Chapter 773: The Final Plan, The Descent of Enemies
"Human or dragon?"
"Such things don't matter~ Come, immerse yourself in a world of pleasure~"
A coquettish female voice echoed from the ocean. Golden light simultaneously bloomed, instantly warping into a vivid red. An intense aura of depravity emerged, accompanied by a decadent melody.
In an instant, it enveloped Kaito Shirogane.
[You have been affected by the ability of the Beast of Depravity]
The Beastified Nero possessed a special attack modifier against dragons as well. She didn't care who her opponent was; she only wanted the world to fall into eternal bliss.
But Kaito Shirogane stood his ground, unmoved, his gaze condescending. The next moment, his figure vanished once more.
Because he possessed the solidified Authority of [Body of Stars], he could activate any highly burdensome ability without a care.
The 9th Stage of Setsuna + Eight-Fold Kaio-Ken were activated directly. This was the first time in his life Kaito Shirogane had unleashed such abilities without any burden.
He was completely immersed in his own power, which seemed to swell infinitely.
He felt time almost come to a complete standstill. The speed of his thoughts completely surpassed physical speed. The Beast of Depravity's voice, her expressions, and even the radiance emanating from her deployed Noble Phantasm—all seemed far too sluggish to him.
In this seemingly static world, he was bored out of his mind. He even had the leisure to open his attribute panel in the space's interface.
Strength: ? Agility: ? Constitution: ? Spirit: ? Energy: ? (Body of Stars, Demon Lord Authority, Kaio-Ken x8, Qilin Armor, Infinite Energy...)
The accumulation of numerous Authorities caused his attributes to turn into unrecognizable symbols. His 'Vessel' at this moment, strictly speaking, was no longer just himself.
The Demon Lord of Absolute Evil, Azi Dahaka, had indeed awakened within his body. At this moment, the body belonged to both of them.
"Second one."
When the cold voice sounded by her ear, Beast of Depravity Nero was suddenly startled. As she turned her head, her eyes moved first, but her field of vision was completely empty.
Pfft!
The instant the palm touched her skin, the icy sensation, accompanied by an intense impact force, instantly ruptured all the capillaries on her skin.
Before the strange beast she rode could even react, devastating force erupted from her face.
BOOM!
Blazing white kinetic force finally erupted from the air, like a divine spear piercing through the firmament and the ocean. The terrifying force pierced straight through Nero and her mount before they even had a sliver of a chance to dissipate it.
A massive hole appeared on Nero's face, piercing straight through the mount below her.
At the end of this kinetic force, a massive crater was also blasted into the ocean, seawater spiraling inwards and vanishing.
Shattered spatial rifts and raging atmosphere finally erupted sequentially.
The Kings summoned by Nero only realized their master had been defeated at this moment. Various powers and Authorities erupted simultaneously, and Noble Phantasms were unleashed one after another.
But Kaito Shirogane only felt: Too slow. Everything is too slow.
BOOM!
An airburst occurred right where he stood. Reinhardt and Mori-Summer couldn't even see what had happened; they only heard two brief, sharp sounds of collision.
Following that, two flashes of light appeared, and Sousuke and the Beast of Depravity plunged into the ocean one after the other.
The next moment, in the sky hundreds of kilometers away, three beams of light lit up simultaneously, followed by an earth-shattering shockwave erupting from the sky.
In the night sky, all anomalies vanished in an instant.
The Sea of Life spanning the highest point in the sky was now completely shattered.
"Hahahaha, excellent!"
Kaito Shirogane laughed heartily. Looking at the human and the beast who could actually react to his attacks, his blood began to flow rapidly, as if it were burning.
An invisible spiral activated behind him.
[Limit-Break Spiral]!
This talent, unique to Kaito Shirogane himself, was recklessly activated by him with the reinforcement of the Body of Stars.
And the [Magic] obtained from the Root within his eyes was also activated simultaneously.
Izayoi Sakamaki, who had fought to the point of near frenzy, was also in high spirits. He felt that his entire body, mind, and soul had been completely unleashed.
Some unknown particles flowing within his body had completely surged forth. The power that even he couldn't fully comprehend was finally revealing its true face bit by bit.
And all of this was thanks to this young beast that looked like a white puppy in front of him.
"Mimicking my power, and always remaining stronger than me... Hahaha, then let's see where our limits truly lie!"
Izayoi Sakamaki didn't even glance at Kaito Shirogane. With a movement of his feet, his entire body transformed into a streak of light and shot out. The Beast of Comparison, [Primate Murder], also turned into a streak of light simultaneously.
