Chapter 523: Tearing Apart the Instrumentality Project
Like phantoms constantly bursting, Kaito Shirogane visualized the final explosive outburst before the death of that fighter named [Kai] that day, his facial expression also changing slightly.
He was imitating the other party's state of mind.
That despair of being toyed with until his comrades died one by one and his team fell apart, and the resolute outburst of completely letting go of personal life and death after his final awakening.
This kind of emotion, Kaito Shirogane felt, was the easiest to understand and analyze.
At this moment, his face was slightly twisted, just like Kai back then. Amidst the scattering of his fluorescent white hair, his body stretched out incomparably and threw a punch.
The space between Kaito Shirogane and White Mask suddenly twisted. In the next moment, amidst a terrifying sound like a giant dragon's roar,
The sky suddenly lit up, and intense fluctuations erupted.
"It's useless. The AT Field is an absolute domain. I, born from the LCL water after the instrumentality of millions of people, this force field is... invincible!"
White Mask's face squirmed, and eyes began to grow out from her cheeks one by one. These eyes were no longer ruby-like eyes, but instead black human eyes.
As the eyes opened one by one, the action of reversing the AT Field paused, and an incomparably intense AT Field deployed in an instant.
Like colorful concentric polygons, White Mask herself became slightly distorted at this time, seemingly trembling constantly. That was the peculiar refraction caused by light being distorted by such an intense AT Field.
At the same time, it was also the deviation produced in the material world because so many souls temporarily stabilized after releasing an intense AT Field.
Woo~
Before the whistling sound of Qi, like the wailing of ghosts and howling of wolves, could even explode, the pitch-black fist had already smashed onto the AT Field in front of White Mask.
Crack!
The expression on the mixed face of White Mask and Gilgamesh changed simultaneously. In the next moment, the air behind the AT Field instantly turned into a shape like cirrocumulus clouds.
Densely packed sounds of Qi explosions rang out simultaneously, followed by a shockwave like a category 12 hurricane erupting behind the AT Field.
At the same time, she also saw the blood vessels and meridians on Mercenary Tao's right hand burst together.
This madman... no, this monster...
The force is actually so strong that even an AT Field of this degree couldn't completely deflect it. The penetrating force is already enough to blast and kill an ordinary [Strong] tier Reincarnator.
In the strong wind, White Mask became even more frantic.
The Spear of Longinus held in her hands turned to aim at Kaito Shirogane.
This spear was over ten thousand meters long at this moment. Just by changing direction in the air, it extinguished the terrifying tsunami rising on the ocean with a boom.
On the shaft of the long spear were continuously rotating red cylinders, exactly the same as the previous Sword of Rupture Ea.
Although she used [3rd Tier Destiny · Mandate Deprivation] to bestow the property of the Spear of Longinus upon the Sword of Rupture Ea, this overly powerful Noble Phantasm, even in this state, still possessed performance far exceeding ordinary weapons.
Merely because of its own materials and the legends it possessed, it could easily cut through space and worlds.
White Mask completely didn't realize that Mercenary Tao at this moment was imitating that fighter she had toyed to death. Enemies of that level had long been forgotten by her.
Kaito Shirogane swung his right hand backward, retreating a few steps in the air. He couldn't feel any pain at all. Or rather, under this kind of attack, as his right hand healed again, he felt his physical strength rising further.
[Limiter activation extent increased. Current: 6%]
This body is forcibly adapting to its own combat intensity...
Because after this strike, it realized the physical strength was insufficient, therefore the physical strength subsequently increased...
Is this the effect of activating the Limiter?!
Kaito Shirogane's eyes widened, his mouth already unconsciously opening. The corners of his mouth curled up, that joy difficult to contain.
Is this the true nature of Saitama's limitless strengthening ultimately completely "losing control"?
Kaito Shirogane knew his current power level was too low, still not enough to see the truth of that level clearly.
But he only knew that at this very moment, he was powerful beyond reason.
This was a glorious scene that would be difficult to reproduce in a short time after leaving this world. A thing like the Noble Phantasm · Swirl of the Heart wasn't something ordinary Reincarnators could possess.
