With Seiun Sky's encouragement, Myriad Dreams's drive was reignited.
She took a deep breath, suppressing her previous fatigue, and her gaze became focused once more.
'Simulating Sky's Zone? Maybe... different combinations of Zones will produce different effects?'
She closed her eyes again, and in her mind, she visualized Seiun Sky's free and unconstrained running style, one that was like soaring through the heavens, feeling that pure intent of pursuing ultimate speed.
"Zone Simulation— Seiun Sky!"
Driven by her will, the characteristics of the energy flowing around her began to shift!
Upon the unpredictable foundation of Myriad Dreams's Zone, an energy that was light, swift, and carried the rhythm of the wind began to gather.
Gradually, it sketched out a blurry energy phantom wearing Seiun Sky's trademark cheerful smile.
Angling and Scheming! This was the essence of Seiun Sky's Zone, a characteristic that pursues absolute explosive speed in the latter half of the race!
"Wow! You can simulate me that quickly?!"
Seeing her own energy phantom appear, the real Seiun Sky cried out in surprise, her eyes sparkling.
"Dreams, you really are amazing!"
However, Myriad Dreams did not stop there. The moment the phantom of Seiun Sky stabilized, her intent shifted again!
"Zone Simulation— Switch! Yaeno Muteki!"
The light, swift sensation belonging to Seiun Sky receded like a tide, replaced by a familiar, deep, and scorching explosive energy!
A deep purple glow emerged once more, and the phantom of Yaeno Muteki, filled with obsession and power, condensed beside her again.
But this time, Myriad Dreams didn't let the two simulated Zones simply coexist or switch!.She made an incredibly bold attempt, guiding these two simulated Zones of vastly different attributes to perform a forced fusion!
"Merge... for me!"
She grit her teeth, turning her entire mental strength into an invisible carving knife.
She forcibly interfered with the energy structures of the two simulated Zones, trying to find a non-existent point of balance and a resonance bridge between them!
At first, the two energies repelled each other violently.
The nimbleness of Seiun Sky and the overbearing nature of Yaeno Muteki were like fire and water. Energy surged wildly around Myriad Dreams, looking extremely unstable.
Yaeno Muteki and Seiun Sky both held their breath, watching tensely.
However, at the exact moment Myriad Dreams felt she could no longer hold on and her mental strength was about to be depleted—
Buzz!!!
A hum, far deeper and more soul-shaking than any before, rang out!
The cyan light representing Seiun Sky and the deep brown energy representing Yaeno Muteki's Zone stopped clashing.
Instead, like two intertwined spirit snakes, they began to rotate, weave, and permeate each other in a mysterious trajectory!
The cyan and brown lights were no longer distinct, gradually merging into a profound and mysterious deep green.
A brand-new energy field, one far more majestic and complex than any single simulated Zone, possessing the traits of both extreme speed and explosive power, erupted outward with Myriad Dreams as the center!
Zone Fusion— Complete!
"It succeeded?! It actually... fused?!"
Even the usually calm Yaeno Muteki couldn't help but exclaim, her eyes filled with disbelief.
She could feel that the fused Zone energy carried both Sky's characteristic of attracting everything in pursuit of speed and her own explosive will to crush obstacles regardless of the cost.
This was a qualitative change!
Myriad Dreams herself was even more shocked. She felt an unprecedentedly powerful force roaring through her body.
This wasn't just a temporary attribute boost, it was like a brief sublimation of her very level of existence!
Without the slightest hesitation, she immediately took this new, fused indigo-green Zone and performed the final stack with her most fundamental Zone!
[A Dream of a Thousand Layers!]
The invisible waves of the illusion and the indigo-green fusion Zone stacked together perfectly. No repulsion, no conflict, as if they were meant to be one.
BOOM!!!
A terrifying aura soared from Myriad Dreams's body. She was surrounded by dreamlike fluctuations and indigo-green energy streams.
Her long blue hair danced wildly without wind. Within her eyes, the left flashed with the ghostly blue of the illusion, while the right vaguely shimmered with indigo-green light!
She instinctively glanced at the Speed attribute displayed on her internal system panel—
Speed: 1330!
This number made Myriad Dreams herself suck in a cold breath.
'1330 points?! And... and I haven't even used the [Desperate Outburst] or [Power Conversion] buff skills yet!!!'
Relying solely on the fusion and stacking of her own Zone and the simulated Zones, her Speed attribute had instantly broken through a previously unimaginable bottleneck, reaching a terrifying value sufficient to compete head-on with the top opponents at the Arc de Triomphe!
Feeling the seemingly infinite power within her and the extreme sense of lightness brought by her Speed attribute, Myriad Dreams's heart swelled with unprecedented confidence and excitement!
'It worked! It really worked! This wild idea... it actually works!'
She looked up into the distance, as if her gaze could pierce through the barriers of space to see the finish line of the Longchamp Racecourse.
'Arc de Triomphe... wait for me! This time, I truly have the qualification to challenge that highest sky!'