| Kars vs Nero Chaos | |
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| Season 1, Episode 2 | |
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| Air date | August 22, 2020 |
| Written by | GeneralBolivar |
| Directed by | GeneralBolivar |
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Kars vs Nero Chaos is a What-if? episode of DEATH BATTLE! and GeneralBolivar 's, featuring Kars from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure and Nrvnqsr Chaos from Tsukihime.
Description:[]
Two immortal, near indestructible vampires will come head to head in a violent and bloody confrontation. Will the ancient power of the perfect life-form break before the machinating schemes of the artificial dead apostle? Only one will escape this night to see the world in the new morning.
Interlude:[]
(*Cues: Invader - Bryan Kei Mantia & Peter Joseph Scaturroantia*)
Wiz: Throughout history, scholars and philosophers alike have pondered upon the idea and means of achieving eternal life. From this desire to find immortality, stories stirred of a more malicious supernatural figure beneath it all.
Boomstick: I guess living forever was considered unholy back in the day, but you can't really blame nerds for making a few deals with the devil. And who would have guessed all that medieval paranoia would have given us the good ol' fashioned vampire.
Wiz: From the horrific, flesh eating ghouls of ancient Babylonia to the blood sucking moroi of eastern Europe, vampires have become symbols of humanity's fears of death, degeneracy and immortality. And today's combatants are the epitome of that lust for perfection of the scholars long ago with the bloodthirsty nature of the myths they spawned.
Boomstick: Kars, the Perfect Lifeform from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.
Wiz: And Nero Chaos, the Artificial Dead Apostle from Tsukihime.
Boomstick: He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and skills to see who would win a Death Battle.
Kars[]
(*Cues: Medieval 2 Kingdoms OST - Discovery *)
Wiz: The year was 1938 when an expedition into Mexico, lead by the Speedwagon Foundation, found the remains of a long lost humanoid within a massive pillar of stone. The body encased inside was that of a being so ancient, its species preceded the evolution of humanity by several hundred millennium. They'd later come to be named after the very thing that encased their original discovery, Pillarmen.
Boomstick: These were people so powerful, intelligent and long-lived that when humanity finally evolved from the apes, they worshipped them as living gods. Hell, by the time humans were still hunting mammoths, the Pillarmen already had a whole empire in the Americas. Though don't go thinking they were the nice kind of gods, as their favorite snacks were human meat with a side of blood chianti.
Wiz: In fact, the only thing that prevented them from utterly devouring humanity was their great affliction to the sun, as they burned to ashes when exposed. Not that they wanted to do anything about it, as the Pillarmen were more than content to live underground, be worshipped as gods and receive their yearly sum of human sacrifice.
Boomstick: That was until one of them decided that their species deserved better than living like moles and tried to find a way to beat his species's great weakness.
Wiz: Born nearly 102,000 years before the Pillarmen's re-discovery, Kars was considered a genius even among his already super-intelligent species. And it may have been his restless intellectual mind that ultimately caused his dissatisfaction with his kind's stagnant existence.
Boomstick: Simply put, he felt that evolution had sold his people short on the whole godhood thing with the sun weakness. So, like any mad scientist, he got to work finding a solution to this problem with some very...gory experiments.
Wiz: It was through this experimentation on thousands of human test subjects that Kars developed and perfected a device to tap into the dormant parts of the brain known as the Stone Mask. While this theory of the unused parts of the mind has been dismissed in our world, in Jojo the unused parts of the brain can be unlocked with the proper stimuli. The mask does this by piercing the skull with several stone barbs, tapping the unused brain sections through dripping blood on it as an activation trigger.
Boomstick: Uh...are all you science types this crazy with inventions Wiz?
Wiz: Well, there was a method to this madness as the barbs used physical stimulation in a similar way to acupuncture by utilizing pressure points in the brain to 'unlock' new capabilities in the body. Emphasis on the...pressure part.
Boomstick: *Cringing* Augghh...getting a headache just thinking about it. But through this 'unlocking', anyone affected by it became stronger, smarter and essentially a diet-version of a Pillarman. The only issue was, that it also gave them the Pillarman's weakness to the sun so it was kind of a 50-50 deal there.
Wiz: Not to be deterred by the side-effects, Kars eventually deduced that if the Stone Mask could imbue humans with a similar power to his kind while giving them their weakness, then it could in theory, imbue his own kind with even greater power with the human's immunity. The only issue was that when he tried it on himself, it only worked partially as the barbs were literally unable to pierce his skull.
Boomstick: While it gave him a slew of new abilities, it was also around this time that his own people labeled him, and his assistant Esidisi, insane for trying to disrupt the natural order of things. So, Kars killed them all off for essentially not seeing things his way, took the last two Pillarmen children with him and escaped to parts unknown. Pretty impressive for one you science types, huh Wiz?
Wiz: *Nervous Sweats* Well...after the genocide of his species, Kars eventually came across an answer to true immortality. By utilizing a ruby known as the Red Stone of Aja in conjunction with the Stone Mask, he could fully unlock a Pillarman's abilities when said stone was struck by sunlight. The only problem was that it was in Europe, more than several hundred nautical miles away.
Boomstick: And even when he somehow made it there, he was only able to see the ruby before he and his goons were locked away by a group of Hamon users in a wall beneath the Roman Colosseum. There, they would sleep for nearly 2000 years until the Pillarmen's rediscovery was overtaken by, no joke, the Nazis. They'd bring back news to Europe about the Pillarmen's power after just a juvenile, named Santana, killed off the entire expedition before being himself brought down by Joseph Joestar.
Wiz: However, it would reach them too late as the squadron deployed to destroy the Pillarmen in Rome were ambushed and absorbed by the newly awakened Wammuu. He would use the blood and flesh of those soldiers to reawaken his masters into the world once more, and with it set Kar's final plans for perfection into motion.
(*Cues: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure OST - Awaken *)
Boomstick: While most of the other Pillarmen favored brutality like Esidisi or overwhelming technique like Wammuu, Kar's relied more on his super intelligent mind to have things go his way. But like any frustrated nerd, if his plans fall apart and his allies are killed off, then he'll gladly indulge in a little bloodshed as well. While he's already several times stronger than any human, his own strength is more than the peak of what the series had shown at that point.
Wiz: In the previous Jojo part, the vampire Dio Brando was able to overpower Jonathan Joestar's physical strength which itself overpowered another vampire by the name of Tarkus that could split a cliff apart with a single attack. This is a feat that would take more than 756 kg of TNT given the sheer size of the cliff at a rough estimate of 18 m of width and 17.5 in height in relation to the crack caused by Tarkus. Scaling back to Jonathan, than to Dio, then to the standard Pillarmen and then finally to Kars himself, we can probably assume he's well over this level of strength by sheer merit of his race alone.
