Chapter 1235 Elena's Power
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After deciding to break through the Ant Queen’s barrier and destroy her defenses, Mark rushed forward.
He brought the Berserk Blade from Elayne’s Inventory ability, and by using his knife which transformed into a blazing sword, he dual-wielded and unleashed his own swordsmanship techniques, aiming to break through the Ant Queen’s barriers.
“{Spiritual Phoenix Sword Arts}”
A swordsmanship that relied not on swift movements like Elayne, but in brute force, combined with the might of a Phoenix Spirit.
To feel the fiery flames of the phoenix and to release them with a strong slashing attack carrying a person’s entire weight.
“[Mountain-Splitting Eruption]!”
SLAAASH!
A single slash transformed his surroundings as an eruption of spiritual flames engulfed the Ant Queen, followed by blazing explosions.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Crack, crack…!
The Ant Queen’s barriers ended being broken quite quickly!
CRASH!
“SHYAAAGH!”
The Ant Queen screamed in pain as spiritual flames engulfed her, her surviving subjects quickly gathered around her and started attacking anybody that got closer.
However.
“Get out of the way!”
Rita flew from the skies, rushing down with her gun, now transformed into a huge black dragon rifle, her entire body had transformed as well, resembling her Avatar.
Through her Soul-Bound Divine Fusion Skill {Abyssal Void Dark Dragonborn Elf Queen Embodiment}, she unleashed her truest power.
Her magic empowered her gun to the extreme, as she released deadly long-ranged attacks with it!
“[Super Bullet Time]!”
Time itself slowed down for Rita, as her gun quickly started shooting several times within that second, and they weren’t normal bullets.
“[Blue Dragon King’s Bullet Cannon]!”
But cannons, beams of pure darkness and blue energy that struck down the ants one after another, blasting their bodies into smithereens. The Ant Queen was also affected, as her body was covered on a few holes.
BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!
The Ant Queen suddenly started to panic, stepping back and beginning to dig the ground with her limbs, using magic to rapidly attempt to escape underground.
“She’s trying to escape!”
Elena rushed forward with Anna, Elisa, and Monica, as the girls quickly clashed against the Ant Queen, stopping her by aiming at her legs.
“You’re not going anywhere!”
Elena swung her Knife-turned-Katana, and her Magical Blade, unleashing a myriad of attacks by activating her techniques IRL!
She knew the Ant Queen was beyond her league, so she decided to go all-out, activating her Soul-Bound Divine Fusion Skill.
“{Phantom Blue Oni Shikigami Princess Transformation}!”
RUMBLE!
Her entire body absorbed a tremendous quantity of phantasmal, shadow, and cursed energy at once, transforming her body completely, as she grew much larger, taller, and muscular.
She looked completely different, as if she had become a true Blue Oni Princess from ancient Japanese myths, using her ogre-like strength, Elena unleashed her Shikigami Aura.
“OOOOHHHH!”
A monstrous being howled, a phantasmal spiritual being that wasn’t a Spirit nor a Ghost, it was something in between them, with some slight, minor divinity added into its existence.
If anything, it was more like a Lesser Form of a Kami, taking the form of a Ghostly Apparition.
And Elena’s personal Shikigami, born from her Shadows and her Phantasmal Energies, emerged through her Aura.
It wasn’t the same as her in-game one, the Susanoo Shikigami, which was in the form of a War God, no, this one was much more monstrous and terrific in form.
Resembling a huge skeleton with flesh made of shadows, wearing an ugly Red Oni Mask, and holding two enormous Katanas, it manifested.
Olivia felt the tremendous power of the Shikigami, the entities that the Onmyōji from Japan were well known to be able to create and summon for their aid.
“This girl isn’t even Japanese; how come she has a Shikigami?!” she thought. “Wait, no… now that I look at her, she does look slightly Asian… was her father a Japanese man?”
“{Shikigami Manifestation Aura}” Elena spoke. “Let’s do it!”
She rushed forward, her eyes focused on her target.
The Ant Queen panicked, conjuring an endless storm of elements everywhere. Anna, Elisa, and Monica barely held it back with their magic and techniques.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
However, Elena kept moving forward, her two spears gathering more and more energy, as her Shikigami swung its blades, moving them upwards.
“Slice through everything…”
empire
Her eyes suddenly turned gray and black at the same time.
“Guide my blade, oh, darkest void…”
Olivia’s eyes widened, as she suddenly dropped the phone she was carrying.
“T-That’s…!”
“{Abyssal Void Blade Forms}: [First Form: Space-Slicing Sword]”
SLAAASH!
A single, powerful slash was unleashed from her two blades and further empowered by her Shikigami, releasing two gigantic waves of pure void, shadows, and phantom.
CLAAASH!
“SHYAAAAEEGH!”
The Ant Queen roared, holding back with her tremendous magical energy, as her Aura grew larger, and larger, and larger!
“I’m not done yet.” Elena said with her eyes fully focused. “I have reached a new height. This is it…”
Her blades suddenly converged into one, and her Shikigami fused with them.
FLUOSH!
A pure black katana, as if it had been made out of charcoal, was quickly summoned.
“{Space-Slicing Sword Echo}: [Secret Technique…]”
SLAAASH!
And then, a single slash that split through all was unleashed, the echo of a previous attack. For that very moment, it felt as if the night had fallen ahead of time.
And the Ant Queen could only see the slash reach her and then split her apart, alongside a small part of space itself.
“[Yozakura]!”
“G-GRAAH…?!”
The last thing the Ant Queen saw were hundreds of pink Sakura Petals flutter amidst the night’s sky, as the entire world was split apart through her divided vision.
The Ant Queen fell into pieces into the ground, splattering over the floor, and dying on the spot.
Silence.
The entire Ant Colony had been cleansed, and the finishing blow was stolen by Elena, who used this opportunity to practice her in-game abilities through her real body.
The result?
“I did it!”
She celebrated happily, jumping and raising her arms like any girl would do.
“T-That’s…” Olivia muttered, then smiled. “Elena was her name, right? Elayne, just what kind of little monster have you raised?”
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