Chapter 494: Gensokyo Loli Girls——Fusion!!

At the horizon's end, a colossal moon hung suspended in the sky with a crushing momentum.

Its form was so vast it seemed as if it would crush the mortal world the very next moment;

Its substance was so clear that the craters' gullies resembled dissected blood vessels, pale moon essence winding and flowing between them.

And beneath this world-destroying moon——

The deity wielding Authority swung her arm.

In an instant, moonlight began to twist and collapse.

Hundreds of millions of moonbeams, as if seized by invisible hands, quantum-leaped and converged on a quantum scale.

All light gathered continuously, cold moonlight strand after strand, converging together.

Only this process was extremely brief, as if accelerated, ruthlessly skipping the intermediate time frames.

And the deception of visual persistence made this scene seem like a divine miracle.

At a glance, it looked as if the moment the deity raised her hand, an entire moon fell from the heavens!

Then, it abruptly collapsed into a sphere of light in "her" palm——

Boom!!!

Hundreds of millions of moonbeams pierced the battlefield like javelins!

And each beam refracted and split on Jing Shui's infinitely extending mirror surface, further expanding the strike range, forming an airtight death cage.

And almost at the same instant, just as death was about to converge.

Yukari Yakumo's folding fan traced a profound arc in the moonlight torrent; what its ribs tore was not air, but the fundamental law of moonlight's existence——

"Invert, the boundary between wave and particle!"

In a split second.

Fine shattering sounds rang out above the battlefield, as if tens of thousands of glass panes cracked simultaneously.

It was the hundreds of millions of moonlight torrents piercing the battlefield, suddenly beginning to tremble violently all at once.

The Authority wielded by the deity was forcibly disassembled into two mutually exclusive truths, twisted by Realm Power into Schrödinger's cat box——

At least in that moment, it could not exist as a unified "killing intent".

The moonlight in wave form pierced the battlefield, like a destructive downpour, yet like a mirage's fleeting shadow, leaving only ripples.

Almost no battle results were caused.

In the next moment, the void suddenly tore open.

Moon has clustered clouds, flowers have wind——!!

It was Yuuka Kazami descending from the heavens.

Long hair and skirt hem tore out thunderous roars; the Flower Tyrant arrived bearing Gang Wind that could slice mountains and sever peaks, mere remnant waves enough to slice a great mountain in two.

No cunning techniques, no special abilities either.

Yuuka Kazami's ability has never been worth mentioning.

Different from other people in Gensokyo, some abilities seem unimpressive but are actually very powerful.

Yuuka Kazami is a Great Youkai who is consistent inside and out; her ability seems unimpressive, and actually... it really isn't impressive.

——Her ability is the ability to manipulate flowers to the degree of making them bloom.

——That is to say, making flowers bloom, making sunflowers face the sun, making withered flowers bloom again, and such degrees of appearances.

To be able to become a Great Youkai, Yuuka Kazami's power is purely terrifying; she herself possesses purely high-grade Youkai Power and excellent physical abilities, a youkai among youkai.

With the body of a mundane flower she ascended to the pinnacle of Youkai Power; physical arts that even the Oni Heavenly King avoids.

This is terrifying.

You must know, the so-called Oni——

Are an extremely powerful race even among youkai.

Just like the Tengu, they are deified youkai dwelling in Youkai Mountain.

But the entire Tengu clan was once the Oni's subordinates; it's just that after the Oni left Gensokyo, the Tengu inherited the system the Oni built, dominating Youkai Mountain.

And among the Tengu there are no few characters possessing Gensokyo's highest-tier power.

From this point one can see how powerful the Oni once were as a race.

But Yuuka Kazami, with the origin of an ordinary Flower Youkai, forcibly climbed to the summit, even tempering her physical abilities to the point of having no equal, to the extent that even the Oni Heavenly King must avoid her edge...

This is just too fantastical.

And indeed very inspiring.

"Stand down——!!"

Facing the fiercely attacking strongest Great Youkai, the deity's decree rang out, her voice seeming to overlap with echoes from another world.

The water surface suddenly boiled.

Not liquid, but space itself twisting——

The giant moon's reflection rose from the mirror surface, materializing into a substantial entity that howled away, as if forming a pincer attack with the moon in the sky.

Tsukuyomi's sleeve brushed past, and that "false moon" exploded with a boom!

Precisely at this moment, the Master of Flowers' fist peak also happened to pierce the vaporizing Moon Core...

The instant the two extreme violences collided——

The entire Divine Realm's heart skipped a beat.

No dazzling radiance, only shockwaves pure enough to distort space. Dissipating moonlight was twisted by fist wind into spiral echoes, like the rumbling of a thousand Bronze Bells shattering simultaneously.

………………

"Cough cough... amazing, so amazing..."

A somewhat dizzy Marisa Kirisame, barely managing to raise her head from the ground, saw the giant Yin-Yang Orb standing unmoving before her.

The Yin-Yang Orb displayed red and white, at this moment resembling a gigantic shrine.

It blocked Marisa Kirisame's line of sight, making her unable to see clearly what was happening ahead for a time.

However, judging from the danmaku and spell cards flying chaotically everywhere, and the strange force fluctuations that gave one goosebumps even from far away——

That was absolutely a white-hot battlefield.

"Be careful, Marisa... don't be so reckless!"

Patchouli Knowledge's voice rang out beside her.

