BAM!
I can’t even knock it out with the Giant Hammer Earth Shaker!
My attack has been relentless for about five minutes now. I tried many ways to defeat it, but it seems it is far more intelligent than I thought. It’s blocking becomes more effective against my attacks.
I look at what Susanoo’s doing.
It seems he is still clearing out those small fries. They may be too weak for him, but he is not that omnipotent to clear them all in a short time. In fact, it seems that devils keep coming. It has much more spawns than we thought.
With my far sight, I glance at Diyu and Cattleya from afar.
Guh…
Devils are also appearing in there! They had us!
Is what I wanted to say, but, Diyu lay Cattleya down in a nearby tree because she was still unable to move her own body…
Diyu brandishes her Cutlass and takes stances in front against the devils. She then uses her magic that slashes enemy from afar. It’s a sharp and fast sleight of slash that cut down an enemy with magic. It’s not might be in the level of Susanoo who can kill a thousand in one strike but she can cut down a dozen with one stroke.
It seems that I don’t have to worry about them.
………
…!
BAM!
As my thoughts astray from the battle, the giant’s fist landed on me, delivering a direct blow to me. I was launched downwards, creating a large crater in the ground.
I wasn’t able to block the attack because I was too focused on Diyu and Cattleya that I got hit.
Kuh…
Even though my body is enhanced and strengthen to the limits, pain and injuries can still be inflicted to me. My regeneration is still the same as a human. Even the wound I inflicted on my own yesterday night when I let Diyu suck my blood, is still there.
I have to know my limits sooner or later or I am going to be in a big trouble.
The giant raises its feet to stomp me.
I immediately sprang up from the ground and meet the feet with my right fist!
BAM!
The giant lost its balance and it’s going to fall down on its back.
Ahh…
The giant landed on where Susanoo is…
“Ahh…I really don’t have any reason to worry about that guy…”
“That’s cold of you.”
“WHOA!”
Susanoo appeared behind me.
Wait..! How..!?
“Your face looks funny. I distorted the space to escape, of course.”
“Come to think of it…you have that kind of skill.”
“It seems you’re having a hard time with that giant.”
“Yeah… it’s tough, it regenerates and it has intelligence.”
“That’s sounds really troublesome.”
“I was thinking of landing a direct hit that would instantly kill it, an attack that will surprise it and won’t be able to block it.”
“Hmmm…”
“…”
“Ichirou…”
“…”
“Look over there, towards Diyu and Cattleya.”
“Oh?”
I look at their direction. Diyu is still battling devils but Cattleya is waving both of her hands in the air towards us. She shakes her staff and made a rock falling gesture…
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She’s really trying hard to make it look like a meteor…cute…
Enough of my useless admiration…
I give my approval by nodding once.
As she understands my gesture, she started casting again. In the meantime, the giant also got up and walks towards Diyu and Cattleya. It seems that it felt that Cattleya is casting a magic again.
There’s a considerable distance that between Cattleya and the distance, but because of the impact that would occur, they will get blown away and may get hurt.
“Susanoo, I will stall that giant, how about you?”
“I will kill the small fries, but this time, I shall assist in stopping it. Look…”
At where Susanoo points his index finger, the foot of the giant, space appeared making the feet of the giant sink. With that, the giant is now unable to move.
“It may break free. Try to attack it in the meantime.”
“I see. I’ll go.”
We dash at opposite direction. Susanoo’s plan is to stop the advance of the incoming wave of the devils. My objective is to defeat this abomination.
“[Mountain Cleaver!]”
As I conjure the Mountain Cleaver again, I swing it towards its stomach to stop it from struggling.
BAM!
As always, it blocked my attack by using its arm as a shield. Instead of fighting back, it struggles to lift its feet from the space Susanoo created to trap it.
I won’t let you!
“[Heaven Splitter!]”
I attempted to take away its other leg to make it fall, but it seems it read my mind and guarded its leg by sacrificing its arm by putting it the way of the Heaven Splitter.
Heaven Splitter was able to cut through the arm but it misses the leg because the trajectory was changed.
Tsk.
It regenerated its arm again.
As the giant was about to break free from the space Susanoo created, I heard something…
“[Deep Impact!]”
Cattleya was able to finish the spell again!
I look at their direction and see Cattleya fell on her knees as strength left her body. Diyu catches her before she lands on the ground while keeping distance against the devils assaulting them.
I look at the meteor the Cattleya summoned.
………
It was many times smaller than the previous one but it is understandable since she used it repeatedly despite it drains too much energy.
The meteor headed towards the giant.
It is preparing to catch the meteor head on.
………
I won’t let Cattleya’s effort go to waste!
I dash behind the giant and waited for the right moment the meteor lands on the giant.
5…
4…
3…
2…
1…
“[Origin of Swords!]”
The conjuration immediately saps a large amount of energy from my body and summoned an incomplete and unrecognizable sword made of compressed holy spirits energy.
My body is barely holding out as I conjured the sword that akin to the legend of this world. A sword granted by the gods, Excelsior.
According to the memories of the spirits, it’s a sword used by a hero named Astlan and is currently in possession of a hero named Senya. It’s believed to vanquish every kind of evil and it has the ability to severe devils life in an instant.
This sword is merely a copy from the memories of the holy spirits inside my body. Materializing takes a huge amount of concentration… and despite my effort…the sword didn’t even take its proper shape…
But…this is plenty enough!
