Yvette pressed the round button of the pocket watch for the third time.
The two hands began moving again, indicating that the technique was about to take shape.
Now only the final two steps remained. Once all the conditions were met, no matter how many avatars Hive had in the world, no matter how many parasites still survived, the instant this technique was completed, Hive would undoubtedly die!
Hive, who had been split in two by a single sword, lay there without any sign of life, as if dead.
This crude method of playing dead could not even deceive Yvette, let alone deceive Haschwalth.
He was a creature formed from the aggregation of countless parasites. That sword had only destroyed part of the parasites, and he had deliberately held back, using less than thirty percent of his strength. How could it possibly have killed Hive?
"If you intend to run, I advise you to give up."
The light in Haschwalth's eyes beneath his glasses flickered slightly as he calmly said, "There is a Reishi barrier I set up nearby. Without Captain-level powerful Reiatsu, it is impossible to escape from here."
Probably realizing this, Hive slowly rose from the ground.
His split body fused together, healing at a speed visible to the naked eye and returning to its original appearance.
"You..... how did you break that wall of light?" Hive could not understand no matter how much he thought about it.
He had personally experienced the defense of that wall of light. It was absolutely not something external force could break, but the man before him had violated common sense, easily shattering the wall of light with one sword. How exactly had he done it?
One had to know that inside and outside that wall of light were two different worlds!
It was like how the second dimension could not interfere with the existence of the third dimension. Creatures of this world could not possibly interfere with creatures of another world, let alone shatter the wall of light with one sword and directly heavily injure him while he was hidden in the gap between worlds.
"I have no interest in explaining it to you."
Haschwalth slowly raised his hand, spreading his five fingers. "Your Fullbring should not have appeared in the first place. It is merely the product of an evil experiment, so on behalf of the Soul King, I reclaim your Fullbring here."
"Impossible! Don't even think about it!"
The moment he heard that his Fullbring would be reclaimed, Hive fell into unprecedented panic, both shocked and furious. "That is power bestowed upon me by heaven. What right do you have to take it away? You do not have that qualification!!!"
In fact, even he himself had not noticed.
Every word Haschwalth said, he subconsciously treated as fact.
"You brought this on yourself!!!"
Under extreme panic, anger tore apart his remaining reason. Hive roared like a wild beast, terrifying Reiatsu surging around him, one amber vertical pupil after another opening wide, staring straight at Haschwalth.
"Everything in the world should be under my domination!"
"I am the divine child chosen by heaven to descend upon the world. You inferior creatures can only accept my domination!"
"Now..... offer everything you have to me!!!"
There were about seventy or eighty eyeballs all over his body, gathering eerie purple light and shooting countless dense beams.
Swish swish swish swish swish swish...
The dense beams struck Haschwalth one after another like a torrential rain.
Seeing this scene, Yvette's heart nearly rose into her throat, afraid that he would also be controlled by Hive.
But as the purple beams vanished, there was not a single pupil mark on Haschwalth. No matter how Hive activated his mental control, he could not affect him in the slightest, and Yvette finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"N-No..... impossible....."
Hive widened his eyes, revealing a terrified expression. "Why..... it clearly hit you..."
"Didn't I say it?"
An invisible pressure rose in Haschwalth's eyes with their multiple pupils. "Before these omnipotent [eyes], all your techniques are meaningless. I have already seen your [future]."
"No... I don't believe it!" Hive let out a mad roar, releasing domination beams almost without regard for his life.
"The so-called Fullbring is, in essence, the application of Reishi."
Haschwalth walked through the purple beams, the Reiatsu barrier around him deflecting all the beams, as he said faintly, "Let me tell you a piece of common knowledge. When the gap in Reiatsu between two sides is too great, even the strongest power cannot affect the other party."
As he spoke, Haschwalth walked in front of Hive.
Standing a head taller, he looked down at the terrified and collapsing Hive, lightly pursed his lips, and said, "And the gap between you and me is already so great that I do not need to use any ability at all to easily dissolve your Fullbring."
