Chapter 149: Hisoka is Straight!
"How could this be? These guys were clearly caught in the bomb blast, how could they possibly be completely unharmed?"
Chrollo's expression was somewhat terrified.
It wasn't just him; Hisoka's expression at this moment was also incredibly grim.
They had already tested the explosion reaction time and blast radius effect of these time bombs beforehand.
The conclusion they reached was that even if one dodged within the blast zone just now, they would still suffer significant injuries.
If one's luck was slightly bad, it could even be directly fatal.
But it absolutely wouldn't result in being completely unharmed.
However, right before their eyes...
Riku and the others showed absolutely no wounds, and they bizarrely emerged slowly from the ruins of the explosion!
It felt exactly as if they had teleported from somewhere else.
In reality, the instant Riku arrived, he saw the Time Bomb traits bound to these players.
And in the very instant the bombs exploded just now, he could even clearly see the air shockwave compressed and expanding from the blast.
Whether it was the short-distance teleportation ability he obtained previously or the Lightning Nen Beast ability, both allowed him to easily displace himself!
Because outside this area, Riku had arranged quite a few Lightning Nen Beasts.
Any single Lightning Nen Beast could serve as the starting and ending point for Riku's displacement.
So, in the instant the bombs exploded, Riku directly used this ability to teleport himself and all the summoned Lightning Nen Beasts, including Machi and Shizuku, into his own world, evading the blast.
He only left a tiny Lightning Core in the place he departed from.
After the explosion ended, he teleported back using that remaining coordinate.
Resulting in the scene before their eyes.
"Attack!!"
Chrollo shouted lowly. He quickly distanced himself from Hisoka, and the two moved from the left and right respectively, encircling Riku's group.
Behind him trailed threads invisible to the naked eye.
Unlike Machi's threads, the threads in Chrollo's hands moved rapidly, like taut steel wires capable of effortlessly slicing through steel.
Behind Hisoka appeared a massive amount of crimson playing cards.
These playing cards shot towards Ulquiorra like a violent storm.
His target was only one person.
And that was to wash away his past humiliation.
"Hehe."
Ulquiorra sneered expressionlessly, his figure instantly vanishing from the spot.
When he reappeared, he was already over ten meters away, drawing his sword.
Stationary slash!
Astonishingly fast!
Substantial-looking slashing waves blasted out!
They actually accurately struck the crimson playing cards one by one. All the playing cards were shattered by these slashing waves before they even touched Ulquiorra.
Moreover, these slashing waves, their momentum undiminished, continued to howl forward, effortlessly slicing through the nearby rocks and trees.
Hisoka's eyes shifted slightly, his expression becoming exceptionally ugly.
He hadn't expected that the blood-colored cards he obtained through bitter training couldn't even inflict substantial damage on Ulquiorra.
This meant that back at the Heaven's Arena, this guy hadn't used his true strength at all.
Riku was also somewhat surprised.
Because he noticed a blurry, illusory trait on this puppet: [Blood-Colored Cards] - Gold.
The one dealing with Chrollo was the mighty Aizen.
Also existing as a Nen Beast, he merely raised his hand.
Danku!
Hum~~
Rumble!!!
Chrollo's invisible threads were completely blocked. The sudden spatial partition even directly caused Chrollo to be cut by his own threads.
"So strong! The strength of every single one of these guys far exceeds the members of my former team. If they all gathered together, they would likely be one of the top factions in this world!"
Chrollo was shocked inwardly.
Whether it was Ulquiorra or Aizen, the combat power they displayed far exceeded his expectations.
He could absolutely guarantee that, besides himself, any single member of his team facing them alone would have no chance of winning whatsoever.
And Hisoka's side was even worse.
Ulquiorra directly activated his second form, Segunda Etapa!
This, of course, was also Riku's own ability. Now, he could completely support dual-line control, or even multi-line control.
Ulquiorra in Segunda Etapa was simply terrifying to the extreme.
It even made Chrollo tremble inwardly.
Teleportation-like speed, and... the power of the lightning javelin thrown from the opponent's hand was simply appalling.
BOOM—
A lightning javelin from Ulquiorra howled past, practically grazing Hisoka's face.
It exploded violently behind him.
A mushroom cloud visible to the naked eye rose. The power of the explosion was actually no less than the combined power of all those detonated bombs just now!
