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Chapter 142: Stalemate Before The Checkmate?
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A scene similar to the last happened again, Meruem appeared about a hundred meters from Yasuo who is still floating in the air though the Vision construct could no longer be seen behind him and so are his limbs... again.
His limbs were again beneath the King's feet then they simply disappear leaving drops of blood coming down the King's hands.
"Can you regenerate your whole limbs?..." Wondered the King after he obliterated Yasuo's four limbs to nothingness so how can the limbless Yasuo connect his obliterated limbs to his body?
He can't, his limbs have simply been obliterated to small particles so unless he can regenerate his limbs, he will have to remain limbless forever.
The devil again had no change of expression remaining static as the same purple construct manifested itself with dark lines appearing all over its arms.
After which Yasuo activated the Zobae organisms within to start doing their work make a blue shade appearing all over his skin.
The construct attacked Yasuo's body with its absolute fastest speed possible without doing any harm as even the high temperature didn't do anything to him.
In fact, it only made the restoration process faster. That combined with the Zobae organisms and his large Aura pool enhancing his already monstrous regeneration achieved an interesting scene.
The scene of his limbs regenerating in a matter of seconds, the purple shining seems to hide Yasuo's body within its veil until the shining disappeared with Yasuo's spotless and completely healthy body appearing.
In fact, he seems to be even wearing new black pants due to his previous one being cut when Meruem took his legs and arms.
"Yeah, I can... That was actually quite interesting, I'm pretty sure I figured out how your ability works, quite interesting indeed though I wonder what you had to sacrifice to make it even possible in the first place..."
Remarked Yasuo not seem discouraged by the previous losses at all, he slowly closed his eyes without deactivating his scarlet eye and entered a state of absolute focus.
Focused more than he ever had, after all, he has to be focused beyond belief to keep up with the miracle the King has created.
The King was just observing the abnormal human before him with interest not interrupting Yasuo's restoration process at all and his expression didn't change at all hearing his words though he wondered knowing full well that understanding how it works doesn't mean he can react at all, "Does that change anything?"
"It changes everything." The moment he said that, Yasuo actually began attacking as the six purple hands attacked through several portals towards the King.
It was however in vain as the King again instantly scattered his photons throughout the surroundings and disappearing after which.
And something Yasuo notice is the fact that the King always retract all the photons when not using the ability so he instantly came to the conclusion that keeping the ability active has a price or is a condition.
A battle with scenes that happens across milliseconds making that 5 minutes limit look extremely long as if it will take years for it to pass, that's just how much the fabric of time was distorted in their presence.
The speed of light, Meruem didn't know much about it when he was born but he studied a lot once he arrived at the royal palace of the Republic of east Gorteau, aside from studying Gungi and other similar games, he also studied a few other subjects that picked his interest.
Among those subjects was an article about light he had read through and learned quite a lot from it.
How photons work and their speed so he naturally came to the conclusion that there is nothing faster than light, and to a certain extent, he is right, at least to the known world, that's a common belief.
Yasuo however something that can be faster but not really due to speed, something he's planning on using right now.
And so, the vision construct's vertical eye started rapidly blinking as Meruem who by this point is few meters away from Yasuo so the question remains, how can he react to the speed of light?
The answer is simple, the current Yasuo simply can't but he can do something better, he can predict where Meruem will be.
However that doesn't answer all the doubts, even if he predicted it and started moving his six arms, light is just too fast for that to make any difference.
The Vision construct's maximum speed is no more than 30 Mach and that's simply incomparable to the speed of light so he will need to predict the future for a relatively long span of time to be prepared for it.
However, him changing what he would've done is basically changing the future so Meruem will notice that and change his course of action based on that meaning, checkmate.
A variable exists, one that can make the impossible possible and cause a kind of battle never seen before, the strangest battle to ever happen... Yasuo's Control Domain.
So once Meruem reached that distance from Yasuo assuming the latter doesn't even know where he is because of his confidence in the speed of light.
He noticed something he didn't expect at all, he noticed one of the massive purple hands appearing within his way.
Not just that, it appeared within a few micrometers from him having its maximum speed and momentum as well as the extremely high temperature.
Those micrometers wouldn't have been enough for anyone to react especially considering both Meruem and the hand are shortening that distance but Meruem was able to easily achieve what could be considered the impossible.
The day the world witnessed many impossible things happen, an abnormal day as even the planet's common sense was being distorted.
Meruem seemed to change directions instantly heading towards another direction without a change in his speed at all which strange in itself like the friction with the air have no effect on him only to be faced with the same phenomena making him narrow his eyes in wonder.
'Just what is going on with this abnormal human? How big is his bizarre arsenal of abilities? Is there more?...'
Questions the King was forced to face especially after noticing all the other arms appearing instantly surrounding him.
He simply wasn't able to react even with the speed of light, strange indeed. There is however a simple explanation for this, the same reason he created his amplification domain sacrificing a portion of his normal domain.
Space control, the ability that can potentially surpass the speed of light only if combined with other abilities just like the bizarre arsenal of abilities Yasuo has.
Seeing the future continuously and knowing where Meruem will be before manipulating space for the hands to appear within that destination.
A simple process that requires countless calculations in a matter of milliseconds no human but Yasuo can do.
However, Meruem's ability proved to be stranger than predicted because almost instantly one of the massive purple hands broke apart with Meruem moving through the now available hole escaping the tight barrier of hands only to again be faced with another hand-chopping towards him from about a few micrometers away.
The fabric of space was distorted under Yasuo's control because a strange scene was happening.
The purple hands whose source is the Vision construct appeared distorted as half of the arms was still connected to the construct while the other half was appearing everywhere under his control and this is how the attacking hands keep appearing everywhere as if they're infinite.
The time Meruem takes to destroy one of the hands is enough for Yasuo to create a new one.
And that created a strange scene of the hands appearing everywhere forcing Meruem to change direction continuously and destroy the hands when needed.
If Yasuo's control and proficiency over the ability were even a bit lower, he wouldn't be able to reform the hands fast enough meaning his loss.
The next few seconds of the fight were really just a stalemate with no apparent winner but they didn't stop and continued the fight for another minute with the fight getting more and more destructive as if they're becoming stronger and stronger in the middle of the fight.
To a certain extent, that's true because as the fight went on, they gained more experience with Meruem gaining more proficiency in using his new ability.
While Yasuo got more used to controlling space and performing all those calculations within a short amount of time, and repeating the process better and better as his brain started getting used to all the information he needs to process.
His years of training his brain to process an astonishing amount of information continuously have helped his brain reach a level never seen in humanity.
His brain is the foundation of his control domain so the larger and stronger his domain becomes, the more forced his brain becomes to evolve but there is always a limit, one he's planning to break.
The 2-minute mark has passed as Meruem appeared outside of Yasuo's domain with his eyes glittering in a bright light looking at the Zoldyck floating in the sky, "Absolutely no pattern I can exploit huh... I guess"
Those sound waves coming out of his mouth only reached a few micrometers from before he started his next course of action.
And so, the King looked at Yasuo's head on his hand with a bit of confusion apparent in his purple eyes, confusion over the fact that the human is actually dead...