Boomstick: Not that he really needs it, considering that the abilities unlocked by the Stone Mask are way more terrifying anyways. Like the ability to contort his body like a buffer Stretch Armstrong, or absorb people into himself like an actually buff version of the Blob. But even this is normal for every Pillarman, as he's got a way more deadly and shiny new weapon to really make himself really stand out.
Wiz: Every Pillarman that used the Stone Mask awakened in themselves a, frankly, scientifically impossible and unique ability known as a 'mode' that coincided to their fighting style and personality. For Kars this was Light Mode, which manifested in a set of large, metal-like bone blades in his elbows known as the Brilliant Blades.
Boomstick: This set of baddass arm swords are stronger than steel, retractable like a switchblade and are able to absorb and release light bright enough to disorient even the enhanced eyes of the Nazi cyborg Stroheim. And if that sentence sounded batshit crazy enough, then don't worry because it only gets more nuts from here!
Wiz: For clarity, the blades don't necessarily release light so much as they're refracting it by utilizing thousands of tiny, serrated teeth on the edges that move alongside the rim of the blade like a chainsaw. While already insane enough, the sheer hardness and speed at which these teeth move is strong enough to cut through steel and denser metals like lead nearly effortlessly.
Boomstick: Christ, it's like having a bedazzled up version of Doom Slayer's chainsaw, but in your arms and twice!
Wiz: But don't go thinking Kars is some mindless berserker, as he has more than enough discipline and precision with them to say slice bullets apart in mid air or bisect a moving vehicle fast enough the engine still ran a few seconds after he attacked?! Yeah, this series is insane to say the least but it certainly speaks volumes of Kar's sheer expertise in combat.
Boomstick: It's like you said Wiz, they compliment that perfectionist personality of his. So much so that's it let him contend with ripple masters like Joseph Joestar and Lisa Lisa, the latter of which he actually managed to outsmart and nearly killed in their first fight.
Wiz: Keep in mind that this is no small feat, as Lisa Lisa carried a natural advantage over Kars with her mastery of Hamon letting her sense his presence in the air. In spite of this, he overtook Lisa Lisa by using a body double to hide his signature from her and struck her down with the blades. But even after accomplishing this, Kars managed to prepare a failsafe to his defeat when Stroheim's troops overtook him after the fight.
Boomstick: By combining his Stone Mask with Lisa Lisa's Red Stone of Aja, he let his enemies close in on him for the final phase of his plan. Knowing these troops were using UV weaponry, Kars directed the light from their weapons into the Red Stone infused mask to finally achieve his goal.
Wiz: It was in that moment that Kar's plan for perfection was realized, and finally unlocked his full potential. From that moment on, the Pillarman Kars was reborn as a near invincible god known only as the Perfect Lifeform.
(*Cues: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure OST - Avalon *)
Boomstick: In addition to granting him even greater strength, an IQ over 400 and near complete immortality, Kar's own body became infused with the genetic components of every living thing on earth. What does this mean exactly? Well, it only let's him turn his hand into a squirrel that can chew through metal as easily as I do this beef burrito! *Produces Burrito from pocket, messily eats and splatters Wiz's face with salsa*
Wiz: *Wiping off the salsa unamused* Ok...well, Kar's new abilities are a bit more complicated and, somehow, even stranger than that.
Boomstick: *Still Chewing the burrito* Heh, told you this was going to get way more nuts going forward. Haha, nuts, squirrel pun.
Wiz: *Facepalms in disgust* Well, while all Pillarmen have a near impossible physical ability of body contortion and manipulation over their own skeletal structure, Kar's perfect form boasts an even more impossible version of this ability. In that, he's able to reconstitute the DNA in his cells to whatever kind of physical trait he wishes. Be it eagle wings, flower petals, octopus tentacles, and even fully controlled, independent, living constructs like Boomstick's squirrel example.
Boomstick: Not only that, but he's also able to mix and match these genetic traits like a mad scientist Build-a-Bear. Such as the time he turned his wing feathers into armadillo scales, which then turned into piranhas after they pierced through the steel wing of a moving aircraft! This plane seems to be a Blohm & Voss Bv 238, which is a little out of place since they weren't in use until the 1940s, which boasts at least a 3 inch steel armor hull. This means Kars can also mess with his trait's density, as you need at least a high powered AA cannon round to punch through that armor. Oh yeah, and he can regenerate lost cells from out of nowhere, so this ability is only limited to Kar's jagged mind.
Wiz: On top of all of this, Kars also gained immunity to sunlight, his race's only limit in conquering the surface. While this would be frightening enough, given every other ability we listed thus far, we've also been avoiding the topic of Hamon for long enough.
Boomstick: Introduced in Jojo Part 1, Hamon is essentially solar energy created through controlled breathing, which can interact with the environment to do anything from conducting it like electricity in water to just letting you climb up completely vertical pillars. Its main use however is to channel it into your body as a means of fighting vampires and other things affected by sunlight. And once Kars gained immunity to sunlight, he not only gained immunity to Hamon but became its most proficient user after just witnessing it!
Wiz: One thing to remember about Hamon is that it's essentially just harnessed sunlight and is no more harmful to humans than a flash in your eyes. However, when utilized by Kars, the sheer intensity of his Hamon combined with his already limitless body control, gains him attacks that are stated to be as hot as the surface of the sun. And the series probably isn't too far off, as when Joseph Joestar was struck in the leg by one such attack his flesh started vaporizing from the heat alone. It would theoretically take around 3273 kelvin for human cells to start violently evaporating in such a manner given direct contact, so Kar's attack is roughly three fifths of the way there! And even this is only scratching the surface of Kar's near limitless potential.
(*Cues: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure All Star Battle OST - Light Mode Kars *)
Boomstick: Nah Wiz, even at his base form Kars has managed some impossible feats that go beyond the limits of his already naturally superhuman race. He's strong enough to perfectly slice apart the steel body of the Nazi Cyborg Stroheim, hehe, maneuver acrobatically in mid air off a cliff face with a single punch and then just laughed about it unscathed at the bottom! Also, remember how we mentioned he could slice apart bullets in mid air? Well, in an earlier scene with the Nazi cyborg Stroheim, heh I'll never get tired of saying that, Kars managed to block a damn laser beam after it was fired at him!
