Chapter 827: Complete Divine Body
[Authority: Physique of the Primordial Man level increased. Current: Lv6]
Kaito Shirogane reconstituted once more from the haze of crimson mist. The blood escaping his pores was visibly reduced. Though internal tissues and blood vessels continued to rupture under the violent proliferation and swelling of the Third Star Particles, he now clearly felt that, standing upon this world, his vessel could manage to bear the strain.
He had activated the Sixteen-Fold Kaio-Ken—a crushing burden his body could never have endured prior to the advancement of the Physique of the Primordial Man.
Kaito Shirogane pulled his mouth into an exaggerated, predatory grin, utterly convinced of the correctness of his choice.
At this stage, hunting down those few God Kings might yield rewards, but in terms of elevating his raw personal might, it paled in comparison to observing the clash between these two Super Saiyans.
He had already begun to vaguely perceive something within himself that transcended most known power systems—the foundational mechanism that allowed him to assimilate and replicate diverse abilities.
In a sense, he possessed a trait akin to the Kamigan, the Eyes of the Inquirer.
Behind an ultimate ocular technique like that lay an extraordinary underlying nature.
Just as the authentic Kamigan was an innate sight manifested by Nanami to prevent her own boundless power from breaking her body, her ability to instantly perceive, replicate, and master every technique, skill, and divine art in existence stemmed from the fact that her internal essence stood far above those arts.
Kaito Shirogane operated on a similar principle. His capacity to replicate the circulation of divine power with a single glance and mirror an opponent's martial art after mere moments of combat meant that deep within his core lay an essence capable of engraving—and standing above—all those techniques and Authorities.
BOOM!
The twin Super Saiyans traded a savage, fist-to-fist collision. Spacetime groaned under the intolerable weight with sickening fractures as cataclysmic waves of Ki blasted in every direction.
Kaito Shirogane's body fluttered violently like a sheet of paper caught in a gale. Countless shockwaves struck his flesh and scattered into explosive bursts around him, yet he did not budge an inch.
Though fresh lacerations broke out across his skin, his form was not pulverized. Relying on instantaneous regeneration, he held his ground.
The God King of Thunder deployed his divine domain to its absolute limit, opening his mouth to utter a Divine Word.
"Thunder!"
Crack!
A localized sphere of thunder materialized, wrapping tightly around his frame as the divine halo behind him blazed with blinding light. Even so, he was blasted backward through the shockwaves like a boulder caught in a hurricane.
Though uninjured, he was hurled through the air like an uprooted tree, completely stripped of momentum control.
The combat output of Son Goku and Black King One-Armed Gohan had blown past the structural ceiling of this world, let alone Third Sequence combatants like Kaito Shirogane and the God King of Thunder.
Even the stray aftershocks of their exchanges were difficult to endure.
Kaito Shirogane didn't spare a second glance at the deity of the Void Paradise. His eyes remained locked on Son Goku and Son Gohan.
He cared nothing for why the one-armed Gohan fought with such suicidal resolve. His singular aim in this battle was to extract the power that was truly useful to his evolution.
Pfft!
A stray streak of Ki ripped through the air. Even with Paper Drawing pushed to its apex under the Martial God's Ultimate Intent, paired with flawless Shaori absorption, Kaito could not neutralize it completely. The Ki punched straight through his torso, but the wound closed in the blink of an eye.
Spurred by the immense power and presence of the two combatants, the Third Star Particles within him thrashed with escalating frenzy, continually stimulating the Physique of the Primordial Man to evolve.
If it were possible, Kaito Shirogane wished this duel would never end.
Bang!
Moments later, Kaito Shirogane detonated into blood mist once again.
Watching this from afar, the God King of Thunder keenly noted that the God of Martial Arts was growing stronger. That bizarre constitution, reminiscent of a primordial cosmic titan, was evolving at terrifying speed.
A foreign force inside the man was actively forcing his biological vessel to ascend. He knew that Mercenary Tao's enhancement framework relied on stacking multiplicative amplifications.
The sole shackle holding him back from unleashing even more horrifying destructive power was the physical durability of his vessel.
A wave of urgent crisis flooded the God King's divine consciousness.
If that man broke through his biological ceiling, reinforcing his Divine Body to sustainably bear those arts in his base state...
Disaster!
The thought of an apex God of Martial Arts emerging in the Infinite Dimensional Space—one capable of casually chaining the Manifestation of the Cosmic Heavenly Deity with high-multiplier Kaio-Ken without paying a biological toll—spelled absolute catastrophe for every competing faction.
