Chapter 459: Human Soul Poem

Chapter 459: Chapter 459: Human Soul Poem

Chapter 459: Human Soul Poem

"Ruiner Nergigante..."

Looking down at the Special Infected surging forward like an endless tide, Asagiri walked through the air and casually waved one hand.

"Use Calamity Breath."

"ROAR!"

Hearing Asagiri’s command, Ruiner Nergigante, which had been swatting Special Infected aside like ants with its massive claws, immediately raised its head.

Flames powerful enough to distort the surrounding air rapidly condensed inside its jaws.

Then it unleashed them.

"WHOOSH!"

Calamity Breath swept across the battlefield.

Hundreds of Special Infected were swallowed by the flames.

Tank, with its monstrous defense.

Hunter, with its terrifying agility.

Witch, relentless and ghostlike.

None of them made any difference.

The moment the calamity flames passed over them, their bodies were reduced to nothing.

Calamity Breath was an ability Ruiner Nergigante had obtained after devouring the Black Dragon.

Even if these Special Infected had undergone specialized strengthening against fire, they were still hopelessly fragile before flames of such terrifying temperature.

However...

When the sea of fire finally dispersed, one figure remained standing.

It was a humanoid creature nearly two meters tall, dressed in a black leather coat.

Yuuki Asuna and Kaguya Shinomiya immediately realized what it was.

A highly evolved Blacklight Virus Infected.

The two exchanged a glance.

Then they charged forward without hesitation.

At the same time, shrill screams and ghostly howls erupted from the buildings on both sides of the advancing formation.

Thousands of specters in all manner of twisted forms poured from the darkness and attacked both flanks.

"Hold them back!"

The melee Players immediately raised their weapons.

Their role was simple.

They didn’t need to destroy every spiritual enemy themselves.

They only needed to form the first defensive line and withstand the assault long enough for the long range classes inside the formation to attack.

While the formation was moving, Kato Megumi’s damage output was actually greater than Iwanaga Kotoko’s.

Her arrows possessed astonishing penetrating power.

Every shot found the perfect angle, piercing through dozens of specters lined up along the same trajectory.

Whenever the front line showed signs of collapsing, she would immediately switch to the short blade form and reinforce the melee Players, preventing the formation from being forcibly breached.

"Hey... these things..."

On the left flank, a male Player saw several nearby Players suddenly seized by specters and dragged away from the formation.

He instinctively moved to help.

Then...

A freezing presence appeared beside him.

The Player stiffened.

Slowly, he turned his head.

A pale, bloodless face stared back at him.

It looked like the corpse of someone who had only just been dragged from the bottom of a lake.

Its empty white pupils were fixed directly on him.

"No..."

The specter’s hand gently landed on his shoulder.

A bone chilling cold instantly spread through his entire body.

He could not resist.

He could not even open his mouth to call for help.

The next moment, the specter began dragging him away from the formation.

"Bang!"

The creature’s body suddenly split in half.

Asagiri had appeared beside him and swept the Shura Fan through the specter’s body.

His gaze shifted toward the Players who had already been dragged away.

Their bodies had been torn apart.

There was no saving them.

A spear of light formed in Asagiri’s left hand.

He threw it.

"Boom!"

The light spear tore across the battlefield, instantly erasing nearly a hundred grotesque specters.

Asagiri spoke calmly.

"Keep moving."

"No matter the cost."

"U-understood!"

The Player whose life had just been saved hurriedly returned to formation and continued advancing.

Asagiri rose back into the sky.

From above, he surveyed the entire battlefield.

"A hundred Players have already died..."

Even with Yuuki Asuna, Kaguya Shinomiya, and Ruiner Nergigante holding back most of the Special Infected at the front, some Hunters were still agile enough to slip past them and strike the main formation.

And like the specters, they were not trying to kill their targets immediately.

They were dragging Players away.

"What a cheap tactic."

A faint golden light appeared in Asagiri’s eyes.

No matter how strong Players became, they were still human.

And humans could not remain absolutely cold and rational.

If someone saw a teammate being dragged away by a specter or Special Infected, their first instinct would naturally be to rescue them.

But doing so would waste time.

Worse, it would disrupt the formation they had struggled to maintain.

"Violet."

Hearing Asagiri’s voice, Yuuki Asuna instantly understood.

She had just cut down several Special Infected.

Light erupted from Shining Starlight.

Her crimson cloak became a streak of red as she accelerated forward.

At the same moment, Asagiri left the main formation as well.

The two surged ahead together.

Although Yuuki Asuna, Iwanaga Kotoko, Kato Megumi, and Kaguya Shinomiya were all among Asagiri’s strongest allies, Asuna’s direct combat ability stood clearly above the others.

Not merely by a little.

She was in an entirely different league.

She was also the only one capable of keeping pace with Asagiri when he moved seriously.

