Gradually pushing Goki's body backward, the Wyvern captain's face had lost its composure—if both sides hadn't held back from killing in this battle, then the more than twenty people lying here would all be corpses.
Hiding his self-reproach, the Vouivre / Wyvern realized he still had an advantage in strength, so he tried hard to push Goki's body backward, hoping to control him by brute force in the corner.
However, for some reason, he found that his advancing steps had stopped.
[Nona Doll, add 1 to my strength, no, 2 points. The rest has other uses.]
The next second, to the Vouivre / Wyvern captain's surprise, Goki's strength suddenly increased, gradually and effortlessly pushing him back, directly using Saria's shield to slam the Vouivre / Wyvern strongman, who was no shorter than himself, against the wall.
"You haven't used your full strength."
Before losing consciousness, the captain realized that Researcher Goki's combat power was not inferior to Saria's; he had been hiding his true abilities.
[Could it be that he really came to Rhine Lab just to hit on me, a fellow Wyvern countrywoman… He's really going all out, isn't he?]
His head hit the metal wall with a solid thud, and the Wyvern immediately fainted. For an ordinary Mortal, this would be a fatal injury, but for a Wyvern, it would only cause a brief blackout.
"Actually, I did use my full strength—well, it's good that he fainted. What happens here next… will probably be bad for the mind. It's a good thing to faint early."
Clapping his hands, Goki took a breath, letting his stamina refill, then looked towards the battlefield where the two sides were fighting not far away.
In a corner of the room, several department heads from different departments were surrounding Skadi. Leading them was an old man with graying temples but still sharp. Muelsyse / Muir Sais, meanwhile, was obediently hiding in the corner.
"Hey, hey, Ferdinand, you idiot—don't go join the fun. You can't beat her."
She even kept pouring cold water on the old man with a light laugh, seemingly dissuading him, but in reality, was she provoking him?
"Hmph, Muelsyse / Muir Sais, you can continue to tremble under your feathers. This little girl is merely full of brute strength. She has no power to resist my Originium Arts—this kind of strength is certainly not innate. I am very curious, who performed the modifications on you?"
With a surge of wind around him, Ferdinand, the head of the Energy Department, looked disdainfully at Muelsyse / Muir Sais, who constantly tripped him up. He turned his head and showed a standard negotiating smile to the white-haired girl who was walking towards them step by step.
Ferdinand was very confident in his Originium Arts, which allowed him to manipulate air and flip over trucks.
"Hello, Nona. I am very curious about your strength. I wonder if you are interested in joining us. The Energy Department has mature body enhancement surgeries that can make your strength even greater. Recently, the Energy Department happens to be cooperating with other companies at Fortress Mountain. If you are willing, I can—"
Bang — — — — Thwack!
Accompanied by a heavy thud, Skadi casually swung her palm, easily shattering the shield made of surging wind, sending the old man who had given himself enhancements spinning and embedding him into the nearby wall—from the crisp impact sound, he should not be dead.
But, even if he fainted, his Originium Arts were still being released, which would normally be impossible.
"Wait, our Mayer knows Gao—"
Clang—
"Wait, I just came for a meeting—"
—Thud
Accompanied by crisp sounds, one by one, the department heads, some protecting themselves with engineering armor, others releasing powerful Originium Arts, were slammed against the wall by Skadi.
Pure brute force directly shattered the unformed Originium Arts, stopping them in their formation stage, turning them into pure Originium energy that dissipated into the air.
Skadi had consulted Goki on how to combat Originium Arts, and the answer she received was to try to get behind and backstab before the opponent cast a Spell—that's how he dealt with Spell monsters in Yharnam.
However, Skadi didn't need to go around; she could directly crush her opponents head-on.
If these department heads had been given time to prepare, perhaps their Originium Arts could have stopped, or even suppressed, Skadi.
But they were, after all, scholars with little practical combat experience, and with the entire Rhine Lab building now in some peculiar state where all Originium Arts had become exceptionally unstable, they were simply no match for Skadi.
Finally, Skadi came before Muelsyse / Muir Sais, looking at her and her Incarnation, a large and a small, hugging each other and looking at her somewhat nervously.
"Wow—umm, I'm very well-behaved, hello! I heard Goki talk about you. He and I are partners, I mean, companions—you know, friends!"
Looking at this little girl who broke all laws with sheer force, completely beyond the norm, Muelsyse / Muir Sais felt a bit like she missed Goki—this girl was terrifying!
"Friends?"
Skadi widened her eyes, seemingly very surprised by Muelsyse / Muir Sais's identity.
Muelsyse / Muir Sais's heart leaped with joy, she secretly thanked Goki, then nodded vigorously in affirmation.
"Of course, very good, very, very best kind of friends!"
Thwack — — — —
Skadi indifferently and swiftly drew the greatsword from her back, and with a swift slash, cut off Muelsyse / Muir Sais's head—of course, it was the Incarnation she perceived—then lightly tapped it with the flat of the blade, smashing it into a mist.
After doing all these things, Skadi proudly patted her chest.
"I am Goki's best friend!"
Goki could have many friends, but Skadi absolutely had to be number one!
"Yes, you are indeed Goki's best friend."
Muelsyse / Muir Sais made a long face, took a cowardly step back, but couldn't help pouting and mumbling softly.
"Not really."
Muelsyse / Muir Sais had always been good at saying what people wanted to hear, but on this particular issue... she was a little unwilling to admit it.
"Goki, this side is also resolved."
Skadi turned around and excitedly waved to Goki, who was dozens of meters away at the other end of the room.
Goki felt the increasingly dense, almost palpable, alluring yet exceptionally repulsive Qi around him, as well as the gazes peering at him from countless directions. He nodded to Skadi and looked at the most intense battlefield, which he had only been able to occasionally glance at earlier.
"Good, so now, only Madam Director needs to be persuaded. Saria, how are you, hey, hey, hey—ugh!"
The next second, a flying Vouivre / Wyvern crashed into Goki, burying his face deep into the soft—Rhine charging suit.
Saria, who was super fierce just a moment ago... was sent flying.
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