After defeating Metal Bat, whose momentum had reached its peak in history, Garou's form changed again. His body became even larger, the color of his keratinous carapace became even darker, and his tail and Kakuzu on his head became even more ferocious. Most notably, he gained a pair of wings on his back, making him look like a demon.
This is the Demon Garou!
The current Garou not only possesses the ability to fly, but also has an astonishing speed!
Coupled with his unparalleled martial arts skills, which allowed him to withstand the powerful physique of the Centipede Sage, judging from Meikyō's perspective, the current strength of the Demon Garou is even two points stronger than Boros in his energy-released state!
Taking advantage of the moment when the Garou attacked the Centipede Sage, Meikyō quickly clapped his hands and formed Hand Seals to create a Wood Clone.
"Transcription Seal · Mirror God Eye!"
A large amount of pupil power was injected into the Wood Clone by the Meikyō, and then the Wood Clone was slapped far away by the Meikyō.
What are you doing?
When Tatsumaki saw that Meikyō had made such a move during a break in the battle, she couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Keep a backup plan."
Meikyō did not tell the truth to Tatsumaki.
He could sense that Garou's strength was slowly increasing during their fight!
Meikyō was very envious of this absurd speed of growth, so he created a Wood Clone and injected half of his own eye power into it, just to use his Mirror God Eye to see how Garou was breaking his limiter.
I can't watch Saitama, but Garou's strength is now on par with mine, so surely I can watch him?
"Garou! You won't get anywhere fighting like this. How about we team up and take out the other two first?"
It wasn't just Meikyō who noticed that Garou had become stronger.
Centipede Elder also sensed it.
Among him, Meikyō, Tatsumaki, Centipede Elder is the strongest, which is why Garou beats Centipede Elder the most.
Therefore, Centipede Elder could clearly feel that the power of the Garou's punches had increased, and it hurt more when they hit him.
"No, no, no, how could I possibly team up with you? It would be more likely for the three of you to gang up on me!"
The Garou grinned and shook its head, as if to provoke Meikyō. With a flap of its wings, it instantly flew behind Meikyō and threw a punch.
Meikyō had already learned of Garou's actions through the Destiny Reading. He released Shinra Tensei behind him and then unleashed a Gravity Fist at Garou with his fist, which was filled with Armament Haki and wrapped in Blaze Release.
"Is that so? Then I might as well just take you two out in one go!"
The Centipede Sage seemed somewhat embarrassed and annoyed, or perhaps considering the Garou's interference, he realized that if he really wanted to win, he would have to fight with all his might.
Meikyō immediately saw that the core inside the Centipede Sage's body was surging outwards with energy. Instantly, he and Tatsumaki dodged to the other side, leaving Garou between himself and the Centipede Sage.
However, the Garou didn't care at all.
He wished the Centipede Sage could be even stronger.
"Click... click!"
The Centipede Sage's exoskeleton shattered, revealing a new layer of shell.
Unlike before, after shedding its skin, the countless tentacles turned into human arms, with an arm almost every meter or so. At the same time, Zenil's face opened its mouth, revealing two pairs of huge sharp teeth.
"What a bad breath!"
The Garou fanned the air in front of its nose and uttered the same exclamation as the Meikyō Tatsumaki.
"Sixty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-six large perforations!"
Centipede Sage's two pairs of sharp teeth came together, and then his body spun rapidly into the air. It could be vaguely seen that half of his body had already risen into space. Then, using the Earth's gravity, he crashed down, like a drilling machine, towards Garou.
At this moment, Meikyō realized that the Centipede Sage was over 66,666 meters long.
Faced with the Centipede Sage's attack, which could almost pierce through the earth's crust, Garou dared not be careless. He made a gesture resembling Tai Chi with his hands, circled around, and slapped his palm onto the Centipede Sage's sharp teeth. Then, his body spun in the same direction as the Centipede Sage.
The fangs were knocked away, and immediately following them were the 66,666 arms on one side of the Centipede Sage's body, which continuously surged towards the Garou as the Centipede Sage coiled around his body.
"I think I understand."
Meikyō narrowed his eyes, watching the scene before him.
"What do you know?"
