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He wasn't injured, but that punch was extremely insulting!
But Gu Ran's attack did not stop. He had already gathered lightning-attribute chakra in his hands, and it seemed as if a thousand birds were chirping in the air.
The highest level of Chidori: Lightning Release: Lightning Blade!
Blue and white lightning appeared in Gu Ran's hand, striking Herzog's heart.
But Herzog reacted very quickly, exchanging punches with Gu Ran with one hand in the nick of time, while wielding the Kusanagi sword with the other and slashing at Gu Ran.
The Kusanagi sword came with overwhelming force and was incredibly sharp. Gu Ran could only dodge its edge, twisting his body in mid-air to avoid the Kusanagi's blade. At the same time, his right Raikiri collided with Herzog's fist.
The two collided, but Gu Ran's Raikou failed to sever Herzog's hand. The thick dragon scales were like the hardest armor, and even with Raikou's penetrating power, it could not be destroyed!
The two exchanged a punch, and Gu Ran's Lightning Blade did pierce through some of Herzog's scales on his arm, causing him some minor cuts and bruises.
Such an injury will not have any impact on Herzog, because the genes in his body can quickly help him repair his body.
So Gu Ran didn't linger in the fight, patted Herzog's waist with his left hand, and then quickly distanced himself.
Although Gu Ran had distanced himself, Herzog became even more aware of the danger. He looked down and discovered that a talisman covered in incantations had been unknowingly pasted on his waist.
Gu Ran formed a hand seal and softly shouted, "Explode!"
The next second, hundreds and thousands of talismans began to float out from the talisman on Herzog's waist and surround him, and then these talismans exploded at the same time!
Multiply each other's detonating charms!
Herzog instinctively used Word of Power to defend again, this time using Word of Power: Vajra Realm, an advanced version of Word of Power: Dark Illumination, with extremely excellent defensive capabilities.
"Cancel." Not far away, Lu Mingze snapped his fingers again, canceling Herzog's Vajra World.
Herzog was instantly engulfed by the explosion of the multiplicative detonating tags. The enormous explosion sounded like hundreds or thousands of high-explosive grenades being set off in the sky, and the explosion lasted for nearly a minute before it finally stopped.
As the smoke cleared, Herzog was covered in dust and dirt from the explosion, and blood seeped from beneath his scales.
This injury was more severe than the previous all-out attack from Zero, because although the multiplicative detonating tags were distributed in all directions, they were detonated at a single point.
It was at this moment that Herzog finally became fearful. His proud Dragon King authority, which allowed him to control the elements at will, was completely neutralized by the boy.
That boy, like him, was a complete elemental master, able to control the elements with pure consciousness.
In other words, he would no longer be able to use his Word of Power to defend himself; any attempt to defend would be canceled, and he would then be able to take full force of Gu Ran's attack.
If this continued, he felt he might be worn down to death by these two.
Herzog looked at the boy: "A battle between kings, you wouldn't want to gang up on the weak, would you?"
"Provocation won't work on me," Lu Mingze chuckled. "However, continuing like this is really not right. In the end, a battle between kings can only be fought with bloodshed!"
He took out two knives he had picked up from the Red Well from his pocket. Suddenly, the firelight covered the knives, and the metal began to melt rapidly before solidifying again.
A dozen seconds later, the two blades that had been picked up from the ground transformed into the divine sword that appeared in the history of Japan—Futsu-no-Mitama, Ame-no-Habakiri.
Gu Ran lightly patted the talisman on his wrist, and used the lightning sword to summon a knife—the Spider Cutter.
He gripped the knife with both hands and stared at Herzog.
Herzog paused for a moment when he saw the Spider Cutter, not quite understanding why Genjiro's sword was in his hands.
The three siblings, Genjiro and his sister, should have already died in the Red Well, becoming his food.
But for some reason, he keenly realized that his physical imperfections seemed to be due to a change in the plans of the three siblings.
But before he could even process what was happening, Lu Mingze was already charging toward Herzog, carrying two legendary divine swords.
