Chapter 952

Episode 235. ZitoJito (1)

ZitoJito smirked and licked his lips with his tongue.

That tongue soon stretched out like a snake, wrapping around ZitoJito. It
was pricked by thorns and scraped, turning his body into a bloody purple
mess in an instant.

'I felt this when fighting Ayulra too, but he's truly insane.'

While it was a sight that made anyone watching feel pained, ZitoJito seemed
to enjoy the tingling sensation of his worn-out, drooping tongue.

[Hehehe, it looks painful, doesn’t it? But in fact, all of this is pleasure. You’ll
understand it too. Not just you, but the whole world will understand.]

As Jin was about to respond, ZitoJito rushed forward and swung his spiked
axe. Kriik-! The ground where Jin was standing exploded, and black
fragments scattered all around.

During a battle, flying rocks or dirt pose no problem to warriors who have
reached a high level. But Jin could instinctively realize it.

ZitoJito's dwelling, this vast void, was entirely ZitoJito himself.

Therefore, each of the fragments that sprang from the ground was his flesh
and could all become weapons.

Screeee……!

As expected, the fragments oxidized into a type of poisonous mist near Jin,
and at the moment when Jin was about to scatter them with a sword wind,
they transformed into thorns.
Jin also focused the widespread energy in an instant to slash the thorns. A
loud noise erupted when the sword blade and the thorns collided.

[As expected, you have strong mental strength. Just touching my body with
a weapon causes tremendous pain, but seeing that your expression doesn't
change, it's more thrilling.]

The god of pain.

If such an entity existed, ZitoJito would surely have been called that. Any
sort of 'contact' with ZitoJito meant being engulfed in pain.

[But even your mental strength won't be limitless. I wonder how many days
you can hold out while fighting me? One day? Two days? Three days?]

ZitoJito didn't even consider his own defeat. He was just curious about how
much time it would take for him to win.

Even the Genesis KnightChansung (Creation) could not kill him.

Parellito had already proven that in the past, and in ZitoJito's opinion, for Jin
to have any chance of winning, a serious problem would have to occur with
the artificial sun.

But the artificial sun was being protected by Ridolros. Since no problem had
occurred with the artificial sun so far, ZitoJito was confident that Biseptus
would have been annihilated by now.

[By the way, Paelrito couldn't even last a day. But you are probably better
than that fool, right? I bet you can last two days.]

Two spiky axes were continuously hitting the ground. Jin was trying his best
to distance himself from them, to avoid directly crossing his sword with
them.
Although he was accustomed to enduring pain during fights, he needed to
observe Zito while avoiding his attacks.

'I need to seize the opportunity to finish it in one go.'

Jin was certain.

If the fight drags on, he is bound to lose.

Zito's power here will never run out, and an ordinary sword can't even land
a proper hit on him.

Furthermore, he had to dodge his attacks or deflect debris more often than
he breathed. Naturally, it was unfair to fight against the 'top-tier immortal'
without any constraints.

[It seems like you've had quite a struggle trying to eliminate my flesh
outside. As you can see now, such losses are meaningless. Just like nothing
changes even if you scoop out a handful of sand from the desert. There is no
mortal that can stand against me.]

“We'll find out if that was really meaningless after the fight is over.”

He was done calculating. As Sigmund held the gold lightning, Jin's vicinity
brightened. Following that, Jin swung his sword not at Zito, but first
towards the sky.

King’s Sword, Gold Lightning Technique

Breaking Sky, 1st Form

This was the gold lightning technique influenced by Paelrito's sword dance.
Just like when he shattered Ayulra's protective shield in the Holy Kingdom,
the enormous sword energy was splitting the dark sky in half.
The sky was opening. Beyond the splitting black sky, as if a thin membrane
was being torn apart, another darkness was revealing itself.

That darkness was the abyss of hell. Zito's residence was located beneath
that abyss.

[Ah, I closed it because I hate seeing it. And you open it wide like this? It's
harmful to you, too. I don't want you to get hurt before I get to play with
you.]

Of course, Jin didn't expect there to be an abyss there.

He simply judged it would be better to destroy Zito's dwelling if possible. He

also needed to create an area where he could drop the gold lightning.

'Judging by the reaction, it seems that the darkness above the sky has
nothing to do with Zito's power.'

Zito seemed to have no intention of hiding the fact that he 'hates the abyss',
trembling in rage. That space was the domain of the witch Helrum.

Soon, Zito tried to close the sky again, but Jin was preparing to drop the
gold lightning again after spreading the sky once more.

The gold lightning gathered like a thundercloud was covering the abyss and
turning Zito's sky into Jin's sky.

King’s Sword, Gold Lightning Technique

Breaking the Heavens Style 2

The sharp flash temporarily obscured Zito's sight.

Of course, as an immortal, he could easily replace his sight with insight.