If it were only the two of them, there would have been no need for a formation of thousands of Players.

They could have simply cut straight through everything in their path.

At full speed, covering two hundred kilometers would take them roughly twenty minutes.

But the others could not maintain that pace.

Especially Yamauchi Sakura and Sakurakawa Rikka.

Both possessed abilities that would be crucial during the final confrontation.

The enormous Player formation existed primarily to ensure those essential members reached Nyx’s true body while conserving as much stamina and spiritual power as possible.

"Shadow!"

After advancing several kilometers, Asagiri and Yuuki Asuna saw hundreds of Blackwatch soldiers blocking the route ahead.

Among them were several heavily mutated Blacklight Virus Infected.

The Commander leading them immediately raised his hand.

"All units..."

"Sword Skill: Lacerating Flash!"

He never finished the command.

Yuuki Asuna thrust Shining Starlight forward.

A brilliant sword flash tore through the Blackwatch formation.

Although the soldiers had gained enhanced physical abilities through the Blacklight Virus, against a Player of Yuuki Asuna’s level, they were little different from ordinary humans.

Dozens fell in an instant.

Then the surviving Blackwatch soldiers saw Asagiri throw something small through the air.

A tiny, adorable figure.

"Woohoo! Chibi Mita, arriving!"

The Blackwatch soldiers froze.

What was that?

A doll?

A compressed explosive?

"Castling."

The next instant, Asagiri disappeared.

Chibi Mita appeared where he had been.

And Asagiri appeared directly in the middle of the Blackwatch formation.

Horror spread across the soldiers’ faces.

But they were already too slow.

An illusory Tarot card appeared in Asagiri’s hand.

Crack.

"Persona."

"Alice."

A little girl in a dress appeared beside him.

She smiled sweetly.

"Can I ask you to die for me?"

There were no screams.

No desperate struggles.

Only the dull sound of bodies hitting the ground.

One after another, hundreds of Blackwatch soldiers collapsed lifelessly.

Only a handful of heavily evolved Blacklight Virus Infected remained standing, their mental strength enhanced enough to resist Alice’s power.

One of them transformed its right arm into a Black Particle blade and stabbed directly toward Asagiri.

"Human Asura."

Human Asura appeared and caught the Black Particle blade with one hand.

At the same time, Alice’s little girl form changed.

Her body transformed into her mature combat form.

Dark red blood vessels erupted from the ground and pierced straight through the Blacklight Virus Infected.

The remaining Infected had already been cut down by Yuuki Asuna.

"It’s been this long, and they’re still using the same tricks."

Yuuki Asuna casually flicked Shining Starlight, her voice flat.

"It seems that after Nyx failed in the previous Dungeon, it no longer has many useful pieces left to stop us."

"Next..."

Asagiri nodded slightly.

He looked toward the endless darkness ahead.

"As long as we reach that place..."

"We win."

...

Several hours later.

A colossal black tower rose before them.

"This is it."

Asagiri looked up at the towering structure.

Then he turned toward the Players behind him.

More than a thousand Players from their original formation were still alive.

Several other Player groups, guided by the System’s beacon, had also successfully converged with them along the way.

Altogether...

More than three thousand Players now stood before the tower.

"More survived than I expected."

Iwanaga Kotoko nodded lightly.

Then an overwhelming surge of Cursed aura suddenly erupted from every direction.

She did not look surprised.

Instead, a faint smile appeared on her face.

"As expected."

"Nyx reacted exactly as we predicted."

The moment she finished speaking...

Enemies emerged from all directions.

Special Infected.

Specters.

Blackwatch units moving in formation.

They poured toward the Players like an endless tide.

There were so many that their numbers could not even be estimated at a glance.

Nyx had used the location of its own true body as bait.

It had deliberately allowed the Players to gather here.

Now it intended to surround and annihilate them all at once.

But this desperate move...

Was also something Asagiri and the others had already anticipated.

"It’s time."

Asagiri looked toward Sakurakawa Rikka.

"Use that ability."

Sakurakawa Rikka nodded.

She slowly closed her eyes.

When they opened again...

Dazzling light shone from her dark yellow pupils.

Her slender, pale hands rose before her.

She looked at the endless enemies approaching from every direction.

Then she spoke slowly.

"Poem of All Humanity’s Souls."

The next instant...

Light purple figures began appearing around the battlefield.

One after another.

Then hundreds.

Thousands.

Countless humanoid phantoms materialized from nothingness, each glowing with the pale violet color of a human soul.

[Poem of All Humanity’s Souls]

[Player Sakurakawa Rikka’s Exclusive Ability]

[Summons a vast number of deceased souls to fight.]

[The number and strength of the summoned souls are inversely proportional to the number of surviving humans in the corresponding world.]

[The fewer humans who remain alive, the greater the number of souls summoned and the stronger those souls become.]

[Note: This ability can only be used once.]

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