Chapter 232

"What?!"

"Let me write this down,"

The afterimage vanished, and three steps behind, Bai Yan solemnly took out a small notebook and began scribbling, "Same movements but different positions, still enough to fool Bianca —Alright, let's continue."

He put away the notebook and looked at Durandal.

"..."

Seeing this, Bronya immediately said, "Everyone, attack together! The power he's using is abnormal!"

Kiana and Raiden Mei were taken aback, then looked closely at Bai Yan himself.

Compared to before, he seemed ordinary now, but upon closer inspection, he gave the two of them a sense of unease.

"Oh? You noticed?"

"But unfortunately, I won't be going to go easy on them like before."

"So... are you prepared to accept a future of utter defeat?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Yan opened his arms.

Almost simultaneously, Kiana, Raiden Mei, and Bronya activated their powers.

The three of them felt that special resonance and immediately began to respond to each other.

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Chapter 279 The Journey Towards its Finality.

The Setsuna the resonance was activated, the three of them attacked almost simultaneously.

With the three powers working in tandem, they immediately suppressed Bai Yan's sword strike that was about to take shape.

"It's starting to look promising; I guess I'll have to be careful."

Bai Yan's eyes narrowed. Faced with the oppressive force that could suffocate all living things, he instantly switched from an offensive stance to a defensive one.

He restrained himself, compressing his power to the extreme. The fictional world, which should have been of normal size, immediately became smaller and smaller, even unable to maintain its most basic form.

The extreme distortion under compression results in unparalleled defensive capabilities.

The three men's attacks encountered an unexpected resistance the Setsuna they made contact.

Seeing this, Kiana, positioned as the spear among the three, leaped high into the air and delivered a powerful flying kick.

What appears to be an ordinary action contains the power of the Finality.

Even in the compressed, fictional world, cracks still appeared the moment the kick landed.

Bai Yan's pupils trembled, his mind racing.

At that moment, the pressure from Kiana's heavy blow was stronger than he had imagined.

That wasn't all. Raiden Mei and Bronya launched an almost seamless offensive, unleashing a barrage of lightning and artillery fire in an instant.

Countless rays of light and explosions mingled together, finally overshadowing the Phase Barrier of the fictional world that Bai Yan had created.

The headquarters of the World Serpent, bombarded by the aftershocks, began to show signs of collapse.

There was no one else there, only a group of automated machines responsible for routine maintenance; and after such an attack, the alarm blared instantly, and the alert level jumped to the highest level.

Bai Yan clasped his hands together, then slowly opened them.

A crimson greatsword appeared in his hands, which he then gripped tightly with both hands.

Boom boom boom...

The collapse of the World Serpent Headquarters stabilized instantly, and the countless exposed cracks gradually closed up.

A bizarre scene unfolded: the parts that had been damaged were now slowly and automatically repairing themselves.

The next moment, the Phase Barrier was restored to its original state, and the compressed virtual world returned to normal.

The world seemed to have been completely remade by Bai Yan.

The three attackers did not stop; in fact, their power increased.

Although Bai Yan stabilized the situation, he was unable to gain any advantage whatsoever.

Just then, Durandal made her move.

The strongest Valkyrie of Schicksal, clad in jet-black armor, wielding the Black Abyss White Flower, unleashes a power capable of moving mountains and seas.

Under extreme power, the slight assistance of inertia becomes meaningless; within a short distance, the power of the Divine Key is fully unleashed.

The World Serpent Base collapsed, with metal mixed with rocks crashing down.

The violent earthquake and the structural collapse occurred almost simultaneously, and this was merely the dissipation of a negligible amount of force.

Facing Durandal -on, Bai Yan held his crimson longsword upright, but it wavered immediately when the blow arrived.

The red blade seemed to transform into flames, teetering precariously in the storm.

Durandal stared at the other person, observing the colors around their body, and suddenly spoke.

"If you don't go all out, you'll lose Bai Yan!"

The three were startled by what they heard.

Not going all out?

Despite being surrounded by four people and struggling to break through their formation, Durandal deduced that Bai Yan was still holding back.

The situation is too tense for a leisurely discussion.

But those words left a slight shadow in the minds of several people.

