High School Hack and Slash Chapter 68 Part 4
One of the Black Honey members casually stepped forward to protect Asura and Kaoru.
「… Hello~, could you be, a preceding visitor?」
This possibility was not impossible.
The fifth『End Realm Gate』 of the Rashomon had no set limit to the time set for raid dives.
Whether it was intentional or accidental, depending on the setting, the raid dive time could be extended to one year or even ten years.
You couldn’t earn EXP in a raid domain, but you could gain combat experience.
In the past, upon training in such an extended dive in a raid domain, there was even a student who managed to rise from the bottom all the way to the top of the academy ladder.
Her well-shaped, but Noh-like face formed a nasty smile.
「יָרֵא」
As her bright red eyes opened and lorded over them, the members of the black honey, who were stretching out their arms, were dyed in brilliant white and shattered to pieces.
The other members of Black Honey who failed to resist continued to turn into pillars of salt and crumbled down one after another.
The reason why the remaining members of Black Honey were all frozen in place was not because they were surprised, but because they were overwhelmed by the pressure.
A fear that threatened to stop not only their bodies, but their breathing and even their hearts.
The primal instinct of human beings in the face of great existences such as the towering mountains, the vastness of the ocean, the celestial bodies in the sky.
It was, awe.
It was a wonder if the reason the other members were able to resist was that they were used to awe-inspiring superior existences, even if there was difference in degrees.
Something glistening was being drawn from the salt pillars as well as from Huwawa’s neck.
Opening her red, licentious lips and rolling these things off the tip of her tongue, she predated them.
「Those, are… Everyone’s ….」
*Nii* The goddess who had lost her name smirked at Asura, who stretched out her hand as her immobile body remained being held by Kaoru.
*BAGGIN!* At the sound that was akin to someone smashing a thick glass, everyone’s paralysis was undone.
A moment later, what swept over the inside of the chamber was the remnant of a sonic boom.
Crackling and creaking, the ones competing against each other were the walls of light, which were stacked layer upon layer in front of the goddess, and Touma’s fists.
Holy Brilliance (Dingil Meram), it was an armor Divine Gear that could transform into a myriad of forms.
The space between the Goddess and Touma was warping, creaking as it endured the strain.
As the thrust out left fist was pushed back by the pressure, the mouth of the goddess, whose smile had ceased, crooked once again.
「Gaaaaaaaahhhh!」
As if drawn from the sheath known as space with his held up right hand, *BAM*, the swung down Gaki Lord Rod (Over-Greed Gear) broke the Holy Brilliance (Dingil Meram) to pieces.
A high-pitched sound echoed in the depth of their eardrums, and the shattered pieces fluttered through the air.
The shattered one piece of Brilliance (Meram) and the five remaining pieces of the mandala formation (Dingil Meram) vividly deployed like a kaleidoscope.
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▼ In Deployment
Divine Gear, 『Brilliance of Awe (Dingil Meram)』
Divine Gear, 『Brilliance of Envy (Dingil Meram)』
Divine Gear, 『Brilliance of Delight (Dingil Meram)』
Divine Gear, 『Brilliance of Loss (Dingil Meram)』
Divine Gear, 『Brilliance of Affection (Dingil Meram)』
▼ Restoration In Progress
Divine Gear, 『Brilliance of Astonishment (Dingil Meram)』
▼ Restoration Complete
Start rebooting ＞ Divine Gear, 『Brilliance of Praise (Dingil Meram)』
Start rebooting ＞ Divine Gear, 『Brilliance of Astonishment (Dingil Meram)』
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Looking at the rapidly changing Interface messages, Touma, holding the six-foot rod that had broken and shattered to pieces midway, shouted.
「All hands retreat!」
Time-wise, it was only a few seconds of exchange of attacks and defenses.
Saki, the first one to jump out, dashed into the corridor with Miharu and Natsumi in each of her arms.
Seiichi, holding Mai in a princess carry, also turned on his heels.
Slapping the confused Otoha on the buttocks, Shizuka pushed her back, but they soon began to retreat with Otoha carrying her.
「W, wh… What, the hell is that thing… Just what the hell is that?!」
「I wonder if that’s the real boss of this raid….」
Of the Black Honey members who managed to resist it, they were down to only the three of Asura, Kaoru, and Tetsuro.