Wiz: Since the UV light from Stroheim's cybernetic eye is sent out from a refractory lens, doesn't explode and is shot out in a continuous beam then we can indeed designate it as an actual laser. Given the heights of Stroheim and Kars being somewhat similar, we can equalize their height to the distance traveled between the laser's start point of Stroheim's eye to Kar's hand being around 65 cm from their standing heights. Given light's speed being at 186000 miles per second, Kars must have moved his hand at nearly 1767000 miles per second give the distance of the laser. While Kars didn't actually block this attack, the feat of managing to intercept the beam with his hand alone tells us that he's able to react at nearly 9.5 times faster than the speed of light.
Boomstick: And remember that this is him at his base form, meaning that he's probably much faster after achieving his perfect form. Speaking of which, the sheer durability of his perfect form has allowed him to survive the kinds of cliché hazards that have killed other villains in the past. Like, being submerged in lava, being in an exploding volcano or even being blown out into space!
Wiz: It's not just that Kars survives these occurrences, but adapts to them in some of the most scientifically implausible yet somehow still logical ways. For example, when he was submerged in lava his body actually started to dissolve from the 1500 kelvin heat but was still alive due to his rapid regeneration. To escape this agonizing ordeal, Kars devised a hardened crab-like shell to protect against the pressure and a sponge-like air filtration layer to ward away the heat. This is physically impossible to do as no living creature has the circulatory system needed to continuously pump air quickly enough but Kars managed to do it and punch his way through solid volcanic rock in less than 2 minutes.
Boomstick: Nothing is impossible when you bullshit your way through science! And it's that sheer will and ingenuity that has gotten him out of situations that are similarly unwinnable. Like the time he used octopus tentacles strong enough to jam up a plane's rotor, created wings light enough to keep up with an aircraft or just using hamon to screw over the laws of physics; no dirty trick or crazy plan is out of the question with this guy! And even without his intellect, Kars's is so damn resilient that even volcanic eruptions powered by hamon can't keep him down.
Wiz: The volcano that Kars and Joseph had their final battle is most likely modeled after the Stromboli volcano in Italy, which doesn't even approach the megaton range in the volcanic explosive index, yet when it reacted to a beam by the Red Stone of Aja exploded with the kinetic force of 4,537,400 gigajoules, or an equivalent energy output to 57 atomic bombs given the height of the lava plume and the escape velocity of the rock they were propelled on. While he wasn't at the direct epicenter of the explosion, Kars managed to not only survive the subsequent blast into escape velocity but also shrapnel from volcanic rocks at a similar 7 miles per second. Even without direct calculations to determine kinetic force, this would put Kar's durability beyond any conventional weapons found on Earth.
Boomstick: And that's really the key word, on Earth. While Kars did survive being blown out into space after that explosion, it was ultimately his ingenuity that ended up screwing him over at the very end when he tried to...uh. Eject all of the air in his body via little thrusters on his ribs to make himself float back to earth...except he froze in mid flight...because he forgot space is below freezing...? Wait, isn't he supposed to be like a super genius?
Wiz: Well, if Kars has any flaws it's certainly his overinflated ego and how easily it can be bruised. While most of Jojo's villains fall prey to this, Kars has the added tendency to let his anger take over his thought process whenever something doesn't go to plan. This ultimately leads him to make rash or outright reckless decisions in times of great stress. As odd or convenient as this sound, it is actually a well documented occurrence in psychological science that denotes that continued aggravated stress can devolve someone's IQ to a lower state if sufficiently frustrated. Literally, making someone dumber if you get them angry enough.
Boomstick: Damn, that must suck considering his main opponent, Joseph Joestar, is the Jojo equivalent of a trolling genius. Though, even he only really won their final battle by getting lucky at the very end and not necessarily outsmarting him. Also, while Kars is essentially immortal by conventional means, even still being physically alive while in outer space, his mental functions can be completely shut down if he's kept in a vegetative state without air or heat. Though, something like that seems way worse than actually dying...
Wiz: Despite Kar's ultimate fate, that one lone perfect being still moves across the cosmos in an aimless pace without end. Unable to live and unable to die, to be trapped for all of eternity in the void until a new world finds him. For wherever Kars may end up, and should he reawaken, all inhabitants of that world will submit to the Perfect Lifeform.
' The Perfect being embodies the powers of each and every living thing, all lives gather as one. And...how beautiful it shines! Truly the most wonderful thing I have ever beheld...I have finally, finally tamed the sun!'
Nrvnqsr Chaos[]
(*Cues: Lunar Legend Tsukihime - Opening Full *)
Wiz: If you were to ever stay at the sleepy city of Mizaki, you'd be excused to think of it as anything but your average Japanese city. But if you were to listen in to its older residents, you'd quickly find every shade of supernatural legend and rumor relating back to the summer of 1999. Rabid ghostly animals, grizzly serial killings, and one particularly haunting story about a large, pale man in a navy trench coat.
Boomstick: *Takes out flashlight* 'If you're ever out alone at midnight, make sure you only hear your own footsteps or you'll meet a fate worse than death!', or so the story goes.
*Throws away flashlight*
DUMMI: *Gets hit on the head with Flashlight* Ow.
Boomstick: The only difference about this ghost story is that it was 100% real and 100% worse than you'd think it is. But its true beginnings don't start out in 1999, but instead in 11th century Europe on this wizard island city known as the Wandering Sea.
Wiz: Essentially a commune for estranged sorcerers, alchemist and philosophers due to a lot of religious persecution at the time, it became the home of many fields of magical research. And within that wandering organization one of its foremost scientists, known as Fabro Rowan, tinkered with the very essence of magical genetics, soul merging and theoretical sorcery for a means that would give him the answers to true immortality.
Boomstick: He'd ultimately get those answers in the form of a weird math and magic method that allowed him to absorb the souls of hundreds of animals on earth like a Quan-Chi version of Noah's Ark. Rowan would emerge from this process an immortal, but with some freaky side effects.
Wiz: The massive intake of souls had caused such a disruptive imbalance in the scientist's mind as well as his own body that he could no longer be considered human. From that amalgam of souls fused together, a single figure stood with the united consciousness of hundreds. On that day, Fabro Rowan ceased to exist and the vampire NRVNQSR Chaos was born.
(*Cues: Melty Blood: Truth from Melty Blood *)
Boomstick: Wait, I thought this guy's name was Nero...what the hell does NVER-eh...NURV-...NE- ARRRGHH! Is that even real English or is that another one of those weird math formulas only mad scientists can read?!