A terrifying crater, also hundreds of meters in diameter, appeared.
The violent wind pressure snapped nearby trees and swept up the shattered rocks.
Hisoka's expression was as grim as could be. By the time he reacted again, Ulquiorra in Segunda Etapa had already arrived in front of him.
With a pfft sound, the glowing lightning directly severed one of the Hisoka puppet's arms.
The severed stump was scorched black, emitting green smoke.
Although this body was merely a puppet, because an immense amount of Nen had been poured into it, the sensations the two felt were almost 100% real.
Only in this way could the combat power of these two puppets be unleashed to its maximum limit, closest to their true level.
But now.
The incredibly familiar pain of a severed arm hit him once again, making Hisoka unable to stop a low, beast-like growl from escaping his throat.
"It seems that after so much time has passed, you are still as weak as ever. What a pity. For a weakling like you, even another 100 years of training wouldn't amount to anything more."
Ulquiorra, in his Segunda Etapa state, spoke with an indifferent expression.
Every word he spoke seemed to stab into Hisoka's heart, making his expression incredibly ugly.
In his life, Hisoka had defeated countless opponents and humiliated countless opponents.
But he had absolutely never been humiliated by someone like this, falling twice in the exact same place.
The arm of his puppet had been severed again, the pain so incredibly clear.
He had clearly grown stronger, so why was he still unable to catch up to this guy?
He refused to believe it!
Absolutely refused to believe it!
Hisoka let out a beast-like roar in his heart. The eyes of his puppet became bloodshot, and even a few drops of blood trickled from his nose.
"Hisoka! Stop! If you continue like this, your own consciousness won't be able to leave this puppet's body! Once this puppet dies, your consciousness might completely die as well."
Seeing this scene, Chrollo couldn't help but exclaim.
The ability of his Absolute Puppet was to inject a person's will into another person's puppet body, thereby controlling the other body.
For easier control, the more consciousness injected, the more real everything felt within this puppet body.
But once one's consciousness was injected into this puppet beyond a certain limit...
It would cause the consciousness to believe that this body was its true body.
And once this puppet was killed, the consciousness would also believe it had died, leading to the actual death of the true body in reality.
This was very similar to a cruel form of execution: placing a prisoner in a pitch-black room with no visibility, pretending to slit their wrists, and using water drops beside their wrists to simulate the feeling of bleeding.
By the next day, the prisoner would be found dead from excessive blood loss!
Even though there were no wounds on their body whatsoever.
This is because the brain believes it is constantly bleeding, causing the consciousness to believe it should die from excessive blood loss.
This is a cognitive realization within the brain's subconscious.
This was also the drawback of Absolute Puppet.
"Hehe, Chrollo! It's a pity I couldn't use this move on you. I originally prepared this move for you. You better watch closely; this move of mine... will be very cool!"
The expression of the one-armed Hisoka became incredibly crazed.
This player, originally just a puppet, actually had his appearance rapidly changing, transforming into Hisoka's true appearance. This meant the consciousness he injected into this puppet body had completely exceeded the puppet's limit.
In other words, from this moment on, this body was equivalent to Hisoka's own true body.
Once this puppet body was slain, Hisoka in reality would also die because of it.
But at this moment, the blood-crazed Hisoka completely didn't care about these things; he only wanted revenge.
He only wanted to do everything possible to kill Ulquiorra!
Today, either he kills the opponent.
Or he gets killed.
A battle to decide superiority, and life and death!
"Roar—"
Hisoka roared furiously. At this moment, the usual relaxed and composed demeanor was completely gone from his face, replaced only by a beast-like madness. Every vein on his body bulged, his face filled with an expression of agony.
Pfft! Pfft!
In the next instant.
Hisoka's entire person became exactly like a blood fountain, spraying out a massive amount of blood as every vein on his body instantly burst.
Bizarrely, this blood didn't scatter on the ground; instead, it gathered in front of him, forming a playing card made of blood!
The Joker!
And having lost all this blood to absorption, his face currently looked incredibly pale. His entire person seemed to have aged decades in an instant.
But his eyes were incredibly excited and fanatical, burning like torches.
This was the strongest strike of his entire life, bar none.
It was also the strongest achievement he had comprehended while harboring hatred over these past days.
Blood-Colored Card!
