"Activate autonomous combat mode," Yurina Takishiro said calmly.
The next moment, the heavy mech's back thrusters erupted with blazing flames. Like two meteors crashing headlong into the Beast Tide, its nearly 1,800-ton weight crushed several colossal beasts outright, tearing open a gap.
Yurina Takishiro consecutively applied several buffs to herself and charged into the breach right behind the mech. Her hand, which had remained on the hilt at her waist, pulled hard!
A crisp blade cry rang out. Divine Calamity's black-gold blade flashed past, instantly severing one divine beast's foreleg.
A girl in a black cherry blossom kimono flickered past in the blade's reflection. A second streak of blade light sliced across the divine beast's neck, and its enormous head crashed to the ground.
ROAR—!!
Several divine beasts of different forms immediately trampled over its corpse and surged toward Yurina Takishiro from all directions. Their massive bodies crowded together, nearly sealing off every opening.
One of the bull-headed divine beasts suddenly opened its enormous maw. A dark purple beam rapidly gathered within it, radiating terrifying divine power.
At that moment, time around them suddenly slowed. Amid the frozen sand and dust, a gray shadow swept past Yurina Takishiro, climbed almost vertically up the bull-headed divine beast's thick leg, and drove a snow-white longsword into its lower jaw with a backhanded strike!
Time raced around the blade. A dazzling flash of sword light instantly pierced through the bull-headed beast and shot skyward from the top of its skull!
Blood splashed across King Mask's cloak as he lightly landed on the ground. A streak of azure light shot out from the left, likewise piercing through a divine beast's heart.
Three divine beasts died violently. Then another seven came rushing in, vast and mighty like an iron wall as they roared and bore