Even the ancient dragons of the Primordial Dragon Court, renowned across the cosmos for their gargantuan bodies and boundless vitality, would likely face the grim fate of being torn apart limb from limb before a monster like that.
Crack!
Thunderclouds plummeted under the shifting mindset of the God King of Thunder, golden lightning coiling through the storm.
The entire sky fell under the absolute dominion of the sovereign deity.
At that moment, whether it was Planet-Buster Singularity crawling out of the sea to reconstitute its frame, or Yoko blazing like a solar beacon to ignite Saga with the Fire of Humanity, everyone felt the suffocating weight of divine majesty bearing down from above.
Black King Luffy tilted his head. Facing him, the other two God Kings wore deadly serious expressions; this was the full-power Celestial Alignment of an authentic sovereign God King.
To seize administrative dominion over the planetary atmosphere in a single stroke proved that the God King of Thunder had taken half a step ahead of them.
Apollo's thoughts were swift and cold. This escalation was not an entirely welcome sign; it meant that to the elder deity, the tactical situation had deteriorated to the point where holding back was no longer an option.
And yet... the two of them were completely pinned down.
"Black King, why do you aid the Reincarnators?!"
"From what we know, do you Black Kings not hunt Reincarnators without mercy?!"
The sole reason Apollo and Luna remained frozen in place was the crushing pressure looming before them. Though this one-armed Black King Luffy had not fixed his eyes upon them, a terrifying sense of surveillance suffocated their divine consciousnesses.
Apollo harbored an unshakable premonition that even if he manifested his True Sun Divine Body, that abnormal Conqueror's Haki would batter it to pieces.
Could a force like Haki truly reach this pinnacle?
Though derived from a willpower-based power system, its structural tier was supposed to be relatively low.
Just how were anomalies like the Black Kings forged?
While Apollo's thoughts churned, the elemental thunder across the entire world surged into violent revolt. Even across this ocean of pure Ki, the lightning remained terrifyingly authentic.
Luna's expression grew grim. Had the old God King decided to force his hand right on the periphery of those two Super Saiyans, risking their collective wrath?
Kaito Shirogane felt a sharp, stinging pain across his scalp, every strand of his long black hair standing on end. The elemental fabric of the world seemed to have converted entirely into lightning.
With a mere thought from the deity, the electrostatic charge in the air pulled his hair straight upward.
Un-dodgeable.
This was another form of an absolute homing technique. Unlike the Martial God's Ultimate Intent derived from martial precision, and distinct from the Serious Punch rooted in conceptual inevitability, this was an unavoidable strike governed purely by Authority and energetic properties.
Lightning inherently carried the dual traits of extreme velocity and target lock. Once drawn inside a world of pure thunder, the concept of evasion ceased to exist.
Even through Musō Tensei, stray charges would conduct across the air, lingering in the atmosphere to strike the instant the phase-shift concluded.
[You have entered the Divine Domain: Thunder Abyssal Prison. You are subject to extensive negative checks and capability restrictions]
[Energy System: Magnetic Field Rotation is unavailable]
[Energy System: Surge of Murderous Intent is unavailable]
[Energy System: Ki has successfully passed the resistance check]
[Within this divine domain, attacks of the lightning attribute are unavoidable]
[Your lightning resistance has been stripped]
As the cascade of warnings flashed, Kaito Shirogane's gaze turned completely frigid.
He was forced to pull his eyes away from the two Super Saiyans. The searing prickle against his scalp warned him that this God King was fundamentally distinct from the prior True Gods.
The entity genuinely wielded the power to threaten his existence.
Crack!
A bolt of divine lightning detonated. Kaito Shirogane stood motionless, allowing the blast to strike his frame dead-on.
Midst the blinding explosion, the God King manifested, clamping a hand directly around Kaito Shirogane's throat. Only then did the outer layer of Three-Part Revolving Force rupture with a hollow crash.
The stench of ozone filled the air as lightning crackled violently. The God King looked up, only to meet a pair of cold, detached eyes.
As the smoke cleared from Kaito's body, the man stood completely unharmed.
Fine scales coated his skin, while a faint, shimmering golden barrier expanded in rhythmic ripples before his chest.
Like two individuals fundamentally incapable of mutual comprehension, unable to perceive or connect with one another, the God King's hand and lightning were stopped cold by that golden barrier.
The power of the heart: the AT Field!
Sparks continued to dance across the perimeter, but the God of Martial Arts was already in motion.
Lightning fractured within the domain as a golden lance pierced straight through the God King's chest. With eyes glowing with kaleidoscopic gemstone hues, Kaito Shirogane was entirely immune to visual deception.
