Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…
Violent sonic booms tore across the sky one after another. A terrifying torrent of weapons streaked forward like a storm of metal, filling the air with the deafening clash of steel. From a distance, the countless blades and spears looked like a swarm of locusts devouring the heavens.
That overwhelming rain of weapon light smashed directly into the massive Gale Leg attack, shattering it apart in a burst of sparks.
Olatayo stood calmly atop the Ark of Light from beginning to end, his posture relaxed as if the battlefield belonged entirely to him. He truly embodied the role of a long range marksman.
Swish, swish!
The sky itself seemed to fracture as Lucien unleashed several Gale Legs in succession. Each kick released a ten thousand meter blade of compressed wind that tore through the clouds with unstoppable force.
The attacks surged forward like violent storms.
Olatayo only sneered.
Holding the Rainbow Sword in one hand, he casually swept it through the air. At the same time, golden vortices continuously appeared beside him, each one spitting out Noble Phantasms that intercepted Lucien's attacks.
Every Gale Leg was shattered before it could even approach.
Lucien's long range assault had absolutely no effect.
"Great Might Heavenly Dragon."
Lucien suddenly vanished.
The next instant, he appeared close to Olatayo as if he had teleported. Behind him, an enormous Divine Dragon materialized, stretching across the sky for a hundred thousand meters like a living mountain range.
The dragon roared.
The sound exploded like heavenly thunder.
With terrifying momentum, the colossal dragon lunged toward Olatayo at close range, carrying enough destructive force to shatter cities.
Olatayo's eyes narrowed slightly.
"You think my close combat ability is weak?"
Their gazes locked.
Olatayo's plum colored pupils shimmered with cold mockery as a sneer formed on his lips.
"Shinra Tensei."
Boom!
An immense surge of energy erupted outward. The surrounding magnetic field twisted violently as a massive repulsive force burst from Olatayo's body.
A tangible barrier formed around him.
The Divine Dragon slammed against the invisible wall and halted instantly.
Lucien's expression darkened.
"You people really love using that move."
Hearing that name again made his teeth itch in irritation. It felt as though every powerful enemy he encountered had some version of that ability.
Still, he could not deny its usefulness.
"ROAR!"
The Divine Dragon roared once more.
Cracks spread across the invisible barrier like shattered glass.
Olatayo's sneer slowly disappeared. His expression became grim.
Ever since he had obtained Shinra Tensei, no one had ever broken through it head on.
Yet the man before him was doing exactly that.
This bastard clearly had real strength.
"Blade of Undying Slaughter."
A golden vortex opened beside Olatayo's hand.
He reached inside and pulled out a strange weapon. It resembled a scythe, but the blade curved inward along the inner edge.
Without hesitation, he thrust the weapon straight toward Lucien's heart.
At that very moment, Shinra Tensei shattered completely.
Even so, Olatayo did not change his attack.
He had clearly chosen a brutal strategy. If he had to suffer eight hundred injuries just to deal the enemy a thousand, he would still do it.
Lucien was slightly surprised.
This man was just as ruthless as he was.
Pfft!
The sound of metal piercing flesh echoed through the air.
Lucien slammed his palm directly into Olatayo's chest at the same moment the Blade of Undying Slaughter plunged deep into Lucien's body.
A circular shockwave exploded outward.
Both men were blasted away in opposite directions, blood spraying through the sky like crimson rain.
Olatayo crashed back onto the Ark of Light.
His golden armor was covered in cracks. His chest had caved inward grotesquely, muscles torn open and bones shattered beneath the armor.
He dropped to one knee.
Blood poured from his mouth and nose.
Even with Shinra Tensei and the armor absorbing part of the impact, he was still severely injured.
The power of the Great Might Heavenly Dragon was not something easily endured.
"Hahaha… what a pity."
Olatayo staggered to his feet while coughing up fragments of internal organs.
Despite his injuries, he grinned like a victorious predator.
"You already lost."
The Blade of Undying Slaughter was no ordinary weapon. According to legend, it originated from Greek mythology.
Its shape resembled a scythe, with the blade facing inward.
The weapon itself was not particularly powerful.
However, any wound inflicted by it could never be reversed.
More importantly, the blade possessed the ability to nullify the Undying attribute.
At least ten powerful enemies had already died because of that ability.
"Cough… cough…"
Lucien hovered in midair.
His face rapidly lost color.
The cells around his pierced heart had completely died.
For anyone else, death would already be inevitable.
Lucien remained expressionless.
His index finger hardened with Armament Haki and became as sharp as a blade.
Without hesitation, he stabbed into his own chest and tore out a massive chunk of flesh.
Blood splattered everywhere.
For a moment, a hole large enough to see the scenery behind him appeared in his chest.
