Fear Kid, attack power 4,300!
"Battle!" Aster said. "Destiny HERO - Fear Kid, attack 'Gear Gigant - Giant Grinder'!
Heavenly Soaring Crushing Cloud Palm!!!"
Yes, although this thing was an American-style HERO, its finishing move somehow carried a heavy martial arts flavor. All that could be said was that Aster, an overseas player who used American-style HEROes, still had a bit of martial arts in him.
Fear Kid bent his knees and gathered strength. With the sharp crack of bursting chains, he shot into the sky like a cannonball, the pressure of his ascent whipping the surrounding rubble into a vortex. At the peak of his leap, the muscles in his right arm suddenly swelled, and the bleeding scars across it lit up with a crimson glow.
As he fell, the chains wrapped around his arm lashed through the air, producing sonic booms. The instant his steel palm touched Giant Grinder's forehead, spiderweb-like cracks appeared. Then, a transparent shockwave spread outward in a sphere, distorting the space it passed through like ripples on water.
A palm strike descending from the heavens!
Boom!
The cloud of dust kicked up by that palm engulfed the entire Field, and the gale it unleashed made it nearly impossible to keep one's eyes open. Giant Grinder's steel body swayed unsteadily before crashing to the ground with a thunderous rumble.
[IV, LP 4000 → LP 2200]
The blast wave sent IV flying, and he rolled across the ground several times in a miserable tumble.
"Damn it. But NO. Monsters cannot be destroyed by battle by Monsters other than NO.," IV said as he knelt on one knee. "Giant Grinder will not be destroyed!"
The surrounding spectators all secretly lamented the missed opportunity.
That fierce offensive from Aster could have steamrolled the duel after Fear