Chapter 461: Power of a Monster
In Kaito Shirogane's perception, the world seemed to plunge into darkness in an instant. It wasn't purely a loss of vision; accompanied by the long night of darkness, an icy aura seemed to pierce into the bone marrow.
As the god of the dark side in the dualism of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" world, the Ancient Alien God undoubtedly possessed power surpassing the Fox Outer God from that polytheistic world where mystery was gradually fading.
But precisely because he had been a Blessed One and completely experienced the effect of using [Divine Thought] to communicate with gods and obtain the blessing of a Great Existence's divine power, Kaito knew even better.
The things a god who hadn't descended into the world could do were quite limited.
Even the god in the "One-Punch Man" world, through power infusion, could only turn an ordinary person into a Dragon-level monster.
And that was a situation where the god was in their own world, possessing "home-field advantage."
Now, the Ancient Alien God hadn't descended yet. The divine power He could send down absolutely couldn't compare to the unreserved endowment Kaito received from the Fox Outer God in the previous world.
And even himself in that state wasn't considered invincible to the current Kaito.
Therefore, standing in the darkness, Kaito's figure stood tall and straight. He didn't have the slightest fear of being deprived of his vision. He stood in an almost twisted, weird posture, eyelids lowered.
Clearly having no vision, he still looked at Kei Kurono's position without any hindrance.
Yes, Kaito found that the priority of the marking effect of [Gaze of Arrogance] was actually higher than the unknown ability the Ancient Alien God cast through Kei Kurono's body.
He couldn't see anything else, but Kei Kurono, whose body outline was traced by a red phantom, was crystal clear.
Crack, crack.
The frozen earth began to make cracking sounds. Far behind, that huge special Wight (Other) was simultaneously approaching Kaito. The sound of a large amount of footsteps rubbing was very obvious.
Kaito stood in place, quickly feeling the icy power sweeping over his whole body starting from his feet.
Ice almost instantly froze Kaito.
"Mercenary Tao, this is not your battle..."
"Withdraw..."
Kei Kurono's voice became cold and distant, and his attitude towards Kaito no longer contained hidden fear.
A large number of slimy, tentacle-like things also wrapped around Kaito's neck from behind at this time. Intense negative emotions began to surge towards Kaito like a tide.
A large number of flashing images began to appear intermittently in Kaito's mind.
Inside, there was the despair of seeing parents and family members buried by collapsed buildings with their own eyes; there was the fear of helplessly watching their younger brother's stomach hollowed out by ghouls; there was the fear of never being able to see family again; there was the despair of life and death not being in their own hands.
Amidst various emotions, icy divine power synchronized and cooperated. Although Kei Kurono's body stood in place, his hands pointed at Kaito from afar. In his ice-blue pupils, various images churned.
Reflected inside were various slaughters Kaito committed in this world previously.
"Yes, Mercenary Tao, you are just a Cleaner who came to this world to slaughter. Now that your goal is achieved, you should have left long ago..."
"Is it because you still want to hunt down Bonnie? What a pity, that woman has already been persuaded away by her companion in advance, probably leaving this world forever..."
"Provoked but unable to take revenge, very angry? It's fine, I have already controlled that talkative guy in advance."
In the next moment, a gleam of aurora seemed to fall in the pitch-black world. A delicate-featured figure with shoulder-length short hair rose from the beach.
Kaito raised his eyebrows. At this moment, he indeed felt the human in front of him was flesh and blood, but the opponent's ability shouldn't be strong enough to grab people across space.
Seeing Kaito's expression, Kei Kurono seemed to think his strategy worked. With a push, he pushed Lotus in front of Kaito.
Lotus completely couldn't see anything at this time either, only shivering slightly because of the cold.
"Kill him, leave this world, and I can pretend nothing happened. In the next world, you can still spread the doom of Winter, you are still... a Blessed One..."
"Heh~"
Kaito chuckled and interrupted the speech made by Kei Kurono under the influence of the Ancient Alien God.
His body was wrapped in the phantom of the Omen of the Evil God. The Qi and muscles in his body slightly expanded. That intense power was already poised to strike.
"Ancient Alien God, do you think I should gratefully accept your divine grace now and then leave this world?"
Boom!
Intense Qi erupted violently from Kaito's body.
In just an instant, those tentacle-like intestines wrapped around his body surface directly shattered.
The ice also melted inch by inch, completely unable to bind Kaito's figure.
Even more exaggeratedly, the pitch-black power wrapping the entire area seemed to be impacted by some intense force at this time, twisting slightly outward and beginning to expand.
[Kaioken]!
After Kaito mastered this ability, he hadn't had a sturdy enough target to let him feel how his doubled combat power actually was.
"You are mistaken about one thing. The one controlling the situation here right now is me, not you."
Rumble!
The energy called [Qi], ever since Kaito obtained it through Ripple Qigong and Dodon Ray, had never been considered very strong in Kaito's body.
But at this moment, intense Qi broke through the physical constraints, erupting in a form visible to the naked eye for the first time.
Kaito's long black hair rolled backward and upward. That Qi, mixed with a large amount of blood color due to overloading the body, made Kaito seem to transform into a red Qi warrior.
Power, unparalleled power!
At this moment, Kaito's original naked strength was at 52 points. The time was approaching midnight, and the extra amplification of strength efficacy reached 50%, expanding the original 1.5 times amplification to the limit of the First Stage Extraordinary Characteristic Efficacy—[2 Times]!
His actual strength reached 104 points at this time. Accompanied by the execution of [Kaioken], this strength doubled again, becoming an unprecedented 208 points!
Kaito's voice trembled slightly when he spoke, and his tone was hard to control. Even with his physical control ability of a Martial Arts Grandmaster, he felt all the muscles in his body seemingly running wild at this time.
For a moment, he actually couldn't control it perfectly.
Crack, boom!
The ground Kaito stood on exploded violently after all the ice blocks shattered with a crack.
That was the terrifying force erupted when Kaito subconsciously gripped the ground with his toes, instantly tearing apart the completely crystallized beach surface.
Intense Qi also accompanied Kaito's extremely high-spirited emotions at this time, further expanding outward like a soaring airflow.
Rumble!
Shattered sand and ice blocks seemingly lost gravity, flying towards the sky.
Under the infusion of this powerful [Qi], Kaito's eyes quickly returned to normal. His Spirit attribute was also doubled under the effect of Kaioken. The force field created by this level of divine power could no longer suppress his senses.
"Kei Kurono" subconsciously took two steps back. The ice-blue crystals in his eyes trembled violently.
"What... is this thing..."
Unprecedented ultimate personal martial force was destroying everything in a way completely different from divine power and authority.
Kaito's expression was high-spirited. His eyebrows, corners of his eyes, and even pupils seemed to raise upwards uncontrollably. At this time, Kaito finally understood why every time Kakarot and the others transformed into Super Saiyans, they all looked as if they held everything in contempt.
This pure power born from within, completely independent of any authority or rules, truly brought a thrill of losing control.
If he didn't lower his eyelids, Kaito even suspected he completely didn't want to put Kei Kurono, currently possessed by the Ancient Alien God, in his line of sight.
"Ancient Alien God, gather your divine power and creations, and let me... be entertained~"
(End of Chapter)
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