With two consecutive attacks rendered completely ineffective, Gojo Satoru raised an eyebrow slightly, then took the initiative and charged straight toward Seele.
Since cursed techniques weren't working, Gojo decided to engage in close combat—settling the outcome the old-fashioned way, with pure "elbow technique."
Boom! Boom! Boom!
In an instant, the two figures collided, turning into afterimages. At speeds nearly imperceptible to the naked eye, they exchanged countless blows within a single second, turning an area spanning several kilometers into their battlefield.
The two figures flashed back and forth at extreme speed, the shockwaves from their movements kicking up massive clouds of dust and rubble, leaving the entire area in utter ruin.
After a brief moment, the two finally separated.
Seele stood there completely unharmed. Her blue-and-white dress was spotless, not even a speck of dust clinging to it. Gojo, on the other hand, bore several new wounds, and his once-neat clothes were now riddled with tears.
In pure close combat, Seele's fighting technique was undeniably refined. The massive scythe moved in her hands as naturally as an extension of her body, never once appearing unwieldy.
Even so, during that brief exchange, Seele had still been slightly outmatched by Gojo in terms of close-combat skill.
At the very least, judging by how many attacks had successfully landed, Gojo's strikes outnumbered Seele's by a noticeable margin. Seele's hits were far from few, but there was still a clear gap between them.
After all, in the original setting, Seele's personal combat proficiency wasn't considered top-tier. Before becoming a Herrscher, more than eighty percent of her experience and fighting instincts belonged to Dark Seele.
Of course, that was assuming Quantumization wasn't taken into account.
In reality, throughout the entire exchange, every single one of Gojo's attacks had been avoided by Seele through Quantumization. In contrast, despite Gojo's superior technique, his body had still been left with substantial injuries from Seele's blows.
Taking advantage of the brief separation, Gojo used Reverse Cursed Technique to instantly heal his wounds.
Looking at Seele standing opposite him—immaculate, her cursed energy showing no sign of depletion whatsoever—even Gojo, who hadn't felt this exhilarated in battle for years, couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth.
"Both cursed techniques and physical attacks are effortlessly dodged. On offense, you can practically ignore cursed energy defenses altogether. And your consumption is this low as well?"
From the moment the fight began, under the observation of his Six Eyes, Seele had been maintaining Quantumization almost continuously—yet her cursed energy showed virtually no loss.
That meant the idea of forcing her to repeatedly activate her technique to drain her reserves was completely unrealistic.
Every attack that did land passed through her body like it was striking an illusion, producing no effect whatsoever. Meanwhile, her attacks could easily injure him, bypassing both technique-based defenses and raw cursed energy reinforcement.
Add to that mobility akin to instantaneous teleportation, easily keeping pace with his own speed—
Even with Gojo Satoru's mindset, he couldn't help but feel frustrated.
He had never seen such a shameless cursed technique before. No weaknesses, and each effect more outrageous than the last.
What next—Domain Expansion? Using the guaranteed-hit effect to see if he could lock onto her position?
No. Judging from the earlier exchanges, even a domain might not necessarily work.
Better to try something else first—to probe the limits of her technique.
On the other side, Seele had no idea what Gojo was thinking.
In truth, Quantumization wasn't quite as invincible as Gojo imagined. As long as the scale was sufficient, a quantumized state could be forcibly broken.
After all, focusing solely on effects while ignoring output and scale was nothing but sophistry. Any seemingly invincible ability ultimately boiled down to one issue—the opponent's scale wasn't large enough.
Take the Honkai world as an example. With enough output, space, time, quantum states, imaginary constructs, even consciousness itself could all be interfered with. If something couldn't be affected, it simply meant the scale still wasn't high enough—so you just hit it harder.
And that was precisely Gojo's greatest problem.
Bearing the Authority of the Herrscher of Life and Death, along with the massive cursed energy derived from it, Seele's sheer scale in this world was utterly unmatched. Compared to her, even Gojo—the so-called strongest jujutsu sorcerer—was separated by a chasm.
Under such circumstances, Quantumization naturally appeared unstoppable to the people of this world.
Now, in order to break through Seele's Quantumization, after ruling out Domain Expansion, Gojo was forced to resort to another technique.
Blue and red cursed energy gathered at his sides, compressing and condensing until they formed two distinct spheres.
"Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue.
Cursed Technique Reversal: Red."
Watching the two techniques stabilize, Gojo brought his hands together, forcing the two opposing forces to merge.
Blue's attraction and Red's repulsion collided and intertwined, ultimately giving birth to a mass of purple cursed energy radiating extreme danger.
"Hollow Technique: Purple!"
A pseudo-mass born from the collision of Blue and Red—created through the contradiction between the two—possessing unparalleled destructive power. A technique Gojo used only on rare occasions.
"This move is pretty brutal," Gojo said lightly. "If you can't handle it, you'd better dodge in time."
Despite choosing to fight, Gojo harbored no hostility toward An Xora or Seele from the beginning. He didn't want the girl before him to suffer any irreversible harm from his attack, which was why he gave her a warning beforehand.
The next instant, the fully charged purple energy erupted, transforming into a devastating torrent that surged toward the girl.
Seele tightened her grip on the scythe.
She had many ways to deal with this—evading directly with Quantumization, dodging aside, or even meeting it head-on.
But since the goal was to defeat Gojo decisively and intimidate the higher-ups of the jujutsu world, the best choice was the one that most clearly demonstrated her strength.
That meant—
A frontal clash.
A force brimming with vitality gathered in her hands. The power of Creation, part of the Herrscher of Life and Death's Authority, wasn't limited to support—it could display tremendous might in battle as well.
However, just as Seele began to gather cursed energy imbued with Creation, another force surged forth within her body.
Black-and-red cursed energy erupted without warning.
"Leave the finishing blow to me."
Hearing the voice of her other self, Seele nodded.
In the next moment, cursed energy steeped in death—so dangerous that merely looking at it sent chills down one's spine—exploded outward.
At some point, Seele's eyes had changed to a completely different hue. She raised her scythe, and with a simple swing—
The immense cursed energy carrying the Authority of Withering instantly enveloped the oncoming purple torrent, eroding and dissolving it completely.