Ryoshu's Dimension Shredder

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"!"

The monster, thoroughly enraged within the dimensional rift, clearly sensed the deadly threat below.

It let out a piercing roar, and its four enormous limbs, formed from spatial rifts, compressed to their limit and snapped together in midair.

[High-Speed Space Rending]

Hundreds upon thousands of violent dimensional rifts poured down toward Wei Zhenzu like rampaging black pythons, their fangs bared to tear everything apart.

Below, Wei Zhenzu had already become a blazing blue sun surging upward.

"Leap!"

He drove off with both legs, and the heavy metal floor beneath him collapsed with a crash. Spiderweb cracks instantly spread across the entire bottom of the carriage.

Like a meteor shooting backward, he carried the stacks of [Charge] he had accumulated over so long and drew his blade against the spatial storm bearing down on him.

The blue plasma blade and the pitch-black spatial storm collided brutally in midair.

At the instant of impact, there was no sound.

The surrounding air, light, and even gravity were instantly swallowed and distorted by the two terrifying spatial laws.

Then came a terrifying sonic boom powerful enough to rupture eardrums.

Clang, clang, clang!

This was no simple clash, but hundreds upon thousands of brutal, high-frequency blade strikes at extreme speed.

The plasma edge of the tachi ground furiously against the spatial rifts within a tightly compressed area of less than a square meter.

Dazzling blue-violet arcs and pitch-black fragments of the void flew wildly in every direction, and the shockwaves riddled the carriage's metal walls with holes.

"Ngh..."

Wei Zhenzu grunted as immense force surged through the hilt.

"Just a piece of scrap metal, and you dare stand in the way of my brush?"

Wei Zhenzu gave an arrogant sneer. His wrist suddenly twisted at a mad angle, forcing all the [Charge] energy left in his body into the hilt without reservation.

"Break!"

The tachi in his hand became a raging bolt of lightning, smashing through everything in its path. With sheer force, it instantly sliced the Abnormality's defensive limbs, formed from densely packed space, into a shower of blue specks of light.

Stripped of its defenses, [The Lost Passenger] let out a desperate shriek.

But Wei Zhenzu's blade did not pause. It swept upward with the terrifying residual force of a dimensional tear, striking the creature's deformed torso as it tried to retreat into the rift.

"Aaaargh!"

Perhaps affected by the fatal blow, the dimensional rift behind it suddenly spun out of control and contracted, trapping most of its body and destabilizing its energy circuits.

[Target has entered a staggered state]

The Abnormality's limbs, formed from spatial rifts, drooped limply, and the vortex above its head made a pained, stuttering noise.

"The opportunity is right before me. Time to put the finishing touches on this painting."

Wei Zhenzu was still in midair, his body beginning to fall under gravity.

His gaze sharpened. Against instinct, he gripped the hilt tightly with both hands and raised the tachi high overhead.

The plasma blade instantly surged to an exaggerated ten meters in length, like a sword of Damocles capable of splitting the train carriage and the entire world in two!

"Z.D.Z. (The terminus has arrived)."

He tilted his head slightly, looking at the monster struggling desperately below.

"Since you boarded this train, fate's guillotine has long been waiting for you. Now, hand over your one-way ticket, and use death... to put the finishing touch on this painting."

"[Dimension Shredder]"

Wei Zhenzu drew a deep breath, and with a fanatical roar, he swung the immense blue blade down at the staggered Abnormality below.

"Slash!"

The light faded.

Wei Zhenzu landed steadily on the floor at the end of the carriage. With his back to the Abnormality, he slowly straightened up.

Before Paimon's utterly astonished eyes,

A series of crisscrossing blue lines suddenly appeared in the space behind Wei Zhenzu, along with the enormous body of [The Lost Passenger].

Then, like a row of falling dominoes, that space and the monster within it were spectacularly and evenly sliced into tens of thousands of tiny geometric blocks.

Wei Zhenzu elegantly turned his wrist, sweeping the tachi through the air in an afterimage and aiming its tip precisely at the invisible sheath at his waist.

"Click."

The crisp, elegant sound of the blade sliding home rang out in the deathly silent carriage.

Boom!

With that click, the Abnormality behind him, now made up of countless geometric blocks, collapsed with a crash. It became a brilliant cloud of gold and blue dust, then vanished completely into the extradimensional space.

In the faint light, Wei Zhenzu stood with his back turned, a solitary, aloof figure in a W Corp. uniform, biting down on a lollipop reduced to a plastic stick.

Paimon was completely dumbstruck in midair.

Her two little hands came together of their own accord, and she began clapping hard, almost frantically.

"That was so, so cool... Liangzi...!"

Wei Zhenzu spat out the plastic stick, and the scarlet in his eyes faded completely.

"Phew... finally took care of it."

[T-02-21-07 successfully contained. Lunacy × 90 obtained]

[New side-branch ability for Hell's Kitchen unlocked. Golden Bough resonance insufficient. Module not unlocked]

Just then, an object emitting a soft cyan glow slowly drifted down from the center of the light dust.

It was an exquisite lyre, its body carved from sacred wood and shimmering with the radiance of the wind element.

A system notification sounded in his mind:

[Special node cleared. E.G.O accessory obtained: Holy Lyre der Himmel]

"Huh?"

Wei Zhenzu froze, staring at the national treasure in his hands that should have been enshrined in the basement of Mondstadt Cathedral, a huge question mark appearing over his head.

What the hell? Isn't this the signature weapon of that slacker Venti?

Could the bus's system even "contain" Teyvat's divine artifacts and turn them into buff items?

Before Wei Zhenzu could think further about the bizarre logic behind it, the black-and-yellow interface on his retina flickered.

[Identity overwrite time expired. Removing-W Corp. level 3 cleanup personnel]

That cold, fanatical state of mind was forcibly stripped from Wei Zhenzu's brain like a receding tide.

In its place came a feeling of extreme weakness.

"Ugh..."

Wei Zhenzu let out a pained grunt. His legs gave way, and he dropped to one knee on the cold floor.

"Huff... huff..."

He gasped for breath, his lungs burning as though they were a broken bellows.

His head buzzed. Using W Corp.'s spatial cutting laws beyond his level had put far too much strain on his body, that of an ordinary person from Teyvat.

"Liangzi! Liangzi, are you okay?!"