Escape from the Barrier, Dragon Breath

The contest between the two sides ended in a near draw, leaving the torii gates, trees, and stone slabs in the area completely destroyed.

The Living Doll exhibited far greater mobility than before.

Even when a massive wave, mixed with countless fragments of things, surged in, it couldn't harm it in the slightest.

She hovered in mid-air, her magnificent kimono spotless, her bare toes drooping low, her pale pink nail polish contrasting beautifully with her snow-white skin.

Even after killing the Living Doll twice, it remained unharmed.

It was as if resurrecting this body was not a significant drain on it at all.

The situation is not looking good.

If the battle continues at this distance, only Satou Yunona among the two present has the confidence and experience to maintain a prolonged stalemate with it.

The fog was still thick.

Satou Yunona was running.

No, "leap forward" would be a more appropriate description.

Vines wrapped around her slender waist, with the other end of the vines connecting to Su Qing'an. Beneath the girl's feet were vines shaped like a swimming dragon, and she stood on the dragon's head, while the Honkai Energy was responsible for stabilizing her body.

The vine sped forward like a Mercedes-Benz speeding wildly across the grasslands, undeterred by even the dilapidated and uneven terrain.

The barrier wasn't actually far from the two of them; at this speed, it would only take them a few seconds to escape the battlefield.

Regardless of whether the Living Doll choose to pursue them, they will have essentially achieved a partial victory.

Along the way, she looked around unhappily at the scenery, as Honkai Energy continued to surge from beneath the ground.

It's conceivable that if the two hadn't been able to quickly escape the battlefield and continued in this state, the solid barrier would have been reborn, and everything would have returned to square one.

Until they find that thing, they will repeatedly engage in a difficult and extremely long tug-of-war with the Living Doll.

The Honkai Energy within Satou Yunona's Pseudo-Herrscher Core is also nearly inexhaustible, so she has absolutely no reason to be afraid in a war of attrition.

But the key right now is to shift the battlefield; leaving quickly is the top priority.

But the Living Doll obviously wouldn't let them leave so easily.

The overwhelming black dots were clearly visible even against the gloomy sky, and the cacophony was deafening.

"Ah, ah." It was a dejected, unpleasant, hoarse, and rough voice, but at this moment, such an unpleasant voice was repeated thousands of times.

It's very unpleasant. Just listening to it is unpleasant.

The girl frowned in displeasure.

It was crows; the Living Doll controlled at least several thousand crows to prevent the two from escaping.

Satou Yunona wasn't surprised by the large number of crows in the mountains. There are naturally many crows in Japan, and it's perfectly normal for crows, which feed on carrion, to live in the mountains.

In Japan, crows are considered auspicious birds, and in legends, they are messengers who help the souls of the dead find peace.

But at this moment, these crows were like the Grim Reaper, their black feathers indistinct in the fading light, only their blood-red eyes were exceptionally clear, making them extremely eerie.

Almost without hesitation, the crows launched a suicidal attack on Satou Yunona and her companion.

The crow's sharp beak is its only weapon.

From a distance, the scene resembles ten thousand black arrows falling in unison.

But that's all there is to it.

Even after undergoing initial modifications with Honkai Energy, ordinary living beings are far inferior to the Charge-class Honkai Beast; the Living Doll can only utilize the number of crows.

A hole opened up in the vine at the girl's will, Satou Yunona readily led Su Qing'an into the vine.

He looked like a guy driving a convertible who, after seeing the fine rain falling, smiled and closed the top, his movements exuding an indescribable elegance and nonchalance.

Arrows rained down, their blood staining the dragon-like vines crimson.

The jet-black raven feathers barely penetrated the surface of the vines, as if simply adding scales, but they did nothing to slow it down.

Then the rest of the puppets appeared.

It was a black bear, but its appearance clearly exceeded the specifications of ordinary animals. Its four-meter-tall body and strange, jet-black carapace resembling armor were enough to prove that it was far stronger than those weak crows.

Based on its appearance alone, it gives the impression that its combat power is no less than that of Chariot-class Honkai Beast.

In fact, in terms of sheer power, it is more powerful than the Chariot-class.

It stood in front of the oncoming vines but wasn't immediately knocked away. However, the carapace on its chest was still shattered by the powerful kinetic energy, and large amounts of blood seeped out.

The giant bear let out a terrible howl as its four-meter-tall body was violently pulled forward by the dragon-shaped vines.

But its feet carved two deep furrows in the ground, clearly showing that even such suffering could not make it give up.

The giant bear, essentially Living Doll puppet, only retains the basic consciousness of a wild beast; it is normal for it not to give up.

Although the giant bear did not manage to capture Satou Yunona directly, it did slow down their escape from the battlefield.