Wiz: Well, it's more like a code or nickname that's a play on words from the Hebraic Gematria, which is a real life cypher that uses numbers to designate to names in Hebrew. In NRVQSR's case, those letters in his name add up to 666, otherwise known as the number of the beast. But we'll just stick to calling him Nero for the sake of clarity.
Boomstick: First science, then math and now grammar...?! Nobody said numbers had to be letters too!
Wiz: Returning to our topic, Nero Chaos is a being known as a Dead Apostle, or essentially Tsukihime's version of a standard vampire. While other humans have achieved this status before him, Nero is the first to have done so completely artificially. In doing so, he gained a natural resistance to sunlight which only two other Dead Apostles have while also gaining a more...insatiable side effect along with it. While all Dead Apostles have an incessant physical need to consume human blood, Nero's own thirst is more akin to a hunger for flesh.
Boomstick: Simply put, while most vampires are the rich folk you see at fancy restaurants with red wine in one hand and a tiny fork in another, Nero is that really big trucker that gets doubles at the country buffet without any napkins. Thankfully, those animals inside him are so very useful for licking the place clean of any crumbs after a midnight snack. Honestly though, if I had a bunch of animal souls shoved inside of me I'd also need a lot more than just a bit of blood to get me through breakfast.
Wiz: More on those later, but it's those same souls that have also caused Nero to go through a bit of an identity crisis. While the primary soul of Fabro remains in his body, every other soul that's fused to him has amalgamated into a united consciousness who's ever chaotic nature has become completely unknowable even to Nero himself. So much so that the understanding of the collective consciousness of his body became his new lifelong goal to achieve.
Boomstick: But for all of his achievements, he's wasn't exactly accepted with open arms with the other vampires. In fact, the Dead Apostles didn't even consider him a real vampire until he proved them all wrong by slaughtering his way through the First Crusade and turning Jerusalem into a holy, red swimming pool. Oh yeah, did we forget to mention that the guy wrote all of this also wrote the Fate/Stay Night series? And this is also technically canonical to that too?!
Wiz: Nasu's historical idiosyncrasies don't stop there, as the grip of the Dead Apostles themselves has existed for millennia over human civilization. And following the Crusades, Nero was inducted into the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors and made the tenth amongst their ranks. In spite of how surreptitious and subtle the Dead Apostles were with influencing human civilization to suit their own needs, even they could recognize the use of someone like Nero.
Boomstick: See, while most of the other Dead Apostles are more into the manipulating and scheming side of being a vampire Illuminati, the exact opposite is true for Nero. The guy all about getting down and dirty with whatever job the 27 get him stuck with, so much so that he's become the equivalent of a tactical nuke for them if they really want someone or something disappeared. Bet you he never has to worry about missing out on the VIP treatment from those guys.
Wiz: Not that he really needed their support or respect, as Nero's own goal of understanding the amalgam of chaos that makes up his body takes a much higher priority. As a fellow scholar, I can certainly respect that he's managed to maintain his scientific and pondering mindset despite becoming a literal legion monster. If anything though, he was merely bidding his time until an opportunity arose to claim even greater knowledge and understanding of himself.
Boomstick: And that opportunity came in the form a blonde vampire girl named Arcueid Brunestud, which Nero tracked to the city of Misaki. It was in that city that Nero followed the 27th's command to kill Arceuid, but set about consuming her instead because surprise, she was the descendant of the true ancestor of all vampires!
Wiz: To make a long story short, True Ancestors are essentially living vampire gods and the 27 were looking to exploit the remaining ones for their own gains. And while Arcuied's abilities could match the 27's own, Nero was confident his own insane powers would be more than match to take her in.
(*Cues: Melty Blood: Midnight Raider *)
Wiz: Like any other vampires, the physical abilities of Dead Apostles are expanded beyond the scope of a normal human. This includes the usual enhancements like supersonic speed and reaction time, physical power enough to hold several tons and sensory abilities capable of detecting individual heartbeats in a crowded space. And while Nero certainly carries similar enhancements, his own physical form is a little more complicated to get a read on.
Boomstick: Probably has something to do will the 666 animals he's got running around in there! Like, the guy could be his own safari course and petting zoo with that many! But don't go trying to feed these ones by hand or you'll get worse than a few missing fingers.
Wiz: Like we mentioned before, that amalgam of life that Fabro took in fused into a singular entity in both body and soul. While Nero Chaos's own body is of a similar structure to any other vampire on the outside, on the inside it's more akin to a blackened, tarry sea of living tissue that can be reformed into living entities. And whenever any of those animals are called out from the sea of chaos, they are similarly enhanced in physical traits to any normal vampires.
Boomstick: We're talking about dogs able to bite through steel fences, leopards strong enough to crush concrete under their paws and bears that are capable to tearing apart tanks! And then there's the ones like the elephants that are almost too big to walk down city roads, sharks that can literally swim through the ground by sheer force alone or crocodiles with mouths large enough to swallow Sedans whole. Yeah, definitely don't feed these by hand folks!
Wiz: While we can't directly gauge the power increase for all of his animals, we have come up with a potential estimate based on the initial dog's example. The bite force of a common German Shepard, the dogs that Nero's own are based on, normally max out to 238 PSI, with the normal yield strength of a chain steel fence being typically 500,000 PSI. If the dogs are able to bite through cleanly through the fence itself, then they have to be exerting at minimum 210 times the normal amount of PSI in their bite force. This kind of multiplier would put a normal Grizzly Bear's max lifting strength from an average of 1,100 lbs to well over 115 tons; which for comparison is well over double the weight of an Abrams tank. Or a leopard's grip strength of more than 250 lbs to well over 26 tons, which for the record is also well above the concrete crushing range of 12 tons. And considering all of these animals are based on Nero Chaos's own vampiric enhancement then it's safe to assume his body would get the 210x multiplier as well.
Boomstick: Not that he even needs it considering he also has control over mythical creatures like a flame spitting wyvern, three massive crab monsters as large as houses and a unicorn that can cleanse unholy energies. And since this is the Nasuverse, in all of its confusing continuity, these ones can't be affected by anything short of magic from the age of the gods; as in magic so ancient only a dozen or so people still alive know of it. Oh, and even if you do manage to somehow kill his animal familiars, their souls will just return to Nero's body to reform for another round; though the stronger the beast, the longer it takes for them to reform.
Wiz: And this is all thanks to his own Reality Marble known as the Lair of the Beast King.
