Kamen Rider Zi-O, Dimensional Descent

"This alien knight has devoured everyone in the entire research institute into its body, both their bodies and their souls."

"Then, by absorbing the various negative emotions of these people, its power has also been raised to its strongest point."

"So what should you do? Should you destroy it along with all those people it has devoured? Or should you simply let it destroy you instead?"

"I'm really looking forward to your decision, and I hope you can leave this research institute alive! Hahahaha!!"

After Swartz's final burst of laughter subsided, the Otherworldly Ghost began to exhibit even more erratic behavior.

Without a doubt, that's a form similar to Kamen Rider Ghost's Infinite Soul.

What are you planning to do?

"Needless to say? Of course, we'll defeat it!"

The alien Ghost raised its hand, and a colorful light bullet shot from its fingertip, heading straight for the two of them.

The two dodged to the left and right respectively, and the spot where they were standing was instantly blasted to pieces.

Yan Ming took out his belt and watch face, and while he was doing so, Kakine Teitoku unleashed three pairs of enormous white wings from behind.

The alien Ghost seems to want to prevent Yan Ming from transforming, but Kakine Teitoku will not let it succeed.

boom!!

After flapping its wings, a massive burst of light exploded towards the Another Rider at supersonic speed.

After being directly attacked, Another Ghost's body swayed slightly, while Kakine Teitoku rushed in front of it and knocked it back with a single punch.

Nevertheless, this does not cause any real harm to the current Aberrant Ghost.

However, Yan Ming had already completed his transformation.

After inserting the two watch faces into his belt from the side, he didn't hesitate, quickly spun them around, and then charged directly at the enemy.

"Rider Time!"

"Kamen Rider! Rider! Zi-O·Zi-O·Zi-OⅡ!"

A burst of purple-gold light erupted, and even the aftershocks slowly shocked the alien knight before him.

Transformation complete.

Yan Ming immediately took out his strongest ultimate sword and, using time acceleration, instantly arrived beside the alien Ghost.

To truly maximize output, it still depends on him personally.

boom!!

A powerful slash, strong enough to split mountains, struck the Otherworldly Knight squarely on the head.

The alien Ghost raised his hands to his forehead, grabbed Yan Ming's sword, and dispersed all the force.

"Did your strength increase significantly after reaching your strongest state?"

The current Aberrant Ghost is almost identical to the real Ghost Infinite Soul.

Its power continuously draws upon the endless stream of negative emotions within the body, transforming them into offensive and defensive capabilities, instantly negating Yan Ming's sword strike.

After being deflected, Yan Ming instead increased his power by overloading his output and caught the incoming alien Ghost head-on with a punch.

The power instantly doubled.

The doubling of power wasn't achieved by increasing one's own output, but rather by using swordsmanship to deflect enemy attacks, cleverly returning the force to the very tip of the blade with one's mouth.

The alien Ghost, which was attacked head-on, was slowly pushed back, while Yan Ming pressed his advantage and pulled the trigger of his longsword.

"Knight's Slash!"

The power, enough to split mountains, is further enhanced, and then the output is further amplified.

The powerful strike, like a sword strike, landed on the front of the alien Ghost's body in an instant.

The entire underground research facility began to shake violently.

Fortunately, the research institute's outer shell was designed with nuclear shelter standards in mind, so it could withstand even a real nuclear bomb.

But can they really withstand the aftershocks of the power generated by the battle between Kamen Riders?

The alien Ghost used all its strength to disperse the attack in front of it, causing countless small pieces of weak sword energy to tear apart the surrounding walls.

But at this moment, the hurricane was rolling in from all around it.

"Don't think you're alone!"

It is Emperor Gakine.

He flapped his wings in mid-air, and the ultimate platinum-gold light completely enveloped the alien Ghost, causing it to be wrapped in scorching flames.

That is a powerful means of converting air into extremely hot temperatures.

At the same time, once the high temperature is generated in the surrounding air, after being modified by the undifferentiated matter, the air will naturally start to rotate at high speed, thus generating a powerful tornado that is strong enough to blow everything away.

The tornado had completely enveloped the alien Ghost's body.

Yan Ming took a step back, stopped time, and took out another sword, combining the two swords into one.

"Zi-O is the strongest!"

"The ultimate Finish Time!"

The swords merged together, and in the stillness of time, only the golden blades of light extended outwards.

Yan Ming did not extend the length too much, so the light blade was only about fifteen meters long.

Even so, the sword had already pierced through the ceiling above his head.

He raised his sword high and slashed at his enemy head-on with the powerful force that warped spacetime.

"King! Giri Giri Slash!"

The powerful blow completely tore apart the walls and outer shell of the research institute.

The defensive capabilities of a nuclear shelter are utterly insignificant under this attack, meaning that the Demon King's power has reached a level that can ridicule all weapons in modern warfare.

The golden blade of light completely tore the thick wall apart, and at first glance, the crater was only a few dozen meters long.

But if you consider that every inch of the outer shell here can withstand the output of a nuclear bomb and the power of high temperature without damage, then it's no laughing matter.

However, Yan Ming was not complacent because of this.

