"No, how did you all come!" Noah's expression changed drastically.
"Don't worry, Mr. Noah—" Phoebe who arrived first joined the battlefield:
"The Sentinel connected the power of all the people of Rinascita and distributed it to us. We won't hold you back."
Ah?
Even the old horse can do this move of Leviathan's?
Before Noah could be surprised and suspicious, Leviathan withdrew and retreated, frenzied frequencies condensed between its raised hands into a black ball compressing terrifying power, bombarding out like a cannonball.
"Careful!"
A card constructed of light rays rotated and flew out. Phoebe raised her staff and struck the card, instantly unfolding a light barrier dozens of meters huge.
In an instant, time seemed to freeze, only hearing the dull and shocking loud noise when that black ball collided with the barrier. Dazzling light exploded like the sun, countless fine energy fragments flying like snowflakes.
"Blocked it."
Looking at Phoebe whose whole body was shining with golden light, Noah exclaimed in amazement.
Incredible, Phoebe actually really blocked one strike from Leviathan!
"Don't underestimate us. We're very powerful now."
"Yeah, now, it's our turn to protect you."
"The heavy responsibility of saving civilization can't always be borne by you alone."
Cantarella leaped down from the jellyfish, Augusta and Iuno and the others also showed smiles.
"You all became stronger, then I..."
Thinking of a certain possibility, Noah modified the team composition, switching to Carlotta.
Instantly, shining golden light radiated from his body.
A line of small text floated up from the bottom of his eyes.
[Upward, Connection, Salvation (Civilization-limited buff): The will of all living beings in Rinascita connected turns into power. Rinascita map character Carlotta's all attributes increase by 300%, lasting 30 minutes.]
Character: Carlotta.
HP: 53409
ATK: 6492
DEF: 3948
Resonance Efficiency: 448.8%
Crit Rate: 227.7%
Crit DMG: 902.8%
Seeing the character panel more outrageous than a roguelike, Noah laughed on the spot.
Previously he didn't know how he was going to win, now he didn't know how he was going to lose.
Still that same sentence.
Characters expand I expand, characters affect me.
Characters get nerfed I don't get nerfed, I'm different from the characters!
No no no, can't say it like that, should say—
This is the bond between me and them!
"Hahahahahaha!"
The one emitting the piercing laughter was instead Leviathan.
The Threnodian's Secret Authority had already completely reported all of Noah's thoughts and ideas to It.
Leviathan excitedly laughed loudly:
"Noah, do you think only you can use others' power?! I who possess the Assimilation Authority and have harvested the entire Rinascita civilization's consciousness can also!"
An Opal long gun appeared out of thin air in Leviathan's hand, the pitch-black gun muzzle pointing straight at Noah. It grinned ferociously and pulled the trigger:
"Immobilize!"
The pitch-black Opal bullet was blocked by Zani holding a shield.
Seeing this, Leviathan cried out in alarm as if seeing a ghost:
"Impossible! It shouldn't be like this. You should have been immobilized by the frantically spreading Opal! Where's my control mechanism?"
"Pfft—"
Noah couldn't hold it in.
Bro, do you have my mechanisms and you're copying my techniques?
Do you understand axis-switching variations?
"Impossible, I don't believe it. I'll try using someone else's power!"
Its figure flickered, a thick Dark Tide huge sword like a ruler appeared in its hand, chopping towards Augusta, but was steadily blocked by the latter with both hands.
"What trash! Only ten meters of electromagnetic force?"
Muttering lowly, several arrows made of Dark Tide generated from its side, then dispersed halfway.
"Broken ability, almost anchored myself."
Leviathan's expression changed urgently, raising a hand to summon several black jellyfish floating towards the people in front, but due to the slow speed, they completely couldn't hit anyone. It couldn't help but feel annoyed:
"This broken illusion isn't even as useful as my Secret Authority."
Useless! Useless! All useless?!
Clearly powers that were divine and marvelous in Noah's hands, falling into Its hands none of them could be used?
The incredulous Leviathan frantically switched using others' powers, Secret Authority frantically capturing the thoughts of everyone present.
Phoebe's ability? Useful but not much.
Zani's ability? Forget it, this guy looks so exhausted.
Brant and Roccia? One summons laughing flame ship anchors, one Resonance ability is actually talking to Tacet Discords?
Ciaccona's ability? Da, dadadadadada~
Lupa? Seems barely okay, wait, Noah is saying this thing actually needs three fire team teammates to be good to use.
Holding the Dark Tide flame flag long gun, Leviathan finally seized the opportunity to force Carlotta into mid-air, yet Carlotta's figure was steadily caught by the Sentry Construct.
Not only that, that Sentry Construct side-stepped half a step, right shoulder sinking, the mechanical giant arm full of accumulated energy bent, the elbow like an unsheathed sharp blade striking fiercely, heavily knocking It back.
The dignified Threnodian was actually elbowed by an Overlord-class Echo.
At this moment, Leviathan suddenly felt a powerlessness like Zhuge Liang of Later Shu. It had a belly full of techniques and numbers, yet couldn't like Noah bring any of the opponents' mechanisms to the extreme at all.
If It insisted on using these people's powers, for It it would be pure weakening.
As its intention changed, It withdrew and retreated, the long sword condensed from waves reappearing in its raised hand, powerful frequencies continuously pouring into the sword, the phantom of the Three Authority Sword floating by its side:
"The playing house game is over—"
Cold gaze sweeping over the people on the ground, the might in the sword becoming more and more fierce:
"Idiots—what's the use of bringing so many burdens? Combined, can they block this full-powered sword of mine?!"
"Those who regard their own companions as burdens are the truly foolish ones!"
Noah's gaze condensed, the Opal long gun in his hand pointing straight at Leviathan:
"Immobilize!"
The Opal bullet as fast as lightning shot out.
Through the Secret Authority sensing Noah's unparalleled confidence, Leviathan dared not hard take it, only able to abandon the charged move in its hand to dodge the bullet.
Facts proved It didn't make the wrong choice.
That bullet shining with golden light shot unimpeded into the sky of the Dark Tide Heaven, countless Opals instantly exploding, freezing all the Dark Tide within a radius of a thousand meters, power astonishing.
"You..." Leviathan twisted its gaze back from the sky of Heaven, difficultly swallowing a mouthful of saliva, looking at Noah as if looking at a monster:
"You cheated..."
"...You started it first."
The power of one strike, not only made Leviathan's whole body cold, even Noah himself was sweating profusely.
Fortunately it was only throwing a Resonance Skill with not particularly high damage multiplier.
If this was throwing the Resonance Liberation, it would probably directly pierce through this underground Heaven, which would instead help Leviathan fuse Heaven with reality.
The Civilization-limited buff boosting the people of Rinascita at most allows everyone to exchange a few moves with the Threnodian.
But if it indirectly boosts Noah, it can make him who is already strong at Calamity-class leap to the level only in the closed beta of Wuthering Waves—Catastrophe-class.
He really loves this kind of character bond where teammates become stronger and he becomes stronger too!