A few moments before, as Luke used Judge Button to cast the Confinement and Prohibition Zone, the battlefield was gaining a new landscape in the Outer Zone.
Shigaraki let out a burned breath as he was sent flying, his face gaining a blackish footprint mark.
Bakugo didn't get the time to revel in the beating, though.
Alex's huge figure went flying past him, landed on the ground, bounced, and skidded before coming to an abrupt stop.
Roar!
Letting out a beastly growl, and flying a few feet above the earth, the Near High End Nomu blurred past Bakugo as well, as if the gravity didn't affect it at all.
There was almost no difference in strength between a High End Nomu and a Near High End Nomu, other than the former possessed intelligence, while the latter was only capable of following direct orders.
Not only were their strength and abilities on par, but they were as strong as the Custom Upper Tier Nomu Dr. Kyudai had created to take on All Might. Perhaps… a touch more.
Bakugo didn't know this.
All he knew was that this Nomu's skin was darker than all the ones he had seen before. So, logically, this was the strongest of its kind, yes?
"Oi!" Bakugo shouted, looking at the old man getting up as the Nomu towered over him to punch again. "Put your hands up, Grandpa!!"
Far into the distance, Alex narrowed his eyes at the Nomu's figure that loomed over him, despite his already huge stature.
This was a powerful opponent, Alex realized, feeling blood in his mouth.
In his base form, even if he wasn't affected by his Quirk, he wouldn't be able to take on this creature.
So, as Nomu's fist enlarged in Alex's vision, he took a deep breath.
As if flipping a switch, the 180 kg of extra weight pressing upon earth in a 1000-meter radius in his surroundings vanished.
Bakugo, who had yet to fall after dealing a blow to Shigaraki, suddenly held his stomach, vomiting because of gravity's sudden disappearance.
Alex's weight increased by 100% of his own weight.
That wouldn't be enough, either.
So, pulling his hand back, Alex directly stepped into the second multiplier, raising his weight by 1800 Kg.
A deep blue fist met an old, brown one.
And a shockwave blasted everything to pieces, sending all figures rolling away.
Bakugo, tasting the bile in his mouth, looked through the dust, his gaze landing on Shigaraki.
The Villain was trying to get up, holding his face.
This was his moment, Bakugo knew.
The gravity had become normal.
Like a mad dog, Bakugo pulled his legs back, sitting on his haunches. Then, together with the palms of his hands and soles of his feet, he boomed toward Shigaraki, four fiery explosions rocking the ground in his wake.
On the other side, Alex took several steps back, the Nomu's hand merely getting knocked off where it stood.
Suddenly, Alex's pupils dilated.
A figure appeared in his vision, lingering at the corner of his right eye.
"Never heard of you…" Stain's murderous growl entered Alex's ears. "… Are you a… Hero, too? Are you… Yes. It doesn't matter. What matters is that… you are fake."
That's all he lacked, Alex cursed. A fucking psycho on his tail!
Hero Killer: Stain lifted both his hands, two mouths appearing on his palms, long tongues slithering out as the teeth chattered.
All the air in his vicinity suddenly rushed into those mouths as they sucked, making even Alex breathless.
Then, with his eyes letting out a red glow, Stain grinned.
Two majestic BOOMS rattled the direction in which Stain was pointing, upending the ground.
Even Alex, weighing 1980 kg, got lifted, his bones shaking in his body.
Blood came seeping out from his ears, and his eyes rolled back in his head, his brain bombarding the skull.
Not only him, Bakugo, who had been just on the verge of approaching Shigaraki, got caught in the attack as well, coughing out a mouthful of blood as he shook, getting blasted away.
"Kurogiri!" Stain shouted.
Kurogiri, who had managed not to suffer badly till now, suddenly activated his Quirk. He knew things had taken a strange, bad turn. This old man was way too strong and had already wasted a lot of their time.
The more time they spent here, the more the chances of things getting worse.
The best way was to send Shigaraki back and then take Dr. Sam away, using Stain's help.
"Oi, Grandpa!" Bakugo screamed, coughing blood. "They are getting away! I know you aren't dead!!"
"Ugh!" Alex got up, cracking his neck, dusting off his torn shirt.
With one look, he had guessed that it was the Villain with a black mist-like body who possessed the teleportation Quirk.
The thing was, unknown to these Villains, perhaps, there was another set of Villains in the Inner Zone, and one of them also had Teleportation Quirk.
So, Alex needed to use the large-scale Spatial Barrier as fast as he could.
The only issue was that he couldn't do it instantly, as first, he needed to go full 10000% mode before gradually coming down to 100% to increase the gravity, returning to his base form.
This needed time.
Time that his enemies weren't willing to give him, it seemed.
Like a wraith, the Near High End Nomu reappeared over Alex, growling, raising its fist.
In return, Alex took a breath, elevating his existence. "Oi, kid…" His voice boomed across space, the broken earth under his feet sinking under the 18180 kg weight. "Cover your ears…"
A chill ran down all spines.
Bakugo hurriedly arrested his momentum and put up his hands over his ears.
Thick tendrils of muscles came blasting out of Stain's body, becoming a fleshy armor.
Only Kurogiri and Shigaraki remained on the battlefield, completely lacking any safeguard.
The Nomu brought down its winged arms, wind rustling around its huge fists.
The Radiant of Gravity casually lifted his arms and… clapped.
An implosion pulled all lifeforms toward him first. Then, a rattling, majestic blast sent them flying, the BOOM shattering all windows…
… the Boundary Walls gaining thousands of cracks.
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