Reincarnators, this kind of short-lived species, were completely insufficient to leave behind "glorious deeds" in history that could birth a Noble Phantasm of such intensity.
Probably only by using special abilities of the time-side or destiny-side would one have the chance to travel through time and leave a history... No, Kaito Shirogane suddenly thought at this time, Reincarnators like him and White Mask perhaps indeed had the chance to do this in advance. He thought of those various Derivative Worlds connected together on the timeline.
Perhaps, if he could single-handedly annihilate the Demon King Muzan in the Demon Slayer world, leaving behind a sufficiently resounding hero's name in that history, then when in the Jujutsu world, he would have the chance to obtain the rewards brought by the "reputation" of that history. If there were similar strengthenings, acquiring a Noble Phantasm wasn't entirely impossible.
The Infinite Dimensional Space... truly contains infinite opportunities...
Kaito Shirogane reigned in his thoughts. At this moment, his right hand had long recovered to its original state.
His glabella stung. Looking up, he saw a ten-thousand-meter giant spear pointing at him from afar.
The space in front of it continuously ruptured, revealing pitch-black cracks. This was a sufficiently terrifying Noble Phantasm.
But Kaito Shirogane at this very moment was even more appallingly powerful.
He sneered, lifted his foot, and walked into the air. In his right hand, the pitch-black Hadouken condensed again.
White Mask's heart chilled, and the Spear of Longinus thrust downwards.
Just the instant the action of thrusting appeared, Kaito Shirogane's body was pierced through.
The overly huge spear made Kaito Shirogane's body seem to melt away and be directly obliterated.
Whoosh~ Bang!
A muffled sound appeared from the ruins of Fuyuki City. A pitch-black crack extended from the ocean into the leveled Fuyuki City, piercing straight through the earth's crust, unknown how deep it plunged into the underground.
Subsequently, the ground of the entire city's tectonic plate exploded violently. Tens of thousands of square meters of ground were lifted whole, the terrain completely altered by this strike.
Zzt~
As if an electric current flickered in the air, in the next moment, flesh and blood began to reappear. At first, it was just a drop of blood, which then rapidly expanded. In less than a few seconds, Kaito Shirogane's fluorescent white long hair was dancing in the wind again.
[Immortality: Advanced (Divine Protection of Gaia)]
At this very moment, Kaito Shirogane's immortality had already been elevated to almost the level of an Ajin. He completely couldn't be killed by conventional means.
Seeing Mercenary Tao regenerate, the ten-thousand-meter white giant actually directly started to fly into the air. She wanted to fly outside the planet's surface.
She was very sharp, realizing that Mercenary Tao at this moment was already like a Hero chosen by the Counter Force like Void Shiki. Continuing to fight on the planet, she had completely no chance of winning.
Pfft!
Suddenly, her body sank. White Mask turned her head, only to see Mercenary Tao grabbing her ankle with one hand. With the size comparison between the two sides, that completely couldn't be called grabbing the ankle; it could only be said that Mercenary Tao "pinched" a bit of her skin.
But with just such a tiny point of force application, she felt a terrifying monstrous strength like a planetary Titan, her flight action abruptly interrupted.
Wrong! I should be completely wrapped by that intense AT Field at this moment. How could Mercenary Tao touch me?!
White Mask suddenly felt that non-existent heart rapidly sinking. A panic she had never had before appeared.
Looking down, she sure enough saw a nearly circular, colorful regular polygon wrapping Mercenary Tao's body surface.
AT Field?!
"This is impossible!"
The AT Field, as an application of the power of the mind, was completely not something ordinary Reincarnators could obtain. If White Mask didn't have the special sequence of the Destiny Card, she almost couldn't possess it either.
To put it bluntly, the AT Field is completely not a special ability. It is a fundamental force of [what makes a human a human] in the EVA world, a special system forcibly added to that world almost like a setting.
No matter how many Asukas or Shinji Ikaris you kill, you cannot open an AT Field from Drop Cards.
