I kick off the ground and launch myself towards Nil.
“[Barrier!] [Drill!] [Force!]”
My barrier transforms from a spherical shape into a piercing drill that spins and extends in front of me as I approach Nil. Everything around the drill is gouged out because of the strong power packed in it, influenced by Divine Possession which multiplied its power.
“[Barrier!]”
Nil casts his own barrier to repel me. He raises his sword, Hydrangea, in preparation to make his next move.
Will he parry my sword or will he dodge?
CLANG!
As my drill collides with his barrier, a loud metallic sound explodes before both of our barrier breaks. Nil immediately took a step back outside of my attack range and swings his sword packed with energy.
SWISH!
As he slashes his sword towards me, a slicing, thin wave that cuts everything in its way was released towards me.
But it did not faze me.
Applying every knowledge and teachings Master bestowed on me, I will utilize the art that he painstakingly drilled into my head even If I wasn’t able to proceed outside the basic.
“[Calm Dragon Tempest!]”
I spin my body midway and dodges the attack with a paper thin difference, albeit, it cut a strand of my hair. I move forward further as I stomp the ground with my left foot, making cracks as I kick off again because the spin to dodge the attack earlier broke my momentum.
I grip my sword, Ichirou, with both hands and…
BAKIN!
As I swing down a slash diagonally, I spin around Nil’s back and continue to assault him with a quick sleight of slashes, albeit, he was persistently blocking each and every attack that I deliver.
My body is still just adjusting to the unfamiliar speed and power that I am using but oddly enough, some of my mistakes are automatically corrected.
“
“EH?! Then, I’ll go all out!”
Upon Ichirou’s explanation, my light assault by spinning around Nil becomes more intense as I added more power blow to it.
Blue light would always gush forth with my power blows but it began bursting out with my light attacks as I get used to it.
The power being released from each of my slashes spirals everywhere and would sometimes create a beautiful vortex of slashes that seems like we are in a middle of a blue tornado.
I continue to spins around Nil while showering him with an unorthodox stroke of my sword that seems to be endless until he got pissed.
“All speed, not much power packed in. But it’s annoying!”
As he shouts that, in a blink of an eye, he quickly turns around to me as if predicting where I would briefly stop for my next spin and grabs me by the wrist of my left hand where I hold my sword.
“Caught you!”
“Heh!”
BAM!
My fist which is covered with metallic armor come flying to his face and before he flew away because of it, I follow up with a kick to the stomach.
I can feel through my fist that I shattered his skull and through my foot, I felt his organs exploding and ribs getting shattered!
“Ack..!”
He flew several meters away from me and rolls to the ground as he landed gaining more distance away from me.
“Phew…! That felt good!”
“
“Crushing his cranium, Ichirou-nii.”
“
“That’s not enough…not near anything yet… “
“<…>”
“He has done so many cruel things that his death cannot even pay for.”
I glare at the distance where Nil come crashing. He stands up again while staggering. My attacks earlier were already gone and his body looks perfectly fine again.
But…even with all the attacks that I have thrown at him, he blocked everything with precision. I was just lucky to land that punch and kick.
It’s like he is elevating his power to his current opponent or possibly, he is still holding back. Either way, it’s scary to think that he isn’t sustaining any damages at all.
As he stands firmly with his own two feet, he speaks again.
“As expected Asagao with a body of a full divine, your power exponentially explodes. Unlike me who is just a half human and half transcendental, I am no match for you in regards to using divinities.”
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“…”
“Oh? You aren’t surprised at all?”
“Yeah? So what of it?”
“Hmmm...nothing. I am just glad that you were able to become this powerful. However, I know that that isn’t everything yet for you. It’s either you are holding back or you haven’t unlocked your full potential as partners. I am guessing the latter, though.”
“Why you are so stuck-up on this becomes more powerful thing?! You’ve been spouting crap like that for a long time now! What do you desire to gain from it?!”
“That’s not for you to know. I’ll just simply say that it’s because I love you and Alstroemeria. I love both of you.”
“Don’t drag Alstroe-nee into your plot!”
“It’s true, though. I love both of you from the bottom of my heart.”
I tightly clench my fist and grit my teeth in anger. How could he say he love us both as he both tormented us!
“How could y--!”
WHIRRWHIRR
What?!
Before I could speak further, a really large magical sigil appears in the sky, covering the whole Dragon Capital Mujinn with its violet radiance as it spins slowly. A strong energy envelopes the whole place, two kinds of energy to be precise.
