Chapter 160 — Part 2
「You’re free to think and feel as you please, but the person you can’t stop thinking about would surely be sick of you」
For Bryud to be this madly in love with Lielle, Diadora could only wonder, what kind of girl was she, what was she really like?
Was she similar in personality to that girl Lynette, or was she like a completely different person? Diadora was a little bit curious about that.
「I’m ashamed that this is just borrowed power, but…」
Without a sound, white, thorny roses grew out of her hair like whips, slicing through the waves of the Leyline that was approaching from all directions, and turning them into countless little droplets.
As the Leyline turned into many droplets and fell, Diadora purposefully chose words that would provoke him, speaking them aloud with her charming red lips.
「You are no match for me now. Yes, if I were Dran right now, he would say, “Did you really think you could accomplish anything with the power of just one star?”」
Diadora extended her left hand toward Bryud in an elegant gesture, and at her fingertips, multiple cannonballs of rainbow colored magic were produced.
It looked as if the stars shining in the night sky had been cut out and placed here in this scene.
Each individual cannonball was far superior in power to the Leyline, and is an unusual mass of power.
Each of them are capable of brutally and viciously destroying the target’s body and soul at the very moment of impact.
「Well then, now that you’ve fused with the Leyline in this strange way, I cannot leave even a trace of you behind」
Diadora slightly moved her left index finger, which was pointed toward Bryud, and then the rainbow colored cannonballs headed toward him in attack, drawing beautiful rainbow colored trails through the sky in their path.
Even for Bryud, who had taken possession for himself all of the power the flowing Leyline had, he must have understood that this was a threat capable of destroying him, so the Leyline at his feet rose up tall to create a thick wall, and accepted the full brunt of the incoming cannonball.
At the same time that the cannonball landed, the power of the Leyline’s protective wall was sucked up instantly by the cannonball, until it turned into multiple particles and fizzled out. Then Bryud was struck with intense pain that made him feel as if his body would disintegrate, and with a feeling of emptiness that robbed him of his strength.
「U-Uoooh!?」
「You finally said something other than Lielle’s name. We don’t need your madness here, so I’ll get rid of it」
「G-G-Gaaah!」
Bryud turned the intense pain into fuel for his burning hatred and anger, and then used the power of the Leyline to unleash a different attack on Diadora.
Despite being deep underground below this planet’s surface, the area around Diadora started to become violently electrified, and up to ten thousand flashes of lightning, just as powerful as naturally occurring ones, attacked her.
Pushing aside the reddish black light of the Leyline, the violent light enveloped Diadora, and Bryud’s attack continued without stopping.
Diadora was hit with a concentrated fire of lightning, which caused the atmosphere itself to begin to shake, as if they were in the epicenter of a large earthquake.
Normally earthquakes were caused by shifting of the earth’s crust, in other words, the skin of the planet, but this earthquake was limited to the area around Diadora, instead generating all of its power in this concentrated area.
A force powerful enough to split even the land of an island country into many pieces struck Diadora after the lightning strike, but Bryud still did not let up the attack.
After more than ten seconds of the lightning and the tremors passed, they disappeared for a thousandth of a second, and then boiling hot lava appeared out of nowhere and engulfed Diadora. In the next moment, the lava transformed into a huge block of ice that reflected the reddish black light of the Leyline.
How many creatures would be able to survive a treacherous and inhospitable hell of lava, and then in the next instant be dropped into a freezing hell of the coldest temperatures of the planet?
By some miraculous coincidence, Bryud fused with the Leyline, the embodiment of life on this earth, and he has become able to generate any natural phenomena that occurs naturally on this planet.
Only high ranking Dragonkin would be able to withstand such circumstances and come out alive, and as she was attacked by natural phenomena and environmental changes, Edward and Lynette in the upper floors of the facility peeked downward, and their faces turned sickly pale.
That’s why Dran’s spilled out murmur could be heard.
「Fumu, well, I guess this is all he can do with the power of just one star」
Dran’s mutter might have even reached Diadora.
Perhaps Diadora was emboldened by the fact that she didn’t want to look like a fool in front of the person she loves. In the pillar of ice that stretched out of the surface of the Leyline and almost reached up to the upper floor of the facility, countless cracks ran along the inside, and then it shattered into tens of thousands of pieces in an instant, sinking back down into the Leyline one after another.
And from that, Diadora emerged unharmed, as she wiped a droplet of water off her cheek.
After she waited for all of the fragments of ice to sink into the Leyline, Diadora leisurely walked forward.
Diadora showed no signs of being worked up or nervous, and it was as if she didn’t see the person who wielded the power of the star as a formidable enemy at all.
With each step she took, the pressure of the Black Rose Spirit being released from another dimension caused Bryud’s whole body to shudder.
Bryud had no sanity left, but instead he had a vast amount of power in his body and mind that brought about a feeling of being all-powerful.
Though with that said, so what? In terms of time, not even ten minutes have passed since the battle started, but Bryud was facing an enemy that was starting to make him acutely feel like he would be defeated.
Driven by fear, Bryud concentrated the power of the reddish black Leyline on himself, and then moved to unleash it through his wide open jaws.
「My, are you trying to copy a dragon?」
Diadora never lost her composure, even as she felt the concentration of energy from Bryud increase.
Diadora thrust a few thorns into the undulating waves of the Leyline and sucked out all of its power all at once. At the same time, she worked to remove only the contamination from Bryud, and then return the power back to the Leyline.
If humans were to try to do the same thing, they would have to mobilize a large number of high ranking feng shui masters and mages, prepare a large-scale ritual, and ascertain the correct time and season. But for Diadora, it was just a trivial matter that she could easily take care of in her spare time.
The more Diadora purified the Leyline, the less power there was in the Leylines under Bryud’s control.
Diadora did this because it would take more time to purify the Leyline the more Bryud contaminates it, and she would hate to have to go through that trouble. At the same time, her purification was also connected to Bryud’s fighting power also declining.
「Don’t. Get in my. Waaaaay!!」
In the face of Diadora getting in the way of his last remaining desire, the resurrection of Lielle, Bryud’s irritation and anger rose higher and higher without limit, and in his mouth, which was opened wide enough to even tear his cheeks, a large mass of reddish black light formed.
The area of contamination that had spread out from under him was now narrowed down and contained to just the area at his feet, and it was clear even to those looking in from the outside that he was concentrating all of his power there.
「Heh, you went to a lot of trouble just to save me some time with the purification. I’m not going to thank you, you know?」
It probably wasn’t in response to Diadora’s cool-headed and calm reply, but the timing happened to match her words, because just as soon as Diadora finished her sentence, Bryud unleashed the ball of light powered by the Leyline.
The reddish black ball of light, which is also a collection of pollution, approached Diadora, splitting the Leylines at his feet to the sides as it traveled.
In response to the incoming ball of light filling up her entire field of vision, Diadora weaved her thorns into a single giant spear.
And on those black and white thorns, several rainbow colored roses bloomed, proving that the power of the Ancient Celestial Dragon was condensed within them.
In other words, it is a single strike so powerful, it would even make the worst of the great evil gods, Caravis, cry out, “Stop, I’m going to die!”
「Stop seeing these nightmares, okay? But if I send you to the other side and you fall into hell, you won’t have any more time to dream though」
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