Kaito Shirogane couldn't possibly stay out of the frantic battle between the two. The brilliant colors in his eyes acted like camera lenses, perfectly capturing every movement of the human and the beast.
Including the unknown particles flowing within Izayoi Sakamaki and the unique Authority of the Beast of Comparison.
The next moment, Kaito Shirogane felt that bizarre power. His already terrifying physical attributes were further stimulated by the particles.
He bent his knees, and in an instant, his body was enveloped in white light, completely transforming into a stream of light and shooting into the clouds.
In mere moments, he had reached the battlefield of the human and the beast.
When his attributes and power level completely approached or even surpassed those of Izayoi Sakamaki and the Beast of Comparison, he discovered that the combat techniques of these two...
Were an absolute mess!
The white stream of light abruptly inserted itself in front of Izayoi Sakamaki. In this light-stream form, speed and destructive power had reached their absolute peak. Izayoi Sakamaki felt that he didn't need any technique; simply unleashing that power was enough.
But Kaito Shirogane slightly shifted his body. Izayoi Sakamaki's punching posture, which looked like a beginner's, was easily dodged. Subsequently, he grabbed and pushed the side of Izayoi Sakamaki with both hands.
The terrifying kinetic energy was redirected by Kaito Shirogane, erupting alongside a force from himself equal to Izayoi Sakamaki's.
BOOM!
The golden stream of light instantly changed direction, subsequently crashing into Primate Murder like a comet.
The white beast instantly changed its attack posture, bending once in mid-air to crash towards Izayoi Sakamaki. But before the two collided, a faster stream of light appeared.
Brilliant flames burned upon Kaito Shirogane's three-headed dragon body. On his interface, the radiance of the [Principle of Comparison] burned like fire.
With the reinforcement of this twisted Human Order, his power advanced further, surpassing the current Primate Murder and Izayoi Sakamaki.
Originally possessing only a tiny fraction of a Demon Lord's Authority, he couldn't surpass the 4-Digit Izayoi Sakamaki in absolute power. But now, he was using this method to touch an even higher, more profound limit.
Primate Murder sensed the approach of the three-headed evil dragon, but its special attack modifier against humanity completely failed to affect Kaito Shirogane at this moment.
Strictly speaking, Kaito Shirogane was no longer a primate at this time. As the Beast of Comparison crashed towards him, he repeated his old trick. Using the very first martial arts technique he had learned, the [Niko Style]'s Redirection Kata, he directly destroyed the Beast of Comparison's center of gravity.
The next moment, the two comet-like streams of light crashed into each other thunderously in the sky.
Terrifying flames of light and shockwaves swept across the entire world.
"The third one... and the fourth one."
Within the Sea of Consciousness, Azi Dahaka watched the series of operations performed by this "Fruit of Evil" from another world, truly seeing another version of Himself.
Perhaps the other party hadn't realized it yet, but he indeed possessed that power—that special power to mimic everything. Although it was different from His Simulated Star Particle Creation, the essence reached the same destination through different paths.
The other party possessed the essence of chaos.
Roar!
The roar of the three-headed evil dragon shook heaven and earth, as if declaring that He was the true king of this world.
Sousuke climbed out from the bottom of the sea looking somewhat battered, his body marked with cracks resembling broken porcelain. He had never been in such a sorry state at the hands of a Reincarnator.
Of course, the Mercenary Tao at this moment could no longer be considered a Reincarnator; the other party was now the Demon Lord of Absolute Evil, Azi Dahaka Himself.
If this Demon Lord could recover His full strength and fully awaken, killing Him wouldn't actually be a difficult task. After all, once reaching that level, the concept of "World" was no longer something indestructible.
He watched the Domain of Depravity slowly dissipate, confirming that the powerful Beast had indeed been instantly killed by the current Mercenary Tao.
Sousuke turned to look at another area of the sea. The demonic dragon Tiamat had revived. Even the current Mercenary Tao could not kill this immortal Mother Goddess of Creation.
Sousuke looked up at the sky. His miracle triggered once again, and his gaze met directly with that of his former teammate, who was not currently in this world.
The two gazed at each other across worlds.
Both understood what the other meant.
Ye Zi's eyes were cold. She had violated her own principles, turning the innocent people of the plot world into sacrifices, committing the very act she used to find most disgusting.
She had become what she hated the most.
Sousuke, what are you going to do now?
When power can no longer stand at the very peak, what can your miracles save?
That childish, play-pretend everyday life of Reincarnators is ultimately built upon power. Now that I've torn away that luxury, how can you possibly save everything...