Boomstick: Oh, I know about those! Though I lost my Tiger's Eye and White Wave ones, so I doubt he'll want to trade for the ones I got left-
Wiz: It's not an actual marble Boomstick, but more like specialized magical aura around a user. In the Nasuverse, magic is centered around circuits within a user's body, like a conductive rail, which are common in most mages and allows for skilled yet limited magical ability onto the real world. Reality Marbles on the other hand are literally reality warping conduits only usable by extremely powerful mages, Fate's servants or the Dead Apostles themselves. With their usage they can allow for the distortion of natural law per the user's specialization, with Nero's own allowing him to bind the sea of chaos to his own will.
Boomstick: Oh, yeah definitely not gonna get a trade for my marbles that's for sure. Well, that same magic allows him to also reshape his body at will to whatever animal parts he may need at the time. Crab claws, rhino horns, mantis legs, hell, you name a stabby or bitey part of an animal and chances are Nero will probably grow it and rip you to pieces with it.
Wiz: He can even manipulate the chaotic mass into projectiles with a similar force and speed to an assault rifle, or package them into crow bodies for active surveillance and potential ammunition. And if subtle strategy doesn't work for Nero, there's nothing really stopping him from combining these animals into an amalgamated mass to just batter his enemies to death with anyways. I have to admit, the amount of variability the Lair of the Beast King gives Nero is limitless in applications for combat and reconnaissance.
Boomstick: It's also that same Reality Marble that lets him absorb anything or anyone into that massive sea of chaos. Essentially, anything that gets pulled past that trench coat of his or gets eaten by his animals is not coming back out, with the living victims describing the inside of his body as an endless, cold sea of tar that suddenly grows teeth and starts shredding you alive...oh god...now that's some nightmare fuel for sure...
Wiz: On top of this, Nero's partnership with another Dead Apostle, Michael Roa Valdamjong, granted him access to magic from the age of gods itself known as the Soil of Genesis. By utilizing over 500 of his own creatures, Nero is able to condense the chaos from these bodies to create a near unbreakable webbing capable of holding down even the strength of Arcueid Brunestud. For reference, Arcueid's own strength was capable of destroying Michael Roa Valdamjong, who himself was compared to the Servant Berserker Heracles's own durability which was able to no sell an attack worth just under 1000 megatons of TNT.
Boomstick: That's the same as about 52,300 atomic bombs going off at once and Nero himself claims that it'd take the force needed to destroy a continent to even get that stuff to budge. On the smaller side, he also has these Mystic Eye powers that allow him to paralyze people, but they're so weak that he rarely bothers to use them against anyone even remotely strong. But all of this pales in comparison to Nero's final technique, the 999th beast-wait...I thought you said there were only 666 animals in him?
Wiz: Well, it's probably a symbolic title Nasu gave it to signify the shift to a more savage personality by literally reversing the number sequence in his name.
Boomstick: Oh. I could have guessed that for sure!
Wiz: Riiiight, well by combining the mass and strength of all of his creatures, Nero's body is transformed into that of a towering bipedal monster who's enhanced strength and speed is superior to Arcueid Brunestud's. While it's impossible to ascertain the real power and speed of this form since we have no way of knowing how many of each animal are in Nero's body to precisely determine striking power, we can deduce that they're at least higher in comparison to Arcueid's previously stated power as well as her speed which was compared to the Servant Saber's at just under Mach 235 or around 180,308 miles per hour.
Boomstick: The only problem with it is that once he transforms, there's no real way for him to control the chaos during the assault as he's literally giving himself over to pure animal instinct. But considering he's hitting with over to 20 Tsar Bombas worth of force and faster than 235 times the speed of sound, it's probably safe to say you'll be dead before you can blink much less come up with a plan to save yourself. Oh, and since Melty Blood's version of Nero isn't canonically the same as his original, it's technically unknown if this form even has a time limit!
(*Cues: Tsukihime: Track 6 *)
Wiz: Speaking of time, Nero Chaos's service to the 27 Dead Apostles spans over 1000 years to the current year of Tsukihime at 1999. Though we only know of one major accomplishment of his throughout history, it's more than enough to fully encapsulate how efficient he is as a force of brutality. Namely, the battle of Jerusalem, a battle during the first Crusade that saw the estimated casualty cost of between 26,000 to over 68,000 people in the city alone.
Boomstick: In Nasuverse canon however, most of the carnage caused in this siege was the result of Nero Chaos's initial spark of ferocity at activating his Reality Marble. And since Nasu likes to take the higher end of estimates like this to his stories, that's more than 68,000 kills to Nero alone by the end of the 8th day. In order to do that, you'd have to kill at least 354 people an hour, for every hour of the day within that 8 day span. And don't think this estimate is unfounded, as Dead Apostles don't have to sleep to keep functioning like normal humans.
Wiz: Given his prior discussed abilities, its more than possible for him to do this to as he can create hundreds of familiars at a time and control them simultaneously via the collective awareness of his many forms. As in, anything his animals, see, hear and touch he can also perceive similarly. This level of strategic planning and efficient cognitive ability is what allowed him to also track down and deduce the location of Arcueid Brunestud when she hid in the ten kilometer span of Misaki City in a single evening.
Boomstick: Jesus, this is like playing the Killer in Dead by Daylight as a strategy game when everyone else is playing it in first person! Kind of makes me wonder why he let Arcueid and her little boy toy Shiki go after finding them...
Wiz: It's funny you should mention that, considering Arcueid's previously stated levels of power at just under 1000 megatons of TNT and Shiki's own levels of speed that are much faster than Arcueid herself at nearly Mach 4000 or about 97% the speed of light. This is probable, as during an earlier encounter with Arcueid, Shiki managed to mortally cut her 17 times without giving her time to react once. This kind of speed is ultimately what let Shiki contend with the 999th beast's own speed, to which even Nero himself admitted was comparable to his own.
Boomstick: Damn, who knew a kid with glasses could be that fast. And it's that speed and his own Mystic Eyes ability that were ultimately the only things that kept Nero from killing them both during their final encounter. Which bring us to the most insane thing I have ever read in terms of resilience on a character yet...
Wiz: Because Nero Chao's Reality Marble is tied to an imaginary point, as in a point that does not exist but can still will things into reality, his body and all of the souls inside him cannot die by conventional means unless every single part of him is destroyed at the same time. If any parts are left alive or die even a second after the ones before them, then Nero's body will just reform from the sea of chaos and return to kill you later. And that's assuming you even manage to hurt him in the first place, as he's stated to fully destroy his body would require a force capable of destroying a continent.
