Chapter 312: [Tsukuyomi] X The Nuclear Slash
What is that thing?!
The sudden change struck everyone's hearts like a heavy hammer!
Netero and Zeno abruptly narrowed their eyes. Amidst their violently shaking pupils, they saw...
A massive blue hand suddenly drilled out from behind Ryo, just like a giant extending its arm. Bones protruded, muscle fibers condensed, skin covered it, and it was endowed with blood vessels and blood. Right on time, it blocked in front of him, solidly taking Silva's strike!
On a large tree nearly two thousand meters away, Tsubone and the Kurta siblings stared in horror with their eyes wide open. Even an ordinary boy like Kurapika, who hadn't opened his aura nodes yet, instinctively felt at this moment—that a great terror existed between heaven and earth!
Boom! Only a loud noise was heard, like an evening drum and a morning bell, scattering the clouds in the nine heavens.
Relying on his [Force Field] to shorten the [Line of Force], Silva's fierce and solid [Cannon Punch] struck head-on against an arm manifested by the [Susanoo]. As the flame armor draped over the [Susanoo] trembled slightly, the man instantly felt an unprecedented, majestic force crashing down upon him. In just a single instant, it bounced him away!
"The 'nature of pervasive imagination' is the [Illusory Aspect], the 'nature of other-dependence' is the [Relative Aspect], and the 'nature of perfect reality' is the [Absolute Aspect]," Netero's expression was grave. Watching Silva fly higher and higher like a kite with a broken string until he became a black dot on the horizon, he said solemnly, "This is a [Dharma Manifestation]!"
A [Dharma Manifestation] is the [Manifestation of Heaven and Earth]. It is a phenomenological presentation containing extension and intension, and also the ultimate blooming of a Nen user's [Mental Materialization]!
Just like he had his [Guanyin of the Hundred Type] and Zeno had his [Dragon Head Caricature]. Were these manifestations not a little bit of enlightenment that old geezers like them had obtained after immersing themselves in [Nen] for decades?
But this little bit of enlightenment, which seemed to be displayed by the boy unfurling a Susanoo arm in the sky, was achieved in a mere two or three years, completing a journey that took him and Zeno decades.
Netero turned his head and glanced at Zeno: "Did you know?"
Zeno rubbed and crossed his hands behind his back, thinking to himself: "Should I have known?"
He forced himself to stay calm, putting on a breezy and indifferent appearance, remaining silent and profound... Netero frowned, and then cast a glance toward that dim little room on the first floor of the Zoldyck ancient castle...
In the dim little room, the rocking chair suddenly stopped... Maha and Betty, who had been enjoying themselves and sleeping in an embrace, seemed to have been awakened by a ray of sunlight shining through the window. They leisurely opened their eyes and slowly stood up from the chair!
"Maha, this child Ryo is finally starting to look decent..." Betty Zoldyck held Maha's arm. Watching Ryo unfurl the Susanoo arm, he didn't stop there. Instead, he increased his Nen aura output, completely liberating the body of [Susanoo]. It extended its arms, puffed out its chest, spread its back, grew a head, draped on the solar halo armor, condensed the [Shield of Daybreak] in its left hand, and pulled out the [Sword of Zenith] from the morning glow in its right hand. As two blazing flames suddenly ignited in its hollow eye sockets, it raised its head and let out a "roar"!
Roar~ An invisible might surpassing acoustic waves swept across the sky...
Thump... thump... thump... Looking across the entirety of Kukuroo Mountain, whether it was birds in the sky, beasts running on the ground, or fish swimming in the water, even... Mike, all felt an uncontrollable fear in their hearts. Their limbs went soft from fear, and they whimpered as they groveled on the ground!
A King, should rule over the world!
Memories of the past were awakened by the scene playing on the TV in front of him. As Maha watched and listened, the Nen aura naturally escaping from the top of his head faintly trembled, slowly revealing different faces... Among them were Brook Searle, Severus, Blake Shaw, and a multitude of millions who followed him, yearning for a better life, not hesitating to sacrifice and offer their lives, even... martyring themselves for the country... At this moment, they all seemed to become excited and thrilled!
Someone said: "I have seen this scene."
Someone said: "The King, looks familiar..."
Some stared blankly... some fell into reminiscence... more shouted with flushed faces... as if they were about to awaken from silence one after another.
Maha let his Nen aura consume at an extremely terrifying speed. Standing in front of the TV, accompanied by his subjects and subordinates, he quietly watched this scene and smiled with gratification...
"Betty, you are right. The child... finally looks somewhat decent..."
Crack... crack... crack... In the sky, by the clear pool, the continuously armed [Susanoo] finally revealed its full form. Although, with Ryo's current "Aura Volume" and "Ocular Power," it was not enough to support the [Susanoo]...
