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Last Embryo Volume 7 Chapter 7 Part 3

If he chooses to swing it down, then his dream of rebuilding his country is going to be irrevocably crushed.

However, the two priestesses once again shouted without hesitation:

「Of course, our king. This time, let us raise our flag high in the world of Little Garden!」

God’s thunderbolts shined divinely together with their voices when they expressed their wish to become the true residents of Little Garden along with the rest of the surviving Minoan Civilization after years of living on this summoned continent in isolation from the rest of the world.

They will finally raise their flag in the truest sense of the word.

And what is going to be the name of the flag that should once again be hoisted under the shining light of the starry sky?

「Resurrect… 『Astrea Keraunos』….!!!!!!!」

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The lightning was so terrifyingly powerful that it rend the sky asunder into countless pieces.

At the moment when everyone was preparing for the fifth dragon head to descend upon them with their flames, the lightning bolts that schorched both heavens and earth appeared and mowed down all of the dragon heads as if they were nothing.

You’s Primordial Dragon, who was fighting well beyond his own limits now, looked at the sky and let out a voice of amazement.

『Oooohhh… those thunderbolts that scorch heaven and earth indiscriminately… the thunderbolts have been revived…!!!』

The thunderbolts that descended not only burned heavens and earth, but also space itself and the void. The giants who were struck by them disappeared one after another, and the enormous fortress got turned into dust in the blink of an eye.

Following the legend of the continent of Atlantis, which was sunk by the Chief God Zeus, the lightning bolts that descend upon it destroy the enemy and return to the sky at the same time.

The Players were stunned, for when they witnessed the lightning’s destructive power, the only thing they could do was to drop their mouths in awe.

The moment he realized what such destruction entailed, Asterios shouted to the others from ruins of the throne that has now turned to rubble.

「Not yet! The danger isn’t over yet! Get ready to move out now!」

「Yes!」

The natives, who were about to let their guard down, rushed out of the ruined fortress, and Players followed them shortly. The continent of Atlantis was sinking at an unbelievable rate. After a few hours, everything but the mountains will start to be submerged in the sea.

Before Asterios had time to revel in the afterglow of his victory, he looked far away into the distance first.

(Izayoi…the rest is up to you. Take care of Typhon and my brother for me.)

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And so the final battle began.

The two fell eblow and rolled over, and immediately after adjusting their postures, they raised their fists and assumed combat-ready stances.

「Tch! You’re doing pretty good for someone who’s supposed to be half-dead.」

「That’s my line. To think that someone who is a human, but who is not a representative of the Gods or Dragons even possesses 『Another Cosmology』.」

He pushed Izayoi back and blew him away. Even though Izayoi blocked it with his fists with all his might and his body didn’t just crash into the fortress, he was still slammed into the slopes of the faraway mountain.

His physical strength was much higher than anyone he’s ever fought. The only comparison that he has is with Azi-Dahaka.

Izayoi felt increasingly nauseous, but the enemy’s pursuit did not allow him much rest. Right after he rolled over, Typhon went after him, creating a crater in a place where he took off from. If he trampled over Izayoi now, their battle would have been settled immediately.

Izayoi, who successfully evaded that attack rolled back and used the momentum to drive his heel into Typhon’s neck, but his attack only caused Typhon to shake for a moment before he immediately recovered himself and pushed himself back up.

Annoyingly to Izayoi, it didn’t seem to work on him at all. As much as it angered him, he already knew that he would be the kind of opponent against whom typical fisticuffs will not be enough to bring him down.

With that, Izayoi put his hands on the new B.D.A made by Homura.

(I don’t have time to read the instruction manual! I have no choice but to launch it as is and improvise from there…)

Every single time when he was using it before, his body ended up breaking down, and he had no idea what kind of side effects will occur when he’ll use it this time, but against an onslaught of powerful enemies coming at him one after another, he won’t have any chances of winning at all if he won’t master the B.D.A.

Now that his body had apparently reached its limit, Typhon vomited large amounts of blood, and just as Izayoi resolved himself and made his decision, he fell onto his knees.

「Ghhhh…. Khhhh……!!!!」

This time, the amount of blood he vomited was so large that it ended up overflowing and spilling from between his fingers.

Izayoi tried to launch a follow-up attack, but with how the situation developed right now, there was a real possibility that his attack might actually end up killing him, and as long as Demon Lord Typhon remains one of the Players participating in the 2nd War for the Sun’s Authority, killing him will result in Izayoi’s disqualification, since killing other Players is against the War’s rules.

Izayoi reluctantly stopped fighting him and glared at his enemy, thinking about what other options he had left in this situation. Typhon simply laughed gloomily and slowly stumbled back onto his feet.

「Kukuku… how pitiful. How completely and utterly laughable. I have risen to once again wage war that would bring an answer to the question of Little Garden’s true purpose, only for my plans to be hindered… by a human girl… The Climax Holy Sword is a truly terrifying weapon. I would even go as far as to call it the strongest weapon in humanity’s history.」

He clutched onto his heart and stared at Izayoi. However, when he looked back at him, Izayoi only had a dubious expression on his face.
The Climax Holy Sword he was talking about probably referred to Asuka’s Ama no Murakumo no Tsurugi, but Izayoi heard that it can only be used to separate the target from its lore and Divinity. He never imagined that someone who was cut by it would actually be struggling to such a degree and be in so much pain.

However, that actually made Izayoi realize why Demon Lord Typhon was holding onto his heart so much.

(Mysterious symptoms… vomiting blood… B.D.A… heart problems…. No way, it can’t be…!)

Having reached the only possible explanation for what was happening right now, Izayoi shouted towards Typhon:

「Oi, you have to stop using that B.D.A of yours right this instant! The reason why you’re suffering so much right now is not because of you being cut by Ama no Murakumo no Tsurugi! Your own B.D.A is doing that to you!」

Izayoi wanted to stop Typhon from using his B.D.A any more, but not because he was worried about him dying because of it. He was afraid that if his B.D.A continuous to give off that abnormal light it was generating ever since they entered the throne room and accelerate the Star Particle Bodies in his body, then it might cause the reaction where his body would start to melt from the inside, resulting in a huge and powerful explosion of the Star Particle Bodies.

Based on what Homura told him before, a meltdown reaction that occurred within a small Star Particle Bodies enhanced plant was enough to cause violent tremors all throughout the laboratory where the research was taking place, so Izayoi could’nt even imagine how powerful the explosion would be if the meltdown reaction occurred in the body of someone like Demon Lord Typhon, who already possessed considerable power by himself to begin with.

In the worst-case scenario, it might be entirely possible that the entire continent would be vaporized without a trace in an instant.

But the most unfortunate thing here was that Demon Lord Typhon had literally no way of knowing about any of this, so the only thing that he could do was to hold onto his dazed and hurting head while he was glaring at Izayoi.

「…. How can you even know such things, you bastard? How is it possible that you know so much about my condition after only taking so much as a glance at me?!」

The light that Typhon’s body was emitting got just a little bit weaker than before. Apparently he must have suspected that something was wrong with him as well.