Chapter 389

Although Libra did not shout the words in his heart, the Leo that was thrashing the two suddenly stopped moving.

It sensed that faint but unusual aura, and as the distance closed, that sense of oppression gradually intensified.

Finally out, huh? The person who, like him, possesses a special physique.

His whole body was shrouded in mist; within the ink‑black clouds, the gleaming stars suddenly fused together, the star‑spangled cloak on his body slowly fell, and a pair of elongated claws extended, like curved blades.

The claws forged of steel scraped the ground continuously, emitting a piercing bang; complex golden patterns were etched onto his silver‑white body, the Leo constellation formed by stars across the sky glittered above his head, and his wild mane fluttered in the wind behind him.

The oppressive aura emanating from his golden‑yellow eyes, enough to tear a soul apart, made everyone still standing nearby tremble slightly.

Among the Twelve Constellations, Leo is one of the fire signs.

It's the same situation: no matter what type of constellation you belong to, he possesses the corresponding power, and even the power he exerts is stronger than that of the original.

"Why exactly are you looking for me?" Jiang Xia asked.

"The master wishes to meet you, this unknown 'companion'." Leo deliberately emphasized the word 'companion'.

"Sagittarius hasn't yet burst forth with its brightest radiance; it's not up to par."

"Then the only way is to break your limbs, shatter your bones to make you agree to our invitation—not bad. I'm really furious right now." Leo said coldly, "No matter what power you possess, I will crush you."

"You can try, but the force needed to crush me is not ordinary; I won't say more—whether you can see my true form is an unknown." Jiang Xia laughed and said, "I suggest you use the Constellation Switch less; you'll die."

"My life has long been devoted to that master." Leo kicked the two unconscious Ruyue Xian Tairan and Shuotian Liu Xing, "If the master's ideal can be realized, my life is utterly insignificant."

Having said that, Leo had already prepared for battle.

Rather than calling it an invitation, it's more like a kidnapping; if the hostage refuses, the most effective method is to beat them up.

Just as he said, even if we break his limbs, we must bring him back.

Leo flicked his wrist, and specks of starlight kept bouncing on his claws.

"Really, I was just being kind." Jiang Xia watched the approaching Leo and the still‑combat‑ready Aries, and said, "Then let's try to reduce the number of enemies as much as possible."

Jiang Xia waved his hand; the object in his bosom emitted a faint glow, like a meteor streaking across the sky, shooting from his body and landing on the two unconscious individuals.

Strong cosmic energy surged through the belt into Ruyue Xian Tairan and Shuotian Liu Xing, forcibly dispelling Aries' slumber spell.

The No. 40 Cosmic Switch and the Storm Meteor were thrust in; at that moment, all the switches kept popping out from various places, gathering on Ruyue Xian Tairan's body, while the meteor burst forth with a dazzling energy storm.

The two who had fallen were forced to stand, hovering beside Jiang Xia.

"Then, wake up!"

Under the infusion of cosmic energy, the two who had long been unconscious and lost their fighting power snapped their eyes open, experiencing the ultimate form! "First deal with Aries, I'll follow shortly!" Jiang Xia's voice echoed timely in their minds.

"Understood, Teacher." Ruyue Xian Tairan felt the power surging from within outward, gripped his white rocket‑armed weapon, and together with Shuotian Liu Xing charged at Aries.

"What do you want?!" Aries raised his weapon, preparing to release the sleep mist, but was interrupted.

There was no time to release it; two shadows wrapped in cosmic power slammed head‑on into Aries' chest.

A pale‑blue distorted Spatial Portal instantly opened behind it, and the two figures, bracing against it, shifted the battlefield.

Aries' struggle was utterly useless, even failing to slow them down; within a few seconds they were spatially displaced, leaving him alone to face two Knights in their final forms, and the sleep fog remained ineffective.

As the two flew out, Leo and Jiang Xia also began a direct confrontation.

Leo continuously swung the blades in his hand; six golden blades shot out with intervals of a few hundredths of a second, the blade lights forming a fan, alternating, just like a real lion hunting antelopes lunging at the enemy.

Facing the blades that could seal his movements, Jiang Xia's body was suddenly wrapped in a layer of starlight gauze! His body instantly vanished, flashing through the center of the six slashing blades! The wind generated by the swinging claws swept from left and right, slashing at Leo's jaws.

Leo swiftly changed his move, ignoring the claw slashing toward his head and meeting attack with attack.