Activating the fourth stage, the Humanoid Form...
But even so...
When the half-body [Susanoo], holding the [Sword of Zenith] overflowing with solar halos in its left hand and raising the [Shield of Daybreak] wrapped in the morning glow in its right hand, settled amidst Kukuroo Mountain, its height of hundreds of meters still made everyone in the Zoldyck estate, including the butler apprentices, shiver, only able to look up in awe!
"Nii-san, is this your true strength?"
Deep within Kukuroo Mountain, about five hundred meters away from the clear pool, Illumi, with his smooth black hair draped over his back, leaned against a surviving large tree. He looked up blankly at the [Susanoo], and at Ryo with his flowing silver hair in the very center of its chest cavity. Ripples bloomed in his hollow eyes, unable to calm down for a long time...
It wasn't that he didn't know his brother was strong, and he had long given up the thought of competing with him. Over the past two years, after realizing the gap, his only desire was to be able to stand by his side and not be left too far behind. Illumi felt... that he would be satisfied...
But now... does he truly possess the strength to stand by Nii-san's side?
Illumi's thoughts were a mess. As his emotions fluctuated, he always thought of the instruction Ryo had given him... "You must train hard, don't actually let Gotoh surpass you."
The boy narrowed his eyes, reached out, and gripped the [Shinso Wooden Peg] Ryo had given him as a birthday present, murmuring: "What Gotoh can do, I can do too. I will never be worse than him!"
Buzz... In the butler's villa, within Gotoh's bedroom, as the blood cocoon vibrated, an intent leisurely probed out...
"Is that you, Young Master?"
Yes... is this still the Young Master?
To be exact... is the Young Master still human?
The beasts groveled, and heaven and earth fell silent!
Tsubone led the Kurta siblings. Although they had distanced themselves, upon noticing the [Susanoo] crash down into the mountain forest almost like a small hill, the old butler swung her two pink pigtails, still feeling they hadn't retreated far enough. Hastily grabbing Kurajin and Kurapika again, she continued to sweep backwards. "Whoosh... whoosh..." The sound of wind continuously whistled past their ears...
Silently feeling that terrifying atmosphere, Kurapika was held by Tsubone, lowering his eyelids. After a few breaths of traveling, they landed again. He couldn't help but ask, "Sister, what did you see?"
Kurajin held Tsubone's hand, opened her aura nodes, mobilized a trace of Nen aura, and attached it to Kurapika's body, coating his eyes with a layer of [Gyo] and said, "See for yourself."
Kurapika suddenly felt his eyes brighten significantly. Without waiting to be curious, he looked up, and his mouth abruptly opened wide. His amber eyes, due to the intense emotional fluctuation in that instant, transformed into Scarlet Eyes. It was no less intense than when he first met the Spiders in the original story, showing... just how immense his emotional turmoil was!
"A g... giant?"
The blue Susanoo, draped in fiery red flame armor, with its cape unfurled behind it bearing the brand of a solar halo, looked just like a god, instantly shattering the boy's cognition.
He tilted his small head up, looking with difficulty, just like the fish and beasts groveling in the water and on land, paying respects to the [Susanoo]. At a certain moment, he saw... a pair of fiery red wings sprouted from the ribs of the Susanoo with a "whoosh," carrying it as it slowly flew high into the sky. Its destination... aimed straight at... Silva, who had faintly become a spot on the horizon!
"Whoosh~" The roc spreads its wings, soaring ninety thousand miles straight up!
The Susanoo, standing hundreds of meters tall, rushed into the clouds, directly blocking out the sunlight above all living beings. Subsequently, large swaths of shadow cast down, providing Netero and Zeno a rare moment of coolness in this hot midsummer...
It was just a pity that this coolness was not worth mentioning compared to the shock.
"Hoh, it can even fly." Netero's eyebrows twitched. Thinking of his [Guanyin of the Hundred Type], although it integrated offense and defense, its mobility was poor... As the old man's old eyes opened and closed, he spoke with a hint of jealousy, a trace of envy vanishing imperceptibly. "You came late. If you had come a day earlier, not only would you have seen him fly, you would have seen him driving a chariot to fly..."
Zeno stood with his hands behind his back, looking up at Ryo chasing after Silva, recalling the boy driving the three-legged Golden Crows, piloting the [Sun Chariot], patrolling on behalf of the heavens... and said calmly.
Netero's eyes flashed, and he shook his head with a laugh...
"It seems this old man has missed something again."
But this was no longer important. He had had enough shock to eat today... So much that he couldn't help but wiggle his fingers, unable to restrain himself, wanting to give it a try...
"Whoosh~" A gust of wind rose. The Susanoo spread its wings, pressing down on large swaths of the mountain forest in Kukuroo Mountain, causing them to bend over in competition!
