Boom!
Demeter's True Body Battleship, struck by the Tenju Armament's Black Barrel, immediately erupted in a violent explosion. Shen Fei promptly used Avalon, transforming it into a barrier in front of everyone.
"The Tenju Armament really was powerful. Too bad it required trading one life for another, so it couldn't be used often." Shen Fei had been present when Shion created the Tenju Armament, so he was naturally familiar with this Mystic Code. Unfortunately, it was somewhat useless to him.
There was no need to use the Black Barrel against enemies he could defeat. As for those he could not defeat, unless it was absolutely necessary, he generally would not provoke them. Of course, the Black Barrel could still be kept as a trump card, just in case.
I wonder whether this would work on the Finality Herrscher. As Mash put away the Black Barrel and nervously watched Ritsuka, that thought suddenly surfaced in Shen Fei's mind. The Finality Herrscher was an unavoidable obstacle in Honkai. If the Black Barrel were modified and given to Kevin, it could serve as a means of confronting the Finality Herrscher.
The Black Barrel was a conceptual armament, and that concept was the main reason it could harm gods. It was like the Black Keys of the Holy Church: whether against ordinary Vampires, Dead Apostles, or True Ancestors, they could all inflict damage. In theory, gods had exceptionally long lifespans. The gods of Olympus had existed here for more than ten thousand years and were still alive, yet the Black Barrel's measurement of Demeter stopped at 4,500.
Why that number? Because it measured only Demeter's value at that instant, completely disregarding all her subsequent upgrades, iterations, mana absorption, and so on.
"The Atlas Institute's Seven Great Weapons... I'm really curious what the other five