Chapter 306

Amidst a booming roar.

Violent wind pressure, like a raging typhoon, ruthlessly tore at everything in the surroundings.

The boy sitting on the ground involuntarily closed his eyes again, his heart filled with fear and unease, as if an invisible hand was tightly clutching his throat, making it hard to breathe.

When he laboriously opened his eyes again, the scene before him made him involuntarily gasp in a breath of cold air.

The streets on both sides where he was had completely collapsed; accompanied by rumbling thunder, rubble and debris were scattered all over the ground, dust flying, covering the sky and blocking out the sun.

Dust permeated the surroundings, pillars of smoke rushed into the sky, covering the sky and blocking out the sun; rubble and debris fell violently like hail, yet seemingly due to the angle of impact, judging by the sound they all landed in the distance.

"……"

"……"

Amidst bewilderment and helplessness, the boy instinctively looked around in all directions.

The scene before his eyes was like Hell, making him find it hard to believe, as if he were in an illusory dream.

As the smoke and dust slightly dispersed, he finally saw the scene a bit further away clearly.

The street blocks further away were also in critical danger; huge cracks extended from the road to the building surfaces, as if all the constructions and facilities would collapse with a crash at any moment.

Although the street blocks on both sides had completely collapsed, the street ground where Shido Itsuka was seemed to have been preserved…… a long stretch of it.

He subconsciously followed this stretch of intact street ground and looked forward.

After the smoke and dust dispersed, the back view of a slender woman right in front entered his sight.

She raised a silver sword, as if making a motion to block an attack horizontally with the sword.

And that stretch of intact ground extended straight backward, taking the position where she stood as the starting point, like a sharp arrow, its edge fully revealed.

As if protected by an invisible force, although the surrounding world had already collapsed, that arrow-like stretch of street ground remained perfectly intact.

The street blocks on both sides bore miserable traces of destruction, forming a stark contrast with it.

This scene was simply filled with intense visual impact.

The boy's heart instantly felt both shock and fear; he perceived that he seemed to be just that little bit away from a gameover on the spot.

………………

At the same time.

Miss Ciri was also both shocked and afraid, looking at the large swathes of destroyed buildings, facilities, and roads around her, biting her lip hard.

——How did I survive?

——What was that unfamiliar power I just exerted?

These thoughts flashed through her mind like lightning, making her emotions and thoughts even more chaotic.

This sudden large-scale indiscriminate strike directly descended at the moment she was caught off guard, enveloping her without a word.

Following close behind was that girl who suddenly appeared in the center of the crater ahead, drawing her weapon and slashing at her without a word.

These two successive times, no matter how you look at it, were both aimed at her.

Thinking this, Miss Ciri's expression grew increasingly serious, her gaze sharper as she stared tightly at the "enemy" ahead.

Although, in reality, the facts were not so.

Unfortunately, under the precondition of first impressions, this Space-Time Girl could no longer believe this was purely a misunderstanding caused by coincidence.

After all, when it comes down to it, she only felt that she had been targeted repeatedly in a short span of time.

——It was like that just now, and it's like this now too……

——Even her own bloodline ability was "sealed" by a specialized unknown method……

So at this moment, Ciri directly drew an equals sign between the girl in front and that mysterious youth.

She even naturally believed that the girl in front was sent by the latter to hunt her down.

Thinking about it, it makes sense.

That person obviously came for her, so how could he possibly really just watch her run away and do nothing!

"……"

"……"

And in the silent confrontation, the girl opposite was also pursing her lips.

Nearly knee-length black long hair, combined with a cute and pure face; the princess-dress-like skirt she wore was of unknown material, whether special fabric or metal.

Coupled with the giant sword nearly as tall as a person, with a broad blade, that she held in her hand, her temperament was very bizarre, imposing and awe-inspiring.

As expected, it's like this……

This girl also saw Miss Ciri ahead, and from the other's serious face, perceived obvious hostility directed at herself.

As expected, she's also here to kill me……

Geez, didn't I know this already……

With a clang, she tightened her grip on the giant sword, sighed listlessly, and simultaneously lost the interest to speak.

After all, it's confirmed to be an enemy.

And a strong enemy at that, different from those fellows before; this was verified just now.

——One can only say, both sides formed a certain misunderstanding due to preconceptions.

——And both sides, from their own perspectives, believe this is the fact.

Naturally……

Battle is on the verge of breaking out!

Simply like some kind of teleportation-like dash ability, in just the blink of an eye, that girl gorgeous like a princess, already brandishing that imposing giant sword, appeared from the center of the crater at the crater's edge!

Carrying a sense of extreme violence that contrasts sharply——

The sword blade bloomed with a dreamlike radiance like rainbow stars!

A true sword slash in an instant, drawing a hazy trajectory of light in the atmosphere!

But even so tyrannical and fierce, like an unstoppable heavy blow, it was actually blocked by a silver sword that could only be considered slender by comparison.

Clang!

Gold and iron clashed, the resonant sound exploding like thunder, the air erupting with violent sparks under the impact of this force, as if high explosives had been detonated at close range.

Overbearing air waves turned into rings of visible ripples, sweeping horizontally in all directions like raging waves!

Even from far away, that male student behind felt a strong wind rushing at his face!

Blocked!

The princess-like girl widened her eyes slightly, simultaneously furrowing her brow.

And Miss Ciri was all seriousness; although her heart was equally filled with shock and doubt, she did not show a single bit of it.

