The soldier twisted and deformed under Kishibe Rohan's hand, his flesh and clothes instantly rewoven and reshaped, accompanied by a grating sound of metal friction and bone shattering.
In the blink of an eye, he truly transformed into a heavy cannon gleaming with cold, hard metal, yet one could vaguely discern features like skin and fingers, and his body was covered in various texts. These texts symbolized different attributes, such as increased firepower and no need for shells.
The deep muzzle directly locked onto Hashimoto Yoma, who was both within reach and seemingly miles away!
"Goodbye. This shot will blow you to smithereens."
Kishibe Rohan's voice was cold and merciless, as if stating a foregone conclusion.
Boom!!!
The cannon roared, not firing a physical shell, but a highly condensed, twisted energy containing the concepts of "shattering" and "expulsion." It instantly crossed the 10-meter distance, blasting towards Hashimoto Yoma!
Hashimoto Yoma's golden pupils reflected the incoming energy cannon. Instead of retreating, he erupted with an even more frenzied fighting spirit!
"Lies! These are all lies!"
He roared, and Hermes's divine power began to emanate from his body. In his eyes, that energy cannon was a false thing; the opponent was merely deceiving reality.
"My muscles can shatter all illusions! Distance is a lie! Attacks are also lies!"
He no longer tried to "approach" Kishibe Rohan but condensed all his power into his right fist. He wanted to break through these false lies.
The muscles on his fist wildly wriggled and expanded, veins coiled like enraged dragons, and faint golden patterns, resembling ancient Greek script, even appeared on the Surface of his skin!
Facing that energy cannon, he neither dodged nor flinched, pouring all his strength, speed, and absolute belief in "muscle invincibility" into this single punch, striking it straight out!
Thump—!!!
The terrifying energy struck Hashimoto Yoma, and the immense force pushed him back, but the words of expulsion and shattering carried by that energy did not enter Hashimoto Yoma's body; it only made him stumble back a few steps.
Kishibe Rohan's gaze began to grow solemn. He sensed the terrifying power of the opponent and the strange figure behind him. "You're not a normal human either.
I originally thought you would be a Stand User, but now it seems... you, like me, are favored by a god. This power, this figure... is this the god Hermes?"
Kishibe Rohan secretly felt the urge to retreat. He knew full well that he relied only on a mountain god, while the opponent relied on the god Hermes. The disparity in strength between them was immeasurable.
Hermes was one of the twelve Olympian gods; a mere mountain god, even an unusual one, couldn't compare.
When he previously used the enhanced Heaven's Door for large-scale brainwashing, it wasn't without setbacks. Often, in areas with local deities, his Heaven's Door would fail and be met with a powerful counterattack from the local god.
"Wait, why must you be my enemy? We have no conflict of interest now, do we?
As for the losses and damage I caused you before, I am willing to compensate. I can give you a Town as your exclusive training area; you can do whatever you want. If it really comes down to it, I can even hypnotize a country..."
Looking at Kishibe Rohan, whose cheeks were now sweating, Hashimoto Yoma smiled, a chilling smile, his facial muscles squeezing and twisting.
"Ah ha ha ha ha! I was still wondering. I was still wondering what you would say when I got my revenge? I never thought you would say such things?!
Kishibe Rohan! What the hell are you talking about? Are you insulting my muscles? You ignorant bastard dare to profane me! Go to hell!"
After a burst of wild laughter, Hashimoto Yoma's expression suddenly turned extremely cold. He stomped his foot, and his entire body lunged forward. Instantly, the ground of the shrine completely shattered, turning into sand and swirling in a strange manner from where he jumped.
And looking at Hashimoto Yoma's incoming fist, Kishibe Rohan gave a helpless smile, "Sigh, still have to fight? Haha, if that's the case... then you can go to hell, you little hooligan!"
He wiped his face, and instantly he vanished. By deceiving his own perception, he temporarily erased his existence, causing Hashimoto Yoma's punch to miss and strike the ground, which then began to collapse.
Meanwhile, the soldiers behind him also began to twist and show symptoms of desertification, appearing as if they were about to die at any moment.
Just then, Kishibe Rohan appeared behind them. He drew a line in the air with one hand, and a door appeared. Then, countless hands reached out from the door and directly pulled all the soldiers inside.
A new line of text appeared on the soldiers' faces: 'There is a mysterious space here, and only Kishibe Rohan can communicate with people through this space. All physical attacks cannot harm those within the space.'
As the text appeared, all the soldiers vanished. Kishibe Rohan, once again composed, faced Hashimoto Yoma's incoming uppercut. He neither dodged nor flinched, directly taking the punch with his face.
Inevitably, his head exploded, but the splattered brain matter strangely flowed back, reassembling his head.
At the same time, his golden scepter struck Hashimoto Yoma's temple fiercely, causing Hashimoto Yoma to become dazed.
Simultaneously, countless Heaven's Doors crawled out of the scepter and burrowed into Hashimoto Yoma's head. They began to modify and rewrite his consciousness and perception there, but they were directly suppressed by Hermes's divine power.
Hermes allowed his chosen one to fight fairly with the favored ones of other gods, but he would not allow anyone to modify his chosen one's perception. This was a fundamental rule. If the opponent dared to disobey and do it again,
or if that mountain god personally intervened, then he would have to step in himself. Kishibe Rohan immediately realized this.
At the same time, he also found a curse in Hashimoto Yoma's mind, which should have been left by the mountain god's servant, a curse activated with his life.
But that curse had also been casually suppressed by Hermes's divine power. It seemed that it, along with the Heaven's Door's modification of consciousness, had been left behind, presumably as a future test for this chosen one.
Seeing this move was useless, Kishibe Rohan unhesitatingly changed his strategy. He grabbed at the air with both hands, and the air was modified. The entire area around the shrine, no, the entire mountain, was directly modified by him into a vacuum.
There was no longer any air present; he instantly deleted the air, including the gases within living organisms.
By modifying the consciousness of the soldiers within the modified space, he completed the rewriting of reality here and modified himself into a creature that could survive and function normally in a vacuum.
Seeing Hashimoto Yoma instantly stop, his face contorted, Kishibe Rohan knew it was stable.
But he didn't stop. Instead, he grabbed the ground, turning a floor tile into a pistol, and then unhesitatingly fired several shots at Hashimoto Yoma's head.