"Mortal... you dare... mock a god?!"
Igniz's handsome face twisted with extreme fury.
His impressive purple cape detached with a whoosh, revealing the form-fitting combat suit beneath—a perfect fusion of biological and technological aesthetics!
Six chains gleaming with metallic coldness extended menacingly from his back and wrists like awakening serpents, hissing through the air, stirring space itself and creating ripples of energy!
"You will pay for your ignorance and arrogance with your life!"
Igniz's voice roared with killing intent and madness!
The next instant, he left an afterimage where he stood and vanished!
"Bring it!" Battle spirit blazed in Cloud's eyes.
He could feel it—the power Igniz now unleashed was approaching the threshold of "Initial Cosmic Power." This was the strongest opponent he'd faced since transmigrating, bar none!
This was a battle worthy of his full effort!
"Die! Insect!"
Igniz's figure appeared simultaneously in every direction around Cloud, as if teleporting!
The four bio-chains from his back became living predators, striking toward Cloud's core from four impossibly tricky angles—above, below, left, and right!
"Vertical Axis!"
Simultaneously, the two blade-chains on his wrists transformed into two invisible streaks of cold light, striking at Cloud's throat and heart at trans-temporal speed!
"Spatial Slaughter!"
Six blade-chains wove a death-net with zero blind spots!
Every chain-tip concentrated enough terrifying energy to slice through space itself!
This strike combined NESTS's most advanced technology with Igniz's personal understanding of "killing"—a perfect "certain-death formation"!
Yet facing this apocalyptic attack, Cloud merely smiled with contempt.
"Flashy, but decent power."
He didn't dodge—there was nowhere to dodge. He didn't tank it either—because he would answer this "new god's" arrogance in an even more humiliating way!
"Kusanagi-Style Ancient Martial Arts—Style 108: Yami Barai!"
A golden flame swept along the ground toward one of Igniz's afterimages.
"Yagami-Style Ancient Martial Arts—Style 100: Oniyaki!"
A column of purple flame erupted from Cloud's fist, precisely intercepting the chain-blade descending from above!
"Kagura-Style Ancient Martial Arts—Style 212: Shingo no Norito!"
His figure split into multiple illusions, weaving through the remaining four chain-blades with mystical footwork, each evasion calculated with perfect precision to avoid the lethal strikes!
Clang-clang-clang-clang——!
A rapid succession of metallic impacts rang out like rain on banana leaves!
In mere fractions of a second, Cloud had simultaneously deployed the signature techniques of all three Sacred Treasure families, perfectly neutralizing Igniz's certain-kill attack in an inconceivable manner!
"What?!"
Igniz's true form materialized nearby, golden eyes filled with disbelief.
He couldn't comprehend it!
How could this mortal simultaneously wield three completely different—even mutually opposing—powers?!
Wasn't he from the Kusanagi clan? Why could he use Yagami techniques? Why did he know Kagura footwork?!
"Surprised?" Cloud's figure had somehow appeared right before him, wearing that infuriating, playful smile. "Don't worry. Even more surprises are coming."
"Try my bread-and-butter combo!"
"Ya Otome!"
Cloud's figure transformed into a purple lightning bolt. Those rending claws instantly imprinted on Igniz's chest!
Riiip——!
Igniz's prized combat suit—capable of withstanding nuclear explosions—was instantly shredded like paper before Ya Otome's unreasonable "forced judgment"! Eight claw marks deep enough to expose bone appeared across his chest!
"AAAHHH——!!!"
Igniz howled in agony. He tried to counterattack, but Cloud's combo clung to him like a persistent parasite, giving him no chance to breathe!
"Orochinagi!"
A "dual-color Orochinagi" fusing Kusanagi crimson flames and Yagami azure flames slammed directly into him!
BOOOOM——!!!!!!!
Violent flames instantly engulfed Igniz!
The entire "Divine Throne" shook violently under this terrifying power, massive cracks spider-webbing across the walls!
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Meanwhile, in other areas of the space station, an equally intense "demolition operation" was proceeding at full steam.
K' Team's four-person squad cut like four blades straight into NESTS's clone factory.
K's flames, Maxima's steam-powered iron fists, Angel's unreasonable flashy combos, and Kula's all-freezing frost—four completely different powers coordinated seamlessly, "harvesting" the assembly-line clone soldiers in waves.
The rest of the "Earth Coalition," led by Terry and Ryo, engaged in brutal, fist-to-flesh combat against NESTS's modified human army!
"Power Geyser!"
"Ryuko Ranbu!"
Terry's wolf spirit and Ryo's tiger might merged perfectly in this moment, becoming the battlefield's most ferocious "bulldozer"—enemies sent flying wherever they passed!
The entire Arcadia space station wailed under this "Earth Demolition Crew's" rampage, explosions erupting one after another.
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