Just like a moment ago, she had actually blocked this powerful attack so easily!

Different from the hastiness and bewilderment just now, she now had mental preparation, and therefore could more intuitively sense this point.

Precisely because of this, she was able to realize the strangeness of the power she used!

It was a power both unfamiliar and familiar...

Unfamiliar because she had absolutely no impression of it, no memory whatsoever could prove when she had come into contact with and mastered them.

Familiar because it seemed to have become muscle memory, or an instinct like a conditioned reflex, as if it were some battle experience tempered a thousand times.

She didn't even need to think much; as long as she subconsciously wanted to deal with the situation before her, all sorts of experience and techniques would emerge in her mind like intuition.

And not just experience and techniques for coping—

There was also power synchronized and mapped to the physical level, as well as spell abilities.

Continuous collisions, the battle quickly entered a stalemate phase where neither could gain the upper hand, proceeding toward a white-hot battle.

The giant sword with its broad blade undoubtedly possessed astonishing lethality, especially in the hands of that imposing princess, it was even less like a cold weapon.

It possessed attack characteristics of great power, wide range, long distance, and so on.

Compared to it, that slender silver sword wasn't so miraculous, but it was extremely sturdy, and under the blessing of a certain power, could withstand the giant sword's fierce head-on collisions.

Although its own power wasn't that exaggerated, being able to block the blade's direct killing power, and the user's own physical qualities also being quite solid, was enough to contend with the former.

——The already shaved earth was cut open once more...

——Air currents like vacuum wind blades slashed chaotically and violently through the surroundings...

——Two figures constantly missed, overlapped, separated, engaging in rapid successive exchanges at extremely swift speed...

Miss Ciri had not fallen into a disadvantage at all, but still felt very "awkward".

Because she had never experienced such a bizarre combat experience, as if her morbidly schizophrenic self had split into two parts, one part astonished by the various unfamiliar abilities she used.

While the other part was calm and rational, not considering other problems at all, simply utilizing those unfamiliar abilities to conduct battle skillfully.

Powerful strength was continuously emerging...

She felt inside her body, as if a blazing power furnace was hidden, or like some sacred source—

It emitted brilliant light from the unknown, and brought explosive strength.

Perhaps just an illusion, after all she had no evidence.

But without reason, she just felt this way.

In short, there was definitely something wrong with her, and very likely a big problem; the stronger the inexplicably gained unfamiliar power, the more she couldn't be optimistic...

And right at this moment—

Howling sounds resounded.

Several things like micro-missiles pierced the air at extreme speed, shrieking, flying straight toward the position where the two combatants were.

And in the distant sky, a group of human figures in strange outfits, seemingly using some device, flew over out of thin air.

The missile attack obviously came from their hands.

"Again..."

The princess-like girl furrowed her brow, and without any visible action, those howling missiles abruptly stopped in mid-air.

She extended a hand and clenched it hard into a fist; the next moment, those missiles were remotely pinched into distortion and deformation, compressed, and exploded on the spot.

Completing this simple action, she looked at the opponent opposite, and immediately raised an eyebrow—

Ciri's reaction was also fast, directly teleporting from her original position instantly, appearing nearly a hundred meters away, leaving the strike range at the first time...

Then, she raised a hand, aimed at that group flying over to attack, and without hesitation unleashed spells in rapid succession!

——Blizzard!

——Call Lightning!

——Mayev Micro-Meteor!

Like the other spell abilities, she similarly couldn't figure out when she had learned these strange spells, but it didn't hinder her from decisively using them to counterattack at this moment.

In fact, if not for harboring doubts, she seemed able to release even higher-tier spells.

But Miss Ciri, who believed external power always has a price, truly dared not let loose before figuring out the situation.

The sky abruptly darkened, freezing rain and hail pouring down without warning, pattering as they obscured those human figures...

At the same time, in that area under concentrated bombardment, thunder light flickered, a pillar of thunder cloud formed out of thin air, exploding with a boom, thunder rumbling...

Six micro-meteors circled in mid-air, then fiercely smashed toward the target area like a meteor shower, tearing through the vast sky, leaving behind brilliant light trails...

"Hm?"

That princess-like girl raised an eyebrow, her expression becoming slightly doubtful.

This power wasn't enough to be too surprising; what truly surprised her was—

Why are they fighting each other on the opposite side? Internal strife? Or... are they actually not together?

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"Spirits..."

On a distant high-rise, Xia Zhi withdrew his gaze and shook his head.

"After all this fuss I thought it was something, but it turns out to be like a melodramatic family ethics drama..."

Although in the world before transmigration, the anime only aired one season before time stopped.

But now that I have arrived in this world, if I want to figure out the whole matter, there are too many methods available to choose from.

A single High-Dimensional Tremor of the Great Dao Golden Core...

Or perhaps—

Divine Rank perception brought by Greater Divine Power...

—"They always know what occurs in the entire Outer Planes they dwell in, and they always know what occurs in the entire Outer Planes where their worshippers or holy relics currently reside."

And unfortunately...

In this world, there is no Divine Power of the same standing that can intentionally block Xia Zhi's perception of this kind.

On this Star, there are simply no secrets to speak of; to him it is completely transparent.

"Hmm, still better to swap you lot a different script..."

Xia Zhi pinched his chin, looking thoughtful, seemingly not too satisfied with the upcoming plot.

"A Ninja World Invasion would be more exciting than you guys..."

(Chapter End)