"The Centipede Sage's precognitive ability can only affect one person at a time. Just now it was me, so your previous restraint was very effective. But now his precognitive target is Garou."
"That means now is a good opportunity!"
Tatsumaki's eyes lit up, and she was about to unleash her Psychic Power.
But Meikyō acted even faster.
"Inhale... exhale..."
A large amount of Natural Energy was drawn into the air by the Meikyō, which exhaled a thick white mist that spread around it, only to be quickly dispersed by the aftershocks of the battle between the Garou and the Centipede Sage.
Although he successfully cultivated immortality and all his Chakra was converted into Senjutsu Chakra, it does not mean that Meikyō can no longer use Breathing Technique.
Conversely, the amount of Natural Energy that one can normally contain is limited by the amount of Chakra. Even if the amount of Chakra in the Meikyō is large, there is still an upper limit, but the Natural Energy in the outside world is almost inexhaustible.
This allows Meikyō to temporarily use Breathing Technique to draw upon Natural Energy to enhance his power and unleash a burst of energy.
Although doing so will put a great burden on the body.
"Sun Breathing - Total Concentration - Void Flame Annihilation Slash!"
The Perfect Susanoo appeared, bearing some of the pressure of Natural Energy for Meikyō's body. Amaterasu Black Flame filled the blade of the Totsuka Blade, slashing towards the Centipede Sage's body.
This sword Void Flame Gravity Slash; it can be considered an upgraded version of the Void Flame Gravity Slash.
This move was created because Meikyō incorporated insights gained from observing Solar Storm and integrated them with his own Sun Breathing technique, which resonated with him most deeply.
Only by drawing upon the vast Natural Energy from the outside world and using its own energy as a guide can the process of Solar Storm be simulated in the brief Setsuna of a single sword strike.
The Centipede Sage and the Garou were entangled with each other, posing little threat to Meikyō for a certain period of time. This even gave Meikyō time to gather energy and absorb Natural Energy, allowing Meikyō to unleash this move.
And its power is, of course, extraordinary.
In Setsuna, the world lost its color.
In a short time, Meikyō tore through space and Perfect Susanoo into space. When the back of the Centipede Sage's tail turned to face the front, he seized the opportunity and stabbed the end of the Centipede Sage's spine with his sword. Then, stepping on the Centipede Sage's back, which was more than two thousand meters wide, he charged down with the Totsuka Blade.
The Perfect Susanoo hundreds of meters tall, but on the back of this centipede that is more than two thousand meters wide, it looks like a human running on a street that is several meters wide.
The streets that the Perfect Susanoo run through were all cut in half.
Fortunately, the Centipede Sage's body was already rapidly burrowing downwards, allowing the Perfect Susanoo to accelerate using inertia.
"Oh no... what's going on?!"
The Centipede Sage's face, belonging to Zenil, froze instantly.
"Your combat experience isn't very rich! When there were other enemies, you focused too much attention on me and ignored the other powerful foes. It seems you don't have a clear understanding of your own strength and have overestimated your abilities."
"More importantly, you actually dared to be distracted while fighting me!"
The Garou demon sneered, flapped its wings, and Setsuna appeared in front of the Centipede Sage's head, extending two powerful arms to firmly grasp the tips of the Centipede Sage's two pairs of sharp fangs.
"You... your power... how has it gotten stronger again!"
The Centipede Sage panicked even more.
The next second, the Centipede Sage's head was torn in two along its fangs.
"Still healing yourself? That's pretty fast. How about I blow your whole body to pieces?"
The Garou clenched its fists and, propelled by the wings on its back, swiftly pounded towards the other end of the Centipede Sage's body.
With each punch, large chunks of flesh and blood were obliterated and disappeared.
And so, starting from the Centipede Sage's tail and starting from the Centipede Sage's head, Garou Meikyō charged in opposite directions.
The two soon met at a certain point on the Centipede Sage's body.
This is the location of the Centipede Sage's core—originally located in his heart, but this core can move freely within the Centipede Sage 'Centipede Sage body to enhance his survivability. However, at this moment, the Centipede Sage's body is reduced to this small piece, and the core has naturally been forced here.