………
The giant quickly extended its handed outward to catch the meteor.
As the meteor made contact to the giant…I charge!
“UOOOOOOOOOHHHHH!”
BAM!
Sandwiched between my sword Excelsior and the meteor, the giant wasn’t able to resist both of our forces as I try to take him from behind and the meteor crushes it on the front!
“GO THROUGH! EXCELSIOR!”
SWISH…!
BOOM!
As I slashed through the giant, I also cut through the meteor and sliced it in half and it falls behind me.
The giant, upon receiving the tremendous attack, falls together with the meteor and exploded together with it.
As for me…I am blown away…
I don’t have much strength left in my body… I don’t think I can land safely in this condition…
“Ooops…”
“…Susanoo?!”
“Good job out there.”
“Ahahaha… it seems that I am indebted to you now.”
“I don’t like it. It kind of throws me off when someone like you said that.”
“Ahaha…”
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Susanoo and I walk together towards Cattleya and Diyu. Diyu was just crossing her arms like everything was not a big deal for her while looking away from our direction. But her lips are holding a smile from breaking out. Cattleya is waving both of her hands in the air while smiling cheerfully.
It kind of makes my heart flutters, knowing there are girls waiting for our return. Of course, they did their part too in this battle so I can’t say Susanoo and I battled alone.
To be honest, I feel kind of relieved that everyone is okay.
Peace is the best after all.
“Ichirou.”
“??”
“That sword earlier…”
“Ah…it’s nothing…it’s just…an imitation or something… the spirits inside my body showed me the memories about it.”
“Such thing huh…”
“…By the way…Susanoo…”
“That man inside you…”
“Do not speak of him. I feel sick remembering about him inside me but I cannot disregard his motive.”
“Hmm…there’s no point talking about it. Look, Cattleya seems like she wants some patting.”
“Well, well. A hero should give his heroine a hug.”
“W-what are you talking about?!”
“Oh, it’s not like that?”
“No! I—uh… still, I don’t know…what to do…”
“Tsk. Indecisive.”
“Ahaha…”
I honestly don’t know what to say to Diyu. I am not dense enough to regard her kiss earlier as a hoax. But the problem is my own self. I never experience such intense romance. Not to mention, I gave my words to Lily.
As we are walking towards the two, Diyu’s eyes suddenly turn into a surprised one and immediately hugs Cattleya as if she is shielding her from something.
As I am confused on their actions, a dark beam passes between me and Susanoo and traveled towards the two girls…
Eh…?
…Eh?!
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As my mind was able to catch up to what happened… anger swelled up within my heart as I saw the beam pierces Diyu’s flank and grazed Cattleya’s shoulder.
Diyu got most of the damage as she protected Cattleya…
Blood…
Blood flows out from Diyu’s wound…
Who…?!
WHO DID IT?!
“DIYU!”
My anger towards the culprit and my anxiousness towards Diyu mixes and filled my head with hate…
I turned towards Susanoo…but…
………
The anger I had earlier…was drained into a sinkhole…
………
As turn around to see Susanoo…
My body trembled at the sight that I saw…
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I thought that I became stronger. I thought that I am somewhat invincible now. I thought that with my new found power, I can keep up with Susanoo and the others in terms of power and strength. I was actually proud of myself even though, this power is only a gift to me by Dylan. I thought that with this, I can actually fight on the level Susanoo can.
I was wrong…
I was…proven wrong…
Never in my life, I witnessed something like this…
………
It’s like…
A creation of a Myth…
A creation of an Epic…
A creation of a Tale…
A creation of a Legend…
………
It feels like the time moves extremely slow…
I can see every millisecond of the moment as I gaze at the man who is like a mass of power. Powerful than what Cattleya showed earlier.
More terrifying as bloodlust oozes from him…
A jet black sword in a quick draw stance…
Susanoo’s face has lost all emotion and his sight is only directed at the front where the beam came from.
…......
“[Totsuka no Tsurugi.]”
!!!
“[Mountain Clea--!]”
BOOM!
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Kuh…
Ack…
That hurts…
…
Everything went dark as Susanoo attacks…
I was able to summon half of Mountain Cleaver to reject the impact of Susanoo’s attack…but…
Mountain Cleaver was able to absorb it all but… it shattered…
It completely broke like a glass because of the astounding power Susanoo executed.
I check on Diyu and Cattleya…
It seems they are well. I forgot that Diyu is a vampire so her vitality and regeneration are extremely high so the wound is almost closed. Cattleya’s grazed shoulder is bleeding a bit but Diyu is doing first aid for it.
I look at where Susanoo attacks…
………
……
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Lies…
What the hell did he do?!
Hey…!
Whatever anyone says, that’s not even fair…!
The land where Susanoo passed…was thoroughly caved… the width of the damage is…large…!
Also, Susanoo dashes in an unbelievable distance… I can see him from afar…but it’s too far…
Several kilometers away from us… and with it…the land caved from here to there…
But those are the only minor thing that happened…
Alongside his attack, he cut open a straight line of a dimensional fissure in his wake creating a horizontal line of vacuum out of nowhere.
His attack was too strong that it distorted space and time.
...
At this moment…I realized…
Susanoo can distort the natural rule of this world…
That his power and talent…is too far for me to reach…
Calling him monstrous is an understatement now…
This man is capable of breaking facts and concepts.