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Faced with this predicament, the fanatic's face became extremely ferocious and twisted, and the flames on his body became even more raging, trying to burn away the bone spurs embedded in his body and the two IBMs that bound his movements. However, the man in the white suit would not give him such an opportunity. The dozen or so bone spurs in his body quickly extended and pierced directly into the fanatic's body. And like the first bone spur, many fine barbs grew on the surface, directly hooking onto the other's flesh.
"You heretics..."
Faced with this desperate situation where they could not move and could not even lift their arms, the fanatic seemed to have made a decision. The flames on his body began to gradually expand, and he shouted in a fanatical tone.
"I'll tell you all..."
"boom!!!"
Before the fanatic could finish speaking, Asagiri took advantage of the moment when the fanatic was unable to move, completely disregarding the raging flames surrounding him, and punched the fanatic's head away. The head spun and crashed into the wall, blooming into a red and white pattern.
"call……"
Seeing the fanatic killed, the man in the white suit breathed a sigh of relief. Because more than a dozen bone spurs had forcibly grown out of his body, he had lost too much blood and his face had turned pale. But he still forced himself to look at Asagiri and showed a smile.
"Success..."
"Castling."
Before the man in the white suit could finish speaking, Asagiri had already activated his skill, "Castration".
……
Meanwhile, in the lobby on the first floor of the hotel.
"whispering sound……"
Asuna Yuuki's right wrist, gripping the shimmering light, trembled slightly as she looked at the priest, who was clad in heavy armor of flames, wielding a massive two-handed sword of fire, exuding a strong sense of oppression like a medieval knight. She bit her lip and gripped the hilt of the sword tightly with her slender, white fingers.
Within just two minutes, she realized something.
Although this priest's mind was not normal, just like those believers, it did not mean that he had low combat intelligence. On the contrary, although this priest could not disguise his true face as a "fireball" like those believers, he had extremely rich combat experience and could maintain a high degree of rationality in battle.
After realizing that Yuuki Asuna's mission was to delay his actions, the priest took advantage of this. Sometimes he pretended to be observing his surroundings, looking for the player who cast the barrier, but in reality, he was trying to prevent Yuuki Asuna from escaping and force her to attack him.
The most important problem is that even if Asuna Yuuki realizes this, this is all she can do, since she doesn't know when the other party is genuinely observing and when they are deliberately luring her in.
Once in close combat, Asuna Yuuki's strengths in speed and agility are somewhat limited, while the priest's strength, defense, attack, destructive power, and the hardness of his weapons become apparent.
Even though Asuna Yuuki gains physical enhancements through the passive effect of "Flash Blade" with each attack, her attacks are not fatal to the priest. On the contrary, the priest only needs to swing his flaming greatsword to make her do her best to defend.
At this moment, Asuna Yuuki felt a tightness in her chest, and she had just been accidentally hit by the flaming greatsword, causing intense pain in her ribs, making it difficult for her to even breathe.
"Where is Lelouch...?"
The priest gripped the two-handed greatsword formed of flames, his face contorted with anger.
"That guy... I must kill that guy!"
Just as the priest finished speaking, Yuuki Asuna, who had been standing there, disappeared, and in her place stood Asagiri, who was wearing a hunter's trench coat.
"Hmph, are you here?"
The priest looked at Asagiri standing there and saw that the right sleeve of the other man's black trench coat had been burned off, and there were severe burns on his arm, with black fabric even embedded in his flesh. The real serious injury was in his abdomen.
A bloody hole the size of a football appeared in his abdomen, and even his internal organs had been completely devoured by the high-temperature flames.
"If it were a normal human being, suffering such severe injuries, they would probably be dead by now."
The priest looked directly at Asagiri's face, which was covered by a dark gray mask, and gazed into her calm, unwavering eyes before slowly speaking.
"As expected, you are a bizarre creation of Blackwatch."
At first, the priest was somewhat suspicious, after all, he and the three believers were connected in spirit, he knew what had happened on the third floor of the hotel, and he also knew the members of Blackwatch very well.
They were a group of monsters who, no matter what they faced, even without special powers, even in the face of absolute death with no hope, would never show the slightest weakness or cowardice. They were simply monsters with MAX level willpower.
The players' performance was clearly vastly different from the Blackwatch members the priest had in mind.
However, the Blackwatch commander "Lelouch Lamperouge" standing before him displayed a willpower far exceeding that of normal humans, which convinced the priest that the other party must be the commander of Blackwatch.
"Persona, Human Asura".
Asagiri had no intention of wasting any time and directly summoned her Persona, Shura.
