Ink Chrysanthemum Blooms, Thousand Dragons Break the Sky!
Now, the Skeleton Soldiers had been strengthened. The eerie green glow in their eye sockets began shifting into a crimson hue, as though someone had applied a Berserk buff to them.
Noticing the change in the Skeleton Soldiers, Fu Yuan stopped walking and turned to look at Scáthach, who sat atop the gates of the Land of Shadows with her shapely legs crossed. "...Did you just pull something?"
"I did." Scáthach nodded with a delighted smile, readily admitting it to Fu Yuan.
What a shameless BBA!
[BBA refers to an older woman—in other words, an old hag.]
"Judging by what just happened, if I didn't strengthen the Skeleton Soldiers a little, you would probably wipe them out soon enough. So I pulled a little trick and granted them the protection of the Land of Shadows," Scáthach said, still crossing her legs.
Scáthach's explanation was simple and clear. Understanding it, Fu Yuan's lips curled upward. "So you just didn't want them to be wiped out too quickly. Fine, then."
Seeing Fu Yuan's smile, Scáthach's heart stirred slightly. She focused on him again, because she had already guessed what he intended to do next.
Fu Yuan wanted to swiftly eliminate the Skeleton Soldiers she had strengthened.
Scáthach had guessed wrong about him so many times before, but this time, she had guessed right.
Since Scáthach did not want those Skeleton Soldiers to be eliminated so quickly, he would show her exactly how he could destroy the strengthened Skeleton Soldiers in two moves.
After all, while fighting alongside the Skeleton Soldiers earlier, Fu Yuan had already more or less mastered the explosive increase and amplification in power brought by the Monet Stigmata.
It was time for Fu Yuan to end this one-sided battle of suppression.
Facing the Skeleton Soldiers of the Land of Shadows that Scáthach had strengthened, Fu Yuan stomped the ground and transformed into an afterimage of lightning once more.
This time, Fu Yuan's figure danced through the air at terrifying speed—so fast that even Scáthach's dynamic vision struggled to catch him!
"Swift Feather Transformation Art: Ink Chrysanthemum!"
Fu Yuan's chilling, soul-shaking voice rang across the battlefield. Then, as he danced amid orange lightning, his afterimages lingered in Scáthach's vision, gradually...
Fu Yuan's orange-yellow lightning afterimages formed the sight of a chrysanthemum blooming before Scáthach's eyes.
This was Swift Feather Transformation Art: Ink Chrysanthemum.
Beneath the beautiful blooming ink chrysanthemum, countless Skeleton Soldiers exploded into shattered bone fragments. Even after Scáthach had strengthened them through the gates of the Land of Shadows, they could not withstand Fu Yuan's fierce and rapid assault.
The remaining Skeleton Soldiers were being eliminated by Fu Yuan at a visible rate.
"Swift Feather Transformation Art: Thousand Dragon Sky Break!"
As Fu Yuan's air-shaking voice fell once more, the figure continuously forming the Ink Chrysanthemum unbelievably split into several shadows, as though he had used a cloning technique.
But those were merely afterimages left behind in space by Fu Yuan.
Several orange afterimages attacked the last group of Skeleton Soldiers together with Fu Yuan's true body.
Boom!
Orange lightning shot into the sky before Scáthach's beautiful eyes. The Skeleton Soldiers' dry bones shattered and scattered, becoming a pile of useless broken fragments.
Fu Yuan used Swift Feather Transformation Art: Thousand Dragon Sky Break to finish them off. With not a single Skeleton Soldier left alive, his darting, dancing figure finally came to a stop.
Standing upon the ground, Fu Yuan lightly flicked his sleeve, then turned around. His eyes, faintly flashing with orange lightning, looked toward Queen Scáthach, seated atop the gates of the Land of Shadows.
Scáthach met Fu Yuan's gaze. Before, she had been unable to clearly follow his figure, but now that he had stopped, she could finally see his condition clearly.
This man... his aura is steady, his breathing calm, his complexion rosy. He doesn't look like someone who has just gone through a battle at all, Scáthach thought silently as she looked at Fu Yuan.
Of course, Fu Yuan had only used two moves. To him, those Skeleton Soldiers had been no more than a warm-up.
Now that Scáthach had witnessed Fu Yuan's Swift Feather Transformation Art: Ink Chrysanthemum and Swift Feather Transformation Art: Thousand Dragon Sky Break, she knew that the power of this technique had already entered the ranks of Noble Phantasms.
And it was the Anti-Army Noble Phantasm kind.
Anti-Army Noble Phantasm: A Noble Phantasm capable of carrying out wide-range attacks against armies numbering from dozens to hundreds of people.
[This means Fu Yuan's moves possessed the power of Noble Phantasms. It does not mean that Fu Yuan's moves were Noble Phantasms.]
Fu Yuan's two attacks had directly annihilated the Skeleton Soldiers Scáthach had summoned through the gates of the Land of Shadows. As their summoner, Scáthach knew their strength very well.
Unstrengthened Skeleton Soldiers could be smashed apart by a speeding car.
Strengthened Skeleton Soldiers could flip a speeding car over.
Yet even so, the Skeleton Soldiers Scáthach had strengthened had been dealt with so easily by Fu Yuan. She now had a rough understanding of the combat power this man possessed.
Sitting atop the gates of the Land of Shadows, Scáthach looked at Fu Yuan with shining eyes and praised him without reservation. "Not bad. Truly not bad."
"Watching you fight just now has stirred the fighting spirit sleeping within my body."
That was right. The battle lust slumbering within Scáthach had been awakened by Fu Yuan. The blood flowing through her lovely body had grown hot again after so long.
That was a warrior's blood.
Seeing Scáthach's beautiful eyes radiate battle intent and her graceful body exude imposing pressure, Fu Yuan assumed his opening stance and slowly said, "Then now... it's your turn, Queen of the Land of Shadows."
After crushing those Skeleton Soldiers with thunderous force, Fu Yuan still had not completed that Daily Quest. It seemed he would have to fight this queen after all.
"Good!"
Facing Fu Yuan's challenge, Scáthach leaped down from atop the gates of the Land of Shadows. Her slender, seductive figure landed before him.
Scáthach stood before Fu Yuan and clenched her delicate hand. Violet-red magical energy burst forth, then formed into a crimson spear.
Scáthach sharply swung the weapon that had appeared in her hand. Her beautiful eyes brimmed with battle intent and passion as she parted her cherry lips toward Fu Yuan. "I am Scáthach, gatekeeper of the Land of Shadows, one who entered the Divine Realm in a human body. I now formally accept your challenge!"
Looking at Scáthach, filled with battle intent, Fu Yuan let out a soft breath and calmed the restless emotions within him.
It was not only Scáthach whose blood was boiling. As a martial artist, Fu Yuan's blood was also heating up for the coming battle. The breath he had just exhaled carried a faint mist and threads of electric arcs.
In response to Scáthach introducing herself once more, Fu Yuan answered with calm, forceful words.
"Please instruct me, Queen of the Land of Shadows."
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