Then, Satsui no Hado and blood energy ignited violently, devouring all light around.
[Ultimate Power: 80%!]
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom——!!!
In the pitch-black darkness where nothing was visible, what should have been the sound of fists striking turned into continuous explosive booms, like a string of missile detonations.
It was as if someone had set off a chain of missile-like firecrackers in the dark.
Within this dark area, shockwaves comparable to hundreds of tons of high explosives erupted, illuminating the darkness.
Every punch Raize threw dealt true damage. Fists imbued with fierce killing intent struck not only the undead's skeletal body but also his demigod-level soul.
"Aaaaaah..."
Under the storm of punches accelerating toward 'infinite' speed, the demigod undead screamed in agony. Had he not specialized in his laws and soul, this attack would have shattered his soul to dust.
Why was the Shun Goku Satsu (Instant Prison Murder) so feared among assassination techniques? Precisely because of this exterminating strike that obliterated both body and soul, erasing all existence it touched!
When the darkness of the Shun Goku Satsu dispersed, the undead, though not dead, was revealed with his once-imposing robe reduced to tattered rags. Even his skeletal frame was covered in dense cracks.
Large sections of his ribcage were broken, and a sizable hole had cracked open in his skull. Ectoplasmic energy, evidence of the undead's injury, continuously dissipated into the void.
Seeing how resilient the undead was, surviving his full-power Shun Goku Satsu, Raize immediately prepared to follow up with another Ansatsuken technique.
But he halted his attack, ducking low to evade as a ray of instant-death energy shot past overhead.
The undead, who had fired the death ray from his eyes, now held an ornate skeletal staff in his hand. Being wounded by a human he had looked down upon drove him to madness.
Whether he could obtain Hellscythe no longer mattered. All he wanted now was to kill this damned bastard quickly!!
"Die, die, die, die, die! A mere lowly human dares to wound me? I'll sink your soul into purgatory for eternal torment!"
Letting out a frenzied roar, the undead no longer teleported to create distance. Instead, he activated his ultimate technique.
Space trembled violently as if rippling like water. Dark death energy spread out in liquid waves.
Like spilled paint coloring everything in the surrounding space, the floating Cursed Island behind the undead began to disintegrate and transform, turning into pure death energy that flooded into the void and its master's body. It altered the sky and earth within a cubic kilometer, completely reshaping the area.
The law of death materialized, spreading like a reality marble to corrupt everything around. But there was no spatial transfer—this was an erosion of real space.
Far below in the city, watching the battle, Lucoa yawned and casually infused a bit of power into the mirror-space barrier, preventing the undead's death law domain from eroding the real world.
"Aren't you going to help, Fafnir?"
Her ample bosom pressed against the windowsill, Lucoa rested her chin on her fair hands, watching the scene above with amused interest. She suddenly glanced at the black-clad butler youth, Fafnir, hovering silently and observing the battle.
Fafnir hovered mid-air, arms crossed, calmly watching the battle above. He frowned slightly at the undead's law domain. Hearing Lucoa's voice, he snorted coldly and made no move.
"Unnecessary. Tohru can handle it herself. And given that human's peculiarity, even if the undead goes all out, he probably still can't kill him."
Having observed the entire battlefield, Fafnir had initially considered stepping in to save Raize. But his sharp eyes caught the composed expression on Raize's face.
Even when facing the power of death, this human remained unexpectedly calm.
Fafnir was quite curious about Raize's limits. At their first meeting, Raize had seemed merely somewhat capable in his eyes. Yet now, he was confronting a demigod undead head-on, relying on his mysterious peculiarities.
Moreover, facing death energy that even Fafnir would find troublesome, this guy had swallowed it whole. It greatly piqued Fafnir's interest in Raize, so he refrained from intervening and decided to keep watching.
"Well~ It seems Fafnir has quite some confidence in Raize. Do your best, Raize~ Let's see where your limits lie~~"
Maintaining a calm, composed smile, her slightly narrowed eyes opened a bit more, intently fixed on Raize's unfazed figure even in the face of death.
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Materializing the law of death into a domain that eroded the world—this was a realm belonging solely to the dead.
The undead's law domain was extremely overbearing, allowing no existence other than himself to survive.
Spanning approximately one cubic kilometer, the law domain was governed by rules and order set by the undead. It was an independent space severed from reality. Within the domain, it eroded the flesh of all living beings, devoured their souls. Anyone alive entering would meet only one end: complete destruction of body and soul!
This was the terror of demigod-level powerhouses, giants who dominated their corners in Tohru's world as well.
Even beings of the same level entering his domain would face all-pervasive erosion. Though this human was special, surely he couldn't withstand such a supreme killer move from a powerhouse.
For a somewhat capable, peculiar human to die within his domain would be a great honor. But to the undead, it was an insult—using a law domain on a creature who had only managed to wound him with petty tricks.
It was like killing a chicken with a divine sword!
The undead was confident this human, Raize, wouldn't last a second or two before dying. No matter how special he was, how could a human without comprehended laws possibly counter him?
Well then, hurry up and let out a beautiful, unwilling scream, turn to dust, and disappear. Die quickly, human.
"Nah, try harder!"
Wearing an expression of utter disdain and mockery, Raize stood there, alive and kicking, examining the death law domain around him. He glanced sideways with extreme sarcasm at the undead, whose face now showed disbelief.
Releasing the Reject Phenomena ability, he repelled the all-pervasive erosion of [Death] around him. Death was simply rejected outside his body.
Though this move of the undead was indeed formidable—releasing a domain with an [Instant Death] buff to kill enemies—without the Reject Phenomena ability, it might have given Raize considerable trouble.
Silence...
Quiet...
A dead silence filled with awkward atmosphere spread through the death domain as the mocked undead fell into wordless stillness.
The undead raised a hand to rub his skeletal eye sockets, then silently stared at Raize, who remained lively and full of vigor not far away, looking back at him with a mocking face.
Doubting his undead existence, he carefully examined his law domain around him. Then, casually grabbing a monstrous creature from outside the domain, he watched as its soul and body turned to dust within a second, confirming nothing was amiss. Finally, he roared in furious exasperation:
"Why the hell are you still alive!?!?"
The monarch of the undead had gone completely mad. What the hell was up with this damned human?! Why were none of his killer moves working? Was it fun to slap him in the face over and over again?!
Once again, he unleashed his proud death spell [Death Zero Point]. This time, he created over a hundred dark singularities.
Frantically, the undead no longer knew restraint or conservation. Unwilling to believe his domain couldn't kill the enemy, he maintained the domain while madly manipulating the [Death Zero Points], launching them like bowling balls.
Tiny black singularities appeared around the undead, who was radiating death energy wildly. Each of the hundreds of death singularity spheres possessed the power to annihilate an island nation. They fell from the sky like raindrops or hailstones, bombarding the mocking youth below.
Whoosh!