"Ok?"
Upon seeing the tall, dark figure appear behind Asagiri, the priest was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly realized what was happening.
"I see. Your summoned creature's ability to influence minds doesn't discriminate between friend and foe. So, in order to maintain the barrier for your companions, you can't summon here. Then..."
"boom!!"
Before the priest could finish speaking, Asagiri had already raised his physical abilities to an extremely terrifying level under the dual enhancement of "blood burst" and human asura. When he unleashed his full power, there was even a sound of air being torn apart.
The priest's speed and reaction time weren't that fast; even Yuuki Asuna was faster than him, let alone Asagiri at this moment.
He was completely unable to mount any effective countermeasures. The orange flames on his body suddenly began to condense, first turning into a fluid-like substance, and then solidifying in an instant to form a thick suit of armor.
Asagiri delivered a side kick to the priest's chest, but the priest's body did not fly backward. Instead, his feet slid back less than half a meter on the ground before he raised his flaming greatsword high and slashed it down at Asagiri's head.
"boom!!"
Asagiri raised her hand and blocked the priest's wrists holding the sword before the greatsword fell.
"Squeak..."
The priest's wrist armor was deformed by Asagiri's forceful grip, and the sound of bones gradually cracking could be heard coming from his wrists. But like Asagiri, both of them were enduring excruciating physical pain, yet neither of them showed any sign of backing down.
"Divine Grace".
As the two sides were locked in a stalemate, the priest suddenly roared. Asagiri felt the priest's power instantly increase, and without hesitation, she released her grip and retreated a distance, letting the heavy flaming greatsword crash to the ground. Immediately afterward, a cursed rope dart appeared in her right hand, and taking advantage of the priest's loss of balance, she thrust it towards his brow.
"Boom!"
The priest quickly raised his foot and kicked Asagiri directly in the abdomen. Not only was the force increased, but his speed also increased significantly. Asagiri used the force of the kick to pull himself back a distance. The wound that had been sealed by the flames burst open again under the external force, and blood flowed down instantly.
"interesting."
Asagiri slowly raised her head. The priest had expected to see fear, panic, or vigilance in her eyes, but to his surprise, he only saw an emotion that he himself could hardly believe.
excited.
This guy... is enjoying the fight.
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Chapter 45 Then let's perish together.
The priest's current thought was to finish the battle quickly. After all, the three believers who had accompanied him had already been dealt with, and he could see that although Asagiri had a strong will, his severe injuries had affected his movements. Although he didn't know if Blackwatch could heal such injuries, the wisest choice and his only chance was to deal with this guy in front of him as soon as possible before the guys upstairs arrived.
Asagiri's idea coincided with the priest's.
Quick fight.
There are about two and a half minutes left before the effects of the blood burst end, after which he will fall into a weakened state.
Supreme Magic Bullet?
If the Supreme Magic Bullet is used, causing excessive consumption of mental energy, coupled with the negative effects after the "Blood Burst" ends, Asagiri knows that he may die on the spot, or even if he does not die, he will fall into a coma due to mental exhaustion.
The system did distribute a bottle of recovery reagent before, but it did not say that the same reagent would be distributed after every battle. He could not gamble on the probability that the system would definitely distribute the reagent, nor could he entrust his life and death to this game system.
Any privileges granted by the system are based on the value of a "player". If the system determines that a player has no value to help, then it cannot grant any preferential treatment.
After all, the game's system is devoid of emotion, an absolutely rational and cold entity.
Just then, a muffled sound came from the ceiling, and then the entire lobby of the hotel was enveloped in a rapidly descending curtain of water.
"呲呲呲..."
When the water droplets fell on the priest, his heavy armor, the longsword in his hand, and his skin all began to make a sound like flames being extinguished, just as if a normal person had been splashed with sulfuric acid. His skin quickly began to break down in large areas.
"You...you bunch of guys..."
Before the priest could finish speaking, Asagiri raised his left hand.
"let's start."
The moment Asagiri finished speaking, Kato Megumi, who had been hiding in the shadows, finally appeared, while Yuuki Asuna and Iwanaga Kotoko also passed through the barrier that allowed entry but not exit and rushed into the hotel lobby on the first floor through the fire escape.
"IBM".
As Kotoko Iwanaga conjured two IBMs, Megumi Kato drew his bow and fired three jet-black arrows in quick succession, which approached the priest's face, chest, and abdomen almost simultaneously.
The priest, enduring the excruciating pain of his skin being corroded, quickly retreated a distance, dodging the three arrows shot by Kato Megumi. He gripped the flaming greatsword in his hand and glared angrily at Asagiri, who stood there.
