Bang—
Before the words were out, the gun fired.
A mass of black objects sprayed from the muzzle of the Ancient God's Finger, all of them slamming into the massive orichalcum arm.
These objects looked like shrapnel, but in reality, they were a kind of "creature"... a creature that, once attached to the surface of an object, would cause a corrosive explosion.
It could be said that this was an attack method specifically designed to deal with "powerful defensive bodies."
Even with the orichalcum arm's high defense, it was difficult to withstand the attack from the Ancient God's Finger.
With just one shot, a crack was blasted into the seemingly indestructible "arm..."
Looking at it after it cracked, it turned out that the inside of the orichalcum arm was hollow, like a very thick-walled piece of porcelain; as long as another shot was fired into the crack, shattering the "shell" on the other side, the thing would be "pierced through."
"If I remember correctly..." Even after encountering such a powerful shot, Vishnu didn't seem flustered. "Your gun... can only fire two shots within ten minutes."
Bang—
The response he received was not words, but the second gunshot.
Barcode wouldn't change his actions because of a single sentence. He decisively aimed at the crack in the orichalcum arm and fired the second shot, shattering the outer shell on the other side of the target.
As expected, the orichalcum arm was "pierced through." Barcode and Sashimi could see Vishnu himself directly through the two holes in the object.
However, there was no trace of panic on Vishnu's face.
"I knew it..." He looked at the two through the holes and said calmly, "With your professional ethics, you must have memorized all the relevant information you could get before the battle." He paused. "That's why... you were able to fire that second shot so resolutely."
Buzzing—
Pa pa pa—
Before he could finish speaking, Sashimi had already aimed his Subsonic Fingers at the holes in the orichalcum arm and fired several shots; Barcode also switched back to his golden dual guns and launched a barrage of continuous fire.
Energy and bullets pierced through the already penetrated defensive object and flew toward Vishnu's body, but just as they were about to hit...
Dong dong dong...
Accompanied by a series of bell-like noises, another orichalcum arm appeared between the previous arm and Vishnu, easily blocking the attack.
Corresponding to the "left arm" that had been pierced, this time it was the "right arm" that appeared.
"Unfortunately..." A second later, Vishnu's voice rang out from behind the newly added orichalcum arm, "Information, sometimes, is a double-edged sword."
He was absolutely certain that his opponents didn't know he could summon a second arm, because in all the publicly released videos and occasions, he had only summoned one orichalcum arm at most.
Ta—ta—
Barcode and Sashimi still ignored him. At this moment, they both jumped up, using the fastest movement speed they could use, and ran to the left and right sides of Vishnu respectively... in the blink of an eye, they had each sprinted dozens of meters away.
After all, they were two veterans, and they didn't even need to discuss how to fight in this situation...
"Worthy of being the mainstay of Order..." Vishnu thought to himself, "Seeing a situation outside of the intelligence, not panicking, and immediately making the most correct response..."
While he was thinking, he had already waved his hand and summoned a creation even larger than the orichalcum arm.
This object was a strange statue consisting of a flat, jug-shaped head, armor-like torso, and two vertical olive-like legs. The whole was cyan in color, with blue curly patterns adorning the torso, and a pale cyan "halo" floating around the waist.
At this point, the full picture of Vishnu's psychokinetic weapon was revealed...
[Name: Orichalcum Automaton]
[Type: Psychokinetic Weapon]
[Quality: Legendary]
[Attack Power: ???]
[Defense Power: Extremely High]
[Attributes: Absorption, Refraction, Isolation, Buffer]
[Special Effect 1: Orichalcum Shackles (The complete form of this psychokinetic weapon can only be summoned when the "Orichalcum Left Arm" and "Orichalcum Right Arm" are present simultaneously)]
[Special Effect 2: Soul of Gigas (In situations where only one orichalcum arm exists, the other orichalcum arm can be summoned once this arm suffers structural damage)]
[Special Effect 3: Essence of Qidala (After the Orichalcum Automaton appears, all damage taken by the Automaton during the battle will increase the Automaton's attack power. This increase will be reset when the Automaton is dismissed or the battle ends)]
[Special Effect 4: Diabolos' Thought (When the Orichalcum Automaton appears, once every ten seconds, the user and the Automaton can instantly swap positions)]
[Special Effect 5: Yggr-Serpent's Power (Sacrifice the Orichalcum Automaton to summon the Yggr-Serpent)]
[Equipment Condition: The ability to use orichalcum power is affirmed by the Yggr-Serpent]
[Remarks: A mysterious golem born from "Orichalcum Crystal," a versatile substance containing dark power. It is both a weapon and a living being, and possesses the power to summon evil gods.]
One thing that needs to be explained about this psychokinetic weapon is that—like Brother Jue's Mad Joker, it is a weapon that has undergone a long period of growth and thus "evolved."
Therefore, compared to Long Aotian's Orichalcum Shield displayed during S2, although both are Orichalcum series equipment, this Orichalcum Automaton is obviously a level stronger.
"There's even a third part..." A few seconds later, Sashimi, who had circled to the side of Vishnu, looked at the giant Automaton and thought to himself, "But... three or four... unless you cover yourself completely and defend to the death, otherwise... we can always find a loophole in your defense."
He was right, even if Vishnu could now use the undamaged right arm and the main body of the Automaton to defend against attacks from two different directions, it didn't solve the problem... because his opponents were constantly moving, and moving separately; to defend against two, he not only needed two defensive objects that could keep up with the opponents' movement speed, but also the ability to constantly monitor two targets.
