Chapter 130: Then Let Me Ask You, Why Do Birds Fly?
A sharp scythe embedded itself in the neck of a Fragmentum abomination. A high kick struck the creature's head with precision, and the scythe, along with the monster's head, was pinned to the ground.
Bang!
The sound of a trigger being pulled echoed. A wind-riding bullet shot out, accurately hitting and destroying a strange, spherical monster floating in the air.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
An eidolon formed from the stitched-together faces of countless Fragmentum-corroded victims was shot directly in the head.
The other Seele and Bronya were both dealing with the monsters with impressive efficiency. In truth, their attention was hardly on these small fry.
"This kind of battle... it's unbelievable!" Bronya looked up at the sky, her silver-gray eyes filled with amazement. As the commander of the Silvermane Guards, she had led soldiers in countless battles against Fragmentum monsters, but she had never seen a battle of this style before.
"It's like a battle of mecha demon gods," the other Seele exclaimed as she swung her scythe in a diagonal slash, cutting a leaping shadow soldier in two from bottom to top. She looked up at the central battlefield in awe.
Wind and ice intertwined, waves surged, and the fluctuations of energy swept over them like a tempest. March 7th's superb archery skills were bringing out the full power of the Super Schtrom Bow.
Countless giant, sharp ice lances materialized around Cocolia. With a flick of her wrist, a sky full of ice lances descended like a rainstorm, speeding towards March 7th and Dan Heng.
"He-yah~!" March 7th, like a nimble butterfly, dodged the initial wave of ice lances. The sky was the domain of the wind. Super AquaBeat could perfectly sense the flow of the atmosphere, using it as a sixth sense. "Let's see, this move is called... Thunderclap Explorer!"
AquaBeat raised its hands, and a violent lightning storm crackled erratically. The sound of shattering ice lances was endless. In addition to wind, AquaBeat could also control the Madou Power of lightning.
"So cool!" From initially thinking mecha were "alright," March 7th now felt she had fallen deeply in love with them. The terrifying number of giant ice lances couldn't have been blocked even by a shield of Six-Phased Ice, but now she could easily destroy them.
"March, don't let your guard down." Dan Heng controlled Winzert, swinging the Surging Wave Lance like a fan to create a spiral barrier, deflecting all the ice lances. Countless ice shards scattered and fell.
"Not bad at all," Caelus said, watching the two of them fight from the special perspective of his mecha, and nodded in satisfaction. "Those eighty crystals were well spent."
When the system shop rotated, it just so happened to be the power of the Madō King Granzort world, with various models of Madou Kings, including the evil god mecha. Besides that, there was also magic from the Madou world. But how could magic be as cool as mecha? He had skipped right over the magic.
"Of course it was well spent for you! That was my crystals you spent!" Stelle's little face puffed up instantly, switching from a Stellaron girl to a pufferfish girl, as she glared at her little brother beside her.
Blocking the Engine of Slaughter's lances, she gathered the Madou Power of the Earth in her feet, then leaped and flipped, landing on the Engine of Slaughter's arm. Stelle began to wildly swing the divine sword, which was wreathed in crimson flames, as if to vent all her frustration on this guy.
"What could I do?" Caelus shrugged innocently. "It's not my fault that the super forms of Winzert and AquaBeat were in your shop."
The basic forms cost 25 crystals, while the super forms cost 40. Depending on the power consumption, they could be used for about one to two hours. Against Cocolia with the Tarakudo Mask and Tchang Zu merged with the Engine of Creation, the basic forms were clearly not enough. He had bought the ultimate forms right away. "Besides, those two Madou Kings aren't compatible with you."
Although tool-type items could be given to companions, for outsiders, there were compatibility requirements and conditions. Dan Heng was compatible with water, and March 7th knew how to use a bow. Stelle had no water affinity and didn't know how to use a bow. As the other half of the system's owner, she could certainly succeed in summoning, but after summoning AquaBeat, was she supposed to fight by whacking enemies with the bow?
Granzort was the Madou King most compatible with Caelus and Stelle, which was why they were fighting for control.
"Stelle, I think, compared to you, I'm more compatible with Granzort." Caelus watched the heroic, gray-haired girl swinging the flaming divine sword. In this state, if she kept her mouth shut, she had the aura of a domineering empress.
"Based on what?" Stelle lifted her little head, a look of "I'm invincible" on her face. "If we're comparing, I'm more compatible."
"Because of the fire and the sword~!" Caelus said, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
"Fire and sword?" Stelle tilted her head, confused.
"You haven't realized it?" Caelus took the Kaiser Blade back from Stelle's hands. "Then let me ask you."
As Stelle's eyes widened, the smile on Caelus's face vanished completely. His lazy demeanor changed in an instant, and his expression and aura became as cold as an ancient, unmelting iceberg.
"Why do birds fly?"
Stelle: "..."
Stelle: "!!! "
Stelle: "???"
Ignoring Stelle's reaction, Caelus raised the divine sword. "Skyfire—"
A voice, indifferent to the point of being cruel. In contrast, the flames on the Kaiser Blade surged violently. Super Granzort was the upgraded form of Granzort after wearing the Solar Crown, possessing the power of the sun. Empowered by the sun's power, the Kaiser Blade erupted in a dazzling crimson.
