Super God Academy: Kabuto

Hua Ye raised an eyebrow and looked in the direction of the sound.

In the distance, beside a section of alloy pillar torn apart by artillery fire and warped upwards, a man was leaning against something. He was dressed in a magenta fitted coat, which was out of place in the surrounding war-torn scene. He was looking down and playing with a similarly magenta driver, his posture as relaxed as if he were waiting for a friend in a street cafe.

"Oh?" Hua Ye chuckled, a mocking glint in his single eye. "Another one who's courting death? Your clothes are actually more pleasing to the eye than those dark, grimy tin cans down there."

Tsukasa Kadoya slowly raised his head. He didn't look at Hua Ye, but first glanced at the Super Soldier Corps and the angels struggling below, his gaze lingering on Qi Lin for a moment before turning to Hua Ye in the air. A smile, completely different from Hua Ye's violent arrogance, appeared on his lips, yet more unfathomable.

"Just a Kamen Rider passing by," he said calmly, as if stating a simple fact, "who happened to see some guy calling himself 'King' wantonly destroying the little scenery he could find." He securely fastened the Decade Driver to his waist with a crisp click, "I'm a little... a bit annoyed by it."

A card had somehow appeared between his fingers, its edges shimmering with an eerie light. He glanced at Hua Ye with a half-smile and added, "And, I heard... you were defeated by 'him'?"

Before the words were even finished, he lightly flicked his fingertips.

The card flew in a precise arc into the driver and automatically returned to its original position.

【Kamen Ride!】

The gem in the center of the driver lit up, and a clear mechanical sound rang out.

The card's phantom spun and enlarged rapidly in the air before finally settling on the outline of a crimson rhinoceros beetle, containing a power that transcends time!

Kabuto

"Transformation."

The calm declaration fell.

A crimson, photon-blood-like light surged from the driver, instantly enveloping Tsukasa Kadoya's entire body! Within the light, the armor's outline rapidly constructed, transformed, and strengthened! The compound eyes shone with a scarlet light, and the heavy armor exploded and reformed within the light, ultimately taking on the streamlined and sleek form of Kamen Rider Kabuto, a design brimming with the aesthetic fusion of biological and mechanical elements! However, the armor's primary color remained its signature magenta, and the joints and energy patterns flowed with the power characteristics of Decade—"Kamen Rider Decade Kabuto Form!"

"What?!" Hua Ye's pupils suddenly contracted. Seeing the familiar rhinoceros beetle silhouette and the prelude to the activation of the Ascension, he almost reflexively took a step back, his face showing obvious surprise for the first time. "There's another one... exactly the same?!"

Attack Ride!

【Clock Up!】

The magenta armored beetle's compound eyes flashed red, and its figure instantly blurred, transforming into a magenta streak of light that was almost impossible to catch!

However, almost simultaneously with the start of the uptime process.

"Void Stasis Field!"

Hua Ye let out a sharp shout and suddenly spread his arms to the sides! This time, it wasn't about creating a large-scale spacetime prison, but a more bizarre and targeted interference with the laws of nature. Centered on that crimson stream of light, an invisible "field" instantly took shape.

Space itself was not distorted or broken, but the concept of "motion" itself was stripped away, diluted, and denied layer by layer. It was not about applying resistance, but about interfering with and suppressing things at the level of the fundamental laws of existence—denying the possibility of particles gaining extra kinetic energy, denying the path of energy transmission at faster-than-light speed, and even locally interfering with the uniformity of the passage of time.

The dazzling light of "Clock Up!" lasted for less than a tenth of a second before dissipating and disappearing like water splashing against an invisible wall.

The figure of Magenta Kabuto became clear again, and the air around him seemed to solidify into transparent amber. No matter how much power erupted within him, from the outside, his movements were only slightly faster than those of an ordinary person, completely losing that ghostly sense of defying the laws of physics and teleporting almost instantaneously.

"Tsk." A soft click of the tongue came from under the armor, not sounding panicked, but more like a normal sigh of dissatisfaction with the experimental results.

"See that? Your movements were frozen in my 'field'!" Hua Ye grinned smugly, slowly approaching. Dark energy condensed in his hand into a pitch-black void longsword whose edges constantly devoured light. "It seems you don't possess 'his' brute force to shatter everything; you're merely a... degraded imitation." He raised the sword, pointing it at his opponent. "This is the power a god should wield. Defining rules, erasing variables. Your speed is nothing more than a toy switch in my hand that I can turn off at any time."

Before he finished speaking, Hua Ye's figure vanished instantly! With the terrifying explosive power of the Fourth Generation Divine Body, he appeared in front of the Crimson Armored Fighter almost instantly! The heavy sword, wrapped in void energy, slashed down fiercely with a shrill whistling sound that tore through space!

"when--!!!"

The deafening explosion of metal clashing together was deafening!

At the last moment, the Crimson Armored Warrior raised his arms in a crossed parry, the Void Sword striking the sturdy armor, unleashing blinding sparks and turbulent energy! The immense force slammed him backward, his feet carving two scorching furrows into the alloy deck, sparks flying everywhere! A faint, strained hum emanated from the armor's surface. Having lost the absolute speed advantage of Ascension, and facing the brute force of a Fourth Generation God Body enhanced by Void energy head-on, he was clearly at a disadvantage.

"It seems that the concept of 'void' in this universe has a higher priority and stronger influence on the fundamental physical laws than expected." Magenta Kabuto steadied himself, slowly lowered his slightly numb arm, and moved his wrist joints. His compound eyes calmly stared at the grinning Hua Ye, his tone still steady, as if he had not just been repelled. "The tactic of simply relying on time acceleration has had its effectiveness disrupted at the conceptual level by your 'field'."

"Good to know! Now kneel down and beg for mercy, swear allegiance to my Heavenly Palace order, and perhaps..." Hua Ye's arrogant words were not finished.

Magenta Kabuto—Tsukasa Kadoya—tilted his head slightly, and the light in his compound eyes seemed to flicker. He stopped trying to activate the interfered Clock Up and instead reached for another card box at his waist.

"The speed is limited..." he muttered to himself, as if weighing his options. "Then, let's try a different 'way'."

His fingertips had already touched the next card. The tide of battle was about to shift unpredictably once again because of this small card.