For humans with a field of vision of only 120 degrees, doing this would definitely require sensory abilities other than sight, such as Sashimi's "hearing," but Vishnu didn't have that kind of skill...
Buzzing buzzing—
Soon, Sashimi captured a loophole in the opponent's defense while moving horizontally, and fired several Subsonic Fingers at the gaps between the defensive objects.
Unfortunately, just as his attack was about to hit, Vishnu luckily dodged it.
Why "luckily"? Because he didn't notice the attack before making the evasive action... he just happened to choose that second to launch a surprise attack on Barcode, performing a forward dash.
Vishnu was also an expert, how could he not know how to fight a two-on-one situation...
In this situation, defending blindly was useless. Defending against two... even if he could defend temporarily, it was only a matter of time before he was broken through.
The correct approach was to attack fiercely, focusing on the weaker enemy and pursuing them relentlessly. It would be best if he could kill them. Even if he couldn't... at least he would avoid being slowly worn down in his original position.
Right now, compared to Sashimi with his Low-Frequency Zone, Barcode was obviously the "weaker" enemy, so Vishnu rushed towards him without hesitation.
"Hmph... I've been underestimated too..." Watching the rapidly approaching figure, Barcode spun the golden dual guns in his hands, replenishing the bullets (this was a skill, no need to manually change magazines or load bullets, just spin the gun once in his hand to complete the ammunition replenishment), and unleashed a barrage of continuous fire at the approaching figure.
Unexpectedly!
Dong dong dong—
At the moment the first bullet left the muzzle, Vishnu's figure suddenly enlarged, instantly transforming into the massive body of the Orichalcum Automaton.
There was no doubt that this was caused by Vishnu using the Diabolos' Thought swap effect.
Looking at Barcode's side... the continuous fire had already been launched, and could not be stopped. All twelve bullets struck the Orichalcum Automaton.
He had already tried it before, and he knew that he couldn't break through the defense of this orichalcum object with the attack power of the golden dual guns... the problem was that at this moment, the damage from these bullets had all been converted into the Automaton's attack power.
What was even more troublesome was that, at this moment, this Orichalcum Automaton, which had swapped positions with Vishnu, had even inherited some of Vishnu's movement speed and inertia, and was crashing straight into Barcode at a very fast speed.
Such a hard behemoth... crashing into him with a "duang" sound, was almost like being hit by a train in reality.
Barcode, who had no time to dodge, flew backwards for more than ten meters on the spot, and spat out a mouthful of blood.
Fortunately, the Orichalcum Automaton hadn't appeared for long, and its attack power hadn't accumulated much; plus... although the Automaton after the swap inherited some of the movement speed of the swapped object, it would rapidly decrease in a short period of time.
Therefore, after paying the price of 70% of his survival points, Barcode had barely managed to save his life.
"Tch..." After landing, Barcode stabilized his body and spat out the blood in his mouth, he couldn't help but say, "Just being highly defensive is one thing... but high defense, high attack, and the ability to swap positions with the master... isn't that a bit too much?"
Yes, it was too much, but Thriller Paradise was a game like that, there was no most outrageous, only more outrageous...
To defeat this kind of "outrageous" opponent, you either had to find the other side's weakness, or use an even more outrageous ability than him.
Chi—
Just one second after Barcode stood firm, another sound of wind breaking rang out, that... was Vishnu's second charge.
Vishnu couldn't stop, if he stopped, not to mention that Sashimi might come up to support at any time, what was even more fatal... was that the opponent would gain time to think.
Thinking... was the basis for breaking a move. If the opponent, through observation and thinking, concluded that "the cooldown time for swapping positions is at least ten seconds" or something else, then it might be possible to use this to counter-calculate.
Bang, bang, bang...
During the time that Vishnu ran back from the swapped position, the Orichalcum Automaton's attack didn't stop. The giant statue was stamping down on Barcode like a seal, and each time it pressed down, it made a heavy collision sound with the ground.
However... although the momentum of this attack was sufficient, the speed was really not fast. Barcode only needed to leap back slightly to dodge it effortlessly.
At this time, the orichalcum left arm and orichalcum right arm, more than ten meters away, were also flying towards Barcode, but the movement speed of these two parts was also not comparable to the master's main body. If Barcode continued to move towards the distance, it was unknown when these two arms would be able to approach the opponent.
"Hmm... only Vishnu's own speed is on par with us..." On the other hand, Sashimi, who had come to support, quickly surpassed those two arms, and closely followed Vishnu's back; while running, he was also thinking in his heart, "It's hard to see when he summons these three things for stationary defense, but once they make a straight-line movement, their maximum speed becomes clear at a glance; as it stands now, those two arms are basically useless in a mobile battle... the troubling thing now is his and that golem's swap ability..."
Just as he was pondering, suddenly!
Vishnu, who was originally running with his back to him, suddenly stopped and folded back, rushing towards him with a sideways, lying-down leap.
At that moment, Sashimi secretly thought "bad," but it was too late to do anything more in terms of action...
Duang~
Even though Sashimi had also stepped on the ground to come to an emergency stop, he was still hit head-on by the Orichalcum Automaton that had suddenly appeared after the "swap."
At the same time, Vishnu's main body appeared in front of Barcode, and he smoothly condensed a broadsword made of orichalcum crystal in his hand, and slashed at the enemy without saying a word.
"Sigh... I didn't want to expose this move in the first round..." Barcode looked at the gradually approaching blade, knowing that he, with his few survival points, didn't have many choices, so he sighed in his heart, "But things have come to this, and the opponent is the Gods, even if I use it... the superiors won't have anything to say, right..."