"Youth" and "Young Girl"
Leo had no time to pay attention to the withdrawal of the expeditionary force at this point.
Caught in the earth-shattering explosion, he felt as if the world before him had turned fiery red, his entire vision completely occupied and stripped away by the raging flames.
The deafening roar was loud enough to shatter eardrums.
The surrounding area was extremely hot, enough to cook a human body.
At this moment, even with the Giant Battle Suit protecting him, Leo still couldn't avoid feeling pain, forcing him to grit his teeth and try his best to adapt to the current environment.
"Ais ----"
Unconsciously, he murmured the name of the blonde, golden-eyed girl, his voice filled with a worry he himself was unaware of.
Even knowing that the other party had wind-attribute additional magic protection, Leo still couldn't help but worry about Ais.
Unfortunately, unlike Leo, who maintained a certain distance from the female-sized monster, Ais was too close to it, and the explosion she experienced was definitely much stronger than Leo's.
What if [Ariel]'s protection isn't enough to stop the explosion?
Leo inevitably thought that way.
However, it's too early for him to worry about others now.
After all, he himself was still in crisis.
"Boom!"
With a rumble, a huge, yellowish-green body broke through the flames and black smoke, bursting out of the sea of fire like a giant war chariot.
Its warty feet writhed, and its massive body charged towards Leo with a mad dash. It swung its flat arm at Leo, whose pupils had shrunk, sweeping the hot air along with it at the disheveled Leo.
"Bang!"
The first arm crashed to the ground, shattering it, sending up rubble and dust, and blowing away the burst of flames, but it missed Leo.
At the critical moment, Leo disregarded his image and lunged to the side, narrowly avoiding the attack.
However, the female monster had four arms. When the first arm missed, the second arm immediately swept in, creating a whooshing sound.
Leo tried his best to dodge, using the dodging skills he had trained with Ais to the fullest extent, and managed to dodge the attack from the second arm. He even managed to avoid the sweeping attack from the third arm, turning the danger into safety.
But Leo ultimately couldn't dodge the final, fourth arm.
"Bang!"
With a heavy thud, an astonishing force slammed into Leo like a burst dam, sending him flying.
Leo's figure shot backward, flying out of the sea of fire and into the gray forest, smashing through tree after tree.
"Hmm----"
He let out a muffled groan, feeling as if all the bones in his body were falling apart, the pain almost matching the level he felt when he was sent flying by Goliath's punch during their last battle.
6
"Iii The female monster let out a broken howl, as if trying to deliver a final blow to Leo, and opened its mouth to spray out a dissolving liquid like a high-pressure water cannon."
After crashing through the last giant gray tree and finally stopping his backward flight, Leo sensed the stench of the corrosive liquid and instinctively burned a large amount of his mental energy, firing a thick, pillar-like meteor without incantation.
"Boom!!!"
A meteor as thick as a pillar collided violently with a liquid as powerful as a high-pressure water cannon at the edge of the Gray Forest and the sea of fire, creating a deafening roar.
The meteor continuously evaporated the dissolving liquid, but the surging dissolving liquid also continuously impacted the meteor. The two clashed, causing a spectacular starburst and a spray of purplish-black water to gush out. For a moment, neither could gain the upper hand over the other.
The female monster seemed annoyed by this and suddenly increased the amount of dissolving liquid she released, causing the high-pressure water cannon formed by the dissolving liquid to double in size, gradually overwhelming the meteors released by Leo.
"You're going to focus on damage output, huh?"
Feeling his magic being gradually suppressed, Leo gritted his teeth and became fierce.
"In this respect, I'm not afraid of anyone!"
Leo let out a low shout, once again burning his mental energy and using the characteristics of his magic to greatly increase its power.
In an instant, the size of the meteor more than doubled, not only withstanding the high-pressure water cannon-like dissolving liquid, but also pressing down on it.
Before long, the meteor shattered the high-pressure water cannon formed by the dissolving liquid and struck the female-shaped monster.
"Boom!!!"
After the explosion, an extremely thick meteor shot through the female monster's open mouth, piercing it completely.
!!!
The female monster let out a silent scream. Her wart-like feet and four flat arms thrashed and kicked wildly as if in pain, turning the ground beneath her and around her upside down, sending rubble and dust flying everywhere.
Due to the massive depletion of his mental energy, Leo's vision suddenly went black, and he almost collapsed.
At the critical moment, from the other side of the sea of fire, a figure shrouded in wind swept in once again.
The blonde, golden-eyed female swordswoman was covered in burn marks, but she did not suffer any serious injuries. She charged at the female-shaped monster like a drawn sword.
"Pfft!"
With a flash of silver saber, the blonde female swordsman slashed fiercely, striking the wart-like tentacles beneath the female monster and severing several of them at the root.
The female monster let out another silent scream, its four flat arms flailing wildly as it swung at Ais, but she dodged Ais with swift movements, only managing to smash the ground and send dirt and rocks flying.