Having witnessed too many tragic timelines, Ye Zi realized that the perfect timelines Azure Sky experienced were ultimately just illusions.
It is easy to destroy but difficult to build. No matter how painstakingly a beautiful world is cultivated, it only takes one or two task deployments to completely destroy it.
Sousuke, however, looked at Ye Zi, everything now clear to him. Ye Zi was the one who wanted to become a calamity, the Reincarnator who wanted to become a Demon Lord.
This point had actually been certain from the very beginning.
In the Little Garden world, the designation of a [Demon Lord] is absolute. Those who possess the [Host Master Authority] to host Gift Games and abuse it become [Demon Lords].
And by initiating this special Gift Game, Ye Zi had effectively become a [Demon Lord]. She twisted the rules of the Gift Game and forced others to participate...
Ye Zi would die, there was no doubt about that. The Halloween Queen giving her such power was likely just hoping to confirm, amidst this turmoil, what kind of possibilities the "Reincarnator" group possessed and what position they occupied.
Sousuke also knew that he would die too; his [Destined Death] was incredibly close.
Mercenary Tao would also die. He had already manifested the timeline of the Demon Lord of Absolute Evil. After accepting Ye Zi's conditions and allowing Azi Dahaka to revive within his body, no matter how much powerful strength or Authority he gained, it was all useless.
He had lost the Space's protection, lost the possibility of being recalled by the Space.
Even after being killed, how much of his information could be recovered by the Space became a question.
And Azi Dahaka inherently possessed the inevitability of being defeated by Izayoi Sakamaki...
Ye Zi had created a timeline where everyone lost. It was an ending where no one benefited.
The only ones to benefit were probably the Planar factions, who had eliminated two top-tier "mercenaries" of the Infinite Dimensional Space.
Even Little Garden itself suffered an unprovoked disaster, bringing an unprecedented great calamity to its outer gates.
"You really are heartless."
Sousuke turned and walked towards the demonic dragon, Tiamat. He decided to completely abandon the battlefield of Izayoi Sakamaki and the others; the battle between those monsters wouldn't be decided anytime soon.
But as long as he could save the majority of the hundreds of thousands of people in Underwood, the rest of Azure Sky could prove to the Halloween Queen that Reincarnators weren't merely a group that brought calamity and destruction.
Ye Zi's plan was ultimately just an individual's plan.
This way, the Halloween Queen and the Gods and Buddhas of the Little Garden world would highly likely not intervene in the upcoming Dimensional War as Ye Zi intended.
As Sousuke's Spiritual Light expanded, the decadent melody sounded again.
In mid-air, the Beast of Depravity manifested once more.
Clearly, Ye Zi didn't intend to let Sousuke resolve this matter so easily. She had made up her mind to use the hundreds of thousands of people in Underwood, as well as Sousuke, Mercenary Tao, Azure Sky, and all other top-tier Reincarnators as sacrifices.
She would become a calamity, and the Halloween Queen would see the possibilities possessed by the currently weak group known as "Reincarnators."
Before the Dimensional War even began, she hoped to use the 3-Digit and 2-Digit big shots of this world to forcefully strip the Infinite Dimensional Space of its control over Earth.
After the Beast of Depravity manifested, the commotion didn't stop.
Subsequently, figures descended one after another.
An Ultimate-level Myotismon, taller than a mountain with wings spread wide; Imu, casting a black shadow over the ocean and unleashing bizarre Conqueror's Haki in all directions; a massive black dragon whose size blotted out the sky and the sun...
Enemies who had previously appeared before Azure Sky in various worlds began to descend one by one in this manner.
The last to appear in the center of the battlefield was an arrogant man wearing a white Captain's haori, his chestnut hair swept back—[Sosuke Aizen].
Hum~
Terrifying spiritual pressure instantly shook the world.
Sousuke stopped in his tracks, exhaling a breath of stale air. With a somewhat complicated expression, he looked at the multitude of enemies who had appeared in various worlds.
His gaze finally rested on Sosuke Aizen.
He frowned.
Sosuke Aizen, however, looked around and then smiled.
"It seems you've encountered a problem, Sousuke-kun."
"So, I'm very curious... Is this problem the current me, or... that incredibly outstanding creation of mine~"
[Shatter, Kyoka Suigetsu]
Amidst the shattering of the blade, reflected light illuminated the surroundings.
Within Kaito Shirogane's body, Azi Dahaka slowly rose. He was about to begin taking over this body, for He had already sensed the arrival of destiny.