Superman Termination Manual - Chapter 450

Chapter 450: Chapter 236: Battle of the Octopus Man X Birthday Party (Part 2)_3 Chapter 450: Chapter 236: Battle of the Octopus Man X Birthday Party (Part 2)_3 Bai Yi, seeing the situation, bit his lip fiercely and stopped his plunging dive with lightning-fast reflexes. At the same time, he spread his wings in midair and shot sharp feathers forward like a torrential downpour!

“Pffft—-!!!”

Amid the storm-like clash of acid and feathers, one could vaguely glimpse the scene on the far right side of the battlefield.

The telekinetic nun was facing the “Mudman” from the opposing team, a middle-aged man with wrinkly skin and squinty eyes, clad in a dirt-yellow battle suit.

The Mudman, charging forward, bent his body down.

The next moment, his body suddenly burst apart, turning into countless chunks of flying mud, rushing toward the nun like a river of mud and water.

The nun furrowed her brows, raised her right palm, and initially tried to blast away the mud with telekinesis. But no matter how she manipulated the deep-blue telekinetic force, it was impossible to defend against so much mud completely.

So, she focused her attention on herself and, out of necessity, formed a seamless telekinetic spherical shield around her.

The scattered mud streams “plopped” against her telekinetic shield, and at that moment, she was like a rock standing unyielding in the midst of a collapsing muddy river.

Meanwhile, at the very right edge of the arena, near a corner wall.

The Octopus Man entered combat mode, his gaze no longer lazy as before but now as sharp and fierce as a knife.

He rushed forward at high speed. To prevent the blue owl from using Phase Transfer to hinder others, he spread six giant crimson tentacles behind him like a peacock displaying its feathers, using the recoil force generated by pushing against the floor with his tentacles to move swiftly, cornering the blue owl into a secluded spot.

“Now it’s one on one,” said the Octopus Man coldly.

“Just what I wanted.”

Blue Owl, although retreating, maintained a calm curve at his mouth.

The Octopus Man pursued relentlessly. He used four tentacles to propel his body forward while the other two tentacles lashed out towards the blue owl with deep-colored suction cups that suddenly exerted a powerful suction force.

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If the blue owl had done nothing, his body would have been instantly drawn towards the Octopus Man by the suction cups.

Moreover, the tentacles of the Octopus Man were coated with a potent neurotoxin that could cause a person to lose their combat ability in an instant, collapsing to the ground with no strength to rise again.

However, Blue Owl had already activated his B-level Skill–[Spider Sense] and his E-level Skill–[Safety Limiters Off].

His reactions were incredibly sharp–each time, he managed to avoid the tentacles with a nimble sideward flip before they even moved, not even giving the Octopus Man a chance to use the suction force to pull him in.

Most importantly, while dodging the Octopus Man’s attacks, Blue Owl continued to rotate his arms, keeping the power buildup of the “Rotary Arm Fist-Guessing Skill.”

“How is his reaction so fast…” the Octopus Man frowned, “His speed is worlds apart from a month ago, otherwise I would have caught him by now.”

At that moment, a glint of deep blue arc light flashed at the corner of Blue Owl’s eye. He was running sideways along the wall at the edge of the arena, high as ten meters, just like those martial arts heroes who run along the rooftops in wuxia films.

The Octopus Man gave him no chance to breathe, climbing on the wall surface with his tentacles, constantly pressing Blue Owl, not allowing him a chance to aid his teammates.

In the next instant, the Octopus Man again lashed out two deep red tentacles, the suction cups contracting abruptly, the violent suction force like a mini-tornado attempting to pull the blue owl, who was directly ahead, toward it.

However, this time, Blue Owl did not evade in advance to escape the influence of the suction, as he had before.

He was pulled over by the suckers of the octopus tentacles, losing his support in mid-air.

Suddenly, the Octopus Man thought, “Got him!”

As long as he could grab the blue owl with his tentacles, he could instantly use the neurotoxin above to deprive the blue owl of his combat abilities.

However, at that instant, the blue owl sharply turned his head and taunted coldly, “Do you really think you can catch me?”

With that, he first used a skill from the A-level equipment “Gambler’s Gloves,” which he had taken out of his pack before the match and wrapped inside his metal gauntlet.

These gloves could turn any skill with “random effects” into a “selective type skill.”

So, while being pulled toward the Octopus Man by the suckers, he stopped rotating his arms mid-air, instead releasing the second form of the Rotary Arm Fist-Guessing Skill.

[According to the effect of “Gambler’s Gloves,” the skill effect of the B-level skill “Rotary Arm Fist-Guessing Skill” involving “Fist-Guessing” has been changed to a selection from “rock,” “paper,” “scissors.”]
“Scissors.”

The blue owl uttered as such, bringing his index and middle fingers together, with a bright reddish-yellow glow bursting forth from the tips of his fingers, forming a six-meter-long golden sword of light.

[Accumulated rotations of the arms: 12 rotations.]
[The result of this Fist-Guessing: “Scissors,” skill effect as follows: When you use scissors, execute a medium-range slash with extremely fast speed and high power.]
In an instant, the blade of light extending from the blue owl’s fingers sliced through two of the Octopus Man’s deep red tentacles.

The Octopus Man’s pupils contracted.

If he hadn’t reacted quickly and ceased the motion of the four deep red tentacles behind him, preventing his body from leaning forward.

Otherwise… the blue owl might have already decapitated him.

“Damn, what kind of ability is this?”

The Octopus Man was greatly shocked as he retreated, thinking to himself.

He had anticipated in advance that his tentacles could largely dissipate the force they received.

So, whether it was a punch or a shockwave, they were likely to be cushioned by the tentacles’ flexibility, similar to a hammer being dropped on cotton–no matter how powerful, it would be futile.

However, there was one weakness to his tentacles–they feared sharp objects like knives and swords.

In the Octopus Man’s understanding, he thought the blue owl shouldn’t possess such offensive measures.

After all, in the research videos provided by the Commander, the blue owl had only been seen using close-combat punch attacks, and although the arm blades on his uniform were the kind of sharp weapons the tentacles feared, they were mostly ornamental most of the time–besides, the arm blades required close proximity to use. Without a target for the blue owl to use Phase Transfer on, the Octopus Man was confident he could subdue the blue owl before he got close, so there was no need to worry about the threat of the arm blades.

However, at this moment, the blue owl had executed a move he had never seen before, cutting off his two tentacles with an unbelievably fast speed.

Even the Octopus Man hadn’t realized what exactly happened at that split second…

“What in the world is going on…” he fell from the wall, leaned forward slightly, his expression grave as he pondered, “How did he get so much stronger in just one month?”