Calamity Soul Manifestation

At this critical moment, Susanoo used his repaired hands to block the incoming attack with his transformed weapon.

While he managed to block most of the water blades, it rendered the terrifying transformed weapon useless.

However, it saved his life.

"Susanoo-san!"

Tatsumi rushed forward, placing himself in front of Susanoo, as if daring anyone to harm him before they could harm Susanoo.

"Troublesome."

Tatsumi and Susanoo were both more annoying than the other.

Tatsumi's Incursio already had formidable defense, and although Lilith wasn't holding back, it would likely take some time to completely destroy his Incursio.

And Susanoo was even more so; the regeneration of a biological Imperial Arms was no joke.

She was curious about how such an exaggerated healing ability was created.

It made her want to create a couple of puppets to play with herself.

"But you two can only struggle for so long."

Lilith raised her right hand high.

The members of Night Raid couldn't help but look up along with Lilith's raised right hand, and then they saw a scene that made their eyes split with rage.

Above their heads, an unknown number of water droplets were floating, having appeared at some point.

Were there hundreds? Thousands? Or tens of thousands?

They didn't know, nor did they have time to count.

Because these deadly water droplets were about to fall!

Susanoo: "Tatsumi, go protect Akame. I'll go protect Nacita!"

Tatsumi: "Got it!"

Akame knew that this was no time for sentimentality. Facing such a dense barrage of attacks, she couldn't possibly dodge them all. If she slipped up even slightly, she could be injured, or even die beneath this curtain of rain!

Meanwhile, Susanoo retreated at an extremely high speed. On the other side, Nacita also emerged from the shadows and ran towards Susanoo.

This was because she was also beneath this curtain of rain!

But... Lilith wouldn't wait for them to regroup before letting the rain curtain fall!

"Let's see how you dodge this!"

Lilith swung her right hand downwards, and the sky-wide rain curtain descended.

The speed of the raindrops was so immense that even Night Raid's excellent motion vision couldn't track them.

Tatsumi's eyes widened as he looked at Akame. He was at least two meters away from her, and it was already too late.

The distance between Susanoo and Nacita was even greater!

Just as Akame and Nacita were about to be annihilated by the rain curtain.

And precisely at this moment, a scene Lilith had anticipated occurred.

Within the vast rain curtain, Susanoo created a zone of safety.

Tatsumi, Akame, and Nacita were all sheltered beneath it.

"Calamity Soul Manifestation, and Yata no Kagami."

At the very instant the rain curtain was about to descend, Nacita used Susanoo's secret technique.

Calamity Soul Manifestation!

In the state of Calamity Soul Manifestation, Susanoo's power became extremely potent, and he possessed Yata no Kagami, which could reflect projectiles, the immensely powerful Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi, and Yasakani no Magatama, which allowed for high-speed movement.

The price for possessing such immense power was the life of his Imperial Arms user as fuel.

The amount of life force consumed was so great that a normal person would die after using it only three times.

And over these thousand years, Susanoo's Yasakani no Magatama had been damaged.

Due to the loss of many secret techniques, Yasakani no Magatama had not been repaired until now.

"But this is enough for now!"

"Lilith, your most powerful Imperial Arms is sealed. We will kill you here today!"

Nacita's mechanical arm pointed at Lilith, her eyes filled with killing intent.

"Reflecting my water droplets? That wasn't unexpected, as I knew it would happen. However, it seems this thing can only reflect from one side."

Lilith chuckled, paying no mind to the words Nacita had deliberately spoken in an attempt to rattle her fighting spirit.

To be honest, she had never thought she would lose.

She hadn't even used any of her trump cards yet.

"Nacita, you might be speaking a bit too soon."

Lilith raised her right hand and snapped her fingers.

"Not good!"

Having absorbed Nacita's life force and used a secret technique, Susanoo's senses became sharper, and it immediately realized something was wrong with the water on the ground.

It scooped up Nacita and Akame, leaving the spot.

The next second, countless blades made of water shot up from beneath the ground.

Tatsumi, who was still standing in the same spot, had his Incursio armor torn by these sharp water spikes, and blood stained the white armor.

"Sorry, Tatsumi, I can't worry about you right now."

Susanoo apologized to Tatsumi.

"It's fine. My defense is high anyway. Akame and Boss are more important."

Tatsumi didn't mind his injuries. More importantly, he looked nervously at Lilith.

Compared to them, who were in a sorry state, Lilith seemed as if she wasn't in a battle but on a leisurely stroll.

Even after the fight had progressed this far, they hadn't seen Lilith sustain any damage.

"Tatsumi, you're injured now. Fall back, leave the rest to me."

Susanoo walked towards Lilith alone.

"But..."

Even though Susanoo's appearance had changed, making it seem more powerful, how could he rest easy leaving it to face Lilith alone?

"Don't worry, Susanoo is very strong right now."

Nacita placed a hand on Tatsumi's shoulder and said.

At this moment, Lilith shifted her attention slightly to the magatama on Susanoo's chest.

That seemed to be Susanoo's core.

While Calamity Soul Manifestation was incredibly powerful, it wasn't without its flaws.

Due to the massive amount of life force injected instantaneously, Susanoo's core was operating at an extreme rate. If it remained inside the body, heat dissipation would be affected, potentially even causing the high temperatures to burn out the core.

After all, the core of a biological Imperial Arms was extremely intricate, and any damage to a part of it would be difficult to repair.

However, the highly mobile Yasakani no Magatama and the Yata no Kagami, which could reflect aerial attacks, compensated for this weakness.

Furthermore, with the Ame-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi, which granted powerful close-combat abilities, it feared no melee opponents.

In the original story, Esdeath had used a secret technique that could only be used once a day, freezing space, to destroy Susanoo's core.

Yet, even so, after Nacita injected more life force, the destroyed core reassembled itself.

Before its life force was completely depleted, Susanoo was virtually invincible.