Gojo stared at the Hojo as a grin appeared across his face.
At the same moment, both of them were sent inside the larger barrier by Yahaech. This was going to be the last fight.
There was a special reason for making this duel last.
Inside the barrier, Gojo straightened his body and yawned a little before coming into the fighting stance.
His posture was kind of very similar to a martial artist. He was going to attack but suddenly he remembered something.
He withdrew his leaking cursed energy and appeared just before Hojo. Shocked, Hojo launched his fist at Gojo but his fist was immediately blocked by him.
"I'm not harming you as of now. Now touch me as much as you want."
"What? But why?" Hojo pulled back his hand from Gojo's grip.
"I want to fight you at your maximum potential."
After listening to him and knowing that it was to his advantage, Hojo touched Gojo's shoulder multiple times until his strength reached its maximum.
[Strength: 1050%]
[Strength: 1075%]
[Strength: 1100%]
[Strength: 1125%]
[Strength: 1150%]
[Strength: 1175%]
[Strength: 1200%]
[Strength: 1225%]
…..
[Strength: 2050%]
His strength reached about 20x from his original 100%. Immediately, he felt a satisfactory surge of energy throughout his body which gave him the feeling of invincibility.
Just suppose if Hojo uses 500% of his cursed energy into his speed, 1500% for damage output and remaining for defence.
It would make him literally much stronger, at least multiple times of his original.
"I think you are enjoying this new feeling. But now fight me at your full strength," Gojo warned him as the cursed energy again started to leak through his body, "because you are weak."
In an instant, the first hit lands on the centre of Hojo's abdomen, knocking the blood out of his mouth.
Before the impact could send him flying, another fist slammed into his face, crushing his skull bones immediately. Next one was a kick, which landed straight into the side of his neck, rotating him completely 180 degrees which sinked his head into the ground.
"Why are you still so weak, huh?"
Gojo tucked his hands into his pockets and dipped down his head to see his face. Hojo was already faded out.
"I don't want to kill you, but you should get a chance to attack me."
Hojo wasn't dead, so he couldn't resurrect again to regain his original stamina and body.
That's why Gojo killed him so that he could resurrect to fight again.
Hojo resurrected back to life and this time he has no fear or pain because this was nothing compared to what he had experienced before.
"This time, try not to disappoint me."
Gojo raised his right arm and gripped his left through his right. Then—he pulled his left arm that got severed from his body followed by a stream of blood.
"I'm limiting myself to one arm. I will not use the reversed cursed technique also."
He tossed his arm onto the ground and clenched his fist of right arm, blue cursed energy enveloping it immediately.
This time his smile widened even more as he closed the distance between him and Hojo.
Hojo instantly recognized this threat was not ordinary like Izumi and Michizane, Gojo had something different.
The way he smiled and rushed toward him sent chills running down his spine.
In response, Hojo focused more than seventy percent of cursed energy to attack.
At the right timing, he launched his fist toward Gojo.
Gojo didn't stop, didn't flinch but instead his only hand blocked the punch, gripping it tightly at its place.
The cursed energy Hojo poured in his punch was many times more than Gojo's but still Gojo blocked his hand like it was nothing.
Hojo tried to pull back his hand but no matter how hard he tried, his hand wasn't budging from its original position.
Gojo twisted his wrist, and with a sharp crack, the bones in Hojo's hand splintered. He pulled Hojo and then sent him crashing through the ground.
"Try harder!"
Gojo shouted to encourage Hojo to fight harder. To leave no stones unturned in defeating him.
Hojo's hand was twisted severely and bones inside it had broken into fragments.
*****
"Yahaech sama, I don't think he would be able to ever touch Gojo." Michizane said as he watched the battle inside the barrier.
"Hm, you are right. Why don't you and Izumi fight with Hojo against Gojo? It would be interesting to watch."
Yahaech suggested as he turned toward Michizane and Izumi.
"I don't have any problem. I always wanted to teach a lesson to this arrogant brat Gojo."
Izumi said in response as Yahaech looked first at him. Then, Michizane also agreed to this.
"Then go."
Yahaech said as he snapped his fingers, teleporting Izumi and Michizane inside the battle barrier.
*****
"Oh, now this is going to be really interesting."
Gojo said in excitement as his left hand healed back to his original in just a few seconds.
Hojo was not alone now. Still fighting single handedly was meaningless.
"Three vs one. I remember a situation like this once happened to me."
Gojo prepared his attack and this one wasn't a simple one. It was black flash. And to be honest, Gojo's black flash was enough to make even Sukuna unconscious in one hit.
Michizane came in front of Izumi, lighting orb forming in his hands. Behind him, Izumi summoned his sword BISECTOR.