One hand gently touched Hive's head, and a calm voice echoed beneath the night:
"In the name of the Soul King... Sankt Altar!"
A pentagram altar bursting with holy radiance appeared beneath Hive's feet, its simple lines outlining a profound charm.
Even Yvette and Hive, who had never undergone systematic training and did not recognize the pentagram array symbolizing the Quincy at all, could feel from it an almost tyrannical and unreasonable violent will.
"No... no... no!!!"
A shrill scream erupted from Hive's throat, and his entire face became ferocious from distortion.
He could clearly feel that the energy inside his body was being stripped away bit by bit. Even the resistance surging within him was forcibly suppressed by that tyrannical violent will.
Sankt Altar, just as its name implied.
It forcibly usurped the opponent's power, stripping it from their soul.
Moreover, during the stripping process, depending on the caster's Reiatsu, varying degrees of pain would be inflicted.
The only person who had broken this move was Ichibē Hyōsube, who completely ignored Sankt Altar through the power of calling the true name.
After a moment, the screams finally stopped.
Hive lay on the ground like he had been dehydrated, shriveled like withered bones, without the slightest light in his eyes, like a walking corpse.
"With this, the condition should be fulfilled, right?"
Haschwalth turned back and looked at Yvette, whose eyes were widened cutely, and said faintly.
"I-It can..... it can."
Yvette swallowed, seemingly a little afraid.
"Next, I will leave it to you." Haschwalth cast his gaze into the distance, saying with a heavy heart, "I still have something more important to handle. The person you are waiting for... should appear very soon, so do not worry."
After saying that, without waiting for Yvette to thank him, Haschwalth vanished like a ghost.
With complicated feelings, Yvette took a deep breath, stepped heavily, and slowly walked toward Hive. She took out an ordinary dagger and softly said, "The hatred of seventy years will end today."
Hive stiffly raised his head. Having lost all his power, he was like he had been stripped of the disguise of morality and had completely become a wild beast.
In his scarlet, bloodshot eyes, a fierce and violent killing aura radiated, wishing to tear everything before him apart. His hoarse voice was full of resentment. "I hate you... Yvette!"
"I know."
Yvette came before Hive and tightened her grip on the sharp dagger.
"If not for you..... how could I have been born?!" Hive roared resentfully. "This is all your fault! You are clearly my mother, so why would you not pay attention to me? Why are you not even willing to share a little love with me!"
"I only wanted to be with you forever. What did I do wrong?!"
"Answer my question, Yvette, my mother. What does it feel like to personally kill your offspring?!"
At the end, Hive's voice nearly broke, and the resentment in his eyes was so thick that it even made one's heart palpitate.
Puchi!
A sharp dagger stabbed into Hive's chest.
"From the very beginning, your thinking was wrong."
Yvette knelt on the ground, lowered her head to meet Hive's resentful gaze, and calmly said, "You never regarded yourself as human. You saw everything as your prey. Even I, this so-called mother body, was only nourishment for you to step onto a higher level."
"So please do not... make yourself sound so innocent."
"If it is only for your own survival, you can casually trample on other people's lives, wantonly manipulate their personalities and wills, control them like puppets, only to satisfy your own deformed desires, then you are not worthy of being called human."
"You are not a god, and you have no right to control anyone."
"You are only a monster, a product acting to satisfy its desire for control, a monster attempting to place its own will above all humanity, a monster trying to distort all truths and facts and control others with the power of lies."
"But you forgot one thing..."
"Truth and facts will never be distorted. Humanity will never thank you for your self-righteous 'justice and rule.'"
"You asked me what I feel?"
"Then I can answer you. I feel nothing. I only feel sorrow for you."
"A monster that, from the moment it was born, only knew how to plunder, had no gratitude, was full of lies and hypocrisy, and only knew how to control others."
"Goodbye..... Hive."
"Repent for the sins you committed in the eternal cycle."