Boomstick: Not even broken abilities like Arcueid's own Reality Marble named Marble Phantasm, which literally allows her to warp space to crush or rip people apart, Shiki's Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, that bullshit ability I mentioned earlier that lets him erase living things out of existence if he cuts their death lines, or Ciel's Black Keys, swords that are made specifically to purify vampires and seal their powers, are able to put him down permanently. And even if you manage to completely vaporize the physical forms of his body, the souls will just return to the sea of chaos anyways to reform him from literally nothing if you don't get the timing right. Like, what even kills something like this short of an act of god?!
Wiz: Well, returning back to that initial encounter with Shiki and Arcueid, while Nero had them dead to rights during the hotel fight, the reason he ultimately relented was because the morning came. While Nero does have some resistance to the sun it's not an immunity like Arcueid's own, which means he can still be weakened by it enough that a dying Arcueid could have potentially destroyed him. Furthermore, if enough magical energy can be input into his body it could potentially short out his Reality Marble, though you'd still need to overcome his own near immeasurable levels of magic to do so.
Boomstick: Well, considering there are mages in Tsukihime and Melty Blood that even Nero won't pick a fight with makes this seem possible. Even absorption probably wouldn't do him too good against really powerful beings, as their souls would take too long for him to pick apart before they start fighting back, which he also admits when he considered consuming Arcueid in the hotel. Hey, don't want to cause an upchuck in between meals, so I get that.
Wiz: Nero's mental state is also not exactly the best either as he's easily frustrated whenever something doesn't make sense or if he can't understand it. Which is honestly the funniest kind of irony, considering that a being called Chaos gets angry whenever something can't be understood.
Boomstick: Also, that 999th Beast form not only makes Nero more reckless but it also pulls all of his forms into one body and could leave him wide open to a powerful enough attack to completely take him out all at once. Just like when that Shiki kid cut all of his lines of death at once, since they were all converged in a single body instead of being spread out like a connect-the-dots picture without any numbers.
Wiz: While Nero would not survive his final battle against Shiki and Arceuid, his own legend of carnage and bloodshed was already scarred in the minds of everyone that survived those two nights he stayed in Misaki. So much so that his visage would endure as an urban legend that would haunt the city's streets for generations to come.
Boomstick: So remember kids.
*Pulls out another Flashlight*
If you're ever wandering the streets of Misaki after midnight stay away from the alleyways, the shrine and especially the empty school building. Because if you start hearing the sound of a hound growling behind you, pray that it kills you first so you don't have to meet the one carrying its leash.
' A flawed body breeds insignificance. I will eat you, then become you. You will eat your feet and drink your own brain matter.'
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Wiz: Alright the combatants are set. Let's end this debate once and for all.
Boomstick: It's time for a Death Battle!!!
Death Battle:[]
(*Cues: RE:2 - Umbrella Lab *)
Only the night of the full moon illuminated the empty streets of Mizaki's abandoned tenement ward that night. It was a part of the city so dilapidated and forgotten that even the street lights rarely turned on anymore and police patrolled even less. At its center a large hospital complex, that was even older than the city itself, seemed almost trapped by those dilapidated buildings. Rumors of eerie lights and shadowy figures inside that hospital had circulated with those living nearby since the Spring of 1997, the night the comet of Kolona came.
To any common person, a comet would be seen as a curious or even wondrous sight in the nights sky, but Nero Chaos knew far more than any human. It had been a project of sorts by his superiors, a finding within the comet itself that had forced their hands to silence the public media and hide any record of the comet's landfall. Whatever they wanted with that space rock couldn't have interested Nero Chaos any less, yet he knew that they'd only call on him to investigate their project if something was truly dire. These thoughts were coupled with the annoyance on the non-descript nature of the assignment were beginning test his patience as he flew one of his several crow familiars through one of the hospital's broken windows and into the dark hallways.
Nero: They must be testing me. Or trying to kill me.
The thought had been nagging at him since he took on the mission, but he took it as another opportunity in the potential danger it presented. It was foolhardy, yet Nero knew that there was no progress without risk as his crows surveyed the inside of the hospital. The thoughts ended however, the moment an rumbling impact from the morgue hit all of their hearing at once. Nero acted calmly and instructed five of the flock of about 20 crows to speed into the direction of the morgue and the rest to watch the entrance ways of the first floor.
The crows flew with speed akin to bullets, making it to the morgue's doors the moment a screech of metallic tearing rang beyond them. They pierced through the doors like paper, as a slam of metal against concrete rang out around them. As Nero gazed through their eyes, he could make out the crumpled shapes of what used to be the facility elevator door's and the now crushed remains of the sliding wall that was supposed to hide the elevator itself. The cloud of dust it picked up inside would have obscured the sense of a normal human, but he could clearly see and hear a large figure emerge from the wreckage of the elevator.
The five crows moved to opposing concerns of the room, with one remaining perched on the handle to guard the way out, as Nero saw the figure move to the room itself. It appeared male, standing near naked save for a flowing, purple loincloth, leather boots and a silver headdress on his forehead. He didn't seem to take notice of the crows, as he moved forward into the morgue holding a dismembered leg on his hand. With a swift movement of his wrist, the leg was launched across the room with such force that it almost imbalanced Nero's nearest crow, as it splattered against the wall like an egg. The toss had displaced the dust cloud from the air, as did that man finally take notice of the crows surrounding him.
Kars: Crows are very intelligent, they can rationalize, form plans and even have a semblance of cultural heritage in knowledge passed by their forbearers. Yet, these sense neither imminent danger nor the fresh feast of corpses around them. What are these things?
The man spoke in perfectly pronounced English, yet he did not appear to be of any race Nero had previously seen. The purple hair and immense strength had been key to that, now more than likely to assume him as having destroyed the elevator and everyone inside it. Yet, Nero only kept watching him as he seemed to pace towards the door. In that moment, Nero had willed the crow on the handle to move to attack had the man's raised hand not begin to bubble and distend into a greenish ichor.
The ichor seemed to be coalesce into the shape of a bird. No, it was a crow as its black feathers ruffled as it glided from the man's wrist to the door handle beak open.
Nero: A reality marble? No matter, your circuit is a gnat compared to my own-
Nero's thought stopped cold as the man's crow flapped its wings once and propelled itself at blinding speed straight for the handle. But, this was not the end of the surprise as once that crow made impact, it actually managed to tear Nero's crow in half while also punching a hole straight through the door handle into the hallway. The speed and power of that bird managed to bring a brief shock to Nero's eyes, before the man came to inspect the crow's dissolving corpse.
Kars: No viscera, blood or even a squawk of pain. Only this substance like tar or oil. Whatever these things are, they deface the avian form.
