Chapter 270 - Muscle Density Three Times A Combat Artist (2)

Boom!

Dino exerted his full force, and his muscular arms violently slammed into Cassius like a pile driver and started to pull. He could have torn an elephant in half with the level of strength he had just exerted. Dino's feet sank deep into the ground under the immense pressure.

Crack, crack, crack...

Across from him, Cassius's joints started to emit cracking sounds, like stressed gears of a machine. It sounded like his body was on the verge of breaking apart.

However, the situation Dino was expecting never happened. Cassius's seemingly slender frame withstood Dino’s tremendous force. The enormous force was absorbed by his body and vanished like a stone thrown into the sea.

"How...?" Dino's mouth opened slightly as he saw Cassius's cold, pale face staring straight at him just ten centimeters away.

Cassius's eyes glowed a fiery red, like two burning embers. A deep, resonating hum echoed across the street like the ignition of a heavy engine. The abnormal heart inside him was pounding at an astounding rate of five hundred beats per minute.

His lean, slender body suddenly swelled as his clothing burst apart. Blackened muscles covered in bulging veins expanded with each heavy breath. The hands that had been gripping Dino in their contest of strength transformed into massive, grinding stone-like palms. Black veins writhed like small snakes beneath his skin. His blood vessels were now fully unleashed.

In his Golem state, Cassius stood two meters tall, his muscles bulging like cast iron. The heat radiating from his body instantly enveloped Dino like a scorching magnetic field. The massive shadow he cast under the moonlight completely swallowed Dino.

"Why? Did you think I looked weak because I seemed thin? You thought you could overpower me?" Cassius roared, his voice echoing. "My muscle density is three times that of an ordinary combat artist!!!"

Dino only had time for horror to flash across his face before Cassius's grotesquely muscular hands gripped his body and started to tear him apart. The strength flowed through his muscles like an unstoppable flood.

"Argh! Damn it!" Dino screamed in pain.

As an Indestructible-Rank Dead Blood, he had powerful regenerative abilities. However, regenerative abilities didn't dull pain. In fact, he had evolved to be like that. At that moment, he felt his shoulders tremble. He felt like two massive trucks were yanking on him from opposite directions. Cassius was going to tear him in half!

Rip!!!

Both of Dino's arms suddenly gave way as Cassius ripped them free of his body, taking large chunks of the former’s shoulders with them. White bone gleamed in the wounds, and a few tendrils of veins stretched between the limb and torso for a brief moment before snapping away entirely.

Cassius followed up with a devastating iron fist that slammed into Dino's chest. Dino was thrown back, bouncing along the concrete like a surfboard on water. The force of his back striking the ground each time caused the pavement to crack beneath him. He carved a ten-meter-long trench into the ground.

Huu...

Cassius exhaled a puff of white breath from his nose and mouth, looking down at his fallen opponent. "This is what happens when you arrogantly underestimate your opponent..."

In truth, Dino's strategy wasn't wrong. He had an incredibly strong body and could rely on his regenerative ability even if things went wrong. However, Dino had run into Cassius, whose Golem Martial Arts imitated a dark creature known as the Golem—a terrifying, unique being designed solely for combat.

After he transformed, Cassius's muscle density reached an absurd level. His deceptively slim appearance hid an overwhelming brute strength, which was further amplified in his Golem state.

Even the Blood Spirit Society's president wouldn't be able to survive him.

Cough, cough, cough...

Dino slowly rose to his feet in the pit. His arms were gone and his chest was caved in, exposing white ribs.

"Your strength is far greater than I expected, but..." Dino sneered, confidence still burning in his eyes. His shoulders twitched, and heat radiated from his entire body as his temperature surged.

"Huh?!" However, instead of his arms regenerating as he expected, small tendrils of flesh timidly stretched out from his stumps, only to be violently torn apart by some unknown force. This cycle repeated over and over, preventing new arms from forming.

Cassius hadn't just ripped off Dino's arms—he had also struck Dino's chest with a punch that infused eleven acupoints’ worth of Death's Fang Force, essentially everything he had in his body, at once. While Cassius wouldn't be able to use his Death's Fang Force for a short time, he had effectively sealed Dino's regenerative abilities!