"Unsheathe!"
Caelus swung the sword, and Super Granzort mirrored his movements. A world-destroying firestorm erupted in the pure white world. The sun's fire, capable of purifying all things, shot into the heavens, as if to burn away the night and the dark clouds along with it.
BOOM—!
Visible flames erupted from the cracks that had been scorched into the Engine of Slaughter's body, followed by an unprecedentedly violent explosion. Shinkiryuu was only a base-form equivalent mecha. It was only with the darkness of the Tarakudo Mask and Cocolia's control via the Stellaron that it could suppress Super Granzort. And now that Cocolia was separated from the mecha, leaving it to its own AI, blowing it up was not a difficult task. As for the Tchang Zu mecha itself, if there was a chance, he could have kept it. If not, oh well.
"Caelus, you... you!" Stelle was dumbfounded, utterly shocked. The cold tone, the aura, that question, and the skill name were all too familiar. In her subconscious, the voice of a certain flame-wielding ancestor was going wild!
"See?" Caelus switched back in a second from the aura of a certain Lord of the World Serpent. "Told you I was more compatible."
"..." Stelle was speechless. Piloting Granzort to use Skyfire Unsheathed had tied her DNA in knots.
"The fight over there with Caelus and Stelle is over!" came the lively voice of a young girl. The magnificent scene had attracted the attention of March 7th and Dan Heng, who were engaged in aerial combat.
After seeing the Engine of Slaughter blown up, the Tarakudo Mask on Cocolia's featureless face became ferocious and crazed, the flames in its eyes seeming to erupt. "I will completely annihilate you!"
Her long, snow-white hair flew wildly behind her. Looking down on the world from her perch high in the heavens, Cocolia raised her hand. "Power, gather here!"
An immeasurable amount of immense energy gathered above Cocolia's raised right hand. The howling wind was like the wailing of ghosts, forming a golden-black orb of Imaginary energy. "By my own hand, I shall forge a great new world!"
In the Mother of Deception's furious roar, which echoed through the world like a declaration, the oppressive dark clouds suddenly bloomed with a brilliant golden light. A dazzling amber crystal bloomed in her palm, and the resulting gale stirred the cloud layer, creating a giant vortex of dark clouds high in the sky.
"Block her!" Caelus and Stelle shouted simultaneously, their pupils shrinking.
"Go!" A clear wave of water surrounded him. Dan Heng controlled Winzert and hurled the forty-meter-long Surging Wave Lance. It crossed the sky in an instant like a rainbow piercing the sun.
"March, use that move!" Caelus's voice rang out inside AquaBeat's cockpit. Through the link of the Madou Kings, the three—or rather, four—of them could communicate in real-time.
"Got it!" March 7th shouted, her fair, jade-like hands forming a triangle seal. "Luminous Power... Leaping Ripple!"
A strange ripple spread from Super AquaBeat's chest. This was a joint technique between the Madou Kings. The lightning-fast Surging Wave Lance transformed into an emerging azure dragon. Its power didn't come from a dragon's heir, nor was there any ancient seawater on Jarilo-VI. So, although the power of the "Azure Dragon's Emergence" was far greater than Winzert's normal skills, it was still a bit weaker than the dragon of the ancient seas. But after the ripple and the wave merged, it condensed into a verdant storm dragon.
Controlling Granzort to leap up, Caelus planted the Kaiser Blade into the ground. "Heaven-Covering Divine Dragon!"
CRACK!
With a sudden burst of the Earth's Madou Power, the icy plains began to tremble and crack. A giant fissure opened in the earth, and a massive dragon made of obsidian and lava erupted from the crevice. It was an eastern dragon, similar to the emerging azure dragon, but with three heads, and its body was of unknown length.
Caelus stood on the dragon's head, holding his divine sword, and flew into the sky, charging straight for Cocolia.
The massive amber crystal, condensed from an immeasurable amount of Imaginary energy, tore through the dark clouds and descended. Its brilliant golden light and terrifying power were like a real giant meteor from outer space, capable of easily destroying everything in the old world! Such mighty power was like the final note of creation!
The Verdant Storm Dragon and the Emerging Azure Dragon coiled around the other two heads of the Heaven-Covering Divine Dragon. Granzort stood on the central dragon's head. "Break for me!"
Caelus and Stelle, holding the Kaiser Blade together, collided head-on with Creation's Finalé.
BOOM!
A terrifying explosion, like the creation of the world itself. The vast cloud layer was instantly torn apart, and a dense torrent of Imaginary energy spread out in all directions. Even the ancient fortresses beyond the mountain range collapsed and were torn to pieces by the terrifying shockwave.
"Caelus! Stelle!" March 7th cried out. Granzort was at the center of the explosion!
In the midst of the explosion, Cocolia summoned another fifty-meter-long Lance of Endless Winter and hurled it at Granzort, which was heavily damaged in the blast and falling from the sky, its unprotected chest exposed.
The sharp Lance of Endless Winter crossed the void with unparalleled speed and brutally pierced through Super Granzort's chest, making Stelle's and Caelus's eyes widen in shock.
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