Bang—
The gun fired before the words were even finished.
A black mass spewed from the muzzle of the [Ancient God's Finger], all of it slamming into the massive orichalcum arm.
These objects looked like shrapnel, but in reality, they were a kind of "creature"... a creature that, once launched and attached to a surface, would trigger a corrosive explosion.
It could be said that this was a specialized attack method for dealing with "powerful defensive bodies."
Even though the orichalcum arm had a 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 the crack appeared, it turned out the orichalcum arm was hollow inside, 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 shot "right through."
"If I remember correctly..." Despite encountering such a powerful shot, Vishnu didn't seem flustered, "Your gun... can only fire twice in ten minutes."
Bang—
His response wasn't words, but the second gunshot.
Barcode wouldn't change his actions because of one sentence; he decisively aimed at the crack on the orichalcum arm and fired the second shot, shattering the shell on the other side of the target.
As expected, the orichalcum arm was shot "right through." Barcode and Sashimi could see Vishnu himself directly through the two holes in the object.
However, there wasn't a 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 thoroughly memorized all the relevant information you could obtain before the battle." He paused. "That's why... you were able to fire that second shot so resolutely."
Buzz buzz—
Pa pa pa—
Before he finished speaking, Sashimi had already aimed at the holes in the orichalcum arm and fired several [Subsonic Wave Fingers]; Barcode also switched back to his golden dual pistols and launched a volley of shots.
Energy and bullets passed through the already pierced defensive object, flying toward Vishnu's body, but just as they were about to hit...
Dong dong dong...
Accompanied by a strange sound like the ringing of a bell, another orichalcum arm appeared between the previous arm and Vishnu, easily blocking the attack.
Corresponding to the "left arm" that had already been shot through, this time it was the "right arm" that appeared.
"It's a pity..." A second later, Vishnu's voice sounded 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 publicly released videos and appearances, he had only ever summoned one orichalcum arm at most.
Ta—ta—
Barcode and Sashimi still ignored him. At this moment, they both leaped off the ground, using the fastest movement speed they could muster, and ran to Vishnu's left and right sides respectively... in the blink of an eye, they had each sprinted dozens of meters away.
After all, they were two old hands; they didn't even need to discuss it to know what to do in this situation...
"As expected of the core combat power of Order..." Vishnu thought to himself as he watched them, "Seeing a situation outside of the intelligence, they don't panic and immediately make the most correct response..."
While thinking, he waved his hand and summoned a creation even larger than the orichalcum arm.
This thing was a strange statue consisting of a flat, pot-shaped head, armor-like torso, and two vertical olive-like legs. The whole thing was cyan in color, with blue swirling patterns adorning the torso, and a cyan-white "halo" floating around the waist.
At this point, the full extent of Vishnu's psionic weapon was revealed...
[Name: Orichalcum Golem]
[Type: Psionic Weapon]
[Quality: Legendary]
[Attack Power: ???]
[Defense Power: Extremely High]
[Attributes: Absorption, Refraction, Isolation, Buffering]
[Special Effect One: Orichalcum Shackles (The complete form of this psionic weapon can only be summoned when the "Orichalcum Left Arm" and "Orichalcum Right Arm" are present simultaneously)]
[Special Effect Two: Gigas's Soul (In situations where only one orichalcum arm exists, another orichalcum arm can be summoned once this arm suffers structural damage)]
[Special Effect Three: Qitara's Spirit (After the Orichalcum Golem appears, all damage taken by the golem during the battle will increase the golem's attack power. This increase will return to zero when the golem is dismissed or the battle ends)]
[Special Effect Four: Diabolos's Thought (When the Orichalcum Golem appears, it can instantly swap the position of the user and the golem every ten seconds)]
[Special Effect Five: Serpent God I's Power (Sacrifice the Orichalcum Golem to summon Serpent God I)]
[Equipment Condition: The ability to utilize orichalcum power is affirmed by Serpent God I]
[Note: A mysterious golem born from the omnipotent substance "Orichalcum Crystal" containing dark power. It is both a weapon and a creature and possesses the power to summon an evil god.]
Regarding this psionic weapon, one thing needs to be explained—like Brother Jue's [Mad Joker], it is a weapon that has undergone a long period of growth and "evolution."
Therefore, compared to Long Aomin's [Orichalcum Shield] displayed in Season 2, although both are "Orichalcum" series equipment, this [Orichalcum Golem] is clearly a level stronger.
"There's even a third part..." A few seconds later, Sashimi, who had circled to Vishnu's side, looked at the giant golem and thought, "But... whether it's three or four... unless you cover yourself completely, defending perfectly, otherwise... we can always find loopholes in the defense."
He was right. Even if Vishnu could now use the undamaged right arm and the main body of the golem 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 monitor two targets non-stop.
For humans with a field of vision of only 120 degrees, it would definitely be necessary to rely on other perceptual abilities besides vision to do this, such as Sashimi's "hearing," but Vishnu didn't have that kind of skill...
Buzz buzz buzz—
Soon, Sashimi captured a loophole in the opponent's defense during his horizontal movement, firing several Subsonic Wave Fingers at the gaps between those defensive objects.
Unfortunately, just as his attack was about to hit, Vishnu luckily dodged it.
