emitted steam, and as his right-hand piston pulsed, it erupted with earth-shattering power.
Anzu showed no fear. She had a feeling she could block it.
This seemed to be a sixth sense, the super discerning power Athena's God Cloth gave her.
Athena's God Cloth, after being modified by Aaron, possessed powerful amplification even with a casual modification.
Unbeknownst to her, Anzu's nerves had also been enhanced and upgraded, gaining power comparable to a god's by relying on the God Cloth.
In fact, if Aaron wished, he could even modify the Marvel Comics version of the Cosmo.
And it would be a true Cosmo, capable of containing a person's consciousness and power, erupting with strength comparable to a true Saint Seiya as it is continuously excavated.
At the very least, one could gain the power of a universe.
Although Anzu's set was a temporary, semi-finished product and couldn't unleash a Cosmo, for the ordinary "gods" in Gantz, it was an overkill.