Wait, didn't Irisviel and Aoi just wreck your house? Sola-Ui stared in astonishment as Merli dissolved into a shower of flower petals and vanished with a swoosh. Her brain couldn't quite process it. She subconsciously looked at Natalia.
Natalia wanted to curse too. But feeling Berserker's oppressive gaze, she couldn't afford to complain about her unreliable teacher. Her hand went to the gun at her waist, her eyes locked on Berserker. But how could a human contend with a Heroic Spirit? Just feeling Berserker's cold, berserk gaze was enough to make her break out in a cold sweat, her hand trembling. When her opponent's hand tightened on her sword, she forgot to breathe, her grip on her gun becoming a death grip.
Am I going to die?
Just as Berserker was about to move, she suddenly stopped. As if sensing something, she turned and looked into the still-smoky forest. The pressure that had been suffocating Natalia and Sola-Ui vanished. They gasped for breath, sweating profusely, and looked toward the woods.
The unhurried sound of footsteps emerged from within. A moment later, from the ruins, Lin Jiuan walked out, completely unscathed. His golden dragon eyes fell upon Berserker.
"You are..."
It was a tall, curvaceous, purple-haired beauty with a slender waist and oriental features. Ignoring her completely irrational state, she was undoubtedly a bewitching and noble classical beauty. But her most striking feature was the pair of snowy mountains on her chest, each seemingly larger than the boy's head.
"Minamoto no Raikou?" Looking at the Raikou shrouded in black mist, seemingly having lost all reason, Lin Jiuan raised an eyebrow curiously. Isn't Raikou supposed to retain her reason even as a Berserker? Is this... a double-maddened Raikou?
As he was pondering, Raikou had already charged at him again. With her double madness enhancement, the loss of reason had pushed her physical abilities to an incredible level. She moved like a teleporter, appearing before him in an instant, her longsword slashing down at his head without hesitation.
So fast?! Even though he was prepared, her speed still made his pupils contract. He raised his arms, black dragon scales covering them. As the sword came down, the immense force made a sickening crunching sound. The physical ability from the double madness enhancement was not something he could handle at his current stage.
Her first strike having failed, Raikou quickly retracted her sword and, following her combat instincts, thrust it towards his chest. Lin Jiuan didn't dodge. Instead, he lunged forward.
"Jiuan?!" Amidst Sola-Ui's terrified and desperate screams, the longsword pierced his chest. But a savage grin appeared on his blood-spewing lips. He met the blade head-on and wrapped his arms around Raikou's waist. "Become one with me!"
A black tide surged from behind him, enveloping both him and Raikou in black mud. As the mud spread from his feet, Raikou seemed to sense the danger and began to struggle violently. But no matter how she swung her sword, tearing at his body, he wouldn't let go. It wasn't until the black substance reached her neck that the maddened Raikou seemed to remember to use her mana. But just as purple lightning began to crackle, the black mud completely engulfed her.
"This can't go on." Feeling the thunderous power that seemed to explode from within her, growing more and more violent as if it would rip him apart at any moment, Lin Jiuan looked at the spot right in front of his face. A flash of inspiration struck. He bit down.
A direct hit. Even the irrational Raikou felt a current surge through her body. A look of shock and confusion flashed in her frenzied eyes, and for a moment, her body went limp. The raging lightning also subsided.
"It's working!" Lin Jiuan couldn't help but inwardly praise his perfectly-timed hobbit-like height. An inch higher, and he would have been at her collarbone. An inch lower, at her stomach. But now, it was just right. He immediately put to use the eighteen martial arts he had mastered from eating pudding cups and biting on straws in class.
The lightning grew weaker, and her once-powerful body gradually went limp. Just as the irrational Raikou let out a mournful cry, a black light flashed in his eyes, and he activated his Authority of 'Devouring'.
Of course, he wasn't devouring Raikou as an individual. The double-maddened Raikou was too strong. He was just using a cheap trick to temporarily disable her. If her life were truly threatened, she would definitely react and fight back. What he was doing now was devouring her 'Madness Enhancement'.
Raikou sensed he was trying to devour something of hers and began to struggle again. But as he continued to attack her weak points while activating his Authority, and since she seemed to sense it wasn't life-threatening, her struggles were not as fierce. As he devoured, and she gradually regained some sanity, her struggles grew weaker and weaker. Until finally...
"No... no more... don't continue."
That was fast? Lin Jiuan reluctantly stopped his attack. The black mud enveloping them receded. As they separated, Raikou, blushing furiously, clutched her chest and collapsed to the ground in a sitting position, her body still trembling.
Lin Jiuan also stumbled back a few steps. Taking so many hits from Raikou, though not fatal, had consumed a lot of his mana. He was weak now, but at least he had restored her sanity. Next...
He suddenly sensed something and looked down at his feet. Matou Zouken, having been discovered, immediately commanded his insect body to lunge at him. "Give me your body!"
The next second, as he entered Lin Jiuan's body, Zouken's consciousness flickered, and his surroundings changed. Is this his world of consciousness? Zouken wasn't too panicked. In fact, he was excited. This is the body of a Dragon, a young dragon! If it were even a slightly older adolescent dragon, he wouldn't dare to have such thoughts. But this was a young dragon that seemed to have just been born. Though he didn't know why it had found him, this was undoubtedly a gift from the heavens!
As long as he could destroy its consciousness and completely seize this young dragon's body, forget the Holy Grail War—even without it, Zouken was confident he could reach the Root with this powerful and mysterious draconic body! The hardest part was entering its consciousness. As long as he could break through the dragon's physical body and enter its sea of consciousness, Zouken, who had studied souls for centuries, was confident that this young dragon was no match for him.
"How foolish. To directly pull my soul into your sea of consciousness. Do you wish to compete with this old one in a battle of souls?" Zouken taunted, opening his eyes to look around.
And then he froze. The pupils of his human-soul form shrank, filled with unconcealable shock and confusion. "This place is..." Zouken's voice trembled from his very soul.
A blood-red sky. A jet-black earth. The towering, dark-red sky seemed to connect heaven and earth. Countless masses of flesh and blood spread under his feet. The empty surroundings were filled with the wails of countless humans—a greedy malice formed from billions of people throughout history, a soul-flesh that could drive one mad with a single glance. Pain, anger, killing intent, a greedy desire to devour everything. Thousands of years of human history, the malice of the entire planet, seemed to be gathered here, wailing every second of every minute.
Zouken's blank mind mechanically turned. He looked with trembling fear at the boy sitting at the center of this world of despair, a world without a shred of hope, who was looking up at the blood-red sky. The boy seemed to feel his gaze, turned to look at him, and grinned.
"Welcome to my world, Makiri Zolgen."
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