"You actually want to take on one more person? How despicable and shameless..."
"boom!"
Asagiri appeared in front of the priest in an instant and threw a punch. Although the priest raised his flaming greatsword to block, it was obvious that his strength was affected by the continuous rain from the hotel's shower heads. Even though he managed to defend himself in time, he was still knocked back several meters and almost collapsed to the ground.
Seeing the priest's disheveled appearance, Chaowu casually waved her hand and said indifferently.
"We Blackwatch are ruthless and unscrupulous."
The priest was completely unable to refute it, after all, in his mind, Blackwatch was an organization that would stop at nothing to achieve its goals, and besides...
When he first brought three followers, wasn't he thinking of using numbers to bully the few?
"That's the only option left..."
The priest seemed to have made up his mind. After taking a deep breath, the flaming greatsword in his hand disappeared, and flames reignited on his body. He roared in a voice that was almost a scream or a wail.
"God descends!"
The moment the priest uttered the word, Kotoko Iwanaga, who had the strongest sense of strange auras, couldn't help but change her expression. Asagiri, Asuna Yuuki, Megumi Kato, and the fox-masked woman maintaining the barrier, although they didn't have Kotoko Iwanaga's keen senses, felt the temperature in the hall rise instantly and realized the seriousness of the situation.
After a brief period of burning, the flames on the priest's body disappeared back into his flesh, and he seemed to return to normal. However, through his eyes and something different in them, Asagiri vaguely sensed that the other man was no longer that priest, but rather...
“God…God…”
Sensing a familiar aura of a similar nature that she had felt before, the woman in the fox demon mask's pupils dilated in shock, and her body began to tremble uncontrollably with fear.
"This guy actually used himself as a sacrifice to allow a 'god' to possess him. How are we supposed to defeat this...?"
"The protection of the wind!"
"The Grip of the Underworld!"
"Throw!"
However, while the woman in the fox demon mask was still gripped by intense fear from sensing the aura of the gods, her body feeling as if it had fallen into an ice cave and unable to move, Kotoko Iwanaga, Asuna Yuuki, Megumi Kato, and Asagiri had already begun their attack.
The four people faced the so-called "gods" without feeling the slightest bit of fear.
Seeing two black IBMs, a man exuding a sense of oppression, Yuuki Asuna moving at lightning speed, leaving only a red shadow in her wake, Kato Megumi throwing an Indian battle axe, a pale demon hand reaching out from the void, and Asagiri wielding a rope dart, all attacking him from various angles, the priest, already possessed by a part of "gods," had empty eyes, as if devoid of any emotion, and simply silently swung the flaming greatsword in his hand.
A powerful wave of fire, swept by the gale, formed a barrier of flames that made it impossible for anyone to approach.
The next second, the god completely ignored the attacks from Kato Megumi and Iwanaga Kotoko, looked at Asagiri and Yuuki Asuna who were rushing over, and swung the greatsword in his hand horizontally.
"boom!!"
Kotoko Iwanaga and Megumi Kato saw two figures fly out of the sea of fire. Asuna Yuuki and Asagiri were doing the same thing: one used her rapier to block, and the other used the rope dart chain wrapped around her arm as a defense.
After staggering back more than ten meters, Asagiri and Yuuki Asuna finally regained their footing.
Asuna Yuuki lowered her right arm, which held the sword, and silently switched the flashing light to her left hand, while Asagiri tried to clench her right hand, and a piercing pain came from her arm.
"broken."
Upon hearing Asuna Yuuki's words, Asagiri nodded slightly and replied with a smile.
"Yes, I've cut it off too."
If there were unsuspecting people present at this moment, just by looking at the way Yuuki Asuna and Asagiri were talking, they would think that the two of them had come out on a date. There was no sense of despair or heaviness at all; they were just chatting casually.
"You guys are...very interesting."
"Oh?"
Upon hearing the "deity" speak through the priest's body, Asagi exclaimed in surprise.
"You can talk?"
The deity remained silent for a few seconds, seemingly unsure how to respond to Asagiri's somewhat abstract statement, before slowly speaking.
"You are very interesting. Become my followers, and I will grant you power beyond your imagination..."
"Do it."
As Asagiri finished speaking, he had already forcefully broken through the barrier of flames. Just as the god was about to swing his greatsword in retaliation, Asagiri made an unexpected move.
He bent down slightly, and in a position like a UFC professional fighter being dragged to the ground, he circled around behind the god and immediately locked the other's neck.