Chapter 186: The Ninja Village Never Taught This!
Foss of Violence's strike sliced through Sonic's waist.
Or at least, it should have.
Instead, the edge cut through empty air.
There was no resistance.
No flesh.
No blood.
Only a hollow afterimage.
Before Foss could react, a miserable scream rang out from behind him.
He turned his head sharply.
At some point, Sonic had already appeared behind the group.
One of the Tennin stood frozen in place for a breath, his eyes wide with disbelief.
Then his head slid from his neck.
Blood sprayed into the rain.
"How is he this fast?!"
The remaining Tennin were startled, but they reacted quickly.
Several of them struck at the same time and shattered the cliff beneath their feet.
The entire ledge collapsed.
Along with falling rocks and broken earth, the Tennin dropped toward the bottom of the cliff.
Yet while they were in midair, they began moving rapidly between the falling debris, using each chunk of stone as a foothold.
Sonic watched them and sneered.
"You're really bringing out such an outdated tactic?"
The moment he spoke, one of the Tennin had already rushed in front of him and swung his sword.
Sonic's response was his left hand.
Lightning bloomed in his palm.
"Chidori."
The next instant, the enemy's sword shattered.
The screaming lightning pierced straight through the Tennin's chest.
"How... is this possible...?"
On the verge of death, the Tennin stared at Sonic's hand in confusion.
"What is this...?"
The Ninja Village had never taught such a move.
Sonic did not immediately withdraw his hand.
Facing another Tennin rushing toward him, he changed the form of the Chidori that had pierced through the first enemy's chest.
"Chidori Sharp Spear."
A beam of lightning burst outward.
It swept horizontally across the air.
The dead Tennin in front of Sonic was torn apart completely, and the Tennin behind him failed to dodge in time.
His body was cut in half at the waist.
In the blink of an eye, the once aggressive Heavenly Ninja Party had already lost three members in a single exchange.
The expressions of the remaining seven Tennin turned extremely ugly.
Although the three who died were the weakest among them, the fact that Sonic could kill them in one move was enough to prove his strength.
But things had already reached this point.
They had no way back.
They could only walk this path to the end.
Foss was the first to shout.
"Attack together! Kill him!"
Facing their siege, Sonic dodged with an elegant and almost leisurely pace.
There was no urgency in his movements.
He even had time to mock them.
"Your strength isn't even comparable to those Monsters from before. Didn't the Monster Association tell you that?"
Foss and the others looked grim after hearing that.
Both sides had only been using each other.
But they had not expected to be the ones played.
At that moment, Asuramaru noticed something unusual through his perception.
He immediately warned Sonic.
"Something else is approaching. A lot of them."
Hearing this, Sonic did not care much.
He could leave at any time anyway.
After cutting down another Tennin with a swing of his sword, he spoke coldly.
"It seems your reinforcements have arrived."
The remaining Tennin were stunned.
Their first thought was of the five people guarding the perimeter.
But very soon, they realized that was not the case.
Hundreds of robots descended from the horizon.
They landed directly in the deep mountains, surrounding the area together with the Tennin.
One of the robots emitted a synthetic mechanical voice.
"We are the Machine God Organization. We have come to recover that sword. We hope you will cooperate."
Every one of these robots possessed Demon level strength.
Foss and the others, who had been under immense pressure, finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Sonic, however, continued dodging and counterattacking without the slightest change in expression.
Even so, he heard what the robot had said.
"Machine God Organization?"
Another organization he had never heard of.
Inside the sword, Asuramaru was not surprised.
In the original story, the Organization and the Monster Association had already been colluding in the shadows.
However, even Asuramaru did not know the specific details behind this Organization.
But it did not matter.
With Saitama around, everything was temporary.
If things truly became impossible, Sonic could just use Flying Thunder God and return directly to Saitama's doorstep.
Outside, after Sonic cut down several robots, he could not help frowning.
"Asuramaru, I don't get feedback from killing these robots?"
Asuramaru had not heard any system notification either.
But thinking about it, if these robots were destroyed, the most that would happen was that the Machine God Organization would feel distressed over the loss.
They had no life force to devour and no power worth extracting.
Naturally, there was no feedback.
With that thought, Asuramaru replied directly.
"Isn't that obvious?"
The more Sonic fought, the more annoyed he became.
If there was no feedback, then killing even one more robot felt like a loss.
But when he glanced up at the cloud covered sky, lightning and thunder finally began to roar within the rain.
Missiles flew toward him.
Explosions erupted, sending smoke and dust rolling across the battlefield.
Sonic's figure flashed.
Psychokinesis activated, and he rose into the air.
He sheathed his sword and looked down at everything below.
His gaze was like that of a god looking down on ants.
"Consider yourselves lucky."
His voice was cold.
"You get to see this move with your own eyes."
As he spoke, Chidori bloomed in his hand once again.
Under the gaze of everyone below, the thunder and lightning hidden beneath the thick clouds seemed to receive a summons.
All of it gathered in one direction.
Standing beneath the sky, Sonic spoke unhurriedly.
"This move requires the help of lightning falling from the heavens. I am merely guiding it toward you."
Above him, the clouds churned.
"This technique is called Kirin."
The moment his voice fell, a huge and ferocious thunder beast broke through the clouds and appeared behind him.
Its body was made of lightning.
Its roar shook the mountains.
"What the hell is that thing?"
The Tennin below, along with the Machine God Organization, fell into confusion and fear.
"Did the Ninja Village teach this?"
"That's lightning, but why does it look like that?"
"Record the data and begin analysis."
Inside the sword, Asuramaru's mouth curved slightly.
The One Punch Man world rarely used energy in this kind of special, structured way.
Seeing a supernatural technique like Kirin, it was normal for them to react like this.
As for Sonic, he slowly raised his hand.
His voice fell like a final judgment.
"Vanish along with the roar of thunder."
As his hand rose, Kirin also raised its head and leapt back into the dark clouds.
Then Sonic swung his hand down.
The thunder beast broke through the clouds.
It descended straight into the mountains.
Kirin crashed into the earth and burst apart into thousands of lightning bolts.
The entire area became a sea of lightning.
In the blink of an eye, every robot below malfunctioned and fell to the ground.
The remaining Tennin were reduced to charred corpses and collapsed in the rain.
From a great distance away, Psykos witnessed everything through her clone and could not help cursing her bad luck.
This lineup should have been capable of hunting him down.
But every time they met, that man was stronger than before.
Worse, he kept revealing strange abilities they had never even heard of.
If he still had his previous strength, even if he managed to defeat these enemies with that sword, he would certainly have been heavily injured.
Then it would have been their turn to kill him.
Now, all of it had come to nothing.
Gouketsu, with a mechanical arm attached to his side, looked toward the distant battlefield.
He moved the new arm uncomfortably and said in a deep voice, "Let's go."
His four eyes stared at the lightning scorched mountains.
"The few of us can no longer kill him."
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