One is seemingly a magical energy that belongs to an Arcana Magician and one is a malicious raging energy that seems unnatural.
“It seems the Continental Destroyer has regained her power, huh.”
“Violetta-nee…”
“And it seems that hateful Rage king is still boiling up that power. He really is going to erase this place from the map.”
“What? That dark sun earlier?”
“It’s a nuke to be precise! Hahaha!”
He laughs after saying that Fon is amassing a huge amount of Astlan’s Ira to destroy this place due to Fon losing his sanity.
It’s because of you…that everything went downhill like this…
“Icnirou-nii…just one last spurt…can you bring out more power…?”
“”
“Thank you… BURST!”
With my anger as my driving force, I dash to Nil with great vigor. I can’t let him get away with all his atrocities!
No, this is more of my personal anger mixed with my sense of righteousness!
BAKIN!
“Wha--?! You’re still that lively Asagao?!”
“Yeah! Until I am satisfied, I am going to continue this!”
Nil locked on swords with mine.
Hydrangea cannot phase through Ichirou and my armor covered limbs!
That’s one of the advantages that I have!
“UOOOH!!”
Grab Hydrangea with my right hand which is covered with armor and pulls her out of Nil’s grasp.
“Wah?! That’s unfair!”
“On you!”
Putting every single shred of strength I can exert, I swing down towards Nil!
“[Barrier!]”
SHATTER!
His barrier put up a little resistance giving him leeway to dodge my attack which ends up hitting the ground beneath us.
BOOM!
“Keh..!”
“Hy, return!”
Hydrangea who is resting at my hand de-materializes as a form of spirit and instantly appears in Nil’s hand.
Meanwhile, because of the impact of my attack, the tower began to crumbles.
But, it won’t stop me from attacking Nil because I can feel how our energy drains us each second passes.
I charge again at Nil even though the whole tower is collapsing making our footing unstable.
“If that is what you really want, then I shall give it to you, Asagao!!!”
Nil then rushes at me too aggressively.
Our sword meets and sparks were sent flying everywhere together with a large burst of power from each respective sides.
BAM!
I stagger with one of his attacks as I lost my balance but I manage to defend myself with barrier and counters with a straightforward stroke of my sword.
BAM!
This time, it’s Nil’s turn to lose his balance because half of the tower has already caved in. Half of it is already sinking like it was split into two.
“DAM--!”
“Got you!”
FWIP!
“ACK!”
At last, my sword made a clean but shallow stroke, sliding it to his shoulder!
He immediately kicks me in the chest and sent me flying far away from him.
“That’s good, Asagao, but…ah?”
He immediately noticed it.
I stand up from the ground as I recover from his kick that crushes my organs.
“Wha…what….”
DRIP…
DRIP…
From his shoulder…is the shallow cut that I gave him… flows and bleeds with blood. There’s nothing special about it. Except…
“This is…”
“
“Yeah…”
“<…>”
“It really is not…working…Asagao…what did you do…?”
After briefly exchanging words, Nil directed a question to me which I respond with a glare.
“Nil…the power that I am using… is the power that can completely kill you. This power… is solely dedicated to eradicating devils…to defeat evil…and purify any kind of Arcana Magic!”
“Wha--?”
“It means, I and this weapon exist for the sole purpose of defeating you! I put everything I have, my feeling, my emotions, and even life for this power that I acquired just to defeat you and your companions!”
“I see…”
It’s a divine power filled with holy spirits. My and Ichirou’s power that was synthesized made it possible. I can say that we are now a set of a pair that could only use this kind of power.
A power to purify evil!
“I see…is that so…? Is that…really the case…? I…”
Nil holds the wounded shoulder and trembles.
“*hic*…I’m…happy…*hic*…I’m so happy…that…*sob* Asagao… you…acquired a power that…can really kill me…!”
“Nil…?! What are you…blabbering again?”
“I’m…so happy…”
Nil cries as he holds the shallowly injured shoulder. It’s an injury that his unknown power couldn’t heal but…why is he saying he is happy about it?
I am at loss for what he said…
“Asagao…let’s end the battle today.”
“You’re…fleeing?!”
“Idiot… The rage king’s power is ready to explode anytime! You won’t live in this one…or maybe… I should take you with me.”
“I won’t let you!!”
As I was taking another stance for an attack, something buzzes inside my mind.
“Asagao!”
Violetta-nee?!
“Thank goodness I was able to contact you through telepathy!”
That’s somehow incredible! What do you need?!
