Chapter 393: The Battle Between Hunter and Prey
The five Furious Rajang moved cautiously, their four limbs slightly bent against the ground, ready to erupt with power at any moment.
Their gazes swept back and forth, observing the three "people" in front of them.
By instinct alone, they had already sensed a dangerous aura that could threaten their lives.
From the perspective of the five Rajang, the least threatening among the three was the tall black shadow covered in reddish glowing patterns, the Human Asura.
Next was the human female holding a rapier and wearing a deep red cloak.
And then...
It was the human male dressed in black.
The Furious Rajang could sense an extremely dangerous aura from him.
There was also a predatory, dominant presence that pressed against every nerve in their bodies. Although Asagiri's figure seemed slender and weak compared to their robust forms, beneath his seemingly human exterior, he exuded a terrifying aura that made the Furious Rajang's fur stand on end.
"Thump, thump!"
The fists of the five Furious Rajang slammed into the ground.
In the next second, they shot forward like five golden comets.
One pounced toward Human Asura.
Another pounced toward Yuuki Asuna, who was standing nearby.
The remaining three attacked Asagiri simultaneously from different directions.
"Pale Domination!"
Seeing this, Iwanaga Kotoko, who was hiding in the dense forest, immediately raised her hand toward one of the Furious Rajang and quickly summoned a Pale Ghost Hand to seize it.
However, a second before the Pale Ghost Hand manifested, the Furious Rajang sensed the danger with its keen beastly intuition.
Its massive body dodged the suddenly appearing Pale Ghost Hand with agility beyond human imagination.
Another Furious Rajang was forced to interrupt its advance to dodge an arrow shot by Kato Megumi.
When the last Furious Rajang charged in front of Asagiri, it discovered that its two companions had not followed it.
It was just as well that it could not speak.
Judging from the expression on this Furious Rajang's face, one could roughly guess what it was thinking at this moment.
What is the meaning of this?
Selling out your teammate?
Where are you guys?
I'm facing the black clothed human all by myself?
For real?
Thoughts aside, having already charged in front of Asagiri, the Furious Rajang clearly could not retreat now.
Its golden fur stood on end, radiating blinding golden lightning.
Its body instantly stood upright, and with an attack devoid of any technique, relying entirely on pure wild instinct, it swung both fists with all its might.
"Wild flailing?"
Seeing the Furious Rajang's zero frame startup, a violent attack carrying a heavy sense of oppression, Asagiri did not dodge or evade.
His eyes merely revealed excitement.
"Then let's trade blows!"
Asagiri's left fist collided with the Furious Rajang's right fist.
The force of the impact made the surrounding ground tremble.
At the same time, his right hand held the Rope Dart of Deathly Grievance, which he drove directly into the Furious Rajang's left fist.
"Roar!"
The Furious Rajang let out a pained roar, anger igniting in its heart.
Just as it was preparing to launch another attack, it discovered that its vision had plunged into darkness.
The passive effect of the Rope Dart of Deathly Grievance, Deprive Vision, had already activated.
Immediately after...
"My turn."
Hearing Asagiri's emotionless voice and sensing the dangerous aura coming from its side, the Furious Rajang immediately turned its body and raised its arms to block.
"Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!"
A sound like a machine gun firing echoed across the field.
Yamauchi Sakura, who was in the dense forest, could not help casting her gaze over, only to see a shocking scene she would never forget in her life.
Asagiri's attacks were so fast they left afterimages, pouring down like a rainstorm onto the Furious Rajang's raised arms.
Although the latter's physique was much larger than Asagiri's, it was beaten back repeatedly, its feet even leaving two deep furrows in the dirt.
Asagiri seemed to feel that this was not satisfying enough.
His body floated slightly higher into the air, and from above, he continued to relentlessly strike the Furious Rajang, which could only barely defend itself.
"Bang!"
Two seconds later, Asagiri's offensive suddenly slowed down.
Just as the Furious Rajang thought this human's strength had been exhausted and an opening for a counterattack had finally appeared, a punch even heavier than before smashed directly into its raised arms.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Although Asagiri's attack frequency had decreased, it was replaced by terrifying power even greater than before, relentlessly smashing down from above.
Due to the intense pain, the Furious Rajang could not help letting out a wail.
Its body was sinking into the dirt ground.
Let alone fighting back, even defending felt so powerless.
"Roar!"
The other two Furious Rajang saw their companion in trouble and immediately pounced toward Asagiri.
"Foolish."
Asagiri rose nearly ten meters into the air, directly dodging the pounce of the two Furious Rajang.
Standing in the air as if on flat ground, he looked down at the three Furious Rajang below him.
With blood staining his long black trench coat, he looked more like a predator out hunting.
"Roar... roar..."
The Furious Rajang that had been embedded in the ground crawled out of the crater with difficulty.
Looking at Asagiri standing in the air, fear was clearly evident in its eyes.
