"Damn it..."
Shura and Aphrodite, having climbed back up from the ground, were now covered in dust and grime. Their cloth had developed some cracks, and blood flowed all over their faces.
"This guy isn't right; he's completely different from a normal person." Aphrodite wiped the blood from his face, a look of confusion surfacing.
"It's his physical body. His physical strength far exceeds ours, which is why he can withstand such an explosion of Cosmo without any fatigue." Shura narrowed his eyes, finally seeing through some of it.
Then, he kicked Deathmask, who was still rolling on the ground. "Get up quickly! How long are you going to keep embarrassing yourself?"
"You... you bastard... to use such a despicable attack." Deathmask stood up shakily, his entire face still tinged with purple, his legs clamped together. "I won't let you off!"
However, Shin paid no attention to this at all. Besides directly sending people to the Underworld, Deathmask's Praesepe Underworld Waves also had some destructive capability, but undoubtedly, its power was so weak it didn't seem like a Gold Saint technique at all.
Due to the nature of their skills, Cancer Gold Saint who practiced special techniques always had a very erratic standing among all Gold Saint—they were either heaven-defyingly strong or terrifyingly weak.
Obviously, Deathmask, a Cancer Saint with inadequate cultivation, belonged to the latter category among the Gold Saint. Shin didn't even bother to give his threat a single glance.
"Let's act together. This guy isn't an easy character to deal with. Although his Cosmo isn't very strong, his body and cloth are excessively tough."
Shura said in a deep voice, then took the lead and charged. Aphrodite and Deathmask didn't hesitate either, and the three of them charged together.
Facing the joint efforts of three Gold Saint, Shin—who was only using his Seventh Sense Cosmo to fight—clearly had no way to completely block their attacks. To this, Shin's reaction was: if he couldn't block them, he simply wouldn't.
The sounds of clanging were incessant. Shin simply countered attack with attack; with neither side defending, the battle instantly became brutal.
Light Speed Punch, Meteor Punch, Light Speed Meteor Punch! Shin soon discovered that there was a reason why the Meteor Punch technique could be used by Seiya from beginning to end: it was fast, had few openings, had a large coverage area, and no matter how much the Cosmo was raised, this kind of technique would never become obsolete.
It was nothing more than increasing attack speed; as long as the attack speed increased, the coverage and destructive power would rise proportionally.
Compared to Shin's indifference as he let the three Gold Saint attack him, Shura and the other two felt an immense headache.
Their attacks did indeed hit the enemy, but as for the effect, none could be seen at all.
Reasonably speaking, no matter how strong a cloth was, this shouldn't happen. The purpose of a cloth was to reduce damage, not grant direct immunity to it. Otherwise, there wouldn't be Gold Saint who were killed while their gold cloths remained undamaged.
However, their attacks not only failed to leave a single scratch on Shin's Silver Cloth, but they didn't even make Shin take half a step back. This was somewhat frightening, even terrifying.
As the three men's physical strength was consumed, their initially exploding Cosmo also began to decline. Then, just like in previous battles, Shin immediately found an opportunity and sent the three of them flying one by one.
"Ugh!" Spitting out a mouthful of blood, Shura felt stars dancing before his eyes and his internal organs burning. Even with the damage reduction of a gold cloth, taking so many gold-level techniques in succession had still caused him serious injury.
Shura was already the strongest among the three and was a physical-type Saint; since his injuries were so severe, the remaining Aphrodite and Deathmask were even more unsteady, with countless broken bones throughout their bodies.
"How is this possible?!" Shura couldn't remember how many times he had said those words. But his shock, instead of fading, had become even more intense.
In the battle just now, the number of attacks Shin took was definitely far more than the three Gold Saint combined. Normally, even a physical-type powerhouse like the Taurus Gold Saint, who had the toughest body, would likely be coughing up liters of blood and unable to stand by now. It was more likely they'd be dead and buried, beyond any need for emergency aid.
Yet Shin's expression was as calm as ever. Not only had he not suffered the slightest injury, but he hadn't even taken a single step back—was this really something a human could do?
"Is this guy's body even sturdier than a gold cloth?" Deathmask no longer mentioned revenge; he had completely lost his temper. He looked at Shin as if he were looking at some kind of monster.
Aphrodite's expression was even uglier. During the battle just now, he had continuously released several Bloody Roses at the heart, limbs, and gaps in the cloth, but the results were all the same—the white roses couldn't even break through Shin's skin!
One must know that Aphrodite's White Rose could theoretically damage a gold cloth! Although the possibility was low—since his Cosmo was somewhat weak, making it basically hopeless to break through another Gold Saint's Cosmo—it should at least be able to cause some damage to a gold cloth.
Yet it couldn't even break through Shin's skin. One could imagine how big of a blow this was to Aphrodite.
"It seems we can only use that move!" Shura gritted his teeth and spoke.
"That move? You mean the Trinity Technique? Athena Exclamation?" Deathmask spoke.
"This... isn't it a bit much?" Aphrodite was also hesitant, but he wasn't hesitating over the rules set by Athena. What a joke—they had even betrayed Athena, so there was no way they would follow those rules.
However, for one, it was because of a warrior's pride. Fighting three against one was already embarrassing enough; using an even more excessive trinity combat method would truly be throwing their dignity to the winds.
Secondly, having fought until now, the three of them secretly harbored the thought of surrendering. Athena Exclamation was not a move they could control; if it actually killed Shin, what would be the point of surrendering?
Although Athena Exclamation was powerful, they had no doubt that if Saori Kido unleashed Athena's Cosmo, the three of them probably wouldn't even be able to use the technique before becoming like fish on a chopping block.
"Using Athena Exclamation is disgraceful, but if we lose a three-on-one fight, that's even more disgraceful," Shura said coldly. "And with this guy's physical toughness, Athena Exclamation might seriously injure him, but it definitely won't be able to kill him!"
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