"Pfft!" "Pfft!" "Pfft!"----
While dodging the oncoming flat arms, Ais moved like the wind, constantly running back and forth around the female monster, her silver military knife repeatedly slashing at the warts beneath it, severing them one by one.
Clearly, Ais intends to subdue the enemy by disabling their mobility, just like Finn before, and then create an opportunity for a fatal blow to completely eliminate the female monster.
The female monster, of course, wouldn't sit idly by and wait to die. Seeing that her tentacles couldn't reach Ais, she immediately retracted her arms and crossed them in front of her chest.
Upon seeing this, Ais's expression changed slightly, and she instinctively wanted to retreat.
But by then, it was too late to back out.
As pollen particles, like light particles, shimmered between the arms of the female monster and were about to be released, Ais could only increase the output of her magic, causing a stronger wind to envelop her body, preparing to withstand the impending explosion.
But without any warning, several meteors streaked through the air and struck the female monster's arm, unleashing a dazzling starburst that shattered her posture and caused the pollen she was gathering to vanish.
"Leo!"
Ais knew perfectly well whose handiwork this was, and she abruptly turned her head to look in the direction from which the meteor had come.
There, Leo gulped down magical potions while straining his bloodshot eyes to stare at the female monster, surrounded by a flurry of shooting stars.
"I'll cover you!" Leo shouted. "Just keep attacking!"
Ais nodded vigorously, then, just like Leo, glared at the female monster, raised the Desperate, and charged towards it, continuing to slash at its numerous wart-like appendages.
"Ga-ah--ah ah ah"
The female monster emitted intermittent sounds from her pierced mouth, and the wounds on it were healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"----It even has regenerative abilities?"
Upon seeing the ability that didn't appear in the original work, Leo's eye twitched, but he quickly adjusted his mindset.
Riveria's teachings echoed in Leo's mind, reminding him that maintaining Serene Heart at all times is an essential quality for an excellent magic user.
Whether it's Mage playing as a defender or a magic swordsman as a high-level center-back, both must remain calm and composed at all times during battle in order to cast spells accurately and quickly.
Especially for characters like Leo, who can increase the power and number of attacks of magic by consuming extra mental energy, thereby increasing the output and range of magic, a more stable mental state is more conducive to unleashing the full effect of magic, preventing the firepower from being scattered and wasted, as was the case when fighting Goliath.
With a calm mind, Leo ignited his hard-won spiritual power and unleashed a magic circle beneath his feet.
"Try this trick, monster."
Leo chanted a spell, releasing several shooting stars, but instead of letting them fly around him, they hovered around him, continuously lengthening.
The greatest characteristic of star-attribute magic is that it is easy to control and offers a high degree of freedom.
Using this characteristic, Leo actually shaped his magic in a different way, making the meteors thinner and longer as much as possible instead of thicker, eventually transforming them into sharp spears that emitted Starlight.
"Go."
With a flick of his finger, Leo sent forth a series of meteor spears that shot out at unprecedented speed, piercing through space like streaks of light, and instantly reaching the female monster.
The astonishing speed of the shot left the female monster, who was extremely sensitive to Demonic Power, with no time to react before she was struck by the meteor spear.
"Pfft!" "Pfft!" "Pfft!"----
The incredibly fast meteor spears, like streaks of laser light, pierced through the arms of the female monster, which were raised high and constantly slamming down towards Ais, rendering them, like the monster's mouth, completely useless.
"Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
The female monster's screams grew increasingly shrill, causing her constantly regenerating mouth to spew out a splattering liquid, as if blood were gushing from it.
"Pfft!"
Ais pressed her advantage, transforming herself into an arrow and shooting out. With a powerful swing of her Desperate, she severed an entire row of wart-like legs from the female monster in one fell swoop.
The female monster's massive body immediately lost its balance, tilting and falling to the ground, unable to get up again.
"Now!"
The same thought flashed through Leo and Ais's minds simultaneously. One burned all the remaining spiritual power, turning it into Demonic Power output, and unleashed the largest magic circle to date, sending a meteor that pierced the sky and crashed into the female monster. The other, with a storm raging around her, transformed into a spiraling tornado, raised her silver military knife, and also shot it towards the female monster.
A shooting star that reaches the heavens is on the left.
The spiral-shaped tornado is on the right.
Both projectiles struck the female-shaped monster simultaneously, piercing its massive body at the same moment.
That was undoubtedly a fatal blow.
""
The screaming female monster suddenly stiffened, and her voice abruptly stopped.
Time seemed to stand still at that moment.
The next second, the female monster, whose massive body had been pierced, swelled up all over.
"Boom!!!!!"
The purplish-black belly exploded instantly, and the giant body also dispersed, turning the explosive pollen and dissolving liquid into Power of Destruction sparks, triggering the most terrifying explosion to date, shaking the entire 50th Floor.
Flames and black smoke shot into the sky together, reaching straight up into the clouds.