Returning to the Mysterious Era-Chapter 685 - Then I Will Fight You, You Mongrel! (1)
"Southern Dipper Red Falcon Fist! Southern Dipper Waterbird Fist! Southern Dipper Sonic Snake Fist! The complete Southern Dipper Covert Martial Inheritance?!"
Blood Vulture Dominator Fist stared wide-eyed at the scene, his Qi boiling over. His horror, shock, and astonishment was clearly reflected through his Will.
The more domineering and powerful a Covert Martial Arts, the harder it was to perfectly combine with another. This was even truer of the Southern Dipper Covert Martial Inheritance where each Southern Dipper fist art could be raised to perfected Holy Fist level.
The three Southern Dipper fist arts were the elite of the elite. In theory, dual cultivation was impossible, since the mind and body alike could not bear it. However, the truth lay bare before Blood Vulture Dominator Fist. This unfamiliar Southern Dipper heir had cultivated the complete Southern Dipper Inheritance! Furthermore, each was already extremely close to perfection!
Cassius could rival the former Ultimate Dark Form, Moon God, by using any one Southern Dipper fist art alone, let alone all three! Not to mention, there was his terrifying, towering physique... A Golem had limitless strength. It was the strongest shield.
All these combined had forged an absolute aberration. Even against an Ultimate Dark Form, he could be called a monstrous existence. Cassius actually possessed perfected power!
Force, dominance, power, ferocity? He had it all.
Cassius burst forth before the stunned gaze of Blood Vulture Dominator Fist! Wreathed in three-colored divine light, Cassius would fight this mongrel, Annihilation Disaster! He would commemorate Blood Vulture Dominator Fist's return with the blood of Annihilation Disaster!
Boom!
The Golem's steel body swept forward like a huge blurred shadow. Towering mountains were smashed and shaken into powder as Cassius and Annihilation Disaster closed in on each other.
Crack, crack...
Dense black tentacles beneath Annihilation Disaster's cloak unfurled like the petals of a man-eating flower. Each tentacle was as thick as a mountain, and strong enough to fend off an ordinary Ultimate Dark Form!
Boom, boom, boom!
The arms lashed violently, carving huge arcs through the air and whipping up whirlwinds that swept the land. Nearly a hundred tentacles slammed down on the advancing steel Golem without the slightest hesitation.
Bam! Bam! Bam!
Mountain-sized black tentacles struck the Golem's body, and resounded with immense metallic crashes. Rings of shockwaves splayed outward, and gold-red sparks burst like falling rain. That was only one arm! Dozens more pounded every corner of the Golem's body.
The earth collapsed, forming a semicircular bottomless pit. The rock and soil were blasted into powder and swept away by the wind.
Clang, clang, clang!
The impacts were as grand and sonorous as mighty bells.
"His body is like a solid iron mountain! No Holy Fist in the World of Calamity has ever been like this. Even among Ultimate Dark Forms, none seem to surpass him in this regard!" Annihilation Disaster's fearsome tentacles trembled, and its Will quaked. Its furious assault had barely worked!
The colossal steel body stood firm in the pit below, occasionally meeting the blows. More often than not, it simply let the tentacles hammer away at it, weathering the barrage as scarlet sparks burst along its outline. The Golem folded its arms before its chest, standing motionless as if displaying his tolerance for damage.
That contemptuous posture seemed to say: Come on, hit me! Do your best!
"Die!"
Nearly a hundred tentacles struck down together.
Thoom!
The entire mountain region shook thunderously. Dense cracks bloomed around the crater and black sludge geysered from the valley. At a glance, it looked like a black forest. Annihilation Disaster hovered above this sludge-formed forest and slowly started to descend.
However, a silver steel fist struck upward, denying it so much as a hair's breadth of descent! In raw strength and close combat, what Ultimate Dark Form could stand up to a Golem!?
Using nearly a hundred tentacles to batter the Golem was absolutely the wrong choice. Even if each tentacle had the strength of an ordinary Ultimate Dark Form, so what? If it can't be broken, it can't be broken! If it can't be suppressed, it can't be suppressed. That's just how reality worked!
Indeed, if not for Cassius wanting to test how many "catty" this newly born Ultimate Dark Form was worth and to gauge how far his perfected strength had reached after his sixth time-travel, Annihilation Disaster would never have been able to batter him for this long.
Cassius standing still to let it unload was already giving it plenty of face. However, the testing was over. If it kept pushing its luck, Cassius would not indulge it. The price of charging into close combat so arrogantly would be collected!
"Confidence is good. Arrogance, however, is not so good!"
Bang, crack!
The Golem's steel hands shot out, clamping down on Annihilation Disaster's tentacles like iron tongs. His terrifying grip made it feel a stab of pain. Before Annihilation Disaster could unleash an ability, its body suddenly accelerated as it was yanked down! Its head was slammed into the ground!
Boom!
A ring of shockwaves rippled out, but before they could disperse, another resounding thud sounded!
In the next instant, the great impacts merged into a rapid barrage.
Thud-thud-thud-thud-thud-thud-thud!
Ring after ring exploded, like many stones cast at once upon a calm lake at once. Dense ripples collided and canceled one another. At the core of the battlefield, Annihilation Disaster looked like a sandbag as it was slammed into the ground again and again.
The ground was getting compressed around Cassius. Soil hardened like rock, flattened and compacted by Annihilation Disaster's thrashing body!
Bam!
The final impact fell like a meteor, blasting magma up from deep underground. Scarlet fountains sprayed like sprinklers! Amid the magma rain, Annihilation Disaster flared with an extremely dangerous aura.
Yet just as it was about to act, Cassius sensed it and flung it away with the Thorn Sonic Death Armament, incidentally collecting some ‘interest’. A silver streak flashed as a steel hand blade fell.
Dozens of severed tentacles plunged into the ground at once.
Roar!
Wounded, Annihilation Disaster let out an unprecedented bellow. Its terrifying Will locked firmly onto Cassius. Its body hurtled wildly for dozens of kilometers before finally stopping, hanging in midair.
"The concept of annihilation truly hasn't been born for long. Aside from that strike at Blood Vulture Dominator Fist, it was likely adapting to its strength the rest of the time. No wonder it seems so green in battle, like a childish and impulsive child swinging a great hammer. It's nothing like the threat I felt from the Totem King..."
The Golem casually blasted away a falling black tentacle. Annihilation Disaster wasn't actually as inept as Cassius said. Though compared to Cassius, who had been tempered in constant life and death struggles, it was indeed a bit green.
At the very least, its thinking of combat was flawed. Clearly, it wasn't the strongest in melee, yet it dared to go into close combat against a Golem. In fact, given a little time and a few more clashes with Holy Fists, it would quickly see one principle and understand a hundred.