In the next instant, the Centipede Sage's core was completely annihilated.
The blade of the Totsuka Blade held by the Perfect Susanoo collided with Garou's powerful fists.
A terrifying energy shockwave erupted at that moment.
Tatsumaki, suspended in mid-air below, disregarded everything else and exerted all her strength to extend her Psychic Power shield, struggling to block the aftershocks of the energy impact.
If left unchecked, this energy shock would be enough to collapse a large part of the continent, and the remaining half would be subject to natural disasters such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
The energy shockwave finally dissipated.
The Psychic Power shield, emitting a bluish-green light, flickered a few times before finally disappearing.
Tatsumaki's little windbreaker was tattered, her tiny body swayed incessantly, and finally she fell from the sky.
"Elder sister!"
Just when things were getting critical, Fubuki over and used her Psychic Power to hold off Tatsumaki.
She was seriously injured in the previous battle and activated the escape function on her combat suit to be taken to Genus for treatment.
Although the injury has not yet healed, after recovering to a certain extent, it knocked out the Armored Gorilla and telekinetic Katsuyu guarding the gate and rushed over to try to help, which is how Tatsumaki was saved.
In the sky.
The Perfect Susanoo, leaving only the Meikyō Body holding the Ama-no-Ohabari.
Meikyō and the Garou passed each other, leaving behind a few fluttering pieces of clothing in mid-air—those were the hems of Meikyō's clothes.
"This guy... is there no limit to how much he can improve his strength?"
Meikyō's hand holding the Ama-no-Ohabari trembled slightly, her tiger's mouth felt numb, and her body felt somewhat weak.
"Fortunately, he has my Amaterasu on him!"
Meikyō looked at the Garou, but his expression quickly changed.
While it was true that Garou's arms were stained with Amaterasu Black Flame, the purplish-black armor on his arms was also rapidly shattering and falling to the ground, revealing Garou's new arms.
"How was it? I just learned from that giant centipede. He replaced tens of thousands of his arms, while I could only replace one. I'm a little worse off. Oh no, that guy died at my hands, so he should be a little worse than me. But no, that guy died at the hands of both of us."
The Garou smiled and pointed his finger at Meikyō.
"So if I kill you, it means you're inferior to me, and then I'll be the strongest evil!"
Another fist came crashing down on Meikyō.
Meikyō had no choice but to use his spatial abilities and the Water World to barely hold off the Garou.
"The ability to manipulate space and time? That's amazing! I could learn that centipede's ability after seeing it once, but yours is a bit more profound. I'll have to look at it several times."
The joking voice of the Garou came over, making Meikyō feel somewhat annoyed.
Is this guy using such a huge cheat code?
At first, he learned martial arts very quickly, and could steal the opponent's martial arts techniques during battles. Then he was able to learn Mumen Rider's special fighting style, learn Metal Bat's aura, and even integrate these things into his own fighting system.
Now they're even starting to directly copy other people's abilities!
But I really can't do without spatial abilities and the Water World.
Without these two abilities, he estimated he could only last ten or twenty moves against Garou before being seriously injured. With these two abilities holding him back, plus Garou's apprehension of Amaterasu and his cautious defense against the Void Flame Annihilation Slash he had just witnessed, he was able to temporarily hold his own against Garou.
After all, although Garou learned to molt from the Centipede Sage, it must have consumed a lot of his energy, and might even have created an opening.
"What do we do now? Although Zenil has been eliminated, we now face an even more troublesome Hero Hunter. The only ones among us who could possibly participate in a battle of this scale, Tatsumaki and Metal Bat, are seriously injured and unconscious. We must call for backup! Have you managed to contact King and Blast?"
"I am nervous, "the Overlord Emperor said.
He was now wearing the same small sunglasses he had worn when he appeared on television before, and only with the help of the high-tech sunglasses could he barely make out the situation of Meikyō and Garou's battle.
He could already see that Meikyō was now at a disadvantage.
"King has been contacted. As for Blast, although there's no news yet, there are people stronger than him!"
Genos suddenly spoke up.
Just now, his built-in communication device received a call from Sitch.
"They've arrived!"
Genos turned his head and looked at a helicopter flying against the strong wind in the distance.