Saiyan stowaways on the Ark

At this moment, Tomat also looked at the butcher's "corpse" and said with considerable confusion:

"A corpse? What corpse? You didn't kill it, what are you doing back here?"

As they spoke, Elinie, still distracted by the thunderous battle, witnessed an unbelievable scene.

Jody, who was standing in the captain's cabin and could see the sea view from the porthole at a higher position, was even more terrified by the eerie sight.

The butcher "stood up".

To be precise, it refers to the lower half of its body, defined by the torn section.

It lay flat on the water's surface, raising one leg straight up.

Then, it slowly raised its other leg, lifting its entire body up, and finally brought its feet together and stood on the water's surface. The whole movement was as elegant and precise as a ballet dancer's.

Ripples constantly spread where the soles of his feet touched the water, but his posture remained very stable.

If you only look at these parts, it does seem quite normal.

However, its upper part still hangs down behind it, its hands rest on the water, and its head is tilted back and close to its buttocks.

A horrifying, silvery-white "corpse," bearing horribly unsightly injuries, stood upright on the water's surface, reflecting the starry sky.

How bizarre this is!

Only then did the hunters realize that the silence was not yet over.

[Event] Fool's Tale: Chapter 41 Platinum Beauty

"It's not breathing, but it's still moving. Could it be hiding its presence?"

The strength of an aura allows people to instinctively infer the degree of threat posed by an enemy.

But the Butcher standing on the water did not release the slightest aura, as if he had also returned to the tranquility.

Graceia suppressed the strange feeling that was growing in her heart and asked Thomas for his opinion.

"Hidden aura? No, sense it carefully, it hasn't eliminated its aura..."

Thomas explained in a tone that suggested he had already seen through their tricks:

"—Instead, it 'condensed' its aura. It probably hadn't gotten used to its own power before, but now it's different."

If the previous Slaughterer simply displayed its immense power without reservation, it has now learned how to prevent its aura from leaking outwards.

The disappearance of that oppressive feeling that enveloped the entire sea area gave the deep-sea hunters the illusion that the "aura of the Butcher" had vanished.

In reality, its energy has actually decreased rather than increased at this moment; it just hasn't dissipated outwards and appears calm.

"I think you should know what this means, right?"

As Thomas offered some pointers to the group, the Butcher's body underwent another strange transformation.

Its body outline began to blur, and its original patterns and shape flowed like liquid, but it was not affected by gravity and only gathered downwards.

It's as if each cell has its own consciousness, converging into tiny waves that disturb and engulf each other before merging back together.

The light blue light began to fade, and in its place, a platinum-gold light spread out from the surface.

Finally, the Butcher transformed from its amorphous state back into a humanoid outline.

However, it is much simpler than its previous form.

It resembles a platinum female statue, yet it doesn't feel cold or hard. Instead, you can sense a vibrant life force and resilience emanating from its radiance.

It did not emit any terrifying aura, nor did it change the color of the surrounding environment. It was like a reef that had always existed there, and it did not cause any sense of incongruity.

"Tsk, so that's how it is."

"That's exactly what you think."

Thomas smacked his lips at the transformed Butcher, seemingly more aware of something that annoyed him.

The Butcher responded from afar.

However, by the time the latter spoke, it had already crossed the sea and arrived in front of Tomat in an instant.

It was much faster and quieter than the last time.

A bead of cold sweat trickled down Gretia's pale cheek, only to evaporate as her body temperature rose rapidly.

She did not react at all until the Butcher stepped onto the deck and stood in front of Tomat.

This means that if it were targeting itself, it would likely have already been attacked without its knowledge.

—But now that she has realized this, she will not give the Butcher a second chance to enter her consciousness gap.

At this moment, Goredia unleashed her maximum speed and power on the spot. Before her movement had even covered a distance of 1 millimeter, she had already surpassed the speed of sound. The sonic boom spread from her scorching body surface. Before it could move away from her body and affect the surroundings, she twirled the long spear in her hand with her thumb, engulfing all the impact.

The long spear spun in his palm, and in an instant, a tiny, yet compressed tornado coiled around the weapon. This supernatural phenomenon was reproduced on the weapon by the power of the flesh, and then instantly covered with another layer of azure aura.

It pierces the enemy with ultra-precise and dense spiral attacks, rather than tearing them apart with massive vortexes, while combining this with "Qi Sword Technique," which involves imbuing the weapon with aura to increase its strength.

This was arguably the strongest attack Goredia could unleash—she had never even used it against living creatures, because no enemy had ever made her need to use it.

The long spear pierced through like a meteor. Faced with the power of such an attack, it didn't matter what was in front of it, because all that stood in its way was to be crushed and pierced through.

That's how it should be.

"clang."

