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The ground beneath Kenji's and Tetsutetsu's feet shook as the swarm of ants bore down on them, mandible clacking. But before they could fully close the distance Kenji watched as those in the back of the swarm raised their abdomens into the air.
"Watch out they spray acid!" Tetsutetsu warned as he moved to step in front of Kenji.
"Don't worry about me, I can take the heat! I need you to focus on killing these things, I'll keep them pinned down!" Kenji said as he held out his arm as a barrage of acid arced through the air ready to rain down on them.
Tetsutetsu opened his mouth to respond when Kenji stomped his foot against the ground and a ten foot wall of abyss rose into the air stopping the acid cold. After bracing himself Kenji lowered the wall and was immediately greeted with a pair of mandibles trying to cut him clean in half.
Kenji's arms shot out to their side of him as with a grunt he stopped the ant's bite cold, his void armor completely ignoring the razor sharp edge of the mandibles. Then before the dread beast could react Kenji's tail shot forward unfurling to reveal the hidden spike that he drove into one of the ant's soulless compound eyes.
Yellow Ichor flew through the air as Kenji drove his tail up into the ant's head only stopping when he felt it sink into something soft and squishy. The monster spasmed before collapsing in a twitching pile, but Kenji couldn't take the time to gloat in his victory.
Tetsutetsu watched the entire scene play out with wide eyes as Kenji easily disposed of the rampaging monster with chilling efficiency, and the same question echoed in his mind from earlier in the day when Kenji's evolution was announced, 'Who the hell was this guy?'
Gritting his teeth together Tetsutetsu felt his body flush with heat and his determination soared as he turned to face the oncoming horde, "Let's do this!"
With a roar Tetsutetsu sprinted to meet his first opponent ducking beneath its mandibles as it lunged forward to bite him, only to pop back up with a vicious uppercut.
With a crunch Tetsutetsu's fist shattered the monster's carapace, spilling sickly yellow ichor to the ground and sending the ant reeling.
Seeing Tetsutetsu get active Kenji withdrew his tail, 'I guess it's time to play my part.'
As Kenji's chain uncoiled and rose into the air its many links rattled against each other sending a haunting melody echoing through the air. Using the weapon like a whip Kenji sent his chain slicing through the air in a wide arc scoring the carapace of several ant's at once. Not enough to do any lingering damage but Kenji definitely got their attention as a whole portion of the swarm rushed to kill him.
Seeing the mountain of limbs and gnashing mandibles ready to pull him limb from limb Kenji's heart couldn't help but hammer in his nervously. Then he remembered what was on the line, the unknown fate of two of his classmates and Tetsutetsu who was fighting right alongside him. Reaching back Kenji grabbed the hood of his armor and pulled it over his head as his eyes flared. Then the moment of peace passed and the swarm descended on him.
Predicting their first move Kenji was ready for when three sets of mandibles shot out trying to cut his body to ribbons. The first set of jaws Kenji met head on with a punch shattering the thinner carapace covering the mandibles. At the same time Kenji's chain snaked through the air wrapping around the second pair of deadly scythes and wrenching them closed. The final attack was also stopped dead as the ant's head was buried into the ground as a pool of abyss opened under the monster and a mass of clawing chains grabbed onto the monster.
But while Kenji was able to stop the attacks he could retaliate himself and was forced to reset as more ants climbed over each other just to reach him,
Wave after wave of attacks cascaded over Kenji, and he withstood them all. That wasn't to say he perfectly blocked every last attack or spray of acid, but in that moment Kenji got a sense of just how powerful his void armor was and how it functioned.
Initially Kenji didn't pay his armor much intention believing he could withstand the ant's seemingly endless barrage. That thought perished when suddenly Kenji felt a searing heat splash against his skin and he looked down to see the hole burned through his robe.
While Kenji's armor could create an artificial distance between him and any attack, that gap could still be crossed if the initial strength was strong enough or as he discovered enough damage was piled on at once in a concentrated area.
Then all of a sudden a connection was formed in Kenji's mind, 'My void armor is just like Nen, or Haki, or any other textbook aura energy! Why didn't I think of this before!'
Kenji almost wanted to stop fighting to smack himself in the face, 'I spent all that time watching anime and I haven't even used it. How many techniques have I ignored that I can apply in one shape or another?'
Turning his focus back to the wave of ants in front of him Kenji eyes hardened before the hole in his robes regenerated, stitching itself back together, 'Thankfully it seems like I'll have plenty of sparring partners.'
With a new goal in mind Kenji changed his approach, with a thought he reduced the strength of his armor almost to the bare minimum only providing him with an extra foot of protection.
'Out putting a hundred percent for the entire duration of the fight is a great way to deplete my resources, and any villain worth their salt will figure out my limits in a matter of seconds. My armor should fluctuate according to the strength behind an attack, no need to put a thousand miles between me and a stray pebble.'