mtl008 Chapter 667 - 667
Chapter 667 - 667
"I'm right here!"With a flash of pink petals, Merlin appeared not far from the two of them.
The smile on his face was as amiable as ever, but to Eiji's current eyes, it looked incredibly punchable.
"Merlin, use every means possible to gather all the surrounding magical energy and hand it over to me!"
Eiji spoke with a resolute expression, his words rapid-fire.
"Oh? Still hiding a trump card?"
Merlin glanced at him with keen interest.
"Shut up and work!"
"Alright, alright~!Merlin spread his hands, ignoring his rude tone.
A pink light flashed, and his figure quickly vanished.
"Finished discussing?"
Arcueid looked over as if bored.
"If you're done, I'm coming now?"
"—!"
After that.
In an instant, even sound was left behind.
In the blink of an eye, a white shadow flashed.
Arcueid had already arrived in front of Eiji.
Her face was full of a triumphant smile, her hands clamping toward his neck like pincers!
"So fast!"
Scáthach's eyes widened.
Hand-to-hand combat shouldn't be the True Ancestor's specialty.
But Arcueid at this moment, with just her charging speed, far exceeded the speed of sound!
This speed, in Scáthach's eyes, even approached Eiji's sword-swinging speed!
With his strength, he absolutely couldn't block or dodge this attack!
But incredibly.
Arcueid missed!
She passed through Eiji as if gliding through air.
Like a mirage.
He had left an afterimage in Arcueid's eyes!
"This kid!"
Scáthach grew excited.
She had always felt before that during their training sessions, Eiji actively suppressed some kind of instinct.
It was the instinct to go all out when being pressed hard.
But to achieve maximum progress, he had always suppressed his instinct, not using that full power, only competing with her through swordsmanship. Thanks to this, he often ended up beaten black and blue by her.
Until now, he had finally unleashed that full power.
Just now, even she hadn't noticed when exactly Eiji had dodged away!
"What's going on?"
Arcueid looked frustrated.
She scanned her surroundings and finally found Eiji's figure a hundred meters away.
He was grimacing as he moved his ankle.
"Don't think about running this time!"
Arcueid closed in on him again.
Sound was left far behind, the fierce wind and dust shattered by her charge.
"Haa..."
Facing her assault, Eiji not only didn't focus intently but instead closed his eyes.
"Sword Step!"
Eiji lifted his foot.
His speed skyrocketed!
Dodging Arcueid's second assault by a hair's breadth!
"Huh?"
Arcueid looked completely baffled.
Unwilling to believe it, she charged at him again.
Eiji repeated his trick, evading again with Sword Step.
"Why so slippery?Arcueid found it utterly unbelievable.
She was confident she had already seen through Eiji's true strength, certain that he absolutely couldn't escape her charges.
Theoretically, Eiji shouldn't last even one move against her before being caught.
But every time she thought that, reality would slap her hard across the face.
Eiji escaped from her grasp again and again, with ease.
"Scáthach, what's the deal with the True Ancestor's 'core'?"
Even while continuously evading, he was still asking Scáthach for explanations.
"This brat!"
Scáthach let out a silent, light laugh.
Even though her fighting spirit was boiling over at this moment, she could only observe from the sidelines like this.
"True Ancestors are immortal beings, but that's only from a human perspective. Because the human form of a True Ancestor can never be killed, they're considered immortal."
"But in reality, the human form of a True Ancestor is just a product mimicking humans. That's not their true body. You have to inflict sufficiently massive damage to make the True Ancestor shed their human appearance and reveal their real form."
"After revealing their true form, True Ancestors will possess a crucial 'core.' As long as that 'core' is shattered, even a True Ancestor can be killed... But whether the Earth Princess can be killed or not, I don't know."
In the most ancient times.
The Counter Force Gaia created the True Ancestors using the Moon UO Crimson Moon as a template.
Gaia's original intention was to cleanse Earth of humans. To defeat humans, they had to understand humans, which is why True Ancestors were shaped into human form.
But in essence, True Ancestors are absolutely not humanoid!
In other words, only by forcing out their true forms can you see their only weakness!
"I see."
Eiji's expression remained calm.
He left all physical reactions to his intuition, using only his brain to comprehend everything Scáthach was saying.
That made sense.
Arcueid doesn't have the ability to kill souls, but during her rampage eight hundred years ago, she slaughtered all the supposedly immortal True Ancestors in the Millennium Castle.
This means the immortality of True Ancestors has limits!
Otherwise, Arcueid couldn't possibly have killed those True Ancestors!
And unsurprisingly, the method Arcueid used to kill those True Ancestors was to destroy their human forms with massive damage, force out their true bodies, and then shatter their 'cores'!
"Boom!"
A massive rock took the shape of a hand, emerged from the ground, and grabbed toward Eiji.
But before that could happen, Eiji had already darted away.
"This is bad, my magical energy is depleting too quickly, and my ankle can't hold out much longer!Though he appeared to be evading with effortless grace, Eiji's mood was heavy.
"Scáthach, give me a recovery rune!"
Taking advantage of his sword step's momentum, he quickly ran to Scáthach's side.
"Okay."
Without asking a single question, Scáthach drew the rune on him at top speed.
The Primordial Rune's effect was exceptionally powerful, immediately beginning to continuously heal Eiji's ankle the moment it appeared. The pain vanished as soon as it emerged.
What a great teammate!
"Are you not done yet, Merlin?"
While continuously dodging Arcueid's attacks, Eiji grew increasingly anxious inside.
If this continued, his magical energy would run out first!
"Running around like this is so annoying!"
Having failed to capture Eiji after continuous pursuit, Arcueid finally exhausted her patience.
"If you're so good at running, then I'll just turn this entire area into my domain!"
She was gradually growing furious.
Her crimson pupils instantly transformed into dazzling golden hues, releasing a blinding radiance.
"BOOM—!"
Suddenly, the earth roared!
As if struck by an earthquake, the entire Kinokono City trembled violently, with the ground shaking across a radius of over ten kilometers!
"Whoosh!"
Immediately after, a tree thick enough to require two people to embrace burst forth from the ground.
Then came a second, and a third!
Within mere seconds, countless gigantic trees erupted from the earth, completely engulfing the entire hill!
"Is this... Earth from hundreds of millions of years ago?"
Scáthach swiftly retreated to the edge of the domain, staring wide-eyed at the scene before her.