Gorr’s potential

How do I deal with their defense? Thoroughly, Darwin sinks into his mind, coming up with strategies and ways to deal with his predicament.

Employing his analytical vision, he starts to delve into a separate realm where everything in his world view was either blocked or filled with Reishi movements.

The ginormous black shell, at the epicenter of his view, was the former, blocked. It's as if a massive black wall is covering a portion of his scene.

Perplexed, Darwin looks at the shell with a hint of intrigue, expressed by the sudden uprising of his lips.

How fascinating.

With increasingly deeper mystery revolving around the unknown Gillian, Darwin begins forming a previous ability he had used before. Producing a huge chunk of miasma in his arsenal, he crafts and manifests an extremely condensed miasmic ball with higher precision and mastery. The first time he used this ability, it would be labeled amateurish. However, the second time, this would up the stages by two times reaching intermediate.

Flicking his index finger at the ball, the gesture was bound to raise suspicion and underestimation, he delivers, "Sweet Presento!"

Moving subtly and ominously towards the huge figure, the eerie feeling increases as the anticipation of the attack is within reach. The Gillian turns around yet again to defend himself from the slow moving attack.

Standing near their vicinity, Lucaca and Gorr who were fighting with each other, couldn't help but retreat to the left or right side of the Battle Arena.

The commentator gasps, the shock and anxiety runs thick in the air as the spectators observe with utter mesmerisation.

Gulping with vivid and boiling anticipation, the audience faces show a yearning for unexpected outcomes with their heightened emotions ranging from drooling to ecstatic grins, on top of their vigorous jumping and hand waving.

As the attack touches the metal hard shell, the delivered impact was dramatically different. It explodes profusely, shrapnel of acidic miasma with a tinge of paralysis permeates on the round and rough surface. The Gillian coughs out blood from the lingering force, shaking their insides rigorously.

As they fall down from the impact, the shell on their back leaves with a noticeable thick dent.

As the explosion's force left the Gillian bedridden, the once-impenetrable shell now showed signs of weakness. Darwin observed with keen interest as the dent in the Gillian's shell revealed more than just a physical breach — it exposed the vulnerability in its defense mechanisms.

He noted to himself, The lingering force from the explosion has weakened the shell. This could be my chance to exploit its defenses while it's down.

Darwin focused on the dented area, where the shell's protection had been compromised. He notices that the internal structure was flickering with static charges of Reishi. The residual miasma from his attack had not only caused immediate damage but also disrupted the Reishi flow necessary for the shell's recovery. This revelation helped Darwin to understand that his abilities, not only does it decay and desolve but, it can also disrupt Reishi flow, similar to how grevious wounds would work.

The shell's barrier is struggling to heal itself under the strain, Darwin reasoned, calculating his next move, he said to himself, If I can apply pressure on this weakened spot before it recovers, I might be able to breach the shell completely.

Slightly determined, Darwin prepared for his set of attacks, understanding that this temporary vulnerability provided a crucial opportunity. He knew that capitalising on this moment of weakness could turn the tide of the battle in his favour.

However, he feels that it would be a waste to kill off such a unique Hollow. He chose not to follow up with that thought.

"DOWN! Fredd could not bear the brunt of the explosive attack. It still rings in my ear!" The bat-like Adjucha said with fervent admiration and an enthusiastic conclusion. The intense drumming, the smashing of gongs, building up the tension of the battles below. The crowd still runs wild and heated, the stadium fumes with sweat and rooting — it even echoes outside the stadium, attracting more citizens of the Fourth Stratos.

"How admirable," said by a masked VIP.

Chuckling to themselves, another VIP with a feminine voice said, "If only he was mine."

"This unknown contestent should fall under my leadership," a moustached humanoid Adjucha said.

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"As expected! My rival, what is your name?" Laughing in admiration, Gorr fervently asks in respect for his one and only nemesis.

Feeling a clear contrast in the perception of himself, Darwin said with a little chuckle, "Heh, my name is Darwin. Remember that, Gorr the Dominator."

Laughing together, and at each other, the crowd observes with a shift to amusement.

"Could this be, sportsmanship between contestants in the Bloody Battle Arena?! HOW UNHOLLOW-LIKE!"

Darwin who had a Hollow's life in the palm of his hand, feels a weird sensation running through his mind.

Is this what Figgs feels? Figgs AGAIN?! His once dormant negative emotion started to run rampant again. He felt an extreme distain for Figgs, but he knew that Figgs was a crafty and manipulative individual who he felt threatened by and also admired.

Calming his emotions again, the neon red eyes subside back to its original state, neon green eyes.

Exhaling the frustration outside his body, he slowly looks back to Gorr and tells him, "You should handle the deadweight next to you. I will wait." Darwin sits down cross legged, resting his head on his palm, looking in front with a mocking mug.

Gorr responds, "You better not surrender before I have my hands on you!" Striding with weighted steps towards Lucaca, Gorr unleashes a massive right hook in the air.

"Bala Shock."

A thundering and loud, bright beam of Reishi launches forward from the knuckles to Lucaca.

With evasive mobility, Lucaca dodges the attack with flawless reaction speed.

But to his demise, Gorr anticipates that he would dodge the initial attack.

Clasping his hands together, he shouts, "Burst!"

The light beam radiates and explodes upon impact. The attack didn't explode in a radius but two-dimensionally. If Darwin's Sweet Presento was a big spherical radius, Gorr's Bala Shock, Burst was like a flat wall spreading further out with a sharper edge.

The attack slices Lucaca's side in half, with both front and back side of his body falling down opposite ends. The blood cascades out of his body like a fountain.