Chapter 401: One Who Transcends Limits
Seeing Asagiri dodge the streams of magma it spewed one after another, Fatalis became restless.
It directly lifted one massive foot and stomped hard on the ground. For a moment, the earth shook, the mountains swayed, and the entire pure white cave began to tremble violently.
"Too slow."
Upon hearing the voice from above, Fatalis finally realized something and lifted its head.
Asagiri had already risen high into the air, looking down at it as if in mockery.
"Is this all a forbidden monster amounts to?"
Hearing Asagiri's provocative words, Fatalis became even more manic.
Its heavy breathing was like a sweeping gale.
Its body first stepped back slightly, then it suddenly opened its mouth, spraying a rain of fire accompanied by meteorites toward Asagiri, who was floating in midair.
"Bang!"
Asagiri raised the wide Oracle Shield in his hand, directly tanking the meteor laden fire rain spewed by Fatalis.
After putting away the shield, he raised his left hand and casually brushed off the sparks that had landed on his right sleeve.
He looked down at the terrifying monster with magma flowing inside its body and laughed lightly.
"Is that it? Didn't you eat enough?"
Seeing Fatalis's restless and uneasy appearance, yet unable to do anything for the time being against the overly agile Asagiri, Nyx, who was standing beside the Black Dragon, cast his gaze to the other side.
He saw Kaguya Shinomiya holding the Lionheart Shield, acting as the first line of defense together with Sakurakawa Rikka, who possessed an immortal body.
Yuuki Asuna, serving as the main attacker, very patiently maneuvered around Alatreon by relying on her speed. Every strike she landed brought injuries to this monster known as a god.
Fujiwara Chika and Iwanaga Kotoko were responsible for crowd control.
Whenever Alatreon entered a certain charging state and seemed ready to unleash a major move, they would briefly control its body.
Hayasaka Ai used abilities like Flash and Noise to forcibly interrupt Alatreon's charging.
Kato Megumi was the same as always.
While ensuring she remained unnoticed, she launched surprise attacks from the shadows.
"This is easier than expected."
Yuuki Asuna dodged an ice pillar that suddenly rose from the ground, then used the Black Particles barrier created by Iwanaga Kotoko as cover to avoid the lightning dragon breath spewed by Alatreon.
The process of the battle could only be described with two words.
Elegant.
Logically speaking, this was the first time the two squads were fighting side by side in the true sense. Their coordination should have been very rusty, and they should even have hindered each other.
But...
The simulation training within NERvGear had allowed them to practice situations where they absolutely had to fight together as a last resort.
Furthermore, the four women, Yuuki Asuna, Kato Megumi, Iwanaga Kotoko, and Yamauchi Sakura, who originally had no experience dealing with giant enemies, had also gained experience against huge opponents in the simulated Dungeons that Kayaba Akihiko had input into NERvGear based on memories provided by Players from other factions.
At this moment, Alatreon's overly massive size became a disadvantage.
It could not conceal its charging motions before launching an attack.
With Yuuki Asuna and the others' speed, as long as they noticed its intent, they could dodge its attacks through prediction.
Moreover, although Alatreon was fast, due to its massive size, it was almost impossible for it to dodge attacks coming from all angles simultaneously.
"I have to use that move."
Nyx raised a hand and commanded loudly.
"Alatreon!"
The moment Nyx called its name, Alatreon suddenly pulled back, temporarily breaking free from the entanglement of the people in front of it.
Immediately after, dark red lightning surged across the surface of its body, and a pale blue light began to emerge.
At that moment, even sound seemed to vanish, leaving the arena in deathly silence.
"Defend!"
Accompanied by a somewhat blurred, flickering sound, Asagiri broke away from the battlefield with Fatalis.
Holding the Oracle Shield, he knelt on one knee and blocked with the shield in front of him.
Seeing this, Kaguya Shinomiya immediately raised her Lionheart Shield.
Iwanaga Kotoko gritted her teeth and condensed a thick barrier of Black Particles in front of everyone.
Sakurakawa Rikka's eyes showed a look of contemplation, and in the end, she attached her shadow to Yuuki Asuna.
Kato Megumi and the others immediately crouched low, hiding behind the defensive layer.
"Boom!"
After a few seconds of silence, Alatreon's body soared into the air, tracing a graceful arc.
However, at this moment, that arc symbolized the end and destruction.
A powerful force carrying elemental power instantly swept through the entire pure white palace.
In just an instant, the Black Particles that Iwanaga Kotoko had created with a massive expenditure of mental energy were completely destroyed.
Immediately afterward, the ones receiving the impact were Kaguya Shinomiya and Asagiri, both holding their shields.
"How is this possible..."
Feeling the terrifying pressure coming from the Lionheart Shield, Kaguya Shinomiya gritted her teeth, unwillingness showing in her red eyes.