Then the flesh wriggled violently.
New tissue regenerated at a shocking speed.
Within two breaths, his chest had completely healed.
Olatayo's smile vanished.
His expression slowly twisted into disbelief.
This monster…
"The warm up is over."
Lucien's right hand ignited with intense crimson heat.
The chunk of flesh in his palm burned instantly into ashes.
His body began to change.
His skin hardened and transformed into a crystalline structure. Layers of reinforcement stacked together. extreme hardness, terrifying heat, Armament Haki, and Iron Body merged into a single defense.
Golden lightning flickered across his body.
White flames roared as waves of scorching steam poured into the air.
The energy pressure exploded upward.
The sky trembled.
The earth shook.
Lucien was finally getting serious.
Olatayo's face became solemn.
His fiery hair fluttered wildly in the violent wind.
Even his previously crushed chest had already recovered, along with the damaged golden armor.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
Countless golden vortices filled the sky.
Swords, spears, and halberds burst out like a rain of bullets, blasting toward Lucien from every direction.
Lucien did not move.
The weapons struck his body one after another, producing sparks and metallic shrieks.
Every blade either snapped in half or was deflected away.
Not a single weapon could pierce his defense.
Lucien stepped forward.
The golden torrent of weapons was pushed aside by sheer force.
"Are you tickling me?"
In the blink of an eye, he appeared directly in front of Olatayo.
His crystalline fist glowed crimson while releasing dense white steam. The heat pouring from it was like a miniature sun.
He punched downward.
"Shinra Tensei."
Olatayo remained calm.
Another overwhelming repulsive force erupted.
Boom!
The collision resembled a meteor striking the earth.
A massive pressure wave crashed down from the sky.
The entire surface of F City collapsed inward as skyscrapers were ripped from their foundations and blasted outward like a meteor shower.
At the center of the devastation, a gigantic crater appeared.
Olatayo knelt within the crater.
Moments later he slowly stood up and looked toward the sky, blood dripping from the corner of his mouth.
High above him, Lucien hovered silently.
Then he descended like a falling star.
"Meteor!"
The atmosphere rumbled violently.
Even before Lucien arrived, a terrifying pressure wave crashed down toward the ground.
Olatayo remained composed.
A golden vortex appeared beside him.
From it emerged a golden key shaped like a complex mechanical gear.
He grabbed the Noble Phantasm.
As the gears began to rotate, blood red crystalline energy spread across the sky before compressing inward.
Another weapon appeared.
This one was completely black and engraved with glowing red runes.
Reality itself began to twist around it.
The surrounding space fractured repeatedly as if being cut apart.
Olatayo grabbed the weapon.
"Ea Liberation."
The gears rotated.
The strange sword separated into three rotating segments.
"Enuma Elish, The Star of Creation that Split Heaven and Earth."
The entire world turned blood red.
Lightning flooded the sky as space itself began to crack apart.
The destructive power of creation surged outward.
The Guaílí Sword collided directly with Lucien's descending crystal leg.
For a brief moment, the world lost all sound.
Then light swallowed everything.
An explosion of unimaginable scale erupted.
A gigantic mushroom cloud expanded into the heavens while five massive shockwaves tore across the land, overturning the earth's crust and annihilating everything in their path.
The already ruined F City vanished completely.
Millions of people were instantly vaporized.
When the light finally faded, only a bottomless crater remained.
It looked like an entrance to hell itself.
Crimson magma erupted from the depths while earthquakes shook the surrounding land.
Lucien slowly pulled his body out from the crater wall.
Half of his body had been destroyed.
His entire right leg was gone, along with a large portion of his torso, leaving only a mangled mass of flesh and bone.
Colorful regenerative threads rapidly spread across the wounds.
His face looked slightly pale.
Even with Lucien's terrifying defense, a close range explosion comparable to the strongest weapons on Earth should not have been able to break through it.
Yet this attack had done exactly that.
"To survive my Guaílí Sword, you are indeed powerful."
Above the crater, Olatayo wiped the blood from his mouth while gripping the spiral Guaílí Sword.
The surrounding air warped violently, distorting reality itself.
Lucien slowly exhaled.
"This move is still ridiculously powerful."
He could not help remembering someone else who used that same attack.
A red glint flashed within Lucien's amethyst eyes.
"Die."
Space distorted.
In an instant, Olatayo appeared beside Lucien using instantaneous movement.
The Guaílí Sword sliced through the air, tearing open spatial fractures as it swept toward Lucien's head.
In Olatayo's mind, the outcome was already decided.
Within a hundred meter radius, he could teleport freely.
He had nearly died in order to obtain that ability.
Lucien's death was inevitable.
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