Chapter 1283: Merely a Death Throes Struggle
"Pfft!"
A sword pierced through the body!
Immediately after, a sacred and inviolable thick circular ring, resembling a Vajra Demon-Subduing Circle, appeared around Kishinami, protecting her like a barrier.
"Hmm?"
Eiji let out a light sound of doubt.
His sword had indeed pierced through Kishinami.
But it hadn't pierced the massive luminous body—instead, it had bisected a fifty-to-sixty-meter-tall Kishinami that had suddenly appeared, blocking the path to the luminous body's heart.
"She can do that?"
Eiji marveled at Kishinami's quick thinking.
Knowing full well that her speed couldn't possibly match his sword's, she had never intended to block him from the start. Instead, she had teleported a terminal in front of herself like a sacrificial pawn.
Kishinami's true form now was the kilometer-tall colossal luminous body.
Both the ordinary human-sized Kishinami and the fifty-to-sixty-meter-tall Kishinami were merely terminals she had created within her main body.
Though these terminals had become useless in a battle of this scale, she had now ingeniously put them to use.
While the terminal took the sword strike with its own body, Kishinami had already completed her defensive setup. The golden ring encircled her like a planetary belt, neutralizing all incoming attacks.
With this defense in place, Kishinami breathed a slight sigh of relief.
The effect of the Fist Seal of Principle was exactly as it appeared—a defensive technique capable of nullifying all attacks she recognized as such.
This way, even that elusive sword from before could be blocked!
"Chanting Heaven Style・Four Thoughts Peak Return!""
With her defenses established, Kishinami launched another assault!
A dark shadow suddenly spread across the ground.
Like an abyss, it appeared beneath the fused phantom beast's feet, from which countless pale hands emerged one after another, grabbing onto the beast's legs and attempting to pull it into the shadow.
If one looked closely into that shadow, it wasn't an abyss at all—it more closely resembled the interior of something.
An internal space like lymph... or a womb!
"Boom crack!!"
The left leg, formed from the Lion's Gold, erupted with massive golden lightning, drawing the incoming pale hands into the thunder for some hospitality.
However, even after a round of nearly 100,000-degree electric massage, the pale hands weren't charred to crisps. Instead, like centipedes that refused to die, they stubbornly clung to the fused phantom beast's legs.
"Tch, in terms of raw power, the phantom beasts can't match the Beast anymore!"
Eiji clicked his tongue quietly.
The True Ancestor's phantom beasts were powerful, yes, but only to a certain extent.
For instance, even at full power, the Lion's Gold or the Two-Horned Deep Crimson could, at best, destroy a city. Yet, Kishinami's casual minor skills—like the energy sphere from before—could achieve the same effect.
In terms of pure output, the Fourth True Ancestor couldn't keep up with the Beast!
"Then we'll make up for it with numbers!"
With that thought, Eiji acted.
The fused phantom beast roared as if enraged, the two red horns on its head vibrating intensely, scattering high-frequency shockwaves recklessly at the pale hands.
Simultaneously, the demon bird wings on its back flapped, sending absolute zero ice crashing down into the dark abyss!
"Haaah~!"
Kishinami suddenly let out a moan, both pained and pleasured.
That thing, whether lymph or womb, seemed to be part of her own body.
Is this woman a masochist?
Under the combined triple assault, the pale hands were finally cleared away, and the dark abyss had no choice but to close.
"The Beast's power is indeed impressive, but don't underestimate the Fourth True Ancestor's strength either!"
Eiji muttered under his breath like a low shout.
Admittedly, the Fourth True Ancestor's power wasn't particularly strong.
At least in this digital world teeming with freaks, it could only be considered average.
But the true strength of the Fourth True Ancestor didn't lie in his inherent magical energy or output.
It was the incredibly absurd abilities of the twelve phantom beasts!
"Roar!"
The twin-headed dragon-serpents simultaneously let out angry growls.
As the tail, they now extended their bodies, both biting into the air at the same time!
"Crunch!"
At that moment, a crisp sound rang out.
Two small gaps suddenly appeared in the golden ring surrounding Kishinami.
"What?"
Kishinami looked over in astonishment.
What happened?
The defensive capability of the Fist Seal of Principle was supposed to nullify all attacks she could recognize. How could it be breached so easily?
"Crack crack crack!"
The twin-headed dragon-serpents' jaws continuously opened and closed, the crisp sounds ringing out incessantly as they ate with great relish!
The gaps in the golden ring increased at a visible rate!
"Before dimensional devouring, any defense is meaningless!"
The fused phantom beast growled.
Under Eiji's control, it raised its left claw, formed from the Scorpion Tiger's Purple, and struck out like a black tiger seizing the heart!
A completed Beast's physical defense was equally formidable.
Take Tiamat, for example—even under consecutive Noble Phantasm bombardments from the Heroic Spirit Quetzalcoatl and Gorgon, they only managed to put a crack in her horn.
Of course, Tiamat was one of the creator gods, a deity related to life, so her vitality was undoubtedly top-tier.
Kishinami certainly couldn't compare, but her surface defense was still astonishing. Even this fused phantom beast had to rely on the Nether Princess's Rainbow Flame's ability to sever causality to breach her defense.
An attack like a claw probably couldn't even scratch the luminous body's skin.
At the critical moment, the right arm, formed from the Nether Princess's Rainbow Flame, joined in, concentrating magical energy at the tip of the left claw.
"Pfft!"
The left claw swiped through the air.
"Urgh aaaah!"
Kishinami finally let out a panicked scream.
Empowered by the Sword of Heavenly Principle, the Scorpion Tiger's Purple claw successfully pierced into the massive luminous body's back, near the heart. With the Nether Princess's Rainbow Flame's magical reinforcement, the sharp claws sank into her muscles like fangs.
But that was the limit—this claw couldn't reach the heart located within the thoracic cavity.
Still, this was enough.
"This claw... it's absorbing my magical energy?!"
For the first time, Kishinami felt genuine panic.
The claw embedded in her back greedily drank the magical energy from within her body.
Even with her completed Beast's vast reserves, the constant absorption caused her magical energy to drain away rapidly, like water from a pond.
"This is really bad now!"
Her mind in disarray, she struggled desperately.
Her magical energy far surpassed the fused phantom beast's, but she could only manage a stalemate. If even her crucial magical energy was stolen, she'd likely be defeated in the blink of an eye!
She hastily summoned a terminal, but the moment the fifty-to-sixty-meter-tall Kishinami appeared, the snake hair on the fused phantom beast's head bit into it from nowhere, its destructive healing power causing it to dissipate like flowing water.
She then formed the Fist Seal of Wisdom, attempting to shatter the claw with pure offensive power, but the massive black sword struck her, resulting in a deadlock with no outcome.