It had never expected that such a scrawny creature could completely crush it in a direct confrontation.
Speed, strength, endurance.
It simply could not compete with the other party.
It was not that the Furious Rajang was weak, but that Asagiri's stats were simply too high.
If one were to describe it using terms from the Monster Hunter game, then the power of each of Asagiri's punches was equivalent to a Wyvern's Fire fired from a top tier Gunlance.
As for those few punches he threw later after lowering his frequency, each of them was comparable to a car crashing at full speed, if not even more powerful.
Being struck continuously by such power and still barely remaining standing was already enough to prove the Furious Rajang's physical toughness.
The three Furious Rajang looked at Asagiri standing in the air, already beginning to consider their next method of attack.
Leap into the air?
Asagiri was less than ten meters from the ground, and the Furious Rajang could indeed reach that height by leaping, but they had already realized that this was not like their usual hunting.
This was a challenge where they were on the losing end of the food chain.
They possessed a certain level of intelligence and knew that if they jumped into the air, they would lose their footing and become sitting ducks waiting to be slaughtered.
At this moment, the three Furious Rajang made the same choice.
Their golden fur became upright and rigid, and the golden light around them became extremely blinding.
Then they simultaneously opened their mouths and, with a violent roar, fired golden beams resembling flames toward Asagiri in the air.
From charging to firing the beams, it did not even take 0.1 seconds.
It could be called a true zero frame startup, and even Asagiri could not dodge in time at this moment.
However, although his body could not dodge in time, he only needed to use that ability.
"Castling."
Human Asura instantly replaced Asagiri, who had been standing in the air, and was struck directly by the lightning beams fired by the three Furious Rajang.
[Your Persona "Human Asura" has been destroyed. Trait "Final Rebirth" activated. Lightning resistance increased.]
Asagiri did not pay any attention to the backlash caused by Human Asura being destroyed.
Rather, he was simply utilizing this opportunity.
"Human Asura Mode."
The Furious Rajang that had been fighting Human Asura was in a wretched state, its left arm having been ripped off.
It was currently in a daze, not understanding why the black monster that had just been fighting it had suddenly turned into Asagiri.
It only felt a slight pain in its right arm.
In the next second, its vision plunged into darkness.
"Martial Art..."
Asagiri did not waste a single moment. He directly raised his palm toward the head of the Furious Rajang in front of him, his eyes glowing with golden light.
"Dragon Bullet!"
"Bang!"
Accompanied by a loud bang, the Furious Rajang's head exploded.
Its massive, headless body slowly collapsed to the ground.
Almost at the same time, on the other side, Yuuki Asuna also found her opportunity.
Taking advantage of the opening created when that Furious Rajang dodged the Pale Ghost Hand summoned by Iwanaga Kotoko, she directly unleashed her strongest sword skill, Space Killing Art, slicing the opponent's head into pieces.
Watching the battered and exhausted Furious Rajang finally fall to the ground, Yuuki Asuna did not let her guard down.
She immediately cast her gaze toward the three remaining living Furious Rajang.
"Roar! Bang, bang!"
Seeing their companions die, those three Furious Rajang completely fell into a frenzied state.
After slamming their fists hard against the ground twice, a layer of red light suddenly wrapped around their thick arms, and the muscles all over their bodies made sounds of expansion, as if they had activated some kind of berserk ability.
"Boom!"
Once again, the three Furious Rajang fired lightning beams from their mouths.
But this time, their target was Yuuki Asuna.
"Violet!"
Seeing the gathered lightning beams cover the deep red afterimage, Yamauchi Sakura and Iwanaga Kotoko could not help changing their expressions.
However, Kato Megumi, whose physical fitness was superior to theirs and whose dynamic vision could barely track Yuuki Asuna's speed, did not show the slightest worry.
She only said in a calm tone,
"She dodged it."
Just as Kato Megumi had said, before the thunder cannon hit, Yuuki Asuna had already moved more than ten meters away.
What was consumed by the lightning was merely an afterimage left behind by her excessive speed.
Yuuki Asuna's speed was very fast.
It was not quite up to Asagiri in Human Asura Mode, but it was faster than Asagiri in his normal state.
And of course, there was one more important point.
When the Furious Rajang used the thunder cannon for the first time, there had been almost no charge time at all, firing instantly at zero frames.
But just now, when they used the thunder cannon for the second time, for some reason, perhaps due to the burden of continuous use in a short period, there had been a pre cast delay of about 0.3 seconds between charging and firing.
To an ordinary person, this was merely the blink of an eye.
But to Yuuki Asuna...
"Hmph."
Yuuki Asuna, holding Shimmering Light, stood beside Asagiri.
She performed an elegant sword flourish with one hand and looked at the three frenzied Furious Rajang opposite them, her voice carrying the absolute confidence that only belonged to the strong.
"Too slow."
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