Nero's remaining crows saw a look of revilement in the man's face, as he looked straight back at them. Whoever this man was, he was surely responsible for the 27ths facility going dark. Quickly unfurling his trench coat, Nero stood up from his perched position on the roof of a tenement a block away. His bare skin bore the darkness of the sea of chaos, before bubbling forth several shadows to move straight for the hospital complex.
Nero: You're not making it out of there alive.
(*Cues: Melty Blood: Stillness Dark *)
Nero's crows quickly beat their wings and flew straight for Kar's head. Theirs forms almost seemed to blur into black darts as they moved at blinding speeds of their own. Kars however remained still as they approached just close enough for him to turn his torso in a near 180 degree angle to swat all of the crows at once. The force of Kar's open hand strike had been enough to liquify Nero's crows in mid flight and splatter their remains on the walls of the morgue.
Nero: His Reality Marble must be reshaping his body as well and he's faster than his own familiar it seems. This will prove interesting for sure, but I need to reposition faster.
Without anymore crows in the morgue to look at Kars, Nero moved the remaining ones he had to surround the morgue's entrance from all possible angles. They were expendable and could be reconstituted instantly, but he needed to get as many eyes on his target as possible and prevent further movement in time for his larger creatures to arrive. Nero's skin started to bubble once more, as large feline shapes began to appear.
Meanwhile, Kars moved to the hallway at a calm gait as his own crow rejoined his wrist, reforming back into his hand. It was then that he heard the fluttering, all coming from several directions as they descended from the basement's stairwell. Kar's didn't stop moving however, as the crows quickly swarmed the hallway intersection in a three pronged assault. Nero had him surrounded, as the crows were fast approaching without any way around them.
Without losing momentum, Kar jumped with an agile grace which let him bound right from the hallway walls to the ceiling itself. The crows followed in pursuit, but they had lost their advantage of numbers the moment they engaged from a singular, albeit wide angle to the ceiling. With a bound that broke the paneling, Kars spun his body like a corkscrew to meet the birds all at once. The birds met his hand and legs, and then splattered the walls like the ones in the morgue.
As he landed, he then noticed a shallow cut on his shoulder. Though it quickly reformed, he was nonetheless surprised or at least annoyed that one of them had managed to graze him. Nero didn't catch the last moments of the encounter, but he tasted the coppery tang of blood on the beak of the crow that managed to hit Kars. While they were too small to pose a significant threat, he at least knew that this man could be pierced by his weakest of creatures. Drawing upon more power from his reality marble, Nero channeled the sea of chaos into several larger creatures.
Nero: You won't get a moment of respite from me.
Kars was moving again, straight to the stairs that would lead him to the second floor. Yet as he reached them, he heard several footsteps approaching from the upper stairwell, as well as the familiar sound of dogs panting drew nearer. Kars didn't stop for a moment as bounded up the flight of stairs and was met with the pouncing fangs of five large, black hounds. He managed to intercept the first two, kicking one's head into the wall hard enough its skull burst open and the second took a punch hard enough to rip right to the other side of its ribcage. The other three however, managed to bite down onto Kar's ankle and shoulders hard enough that they were piercing his skin.
Nero felt that savory taste of copper on the tongues of the dogs assailing Kars. But before they could twist their heads to tear chunks out of him, Kars disposed of the dogs by slamming his body into the walls and stairwell. The dog's bones snapped as their jaws gave way to the concrete and sheer force of Kar's body. But as Kars moved to head up the stairs, he felt resistance in his left ankle as one of the dogs had clamped down on him. It was the one he punched through, yet it was still holding onto him full strength like nothing had happened.
Kars: That's not possible...what are you things?
Kars didn't waste time thinking on it much longer as he slammed the dog right into the concrete stairs. Its body was more of a smear of tarry gore, as bounded up the remaining flight of stairs. That moment however had been enough for Nero to see his opponent's wounds closing near instantaneously. He'd known this type of regeneration existed, but he knew it was restricted to the Dead Apostles or the True Ancestors themselves.
Nero: No mage could do something like this. Change of plans, if can't contain him...then let's see how your power handles this.
(*Cues: Undernight Inbirth: Unseen Entities *)
A particularly large, ridged backed creature surged forth from Nero's body and moved down to the hospital's entrance. Meanwhile, Kars managed to reach the basement's entrance doors and swiftly kicked them apart and out of his way. The first floor lay undisturbed to him, with a metal sign in Japanese pointing it out as the Emergency Wing, as he moved towards an entrance. He didn't get far in the hallway before a pair large leopards burst through the crumbling walls fangs bared. How they had hid their heartbeats or breath was beyond Kar's understanding but they both set about him immediately.
Kars: They're getting faster.
He managed to deflect one to the floor with a knee that splintered its fangs, but the other one managed to intercept a jab meant for it instead. It clamped right to Kar's wrist, causing him to wince as he felt genuine pain for once this night. With a swift motion of its neck, the leopard tore Kar's hand right off at the wrist and actually swallowed it whole. Kar's grimace of pain at this turned into a grin of malice as the leopard stopped dead in its tracks before it started convulsing on the floor as if it had been hit with a livewire.
Nero: What's going-
Nero's question was quickly answered as the other leopard's eyes revealed its brother's stomach moving violently before bursting open to reveal a small swarm of shrews with unusually large mandibles. They didn't stop at its stomach however, as they moved right back into its body and started eating the leopard from the inside out. Even if Nero could retain motor function of it, there wouldn't be much left of the beast at the rate the shrews were ripping it apart.
Kars: The strong feed on the weak, and you are what the weakest feed off.
Nero took Kar's moment of gloating to bring a slash from the leopard's claws to Kar's exposed back. It was severely crippled without its teeth, but it would buy Nero enough time to reposition his creatures again. Kar's merely sidestepped the beast's slash, managing to quickly counter counter with a roundhouse that sent it to the wall. The leopard however managed to recover in the air and bounced back to Kars from the wall claws outstretched. Its persistence almost brought a smile to Kar's face, before he brought an axe kick to the beast's head. As the leopard's head was caved in by pure force, an explosion of concrete and mortar exploded beside Kars to reveal the maw of a breaching Great White Shark.
A look of utter surprise drew on Kar's face, as he barely managed to pivot in time to catch the predator's jaw before they closed on his torso. The sheer speed and power of the impact managed to dig Kar's heels into the hospital's concrete floor, but managed to hold the shark's full weight in the air as it thrashed about struggling to close its jaws. Kar's began to then pull his arm's wide, trying to rip the shark's jaws apart. As the sounds of breaking bone and snapping tendons began to fill the ER Wing's halls, another explosion of concrete erupted behind Kars as yet another shark breached for his neck.
