The cooling lava cracked faintly beneath Lü Bu's feet, as though he were treading on countless charred skeletons. He slowly raised Sky Piercer, its tip scraping across the cooled rock with a piercing metallic rasp, pointing straight at the unmoving figure in green on the viewing platform. On his forehead, the dark-purple Giratina emblem suddenly lit up, eerie light flowing across it. Though Lü Bu retained a human shape, he had transformed into a terrifying demon god. His body was covered in sinister black-and-red armor resembling Giratina's exoskeleton, with golden spikes at the joints. His hands became sharp claws coated in shadow energy, their fingertips capable of tearing space. A pair of tattered dragon wings formed from shadows and red energy spread behind him. An exposed core burned with dark-red light in his chest-the antimatter core that was the source of his power.
In this form, he seemed a perfect killing machine, a perfect fusion of violence and chaos.
"Guan Yu!" Lü Bu's voice sank low, yet carried the penetrating force of metal tearing through cloth. Every word bore the icy aura of the Distortion World as it pressed toward the viewing platform. "Today, I will show you what it means to be unrivaled under heaven!"
Guan Yu's hand, resting on his weapon's hilt, finally moved. Long, powerful fingers with distinct knuckles slowly tightened around the Green Dragon Crescent Blade's hilt, wrapped in azure dragon patterns. He said nothing. Only his green robe suddenly stirred without wind, snapping loudly as a vast, boundless, majestic dragon aura, seemingly present since primordial times, erupted like a sleeping dragon fully awakening!
In an instant, Guan Yu transformed into another form. His eyes became majestic golden slit pupils, and faint azure dragon-scale patterns appeared on the skin of his face, neck, and arms, strengthening