Jagged black lightning exploded between Su Mu's fist and the Destroyer armor. The catastrophic shockwave instantly pulverized the street for dozens of meters in every direction, violently launching the massive metallic figure out of the dust cloud!
Despite landing a successful Black Flash that sent the Destroyer flying, Su Mu didn't walk away completely unscathed.
The cosmic energy beam fired by the Destroyer was exponentially more devastating than Cyclops' optic blasts. Even the Level 3 Limitless couldn't entirely filter it out in time.
A large portion of Su Mu's chest was severely scorched by the laser, but under the constant cycle of the Reverse Cursed Technique, the charred flesh rapidly peeled away and perfectly regenerated.
Ignoring the pain, Su Mu looked forward with absolute, manic excitement. Several hundred meters away, the Destroyer slowly pushed itself up from the rubble. Aside from a few scuff marks, its Uru metal chassis hadn't suffered a single structural dent!
Just from their very first exchange, Su Mu found himself technically on the losing end—a situation he hadn't encountered since transmigrating into this universe.
But instead of feeling discouraged, his battle lust skyrocketed!
In the Jujutsu Kaisen universe, landing a Black Flash doesn't just amplify the destructive yield to the power of 2.5. It also forces the user into "The Zone!"
In this state of absolute, transcendental focus, the user can draw out 120% of their physical strength, speed, cursed energy output, and reaction time. They operate on an entirely different plane of existence!
The moment he landed the Black Flash, Su Mu's consciousness slipped effortlessly into The Zone!
He felt an unprecedented, absolute sense of clarity! His energy pathways and muscle fibers were singing with terrifying fluidity!
In the distance, the Destroyer opened its faceplate once again, firing another blinding cosmic beam directly at him!
Using the spatial compression of Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue, Su Mu instantly warped out of the beam's path. Reappearing directly in front of the massive automaton while it was still firing, Su Mu swung another devastating punch without the interference of the laser!
With the absolute micro-control provided by the Level 3 Six Eyes and his Level 3 Energy Absorption, Su Mu's success rate for triggering a Black Flash had drastically increased!
BOOM!
The apocalyptic black-red lightning roared once again!
The Destroyer was violently launched backward, but before it could fly too far, a terrifying azure singularity dragged it violently back!
The immense gravitational pull of Blue swallowed the Destroyer. However, unlike his previous opponents, the localized black hole completely failed to tear the armor apart!
After initially losing its footing to the sudden gravitational shift, the Destroyer's internal cosmic fires flared. It rapidly adapted to the crushing gravity and stabilized its stance right in the middle of the singularity!
Su Mu wasn't disappointed in the slightest. He fully expected the Destroyer to shrug off Blue.
If the armor couldn't withstand extreme spatial gravity, how could Odin possibly wear it into battle against the Celestials?
The euphoric smile on Su Mu's face widened. The cursed energy coursing through his physical vessel boiled to an absolute fever pitch! Ethereal blue flames violently flared around his body!
He pointed his index finger directly at the Destroyer, which was currently wrestling against the pull of Blue. A deeply authentic, manic grin split his face.
"Cursed Technique Reversal: Red!"
Positive energy surged to his fingertip, instantly condensing into a ping-pong-ball-sized, terrifying black-red singularity. The moment the words left his lips, the singularity ripped through the atmosphere, generating a deafening sonic boom as it vanished from his fingertip and instantly slammed into the Destroyer's "face!"
BOOM!
A catastrophic explosion of pure spatial repulsion erupted!
The repulsive force generated by Red was vastly superior to even a Black Flash. The Destroyer was violently blasted out of the town limits! As it skipped across the desert like a stone, the kinetic force completely obliterated the landscape, carving a massive, jagged canyon thousands of meters long before the armor finally came to a halt!
The shockwave from the impact rattled the nearby town, causing the ground to violently shake as if hit by a high-magnitude earthquake!
Standing with Thor, Jane Foster, and the Warriors Three watched the apocalyptic battle in absolute, paralyzed awe.
"By the Norns... even Thor at the absolute peak of his power couldn't do that," Sif murmured, her entire worldview shattered. She never imagined a Midgardian could possess power that rivaled the gods!
