The Descent of the Evil God

The Chaos Sage and the others each unleashed a round of attacks with their abilities. Mercenary Tao’s body was chopped to pieces, and Zhou Si relaxed slightly. As a powerful Nature ARM, the Eye of Thunder consumed a considerable amount of energy to use.

He turned and saw severed limbs flying everywhere. He knew Archimedes’s magic had taken effect.

As he retreated to widen the distance, he began switching the ARMs on his body. Mercenary Tao possessed some form of immortality and Hyper Regeneration; that was intelligence they already knew.

But it was not as though they had never encountered Reincarnators with such bloodlines before. So-called immortality and regenerative abilities were difficult for low-level Reincarnators to deal with.

However, in the eyes of High-tier Reincarnators and powerful Plot Characters, they were nothing remarkable.

The Dark ARM Bird in a Cage appeared on his finger. Against someone with a certain degree of Immortal Body, aside from directly annihilating them with an overwhelmingly powerful ability, the most convenient method was to restrict their movements and keep them in a state of continuous death.

He was just about to activate it when a sudden chill ran through him.

It was the battle instinct he had honed through countless brushes with death. He instinctively pushed off with his toes and shot back hundreds of meters, shouting a warning at the same time.

"Careful, Mercenary Tao, he—"

"Get back! There’s something wrong with his arm! My magic didn’t work!"

Archimedes’s furious shout was far more urgent and tense than Zhou Si’s.

Archimedes, wielding that +7 Naginata, swung again. In an instant, the air and earth split apart, leaving a ravine stretching a thousand meters. The ground before him seemed as fragile as clay.

He watched Mercenary Tao’s severed limbs fall into the ravine, especially that intact left arm!

Archimedes’s magic was called Railseiden, a magic that could cut almost anything. It came from the Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End World.

This magic was extremely terrifying. It could cut through anything the caster believed they could cut through.

It was a typical powerful spell with idealistic properties.

To bring this ability to its fullest potential, Archimedes had deliberately altered his personality and cognition through the Sage’s abilities. He had become exceedingly arrogant and conceited.

The magic system of the Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End World was rooted in a mage’s imagination—or rather, a kind of "power of observation." Mages had to be able to imagine the effects of their magic before they could bring them about.

Archimedes could imagine himself cutting open the earth. Therefore, whether it was a hundred meters, a thousand meters, or several thousand meters of ground, a single swing of his blade, followed by an eruption of mana, would slice it apart like butter.

No matter how hard Mercenary Tao’s Armament Haki and body were, if he could imagine shredding the other party’s flesh, then he could cut through it.

With such magic, even an assassination technique at the C+ level like the Nanaya Assassination Technique could unleash terrifying lethality.

Yet after using this magic this time, Archimedes discovered that what he had imagined had gone wrong.

Mercenary Tao had indeed been cut apart. His organs and bones had been completely severed, and blood sprayed everywhere.

But Archimedes had imagined cutting him into thousands of chunks of flesh, then swiftly exhausting his regenerative power with burning abilities.

In reality, he had only been cut into several dozen pieces. That arm… could not be cut at all.

His magic had struck that left arm, and nothing had happened.

A special Bio-Implant that ignored magic?!

Archimedes and Zhou Si’s warnings made Red Queen and Indra instantly retreat in alarm. Left Eye, who had only one eye exposed, closed her eyes and bent low with a hand on her sword.

Her entire body seemed to enter a state of Silence, her presence vanishing completely.

Crack!

The Eye of Thunder activated again. Bolts of lightning fell from the sky into the ravine one after another as Zhou Si began a sustained bombardment to suppress him.

Indra, the red-haired Shōnen, also began to transform. His hair grew longer, and his body gradually expanded.

The Chaos Sage and the others were all highly experienced veteran Reincarnators, and their responses were seamless.

Boom!

From the enormous ravine, a powerful burst of Conqueror’s Haki erupted.

It swept through the surroundings like a storm.

The aura was incomparably shocking. Red Queen bore the brunt of it. She raised her hands against a purple-red shield and hid behind it, continuously chanting prayers as blessings fell upon her body.

