Novel Full Chapter 2305: Oda Nobunaga’s Endless Castle [23]
Chapter 2305: Oda Nobunaga’s Endless Castle [23]
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Hydra and Celene appeared unscathed, floating above the now-deleted room, suspended in the center of a black void.
At the last moment, Hydra had torn through the room, carving a piece of it and hurling it into the void.
When it was deleted alongside the rest of the room, the empty space dragged them to where he had thrown that piece, thus saving their lives.
How did that even work?
It was quite simple. Hydra had previously analyzed the phenomenon, concluding that the force created between two spaces closing upon an empty void was...
Gravity.
Therefore, if he tore apart a piece of the space and then cast it away from its original position, as he had guessed, the entire room, including that piece, would be deleted.
The power of gravity itself would draw them to that location as long as they stayed within the area where Hydra had torn that piece of the room.
Of course, to most people, this would be a confusing mess, but Hydra figured it out with ease.
"Hydra, this is...!"
Celene glanced behind her, seeing over a hundred shifting rooms that created replicas of themselves, constantly collapsing and then being recreated.
They were semi-transparent, and despite appearing so far away, they were actually very close to one another but were never permitted to reach each other!
"Everyone!"
Celene saw them. Everyone was fighting their own foes, and only Celene and Hydra had stepped "outside".
"They can’t hear you. My allies are already targeting them. One by one, they will fall to their demise, and you won’t be able to do anything to stop them, because you’re now fighting me! Susanoo-sama has tasked me with controlling this Castle and assisting Oda Nobunaga to defeat you, and so I shall! Prepare yourselves! I am quite excited myself! Can you solve this puzzle now, dragon?!"
"Bring it on!"
Hydra roared, his Aura surging, as Sarutahiko pointed his staff at him, generating dozens of rooms around them and swiftly pushing them towards Hydra and Celene, before deleting them and creating an immense closing force, intending to flatten them instantly.
"{Spatial Deletion}"
TRUUUM!
Sarutahiko smiled, giggling slightly. He had imagined that there would be more of a struggle, but there was none at all.
"It’s over. I suppose that’s-"
FLUOSH!
"...?!"𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂
The Kami’s eyes widened, as he saw Hydra and Celene reappearing, as if bouncing off the empty space...
"What sort of illusion is this?!"
"This is no illusion. It’s simple physics... and magic," Hydra said, as the Kami noticed the rotating mirrors around Celene.
Celene’s magic could reflect targeted spells directed at her. Using this power, Hydra had deliberately allowed the spatial attacks to reach them and then had them bounced back by the mirrors.
It was possible because Hydra had concentrated all the spatial distortions and gravity shockwaves into a single area by weakening the empty void’s resilient spatial membrane through slightly fusing it with the dimensional membrane of his own divine realm.
It was certainly a risky move, but it paid off.
Especially when the two of them executed it.
BOOOM!
"Ungh?!"
Sarutahiko suddenly felt an immense, invisible force strike his entire body, sending him flying and crashing into his own castle.
CRASH!
"What was that?!"
He swiftly stood up, noticing one of Celene’s mirrors had developed a large crack, rendering it unusable.
"The spell was too strong. My mirrors can only bounce it back once before they shatter, Hydra," Celene said. "Once they shatter, they take several minutes to recover..."
"I see, that’s more than enough time," Hydra said, his Aura surging, as he summoned hundreds of Draconic Phantoms. "Shall we resume our game, then?!"
"Your overconfidence will be your demise, dragon!"
Sarutahiko grew furious at being toyed with like this, unleashing a barrage of spatial attacks...
Hydra swiftly dodged and used the previous trick, this time not bouncing back the spatial attack but instead using his phantoms to distract his foe and bombard him.
"Hahahah! You will need far more than that to beat me, dragon."
Sarutahiko laughed, emerging almost unscathed as he glared at the Death Dragon and chuckled.
Hydra, however, was rapidly calculating the situation, analyzing his foe for any glaring weakness he could find.
And indeed, despite Sarutahiko’s belief in his perfection, he had flaws, and many...
"It is our duty to defeat this opponent and rescue everyone else from this endless illusion, Celene!" Hydra said. "Will you trust me?"
"I will!" Celene nodded. "We can’t let this man toy with everyone else!"
Hydra and Celene combined their strength, fighting as if they were friends who had known each other for many years.
They were not unified by old friendship or shared memories, but by the desire to protect their new friends and their world.
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Triton felt like he was drowning.
The water was too deep and dark, and far too overwhelming.
His body was too heavy, and he sank into the endless, dark depths...
Despite being a Sea Dragon, and despite how he should have loved the sea and the waters...
Since birth, Triton had actually had a phobia of the sea. It took him years of training with his mother and friends to overcome it.
But even now, from time to time, he has experienced nightmares of drowning in the sea.
He often thought he was a pathetic Sea Dragon, if he was so afraid of drowning, something that was, to begin with, impossible.
But... he always felt like he was missing something.
Why am I afraid of the sea?
I am a Sea Dragon... I was born for it.
And yet... I can’t help but feel that the darkness of the depths will swallow me if I go down.
It was a lingering trauma from his father’s life, when he was defeated and killed by the Deep One, drowned in the deepest and darkest waters.
It turned out that he didn’t just inherit his father’s powers, but also fragments of his memories, his fears, and his experiences...
And Triton would reexperience them in his dreams, sometimes multiple times at once, but the most terrifying were the fragments of his father fighting the Deep One.
And losing, ultimately being killed.
They were traumatic dreams against which he could do nothing...
However, thanks to everyone’s help and support, he was able to gradually overcome this innate fear.
But even then, he preferred not to venture into the sea if he had the choice.
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