Death's Fang Force spread through Dino's body, entangling and neutralizing the rapid regenerative energy from his Dead Blood abilities. Cassius had tested this technique on hundreds of Decay-Rank fighters, robbing them of their healing. It could even last for a while against Indestructible-Rank opponents.

Cassius would hold an indisputable advantage during this window where Dino had lost both his hands and his regeneration. He wasn’t going to waste a single second!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Cassius turned into a dark blur as he shot toward Dino. Without his arms, Dino was forced to use the energy of his Dead Blood, forming translucent, blood-red arms at his shoulder stumps. These arms were far more fragile than his physical limbs. Moreover, even Dino's blood was infected by traces of Death's Fang Force, making the new limbs even more brittle.

The two of them clashed repeatedly, their blows sending out shockwaves that rippled through the air like waves on water. But the sound of blows landing echoed again and again. Dino's blood-formed arms shattered with each exchange, forcing him to repeatedly reform them, which drained a vast amount of his core energy. White shockwaves spread through the air in concentric rings, causing fragments of red to scatter like tiny red flowers.

When the two physically powerful monsters collided, they easily stirred up gusts of wind that roared down the street like a tempest. Even the concrete pavement beneath them trembled and quaked with each impact.

Anything in their path was torn apart without resistance, whether it was streetlights, crumbled walls, or cars. The street looked as though it had been run over by heavy tanks, leaving behind inevitable craters and cracks. It was a scene of utter devastation.

Boom!

The two figures slammed into a car, sending it flying through the air, scattering metal parts everywhere. The two fighters shifted and maneuvered around the flying wreckage.

They collided, separated, and collided again in rapid succession. Above them, the moon which was partially hidden by clouds, emerged slightly, casting soft, jade-white light down onto the scene.

In a flash, the two black shadows crossed paths once again. The muscular, blond figure's chest was now covered in numerous gashes, with blood dripping from his wounds. Meanwhile, the black-haired figure stood frozen, its head leaning to the side. Its spine had been snapped during the last clash.

Cassius flashed a bloodthirsty grin. He spun sharply, his entire body channeling a tidal wave of energy toward his fist, which sliced through the air with a faint crimson trail.

Shriek!

As if in response, the giant outline of a falcon on Cassius's back, shrouded in red steam, extended one of its massive claws. The iron claw merged with his fist in a blur of motion and shot straight through Dino's chest.

The clawed hand pierced through Dino with a sickening squelch, sending a mist of blood spraying through the air like a burst of red petals. Cassius squeezed a writhing mass of black-red blood in his palm. Cassius had emerged victorious.

Hum, hum, hum...

Cassius's Golem life magnetic field activated instantly. He didn't even need to deliberately activate his techniques in his Golem state. Waves of vibrations enveloped the Indestructible-Rank Dead Blood, rapidly eroding and disintegrating it. He could feel the powerful vibrations being absorbed into his body and stored in his Dantian.

The writhing of the Dead Blood slowed as it stiffened. Its deep black-red hue began to shift toward a pale gray, hardening until it solidified completely and lost all traces of vitality.

Cassius squeezed, crumbling the Dead Blood into dust. It fell apart like white sand, gently blown away by the wind. It was as lifeless as ash that could no longer burn.

Cassius quickly moved forward to support the Wind Elephant Sect Master, Belon, whose body was about to collapse. He then propped him up against a nearby wall.

Dino had been too powerful for Cassius to hold back. Any damage to the sect master's body was a necessary consequence. Cassius would never allow himself to be restrained or weakened, nor would he fall prey to such foolishness as hesitating in battle out of fear.

Cough, cough...

𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

"These injuries aren't too serious... I can still fight..." Blood dripped from the corner of Cassius's mouth as he glanced at the distant battlefield that was still filled with fierce fighting.

He suddenly vanished. From above, a black shadow could be seen hurtling toward Garoro. At the same moment, a red and blue shadow pincered him between them.

Boom!

The three figures struck at the exact same moment, knocking Garoro's twin blades away. His feet dug into the ground, leaving two long, dark furrows in the pavement.

Garoro quickly lifted his head, fury blazing in his eyes. He snarled, "You guys...!"

He saw the three figures, Feng Liusi, Cassius, and Saint Feinan, forming a triangle around him. They continued to circle him like predators on the hunt. Three battle-hardened combat artists had cornered him!

Tonight, three veteran combat artists had come together to take down the Blade Demon Garoro!