As a lion, only his prey may exist in his golden eyes; everything else ceases to matter.

Golden sparks exploded instantly; in the blink of an eye for an ordinary person, two identical figures had already collided multiple times, and the golden sparks in the curved claws burst upon impact.

Although both physiques are remarkably sturdy, their movements are light as wind, yet the swinging claws emit a metallic intertwining sound, their power sufficient to easily slice through several meters of steel plate.

Not to mention the power continually erupting from their mutual collisions.

Countless phantoms flickered in the high‑speed motion, rapidly swapping positions; both are the type that likes hard clashes, and the blade, longer than an ordinary knife, turned crimson from constant collision.

Astonishing heat burst forth from the continual collisions, the surrounding temperature began to rise, and a fiery red heat wave gradually spread outward.

The lush, hastily green trees of Angxing High School, when swept by this heat wave, instantly turned to charcoal; the extreme heat against the fragile trees didn't even burn them—they simply vanished.

Leo is indeed among the top tier of the Twelve Constellations, but much of that is due to its wielder.

Leo's previous Switcher was a boxer who made a living fighting in underground bouts; those underground matches had no winning conditions, no rules forbidding attacks on vital points—only life and death, i. e., unrestricted combat.

The lives of those underground boxers differ from ordinary people's; they are mere beasts, death is a daily meal, injury is a blessing from heaven, and disability is considered good luck.

They relied on a pair of fists wrapped in cloth strips, relentlessly striking the enemy's vital points; the secret to surviving here is strength and speed—speed to dodge the opponent's attacks, strength to break his bones even while evading.

And before obtaining the Switch, Leo was the underground boxing champion here, defending his title for years with astonishing records, defeating every challenger, ultimately undefeated, leaving his own legend on the blood‑soaked ring.

After possessing the Constellation Switch, its bodily potential was further unleashed; even without transforming, it could crush the constellation soldiers summoned from the Twelve Constellations with bare hands.

Yet even such a Leo must admit that the opponent before him is incredibly strong; he never expected there to be another monster like himself in this world—this guy is absolutely a formidable foe.

Just a pity.

"Bang!" The confrontation ended in less than a few seconds, both start and stop extremely abrupt; the air reeked of scorchedness, the temperature hadn't dropped, yet the battle was already over.

The two Leos alternately flashed aside, still with those curved claws hanging toward the ground, as if looking into a mirror.

Too bad Libra had already collapsed in agony on the ground; otherwise he might have witnessed this splendid battle firsthand.

Several cracks suddenly sliced across Leo's chest constellation, sounding like shattering glaciers, and at the same time its curved claws snapped off, falling to the ground.

Leo lowered his gaze to his chest; three claw marks left deep impressions on his silver‑white armor, and red blood seeped along the marks, soaking his garments.

It failed to dodge the final attack; that curved blade turned into a dazzling gold, like the legendary golden lion—mane blazing like a red sun, body blotting out the sky, roaring the earth, its mere aura leaving one breathless.

Jiang Xia retracted the claws in his hand; Leo's constellation is indeed mighty, its power differing from that of the other Twelve Constellations as heaven and earth.

"What is that? The golden lion I saw at the end—what exactly is it?" Leo asked.

"It's simple: each constellation has its own unique ability—for example, Libra possesses Laplace's Eye; what do you think Leo would have?"

Jiang Xia looked at Libra, who had clearly regained consciousness but still lay on the ground afraid to rise; he waved his hand, and the fallen constellation cloak flew back onto his body.

"Leo's supernova, huh? Hahaha, what an interesting answer—I admit you are, after gazing at the master, the first to defeat me fair and square." Leo laughed loudly, "I acknowledge you, as our companion."

Sorry, I have many companions, but they, including me, will not acknowledge you." Jiang Xia said softly, "They are all legendary Knights.

Only he could hear those final words.

Wang Guangming indeed can fool people; the cosmic energy I researched and injected into my body gave my flesh evolution.

Although overuse carries the risk of bodily collapse, I also gained the ability to use superpowers while in human form.

Including telekinesis, memory alteration, hypnosis, and so on.

Wang Guangming, who possesses superpowers, defeated the battle‑hardened underground boxing champion with his untrained body—indeed a quite normal occurrence.

This also shows that most human bodies indeed have limits; superpowers may be innate or acquired through mutation, but in the end one either becomes a knight protecting the world or falls into monstrosity—same origin.