Even if he died as a result, this peculiar card would still relentlessly hunt down the opponent.
Once the opponent was injured, it could replenish itself using the opponent's blood. It could be said to be a fight to the bitter end.
The moment this Blood-Colored Card appeared, Chrollo's expression also became incredibly solemn. Even from a distance, he could clearly sense the overwhelmingly thick metallic scent, as well as the terrifying power of hatred attached to this Blood-Colored Card.
It was exactly as if Hisoka had bet his very soul on it!
The aura of madness and hatred made one's heart tremble!
Even Riku couldn't help but take an extra glance at this card.
Blood-Colored Card - Gold Trait!
Although only Gold, the power of this thing far exceeded all of Hisoka's previous attacks.
Interesting.
"Go!!"
The aged Hisoka feebly raised his finger. His parched lips cracked slightly as he murmured in a voice as soft as a mosquito's.
In the next instant.
Hum~~~
The Blood-Colored Card actually vanished abruptly in mid-air, exactly like teleportation. In the next instant, it appeared directly in front of Ulquiorra in his Segunda Etapa state.
BOOM—
A deafening explosion.
To Chrollo's utter astonishment, that seemingly incredibly thin Blood-Colored Card actually possessed unparalleled power.
Ulquiorra, who had blocked with his sword horizontally, was directly knocked flying. The opponent's feet forcefully carved a trench over a hundred meters long in the ground before he barely managed to stop.
But that Blood-Colored Card vanished again in the next instant.
Exactly like teleportation, making it impossible to track.
When it reappeared, it was already behind Ulquiorra's neck.
BOOM—
But before this thing could land, a black Cero erupted from Ulquiorra, directly blocking it.
The terrifying black Cero blasted all rocks and vegetation in its path into smithereens!
The terrifying power made Chrollo pale in horror.
"I didn't expect... the fruit I had my eye on seems to have grown into a towering tree. This isn't what I wanted to see!"
The incredibly aged Hisoka struggled forward, suddenly spitting out another mouthful of heart's blood.
This blood vanished into thin air, appearing directly on the Blood-Colored Card. After absorbing this blood, the Blood-Colored Card seemed to have taken a potent drug.
It instantly forcefully broke through the black Cero.
And then... BOOM—
Amidst a violent explosion, it slammed directly into Ulquiorra!
This scene made even Chrollo pull away from Aizen, staring in astonishment.
The shockwave dissipated.
He finally saw the situation inside clearly, but his pupils couldn't help but shrink, his heart beating faster.
Ahead.
At the starting point of the massive channel pierced by the black Cero, Ulquiorra still stood in place.
But a blood card was embedded in the location of his heart.
Then, a diagonal cut ran from his right shoulder down to his left lower abdomen, dividing his entire person into two halves.
Under Hisoka and Chrollo's pleasantly surprised and excited gazes, Ulquiorra actually separated into two diagonal pieces, then slowly slid down.
An expression of bewilderment could even be seen on his face.
As if he couldn't comprehend his own death in such a manner.
"It succeeded!! Hisoka! You succeeded! This is indeed the strongest strike I have ever seen!"
Chrollo couldn't help his excitement.
And Hisoka, who had aged decades and squeezed practically all the blood from his own body, finally revealed a gratified smile on his deeply wrinkled face.
This trip of his was worth it.
Killing Ulquiorra could be considered fulfilling his dedication and wish.
Even if the price was his life, he wouldn't hesitate. After all, his original wish was to hunt these delicious fruits.
Either he dies by their hands...
And ultimately... he won!
Hm!?
The smile on Hisoka's aged face suddenly froze. It wasn't just him; Chrollo's expression also became exceptionally colorful.
The eyes of both men practically bulged out of their sockets.
Written all over with disbelief.
Before their eyes.
The Ulquiorra who had been sliced into two halves lay on the ground.
What made them pale in horror was that no internal organs or bones could be seen in the opponent's severed body, nor did any blood flow out.
What could be seen was only that lightning, flashing as if it were substantial.
Ulquiorra... isn't human!!
This guy...
Is actually a Nen Beast!
He is a Lightning Nen Beast!!!
The instant they saw this fact before their eyes, Chrollo and Hisoka felt as if their souls had left their bodies, exactly like a massive temple bell ringing in their ears.
They finally instantly realized who their true opponent had been all along.
But it was already too late!
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