Chapter 320: Conflict Ends
The so-called [Reality Marble] is the manifestation of the user's mental landscape, a subspecies expression of [Marble Phantasm].
This ability can swap the relationship between the individual and the world, projecting the mental world formed by the user's magecraft and inner heart onto the real world, thereby modifying local reality.
At the same time, because the user's mental landscape cannot be modified or dominated at will, a Reality Marble does not always develop in the direction the user hopes.
A Reality Marble is a set of universal rules; the controller simply adapts to these rules better than anyone else.
Kirinji knew very well that Momiji's [Crimson Night] was a special Title Ability formed by the Nexus kneading together multiple Reality Marbles from the Type-Moon world.
It was a unique and powerful title, far rarer and stronger than his own 'mass-produced' title of [Seven-Colored Magus].
If the Nexus were a machine, the computational power consumed to shape [Crimson Night] would be far greater than that used to shape types like [Seven-Colored Magus] or [Crimson Magus], which were tailor-made for magic-side Reincarnators.
This was the reason why, in everyone's evaluation, they favored Momiji over him.
As Kirinji bound the beast Mercenary Tao with golden chains, accompanied by the increasingly high-pitched chanting, he sensed something was wrong.
Within this Reality Marble, which should have been stable, Mana was going out of control, and magical energy was boiling.
This was not the movement of conventional magic at all. He began to doubt whether the intelligence obtained in the gathering was accurate.
But that intelligence had clearly been given by a guy in this woman's team.
Could it be... that she has been hiding an ability from the start that even her team members haven't seen?
He decided to kill Mercenary Tao first, then deal with Momiji. With the existence of the [Alpha Stigma], as long as it was magic, he could still hold the advantage.
Kirinji looked at Mercenary Tao, who was locked down by his use of **** and [Energy Whips]. He raised his right hand. Intense magical energy carrying the aura of death appeared instantly at his fingertips. In the next moment, a beam of thick green light shot from his hand.
It drew a curved line in the air, hitting the bound Mercenary Tao in an instant.
[Finger of Death]!
This was a spell created purely to kill the target. It released intense magical energy to directly destroy the target's physical body and inflicted an Instant Death Judgment.
Even if the judgment failed, the pure magical energy would cause massive damage.
Bang!
The bound 'Mercenary Tao' exploded轰然, turning into fragments of rock flying in all directions.
Kirinji frowned. Only then did he realize he hadn't received a kill notification from the Space panel.
Kaito Shirogane stood behind Kirinji, his arms spread open, the Satsui no Hado already covering his entire body.
Meanwhile, the soul-weakened Uchiha Madara, wearing a face full of coldness, turned into a pitch-black shadow and was reabsorbed by Kaito.
Kirinji hadn't noticed that the Crimson Night was rapidly dimming at this moment, while Kaito stood behind him, poised to strike.
The sky suddenly lit up. Kirinji saw that the 'Mercenary Tao' he had blasted into fragments was actually several pieces of shattered rock. Aside from the ground still being magma, all the buffs from the Reality Marble were vanishing rapidly.
He sensed a terrifying breathing sound behind him. At this moment, as [Crimson Night] ended, the characteristic that allowed him to use this Reality Marble to turn himself into a [Phenomenon] also disappeared.
"Super-Tier Magic · Fallen Down."
As if a reminder, or perhaps adhering to some special Vow, the woman finished her chant. Destructive magical energy had finished gathering in the sky. Massive magic circles unfolded and overlapped in the air.
At this moment, everyone in The Border Zone could look up and see the terrifying pattern in the sky.
Then came pure high heat and bright light emerging from the magic circles, stealing everyone's vision in an instant.
That pillar of light descending from the heavens fell in a split second.
Kirinji's heart skipped a beat, his scalp tingling. This destructive magic had already completed its casting. In his Alpha Stigma, he could only see the devastating white light descending.
Magic circles appeared in front of him one by one; a large number of counter-magic spells were taking effect. But he hesitated, worried that a 0.35-second cast wouldn't be enough to stop Super-Tier Magic. Thus, he wanted to teleport away.