However, no matter how unwilling she was, there was nothing she could do in the face of this absolutely overwhelming power.
Just as Kaguya Shinomiya's body was about to be blown away, a hand reached out from the side and pressed directly onto her shield.
"You... you..."
Under the astonished gazes of Kaguya Shinomiya and the others behind her, Asagiri, who had originally been kneeling on one knee and shielding his entire body with the Oracle Shield, actually began to slowly stand up.
Even amid the violent roaring, Kaguya Shinomiya, who was beside him, could hear the creaking of Asagiri's knee joints as he forced himself upright.
She could not even imagine what kind of impact someone had to endure in order to force themselves to stand against such terrifying power.
However, in the next second...
Asagiri began to take a step forward.
"What... How is this possible!?"
Seeing Asagiri actually walking forward while hard carrying Alatreon's Judgment of the End, Nyx, who had remained aloof and devoid of emotional fluctuation from the start of the battle until now, finally could not hide the surprise in his voice.
"Black Dragon! Fatalis!"
Hearing Nyx's command, the Black Dragon used its strongest move, Hellfire Breath.
Meanwhile, from the gaps in Fatalis's wings, a large amount of liquid like magma gushed out, mixing with the flames and meteorites from its mouth to form a breath like a scorching purgatory.
Facing the terrifying move jointly unleashed by the three forbidden monsters, Asagiri's footsteps were finally forced to stop.
Even the surface of the Oracle Shield, which was Red quality equipment, began to show slight scorch marks.
"This should make you a little more obedient, right?"
Nyx looked at Asagiri, who was struggling to move amid the destructive power at the intersection of the three attacks, and spoke in a flat tone.
"The established fate cannot be changed. Even resistance will only increase the pain. Why is it that you humans simply do not understand this principle..."
"I already said it."
Asagiri slowly raised his head.
His gaze, now turned purely golden, pierced through the power fluctuations of the three forbidden monsters' attacks and stabbed straight into Nyx's pitch black eyes.
"I have absolutely no interest in listening to you ramble over there."
"Established fate? The will of death? How boring."
"I just want to erase you. That is all."
"Human Asura Mode."
Accompanied by dark red patterns emerging on his body, under the astonished gazes of the women behind him, Asagiri began to advance again, pushing against the power of the three forbidden ancient dragons.
This time, he was no longer walking slowly.
He rushed directly in front of Alatreon at an astonishing speed.
Immediately afterward, his body quickly floated up, and the Rope Dart of Deathly Grievance in his hand pierced through the air, stabbing directly into Alatreon's eye socket.
"Roar!"
Alatreon let out a manic roar of pain, and the Judgment of the End was forcibly interrupted.
Feeling the pressure suddenly lighten, Kaguya Shinomiya immediately looked back at Iwanaga Kotoko.
The latter understood.
While forcefully enduring the breath of Fatalis and the Black Dragon, she once again condensed a thick barrier of Black Particles and shouted,
"Violet!"
"Understood."
With the help of the safe zone opened up by Kaguya Shinomiya and Iwanaga Kotoko, which was less than five meters wide but completely sufficient to avoid the power fluctuations, Yuuki Asuna once again transformed into a crimson shadow.
She rushed directly into the breath of Fatalis and the Black Dragon at the fastest speed.
The intense heat, which made even breathing painful, instantly swept over Yuuki Asuna's body.
However, relying on the class passive of Flash Blade, she, in her full speed state, had already gained astonishing bonuses to all stats.
As long as she attacked relentlessly, it was the best defense.
"Sword Skill, Stardust Splash!"
This time, Yuuki Asuna did not choose Space Killing Art.
Instead, she chose Stardust Splash, which, although slightly weaker in power, could concentrate eight sword beams into a single point for penetration.
The eight sword beams converged into a straight line, instantly piercing through Fatalis's eyeball.
After sinking into the opponent's body, they erupted, directly tearing Fatalis apart from the inside.
"Thud..."
As Fatalis's massive body slowly collapsed to the ground, the Black Dragon and Alatreon quickly retreated to Nyx's side, and the attacks were temporarily interrupted.
[Successfully defeated one of the Five Great Taboos, "Fatalis". Special rewards will be granted after the Dungeon ends.]
"Is that all? You really disappoint me."
Asagiri slowly lowered the Oracle Shield in his hand.
Even after activating Human Asura Mode, he had sustained extremely serious injuries from the combined impact of the three forbidden monsters just now.
His calf bone was broken.
His left arm holding the shield could not even be raised.
His chest, ribs, internal organs, and many other parts were damaged.
Yet even so, his voice remained as flat as ever, as if he could not feel pain at all.
"One of your three Pokémon has been killed by us. Next, it will be the turn of the remaining two."
"And you, the trainer who is cowardly to the extreme, only daring to hide in the back."
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