He adjusted his posture in mid-air, turning his body into an arrow aimed downwards, then used his magical energy as a secondary propulsion, creating layers of sonic booms.
"Report quickly! A suspicious person is approaching from above—"
The well-trained Fatui discovered him almost at the same time as the sonic boom sounded. Several of them immediately moved and entered the building through several entrances. Even if he were faster, he couldn't take them all out at once.
He had no intention of holding back. His body swooped down at high speed, ignoring the enemies who were about to report—even if they went in now, it wouldn't change anything. And besides, after he landed, he didn't plan on letting a single one of them go.
The moment he landed, the Fatui member chosen as a human cushion died without even a sound. The momentum of his fall kicked up dust and sand, hiding the surrounding enemies.
"Don't panic! Everyone, gather around me!" In the dust screen, a Fatui with a purple-black giant hammer roared, trying to gather his comrades. However, what he received was not a response from his comrades, but a cold blade cutting into his shoulder.
So fast! But at least it didn't hit a vital point— The Fatui was just about to be thankful that the special armor he wore should have blocked the blow when he realized his vision was changing, and he had lost contact with his right arm.
My right arm was cut off? No.
The single slash had gone from his right shoulder all the way down to his left armpit. The liquid flowing from the cut made him look as if he were wearing a red kasaya. The part of his body not covered by the kasaya had already slid to the ground.
Muramasa didn't stop. His body shot out again, towards another soldier who was so scared he was randomly spraying ice. Frost covered his body, but he didn't dodge. His blade passed through the frost screen and pierced the man's throat.
By the time the dust had settled, only Muramasa was left standing.
"All units! Squads one and three, cover our rear! The rest of you, retreat to the factory—"
Two Fatui squads gathered and stood in front of him. The others, hearing the command, quickly rushed into the entrance, no one wanting to be the next target.
…
The belated Kokomi finally arrived at the battlefield, only to see a purely direct result. She didn't look at the people lying on the ground, or rather, she didn't dare to look at them.
Muramasa glanced back at her. Her already pale face was now even more devoid of color. It seemed this strategist was not very used to a real battlefield.
"Are you scared?"
The remaining two Fatui vanguard teams also fell under his sword. He then looked at the huge steel fortress before him. "Just a little... unused to it." She remembered visiting the wounded soldiers a while ago. Just the sight of that had made her instinctively uncomfortable. Let alone a scene several categories more intense.
"Then you'd better get used to it quickly." He didn't say much, just a simple word of comfort, then turned his head back to the front. "Yes. Please be careful. Inside, there must be..."
Her brain, still reeling from the shock of the battlefield, was about to warn him when she heard him continue.
"There's no need to go in."
He had no intention of entering. A light of elemental power, now full, flashed in his eyes as he quickly scanned every corner of the building's ground floor. "Even a big guy like this has its weaknesses."
Not giving her any more time to hesitate, the moment his words fell, the lightning wrapped around his sword suddenly surged. The blade no longer flickered with weak arcs, but with a liquid-like, substantial thunder that clung to its surface, emitting a low hum that even distorted the surrounding air. The muscles in his sword arm bulged. The magnificent longsword, infused with magical energy, also grew excited, its restrained sword aura condensing into something tangible.
"Step back!" his voice was not loud, but it carried an undeniable authority.
Kokomi almost instinctively obeyed. She tapped the ground with her toes and floated back several dozen meters, stopping just at the edge of the safe distance. She forced herself to calm down, her gaze fixed on the figure wrapped in lightning before her, and the steel factory that exuded a cold, oppressive aura.
Under the quiet night sky, the sound of his feet grinding on the ground was heard. His body immediately moved. No fancy moves, no probing attacks. His figure left an afterimage on the spot, his body becoming a violent storm that charged straight for the huge load-bearing foundation at the bottom of the steel fortress!
"BOOM—!!!"
The first strike! The blade, with its peerless piercing power, stabbed into the base of the steel pillar, which was as thick as several men could embrace. He didn't detonate the demon blade itself, but let the untransformed Electro element within it be unleashed. The violent Electro element was unleashed at the moment of piercing, like countless small snakes of destruction, madly pouring into the metal's internal structure along the blade. In an instant, a blinding electric light exploded from the point of insertion. Spiderweb-like cracks, accompanied by the sound of tearing metal, spread throughout the building's interior, instantly covering the huge pillar. The metal, destroyed by the Electro, showed a molten-like dark red, which then instantly cooled and became brittle.
This was just the beginning.
The moment he stabbed with the first strike, he used the recoil to pull out his sword, spin, and his movements were so fluid there was not a single pause. The longsword was not pulled out, but at almost zero distance, it erupted with a slash-like force from within the building, drawing a perfect arc of thunder in the night sky. And he did not stop. With the shriek of lightning tearing through the air, he fiercely slashed at the adjacent load-bearing pillar!
CLANG—CRACK!!!
This time it was a slash! The condensed-to-the-extreme lightning blade was like a hot knife through butter, cutting a terrifying gash several feet deep into the thick alloy pillar. The lightning spread along both sides of the cut where the blade had been. The next moment, an explosion roared.
Terrified screams of the Fatui echoed from within the fortress, but they were all drowned out by the huge sound of twisting and breaking metal.
After a slight pause, he landed, adjusted his posture, and then turned into a streak of lightning on the spot.
The third strike! A diagonal slash at the joint of a horizontal beam supporting a huge platform. The lightning exploded, and the few wooden structures caught fire, spreading inwards like vanguards of serpents. Even if the surface was mostly covered in steel, the interior was still a Japanese-style wooden structure.
The fourth strike! A direct thrust into a node of a pipe where an elemental core was located. The violent Electro element flowed upstream along the pipe, causing a series of muffled explosions inside. Several parts of the outer shell were blown off by the internal impact!
"To be able to dismember such a huge fortress so easily…" As a strategist, Kokomi could naturally think of similar tactics. However, if she were to execute them, it would probably take until tomorrow just to dismantle a corner of the fortress. If one's mind is limited by conventional thinking, many would probably not even consider such a possibility, and would thus be caught off guard by someone like him.
The main body of the fortress, having lost its underlying support, began its irreversible collapse under the merciless pull of gravity. The factory, meticulously modified by the Fatui, was, in a short period of time, completely dismembered and destroyed from its foundation by one man and one sword. Desperate cries and screams could be faintly heard from the ruins, but they were soon drowned out by the roar of the internal energy machinery exploding.
This was what you call getting what you deserve. It was unknown how many traps the enemy had set up inside. After the explosion, a purple smoke that could make one faint even spewed out from it—probably because of this poison gas, they hadn't even left a window, except for a few doors on the first floor. And because of this, almost none of the Fatui inside managed to escape.
"Is it over?" Kokomi murmured in disbelief.
"Not yet. Though most of the guys inside should be dead…" The moment he finished speaking, a massive amount of Electro energy began to gather in the center of the huge ruins. Streaks of dark purple lightning escaped, followed by another explosion.
BOOM!
The collapsed building in the center of the ruins was pushed open by this huge energy. A disheveled figure then crawled out from it. The androgynous face was covered in dust and debris, and the hat on his head was only half there.
"You really did a lot of unnecessary things," Muramasa said, scanning his surroundings. Everything he saw was the 'futile effort' of the person before him.
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