The continuous barrage of attacks, the revealing of the second weapon, and the huge difference in power. No matter how one look at it, there was really no way for Jin to win. He should have savoured the first blood as a win and called it quits. But if he continued to struggle any further, it would be pointless…or that was what went through most of the Foxes' minds.
Just as it seemed hopeless for Jin as spectated by the rest of the Foxes, the Astral Panda Cultivator pulled a stunt that caused Kraft to wipe his smirk off his face and leave the foxes to learn not to underestimate the fusion between Jin's and his minions.
The System Rider Zombie did not only have the capability to resist debuff magic and rot, the Half Ghoul Lord Derek who was in the backseat of Jin's subconsciousness the entire time was keeping a trump card to aid Jin in a predicament like this.
The ability to regenerate.
Nope, it was not that overpowered for Jin to regrow his brains once again. when his head got blown off. Instead, the zombie within him used its power to grow a head in replacement of his by pushing his neck forward and sprouting an entirely new brainless head, allowing Jin to 'evade' the beam attack from Just Business. By sacrificing Derek's newly grown head out of the System Rider suit, it was able to give Jin some time to recover his consciousness.
"Hahahahha!" Kiyu laughed while holding onto her stomach, seeing how Jin managed to escape death once more with the aid of Derek. The foxes were surprised that the System Rider pulled such a whacky cheap trick against Kraft.
"It takes a trickster to outplay another one," Tsu said as he nodded approvingly for Jin to keep his cards close to his c.h.e.s.t until the right moment.
However, it did look extremely grotesque for having two heads on the System Rider's head, especially when the new grown head was a zombie. Still, regardless of the looks, it was effective in keeping Jin alive and that was what matters in the fight.
Those extra seconds that Derek bought for Jin gave him the time to stabilise himself and Jin took a deep breath to push himself out from the wall. (After all, he was stuck in it initially after the knockback.) Kraft remained vexed by the entire situation as he conjured another skulk of Fox silhouettes from his side and commanded them to assault him once more. But this time, the skulk seem way deadlier than before and the number of spirits lurking within the skulk made it looked as if it was an infestation of fox heads in one lump of chi aura. Perhaps, Kraft did not matter on the looks any further and wanted a quick shot against Jin before he could perform any other counterattacks.
But since Jin now learns this new ability from Derek, he instantly placed his hands together as if he were praying but in fact, he was concentrating his Maqi to his back where the living armour separated from each other allowing Jin's Maqi to take shape.
Soon, he summoned forth a series of zombie hands from his back like some zombified thousand hands Buddha. As Jin stayed in place to keep himself steady, those zombie hands grew continously from his back and started to stretch out to counter the incoming lump of fox silhouettes. Jin even prepared another batch of zombified hands to grow from his c.h.e.s.t in case the first batch was unable to stop the silhouettes in their tracks.
This was especially vital since evading was not an option with the nature of those fox silhouettes and Jin had to stop this while he prepared his counterattack. And that was by powering the multiple zombified hands with Maqi, hoping they could penetrate through the fox silhouettes. Thinking that those hands were merely an extension of his body, his Maqi burnt through the zombified hands and released continuous waves of energy to stop the fox silhouettes.
However as strong as it sounds, it was only destroying a few of those fox minions under Kraft's control before it had been thoroughly obliterated by the strength of the Old Fox's chi.
To make things worse, Jin seemed to forget that he was in Kraft's black hurricane technique and when the old Fox thinks that his skulk of fox silhouettes was not working, all he did was perform a swipe of his hand into the air and the piercing black winds that were surrounding Jin instantly 'carried' him to the centre of the dimensional instance where his audience was hanging about. At the same time, Kraft was able to destroy the conjuring of those zombified hands and took the opportunity to summon yet another skulk of fox silhouettes from the other side of the room and sent them to Jin as he was in midair.
"Gah! This wind is just ridiculous. I had enough of this!" Jin thought to himself as he once again immersed himself with a large amount of Maqi and allowed himself to blow up again. While the explosion happened, zombified hands flew out of the explosions impeding the swarm of silhouettes going towards him as a source of distraction.
Even as the crowd could not see what was happening after the explosion of Maqi, the magic eye drones which Kiyu had employed rushed to see what Jin was up to especially when it was equipped with X-ray vision, infrared sensors, and other motion sensors to keep track of Jin's movements. Unfortunately, some of the nearby magic drones were also being blown back by the Maqi explosions and Kiyu required time to relocate the nearby drones to follow up with the development of the battle.
"Bahh! So sorry for the bad image quality. Could be because of Jin's high intensity Maqi and Kraft's stupid graveyard chi that resulted in quite a fair bit of distortion in the uploading of information. Usually those magic eye drones shouldnt be affected by anything but if I were in that chaotic aura, I think I might breakdown too" Kiyu apologised when the footage the fox spectators were looking lost connection for a moment. Hence, she tried to adjust the magic drones with her Pandamonium App but it did not seem to work very well. (It felt a little intentional in her opinion but it was just a hunch.)
"Its fine, the imagery is back up again. Oh ho. It seems like …another minion is going in our little Panda." Ixa commented, interested to see which transformation Jin was about to handle since his movements indicated the disengagement of the System Rider belt, allowing him to insert a new card in.
"You think I am gonna let you do what you want? I had enough playing around, especially all those misses. Your fighting style irritates me to no end." Kraft suddenly whispered at Jin's ears and the belt broke into two mainly because the Fox's scythe pierced through Jin from the back. As awkward as it sounds, he literally sliced Jin's b.u.t.t into two by piercing his scythe's blade right in the middle. And as soon as Kraft was done talking to Jin, he pulled the scythe's handle upwards and cut Jin into two.
The Panda Cultivator's body fell to the ground lifeless, his organs working overtime from the rush of adrenaline were splattered everywhere and Kraft swung his scythe once more to remove all the blood that was on it. He was waiting for Jin to disengage from the System Rider Belt so that his slice could be a clean one. The living armour would no doubt make his attack a little harder to perform such a brute force but ultimately Kraft felt satisfied that it was a fatality scene.
All he had to do now was to wait for Jin to respawn once more since he programmed the dungeon instance this way and inflicted punishment on him again.
"Booo! Booo!" Kiyu shouted from the bubble of comfort. "You played cheat!"
"What do you mean I play cheat? I played by the rules, didn't I?" Kraft laughed while raising his hands up.
"You know that most cultivators would not be able to win against that Shade Teleport." Kiyu threw a thumbs down towards Kraft.
"He used his System Rider Belt to the maximum effect, why can't I use my skills? Shade Teleport is after all an essential tool of mine to move around anyways. How else could I scare people without it?" Kraft continued to act arrogant in the face of victory.
"And were you that ignorant that I have seen this move way too many times to not create a counter for it?" Kraft could not believe his ears when he heard Jin whisper right beside him. But even as he tried to move, it felt like there was something restricting him.
Chi powered Spider Webs.
That alone was enough to jolt Kraft's memory that Jin had a transforming spider in his possession but still it was not possible. There was no System's voiceover of him transforming and the chi aura was indeed Jin's when the fox stabbed him with No Mercy.
"Impossible!" Kraft said as he could see the tip of Jin's katana at the side of his stomach.
