Chapter 1963: The Italian Side Job -Part 8
Spartakus could not handle this type of nonsense any longer. Surely, they were stronger than the usual bunch of soldiers and he had never seen their presence for the time he had been observing the Colosseum. Yet at the same time, he also figured why not.
Every single one of them had been suppressing their chi to the point where they felt like it was just any person on the street. They hid their presence so well that their chi aura suppression felt extremely natural even to the eyes of the trained.
But that was not the main point. What he was irritated was not because they had managed to fool him into thinking that they were mere humans. In fact, he welcomed such challenges for there was nearly no one in a century that was able to make him feel threatened. But the problem he felt annoyed was mainly due to the fact that those humans were discussing something that he did not have any idea about.
They were not discussing about how to defeat him but using him as an excuse to discuss on topics that had no bearing on the fight. And yet, in doing so they portrayed their arrogance and ignorance towards him.
The Void Warrior was so furious that he roared once more and slammed his shield on the ground, causing a literal wave of void energy to move through the floors and become shadowy silhouettes of soldiers rushing towards the group.
It was easy for most of the Foxes to move away from the attack but the only one who did not move was System Rider Zither, focused on playing the instrument to make them less immune to the effects of the Void Energy and simultaneously enabling their attacks to be effective.
And yet, all of them even Kraft and Rex who were holding the tip of the spear, talking to themselves had forgotten that the System Rider was behind them supporting the group.
Yet, all of them had extreme confidence that Ke Mi and Jin were able to survive it easily which subsequently proved that their conjecture was correct. Ke Mi merely flicked her strings on the Zither when the immense wave of Void Energy came too close for comfort and the monstrous wave merely split into two, avoiding her and the area around her zither.
After this, Ke Mi continued to confidently play her instrument without any care for the subsequent wave of energy.
But Spartakus was not moving slow as compared to the wait and see approach that he had been using for the past few minutes.
Upon sending that wave of energy, he already charged his human spear and transmitted even more energy into it, causing each and every human that was on the spear to slowly emerge like a flower revealing its inner petals and later the outer petals when someone placed their finger on it have a look into it.
So like a living item, the parts of the human spear were screaming out with agony and spewing laser beams that had been moving through at subsonic speeds to hit their targets. The amount thrown out was so much different than the initial one they had encountered and if the Foxes were to block every single possible variation and combination of beams, they would have trouble focusing on attacking.
Thus, Evon had decided to be the heroic scapegoat that no one had expected and needed even though his actions did bring some acknowledgment from Rex.
Using the power of 'science' he threw out bits of triangular shaped metal from his storage ring and started to float around the entire group, protecting the group from all the attacks. No one really understood the sacrifice that he was putting down as everyone thought that they were just mere triangular shaped metal bits.
However, those metal bits were the latest invention from the Demonpolis R&D department. The only people who knew anything related to this were possibly the System and Claire who had been monitoring the amount of funds Evon had been taking.
However, if the others had known, they too would not have preferred Evon not to make such sacrifices as those triangular metal bits had been infused with some of Evon's dried skin and dead fox hair that had dropped on the ground. With those as catalysts for this infused alloy, Evon was able to treat them as part of his body and mindlessly used them as an offensive and defensive weapon.
The only problem with those bits is that they had not been infused with void energy since they came out fresh from the storage ring. So, as they protected the group from the Void energised beam of 'Never Ending Stalking', they would break. There were only one or two which were closer to Evon where it could withstand the second hit mainly due to the infusion of chi from their master.
Still, this bought the group enough time to keep their cool and started to take this monster a little more seriously. It seemed like they knew how irritating aware this monster was to the situation. They thought that if they could discuss and talk about Pandapolis and fight as part of the distraction to keep the whole group attentive to the meeting, it might be the best way to go.
(Since Kraft and some others have short attention spans.)
However, the Void Warrior wished to throw out even more defying acts of offensive moves that the group had no choice but to kill fast and later bring Jin to a location to discuss about Pandapolis.
But in actuality, not every fox thought the same, the ones who genuinely wanted it were Pei and Rex and yet the latter had sufficient power to make everyone go with the flow he wanted mainly due to the fact that he was ranked as the leader of Demopolis.
So as Evon was busy blocking the beams with his infused alloy of unimaginable disgust, Rex and Kraft had brought out their big guns. Literally.
Kraft took out No Mercy and for some reason, Rex also had a similar model as him and Kraft did not seem surprised by it as it was him who had copied the original from his brother from another mother. So, people who had thought that No Mercy was Kraft's original weapon, were not wrong nor were they right.
He treated it dearly ever since his brother turned to trouble in the past and had always been using it as a memento to his dear friend.
But now that he had managed to be one of the most vital parts of Jin's ecosystem of minions, Kraft was glad that it turned out that way and it was one of the reasons why the Devil Fox as sinister as he could have been, had pledged an unwavering bout of loyalty to Jin. (Though that does not mean he was going to stop disturbing and irritating Jin as much as he pleases.)
When Rex saw the imitation that Kraft was carrying, he merely smiled that his brother still kept it all these years and keep in functioning condition. Without a word, Tsu, Kai and Kiyu transformed into bullets and went straight to Kraft while Rex had Ixa, Ixel and Itori turn into the bullets he needed too.
All six of them went into their individual barrels and that was where Ke Mi could see that this might be the huge blow they wished to inflict against the Void Warrior.
Whether it works or not was something the Foxes were looking forward to see but right now, Ke Mi had changed the empty tunes a little and started to play it a little faster, transmitting chi to the two Fox Brothers while also buffing them significantly.
The strengthening buffs however only last for ten seconds because of the over boost that it possessed but that was more than sufficient to the likes of Kraft and Rex.
Though they did not thank Ke Mi directly, the Fox Brothers were happily using every single energy and strengthening boost they could get as they fired their comrades turned bullets straight to Spartakus even though they were able to see that the human spear was coming their way while still spewing those pesky laser beams out.
The bullets that Rex and Kraft fired had their own will since they were …well Foxes. And so, in that bullet form, they were able to speed through the incoming laser beams that was about to intersect them and even to the point where they were able to block the damage once before moving towards the Void Being's chest and into his proverbial heart.
(They were assuming he had the same human anatomy as a human despite not being human.)
However, what they did not expect was that despite its size, it was able to move so quickly and used the human filled shield to block the incoming attack. Now it was up to the six of them despite turning into bullets to have just one to reach the heart and stop this Void Being in his tracks.