The battle between kings has officially begun.
Every collision between the two would create severe elemental turbulence in the sky. Gu Ran was also caught in the elemental turbulence and could not intervene in their battle. He could only defend in the sky with Susanoo.
Dense lightning tore through the clouds; it was clearly a massive energy reaction.
The intense electromagnetic interference rendered all monitoring equipment ineffective, much like the situation during a solar flare.
No one can monitor what's happening in the clouds, not even satellites in space, because the spectacular aurora borealis over Tokyo interfered with the cameras on the satellites.
This is caused by the collision of high-energy particle streams with the atmosphere, with something behind the clouds radiating and releasing astonishing unknown energy towards the sky and the ground.
Herzog and Lu Mingze fought for three hundred rounds, but the battle was still undecided.
In terms of combat skills, Lu Mingze was clearly superior. His movements were more agile because Herzog had been subjected to the Super Weight Rock Technique by Gu Ran, which increased his weight by fifty times, forcing him to lose his advantage of being able to evade flexibly in aerial combat.
But Herzog possesses the Kusanagi sword, which allows him to still unleash his ferocity.
Suddenly, a fierce wind arose, and the sky was sometimes filled with dark clouds, sometimes with thunder and lightning, and sometimes with flashes of swords. Ordinary people could not see what was happening in the sky at all.
Two more Self-Defense Force F-2s came to check the situation, but the turbulent currents were too chaotic for the fighters to get close, so they were forced to return.
Zero-piloted Shinjin glided through the sky and landed in Tokyo Bay, then watched the battle from afar.
Those standing on the ground looked up at the sky and could only see a raging expanse, but Zero seemed to be able to see something.
Gu Ran was the person closest to the battlefield, and with his Sharingan's insight, he was able to keep up with the two's fight.
In this battle between kings, Herzog was forced to defend, and the boy completely controlled the situation.
Although Herzog obtained the full authority of the White King, after all, Gu Ran had fed him so many 'emperors' skeletons, which were enough to complete the White King's genes.
However, because the relic did not receive a perfect host, Herzog only inherited 60 percent of the White King's power.
Herzog was no match for the young man before him; had it not been for the divine weapon Kusanagi, he would likely have been defeated by now.
The most troublesome thing is that the boy is surrounded by many corpse guards. Some of these corpse guards are members of the Fierce Ghost Clan, while others are the remains of the previous 'emperors' of the Snake Clan that Gu Ran dug up.
The corpse guardian created by the 'Emperor' possesses extraordinary combat power and can also inflict damage on his body.
Therefore, Herzog had to go to great lengths to deal with those corpse guards. Fortunately, he had the Thousand Clouds, which made cutting down those corpse guards as easy as cutting tofu.
Moreover, he used the Thousand Clouds Technique to inflict some injuries on the boy.
Herzog also discovered that the boy was not perfect; he did not have the body of a dragon king, but had the form of a king, though it was a forgery!
"Hahahaha! So you're not whole! If you were whole, I would have died long ago!" Herzog pointed at the boy. "You have the form of a king, but it's a fake! You are not that great being at all!"
“You’re right, you saw right through me. Neither you nor I are complete. The only difference is that I have the heart of a dragon but not the complete bloodline of the Dragon King, while you have the complete bloodline of a king but a cowardly human heart inside.”
Hearing this, Herzog felt a pang of regret. As the newly born White King, he should have first found a place to emerge from his cocoon and then found a place to recover that forty percent of his power.
In this way, perhaps he could overpower the young man in front of him with the power of the Kusanagi.
However, he became too complacent and, after ascending the throne, thought he was invincible and could look down upon the world.
I never imagined there was something beyond my reach.
At this point, he had no room for regret. While fending off Lu Mingze's attacks, his mind raced, trying to figure out how to turn the tide.
But he couldn't escape, because his body had inexplicably gained fifty times his original weight, making it impossible for him to quickly leave the battlefield.
