"My attention was on Voban just now. I did not notice you."
Rin cast a calming magic power spell on Kaoru. Looking at the magnificent demonic wolf, which was secretly searching for his trace after losing sight of him, he said, "This fellow may look furious and mad, but in reality, he is quite insidious."
Voban must have noticed Kaoru, which was why he launched that attack.
The previous earthquake was the same.
He was testing Rin's personality and his way of handling things.
After those two attacks, Voban had already grasped his character.
He did not care about the lives of ordinary people.
Therefore, methods like taking hostages or issuing threats were useless against him.
Then Voban attacked Kaoru again.
"I am sorry for troubling you."
…
Rin did not comfort her. At that moment, Voban had already discovered them.
"So the Hime Miko hiding in the dark, sneaking around, is your person."
"Hmph!"
Voban snorted in dissatisfaction. "Fighting me and still daring to be distracted. How arrogant."
"Arrogant?"
Rin signaled Kaoru to move away from the battlefield. "Perhaps."
A Campione's battle was not something she could interfere with.
Even watching from the sidelines carried the risk of being discovered and affected.
"Please be careful."
Kaoru did not hesitate. She immediately cast a flight spell and retreated at extreme speed.
This time, she did not dare to peek with Spirit Vision again.
No one would have expected a Campione's attack range to be so vast.
Even a hundred miles away, Voban could use the reverse tracking of Spirit Vision to pinpoint her location.
"Boom!"
However, the moment Kaoru left, another roar of lightning shot toward her.
"Buzz!"
This time, Rin did not give Voban another chance.
The Seven Deadly Sins of Pride enveloped the light cannon.
"What?!"
Under Voban's incredulous gaze, the trajectory of the light cannon shifted and slammed violently into the ground instead.
Before he could understand what had happened, an even greater gravity had already enveloped his giant wolf body.
"This is… gravity?"
Voban's face twisted. Magic power surged within him as he prepared to forcibly break free with brute strength.
"Hey, old man!"
Rin was slightly angered.
Although Kaoru was not his dependent, she was at least a reserve and a chess piece he used to manage the Campione world.
"I have changed my mind."
"Before I confirm the Authority I want…"
"You should die once first."
"Arrogant!"
Declared dead in advance, Voban completely went berserk.
He stepped forward, and each step left a deep crater in the earth.
Even so, his speed was not slow. In the blink of an eye, he had already rushed in front of Rin.
…
Suddenly, his sixth sense sent out a violent warning.
He subconsciously looked up.
Above his head, the moisture and dark clouds left behind from Call Wind and Summon Rain rapidly condensed.
It formed a golden trident nearly one thousand meters long, composed of millions of tons of seawater.
"Gather the power of natural disasters, tsunamis, storms, earthquakes, into one place."
"Goodbye, Marquis Voban."
After speaking, Rin waved his hand sharply, like a god standing high in the heavens, casting a spear of judgment toward the roaring beast on the earth.
Voban wanted to dodge.
But not only was his transformed body enormous, the immense gravity brought by Pride made evasion a luxury.
"Boom!"
The golden trident descended, piercing through the roaring demonic wolf and pinning his body to the earth.
Along with him, a large stretch of land east of Tokyo vanished.
If Rin had not restrained the destructive force of this attack and, at the very first moment, opened the barrier to the Path to Hell to drag the battlefield into another dimension,
Then this strike would not have been limited to simple land subsidence.
He estimated that the entire island nation would have been torn apart along the Kanto boundary.
This was the destructive power of a Campione in the real world.
Once an Authority was fully unleashed, it could wipe a country off the map in a short time.
"It is… gone…"
Forces and organizations from the hidden worlds of Europe, America, China, and Japan completely lost sight of Rin and Voban.
Only the abruptly vanished land remained on their screens.
A massive crater.
No radioactive shockwaves.
It was as if a god had used a spoon to scoop out a piece from the cake called Japan.
"Gulp…"
In the distant sky, Kaoru had witnessed Rin throwing the golden trident with her own eyes.
Only by experiencing it firsthand could one truly understand the vast difference between them.
"Demon King…"
She murmured, while searching for his trace.
But she could not find him.
He and Voban seemed to have disappeared.
"Has Spirit Vision failed as well?"
Not only the naked eye, even the Spirit Vision of Hime Miko and witches seemed to be shrouded in mist, unable to see through the obstruction ahead.
Only one thing could be confirmed.
Neither Rin nor Voban had died.
"An alternate dimension?"
Soon, experienced magicians realized what had happened.
The two had not vanished. They had simply moved their battlefield into another dimension.
"Whose Authority is it?"
"It cannot be Marquis Voban's."
Given his personality, why would he care about destruction in the outside world?
Even if Japan were completely submerged, the old Wolf King would probably not even blink.
"So it is the Seventh King's Authority?"
Only the Seventh King might show such restraint, moving the battlefield into another dimension to avoid causing greater damage.
At the same time, in a dimension between reality and illusion…
A gloomy world stretched endlessly, faint ghost fires scattered throughout the darkness.
Cold winds howled, and wailing echoed without end, as if countless souls were recounting the regrets and resentments of the mortal world.
(To be continued.)
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