As she watched the light bullets rapidly flying toward her, Yuno's pupils instantly constricted.
When she had abused Honkai Beasts and Meele before, Yuno had never encountered such fierce resistance.
After encountering Gu Yu, Yuno suddenly realized that the new power she had been so proud of had somehow lost its overwhelming edge.
Even though she unleashed an enormous amount of Honkai Energy and manifested countless vines laced with Herrscher Toxin to launch a fierce assault on her enemy.
Her enemy still easily neutralized her attacks and immediately retaliated.
If she kept dragging things out like this, she felt certain she would be unable to defeat the enemy before her.
Retreating was certainly a strategy, but when she thought of the Honkai Energy gathered within these three people, Yuno...
—felt utterly unwilling to accept it.
Even as a Pseudo Herrscher, the Herrscher Cores within Raiden Mei and Kiana Kaslana were like tempting bait, drawing her to devour the cores inside their bodies.
The immense quantity of Honkai Energy contained within Gu Yu directly stirred the purest urge to feed within the girl.
If she could defeat these three here, she would surely break free from this half-real, half-false state and evolve into a "True Herrscher."
"Yuno can't lose... no, Yuno won't lose!"
Before the light bullets could strike her body, Yuno manifested dozens of vines and yanked herself a short distance away from where she stood.
Then she looked down arrogantly at Gu Yu, who had broken through the petrified vines below, and let out a scornful sneer.
"You actually ran out of this cage on your own... You really aren't very smart, are you?"
"Is that so? From where I'm standing, the one who doesn't seem very smart is you, impostor."
After snapping his fingers lightly, Gu Yu coldly uttered a single word.
"Crawl."
At that instant, Yuno suddenly felt intense pain erupt from her back.
"You... what the hell is going on?!"
With her body nearly punched through, Yuno felt dozens... no, nearly a hundred attacks rain down upon her back like raindrops.
She immediately understood. They were the bullets her enemy had fired just now.
But something was wrong.
She had clearly dodged those bullets!
Among the light bullets fired from the Wake Gun, Gu Yu had added the abilities of three Undead.
First, the ability attached to [Attack Ride Bullet], [♦2 Armadillo Undead], enhanced the power of the light bullets fired by the Wake Gun.
Second, the ability attached to [Attack Ride Swiftness], [♦4 Woodpecker Undead], enhanced the Wake Gun's rapid-fire performance.
After using those two cards to boost the bullets' speed and power, Gu Yu used his final Undead Card.
And the ability attached to that final Undead Card, [Attack Ride Thorough Investigation], was [♦8 Bat Undead's ability]—Homing Shot.
Gu Yu had never intended to blow apart the girl in front of him with that initial burst of fire. If a Pseudo Herrscher could be hit by something like that, he would not have needed to struggle so hard from the start.
Yuno dodging the first volley had been entirely within his calculations.
The true killing move was the homing shots after she evaded that direct attack.
Even though Yuno had gained the power of a Pseudo Herrscher, she was still merely a girl who had possessed her power for less than twenty-four hours.
With absolutely no combat experience, she had never expected the man before her to set her up like this.
Since Yuno had not covered her back with vines, the bullets easily struck home.
Even more awkwardly, the sudden bullet attack not only staggered Yuno, but also knocked her straight off the vines.
[Attack Ride Strength Enhancement]
[Attack Ride Fire Attribute Enhancement]
Standing atop the petrified vines, Gu Yu forcefully kicked off with his feet and shot toward Yuno like a cannonball.
Under the enhancement of the two cards, blazing flames suddenly ignited around Gu Yu's right fist.
"You bastard, you actually played dirty!"
Looking at the armored man before her, Yuno, having been outmaneuvered, immediately erupted with Honkai Energy.
No matter how stupid she was, she knew that if the man's flaming right fist hit her this time, she would probably be finished on the spot.
She had only obtained this powerful strength for one day. She had yet to enjoy the exhilaration of being strong.
She did not want to return to being that incomparably weak self!
Driven by the resolve of a last stand, more than ten vines covered in Herrscher Toxin condensed around Yuno.
"Die! You have to die!"
[Attack Ride Clone]
As those vines launched their surprise assault at Gu Yu, he tossed the backup card he had prepared long ago into the Driver.
"Give it up. With such a one-dimensional attack style, killing me will be a little difficult."
Just as the vines were about to pierce Gu Yu, the Zebra Undead crest attached to him took effect.
[Attack Ride Clone] sealed the ability of [♦9 Zebra Undead]—Clone.
Using the clone's effect to shift his body half a step away, Gu Yu watched his clone get reduced to a blur by the attack.
Although this ability had only bought him an instant of opening.
At this distance, that opening was already enough to decide the battle!
"The warm-up is more or less over. Let's end this with this punch."
Looking at the utter terror on Yuno's face, Gu Yu truly found it hard to imagine that the girl before him was a Pseudo Herrscher.
"Fire Upper [Burning Rising Dragon]!"
But in the end, he still chose to swing his iron fist without mercy.
He knew that whatever came next could be dealt with later.
As long as he was still fighting his opponent on the battlefield, he had neither the right nor the ability to hold back in a battle like this.
"Bang!"
After punching Yuno in the cheek, Gu Yu twisted his body and slammed her straight down toward the ground.
Using gravity's acceleration, he smashed Yuno from the air into the ground with one punch.
After that strike, dense cracks immediately spread across the ground, centered on Yuno's continuously twitching body.
"Whew, the battle's over... Hm?!"
But after landing, Gu Yu suddenly looked at his right hand.
"What is this?!"
After defeating Yuno, Gu Yu felt an incredibly intense swelling pain in his right hand.
At the same time, he saw the Honkai Energy inside Yuno begin to scatter into the surroundings as she lost consciousness—then, as though it had found its destination, that Honkai Energy crazily surged toward Gu Yu's right hand.
"Holy shit?"
Feeling the swelling pain from his right hand, Gu Yu immediately sensed that something was wrong.
"Damn it, it looks like I screwed up this time."
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