If we just compare their fighting skills, Dio, apart from his physical advantage, is actually not as good as Natasha and Steve, who have honed their skills through countless fights and long-term training.
But if he picks up the [Gaze of Death] in his hand, then he will be almost the most terrifying sword (knife) master in the whole world, or even in the entire universe!
The factor that supports him to possess such terrifying sword skills is naturally the [God Anubis] integrated into the [Gaze of Death]!
[Anubis] can memorize the opponent's attack pattern at the fastest speed in battle, and then absorb the opponent's fighting skills for his own use, and the attack power and speed will increase with the number of attacks!
In other words, if the enemy cannot kill Dio instantly from the beginning, or gets out of the melee mode, then he will be invincible!
Maybe your fighting skills are still yours at this moment, but sorry, they may be mine in the next moment!
It's so domineering and unreasonable!
Although this projection of Mephisto cannot use his true strength, the fighting skills he has acquired through millions of battles in hell are absolutely flawless.
Even though his strongest point now is not fighting with a giant sword, it does not mean that his close combat ability is weak. Being able to grow into a dominant overlord in an environment like hell, it is almost impossible for him to have such obvious weaknesses in his combat focus. Moreover, Mephisto has survived for so many years, even if he was a pig, as long as he could live to this day, he would be able to hone his impressive skills!
To put it bluntly, if we don't take other conditions into consideration, just this projection of his, in close combat alone, even ten Ghost Riders joining forces would not be able to defeat him!
Of course, this is based on the premise that no other abilities are used.
That's why Mephisto was so disdainful after seeing that this arrogant Earth boy actually dared to "challenge" him in this way. Even when Ancient One was looking for trouble with him, he didn't dare to be so arrogant!
At the beginning, as he expected, although the Earth boy's strength was quite good, he still seemed a little immature compared to his well-honed fighting skills. If there hadn't been an obvious difference in the quality of the weapons, he wouldn't have been so restrained in his fighting, for fear that he would break the weapon if he exerted too much force.
After all, this giant sword is just a toy that he casually enchanted using magic power and the characteristics of hellfire. Although he wouldn't feel bad even if it was broken, he would lose face!
He taught a lesson to a fool from Earth who didn't know how to live or die, and even his weapons were destroyed by him. If this gets out, where will the demon lord Mephisto put his face
But as he was fighting, he suddenly began to feel something was wrong!
His original ease gradually turned into seriousness, then panic... and in the end he even began to doubt his life!
Could it be that this Earth boy is playing his favorite trick of playing the pig and eating the tiger
How come he became more and more excited in such a short period of time? Moreover, as long as he used various techniques once, this guy could immediately absorb and digest them into his own. That would be fine, but as the number of fights increased, both the attack power and attack speed continued to increase in a way that was visible to the naked eye...
How can this be!
Clang! Clang! Clang! ...
Dio's eyes were filled with an increasingly intense fighting spirit as he wielded the exaggerated Grim Reaper's scythe in his hand. From a distance, he looked like a madman. However, his attack angles were extremely tricky, and each time he attacked some weak points that Mephisto himself was not aware of, making him very uncomfortable.
It's very rare that a person's fighting style can combine two completely different attack modes: bold and aggressive and tricky and strange!
Dio really looked like he was fighting mad now. After all, he had never used [Death Gaze] to his fullest in battle since it was created!
Every time he encounters an enemy, it either breaks into pieces at the touch of a finger or the enemy's weapon breaks into pieces at the touch of a finger. Now, he has finally caught an enemy with superb fighting skills and an enemy that is not so easily broken (including its weapon). How can he not tap into his potential!
Later on, he even began to consciously let go, fearing that a combination of skills would make Mephisto's projection clone become autistic. He still wanted to absorb some more nutrients.
As the Lord of Hell, Mephisto naturally has his own pride. Although he has seen the other party's abnormal learning ability, this does not scare him who is knowledgeable.
So he began to use some of his best fighting skills and launched a powerful counterattack!
Can't you learn? If you have the ability, take it all!
"land!"
With a light shout, Mephisto raised the giant sword in his hand seemingly calmly, and then slashed at Dio slowly but quickly.
If you get hit by this sword, even if you drive a Gundam, you will be cut in half!
Dio instinctively wanted to avoid the attack for the time being and then counterattack, but when the sword fell, he found that his feet seemed to be firmly fixed in place by the earth. There was no other way except to take it head-on!
Of course, he could also use the power of his stand, but he wasn't ready to do so for now.
In the few years since he came into this world, his inner pride is no less than anyone else's!
"Dance of the Red Scythe!"
It was as if a datura flower bloomed in an instant!
Mephisto's sword, mixed with the power of the earth, smashed heavily on the blood-red mandala flower.
The petals were smashed and scattered all over the sky, but in fact, each flying petal was the afterimage of Dio swinging it at the fastest speed in a very short time!
Each petal represents ten slashes, which is the limit of what he can do in his current state.
Even Mephisto didn't expect that this copycat boy who only knew how to 'plagiarize' actually had such a trick up his sleeve.
When the first 'smashed' petal floated past his face, a bloody mark was actually torn on his face!
"wind!"
Mephisto suddenly put the sword in front of him, and then thrust it forward fiercely!
The endless strong wind blew away all the 'petals' in front of him. Not only that, the dense strong wind also stagnated all the air around Dio, making him feel like he had suddenly fallen into the deep sea.
Because the resistance of [Death's Gaze] increased to the maximum every time it was swung, the Red Scythe Dance could no longer be performed, and the 'petals' that were blown away could not be condensed again, and it had to face the enemy's giant sword attack that seemed to have disappeared!
But the madness on Dio's face did not subside at all, instead it grew more and more intense like a raging fire!