We cannot give the Living Doll even the slightest chance to stop them.

Beautiful flowers bloomed on the surface of the vines, and spores, just like those used when dealing with the Living Doll, were released into the air and drifted toward the giant bear.

It's clear that Satou Yunona intends to use the same method to kill the giant bear directly and eliminate the obstacle.

Immediately, fog rolled in.

The Living Doll stood silently on the giant bear's shoulder, its spores corroded by the mist.

It took action itself.

The power that controls the Living Doll's body is essentially Honkai Energy, but its manifestation is remarkably similar to telekinesis in movies.

It not only erased the spores emitted by Satou Yunona, but also imbued the giant bear with this telekinetic power.

The vines' forward movement suddenly slowed down.

We must not waste the opportunity that Su Qing'an created at such a high cost.

The girl glanced at the boy kneeling beside her, panting heavily, and made up her mind.

Even if it exceeds the maximum power that can be output at present, we must break through the encirclement.

The dragon-shaped vine was about ten meters long, and its tail was burning.

Literal burning.

Essentially vines shaped from Honkai Energy, the latter part of which was used by Satou Yunona as fuel to propel her forward.

It's like the locomotive, which provides most of the power, abandons the dozens of carriages behind it, allowing it to move forward at high speed.

Beyond that, the burning of Honkai Energy will provide even more powerful kinetic energy, much like the nitro boost in a game—it's almost mystical. But if you play QQ Speed and don't use nitro, who can you beat?

So now that Satou Yunona has used nitrous oxide to accelerate, all sorts of demons and monsters have to give way.

The same goes for the Living Doll and the giant bear.

A roar far louder than that of Maybach's engine filled the air as the dragon-shaped vine slammed into the giant bear, sending its four-meter-tall body, along with the Living Doll, flying through the air. The scene was somewhat surreal.

"How dare a mortal blaspheme against a god?!" The Living Doll's face remained unchanged, but its will roared.

The chaotic accents and words seemed to the two of them as if the entire Kambara Village was simultaneously and inexplicably repeating the same sentence, mechanical and strange.

The Living Doll used all its strength.

It extracted all the Honkai Energy from the Earth's crust at once, and the massive amount of Honkai Energy accumulated over the past ten years was now completely under its control.

Fog, still fog.

An immeasurable amount of fog billowed out.

It's as if following some kind of rule that the fog is a fixed manifestation of Honkai Energy here.

The mist condensed into a black and red dragon-shaped shell, and this intangible dragon rushed towards Satou Yunona to wrestle with her.

The two empty, physical imposter dragons collided with a deafening roar, their Honkai Energy clashing and colliding with each other, producing a piercing sound.

"This is never going to end. It should be over," Satou Yunona said indifferently.

The Honkai Energy intensified the burning, and two-thirds of the vine's body was burned to ashes in a second, the purple flames illuminating the already pitch-black night in an instant.

The speed was simply astonishing, like drifting through a corner, hitting a speed bump, and then activating nitro.

But this was only the prelude. The dragon's head was raised high, and the strong wind created by the opening and closing of its mouth dispersed the mist, revealing the girl standing calmly.

The school badge on Satou Yunona's chest emitted a blinding white light, suddenly making her pitch-black vision clear.

She opened her palm, and an unstable sphere, intertwined with violent Honkai Energy, floated quietly.

"Go," she said.

Thus, the beam of light, condensed with countless Honkai Energy, was released and crashed down, originating from the object in the girl's hand.

From a distance, it looked like a giant dragon roaring and unleashing a torrent of purple dragon breath, a magnificent sea of light engulfing everything.

The mist dragon shattered.

Satou Yunona's powers are indeed not suitable for attacking, but that's in comparison to the Pseudo-Herrscher, and to the Herrscher.

What Su Qing'an could only do with the help of the Stigmata, she could also do. The only difference was that the boy could only do it because of his top-level skills and could do it almost instantly, while Satou Yunona simply used an immense amount of Honkai Energy to compress and unleash it.

From the moment she chose to leave the battlefield, she began to compress and prepare, but in terms of power, it was still not as good as the sword strike that Su Qing'an had unleashed, but this was enough.

The vines transformed into a dragon, moving as fast as a beam of light, smashing everything in their path and successfully piercing through numerous obstacles.

And the destination is right in front of us.

The Living Doll used every trick in the book, but even that couldn't stop Satou Yunona, who was Pseudo-Herrscher.

She should have come to participate in the B-level mission to go on a rampage.

But as if by fate, she and Su Qing'an came to the Kambara Family to help them end their five-hundred-year-old destiny.

But the path to breaking free from destiny is never smooth.

The vines, now almost entirely in the shape of a dragon's head, crashed into the transparent wall.

It's a barrier.