To confirm the situation, he restored the flow of time, which restored both Kakine Teitoku and Another Ghost to their ability to move freely.

…completely unharmed.

The alien knight emerged from the dust without a trace of damage on his body.

"How...is this possible?"

Even Kakine Teitoku looked at the other party in disbelief.

"You must have unleashed a very powerful attack just now. Although I didn't see the process, the destructive effect alone is beyond the ordinary level!"

"It didn't block this with its defenses."

Upon hearing Yan Ming's words, Kakine Teitoku immediately looked at the alien knight in front of him.

Sure enough, the opponent's entire body was covered in a blurry, golden particle state.

"Spiritualization... At this stage of spiritualization, it can even ignore the output of Zi-O II?"

Whenever it transforms into a spirit form, the Ghost can ignore all physical attacks, but it is still affected by energy attacks.

But now it has evolved to a level of strength comparable to the Infinite Soul form.

This means that even energy attacks can be ignored once they are transformed into a spiritual state.

It's not difficult to deal with this ability, or rather, it's not difficult to resolve the entire battle.

Yan Ming only needs to reverse time, going back to before he became an Alien Knight. In this way, the souls and people who were devoured will be resurrected, so there's nothing to worry about.

…But he doesn’t intend to do that this time.

After glancing briefly at Kakine Teitoku behind him, Yan Ming knew that this battle held profound significance for Kakine Teitoku.

He won't defeat his opponent so easily.

"I'll deal with that guy's abilities."

As he spoke, Yan Ming took out the Decade driving watch and the Ghost watch.

"In contrast, you'll be responsible for dealing damage to that guy."

"Then... take care of it all in one fell swoop!"

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Volume 5 of A Certain Magical Index: Chapter 199 Infinite Soul and Unknown Matter

Should I be the one to output this...?

Kakine Teitoku was initially taken aback by Yan Ming's words, but he quickly understood what the other party meant.

After seeing the second-ranked esper in Academy City nod, Yan Ming then overlapped the two watch faces.

Then, it directly replaced the original second-order dial on the waist.

"Final Form Time! Gh·Gh·Gh·Ghost!"

A silvery sheen enveloped his entire body.

Replacing the Zi-O second-generation armor is a gorgeous suit of armor with a touch of iridescent white.

Its posture is somewhat similar to the white armor of the alien Ghost in front of him, but the white parts are brighter, and when Yan Ming puts on this posture, countless white feathers instantly appear around him.

The feathers seemed to possess power, blowing towards the alien Ghost and slowly repelling it.

Decade·Ghost Infinite Soul Armor

It appears that Another Ghost has gained power equal to his current level, but in reality—

No matter how strong they are, they can never be stronger than me.

The moment this thought crossed Yan Ming's mind, he felt an even greater surge of energy erupt from the depths of his body.

In just a moment, he completely surpassed the alien Ghost in front of him, who was in an infinite soul state.

"how…?"

Even Kakine Teitoku noticed this. In his perception, the relatively balanced state of power between the two, whose auras and strengths were originally roughly equal, was suddenly broken.

Yan Ming's power seemed to have no limits, advancing by leaps and bounds, rising to an unbelievable level in one breath.

"Such a rapid increase in power... Could it be that he's hiding his true strength?"

For Kakine Teitoku, this was the only possibility he could think of; otherwise, there was no way to explain why Yan Ming, who was originally only at a stalemate, would suddenly surpass his opponent in power in an instant.

The alien Ghost roared and unleashed a continuous stream of colorful energy blasts toward itself.

Yan Ming, however, completely ignored those attacks.

His body instantly transformed into a dazzling, iridescent form, allowing the attacks to strike him as he took them all.

No… it shouldn’t be said that immediately afterward, all the energy blasts released by the alien Ghost were completely embedded in Yan Ming’s almost transparent body, as if they were sinking into mud.

A spiritualized state.

Although it is the most basic ability that Kamen Rider Ghost possesses in any form, the effect will be fundamentally different when this ability is released in Infinite Soul form.

Yan Ming slowly raised his hands, and the energy blasts inside his body writhed like jelly before being ejected from his body in an instant through his movements.

The energy blast was returned to its original path without any mercy.

Even if the Ghost mutated in time, it was useless. All the attacks ignored the Ghost's mutated form and bombarded the enemy's armor head-on.

Yan Ming's spiritification was effective, but the spiritification of the alien Ghost was completely ineffective.

The reason is simple: Yan Ming is now stronger than the alien Ghost.

The biggest difference between humans and beasts or machines is that humans possess the ultimate thinking ability, as well as emotions and various beliefs.

Although the Ghost alien may possess some self-awareness, judging from the current situation, it is probably no different from an AI that only knows how to attack, or a forest animal, and doesn't have much intelligence.

In this situation, even if Ghost possesses the ability to transform emotions into actual power, it cannot actively use them on itself; it can only passively amplify the resentment and negative emotions of the people it absorbs.

Yan Ming, on the other hand, is completely different. He can change his emotions through his own subjective consciousness and freely control all the emotions he needs.

It may not sound like a big deal, but being able to freely control the release of one's emotions is a skill that many people cannot do.