Chapter 172 - 86: Are There Many "Gods" as Weak as You? (Part 2)

Chapter 172: Chapter 86: Are There Many "Gods" as Weak as You? (Part 2)

The Rei Ayanamis braced their AT Fields, struggling desperately to protect Shinji Ikari. From time to time, one of the clones, unable to withstand the horrific pressure, would explode into a mist of blood!

"Hahaha! Puny Hunter, encountering me is the greatest mistake of your life!" Adam roared, venting his power. In his current state, he was far more powerful than he had been during the Second Impact in Antarctica.

As the blinding light finally faded, Adam’s wild laughter came to a screeching halt.

Alex stood before him, his clothes perfectly pristine without even a single tear. A few stray ice crystals drifted through the air around him, caught in the wind.

If it hadn’t been for the tens of thousands of naked girls below, Alex wouldn’t have even bothered with an ice shield just to prevent his clothes from being ruined. The shockwave that had once wiped out half of humanity hadn’t even managed to crack his frost barrier.

Alex raised an eyebrow and offered a flat critique: "All show and no substance."

In the world of Saint Seiya, the first lesson every Saint learned due to the Covenant of the Gods was how to refine and control their power. To a Saint, a wide-area shockwave like Adam’s was nothing more than a gentle breeze—it carried no real lethality. A single Galaxian Explosion from Saga unleashed energy millions of times more concentrated than this.

Seeing that his strongest attack was useless, Adam’s voice began to tremble. "I see... You... you must be an illusion! Your true body isn’t here!"

Despite his words, a black-red AT Field quietly flared up around the Giant of Light. Simultaneously, a gold-edged card appeared, radiating a faint, ominous golden light in the air.

....

Meanwhile, in a mysterious room within the Reincarnation Space, several hooded figures suddenly stood up. "He’s appeared—the Hunter. He’s in the Light God’s world! Notify Number One immediately!"

Alex’s form suddenly blurred. There was no world-shaking roar, only a burst of pure, raw speed.

The diamond-shaped light shield of the AT Field—hailed as the "Absolute Territory"—didn’t even have time to flare before it was pierced through by a figure moving far beyond the limits of perception.

"How is this possible?!" Adam only had time to scream inwardly in shock.

Alex was already inside the Giant of Light. He extended a single finger, imbued with the conceptual chill of Absolute Zero—a concentrated essence of ultimate cold designed to freeze all things—and drove it directly into the high-density Core of Light that served as Adam’s heart.

Sizzle!

It sounded like a white-hot iron being plunged into ice, or a bolt of lightning crashing into a swamp.

The Giant of Light’s massive body stiffened. The brilliance composing its form flickered violently. The massive core in its chest was instantly encased in a layer of indestructible, deep-blue ice crystals radiating an Absolute Zero chill.

The ice behaved as if it were alive, spreading through Adam’s limbs and torso at an unthinkable speed. The edges of his luminous body began to warp and blur like a corrupted video feed. Under the absolute low temperature, the energy and matter composing him stabilized and solidified into ice.

"No! This cannot be!" Adam’s consciousness roared frantically inside the giant, feeling the primal terror of having his very soul frozen.

The power he took pride in—power enough to destroy worlds—was rendered completely immobile under Alex’s single finger, as fragile as a candle in a storm.

Below, Rei Ayanami Number Nine’s eternally placid expression cracked for the first time. Her ruby-like pupils contracted to the size of pinpricks. Her usually unrippled eyes now clearly reflected the agonizing struggle of the massive Giant of Light, trapped within its icy prison.

She took a tiny, imperceptible step back. Her perfect body, clad in her plugsuit, trembled slightly from the sheer shock of what she was witnessing.

"This... this kind of power..."

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