Super God Academy: Kabuto

Xiao Ming's fingertips brushed against the Decade Driver slot at his waist, letting out a barely audible hum. A faint red light flashed in his compound eyes, conveying a clear contempt.

"Who told you," his voice, penetrating the armor, carried a calmness akin to scrutinizing an experimental subject, "that I only know how to use 'speed' to counter such a crude trick as 'suppression'?"

With a deft flick of his finger, a new card appeared out of thin air. Instead of being immediately inserted into the driver, it was gently enveloped and lifted by a magenta halo that seemed to be alive.

"Your 'Void' can define and eliminate the concept of 'motion' within the framework of this universe. So..." He paused slightly, his compound eyes locking onto the distorted force field core in front of Hua Ye.

Attack Ride!

——Dimension Slash!

The card transformed into a stream of light and disappeared into the driver. The moment the sound effect rang out, Brother Xiaoming simply raised his arm casually and made a light swipe in the void in front of him.

There was no earth-shattering energy explosion, no terrifying spectacle of space being torn apart. A thin, straight "crack," its edges shimmering with a magenta glow, silently spread through the space before him, like the sharpest blade slicing through the smoothest silk. The crack was eerily calm, but wherever it passed, Hua Ye's meticulously woven "void stasis field," powerful enough to slow down time and space, was like a black curtain being cut by invisible scissors, revealing regular, smooth breaks! The continuity of the force field was completely disrupted, and energy dissipated chaotically on both sides of the breaks.

"What the hell?!" Hua Ye's sinister smile froze, his one eye widening for the first time in disbelief. The black hole engine within him emitted a sharp, almost piercing, alarm—an unanalyzable entity from outside this universe was being detected intervening! This wasn't about using stronger dark energy to counteract or annihilate it; it was like using a pair of conceptual scissors—completely foreign to this universe—to directly cut through the "fabric" of the universe's spatial laws! Brutal, direct, and completely beyond his understanding of "defining rules."

Just as that magenta crack tore a stable fissure in the stasis field—

Xiao Ming's figure moved.

It wasn't based on muscle bursts or energy propulsion, nor was it the previous streak of light-like acceleration. His figure flickered, like a poorly positioned image.

He appeared directly from a spatial "fragment" node that had been cut out by the "Dimensional Slash" and temporarily returned to normal physical rules, and then appeared directly in the next adjacent node that had also been "purified". His movement trajectory was completely unpredictable by any known kinematic model, as if he was using these forcibly created, temporary "normal law zones" to jump between spatial levels.

"Got you?"

A calm voice suddenly rang out from behind Hua Ye, right next to him!

Hua Ye turned around in horror, and in his single eye, he saw a fist wrapped in magenta lightning, seemingly containing the power to cut through the world, rapidly enlarging in his field of vision!

"Ugh—!"

A solid, muffled thud! This punch not only possessed far greater power than before, but also carried a bizarre penetrating force, instantly released after breaking the constraints of the rules and infused with dimensional cutting properties. Hua Ye screamed, thrown to the side in an even more disheveled state than before, the armor on his cheek caved in, fine cracks spreading out, and golden divine blood splattering from the cracks.

"Damn it!!" Hua Ye forced himself to steady himself in mid-air, his rage almost driving him mad. He no longer tried to maintain that delicate but fragile "static field," but instead frantically increased the power of the black hole engine, pouring the violent void energy into the surrounding space like splashed ink!

In an instant, centered on him, a vast expanse of airspace was filled with countless "void swamps" of varying sizes, constantly appearing and disappearing randomly. These swamps lacked a stable form; they would sometimes expand and devour light, and sometimes contract and release turbulence, like living traps, indiscriminately interfering with all forms of energy and movement. This was the most clumsy, yet most unscrupulous tactic—using a completely chaotic, all-encompassing domain to counteract the opponent's exquisite and unpredictable spatial teleportation ability!

Faced with this overwhelming suppression, which could be described as "powerful enough to send bricks flying," Xiao Ming seemed to have anticipated it, and even appeared somewhat... bored. He stopped attempting any form of complex maneuvering.

