Open Challenge to a Cookie Monster

Ah.. He hasn't felt this sort of excitement for a good while now.

He indeed knows that who he is up against is probably, if not, most likely way beyond his league in terms of skill and experience. He knows it from first-hand experience, let alone having to feel their spiritual power which one of them kindly showed it off to him with a roar of power that crashes into him for a few seconds before it dissipates away. A normal person would've been crushed with fear or even become intimidated by this amount of power but this.. this is..

Yes.. Excitement.

"Hahahahaha! Thanks for your kind gesture, turtle-haired man but it's ok. All I need is one limb to kick your ass anyway."

His expression broke into a grin, glancing between the both of them straight in the eye without a droplet of fear ingrained in his eyes.

"Plus it wouldn't be fun at all if the both of you aren't coming at me!"

In an instant, Sou's pressure would envelope the entire area between the three of them, densely packed with blood-lust and even for a captain, it would be suffocating. He wasn't letting his pressure explode wildly in all directions across the wasteland either, showing his level of control in being able to contain the pressure that he is releasing in an enclosed space and not letting a single one leak out and letting them feel a concentrated force of his presence. Air screeching and ground beginning to crack under pressure - he wasn't messing around when he meant that he is confident enough to take them both on.

Snap. Snap. Snap.

Without a word nor warning. To the ear and their senses, his snaps would seem harmless, sending off 3 concentrated but weak vibrations towards both Ulv's and Stefan's direction. One would usually ignore it as something that isn't worth their time but..

In less than a second, it would violently implode on itself, becoming tinier and denser moments before snapping like a string, create a devastating explosion that would have an explosive almost equal to that of a tactical warhead just exploding right in their faces. A concept that he borrowed similar to how supernovas occurred but utilizing his vibration where the center of the vibrations that he sends are denser and more intense than its outer layer, using the instability between the two layers and cause it to collapse on itself before releasing into a high intensity explosion.

If there is an attempt to stop it through brute force? They would have to deal with the violent process of implosion, where punching or kicking it would probably have the victim meet a much worse fate with its suction force would attempt to tear one of their limbs apart and even if they resisted its suction force, the vibration it generates during its implosion would be unstable and dense and just by grazing the surface of the vibrations that he generated, it would recoil violently back into their body in an attempt to rip their muscles, open up cuts on their face or best case scenario if they possess a lot of physical durability, be only blown away miles away from it and be safe from its explosion.

"Come on! The fun has just begun!"

He laughed and laughed. Sou knows full well that what he did most likely wouldn't do jackshit to them but hell, this is his nature. Either not waste time and take his chances or.. try to fight the impossible and take both of them on. It doesn't matter to him either way because in the end..

THIS IS GONNA BE ONE HELL OF A FUN FIGHT!

Stefan's deduction of Ulv's power having increased since their last meeting proved immediately true as she temporarily released her Spiritual Pressure in a sudden burst. If he had been weaker her Reiatsu may have had an effect on him, but as it stood his own power still eclipsed hers; though perhaps this wouldn't last forever. All the more reason to just keep on fightin' the Vizard thought to himself. Having fallen behind his rival temporarily years ago, he would not allow this newest generation of warriors to reach or surpass his strength quite yet. After all, he still had plenty of room to grow and show exactly why he was considered a living legend. Allowing himself to fall behind would make enemies underestimate him and not show their true power, and if there was one thing Stefan Soan would not abide it's fighting someone who doesn't want to go all out. Today would probably not involve one of those situations.

The newcomer's Spiritual Pressure was also noteworthy, though not on the level of Ulv's and certainly not Stefan's own. Still, it was dense enough to warrant a tinge of interest on the Vizard's part. At least it's not another total weakling... he thought to himself, acknowledging some of the low level challengers he's had over the years. Still, despite the force of Ulv's Reiatsu and then Sou's, Stefan remained unperturbed entirely. The reason he didn't feel even a single negative effect of their strengths was due to his own Spiritual Pressure remaining condensed within and on the surface of his own body, not flared out to send a message. He was still on the fence about doing such a thing if for no other reason than at this point it seemed a bit redundant; he'd already gone untouched by their Reiatsu, so to them he was clearly strong enough to weather their power. As such releasing his strength would merely seem to be a bit of a flex, unless he was given a reason.

And a reason was exactly what Stefan was given. The negligible waves of vibration sent forth from Sou were ignored for the most part, but for someone as experienced in battle as Stefan they could not be wholly disregarded. The initial burst of Reiatsu was the aggressive individual's best chance to test the other two, so sending minor vibrations like this didn't make sense unless they were a precursor to something worse. Thus, even though there was very little time to react, Stefan was able to proactively release his own Spiritual Pressure in a wave unlike almost anything else in the world; the density and empty coldness of his Reiatsu were both otherworldly, enough to seemingly drench the world in a void of desolation. Not only was his power enough to counter and overwhelm the explosion set off by Sou, but it would further encapsulate Ulv as well to prevent anything from happening to her, though Stefan had little doubt she could have protected herself. From amid the colliding forces he spoke aloud to this battle-crazed man as if scolding a child "I believe I said she is an observer, not a combatant. Restrict your psychopathy to me as your target, fool, or I'll leave you here such a bloodied, mangled mess nobody in the world will be able to save you. Now then...shall we begin?"

