A Battle of the Strongest
Are you scared?
Kaya looked at Imu and suddenly burst into laughter.
"You couldn't wait to send out your five subordinates the moment you met, and now you've come here yourself. Are you so afraid of a future that's out of your control?"
Kaya's gaze lingered briefly on the bloodstains at the corner of Imu's mouth. "At the risk of..."
"You came injured? Don't let your body suddenly break down, or I won't be able to enjoy the fight." Rocks walked over with his sword.
Imu looked at Kaya in front of him and Rocks standing on the other side, his expression seemingly changing. "They're all restless fellows..."
Swish!
Suddenly, Imu raised his hand and brandished the long-handled sword in his hand, its blade curved like a spear, making a thrusting motion.
The next instant, Rocks appeared in front of Imu, wielding his sword with both hands and bringing it down.
However, Imu blocked the sword strike.
"You've really ruined me, you bastard who usurped the world!" Rocks was exerting all his strength, his face contorted like a wild beast.
"The world originally belonged to Mu!" Demonic energy enveloped the longsword in Imu's hand, and black flames burned silently.
"David D. Jones was the King of the World! You must be afraid of both Joy Boy and Davy Jones!" Rocks roared.
"Don't mention them again! They're all losers! The winner is Mu! Including the past! Including the present!" Imu roared.
Suddenly, Imu freed one hand and reached up to his shoulder.
The demonic aura surrounding his back formed a ring of malevolent eyes, and as if sensing his movement, a knife hilt extended outward from the aura.
He grabbed it with his other hand and pulled it out.
Clang!!
Imu drew his new weapon and, without even glancing at it, unleashed a slash in another direction.
The slash shattered the moment it left the blade, and a gleaming Reishi sword flew past, colliding head-on with the weapon he was holding!
Whether it was demonic energy or Reishi, it splashed out like sparks, dripping onto the ground before dissipating.
"What is this?" Kaya asked, sword in hand.
"The Heavenly Punishment Sword!" Imu said coldly.
Having said that, Imu vanished from the ground in an instant, escaping the encirclement of Rocks and Kaya.
The next second, Imu appeared high in the sky, with a pair of jet-black wings on his back, which gently flapped, lifting him above the clouds.
He put away his original weapon, raised the Heavenly Punishment Sword high with both hands, and pointed the blade straight down.
His demonic energy surged, flowing into his body and the sword. His muscles began to swell and grow larger, as did the greatsword wielded by the cross.
The sky seemed to have been cleaved open by an invisible giant, and rolling thunder still lingered and wailed in the clouds.
The sword had already fallen!
It wasn't the cold light of metal, but a pitch-black darkness that seemed to melt the entire sky, crashing down from a crack in the heavens, like divine punishment descending from the gods!
Before it even touched the ground, the airflow was already squeezed into howling wind blades, shredding the rocks, trees, and dust on the ground layer by layer and swirling them into vortexes!
Behind it, like a celestial river leaking down when the sky collapsed, without turning, it crashed straight down on the tiny human figure with an oppressive feeling that wanted to crush all sins.
The sword wind was like a punishment from the heavens; the moment it hit the ground, black light engulfed everything, leaving no embers, even sound and light were annihilated.
Imu shook his cloak, clearing away the dark dust, and casually pulled the sword that was stuck in the ground.
There was no one around, nothing at all.
"He's been sleeping on the throne for eight hundred years, has he lost his mind?! How could such an attack possibly hit him!"
Suddenly, Rocks burst out of the yellow dust and smoke, his body crackling with black and red electricity, his longsword moving so fast it was blurred and bent.
Imu raised his hand, and demonic energy gathered in his palm, forming a black shield that seemed capable of devouring all light.
"Let me think... The Nameless Sword!"
As if he had come up with a plan on the spur of the moment, Rocks held in his hand seemed to be not a sword, but a heavy hammer.
The sword energy slammed into the demonic energy shield like a heavy hammer.
After the resounding chimes, the shield stood firm, seemingly without mass or thickness, yet it withstood Rocks's attack.
"Rocks, get out of the way!" Kaya brandished his blue holy sword and delivered a finishing blow, shattering the demonic shield instantly.
"You've got that backwards! This guy is my prey!" Rocks roared, his second sword already prepared, "Monster-Destroying God Slash!"
The black, red, and blue sword arcs crossed, blocking Imu's escape route.
"Sword of Anger!!"
The sword in Imu's hand changed again, becoming exceptionally large, resembling a two-way flag, blazing with demonic flames.
He spun around himself at high speed, his movements powerful and dynamic, directly confronting the two men.
This is absolutely the most top-tier battle of our time, bar none!
The side effects are...
The island is about to crumble!
After the war began and caused widespread destruction, the earth finally cracked open, with deep, abyss-like fissures crisscrossing the land and continuing to widen.
If this continues, God Valley will inevitably split into multiple island fragments, transforming from an isolated island into a small archipelago.
But no one on the island had any intention of stopping.
"Kaya, you want to fight him one-on-one? Sorry, I'm furious right now!"
"Really? Looks like I saved you too early."
Kaya and Rocks stared at each other for a few moments. Neither of them would back down, nor would they back down, so they joined forces to attack Imu.
They chased and fought their way back, Imu retreated while fighting, quickly shifting the battlefield to the foot of a giant rock.
Imu suddenly took off and flew into the sky.
The two symmetrical giant valleys of the God Valley have straight and flat cross-sections, making it hard to believe that they are natural landforms.
Imu was flying in the middle of the valley. He retrieved the Sword of Anger, brought his arms to his chest, and made a special hand seal with his hands.
In the center of the half-open palm, a ball of demonic energy condensed into a small, jet-black bell.
Suddenly, he shifted his body to the side.
A blue Flying Slash grazed his body, heading further back, and finally landed on the rocky mountain, leaving a broken mark.
He looked up and saw that Kaya had no wings; he was simply floating in the air with his feet firmly planted on the ground.
"An evil outsider..." Imu whispered.
"Is this all the locals are going to do to welcome us?" Kaya heard this, raised his sword and pointed it at Imu, a cryptic smile on his face.
"Don't you understand? You've broken through the barriers of Mu's world. More unfamiliar things will impact everything that already exists. If we let you go unchecked, the world will eventually perish." Imu's tone was enigmatic.
"What the world looks like when it's destroyed, huh? I'd really like to see that." Kaya brandished his sword, about to unleash a slash.
At this moment, Kaya suddenly looked down and saw a small ball of black demonic energy attached to his body at some point. Noticing his gaze, the demonic energy grinned at him.
This is...
Kaya's mind raced, and he quickly understood the move from the information etched into his memory.
He grabbed the demonic energy with his bare hands, releasing a deep blue, Reishi Concentrated Flame that scorched the demonic energy at point-blank range.
The demonic energy swirled wildly in his hand, as if roaring silently, as if purified by holy light.
Finally, the black fluid flowed from between Kaya's fingers and dissipated with the flames, leaving only wisps of black smoke in the air.
This thing should be similar to Charlotte Linlin's Homies, belonging to the soul fragments of the ability user.
Imu can grant immortality to others simply by forming a contract; the life of the contracted person will then be entirely under Imu's control.
This could also be a method of sharing souls, similar to how Kaya created Quincy bloodlines.
Kaya suddenly looked down and smiled inexplicably.
"Now no one will bother us."