The sound of the spear striking the butcher's body was not loud, nor did it generate a huge impact, nor did it create any aftershocks that seemed to endlessly penetrate the body.

The actions between the attacker and the victim ceased at that moment.

The butcher reached out and pinched the tip of the spear with his fingertips, stopping its rotation.

Meanwhile, Goredia remained motionless, gripping the handle tightly at the end.

The Butcher remained unmoved, and the power of the attack did not vanish into thin air.

If the former can easily bear and stop it, then the attacker must bear the consequences of the original rotation and the power contained in its spiral.

—Backlash.

Goredia's attack was returned to her arms completely.

The scene at that moment was like a drill held in your hand, which, after piercing a hard object, did not drill through directly but instead caused the drill handle to rotate rapidly along with your arm.

She immediately jumped up, releasing the spear while simultaneously rotating her body in the direction of the spiraling impact to dissipate the remaining force in mid-air.

She didn't know how many times she spun around in that instant before she could stand back on the deck. Her arms, which were originally covered by tight clothing, had been torn apart by the impact, with the broken parts showing threads. Her skin was also covered with scars that looked like they had been ripped apart.

Immediately afterwards, the Butcher threw the long spear that Gladys had abandoned in his hand in the opposite direction. Gladys, who had not yet regained her footing, was pierced through the body by the hilt and pushed and pinned to the outer wall of the Fool's ship.

Since the piercing point was in the abdomen, and it was the handle rather than the blade, Goredia was not actually fatally injured, except for being stuck against the wall and unable to move for a moment.

But she also realized that it wasn't that the Butcher couldn't kill her, it just didn't.

"Second team!?"

The entire conflict happened in an instant, and when Skadi and Specter realized the situation a second later, their first action was not to immediately rescue Gladys, but to unleash their full power to attack the Slayer.

Drag the blade and slash upwards.

The sudden slash seemed to cleave the butcher's body in two symmetrically.

Skadi unleashed a powerful strike, aiming not downwards but diagonally upwards.

However, the place where the Butcher had been standing was now empty.

It slipped away silently.

When Skadi's anxious eyes reflected the image of the Butcher once again, it had already come behind Skadi, raised its hand, and swung it down in the shape of a hand chop.

"Skadi!!!"

At the last second, Ghost Shark attacked the Butcher from the side—or rather, it charged at him without any regard for combat strategy.

Because the ghost shark's instincts as a deep-sea hunter told her that she must not easily accept this move.

The full-force impact caused the Butcher's body to shift in mid-air. Although it had enough reaction time to reach out and block at the same moment, the change in distance still caused its hand blade aimed at Skadi to deflect.

A platinum-gold hand swept across, and a strand of Skadi's silver hair broke off, leaving it completely loose and drifting in the night sky.

Then, the sea split open, and so did the sky.

The once crystal-clear ocean, devoid of the dinosaur, now bears a straight rift extending to an unknown destination. The flowing seawater seems oblivious to the fact that it has been severed, and no seawater even flows into the hollow section.

The aftershocks that disappeared into the horizon carried away the air in their wake, creating a vacuum of death. The refraction of light was distorted by the disappearance of the air, making it appear as if the sky had been split in two.

The deep-sea hunters were stunned by the terrifying power, and in the midst of the battle, they made the most inappropriate mistake of losing focus.

"Fire!!!"

However, the Butcher's pursuit did not follow immediately; its figure was swallowed up by a huge pillar of light in the next moment, accompanied by an angry roar.

The judges raised their hands and, in the instant they could see the Butcher pause, pulled the triggers of their hand cannons.

*Weapon techniques developed by Gohan

[Event] Fool's Past: Chapter 42 Who Do You Look Down On?

The Inquisitor's hand cannon was not the same as the Lateran's firearms.

If the latter is a staff structure that requires precise spellcasting to fire high-energy bullets, then the former is a heavy firearm with a system and principles that are quite different from the former.

Its usage is also quite obscure—it not only requires mastery of Originium Arts and understanding of its internal structure, but also involves the user's "beliefs" and "will" in a rather idealistic way.

At the same time, its power far surpasses that of most Lateran firearms.

A single hand cannon shot can easily shatter a wall, and depending on the user, it can even destroy an entire street in one shot.

If the entire magazine were used up, it could even shatter a mountain and bury an entire city.

The offensive tactics employed by the judges today are far beyond what can be compared to "one or two hand cannon shots".

Carmen and Dario.

One was an Iberian saint, the judge among judges, and the other was an elite among the great judges of the same rank.

The hand cannons fired by the two men were naturally not comparable in power to those used by ordinary court soldiers.

With extremely high awareness and lofty faith, unparalleled concentration, and the determination to bury the target in the explosion, bullets wrapped in light and containing enormous energy were fired continuously at the Butcher.