Despite launching Red, Su Mu didn't lower his guard. Through the omniscient vision of the Six Eyes, he saw the Destroyer rising from the dust cloud. The indestructible Uru metal on its chest plate had suffered minor fracturing, but it was currently repairing itself at a visible rate.
Seeing this, Su Mu couldn't help but mentally scoff. How come the Destroyer was so damn weak when it fought Thor in the movie?
It just went to show that Loki truly loved his big brother. All their bickering and "betrayals" were just toxic tsundere behavior.
As Su Mu made his mental complaint, the Destroyer charged at him again!
Seeing the giant metal tin can rushing him, Su Mu grew even more excited. This was a level of durability that the Hulk and Abomination couldn't even dream of providing!
The two clashed violently. Explosions of black lightning repeatedly tore the desert apart, while blinding cosmic beams carved massive, glowing scars into the earth.
Amidst the high-intensity battle, the experience points for all of Su Mu's skills skyrocketed. The system notifications were a constant, chaotic blur:
[System Notification: Energy Point +1]
[System Notification: Six Eyes EXP +1]
[System Notification: Energy Absorption EXP +1]
[System Notification: Limitless EXP +1]
[System Notification: Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue EXP +1]
[System Notification: Cursed Technique Reversal: Red EXP +1]
...
During a particularly intense exchange, Su Mu failed to dodge a sweeping cosmic beam. His arm was instantly pierced through, the scorching energy instantly vaporizing a massive chunk of flesh and bone!
But in the very next microsecond, the Reverse Cursed Technique triggered. The missing flesh rapidly regenerated, violently knitting back together! As the beam tried to push further, it suddenly slammed into a physical barrier. It could no longer inflict a single millimeter of damage!
Finally, under the sheer, unbridled intensity of the cosmic battle, the skill that had been hovering on the brink of a breakthrough finally crossed the threshold!
[System Notification: Energy Absorption EXP +1]
[System Notification: Congratulations, Skill 'Energy Absorption' has leveled up!]
[Energy Absorption Lv.4 (1/5000): Grants the absolute ability to absorb nearly all known forms of energy across the universe! Both the absorption rate and the maximum energy storage capacity have been astronomically amplified!]
The moment the skill leveled up, Su Mu's physical vessel underwent a violent, transcendent metamorphosis.
Every single bone, muscle fiber, and cellular membrane was structurally reinforced and hyper-optimized to store and process cosmic energy. His overall energy capacity was multiplied several times over! Even his mental fortitude received a massive boost, allowing him to instinctively command energy flows with terrifying, surgical precision!
The searing cosmic beam that had been agonizingly burning his flesh a second ago now felt like a gentle, warm spring breeze. His Level 4 Energy Absorption was now devouring the beam vastly faster than the Destroyer could output it!
Since Loki was merely piloting the armor remotely across interstellar space, the Destroyer was physically limited in its maximum output. Against the newly awakened Level 4 Energy Absorption, the armor was officially incapable of hurting him!
Although the leveling up of Energy Absorption had passively enhanced all his other cursed techniques, Su Mu had absolutely no intention of using them right now. He was desperately craving a pure, unadulterated fistfight!
Completely ignoring the continuous cosmic beam washing over him, Su Mu grabbed the scorched, ruined fabric of his shirt and violently ripped it off, fully exposing a lean, aesthetically flawless, hyper-dense physique.
Running Level 4 Energy Absorption and his cursed energy at maximum overdrive, combining the peak physical martial arts from the Gojo template, and utilizing the Six Eyes for absolute micro-control... Su Mu stepped right through the blinding beam of cosmic fire and threw a single punch!
BOOM!
An unimaginably terrifying burst of black-red lightning exploded from his knuckles! The kinetic impact—amplified to the power of 2.5—violently slammed into the Destroyer!
The indestructible automaton was brutally smashed face-first into the desert floor! The residual kinetic force violently rippled through the earth, instantly cracking the tectonic plate and caving in the ground, forming a massive, perfectly spherical crater hundreds of meters wide!
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