Hojo this time tried to create a ball of raw cursed energy until Michizane and Izumi were handling the situation.
Gojo was the first to attack. He teleported behind Izumi and before he could turn around to dodge, a black flash was slammed into his back.
A shock wave emerged from the impact, spreading across the whole barrier. Izumi immediately spit out a lot of blood while focusing all his strength to just remain conscious at the same time.
Gojo didn't stop here, he again teleported and appeared before Michizane. Creating another black flash in his hand, he tried to hit Michizane.
But Michizane was already alert of this unlike Izumi.
Boom!
An explosion occurred the moment a lightning orb touched Gojo, sending him hundreds of meters away.
But Gojo was already healed thanks to the reversed cursed technique. But his hair and clothes had become untidy now.
"You are strong."
Gojo smirked as he raised his index finger into the air. Suddenly, the light seemed to dim as the dense red orb started to form above his finger.
"Cursed Technique Reversal: Red"
Crimson light flooded everywhere as Gojo released his technique red.
This wasn't an explosion. It was the complete destruction of everything which came in its path.
"Defend!!" Michizane shouted as he formed a barrier of lightning around him and others.
Izumi and Hojo also focused most of their power to defend.
The flash of red light lasted about three seconds, creating a large crater in the ground.
Michizane, Izumi and Hojo were still standing but their condition wasn't looking good, especially Hojo.
Izumi swung his hand to kill Hojo and then he resurrected back with zero injuries and full power.
"Now, all of you look like me."
Gojo chuckled as he stepped forward.
"Wanna do physical combat or I should end this early? The choice is yours." He said as he continued to close the distance with his deliberate steps.
"Why is he so arrogant?! It's not that he can kill us any time." Izumi thought as he fumed his fury inside.
Michizane's body was healed until this moment. And he didn't want the war to last long.
"DOMAIN EXPANSION: THE GREAT REFLECTOR"
"DOMAIN EXPANSION: OMNISCIENT VOID"
And in the end, "DOMAIN EXPANSION: INFINITE VOID"
Three domains opened at the same time, clashing with each other while Izumi and Michizane's domains were deliberately synchronized together to overwhelm Hojo's.
But the opposite happened. Gojo's domain was so superior to others that their domains got crushed immediately under its mere presence.
Space folded in on itself, not violently, but with a quiet, absolute authority. Every color split into a thousand meanings. Every sound multiplied into an endless chorus.
Then it came. Not darkness. Not light.
Everything.
This was Infinite Void. Michizane and others who were trapped inside it, their minds got flooded with an infinite amount of information.
They were trapped inside infinity itself, at the edge of the cosmos. Their bodies got paralyzed, their minds stopped working.
They were already defeated, both physically and mentally.
Gojo casually walked toward Michizane with absolute authority inside his domain.
"If your domain had no barrier, then maybe you had a chance against me."
Then, he pulled Michizane's head from his body and the stream of blood started to pour out of his neck. He threw the head away and walked toward Izumi.
"You are very weak. Unfortunately, you never had a chance."
Gojo severed his head with a flick of his wrist with no effort at all. Then, he stepped toward Hojo.
"Your name is similar to mine and you can potentially be stronger than me. But for now, you are weakest. Rest in peace for a moment."
Gojo was a little kind to him as he didn't detach his head like others. Instead, Gojo's hand pierced through Hojo's chest, killing him immediately.
None of them got a chance to even express their pain or emotions.
For some reason, even Hojo's resurrection wasn't working here.
*****
"Infinite Void… this domain can't be of this world. It's impossible for it to create a separate space for itself inside my domain. Yet, it's not only creating a separate dimension from mine, but even eating my domain."
Yahaech said as he was astonished by the Infinite Void. This domain was simply out of this world. It was God's domain.
"My all powers are nullified inside this Void, that's why I can't resurrect Hojo. I have to interfere or their soul would get lost in nothingness for real."
Yahaech raised his one hand and formed a special hand sign, different from domain expansion.
Yet, he said something similar.
"DOMAIN EXPANSION: EYES OF TRINITY"
Yahaech was the first to achieve this impossible feat. He opened his domain inside his domain.
Inside Infinity Void, a pair of large iridescent eyes opened in void, tearing the space itself as they blinked.
Then a third eye appeared above them. As it slowly opened, infinite Void started to shatter and it shattered completely before the third eye could open tenth of its whole.
After Infinite Void shattered, Yahaech dismissed his inner domain immediately as it could erase all conscious beings inside it from existence.
Thus, he cancelled his domain before it could form itself completely. Yet, this was enough to shatter a domain like Infinite Void.
"All duels are over now."