Chapter 111: Glacial Energy dissipation
The sky was clear for ten thousand miles.
Thunderous booms erupted!
A floating island in the sky, as dreamlike as a fairy tale.
Successive explosions and booms echoed through the heavens!
Two heavy attacks pressed against each other! Colliding across space!
The air in the middle was completely shattered, splashing out like the shrapnel shell of a bomb!
Aokiji carefully controlled his strength.
Always maintaining a level just slightly above Metal Bat.
This time was no exception; Metal Bat was like an exquisite ground ball, bouncing and falling on the ground, creating many craters before stopping.
However, the first thing he did upon standing up was to charge at Aokiji again!
The Aura wrapped around the bat had become almost visible, deep black lines!
Leaping up—
Falling!!!
The ground instantly disintegrated and surged upward!
Now, the mere aftershocks could collapse stone pillars within range!
Snap—
Saitama raised his hand and caught a piece of flying rubble.
"Fourteen years old, huh? How impressive. What was I doing at fourteen..."
There wasn't even a clear memory in his mind. Saitama thought that he probably lived in a daze like that until he became a hero.
"It is indeed remarkable." Superalloy Darkshine nodded in agreement. "I only started training at fifteen. Before that, even a slight fall would result in a fracture."
"Do you also just do pure physical training?" Saitama asked with a hint of curiosity.
"'Also'? Don't tell me you are too?" Superalloy Darkshine was surprised; he couldn't tell just by looking at Saitama's physique.
It was probably a training method that didn't focus on muscle mass but balanced it with things like agility.
"Of course, my daily training is very grueling." Saitama's expression was serious. "Especially at the beginning, my bones would make 'creak-creak' sounds."
"I went through that too." Superalloy Darkshine also recalled his own experiences.
"Back then, I was very thin, and my hair was quite thick. I was lifting dumbbells that were a birthday gift..."
"Wait!" Saitama, who had been troubled by alopecia areata lately, was quite sensitive to the word 'hair'.
"Did you just say your hair was very thick before you started training?"
"Yeah, why?" The dark bald head reflected the light.
Superalloy Darkshine was only obsessed with muscles and felt nothing about the lack of hair.
But Saitama was different; he still cared.
Perhaps because his idea of becoming a hero came from the manga he read as a child, and there were no heroes with alopecia or bald heads in manga.
Saitama suddenly became despondent.
Could it be that my alopecia is also just the beginning...?
"It seems there are only three of us pure physical types among the S-Class Heroes." Puri-Puri Prisoner suddenly chimed in, giving a cute wink ⌒☆.
Saitama looked at his afro, and his dull eyes lit up.
There's still one!
Someone who still has thick hair after training!
My hair, you have to hold on too!
Another wave of air came surging over.
Aokiji raised his Hassaikai(Kanabo), looking at Metal Bat, whose lower body was smashed into the ground.
"That's enough. Any further and you'll be seriously injured. I don't want to have to carry you home; I might even get scolded by your sister."
"Heh—" Metal Bat chuckled, wiping the blood from his eyelids and pulling himself out of the pulverized ground. "Zenko would indeed do that."
"But... just one last time!!"
The shattered ground trembled slightly with his shout.
His invisible Aura was now like a rainbow!
"Fine, I'll indulge you." Aokiji raised his Hassaikai(Kanabo). "Don't go passing out on me!"
Metal Bat charged like a common street thug, shouting his catchphrase.
The terrifying pressure he released, however, made the surrounding air solidify!
This mechanism of Aura enhancement really scales up fast, Aokiji thought, feeling a bit troubled.
Even if he stood still and took Metal Bat's strike, the other party would be injured by the massive recoil.
However, the techniques he refined with Bang weren't learned for nothing.
The Hassaikai(Kanabo) was held horizontally, parallel to the ground, intercepting the path of Metal Bat's attack.
Enveloped in an icy blue light wave, the outline of the Hassaikai(Kanabo) grew a size larger.
The power that previously seemed capable of shattering heaven and earth was gone, replaced by the majestic heaviness of a glacial continent!
Watching from the sidelines, Bang's eyes widened slightly. "Has his mastery of 'Will' reached a higher level?"
The others nearby hadn't had time to ask yet.
Metal Bat swung down fiercely!!
An attack far more powerful than before slammed into the Hassaikai(Kanabo) raised by Aokiji!
Yet the resulting aftershocks weren't even as strong as the very first attack!
The glacier silently absorbed all the power.
Finally, as if granting a favor, it moved back a tiny fraction, easily wearing down the venting impact with the movement of its own terrifying mass.
The icy blue light wave spread, freezing and neutralizing the remaining potential energy.
By the time it ended, the Hassaikai(Kanabo) had only drifted back a short distance.
Metal Bat's entire body was encased in a layer of ice, with rapidly forming ice spikes extending behind him.
The match was decided.
"Great Master Bang, what's going on?" Superalloy Darkshine couldn't hide his curiosity.
Anyone could see that Metal Bat's final attack far surpassed his previous ones.
Yet the power that finally erupted felt like it wasn't even Wolf-level?!
"It's Energy dissipation," Bang sighed, stroking his beard. "And at an extremely high level."
"His 'Will' is like a glacier, absorbing all the force while slowly neutralizing it through movement."
"It's to prevent Metal Bat from being injured again, I suppose."
"So that's it." Superalloy Darkshine was lost in thought. If he controlled his muscles from tense to relaxed, could he achieve a similar effect?
It seemed very difficult; the requirement for precision in control was too high.
"Aokiji-Chan is so kind~" Puri-Puri Prisoner hugged his own chest, shivering with emotion.
Metal Knight remained standing silently to the side, transmitting the footage faithfully.
Martial arts techniques... I wonder if technology can successfully replicate them.
It's an interesting subject.
Aokiji casually patted and shattered the ice on the surface of Metal Bat's body.
Even the bloodstains on him were frozen in the ice and peeled off together.
Metal Bat's expression was a bit frustrated.
Losing wasn't a surprise; what was frustrating was the strange sensation of that last strike.
It felt like the attack hit home, yet it also felt like it didn't land at all.
Simply put, the impact sensation was just too weird!
"Aokiji, again..."
"I'm recording." Aokiji waved his phone. "When you get knocked out and carried back, I'll play it for your sister."
"...Then never mind." Metal Bat decisively backed down.
He wasn't afraid of Zenko's scolding; he was afraid of Zenko staring at him and crying.
It was just a match; if it really ended with him being knocked out and taken back, the consequences would surely be severe.
It wasn't impossible for him to be forcibly grounded at home.
"Good, you've still got spirit. Go rest for a bit, then you can spar with the others later." Aokiji then waved to the people watching. "Next!"
"Then I'll go." A dark, tower-like muscular giant stepped out.
As he passed Metal Bat, who was returning to rest, he patted his shoulder in appreciation and encouragement.
He stood about ten meters in front of Aokiji.
Superalloy Darkshine unconsciously struck a bodybuilding pose, arching his two thick arms, his exaggeratedly massive upper body leaning forward slightly.
The professional bodybuilding oil applied to his skin greatly enhanced the three-dimensionality and fullness of his bulging muscles.
Superalloy Darkshine was filled with absolute confidence.
"Come, Aokiji-kun, show me your most perfect muscle form as well!"