As his Spiritual Pressure stood strong against Sou's aggression, unwavering and stalwart thanks to it's near-deified density, Stefan lifted and cocked back his right fist. Before giving his target a chance to prepare himself, the retired Monsuta King fired off a punch with such physical force behind it in all likelihood only one in this world could compare, though that sharkified Shinigami soldier was nowhere to be seen. The resulting explosion from Stefan's punch would instantly create an infernal blast of flame all around him from the friction alone, which would be pulled forward into a tremendous wind tunnel-like vortex sent in Sou's direction. Though he's only done it a few times, Stefan had quickly become a fan of what he secretly dubbed his "Tornado Hell Punch", thinking it sounded just a bit too anime to say out loud. The flaming vortex would continue for a hundred miles through and past Sou until eventually petering out from loss of momentum and kinetic energy. Given the divide between their overall power, Stefan considered for just a second maybe he had opened up with too strong an attack before deciding if Sou could not even handle this then there was no point in having this fight in the first place.

Well, that was to be expected when his attacks did practically nothing to the both of them. He acknowledges the difference in power between them and still he didn't hesitate to provoke either of them. Sou stood there, undisturbed by the effects of Stefan's spiritual pressure that instantaneously wiped out his vibrations like it was nothing.. since it wasn't his first time facing this kind of strength that someone has. When Sou heard him speaking to him, he simply stared at him, sighing in silence and not speaking a single word until he finished his sentence.

"Quit the chatter. Let's have some fun."

He was looking forward to what kind of fun this man would bring him. The power differences between them didn't matter to Sou as he had fought almost every man and woman he could find back in the days even those that far surpasses him in terms of ability, experience or even power. Still, not even they can deter him from continuing to fight.

Though, he does have a feeling that he was being underestimated a little too much.

When Stefan fired off a punch with force that he admit that it is powerful indeed. However, this is a trick that he has seen, experienced and did it himself far too many times that it was second nature.

Reaching out the palm of his hand, once all that force, fire and wind came crashing into him, it would only take a short moment before all the calculations required would snap into place and from his palm, generate vibrations across the entire body of the blast with a unique frequency and force the entire structure to shatter apart and dissipate into nothing. It wasn't done by brute force or anything but had only simply use the knowledge and experiences that he had gathered from years of using the exact same technique, make minor adjustments to the vibrations he generated and melted down the entire structure of the blast; fire and wind alike, to a million pieces as if he was stomping apart on a completed jigsaw puzzle.

Control was something that Sou is absolutely confident in because of the experiences he had accumulated over the years. To him, this is nothing but a child's play even if it was physically powerful as all it took was the right knowledge, experience and application to ruin the entire thing. Though, his hand was visibly bruised, burnt and scratched up from the second that he needed to prepare a countermeasure, providing a leeway where it was able to do a considerable damage to his hand at that moment.

Without wasting a second after that had occurred, with a tap from his crutch, the ground before Sou would explode upward in front of Sou in a huge lump of earth and there, he punched it and at the same time, unevenly distribute the vibrations across its body before the earth exploded into pieces and towards Stefan's direction.

The catch? Each piece of earth would not only be held together by vibrations but thanks to experiencing relentless spiritual forces by the likes of Mana, he devised an attack where he packs an incredibly dense vibration in an object or area, like a sharp and precise needle, seeking to make even dense fields of spiritual pressure from the likes of Stefan be surprised by the piercing capability it has as it would easily melt through barriers and protective fields packed with spiritual energy. While it doesn't hold much impact power, Sou's aim was Stefan's limbs where these pebbles would pierce through his skin and flesh, inject intense waves of vibrations in the internals of his body once it has pierced through it and shatter his body's bones from the inside.

Assuming that the whole thing fails to work as intended?

Sou would swing his left hand upwards, guiding his vibrations to move in a circular pattern at high speeds in order to generate a large blast of vortex towards Stefan, as a way of saying thanks for the gift from his earlier attempt. Once Stefan is engulfed by the vortex, it doesn't exactly slam into him but more like picking his entire being up in the air by its intense winds and driving his entire body into the ground.

If he tries to blow it away with his spiritual pressure as what he did earlier, he would find himself that the vortex would continuously regenerate itself from being blown away by the force of his spiritual pressure as Sou applied vibrations that circulates around the outer layer of the vortex, generating the winds and eventually the vortex that swallows him up.

His hand eventually gestured Stefan to come at me. Call it overconfidence as he may but this has always been the style that Sou has fought. Sure, he might get beaten to a pulp beyond this point but hell, this isn't the first time he has experienced loss hasn't he?

"Come on. You can do more."