[After Dark] and [Blood Lust] could boost Kyle's abilities by up to a hundred percent, so he was not exactly fighting at full strength.
And yet, after his bloodline stability, there was a small part of him that had expected to completely decimate the Nomu with ease.
And yet, the Nomu had actually put up a fight.
He wiped blood off his cheeks and began strolling towards it.
Step!
A ghostly energy began to seep out of his skin, enveloping his body in a red fiery aura.
The fight had given him some clarity.
If he could not flatten this Nomu with ease, then peak Shigaraki, who was strong enough to take on all the top heroes as well as the MC, was probably still stronger than him.
Step!
His footsteps resounded over the room. It was a low thrum, yet in the silence, it seemed louder than anything else.
'Maybe I'm overthinking this…'
He had barely spent more than a week in this world, and he could already take on a Nomu of this caliber.
'Doesn't that mean I'm on the level of the top 3 heroes?'
Step!
Kyle had finally gotten to the Nomu, who had not made a move since he began walking.
It was not only that…
Shigaraki, Deku, Eraser Head, and every single person in USJ had frozen still, cold sweat running down their necks as he stared down the beast.
"I… can't move…" Deku said, his voice barely a whisper.
It was as though his legs were encased in ice, his heart hammering like war drums.
Beside him, Kacchan was steaming, his jaw clenched in rage.
Deku forcefully moved just his head to stare at his classmates, only to gasp in shock.
Apart from him and Kacchan, no one else was left standing. They were all on their knees, some hypertensive, while a few had thrown up, their chests heaving as they struggled to breathe.
'What the hell is going on?!'
Deep down, he already knew what it was.
It was fear.
A fear so overpowering that it threatened to bring him down to his knees.
It was not that he couldn't move, his body just refused to, rejecting every single order.
Sparks of electricity burst forth on his skin, green lightning dancing through his entire body.
He bit his lips, drawing blood, his eyes locked on the man.
'He is no hero.'
Deku could feel it in his gut.
"Move Deku, Move!!!!"
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Primordial Terror…
This was the only skill Kyle had not experimented with, but now that he had unleashed it, he could finally see its appeal.
His aura was flowing around him like calm flames, bathing his skin in a red glow. His eyes were glowing with menacing light, and everything he did seemed to carry a certain weight with it.
But it was draining. Kyle could already feel his energy seeping out of his body like a leaking bucket.
And there was another problem. Although others were frozen, the Nomu was very much active.
"I guess it doesn't work on mindless beasts."
It had worked for the first few seconds, but his orders overwhelmed his fear.
"Shall we end this then?"
Whoosh!
Kyle twisted his head as the fist cut past him, then he drove his elbow right into the Nomu's solar plexus, sending it flying.
Just as the Nomu's feet touched the floor, Kyle was upon it, his eyes glowing like a demonic fiend.
He grabbed its head and brought it down to his knee, blood splashing atop his knee.
The Nomu swung its good arm, but Kyle easily dodged underneath it. He sidestepped the beast and dashed to its back.
Crack!
His feet crashed right into the back of the Nomu's knee, sending it down. Then he raised his hand and drove it right into its shoulder, exactly where the joint was.
"If you can take all my blows with your shock absorption…"
Blood-red claws emerged from his fingers, digging deep into the skin and spewing blood.
"Then force is not the way to go…"
The blood rose above his fingers, surrounding his arm and glowing furiously. Then they began to spin, rotating around his arm like a circular saw.
Splurt!
Kyle pushed his arm further, sawing off the Nomu's arm entirely and sending blood gushing out in large waves.
With one last desperate move, the Nomu launched a blow aimed right at Kyle's neck.
The blow came with the Nomu's dying strength, the punch far greater than anything it had ever launched.
Kyle did not take the blow head-on. He jumped to the side, narrowly escaping, then he grabbed the arm of the beast, locking it right underneath his armpit.
"Alright, time to sleep big guy."
Kyle widened the gap between his legs and turned around, lifting the gigantic Nomu right above his head.
He was considerably smaller than the Nomu, so it was a comedic sight, like John Cena lifting the Big Show.
"Alley—oop!"
Bang!
The ground caved, and an invisible shockwave blasted round in a circular arc, followed by a surge of dust, wind, and blood.
…
Finally, USJ was silent.
No earth-splitting explosions.
No thunderous blows.
Just a masked man sitting atop the body of the monster that had been unleashed in their halls.
Kyle took a moment to catch his breath, using the Nomu's body as a couch.
Yet his mind was not settled. There was something terribly wrong with what was happening.
'Where is All Might?'
He was meant to arrive during his fight with the Nomu. Kyle had even prepared countermeasures ahead of time to face him, and yet he was nowhere in sight.
'Is the story already changing?'
Kyle gave it some thought for a few seconds before rising to his feet.
'I'll figure it out later…' For now, he had to take his bounty back home.
"Alright, time to—"
BOOOM!!
The roof of USJ suddenly erupted, incinerating into nothing as a colossal fireball tore through the ceiling.
The entire area was bathed in a bright orange glow, the heat from the fire taking the temperature of the room to sweltering levels.
Kyle could have easily escaped the fireball, but if he did, he would be leaving his Nomu to burn.
There was no way his efforts today were going to waste!
He pulled his arm back and sucked in a sharp breath as energy began to condense around his fist.
A bright red calamitous glow appeared, pulsing with streaks of energy that climbed all the way to his elbows.
As the fire descended upon him, fire pooling around the condensed ball, heat so scorching that he could smell his burning skin…
Kyle met it with a blow capable of splitting the fiery sky.
Bang!
The oppressive weight of the fire pushed against his arms, causing his elbows to quake, but Kyle placed his foot forward, applying even more pressure.
With a battle cry, he pushed even more energy into his blow, the red aura glowing so bright that it consumed him whole. And then—
Whoosh!
The fireball was split in half, two gigantic pools of fire washing past him and blackening the ground.
Kyle was covered in sweat, and his skin was red, burned from the heat.
"A sneak attack when I've used up my energy on the Nomu, huh?"
He raised his head, his eyes locking with that of his attacker. The man was surrounded by fire, his red hair billowing in the wind as he floated in the sky above the shattered roof.
"Is that how you fight? Endeavor."
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A/N
This is a bonus chapter because we have practically hit the 100 PS target.
Remeber…
100 Powerstones => 1 Bonus Chapter
200 Powerstones => 2 Bonus Chapters
400 Powerstones => 3 Bonus Chapters
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