Jiang Xia glanced at Leo, then waved his constellation cloak, turning into a beam of light and disappearing.

Meanwhile, Ruyue Xian Tairan and the other members of the Kamen Rider division were battling Aries.

Rather than saying they were opposing, it was more like a one‑sided beating; after being defeated by Leo, the two used their final forms to soundly thrash another of the Twelve Constellations, which could be considered a proper beginning and end.

Ruyue Xian Tairan's sword in hand cleanly inserted the No. 40 switch into the notch at the blade's tail; the blade that emerged from the rocket‑like body burst forth with a brilliant azure light.

The ultimate move gathering the No. 40 switches: Super Galaxy Finale.

Meanwhile, Shuotian Liu Xing quickly pressed the switch on his waist, at the same time inserting the gold‑blue intertwined spiral top into his hand on a meteor‑storm staff as tall as a person.

"Meteor, let's go together." Ruyue Xian Tairan turned his head to see that the originally black star‑chart pattern on his body had been completely replaced by blue, with gold‑yellow tails on either side of his head forming MeteorStorm.

"Well, power is surging forth continuously." Liu Xing waved his meteor‑storm staff, exhaled, drew the staff to his chest, and the spiral at its tip spun rapidly! Just as Fourze's cosmic‑form weapon needs the No. 40 switch to unleash its full might, MeteorStorm also requires its dedicated switch attached to the weapon to deliver a finishing blow.

Shuotian Liu Xing slammed it down, power gathering on the spiral; the spiral at the tail of the meteor‑storm staff shot out, tracing in the air an arc more beautiful than a comet's tail, like a true shooting star.

"MeteorStorm Punisher!"

Directly at Aries' chest, the energy spun from the limit‑defying drill expanded rapidly; its body kept trembling, the dim mist trying to subdue an attack capable of swallowing it whole.

But the constantly shifting spiral was unaffected—instead it carved a brilliant energy storm, rendering it immobile.

"Xiantar, give him the final blow!" Shuotian Liu Xing retracted his staff, gazing at the relentlessly pursuing Aries, and nodded at Fourze.

Ruyue Xian Tairan's body emitted ever‑stronger energy fluctuations; in the cosmic‑form switch he sensed everything of the Kamen Rider division, and when he transformed he truly felt his heart linked with everyone's—this friendship let him truly grasp the cosmos.

Only thus could he gather all forty switches and truly command the power of the cosmic form.

"I feel it—look, this is my power."

Ruyue Xian Tairan roared, flames erupting from his back, once again shifting the battlefield onto Aries—but this was not a fight, it was an ending.

The surroundings were instantly shrouded in darkness; the shimmering starlight all around and the azure Earth revealed the setting—space.

The sword in Ruyue Xian Tairan's hand blazed with light, and in an instant he swung it.

In the vast cosmos, the blue blade instantly pierced Aries' body, and a powerful shockwave burst forth.

The immense energy within Aries was completely detonated by this blow; the mad wolf's flames blossomed across the sky, displaying in space a sea of fire fierce enough to destroy a city.

"Still quite capable, huh—now we needn't worry that the cosmic form will be undone by mindset issues, for even if people are scattered to the ends of the earth, the heart of friendship keeps them tightly bound; though all feasts must end, reunions await." Jiang Xia stood on a sand dune, gazing at the burning sea.

A few minutes later, Shuotian Liu Xing excitedly gazed at his friend slowly opening his eyes and said, "Quick, just turn off the switch, and with today's medical level you can recover."

"Liu... Xing." The one lying on the hospital bed, Er Lang who had just awakened, under the meteor's guidance pressed the switch that originally belonged to his own constellation, and the cosmic energy forcibly injected into his body vanished at that moment.

"Thank you, teacher—you truly saved Er Lang." Shuotian Liu Xing bowed sincerely; seeing Er Lang saved, he felt everything was worthwhile, and fate had returned to his hands.

"No need to thank me; this is your choice." Jiang Xia waved his hand, turned and left the ward, having no interest in watching the two sobbingly embrace; better not disturb their reunion.

"Lord Wang Guangming, I have failed; your judgment was absolutely correct—that person is stronger than I." Leo knelt on one knee and spoke respectfully.

"This time it's not your fault; when the Dark Nebula opens, he will appear." Wang Guangming smiled.

(End of chapter)