This witch who mastered Seven Luminaries Magic floated up entirely, seven types of magical energy rotating and coiling around her.

And the grimoire likewise floating before her, flipping pages rapidly while also releasing a force field visible to the naked eye.

"Thanks, Patchy..."

Marisa Kirisame wasn't dull either; she naturally knew that besides Reimu Hakurei's Yin-Yang Orb, it was surely also her good friend Patchy who blocked a portion of the danger for her.

"No need for thanks, you actually shouldn't have come along..."

Patchouli Knowledge spoke with a frown.

As Gensokyo's Cannon King, Marisa Kirisame usually ran around fighting, causing trouble everywhere with spell card diplomacy, indeed giving off an infamous feeling.

Usually she'd go harass Reimu Hakurei, harass Alice, go to the Scarlet Devil Mansion to steal books and such...

Quite a feeling that her infamy stretched from Mist Lake to the Magic Forest, known to all.

But that was merely small-scale stuff; in the past no one ever really fought her seriously.

After all she's just a human, and so young at that, hasn't been delving into the demonic path for many years, and doesn't even have the persona of a talented girl who achieves sudden enlightenment...

How much weight could one expect from this little witch?

"It's fine, it's fine, things have blown up this big, how could I not come lend a hand? One more person means one more share of strength..."

Grabbing her own Eight Trigrams Furnace, Marisa Kirisame didn't care at all.

"Everyone came over, if I alone stayed in Gensokyo watching you all go fight, I couldn't accept that..."

"And it's not just me, Reimu left the Hakurei Great Border, isn't she also weakened a lot? But she still went up to fight..."

"And you all, Patchy, though you're much stronger than me, on this battlefield how much difference can there be?"

Showing a magnanimous expression completely different from her usual naive foolishness, Marisa Kirisame laughed hee-hee, interrupting what Patchouli Knowledge wanted to say.

Under the latter's complex gaze, Marisa Kirisame looked forward again, her eyes shifting slightly——

"What's more..."

"If not for this chance, I'd have no hope in this life of seeing Purple and them go all out, right? And would never understand just how far apart I and you all are from them..."

"Being able to witness such a strong expert battle, even dying would be worth the ticket price!"

Probably it's just like that.

This is indeed Marisa Kirisame's true state of mind at this very moment.

Holding this mindset that one doesn't know whether to call a spectator's self-cultivation or a sudden enlightenment attitude of 'hearing the Dao in the morning, dying in the evening is fine', Marisa Kirisame adjusted her own magical power, and eagerly joined the battlefield once more.

However, in terms of actual situation, she could still exert a certain degree of combat power.

After all, pure cannon fodder would be useless here; everyone able to enter this decisive battle would contribute at least a little positive added value.

Mainly also thanks to that pre-battle preparation——

That was not only to boost morale, display power, build momentum.

But also to connect the powers, energies, auras, etc. of Gensokyo's girls and lolis to a considerable extent...

Simply put, body integration can increase combat power.

And being able to achieve this naturally relies on that unreasonable realm power.

By blurring the "boundary between human and youkai", "boundary between self and other", etc., the Youkai Sage made everyone in Gensokyo's existence... appear conceptually overlapped within a certain range.

On the physical level, Marisa Kirisame still seems like Marisa Kirisame, Reimu Hakurei still seems like Reimu Hakurei.

But on the conceptual level...

It's no longer so clearly distinct.

And this has great tactical significance, allowing the strong to become stronger, and the weak to make up for their shortcomings.

For example, Yuuka Kazami, her youkai power is the most powerful, but her output power is restricted by herself; no matter how bottomless and unceasing her youkai power, at the same time only she herself can wield it...

But if through some method, this youkai power is shared with other great youkai to a certain extent, that is undoubtedly a strengthening, equivalent to giving the Master of Flowers' youkai power several more output ports...

Another example, someone like Shameimaru Aya, is originally just missing that final push.

After amplification through ability synchronization and connection, gaining supplements of some abilities or youkai power from other great youkai, directly boosting her own parameter to that level.

This equals at the critical moment, Gensokyo's side gaining another great youkai-level combatant.

The importance of this is naturally self-evident.

Plus this networking aids Gensokyo's side's tactical communication; though not to the extent of telepathy.

But networked individuals have very sharp intuitive sensing of other networked individuals' attack intentions.

This greatly avoids the possibility of friendly fire, and lets Gensokyo's side often achieve quite good tactical coordination effects without needing much communication.

Restrain, control, roam, explode...

Round after round of stable output, the god's health bar slowly dropping...

Just, very slowly.

And "Tsukuyomi" seems to have been indifferent the whole time.

This barefoot god, while launching attacks or defenses, coldly scrutinizes and analyzes every person in the subjugation team.

——Definitely has a trump card!

——Just like every qualified BOSS, not having a second phase is impossible!

The Youkai Sage understands this very well.

So she wasn't careless either, carefully controlling the field on one hand while patiently waiting for good news from that ally to arrive...

At the same time——

She secretly mobilized Realm Power, gradually raising the Synchronization Frequency bit by bit.

The Opposite Side has a trump card, and she is no Exception.

Complete Body Integration, creating an Ultimate Being that gathers the power of everyone, youkai, gods, and so on from one side of Gensokyo...

That is Yukari Yakumo's trump card!

(Chapter End)