Quickly, it chased after Silva, closing in right behind him!
"Whoosh, rustle..." The strong gale pulled at his facial skin... The scorching flames crackled against his Nen...
Silva, who had just been blown away by Ryo using a Susanoo arm, forcefully stopped his body in mid-air. He adjusted his breathing, paused his steps, and looked back... The [Susanoo], close at hand, glared at him with two eye pupils burning like great suns...
That suffocating sense of oppression could only truly be experienced by those going through it!
"Heh heh heh... Hahaha..." Silva laughed unrestrainedly!
His silver hair danced wildly, his face twisting into an extreme grimace. Looking fiercely like a hawk and a wolf at Ryo within the chest cavity of the [Susanoo], he said: "Good!"
"Very good!"
Then, his smile suddenly vanished. Instead of retreating, he advanced, charging back towards the [Susanoo]!
He shouted deeply: "Force Field, fully open!"
"Buzz..." An invisible fluctuation instantly enveloped Ryo and the entire Susanoo...
Appearing as lines, it surfaced in front of Silva!
Becoming the close-range target of his strikes!
"Bang... bang... bang..." First strike guaranteed hit, second strike guaranteed hit, third strike guaranteed hit, fourth strike, tenth strike, hundredth strike, thousandth strike!
Punches and kicks coated in [Ko] landed on the [Susanoo] like cannonballs, continuous and unceasing like rain hitting banana leaves!
Relying on the amplification of the [Force Field], the lines of force were shaved off. The so-called "prediction" and "Transparent World" lost all meaning in front of a "guaranteed hit"... Therefore, after realizing this, Ryo simply summoned the [Susanoo]. Relying on its powerful defense, he withstood Silva's punches and kicks—which were barely weaker than missiles—while biding his time to find an opportunity.
"This line of thought is fine."
"The key... lies in attrition..."
Will Silva shatter Ryo's turtle shell first, or will Ryo exhaust Silva's stamina first... Netero's gaze was sharp, capturing Ryo's thoughts in an instant. He watched intently, casually scooping up Beans, whose legs had gone soft and almost fell out of the tree.
Pervert... too perverted... I said it, I shouldn't have come here...
His mung-bean-sized eyes filled with exhaustion, Beans simply sat on a tree branch, holding his head, no longer looking up at the sky, muttering complaints under his breath... Beside him, Zeno remained expressionless, only staring at the sky, watching the offense and defense. At a certain moment, the breastplate of the Susanoo gave a "crack," showing a fissure. Then, Silva seized the opportunity, punched through it, and reached inside...
Ryo's eyes flashed, realizing the opportunity he had been bitterly waiting for had arrived!
"Sleep..." A leisurely dream-eating murmur drifted from Ryo's mouth. His Mangekyo Sharingan, slowly containing a nebula and carrying a heart-palpitating blood-red color, suddenly glared at Silva!
Ocular power roared out like a torrent, instantly pouncing on Silva!
Amplified by a [Genjutsu] no weaker than [Tsukuyomi], the Blood Demon Art born from the Demon Dream... [Forced Hypnosis] struck squarely in the center of Silva's pupils!
The fist was clearly about to hit Ryo, and the fist wind had even reached Ryo's face... Silva suddenly felt a strong wave of drowsiness assail him. Pulling at him frantically, he closed his eyes, stopped his fist, and plunged towards the endless abyss!
"Whoosh, rustle..." The sound of wind faintly whistled in his ears...
Years, time, and space, just like his [Force Field], appeared as colorful lines, fading away from his eyes one by one...
In the leisurely heaven and earth, in the blink of an eye, it seemed he was the only one left, floating in the endless void, unable to distinguish directions and not knowing where to go, until... he hit the ground!
He saw—
A boy looking almost carved from the same mold as himself, leaning on a single sword, with a red sun on his back, waiting quietly for him in a land of singing birds and fragrant flowers...
Silva, his beautiful silver hair scattered over his shoulders, slowly landed on his feet. With another glance, he looked deeply at Ryo and said: "This place, is a dream, right."
Escaping reality into the void, escaping the void into reality, alternating between real and illusory, making it hazily difficult to distinguish...
The man quickly remembered that night when he met Ryo in a dream. That hug which he thought would break the ice, afterwards, became a subject of the boy's teasing, from far away...
He saw Ryo smile. The boy raised his sword, revealing two rows of white teeth: "Father observes clearly,"
"I have a sword strike that is inconvenient to execute in reality. I have no choice but to invite you to evaluate it here..."
Silva crossed his arms: "What sword strike?"
Ryo's expression turned serious. Holding the sword horizontally in front of him, he said deeply: "The Nuclear Slash!"
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