For the agile Dragon King, who could fly high in the sky, Gu Ran's Heavy Rock Technique could be said to have completely reversed the battle.
Chapter 516 God’s Death
The battle between the two was getting further and further away from Gu Ran. Gu Ran calculated the time and realized that the Sky Patrol should have circled the earth again and was about to reach the skies above Tokyo.
He released Susanoo, then clasped his hands together and gathered natural energy.
After a while, he successfully condensed his energy and entered immortal mode.
His body was covered with dense, fine scales, and his scales covered his entire body, yet he still maintained a human form.
He needs to be in peak condition and intervene at the optimal moment to end this battle.
At this time, Herzog was unaware that while he believed he was about to ascend the throne of the world, some people were silently watching him from behind the scenes, watching him successfully put on the crown, and watching him immediately lose his crowned head.
The battle between Herzog and Lu Mingze has once again reached a fever pitch, but neither of them can gain the upper hand.
Lu Mingze frowned slightly. The Kusanagi sword was indeed too troublesome, and the Futsu-no-Mitama and Ame-no-Habakiri he had temporarily created were no match for the Kusanagi sword.
The Heavenly Cloud was forged from dragon bones and can be considered one of the strongest divine weapons among the dragon race. Herzog wielding the Heavenly Cloud was like Bu Jingyun wielding the Peerless Sword.
"I say, do we really have to fight to the death?" Herzog used the Kusanagi sword to block Lu Mingze's broken twin blades. "Why should we be enemies?"
“You are such a great being, and so am I. This world is vast, and we can share it. I also need allies to fight against those resurrected kings. If my information is correct, the King of the Sky and Wind, and the King of the Ocean and Water, have not yet awakened, have they?” Herzog continued to propose to Lu Mingze.
Lu Mingze laughed: "Your suggestion is very generous, but in my memory, Doctor, you are not such a generous person. How could you be willing to share the throne of the world with me?"
“Because you are different, you are a great king, you are just as noble as I am, you have a reason to live.” Herzog spoke sweet words, but in reality he was thinking, thinking about how to find a breakthrough.
“Doctor, you didn’t understand what I just said.” Lu Mingze said with a relaxed smile, “I said, you have the complete bloodline of a king, but you have a cowardly human heart inside you.”
"How dare you, such a lowly species, claim to be noble alongside me?"
Lu Mingze roared furiously. He threw away the two broken weapons and, with his bare hands, clasped them together and struck Herzog's Kusanagi sword.
Herzog instinctively reached for the Spinning Kusanagi Thrust, aiming to use the blade to pierce his opponent's hand.
At that moment, Gu Ran had already used the Flying Thunder God Technique to teleport behind Herzog.
Herzog was shocked. He had been so focused on fighting Lu Mingze that he had completely overlooked Gu Ran's presence.
Because Lu Mingze was putting so much pressure on him, he couldn't afford to be distracted.
Only then did he realize that there was another Gu Ran holding a spider cutter.
Gu Ran entered Sage Mode at this moment, holding the Spider Cutter in his right hand, but his first move was still with his unarmed left hand.
Immortal Technique: Frog Knock!
Frog Strike gathers natural energy in the palm and unleashes a powerful blow with immense force, surpassing even superhuman strength.
The slap landed squarely on Herzog's wing, unexpectedly breaking it!
"what!"
Herzog let out a wail, but Gu Ran's attack was not over yet, and he struck again with his left hand.
The punch was aimed at Herzog's head, but Herzog saw it and tried to defend with the Kusanagi Cloud.
However, the Heavenly Cloud was constantly restrained by Lu Mingze's hands clasped together, and he couldn't break free at all.
Just as Herzog was caught in a dilemma, he was struck on the head and his head snapped back once again.
That was an invisible fist: Sage Art: Frog Kumite!
The Frog Kumite utilizes natural energy to launch surprise attacks from blind spots where the opponent cannot see.
Taking advantage of Herzog's momentary daze as he fell backward, Gu Ran pressed his advantage, using Soft Fist and Pressure Point Technique on Herzog.