Kaijin Fighter: So I Have to Make Monsters, So What?-Chapter 1228: Blue Mirror’s Battle (2)

Winding the clock a few seconds...

Death had a funny way of giving people a reason to live.

Shortly after getting his chest impacted and partially impaled, Antonio’s life began to flash before his eyes.

Antonio had never really gave this idea much credence before, because who the hell thinks about things that only occurs when one is in the process of dying, but now that it was happening to him, he was a full believer.

As he laid there on the ground, bleeding and dying, Antonio found himself remembering his childhood years.

Not the fake ones that consisted of him being raised in a loving family of multiple siblings, but the single child life of being raised by a Kaijin.

’I remember their face and what they did...but why can’t I remember their name’ Antonio asked himself as these old memories played through his head.

In these memories, he could finally remember the fact the Kaijin who raised him looked very similar to a large jungle cat.

She had large green eyes, a distinctive fur coloring with a shape pattern he couldn’t really pin to any one specific species of cat and a pair of massive claws that he remembered being simultaneously scared of and appreciative of.

In the process of remembering everything about this mysterious cat kaijin though, Antonio’s memories eventually shifted to his own cultivation and how his adoptive mother helped to progress not only in aether, but in [Chaos] as well.

However, it was in remembering this childhood cultivation that Antonio came to a very important realization of his life.

Not only had his adoptive mother seal his memories of their time together, but also the cultivation progress he had made when it came to [Chaos].

His mind couldn’t process all of the details as to why his mother sealed away his ability to use [Chaos] at this time, as he was still in the middle of dying, but there was one thing that seemed to be evident at this moment.

Barina’s attack had managed to break this seal and now Antonio was able to use [Chaos] in a manner he hadn’t been able to in a long, long time.

So, now he had a new question that could be answered right now.

’Do I still got it?’

...Now back to the present...

’I do.’

"What the..."

Like an undead monster, Antonio managed to get back onto his feet despite the massive hole in his chest that Barina had blasted into him.

Correction, he had a massive hole in his chest.

While in the process of standing back up, Antonio had begun to use [Chaos] to patch up the wound. Such a feat was normally done by a healer or sufficiently dense aether, but [Chaos] worked in a pinch.

Of course, only Antonio’s and his companions knew this to be the case.

Barina had no idea how this was happening, especially since his own senses told him that Antonio’s aether was still only at Aether Master stage.

Once Antonio had sufficiently healed himself, though,he was more than ready to go for a second round.

"How are you alive?" Barina asked in disbelief at the sight. "I’m pretty sure my technique blew out your ribcage!"

"Well, you know what they say about cat Bloodliners having nine lives, right?" Antonio asked in a manner that felt a little too natural for him. "Let’s just say that even though I’m not one, I was raised to fight like one."

"What?"

[Savage Claw: Remix!]

Before answering further, Antonio rushed towards Barina with the same technique he used at the start of this fight. Only this time, the claw was a touch more colorful due to being composed of both aether and [Chaos].

The Buddhist from the Longhorn Monastery couldn’t even counter in response to this sudden change before being sent flying backwards by the attack.

’Wait a minute...’

Unfortunately, Antonio couldn’t knock Barina like how the latter knocked him into the mirror warriors.

He did, however, leave a nasty set of long claw marks across his torso.

The sight of this injury surprised even Antonio at this moment, but he kept his mouth shut.

"You...you little-!"

Surprisingly though, Barina wasn’t upset about the flesh wound that was causing his chest to bleed.

"You little shit! Do you know how much indigo robes cost?!"

"Wait, what?"

The Buddhist monk was pissed off about his robes getting ruined.

"I thought you Buddhist didn’t care for material goods," Antonio replied, now completely understanding why his [Chaos] infused attack managed to injure the monk before him.

"Tsk! The Longhorn Monastery understands that in order to achieve spiritual enlightenment, one must achieve a certain level of material comfort. In the same way one gets sick of eating certain types of food after eating it over and over again, the Longhorn Monastery practices the idea that all of its members need to figure out the limits of their luxury tolerance."

At hearing this incredibly contradictory understanding of Buddhism, Antonio had developed this incredible look of bewilderment.

"I...you know what? I don’t know a lick about Buddhism, but I do understand naked greed," Antonio replied. "What you just said, sounds like the same justification my old boss used whenever he ordered the clerks to skimp on paying people their fair share. We’re going to use the money to improve their overall condition."

After saying this piece, Antonio began to empower his limbs with aether and [Chaos].

"I’m just gonna take your head now. [Jaguar’s Maw]!"

Antonio charged forward while forming a hand seal that caused his aether and [Chaos] to take the form of a massive jaguar’s head.

Barina didn’t even provide a verbal response to the attack, he just used a technique from before.

[Prayer Wheel Smash!]

BANG!

"WHAT?!"

When Barina struck with his wheel attack, he was expecting to smash in Antonio’s jaguar maw, or at the very least, get it jammed in there and prevent it from going further so that he could use a follow-up technique.

What ended up happening instead was that Antonio’s jaguar maw absolutely shattered Barina’s manifested prayer wheel, and gave Antonio space to rush in for another attack.

Funnily enough, this exchange could’ve ended very differently if one of two factors had been different.

If this exchange happen prior to Barina blasting a hole into Antonio’s torso and breaking his cultivation seal, the latter wouldn’t have been able to use [Chaos] to overpower Barina’s attack.

But the bigger factor that would’ve definitely turn this already one-sided fight into a one-sided slaughter, was if Barina had been truly pursuing Nirvana.

The fact that he still made material desires in his heart, made it so that his Buddhist techniques were actually marginally weaker than those humble monks who honestly pursued Nirvana in earnest.

Against other aether arts, this discrepancy wouldn’t have been so noticeable.

But against a wielder of [Chaos], an energy that did whatever the hell it wanted but had a tendency to react to human desire and emotion above all else, this was a very noticeable difference.

Of course, Antonio wasn’t about to tell Barina this.

Instead, he just decided to put an end to this fight with a technique he remembered his mom using a long, long time ago.

’I hope I’m doing this right...’

[Chaos Art: Sun Jaguar’s Judgement]

Antonio quickly changed the hand seal he was using to manifest the jaguar’s maw, to one that caused the entire manifestation to take on a completely different feel.

Before, it felt like the raw, savage fury of an apex jungle predator.

But once Antonio changed his hand seal, the manifestation took on a significantly more primordial feeling.

A change that was even visually reflected.

Barina didn’t even have time to curse, as Antonio’s [Chaos] art impacted the contradictory monk and sent him flying into the glass warrior perimeter.

But unlike when Antonio impacted the glass warriors and bounced off of them, Barina barrled right through them.

Why?

Because Antonio’s attack had engulfed Barina in a ball of fire that melted the glass warriors as he made contact with them.

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The end result: Barina ended up getting literally wrapped in several thick layers of glass while getting severely burned in the process.

Surprisingly though, this blow didn’t kill Barina.

Not that it matter at this point, because as soon as Antonio’s attack landed and Barina was encased in glass, the last fireball in front of the Blue Mirror of War had snuffed itself out.

[Winner of the first bout, Antonio.]

"Holy shit, I did it"

As soon as he heard he had won his battle, Antonio proceeded to collapse on the floor in an exhausted heap.

He had wanted to just lay down for a hot minute in order to catch his breath, but Blue Mirror of War and the glass warriors had slightly different ideas.

"Hey, what are you-oh, okay."

The glass warriors walked over and picked up Antonio to drag him back to his team’s resting pit.

[The next battle will begin shortly, will the chosen warriors please step forward.]