He flicked his wrist with effortless poise. Though he held no formal specialization in polearms, the amplification of the Martial God's Ultimate Intent transformed him into a master of the spear, instantly shattering the lightning afterimage left behind by the deity.
The afterimage burst into a localized blast of lightning capable of executing a Fierce-tier Reincarnator in an instant, yet striking Kaito Shirogane's AT Field, it failed to register the slightest effect.
The AT Field of the Evangelion universe was originally conceived as an existential barrier rooted in the longing for mutual human understanding and communion.
Yet in Kaito Shirogane's hands, the concept was entirely inverted. He had never once entertained the desire to understand or communicate with another soul.
He was born an anomaly, looking down upon the rest of humanity from his isolated pedestal.
Between him and the rest of the world, understanding was an impossibility.
His AT Field was dense to an impenetrable extreme.
Kaito Shirogane tightened his grip around the Spear of Longinus, activating its traits.
The silhouette of the Emperor of Death surfaced behind him. Potent divine death energy surged alongside the spectral roar of the Underworld, coating the lance in dense, pitch-black Senra Intent of Death.
The Spear of Longinus inherently carried the trait of absolute tracking; Kaito was merely imbuing it with the concept of absolute death.
Shuttling through the clouds in the form of raw lightning, the God King sensed the lethal convergence instantly.
Halting his flight, he unleashed another Divine Word.
"Divine Punishment!"
Crack—BOOM!
A pillar of divine thunder several kilometers wide plunged from the heavens, blasting clean through the sea and rattling the planetary crust.
Submarine volcanoes erupted as tectonic plates shifted, the searing heat of the lightning liquefying chunks of the seabed.
The display triggered towering tsunamis, pulling both Super Saiyans out of their trance to cast sharp gazes toward the disturbance.
The God King felt an agonizing throb between his brows—a visceral omen of mortality.
He knew that unleashing an attack of this cataclysmic scale risked enraging the benevolent Son Goku, yet he had fired anyway, because...
Had he hesitated, that lance would have ended his existence on the spot.
A high-pitched screech tore through the sky as ambient lightning surged in frenzied discord, sounding like the frantic chattering of a million birds.
Kaito Shirogane looked down at his charred right arm, his AT Field breached with a jagged fracture, his expression turning entirely detached.
He had originally intended to refrain from high-profile techniques to avoid derailing the clash between the two Super Saiyans, yet this God King insisted on pushing him.
Accustomed to being the aggressor, Kaito found being hounded this way unfamiliar.
Then, pure malice surged to the surface.
Omen of the Evil God: Activated.
A crimson phantom cloaked his frame. Kaito tilted his head, locking his gaze onto the God King of Thunder, denying the deity any avenue of escape from his perception.
Lightning divine power coursed through his wound, temporarily stalling his cellular regeneration, but...
BANG!
Kaito Shirogane drove his left fist directly into his own charred shoulder. The concussive shockwave ripped through the atmosphere, trailing a blazing white blast over kilometers.
The blackened limb, along with shreds of fresh flesh and shattered bone, was cleanly severed and hurled into the void.
Feeling no pain, his body regenerated the arm to pristine condition the very next instant.
Watching this display, the God King's divine consciousness flared with alarms.
BANG!
The next second, his frame buckled under an invisible, crushing force, hurling him backward through the sky.
His divine consciousness analyzed the blow instantly: Mercenary Tao had engaged another transformation.
A transformation akin to a crimson, demonic deity.
Tilting his head, Kaito stepped forward through empty air, muttering coldly: "Almost forgot... I still have a quest to hunt down the Thunder God pantheon."
Step.
Kaito Shirogane drove his arm straight through the atmosphere like a bayonet.
BOOM!
The air shattered into a blazing white shockwave, punching an enormous hole clean through the dense thunderclouds.
The God King shifted into lightning to evade the thrust, yet the sense of impending doom remained unbroken. He was locked down.
He glanced toward the two Super Saiyans across the horizon. The two monsters had paused their duel, their eyes fixed squarely upon him and Mercenary Tao.
There was no retreat. Abandoning the fight meant being hunted down and slaughtered by Mercenary Tao.
In that case...
"Heaven of Thunder, open!"
The God King's Divine Body ignited with blinding radiance. Countless Authorities coalesced across his skin as his divine power collapsed back into his core. The colossal halo of divine light behind him flared and fused over his flesh.
A colossal divine vessel over six meters tall materialized in the sky.
A Complete Divine Body!