Chapter 3125: Untouchable

Anthea’s raw velocities far exceeded Rui’ by more than an order of magnitude. His speed was so high that only light was faster. Every motion he made sent ripples across the very fabric of space and time.

And yet, he couldn’t lay a single finger on Rui.

His fist surged forth a ferocious force, aiming to blast Rui’s head off his body in a single attack.

WHOOSH

Rui gently moved out of the way of the attack in a manner that seemed to defy physics.

Anthea’s eyes flared with determination as he launched three more blindingly swift attacks with destructive momentum.

And yet, the gentlest of shifts was all it took.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!

The mildest of steps, tilts, and motions were all it took to evade the destructive power of his opponent.

It was unfathomable.

As though a lucky accident was happening over and over.

Rui wasn’t fighting the present.

No.

He was fighting the future.

The combination of the Prophecy of the Void and the SOUL System gave him such unparalleled and unfathomable insights into the future that he could foresee the trajectory of Anthea’s future attacks right down to the nanometer and nanosecond.

That allowed him to move at exactly the right moment in exactly the right direction and exactly the right speed, adaptively evolving his motion to precisely evade all of his opponent’s attacks.

The window of time between the decision to attack and the commencement of the attack was no more than a few nanoseconds.

And yet, that was enough.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!!!

It allowed Rui to evade a tsunami of destructively fast blows with absolute perfection.

It allowed him to go even further than just evasion.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

A thundering blow blasted Anthea’s chest, earning a flash of pain on his face. And yet, before he even realized it, a low sweeping kick had crashed into his ankle.

BANG!!!

The attack swept Anthea off balance, leaving him vulnerable to a myriad of attacks, one after another.

BOOOOOM BOOOOOM BOOOOOM!!!!!

Rui preferred inflicting a larger number of wounds with shorter, swifter attacks that were harder to evade. He sacrificed enhancing his attacks with much torque, lest he make it easier for Anthea to read him.

His fists flew forward in a methodical and recurring barrage of blows that peppered Anthea’s body as he foresaw Anthea’s retaliation, evading the attacks even before they commenced.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!

By the time they came, he was already out of the way, throwing several more attacks against Anthea, pressuring him even more.

But not before Anthea adaptive evolved.

BOING!

Rui’s eyes widened as his fist struck what felt like jelly, creating an elastic impact that did no damage.

It was the elastic tissue biotechnology that he had displayed earlier.

Except more advanced.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!!!

"Rgh...!" Rui grimaced as the flesh surged back with a tremendous impact against his fist, blasting his attack back. Rui gritted his teeth, launching an even faster onslaught of attacks across Anthea’s body.

And yet again, Anthea’s body deformed elastically, absorbing the impact before turning it around and unleashing it into Rui’s buried fists with great speed and power.

BOOOOOOM BOOOOOOM BOOOOOOM!!!!!

CRACK CRACK CRACK!

Rui’s fists cracked upon the automatic backlash of the recoil.

Anthea’s eyes lit up with triumph as Rui grimaced in pain, caught off-guard by the improvised genetic adaptive evolution that Anthea had come up with on the spot. The evolutionary supreme commander had adaptively evolved his physiology to not just elastically absorb the impacts of Rui’s attacks, but to instantly turn them around and use them back against Rui’s fists, dealing him enough damage to leave him vulnerable.

WHOOSH!!!

Anthea surged forth with blinding speed, threatening to kill Rui in the blink of an eye with the opening that he had created. A sharpened palm surged forth with astronomical destructive power, threatening to behead Rui even as he recovered from the recoil.

And yet, a single whisper escaped Rui.

"Temporal Disharmony."

Anthea’s eyes widened as his attack froze inches away from Rui’s throat.

The very fabric of reality and time had altered in his eyes, causing time to speed up inexorably, faster than he could process.

It left him unable to react to even the most straightforward attack.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!!!!!

Rui’s fist landed straight on his face, breaking his nose as the impact rocked his head back, causing his whole body to spiral kilometers away in a split second. Rui’s eyes flared with determination as he surged forth, activating Nemean Blossom and Hypertrophic Surge to unleash an onslaught of extraordinary attacks that threatened to destroy his body.

BOOOM BOOOM BOOOM BOOOM BOOOM!!!!!

Numerous deeper wounds emerged on Anthea’s body as Rui leveraged the full totality of his power to inflict as much damage on his opponent.

The Hypertrophic Surge allowed him to damage Anthea despite the elastic flesh, while Nemean Blossom protected him from the auto-backlash mechanism that Anthea had genetically created.

Anthea’s body shook as Rui blasted him with a myriad of blows that ravaged his flesh. Despite the fact that Hypertophic Surge and Nemean Blossom made him slower than normal, Anthea couldn’t even begin to react to them because of Temporal Disharmony. Rui continued to maintain a sustained pressure on him, unwilling to allow him to adaptively evolve to his hypnosis.

And yet, he had underestimated Anthea.

"Tricks."

Anthea’s ethereal voice was full of contempt.

CLASP

Rui’s eyes widened with shock as Anthea caught his fist effortlessly, as his eyes flared with bloodlust.

"If you speed up my perception of time, then I can counter that by altering my neural speed genetically."

Anthea’s tone was chilling.

CRACK CRACK CRACK

He crushed Rui’s hand with sheer raw force, breaking his bones as his eyes flared with raw bloodlust.

"I have you now."

He pulled Rui towards him with one hand before unleashing a tremendously astronomical blow of great power.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!

"Rgh...!" Rui gritted his teeth as the evolutionary unfurled one of the most powerful attacks that he had ever experienced in his entire life, ravaging his guard with a single impact.