SSS Awakening: Starting With Infinite Soul Copy
Chapter 279: The Umbrawyric Queen VS The Umbrawyric King (II)
Right now, the bladed part of her scythe was cracked, half of it ripped apart, and turning to White, he had that exact bladed piece in his hand.
He had managed to break her scythe while she had sent him flying with a knee strike to the face.
CLENCH!
White clenched his fist around the bladed weapon, pulverizing the hardened metal into pieces before opening his hand and letting the fragments scatter into the dark lava below.
"Fusing with the Mallory Umbrawyrio indeed gave you power. Maybe power even beyond my expectations, but that doesn’t change the fact that there’s an insurmountable gap in power between us."
Nythera said.
"I’ve spent centuries upon centuries fighting some of the strongest creatures in the universe, reigning over the Umbrawyric Race, and not once have I ever wavered."
"Perhaps, if you’d spent the next few centuries familiarizing yourself with the Mallory Umbrawyrio, you might stand some sort of chance."
"But now... you’re doomed to lose."
She said as the half-broken blade of her scythe teleported itself from the weapon and fell into the lava.
Only the handle remained, and soon even that disappeared.
In its place, a new weapon appeared in her hands.
Two slightly curved daggers, crimson in color just like the scythe, brimming with crimson energy.
"You’re doomed to lose."
[She’s Indeed Strong, White. Very Strong.]
The system notification panel blinked at the corner of White’s vision, only to be dismissed in the next moment.
GLITCH!
Once.
White reappeared instantly behind her, his shadow looming over her once more.
"Talking isn’t like you..."
CLAAAAAAAANG!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Two massive punches slammed into a dagger, sending space cracking furiously like glass.
CLAAAAAAAANG!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Another explosion as another two punches were blocked by her second dagger.
Space completely shattered apart, both of them becoming encircled by a gigantic vortex of blackness, which soon had another vortex winding around it horizontally.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
And then another black hole wound around it diagonally.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
...
For seven straight hours, the explosions continued ceaselessly.
Black holes wrapped around black holes, yet even as they appeared above the Umbrawyric World, and so many black holes should have unleashed a terrifying, world-devouring level of gravitational force, dragging all Umbrawyrs into nothingness...
They didn’t.
The black holes themselves were visible to every Umbrawyr, growing larger by the second, yet never truly exerting any destructive pull.
It was as if these black holes, signs of devastation from the battle, were somehow still under someone’s perfect control.
But who...?
"ROOOOOOOOAAAAAR!"
It was a primal, ear-grating roar that would have caused even the eardrums of Galaxy-Ranked Awakeners to explode from its terrifying sonic force.
Nythera was an unstoppable calamity within the black hole.
Even as she was completely surrounded.
Gigantic Black Suns after Black Suns releasing terrifying crushing force.
Hundreds of thousands of tiny destructive black holes.
And the same number of different astral weapons being launched from all directions, bombarding her endlessly.
Her figure was a terrifying phantom.
Dagger arcs appeared everywhere as she cleaved through hundreds of Black Suns in the span of seconds, tearing forward into the distance with horrifying speed.
Even with a runic law hanging in the air that seemed to prevent her from getting close, trying to slow her down and make her susceptible to the rest of the bombardment...
All before her might was a futile endeavor.
With one devastating flash, she cut through the last of the Black Suns, tore through the blue halo, shattered the runic law interfering with her movement, and appeared instantly before White.
Her dagger immediately cleaved downward, only for a punch to slam forward, colliding firmly against it.
The clash led to another black hole being added to the twisted mass around them.
But then...
RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP!
Almost as if her arms possessed no bones, her other dagger cleaved upward from below.
Immediately, three massive hands soared into the sky as three of White’s arms were completely severed.
He backed off a step, only for Nythera to glitch and appear before him, her dagger piercing toward his chest.
His three remaining hands moved to stop it, halting it in place, but his eyes quickly narrowed when he noticed Nythera only had one dagger in her hand.
He tried to back away, but then—
RIIIIIIIIIIIIIP!
SPURRRRRRT!
Blue blood spurted from his lips as a dagger suddenly pierced out from behind him, ripping through the front of his chest.
He turned his head.
And right there was Nythera.
A perfect clone of her.
"I told you... You’re inexperienced!"
She claimed coldly, tearing out the dagger and thrusting straight for White’s head.
But then—
GLITCH!
He glitched once.
Her dagger met nothing.
Turning her head upward, she found White hovering above, covered in lacerations, three of his six arms cleanly severed.
He stood high above the chaos of the black holes surrounding them.
She paused, turning her attention to the black holes.
Such a concentration of black holes on this scale was something she had never seen before.
They should have detonated already during the fight.
But they hadn’t.
If they had, they would have destroyed at least a quarter of the Umbrawyric Planet, wiping out millions of Umbrawyric lives.
She was, of course, not the one keeping the black holes under control.
Meaning one thing.
"At least it’s interesting how you still consider the lives of the Umbrawyrs."
She said to him.
"But then... it could just be that sickening sense of morality of yours refusing to be fully cast away."
"Pity. None of it will help you."
She said, drawing her dagger backward and preparing to slash upward.
But then—
"Save it."
White suddenly said.
She froze.
One of his arms shifted forward and quietly took on a strange shape.
A shape any human would immediately recognize.
A gun.
"You’ll need your energy to survive this..."
White claimed.
And in that moment, realization dawned upon Nythera.
"The black holes...!"
[Skill, Ruin Nexus, Has Been Activated!]
[The Ultimate Authority of the Skill, Zero Point: All accumulated power may be condensed into a single point of release, is now in use.]
"Release."
"NOOO...!"