As long as he returned to The Final Empire, even if he was heavily injured, he could be saved.
Buzz!
The golden magic circle in front of him began to rotate, as if to open a door.
But in the next moment, boundless killing intent shrouded the surroundings. Kirinji's vision went black, feeling as if he had fallen into some kind of Reality Marble again. Heaven and earth were pitch black.
He turned his head abruptly.
"Idiot! If you don't leave, you'll die too!"
There was no answer. Only a howling sound, like ghosts weeping and wolves howling, echoed in the boundless darkness.
Bang!
A fist smashed into Kirinji's body.
Bang bang bang bang...
Countless fists bombarded him almost instantaneously. In his Alpha Stigma, he saw what looked like hundreds and thousands of Mercenary Taos punching simultaneously.
[Shun Goku Satsu] (The Raging Demon)!
Kaito could already feel the high temperature that seemed ready to melt everything. The exhilarating sensation of adrenaline secretion, long absent, made him feel fearless.
Following the momentum of the punches, the pitch-black Death-Taint of the Myriad Gods surged again.
Pfft pfft bang...
Amidst the barrage of attacks, several strikes triggered the Death-Taint.
[You attacked a Reincarnator in the real world.]
[Death-Taint of the Myriad Gods has taken effect. Conducting Immunity Check...]
[You have killed Reincarnator RF70013411.]
...
Hum!
An emerald-green sword light slashed horizontally like a fan, almost grazing Kaito's figure as it decapitated Kirinji. The black fedora fell to the ground.
Kaito was still in the [Setsuna] state. He turned his head and saw Lee Chae-rin, her face stained with blood and expression filled with madness after delivering that slash, standing in the distance. Then, the white light from the sky fell, drowning everything.
Kaito's figure fell backward, escaping into the wind at the very nick of time.
Boom!
The world seemed to dissolve silently. The ground instantly turned into crystal, sinking about two meters deep. The entire city block crystallized completely, appearing as if it had turned liquid and begun to flow.
Kaito stumbled two steps, emerging from the wind. His body was smoking; the high temperature in that instant had almost ignited his body, but damage of this degree couldn't kill him.
He turned to look at the woman standing on the roof in the distance. She had no intention of continuing the attack.
Kaito raised his left hand high. The sky rapidly turned dark. Amidst the woman's surprised expression, the sky seemed to press down entirely.
Only at this moment did Momiji sense something was wrong. He survived my ability and still wants to attack?
She could sense a large drone formation approaching, which meant Touka had completed their ambush mission in that valley and was ready to clean up the urban area of the Border Zone.
Zzzzt!
The lightning in the sky hadn't brewed to its peak, yet that single strike of lightning seemed to lock onto her with a sense of inevitability.
The space roughly dozens of meters above Momiji rapidly turned crimson. She instantly entered a miniature Reality Marble.
Bang!
Blue smoke rose. Momiji waved her hand to disperse the dust. Blood flowed freely from her face; that lightning strike had actually pierced through her Reality Marble.
Although her carelessness played a part, judging from this strike, Mercenary Tao indeed possessed the ability to attack and kill a true Title Level Reincarnator like her.
She looked at Kirinji's corpse, which had already disappeared in the distance, thinking that he didn't die unjustly. Perhaps if not for her [Crimson Night], even in a frontal one-on-one battle, Kirinji might not have been a match for Mercenary Tao and could only rely on versatile magic to stall for time.
Smoking all over, Kaito stepped onto the blue-and-white striker boat. Holding the charred-looking Lee Chae-rin in one hand and three Crimson Drop Cards in the other, he swiftly departed from the high altitude.
He patted the woman who seemed almost 'cooked through.' For the first time, he didn't look at her with the eyes one uses for a slave.
"You've grown a bit too~"
The two landed in an uninhabited mountain forest, then quickly returned to the Private Space. Kaito spoke immediately:
"Full body healing. Deduct the points from her."
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