「Let’s retreat. Looks like it’s not an opponent the current us can fight against.」
「Huh? Ka, kaoru-san.」
「Kaoru… chan… No….」
Pushing the immobile Asura to Tetsuro, Kaoru pushed them both away, sending them flying toward the entrance of the corridor.
「I’m sorry. My legs have gone numb, so I can’t move, you see.」
「Kaoru-san…!」
Clenching his teeth, Tetsuro ran off as he was without stopping his stumbling feet.
Kaoru smiled at the tiny paw that was being stretched out toward him.
「Gaaaaaaaaaaaaah!」
The barrage of fist and half rod, which was slammed in at a speed that seemed blurry even in Kaoru’s eyes, continued to shatter the Brilliances (Meram) like diamond dust.
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▼ Restoration In Progress
Divine Gear, 『Brilliance of Envy (Dingil Meram)』
▼ Restoration Complete
Start rebooting ＞ Divine Gear, 『Brilliance of Envy (Dingil Meram)』
▼Restoration In Progress
Divine Gear, 『Brilliance of Delight (Dingil Meram)』
▼ Restoration Complete
Start rebooting ＞Divine Gear, 『Brilliance of Delight (Dingil Meram)』
▼Restoration In Progress
Divine Gear, 『Brilliance of Loss (Dingil Meram)』
▼ Restoration Complete
Start rebooting ＞Divine Gear, 『Brilliance of Loss (Dingil Meram)』
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For a moment, Kaoru was fascinated, genuinely finding the boisterous dance of the illusory light that shattered and then instantly regenerated beautiful.
The goddess, with her bewitching, glowing, blazing red eyes contorted seemingly in amusement, sported a face like a cat toying with a lively rat.
That most likely meant that her interest was piqued by Touma.
They, who were unable to do a thing against merely a single layer of barrier, were a stone by the roadside that couldn’t even catch her interest.
If they were not taken seriously to such an extent, if they were looked down to such an extent, then there was an opening he could take advantage of.
He could put a damper on her, creating a chance for Touma to escape.
「Haaa!」
Lowering his waist with his fists poised, Kaoru activated an all-out『Shukuchi (Rapid Drive)』, shattering the foothold he stepped on.
Jumping with a force that made him vanish from that spot, Kaoru ran past the ceiling of the chamber and leaped into the space where violence was blowing about.
「Earth Breaker!」
Landing right behind Touma, the ground shattered with Kaoru’s heels serving as the center.
He then launched a full-power roundhouse kick at the staggering Touma, who had lost his footing on the rocky area that had been smashed into the shape of a crater.
「It’s not my taste to let my junior take the limelight all the time, you see!」
*Bambambambam* The unleashed barrage of palm heel strikes was by no means a round inferior to Touma’s battering strikes.
However, the rock-shattering『Chain Blow』 of the『Striker』 did not even create a drop of water-like ripple on the surface of the Holy Brilliance (Dingil Meram).
The nameless goddess, her eyes narrowed, as if her amusement had been dampened by this, extended her thin, dyed red nails.
「סטון.」
The power of words imbued into the voice, which was impossible to recite by humans, twisted the resistance of reality and rewrote it.
At the echoing *snap* sound, Touma, who was about to take a step forward, ceased his movement.
It was a sound that resounded from his own hands, as well as Kaoru’s body, who was turning into stone in an instant from the tip of the limbs.
Kaoru’s mouth, as he turned about to block the Goddess’ gaze, hardened before he could let out a word.
However, that gaze of his, as he resisted it until the bitter end, held Touma’s legs back harder than petrification.
*Boom* As if to separate them, a remarkably huge icicle stone pierced the ground.
The icicle stones, which poured down like hail one after another like rain, were a parting gift from Kaoru, who had stepped and smashed the ceiling with『Rumble Knocker』.
The nameless goddess turned her expressionless face toward the collapsing dome.
Completely suspending every single crumbling down splinter in places, she restored them to their original position, like a child putting back together a ruined puzzle.
In the chamber, where everything was back to how it used to be in the blink of an eye, only Kaoru, who had been turned into stone, was left behind.
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