Book 21 Chapter 17
Episode 208
“Commence engagement!”
Shurpen, the Supreme Star Sword, resonating with the proxy's battle will, roared with dazzling sword light.
It was truly a hyper-speed leap.
When the ability to condense timelines reaches its peak, even acceleration that creates the illusion of space itself folding becomes possible.
‘I'm looking for a gap to penetrate…!’
Shurpen's power accelerated internal time to its limit!
Perceived time itself stretched out, allowing enough leisure to take in all the information on the battlefield.
‘What I must aim for is a surprise attack… there's no chance of victory in a head-on confrontation.’
Mauna Loa was currently laying waste to the area, massively swinging its tail like a whip of lava.
That's the place to penetrate.
Approaching, using the bodies of white dragons, crushed and melted by the lava, as a kind of shield and blind spot.
One step…
Another step…
When the distance of more than 15 paces was narrowed to just 1 pace, Lista's comrades, who had discerned her plan, each sprang into action.
“Ice Wheel River-Pressing Bow - Altered (氷輪壓川弓 : 改)!”
Ice Wheel River-Pressing Bow was originally a magic spell created by Lynn to mimic Kies's power.
However, its limitations were also clear.
Lynn was unskillful at refining magic power into the form of an arrow or controlling it freely.
‘If so… I'll just step back into a supportive role and hand over the initiative of this power to Kies!’
Frost bloomed bluish-white from both ends of the White Creation Bow Serwevon, making its bowstring several times wider.
The required tension load would also be maximized, but it was no problem for Kies.
Over the verdant arrows gathered on the bowstring, a blizzard of cold was overlaid, with a slight air layer in between, amplifying destructive power and defensive capabilities.
‘It doesn't end there…!’
Osarius-style Hand Seal 4th Star, Thousand Magnet Altered Electricity (千磁改電). This involved adding currents that increased destructive power and density between the frozen particles.
‘Oh….’
Kies, having received this power from Lynn, felt a faint sorrow that couldn't be hidden even with a smile.
‘I feel like crying….’
What kind of boy was Lynn?
He always wanted his own solo stage and wished to defeat powerful opponents with his own magic.
- Why do you only give me bland stuff?
- That's mine.
- I'm going to defeat it, so don't you guys even touch it.
The power swirling with furious coldness before his eyes was not simply Lynn handing over the initiative of power to Kies.
This was proof (證據).
It was proof that the boy had grown into an adult during his five-year journey.
‘What I can do is…!’
It would be to push the adult Lynn forward. To enable him to advance even further than now.
‘Secret Art, Nine Heavens Trembling Cherry Blossom Kill (九天震櫻殺).’
Nine arrows, soaring up to completely fill all directions of the sky, or the Nine Heavens, exploded upon impact.
Just like the cherry blossoms on that spring day.
However, it wasn't the pink of cherry blossoms, but fragments of hoarfrost and verdant leaves… with currents carrying extreme lethality rapidly conducting along their medium.
“Link, Link, Link!”
Chains wrapped around Mauna Loa's wrist, attempting to grasp the wave of power and reduce its wavelength area.
Mauna Loa's height was 30 cheok.
Even by merely slowing down the movement of such an existential catastrophe for a moment, Link's performance could be called superhuman itself.
“Hold on, Link!”
Nils's Captilt-II fired a towline onto Link's chains, assisting the power and allowing them to buy a little more time from that destructive pressure.
“Chronicle Domain Setting (誌界-設定)───!”
Don't miss it.
This time created by everyone's power.
On Mauna Loa's chest, where its core (核) was located, a 'Notepad of Providence' capable of altering the rules of the world was formed.
“───Providence Engraving (攝理-刻印)!”
The Rune of Genesis being engraved was Shetadum.
Its meaning was, division (分裂).
This power, which tore apart everything located within the Chronicle Domain space, had no exceptions, even if it was an avatar of kings.
‘If the core is exposed, and Fride can then aim with the Creation Psalm──!’
We win.
We'll win.
In this final battle.
「──No, fall back!」
Explosive heat (爆熱).
An explosive heat, indescribable by any word other than "overwhelming," blackened the entire world in the instant the hero party held onto hope for victory.
They thought they understood what it meant to fight against the <Forgotten Kings>.
They realized that thought had been a fatal blind spot.
‘This bastard is…’
‘Beyond common sense itself…’
‘No, not just common sense, but not subject to the control of providence…’
It was a volcanic eruption.
Lava rampaged and exploded from within Mauna Loa.
Its rock-like outer layers soon became pyroclastic material, swirling in wickedness (悖惡) across the entire area.