Bai Yan spoke, his tone surprisingly calm. "Isn't it because I was afraid of hurting you?"

Durandal was about to retort, she noticed that the boy suddenly moved.

He held the crimson longsword in both hands, suddenly raised it above his head, and then slashed it fiercely.

Unexplained ripples appeared, and the four felt their power falter for a moment, their offensive seemingly frozen in place.

Then, Bai Yan released his hands, letting the scarlet longsword float in the air, and turned around, transforming into a tornado and rushing out of the place.

He ran away!

Kiana looked toward the exit and called out loudly.

The group wanted to follow, but they found that the scarlet longsword would tremble and they felt a binding sensation on their bodies whenever they moved.

"It will take some time for that sword to disappear."

Bronya looked at the longsword and said.

Upon seeing this, Kiana rushed forward and kicked him.

Thump!

The moment it touched the sword, an unusual recoil force erupted.

Kiana was suddenly thrown backward uncontrollably, her figure leaving a blur, before being abruptly stopped by the binding force.

"The power emanating from that sword seems to be in some way incompatible with my existence."

She steadied herself and spoke quickly.

"This backlash is unusually strong. Could the correct approach be to let it wear down gradually?"

Raiden Mei gazed thoughtfully at the scarlet longsword.

"I'll try again."

Kiana had a vague feeling that she should kick him hard.

She moved closer to the longsword again, then leaped up and delivered a spinning kick.

Thump!!

Landing.

Kiana suddenly realized.

"The recoil has decreased! Quick, let's increase the intensity and try again!"

On the other side.

Bai Yan rushed out of the World Serpent and spent a moment finding Jingliu.

She was gazing at the migrating crowd in the distance when she saw Bai Yan approaching. Turning to him, she asked, "Have they escaped?"

"Yes, Earth's offensive will not stop, but I need you and Fu Xuan to hold off those two from before. I will send a signal when the time comes."

Jingliu nodded and looked towards the crowd again.

Bai Yan was also watching.

Before long, a group of Honkai Beast suddenly appeared from a Phase Barrier, looked around for a while, and then rushed towards the crowd.

Almost simultaneously, a squad of Valkyrie took to the air and blocked the Honkai Beast, and the battle began.

However, when facing Honkai Beast of this level, protecting civilians often proves to be more about defense than offense, because they cannot stray too far from the civilians.

These Honkai Beast are a motley crew; the Valkyrie aren't afraid of them, but they turn on civilians and slaughter them, making them extremely difficult to deal with.

"It's just like herding sheep."

Jingliu commented.

"Sheep won't listen to human persuasion alone; that's why humans came up with the idea of taming wolves into dogs to help them. That's how those Honkai Beast came about."

"That's ridiculous."

Suddenly, Fu Xuan appeared and said something with great disdain.

Bai Yan shrugged, indicating that this was his skill level.

Fu Xuan glanced at him.

"But this will make you infamous on this planet."

"I've heard that kind of monster is a symbol of a major villain."

Bai Yan: "The insults of mortals are meaningless."

"So, what about those girls?"

Upon hearing this, Bai Yan looked in the direction Fu Xuan indicated.

There was nothing there.

But after a while, four figures appeared.

Durandal charged ahead, riding Kriemhild with overwhelming momentum as she soared through the air.

Bai Yan didn't move for a moment.

The next moment.

A figure suddenly appeared to Durandal's right front.

A strange top hat decorated with gears, holding a golden cube in his hand.

Vill-V's smile was completely undisguised, as if she had successfully pulled off a prank.

"Dear viewers, here's a surprise for you!"

As she spoke, the golden cube instantly transformed, and then a golden light enveloped Durandal.

In the instant it enveloped her, Durandal vanished.

The three who followed were taken aback, but quickly realized the importance of the situation and rushed towards Bai Yan immediately.

Seeing this, Fu Xuan made the first move.

She made some kind of gesture, and the three of them paused for Setsuna.

Bai Yan used the same trick again, clasping his hands together and opening them wide, then slashing forward with his scarlet longsword.

The three were completely under control.

At this moment, Vill-V finished her brief adjustment of the Void Archive and once again aimed it at the arena.