However, the fact that he had lost his physical senses even for a moment
was surprising.
That was something that Faelito in his prime could not accomplish.

He had once cut through his own sky with a sword of heaven's destruction,
but as soon as he faced the abyss, he had given up trying to attack from
there.

'Is it because of the blessing of Soldelet? Come to think of it, he seemed

unaffected by the abyss.'

From Zito's perspective, it was shocking to see that Jin was not affected by
the abyss at all.

"Jin Runkandel, I had high regard for you, but you turned out to be even
greater than I thought...! You're perfectly fine even when facing the abyss of
the witch?"

"Why do you keep babbling on? Just enjoy the lightning, it'll be thrilling."

"Kyahahaahak!"

Thousands of golden lightning bolts were pouring down. Each time the
lightning struck Zito, a few of the thorns in his body broke.

Many of the poles rising in the void also broke. The souls bound above them
shattered like glass and scattered somewhere as soon as the poles broke,
and the creatures in pain were greeted with the relief of death and
extinction.

Occasionally, the spot where there were souls and lives would
automatically leave a golden mark of regeneration. Mostly, they simply
disappeared without leaving a mark.

Normally, he would have wondered what the difference was, but now was
the time to fully focus on the battle.
Jin began to whip Breaking the Heavens Style 2 more fiercely by amplifying
his lightmad heart. Lightning, even more massive and threatening than the
Royal Sword Technique he unleashed before ascending, was pouring down.

The thunderous noise that filled the space in layers, and Zito's physical body
being indiscriminately destroyed within it.

Zito was truly screaming with joy from the pain he felt from others for the
first time in a long time. Jin amplified the thunderous noise because he
didn't like to hear that.

"So you call that thing a god."

He had to give him a dreadful attack that he couldn't dare to enjoy.

However, Jin raining down thousands of branches of golden lightning on

Zito right now was not a unilateral attack, contrary to what it seemed.

As he had already experienced at the beginning, anyone facing Zito here

falls into pain every time they make any kind of contact with him.

It was the same even when it wasn't a direct clash of weapons, but a clash
of energies. Moreover, since the golden lightning was now filling the entire
void, Jin had to consume mental energy rapidly.

It didn't show on his face at all. Jin had a serene face, just like when he was
meditating earlier.

However, inside him, he had to constantly push away the penetrating power
of pain. It felt as if Zito's thorns were pricking his skin, point by point.

"I've never lost in an inner war, Zito. I wonder if you can do the same."

[Heh... Hahaha! The more you endure, the more I anticipate and enjoy. Even
if the whole world falls asleep in the pain I spread, you will amuse me
forever with your consciousness.]
Jin amplified the Pacheon once more.

The void space had already lost its original form, turning into a black desert,
and Zito was on one knee, all the spikes on his body broken.

He seemed to be barely hanging on, relying on two spiked axes stuck in the
ground. But that was just a posture he took to enjoy the pain, he was not yet
in a real crisis.

He saw right through Jin's thoughts.

[Jin Runkandel, you want a chance to kill me in one go, and you probably
have the means to do that.]

Splitting the Sun, and the completed PlutonianMyungwang Gunrim Sword.

After being certain that he had to kill Zito in one blow, Jin judged that only
those two swords could perform the task.

But even if he reached genesisChangsung, it was impossible for Jin to

unfold the Myungwang Gunrim Sword with the same power as it had in its
prime.

While the Splitting the Sun wasn't yet complete, it seemed capable of
delivering a substantial blow to Zito. This felt even more certain after
confronting Zito directly.

He was not stronger than the Solterlet he meditated on and formed in his
inner world. If he could cut that Solterlet, cutting Zito wouldn't be too
difficult.

[But I have no intention of giving you that opportunity. It's true that I cherish
you terribly, but that would put the cart before the horse, wouldn't it?]

Zito began to slowly rise.

Jin didn't strengthen the Pacheon's thunderbolt any further. Because he
had to control his strength. If he used more energy on the Pacheon now, he
might lack the energy to respond to the variables that would occur later.

Above all, he had to save energy to deploy Splitting the Sun. The key to this
battle was to cut Zito with Splitting the Sun at the perfect moment.

[Huuh! That's enough to enjoy the start, let's start the real game now. This is
actually a very simple fight, Jin Runkandel. In the end, the victory depends
on who endures better between you and me.]

Suddenly, Zito was back behind Jin, forming a physical body again. The
broken spikes had all grown back and the wounds that had opened and
burst were all healed and intact.

[You said you never lost an inner fight, right? But Jin Runkandel, this is not
our inner world, it's reality. No matter how well you block the pain that digs
into your inner world, if you can't kill the real me, it's meaningless. Hehe...!]

Zito swung his spiked axe and smiled. One of the spikes on the axe grazed
Jin's cheek as it passed by.

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