Without too much room to maneuver, Kars took the shark in his hands and slammed it backwards against the oncoming one akin to a German suplex. The impact's strength had managed to cave in one of the shark's snouts, while digging the other into the concrete as it thrashed about trying to escape the awkward angle. Kars let go of the jaws of the first shark, just in time for an explosion from the ceiling to almost sink the whole hallway in rubble. He managed to dodge falling debris but not the massive claw that followed it.
The impact of it sent a small shockwave that blew away the dust in the hallway, and sent Kars flying back through several rooms of the ER. He met a stop near what looked like the Hospital's lobby and he saw that the whole left side of his stomach had been torn right off. Another grimace of pain filled Kar's head, even as his gaping wound began closing.
Nero: Good, draw him to a single escape. The trap is almost sprung.
Every glass window and door pan shattered at once behind Kars as a flock of a hundred crows emerged to surround him. At the same time, Kars could also hear the rumbling footfalls of that creature that had swatted him from the ER drawing closer as well. The crows didn't wait for him to respond as they all quickly whirled around him in unison, and then dived in on him like a maelstrom of bullets. Kar's spun his body again, twisting his torso to gain the maximum amount of reach for the birds surrounding him.
But they didn't seem to stop, as for every crow he killed there seemed to be another flying in from the windows or doors ready to join the flock in their assault. He was starting to take more than just a few glancing blows as the swarm continued to relentlessly attack him. At the same time, the creature that had swatted him away in the hall finally made itself known as a towering grizzly bear. It burst through the flocks attack, splattering a few crows out of the way, and delivered a leaping slash to Kar's left side that it tore his arm, shoulder and part of his ribs away as he was sent flying out of the hospital's entrance.
Nero: Tonight, we feast.
(*Cues: Umineko: Mirage Coordinator *)
The blow had managed a shout of pain from Kars, as he flew back to the hospital's sidewalk. Though as it seemed that he was about to slam into the asphalt of the parking lot, a gigantic set of crocodilian jaws erupted from a pool of black fluid. Kar's mind was still processing what had happened a few second prior as those jaws closed around his whole body and then swallowed him whole. Nero could taste the tang of blood once more as well as the sinew of raw flesh as the crocodile's chaotic innards began to tear away at Kar's body.
Nero: I'll have to keep a part of you intact to bring back to the 27 after this is over-
Nero eyes shot wide open as the crocodile's body began to spasm in pain and its vision began blurry with its own ichor. The remaining animals surveyed the occurrence in the parking lot, as the crocodile's body spasmed violently enough to shake it out of the immaterial pool it hid in. Nero's brow furrowed in annoyance, as he began to form another beast, this one much larger than his current platform would allow to contain any further surprises. The chaotic ichor behind his trench coat trembled as it cascaded the substance to the street below to form a massive, quadrupedal body along with several others forming around it.
Back in the parking lot, Kar's violent struggling within the crocodile's entrails had caused it to surface in painful thrashes. That pain however was a pinprick to the thousands of teeth and bile Kars had endured within just a few seconds in its bowels. Ichor and bile sprayed from its mouth from Kar's internal assault, before a shining, curved blade emerged from its head along with Kar's arm. The crocodile gave a few more twitches before Kar's entire torso almost exploded from its head, missing skin and muscle regenerating after his tussle with the beast's innards. He wore a scowl of equal annoyance to Nero's as he gripped opposing ends of the incision made by his blades and tore the crocodile's head from its body with his bare hands.
Kars: Don't think you're at the evolutionary level where I'll become your food.
Kars's moment of reprieve was cut short as the sound of flapping wings and beating footfalls began to fill his ears again. The flock inside the hospital swarmed around Kars again, with the bear following suit with another charge. However, as they began their strikes, Kar's brilliant blades seemed to close the gap in reach he had been missing in the hospital's lobby. Not a single crow managed to reach him without being bisected, and the great flock began to quickly dwindle around Kars as the bear charged full force again.
Kar's continued momentum with the flock had not stopped for a moment as the bear came swinging. Yet as the bear's claw came down, Kar's own weapon cut the bear's swinging limb, then doing away with its head, torso and finally abdomen before kicking its remains across the parking lot. In the second the bear was eviscerated however, Kar's ears perked up as massive footfalls emanated from the abandoned streets of the city. As the crows' numbers diminished to their last dozen from his counterattacks, the sound of breaking glass and bending metal could be heard beyond the tenements overlooking the parking lot.
Nero: Even if you get through them, you won't survive what comes next.
Nero's body began to quake as his trench coat opened up completely as a set of massive claws began to emerge from within his torso. They were followed by what appeared to be a horse's hoof tearing through his abdomen, the black ichor of Chaos splattering as the two most powerful creatures in Nero's arsenal began to form. If Nero could smile in excitement, he would have certainly done so with how rarely he utilized them in combat.
As the last of the crows was splattered onto the asphalt, thrumming hisses and crackling concrete erupted from the roofs of the apartment block. Kars turned to face the source to reveal two monstrous, crab-like creatures clamping onto the apartment roofs, their eyeless, frothing maws locked straight on him. The crabs gave no time for Kars to react, as they leapt down to the parking lot with their front claws extended. With an explosion of concrete and asphalt, both crabs impacted the parking lot like missiles, kicking up a cloud of dust and concrete around themselves. However, while their bodies and legs reached the ground, their front claws found great resistance.
Kars: Don't think your size means you'll win.
Veins throbbed in Nero's head at the sound of Kar's voice, and they throbbed again as he felt his crabs' massive claws being overcome by even greater brute strength. There was no way this could happen in Nero's mind, not even a splash of blood or turn of flesh had been felt as the crabs impacted him. It was inconceivable to think anything could survive let alone begin to push them, yet as the dust cleared Nero got his answer. Where Kar's arms stood, there were two massive tentacles, wrapped firmly around each crab's claw. That moment of disbelief gave way to Kar's immense strength pushing the claws away with enough force that both crabs stumbled to find their footing.
It was a brief enough opening for Kars to swing a tentacle straight for one of the crab's claws, wrap it around completely and he begin to pull it back. The crab resisted for a moment, before a violent jerk from Kars toppled it over and was dragged onto the pavement. The other crab recovered fast enough to charge straight at Kars and he did the same, before leaping over the crab, wrapping both tentacles around its body and flipping it right onto the other still prone crab. The impact shattered the crab's shells as well as whatever intact concrete remained on the ground