(Congratulations to 'HellsingEV' for becoming this book's Sect Master!)
(Many thanks to 'Kaede no Chōrei', 'Yan Yu Jiangnan', 'Pokémon', and '_MoMeak' for their tips!)
The gale howled!
Heaven and earth trembled!
Lightning flashed!
Eyelids twitched!
Watching Yekusaya and Yuzuru, who held enormous longbows and were surrounded by streams of wind, point arrows burning with violet-black flames at Ikaros ahead, while Mikoto's body crackled madly with wild arcs of electricity, Black Bat had no choice but to steel himself.
Black Bat knew that these four girls were about to bring out their strongest methods!
Whether these methods would make him fall from his absolute advantage, Black Bat did not know. But Black Bat felt that regardless of whether they could threaten him, escaping them would be absolutely impossible!
The reason was simple: there was nowhere to hide!
Although the Imperial Treasury beneath the Phil Empire's royal palace was indeed vast enough to hold a castle, if four experts who were at least Rank Nine unleashed their strongest attacks at the same time, even ten castles would be reduced to ruins, wouldn't they?...
Therefore, whether Black Bat chose to evade or not, if those attacks landed within the Imperial Treasury beneath the Phil Empire's royal palace, the resulting shockwaves would still sweep him up!
In other words, faced with attacks whose threat level he did not know, Black Bat would be struck if he did not evade—and he would still be struck if he did!
"A mere pack of human women!" A pair of sharp fangs emerged from Black Bat's mouth, and a lethal ferocity flashed through his eyes.
"Why should I evade?!"
As soon as he spoke, Black Bat abruptly braced himself. A blackish-red mist surged wildly from every part of his body, like ghostly shadows spiraling upward. Amid waves of