"MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA—!!!"
Asura Kabuto grew more excited with each blow. Its furious fists rained down like a storm. Its mouth continuously let out excited, crazed roars.
"Too weak, too weak!! Your attacks are completely useless against me!!"
"Useless, you say?"
Jack's low voice rang out. Facing Asura Kabuto's storm-like assault, a cold glint flashed in his crimson eyes.
The next moment—it was as if a nuclear fusion furnace had ignited within Jack's body. The energy hidden deep within his core surged with his blood, roaring into operation.
*BOOM—!! *
Gale. Karmic fire. Lightning. Torrents of energy with various attributes coiled and flowed over the surface of the dark armor. Numerous ability buffs activated in sequence. A terrifying aura—far surpassing what was there before—erupted from Jack.
Feeling the full power state he hadn't entered in a long time, Jack twisted his neck, baring a mouthful of chilling fangs with a grin.
"Well… are you satisfied now?"
*BOOM! *
A punch shot out—plain, unextraordinary—yet carrying an unstoppable might.
Asura Kabuto's pupils sharply contracted. It instinctively raised its arms to block.
*BANG—!!! *
Amidst the deafening roar, Asura Kabuto's massive body was struck head-on as if by a battering ram. It uncontrollably stumbled back dozens of meters, its feet plowing two deep grooves into the alloy ground. Fine cracks even appeared on its arm armor.
"W-What…?!"
*BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM—!! *
Before it could react, the sudden, terrifying flurry of blows from the dark figure caught the retreating Asura Kabuto off guard. Under the furious counterattack, the relaxed expression on its face gradually solidified. A bead of cold sweat even seeped from its forehead.
The opponent's strength and speed had instantly surged by a large margin. Its own invincible strength—which it had prided itself on—now felt a hint of strain.
"TEME—!!"
Asura Kabuto suddenly used the force to retreat, landing on the wall dozens of meters high. Its bloodshot eyes, now crimson, flashed with a man-eating ferocity.
"Is this your full power? Don't get carried away! I… haven't even used half of my strength yet!"
As its voice fell, a despair-inducing, terrifying aura steadily climbed, erupting from within Asura Kabuto.
"Watch closely, you small fry! This is the ultimate form that can sustain my battle for a whole week—"
"ASHURA MODE!!!"
*CRACK. CRACK—! *
Amidst the teeth-grinding sound of bones cracking, Asura Kabuto's original brown carapace shattered inch by inch. Its muscles swelled wildly as if inflated, and its body instantly doubled in size. The brown carapace completely crumbled, replaced by knotted, purple-green muscles—the same color scheme as Unit-01—veins bulging.
The single horn on its head became thicker, longer, and more ferocious. A symmetrical spike grew on its back, gleaming with a dangerous, eerie light like interlocking fangs.
Its entire form was filled with berserk madness and brutality.
Looking at Asura Kabuto—whose aura had surged and whose form had become even more terrifying and ferocious after entering Ashura Mode—Jack grinned. Hot steam of astonishing temperature escaped his mouth.
"Very good." A pause. "You transformed first."
As his voice fell, the dark red patterns on the surface of his dark armor suddenly lit up—like burning brands. Amidst the humming of spatial vibrations, the aura within Jack, which had just reached its peak, surged upward once again. Like the berserk Ashura opposite him, it instantly broke through its current level.
Aura intensity: Dragon-level Peak.
Monsterification Second Stage!
"It's not over yet."
With a slightly playful tone, Jack quickly brought up his panel and completed the attribute allocation with a single click.
[Consumed Origin Points × 63,000 | Ashura Mode level increased! Lv1 → Lv7!]
Suddenly sensing a familiar, tyrannical aura spreading outward like a tangible presence, Asura Kabuto—teetering on the brink of losing its sanity—couldn't help but be momentarily stunned.
Almost replicating Asura Kabuto's recent transformation, Jack's dark armor shattered and disintegrated. His body rapidly swelled. A tyrannical, bloodthirsty, crazed will rushed into his mind—yet he calmly separated a "Self" to devour this violent evil thought. His main body remained completely unaffected.
His rapidly expanding size almost instantly surpassed the berserk Asura Kabuto opposite him—yet showed no signs of slowing down.
Jack was slightly taken aback, then reacted.
His original body's true size was already around ten meters. It was perfectly reasonable for it to become even larger after being amplified by Ashura Mode.
The transformation ability—with its tyrannical factor removed—continued to erupt. Jack's mind moved. He suddenly realized that after transformation, besides gigantification, the form and appearance of his body would be controlled by his will.
Since that's the case—let's see who's more ferocious!!
A series of images of famous monsters flashed through his mind. Jack quickly made a decision.
Immediately, he no longer suppressed his body's growth—and even pushed it further by continuously activating multiple abilities.
Shadow Armor!
Cell Mimicry!
Fusion Combination!
Form change. Body gigantification. Multicellular amplification.
The next moment, a colossal being that seemed to devour all light rose from the ground. Even the berserk Asura Kabuto—whose body had swelled to over eight meters—had to look up at it.
It was a majestic and robust beast of disaster. Its angular, dark gold armor gleamed with a cold, hard metallic luster. Large, curved horns—similar to those of a longhorn beetle—grew on both sides of its head. A spiked tail, like a steel whip, swung behind it. Its head, body, large scythe-like forelimbs, and wings were all embedded with golden energy crystals. Tiny yellow light points flickered on and off across its massive silhouette, emitting a despair-inducing oppressive aura—like that of a demon god.
At this moment, the second-generation Bug God super-evolved—
Space Dinosaur—'Hyper Zetton'!!
As Jack slowly opened his eyes, the single eye formed by golden energy crystals shot out a terrifyingly fierce light. He clenched his fists, shrugged his shoulders, and turned his head—moving his new body after transformation, feeling an unprecedented level of power.
Though it was merely a cosmetic product created by various abilities like mimicry transformation—and could not fully replicate the abnormal performance of the ultimate monster—the current numerical strength alone was enough to rival the Golden Sperm form, one of Black Sperm's trump cards.
While the sharp forelimbs were not as flexible as hands, if used as fists with armed enhancement, they were undeniably more brutal.
Opposite him, the completely berserk Asura Kabuto drooled foul-smelling saliva from the corner of its mouth. The last vestiges of sanity in its crimson eyes had long been replaced by madness and ferocity.
Jack merely crooked his arm.
It felt an unspeakable provocation—
You. Come here.