“I’m sorry… I have failed to control Fon’s emotion and his power is increasingly dangerous than ever! All I can do is hold it back even with my awakened power…”
Eh?!
“Don’t worry. Before this dark sun explodes, I can immediately warp him together with me but, I cannot do the same for you and the twins.”
Is there any way?!
BAM!
Nil starts attacking me while I converse with Violetta inside my mind.
Tsk!
“Ichirou-nii, please help me control my own movement!”
“
“I’ll try!”
“Asagao?! You aren’t doing anything dangerous, aren’t you?!”
Sorry…but I am…
“Goodness gracious, Asagao!! After I told you a lot of time!”
Please tell me your plan immediately!
“Fine!”
….
“I’ll prepare a wide range teleporting skill. It would take anyone out of this place as long they are in my range. That would be sufficient to get away from the blasting radius from Fon’s power, however, that also means we failed to save this place…”
Wait, Violetta-nee… that teleport…
“It will…randomly take you anywhere… literally…anywhere in the part of Dragon Continent… so, please… if you can see any ally around you…grab them to bring them along with you!”
That’s good enough! Violetta-nee, thank you.
“Yeah, I’ll take care of Fon…geez…using this skill while holding back Fon drains too much magical energy…”
Um…about the teleport?
“Don’t rush me! It’ll take a few minutes to fully cast it! And when I do, need to take Fon with me in a portal!”
Ahaha…please…faster…!
BAM!
“Kuh…!”
“
“Ichirou-nii! He has gotten stronger again?!”
“
Even wounded, Nil’s attack isn’t letting up! Instead, he is attacking more ferociously than before!
“Asagao, I cannot let you die here! Come with me!”
“No!”
I shouted towards Nil who is pestering me to come with him.
“Then I am going to force you!”
“Try it!”
Crap…
Even though I put up a brave front, truth is, Ichirou and I are already spent and we are on the verge of breaking the Divine Possession effect.
So as a last resort in avoiding him…
“HAAAA!”
BAM!
I slam at the crumbling tower with my right foot. With that, I gave it a last final push to collapse!
CRUMBLE!
“Heh.”
“ “[Revision!]” What?! As Nil said, magic power overflows from him. As he commanded, the whole tower that was about collapse to the ground fixes itself, reattaching parts by parts at a tremendous speed! That’s absurd! How can he have so much power and vitality! “I know what you are thinking Asagao! Now, come here you little shit!” “No!” “Tsk!” “[Lust Arcana – Love Sap!]” “[Gluttony Arcana – Concept Devourer!]” “[Sloth Arcana – Avoidance!]” “[Melancholy Arcana – Down Hearted!]” He can cast so many arcana magic?! “Haa!” I strongly swing my sword towards him, sending a powerful shockwave but… Before it hits him, the shockwave parted, avoiding him. And before my very own eyes, he vanished! “That’s…Flow’s power?!” “ “Ichirou-nii! He ate his presence and visibility!” “ “It’s--! Buaah!” I was already sent flying before I can finish my word. I was kicked in the stomach and from where I am standing, Nil appears. I groan on the floor as my stomach felt the pain from his kick. “Nil…!” “Asagao…! I can’t afford to lose you now! Come with me!” “NO…!!” “You are just making it harder for yourself…” I tried to stand up but…! Eh..?! My body feels so heavy… and I feel like my energy was being quickly sapped. Is this…one of his Arcana magic?! Guh… I need to get away…! Nil comes to me, slowly walking while staring at me with worried face… That face…that’s a lie! It’s disgusting! Don’t show that kind of face to me! Don’t make that kind of face using my own body! Stand…up! “Asagao, stop struggling. I’ll treat you with care because I love you, right?” “Guh…” His hand slowly approaches my head… I can’t…! ……… His hand comes real close to me and as my energy got continuously sapped, my consciousness started to blink in and out. …….. No…! Why is he…so powerful…? Move…my body…! “I’ll take good care of you, Asagao.” “ I can faintly hear Ichirou’s scream… Ah… “[Domination – Warp away!]” Violetta-nee…? “I’m sorry I’m late but…Asagao… goodbye again..for now… please…wherever you might end up, take care! And try to return to our side… and to… visit Milin and Mrothgir’s grave… I will…take good care of everything…for you…” Y-yes… Before my dimly lit vision, Nil’s finger approaches slowly…and… Everything turned white… . . . I don’t know what happened after that because my mind completely shut down. Is it Nil who got me or was I teleported away by Violetta’s magic. All I can see now is nothing. Volume 2 End: Unfading Memories of Change