Why say "luckily"? Because he didn't notice the attack and then make a dodging action... he just happened to choose that second to launch a surprise attack on Barcode, performing a forward-rushing shift.
Vishnu was also an expert; how could he not know how to fight in a two-on-one situation...
In this kind of situation, defending passively was useless. Defending against two... even if he could defend temporarily, it was only a matter of time before he was breached.
The correct approach was to attack fiercely, first focusing on killing the easier-to-kill enemy, and it would be best if he could kill the opponent. Even if he couldn't... at least he would avoid being slowly worn down if he stayed in place.
Currently, compared to Sashimi with his inherent [Bass Zone], Barcode was clearly the "easier-to-kill" enemy, so Vishnu rushed towards him without hesitation.
"Hmph... I'm being underestimated too..." Watching the rapidly approaching figure, Barcode spun the golden dual pistols in his hands, replenishing the bullets (this was a skill; he didn't need to manually change magazines or load bullets; he could complete the ammo refill by spinning the guns in his hand once), and launched a volley of shots at the approaching enemy.
Unexpectedly!
Dong dong dong—
At the moment the first bullet flew from the muzzle, Vishnu's figure suddenly enlarged, instantly transforming into the massive body of the Orichalcum Golem.
Without a doubt, this was caused by Vishnu using the position-swapping effect of "Diabolos's Thought."
Looking at Barcode's side... the volley had already been fired and couldn't be stopped; all twelve bullets hit the Orichalcum Golem.
Relying on the attack power of the golden dual pistols, he couldn't penetrate the defense of this orichalcum object; he had already tested this before... the trouble was that now, the damage from these bullets had all been converted into the golem's attack power.
What was even more troublesome was that at this moment, this Orichalcum Golem, which had exchanged positions with Vishnu, had even inherited a portion of Vishnu's movement speed and momentum, crashing straight into Barcode at a very fast speed.
Such a hard behemoth... "duang" crashing into him was about the same as being hit by a train in real life.
Barcode, who had no time to dodge, was sent flying dozens of meters away, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
Fortunately, the Orichalcum Golem hadn't been manifested for long, and its attack power hadn't accumulated much; in addition... although this golem after the swap inherited a portion of the exchange partner's movement speed, it would also rapidly diminish in a short period of time.
Therefore, Barcode managed to keep his life for the time being after paying the price of 70% of his survival points.
"Tch..." After landing, steadying his body, and spitting out the blood in his mouth, Barcode couldn't help but mutter, "Are you kidding me... being highly defensive is one thing; but being highly defensive, having a not-low attack, and being able to swap positions with the master... isn't that a bit much?"
Yes, it was too much, but Thriller Paradise was this kind of game; there was no such thing as too much, only even more so...
To defeat this kind of "excessive" opponent, you either had to find the other party's weakness or use an ability that was even more excessive than theirs.
Chi—
Just as Barcode stood still for a second, another sound of rushing wind rang out; that... was Vishnu's second charge.
Vishnu couldn't stop. If he stopped, not to mention that Sashimi could come up to support at any time, what was even more deadly... was that the opponent would also gain time to think.
Thinking... was the basis for breaking moves. If the other party observed and thought, deducing that "the cooldown time for exchanging positions is at least ten seconds" or some other weakness, then they could potentially use these to counter-strategize.
Pang, pang, pang...
During the time that Vishnu was running back from the place where he had swapped positions, the Orichalcum Golem's attack didn't stop; this behemoth "stamped" towards Barcode like a seal, each time it pressed down on the air, it created 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 backwards lightly to dodge it effortlessly.
At this time, the Orichalcum Left Arm and Orichalcum Right Arm, dozens of meters away, were also flying towards Barcode, but the movement speed of these two components was also not comparable to the main body of their master. If Barcode continued to move further away, it was unknown when these two arms would be able to get close to the opponent.
"Hmm... only Vishnu's own speed is comparable to ours..." On the other hand, Sashimi, who had come to support, had also surpassed those two arms in the blink of an eye, closely following Vishnu's back; while running, he was also thinking in his heart, "It can't be seen when those three things he summoned are defending in place, but once they make a linear movement, their maximum speed is obvious at a glance; as it stands, in mobile warfare, those two arms are basically useless... the trouble now is the 'swapping position' ability between him and that golem..."
Just as he was pondering, suddenly!
Vishnu, who had been running with his back to him, suddenly stopped abruptly and folded back, charging towards him headfirst in a sideways, leaping posture.
In that instant, Sashimi cursed inwardly, but it was too late to do anything more...
Duang~
Even though Sashimi had also stepped on the ground and braked suddenly, he was still crashed into squarely by the Orichalcum Golem that had suddenly appeared after the "swap."
At the same time, Vishnu's main body appeared in front of Barcode, and he condensed a broadsword made of orichalcum crystal in his hand, slashing at the enemy without saying a word.
"Sigh... I didn't want to expose this move in the first round..." Looking at the gradually approaching blade, Barcode, knowing that he didn't have many survival points left, didn't have much choice, so he sighed in his heart, "But since things have come to this, and the opponent is a god, even if I use it... the higher-ups won't say anything, right..."