blueteamnovel 274 - Final Battle (3)
274 - Final Battle (3)
274 - Final Battle (3)
TL/Editor: raei
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"Looks like it's started over there too?"
Liushina grinned as she watched the tremendous explosion erupting from the Abyss, then turned toward Cardelina, the otherworld Great Demon screaming like her lungs were being torn apart before her.
"Does it hurt that much? Should've dodged it then."
The witch taunted the Great Demon as she lightly flicked her finger.
CRACK!
A single line appeared in the air above, following her finger's movement.
The space split open along that line and-
SLASH!
A monster's head with apocalyptic properties burst out and instantly devoured Cardelina's entire body.
CRUNCH! CRUNCH!
Horrible sounds emerged from inside the monster's mouth.
But-
BOOM!
The monster's head exploded into pieces as Cardelina burst out, a hole pierced through the center of her chest.
"Huff, huff!"
The Great Demon glared at Liushina while breathing heavily.
Though the hole in her chest kept trying to close, Rain's lingering lightning continuously prevented it from healing.
"You damn bastards... Attacking with tricks like this?"
Cardelina ground out these words as she spread her arms wide and forcefully gripped the air.
CRUNCH!
The surrounding space crumpled and was sucked into her hands before releasing terrifying shockwaves in all directions.
Her authority of "Contraction" had fully activated.
Rain's strike that had shattered her heart had dealt tremendous damage, and Cardelina knew she couldn't fight for long.
Thus she intended to use her full power without holding back from now on.
"Isn't it your fault for falling for it so stupidly?"
Liushina mocked as her form vanished and-
Instantly appeared right in front of the Great Demon.
Using her now perfectly mastered authority of the apocalypse, she had turned the space between them into "the End."
The witch's hand, stained purple so dark it appeared black, shot toward Cardelina's throat.
At a speed far transcending mortal perception.
However-
"You know what?"
CRACK!
The moment Cardelina's hand clenched, Liushina's head and heart vanished without warning as they contracted into nothing.
"Even if I'm injured, there's no way I'd lose to the likes of you."
Her authority of "Contraction" had activated.
This authority didn't just destroy the physical body but annihilated the very essence of existence - there should have been no possibility of survival.
"Well, you probably can't hear me anymore. Show a small opening and immediately fall for it..."
But before Cardelina could finish-
"There's something you're misunderstanding."
A voice that absolutely shouldn't exist reached her ears.
"...!"
The Great Demon's eyes trembled.
They reflected Liushina's head - with only the lower jaw remaining - grinning eerily.
"No matter what state you're in, you can't defeat me."
The reason Liushina had deliberately hidden one of her greatest strengths - "Regeneration" - while desperately dodging or blocking Cardelina's attacks until now.
It was to set up one decisive strike that her opponent absolutely couldn't escape.
"What-!"
Before Cardelina's shocked voice could continue-
GRAB!
The witch's outstretched hand seized the Great Demon's throat.
"Aah..."
THUD!
---
Without the "King" even doing anything after turning around, the Agnes Knights and Twilight Sword behind Zion began collapsing.
Though they were warriors so strong it was hard to find their equals, they were still human - still mortal.
Thus they couldn't help but crumble before the presence of the "King" who had already attained immortality.
Zion ignored the fallen knights and stared at the "Demon King" who had turned to face him.
The King of Despair shouted as he watched Zion instantly close the distance.
Despite his attack having no effect, he smiled even more brightly than before.
CRUNCH!
Following the King's will, isolated space instantly contracted around Zion's center.
He intended to annihilate everything within by reducing the space itself to zero.
But just before that space could completely vanish-
WHOOSH!
Zion's form disappeared and reappeared behind the Demon King.
Judging that simple distance denial wouldn't work, Zion had momentarily denied part of the world itself to escape.
Eclaxia, spraying ominous darkness from Zion's hand, swung without hesitation toward the King's neck.
As if he had expected this, the King immediately turned and extended one hand.
Then came their clash.
---!
Sound vanished as vision turned white-hot.
The world tore apart as thousands of shockwaves erupted.
All beings and concepts caught in them distorted and vanished as the world's laws began breaking down.
Their clash continued even in this world where perception itself became impossible.
WHOOSH!
The Demon King laughed silently in the soundless world as he used one of his traits or authorities - "Change" - to create a sun made of the Abyss.
This black sun with the property of "never extinguishing" instantly expanded and began burning everything around it.
But-
Zion's form, which had immediately erased the sun by denying the very concept of "never extinguishing," shot toward the Demon King once more.
Severance.
Following with a slash.
Though Zion's sword strike could cut all perceivable connections and grains, it couldn't reach the Demon King.
"Even having seen it before, your power still amazes me."
CRUNCH!
Infinitely expanded space absorbed Zion's sword strike instead, emerging from where the King's fingertip lightly touched the air before him.
'He's definitely different.'
Zion thought as he watched this with cold eyes.
His "Severance" just now was truly top-tier swordsmanship incorporating concept denial from 8 stars of Black Star Force.
It shouldn't have been blocked so simply.
Especially not by the Demon King who had been defeated by his past self.
This could only mean one thing.
'Then...'
Just as this thought crossed Zion's mind as his eyes briefly glanced at Eclaxia-
"Emperor."
The Demon King spoke as they exchanged attacks.
"Your power hasn't changed at all."
His voice had dropped lower than before.
"Still more ominous than anything else, still more overwhelming than anything else."
The King continued speaking as his hand, wrapped in manifested fate of destruction, clashed against Zion's sword.
"But do you know?"
CRACK!
At that moment, spider web-like cracks began spreading across Eclaxia's blade where it met the King's hand.
"That alone isn't enough to defeat who I am now."
Then-
SHATTER!
Following the cracks, Eclaxia's blade completely shattered.
The blade fragments slowly fell to the ground.
"For I have already ascended to the seat of myth."
A voice mixed with lamentation and rage.
The Demon King slowly extended one hand through endlessly slowing time caused by his trait of "Change."
"How disappointing."
The moment his hand fully extended toward Zion holding only Eclaxia's hilt-
BOOM!
Zion's form vanished from that spot as he was sent flying backward.
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