"Your power," he said, taking a leisurely step forward. The Ride Booker Sword Mode in his hand was already unfolded, the magenta light flowing on the blade easily "erasing" the sharpness of the King's Sword, which was hastily swung by Hua Ye and wrapped in dark energy, emitting a sizzling sound of corrosion. "Its foundation lies in 'defining' and 'dominating' the existing rules of this universe."

With his other hand, which was free, he smoothly reached into the card box again, the motion of drawing a card as elegant as drawing an invitation.

"But unfortunately," the card was held between two fingers, twirling between them and reflecting a cold light, "I happen to be a 'destroyer'."

[Final Attack Ride!]

—De-De-De-Decade!

The driver emitted a sound effect announcing the end!

The next instant, Tsukasa Kadoya's figure suddenly blurred!

No, it's not blurry! It's fragmented!

One, two, ten, a hundred… countless afterimages, some real and some illusory, all crimson in color, burst forth like light from a single point, instantly filling every corner of Hua Ye's vision! From all directions, from above, below, left, and right, from every possible, even impossible, theoretical angle of attack, they simultaneously locked onto the shocked and enraged King Hua Ye at the center! Each afterimage was crystal clear, each assuming the iconic knight's kick stance, and terrifying energy began to converge and gather simultaneously at countless "points," causing the space filled with the void swamp to tremble and groan!

This is not a clone or afterimage created by speed.

This is a result that was initiated from different dimensions of attack "possibilities," forcibly pulled into "reality," and simultaneously arrived! It is the ultimate manifestation of the concept of "destroying the established reality"!

"Roar—!!!" Hua Ye roared like a wild beast, fear and rage intertwined. He pushed the Black Hole Engine to its unprecedented limit, burning void energy recklessly to construct countless layers of overlapping void shields and spatial folds in front of him, beside him, and behind him, attempting to defend against this attack, whose trajectory was impossible to predict and which seemed to come from all directions, with absolute quantity and density!

however--

All the magenta afterimages, in that moment of ultimate concentration, as if time itself had stood still for a brief instant, merged into one.

Like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, and ten thousand shadows taking hold of one's body.

Tsukasa Kadoya's true form, as if it had never moved, or as if it were the only reality that had stepped out from all possibilities, quietly appeared in front of Hua Ye, directly in front of the countless layers of void defense.

Then, he kicked out.

This knight's kick doesn't look flashy, lacking any earth-shattering visual effects; it even appears somewhat "simple." But it embodies the purest concept of "destruction"—destroying defenses, breaking rules, and destroying the very fact that something is "impenetrable."

The magenta soles, like hot knives piercing cold cream, like mercury seeping into the cracks of sand, silently penetrated the layers of void shields and spatial folds that were theoretically capable of withstanding galactic-level impacts.

There was no explosion, and no stalemate.

Only penetration.

Ultimately, it was precisely and firmly imprinted on Hua Ye's arms, which were crossed in front of his chest, and the solid chest armor behind them.

The moment of contact

"boom!!!"

The energy, delayed and compressed to its limit, finally found an outlet and exploded with a deafening roar! This time, it was a pure and solid explosion of energy annihilation and the collapse of rules!

Hua Ye was struck head-on by the core of an exploding supernova; his scream was completely swallowed by the roar of the explosion. Like a kite with a broken string, he flew backward at a speed faster than a cannonball, tracing a long trajectory before crashing heavily through the thick armor of a Taotie capital ship in the distance, disappearing into the flames and smoke of the explosion.

His magnificent royal robes shattered into pieces, and his sturdy fourth-generation divine armor was covered with radial, spiderweb-like cracks. Dazzling golden divine blood continuously spilled from the corners of his mouth and from the cracks in the armor. The ethereal wings on his back, which symbolized power and new authority, dimmed by nearly half and drooped helplessly, with even illusory signs of dissipation appearing at the edges.

The Crimson Knight slowly withdrew his stance, standing still and calmly gazing at the still-exploding flames of the explosion and the wreckage of the warship. He lightly flicked his wrist, as if he had merely completed a trivial task.

"Rules," he muttered to himself, in a voice only he could hear, "are meant to be kicked to pieces by a passing knight."

A brief silence fell over the battlefield. Whether it was the Super Soldier Corps, the angels, or the remaining Taotie, all were shocked by this attack that overturned their understanding and violently shattered divine authority.