Her body was continuously strengthened, reinforced by all manner of barriers.

Suddenly, a crimson left hand reached out from the ravine. That arm was so thick that it no longer resembled a human arm. Its muscles burst open inch by inch, while its veins twisted into view like massive serpents.

Pfft!

As that hand emerged from the ground, an even more terrifying wave of Conqueror’s Haki crashed toward them. Red Queen’s hair scattered wildly, but she stared ahead with a stern expression.

Her highest attribute was stamina. With enhancement effects, it had surpassed 60 points. Among Reincarnators of their level, that was not particularly outstanding, but Red Queen was a paladin. Under the enhancement of various Divine Arts, all three of her other attributes could approach 40 points.

She was a Defense-Specialized Reincarnator with no weaknesses.

"Be careful, Red Queen. Something’s wrong with this guy…"

Zhou Si’s mana had been severely depleted. The Eye of the Thunder Emperor was already beginning to emit bluish smoke. Lightning strikes of that magnitude were enough to completely destroy the vitality of the bodies of some so-called immortals.

But they seemed utterly useless against Mercenary Tao.

Bang!

With a massive sound, that left hand pulled hard. A gigantic body over three meters tall burst out and slammed onto the ground.

A crimson radiance, whether it was aura or some kind of energy, completely enveloped that body and grew increasingly intense. Within moments, Mercenary Tao’s strange figure could no longer be seen.

In its place stood an even larger crimson monster, visible malice constantly spraying into the surroundings.

Around that phantom, red lightning flickered in and out of sight, crackling continuously.

This was…

Red Queen stared at the lightning, about to analyze it, when she saw a crimson gaze within the phantom meet her eyes.

Pfft—

Her chest tightened, and blood instantly flowed from her nose and mouth.

You have been affected by the Omen of the Evil God. Based on your Spirit attribute, you have obtained the following information:

You have been affected by Omen of the Evil God: Gaze of Arrogance. A Strength check is being performed.

Check failed. You have suffered a Strength impact.

Omen of the Evil God… Is this Mercenary Tao’s trump card? Gaze of Arrogance… a Strength check… Is Mercenary Tao a Reincarnator whose Strength has surpassed the limit…?

Red Queen’s constitution was powerful, and she merely wiped away the blood. But the next instant, she realized something was wrong and turned to look at the others.

Zhou Si, standing several hundred meters behind her, suddenly erupted in blood and slowly collapsed backward.

Left Eye, who had been crouched in an iaijutsu stance, was likewise vomiting blood from her nose and mouth, barely able to remain standing.

Archimedes, flying in the air with both hands held before him, merely dropped a short distance without being injured. Indra, whose body had fully grown to one meter ninety, was also bleeding all over.

Just a single exchange of glances had nearly crippled their entire team?!

What kind of ability was this?!

"Cover them, Red Queen! This ability is linked to Strength! Protect Zhou Si and Left Eye!"

Archimedes shouted as he leaped high from the air, his great blade raised once more.

The crimson gaze came again. Red Queen’s heart lurched. Can this Gaze of Arrogance be used continuously?!

Cover them!

She instinctively activated her ability, about to fly in front of Zhou Si and Left Eye to take the damage for them.

But in the next instant, a strange mental force crashed into her Consciousness Sea.

In her daze, she saw an extraordinarily handsome face. She could not make out any details, yet an intense joy and pleasure surged from within her, reaching an extreme.

Her movements froze as well.

Pfft!

Blood explosively burst from all over Zhou Si’s body. His frail body could no longer withstand the impact of a second Gaze of Arrogance. Every blood vessel in his body ruptured in an instant, and he crumpled limply.

In his disbelieving eyes, Left Eye, who should have drawn her sword to cover him, and Red Queen, who should have protected him while he cast his spell, both stood frozen in place with flushed faces.

What kind of joke is this… Damn it, did they get hit by Mercenary Tao’s special ability…? Damn it, this guy… he’s so strong…

As his consciousness sank into darkness, the curse-type Dark ARM Bird in a Cage on Zhou Si’s finger fell away weakly. Its user had died before it could even be activated.