But at this moment, Mercenary Tao indeed touched her. What was even more horrifying than Mercenary Tao mastering an AT Field at this moment was that the intensity of Mercenary Tao's AT Field was actually powerful enough to neutralize her intensity after instrumentalizing millions of people?!
Her instrumentality wasn't perfect. The AT Field was an ability related to soul strength. But how could Mercenary Tao alone compare to her current self...
White Mask's thoughts flashed like lightning. A scene suddenly appeared before her eyes: in that Jujutsu world, the pink-robed Mercenary Tao raising his right hand high, forming a mudra, and shouting, "Taizan Fukun Ritual, Open!"
This guy... actually obtained the stairway of [Spirit] at that time?!
Countless scenes seemed to appear before White Mask's eyes, finally resting on His Eminence [Eternal Destiny] telling her that losing to Mercenary Tao was not her fault, but dictated by destiny.
"Damn it... you guy..."
Kaito Shirogane's right arm suddenly became thick and sturdy, then twisted. The degree of twisting far exceeded what a normal physical body could achieve.
In the next moment, Kaito Shirogane slapped a palm onto the white giant's foot.
[Ultimate · Rakshasa Palm]!
Bang!!!
The pure force capable of destroying mountains and ruining cities with a single blow, under the control of a Martial Arts Grandmaster, poured entirely into the giant's body.
In the next moment, the giant's body expanded violently a few times, and finally exploded with a boom.
Turning into horrifying chunks of flesh and blood, revealing purple flesh and even more orange juice splashing into the ocean.
The ocean was rapidly dyed with color.
That force was continuous and unending, the flesh and blood still constantly exploding in the ocean.
The wing-like AT Fields also subsequently collapsed.
Pairs of eyes disappeared, and that constantly spreading reversal of the Wall of the Heart also terminated.
Kaito Shirogane exhaled and spoke out.
"Ha..."
He caught the ten-thousand-meter long spear smashing down from the sky. With an almost ant-like figure, he forcefully grabbed the long spear. Then, golden Qi danced wildly.
The long spear inverted in mid-air, and in the next moment directly pierced into the ocean.
Boom!
A hole seemed to be pierced into the ocean. Seawater poured back frantically, creating a huge whirlpool. And at the end of the long spear:
The huge white giant had completely fallen apart. The long spear was pinned into that face that was half heroic and half delicate.
Ending the Human Instrumentality Project with pure physical violence...
White Mask watched powerlessly as her spirit and flesh began to collapse. Because she initiated the ritual using her own life as a sacrifice, her physical body had long since crumbled.
At this moment, as the physical body of Gilgamesh, which had been soaked in black mud, began to be destroyed, she would also lose her final vessel.
*[You defeated Servant · Gilgamesh, obtaining A-Class Singularity 1]
A Drop Card flashing with red luster appeared spinning before Kaito Shirogane.
Kaito Shirogane grabbed it, then arrived before the huge human head that was about to dissipate. Reaching out his right hand, intense suction force accompanied by black mist appeared.
[Yin Spirit Body Possession]!
White Mask felt that terrifying suction force. Her face struggled, and she screamed.
"This is not fair!"
"Mercenary Tao, this is not fair!"
"You guy, clearly your calculations and strategies are inferior to mine, yet you beat me relying on destiny. I refuse to accept it!"
She screamed, seemingly trying to resist.
But Kaito Shirogane flicked his left finger. With a bang, the giant's head exploded. The spirit body, losing its vessel, plunged into Kaito Shirogane's body in the next moment.
[You contained Special Spirit Body · White Mask]
[Energy · Soul Power increased, Current: ?]
Kaito Shirogane turned around, looking at the "orange juice" all over the ground. The Swirl of the Heart behind him became increasingly obvious, almost turning into a huge whirlpool piercing through heaven and earth.
His figure slowly changed, borrowing from the previous battle and touching the main body of the white giant.
His body also gradually turned white.
"This boring instrumentality game is time to end."
In the next moment, in the mental worlds of countless people, a man with a cruel smile on his lips looked at everyone mockingly.
"Scum, how much longer are you going to weakly huddle together for warmth? It's time to return to reality..."
(End of Chapter)
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