Inside the secret room, the battle situation changed rapidly and was extremely dangerous.
Rias had been distracted while trying to rescue Shin, and her shoulder was struck by a Shadow Tentacle. The purplish-black corrosive energy instantly invaded, causing her to let out a muffled groan. Her face suddenly turned pale, and the Destruction Magic Power around her became slightly chaotic.
The President's injury caused the hearts of the Occult Research Club members to clench tightly, and their offensive paused for a moment.
"President!" Kiba Yuuto's eyes were bloodshot.
Seeing Rias injured, rage instantly broke through the dam of his rationality. Holy Eraser sensed its master's fury and erupted with an unprecedented, brilliant Holy Light.
"Fallen Angel! How dare you be so presumptuous!"
He roared, no longer caring about his own defense or evasion. He poured all his strength and will into his sword. His entire being transformed into a blazing white shooting star tearing through the darkness as he charged madly toward Raynare in a desperate, life-risking manner.
Wherever the sword light passed, the filthy Shadow Tentacles wailed with a "hissing" sound, like snow meeting the blazing sun. They were instantly purified and evaporated by the holy Sword Qi.
At this moment, Kiba maximized the speed of a Knight and the holy sword's special effectiveness against darkness. His aura charged forward relentlessly.
"Oh? Are you frustrated and angry now? Now this is getting interesting~" Facing this full-powered attack fueled by rage, Raynare's playful expression slightly receded, replaced by a hint of seriousness.
She could feel the Power of Purification contained within this sword strike—enough to threaten her. She no longer underestimated him. Raising both hands simultaneously, dense Fallen Angel Light Power rapidly converged and compressed in front of her, forming a thicker light shield shimmering with ominous runes.
"Darkness Erosion Wall!"
Boom—!!!
The blazing white Holy Sword Comet violently collided with the purplish-black Darkness Erosion Wall. This collision was far beyond the tentative exchanges they had before. A terrifying energy shockwave spread wildly in all directions like a tsunami.
The already dilapidated walls and floor of the secret room instantly cracked into countless fissures, and rubble flew everywhere. The Magic Lamp hanging from the ceiling shook violently, its light flickering. Holy Light and Shadow frantically annihilated and corroded each other, emitting a jarring tearing sound.
Kiba Yuuto gritted his teeth, veins bulging on his forehead. He poured all his Magic Power unreservedly into the holy sword, holding fast against the light shield and attempting to break through it. Where the sword tip met the light shield, blinding light and fierce energy sparks erupted.
A hint of surprise flashed in Raynare's eyes. She hadn't expected the attack born of his fury to possess such power, forcing her to defend seriously. She gave a cold snort, maintaining the light shield with her hands while the Dark Light Power surrounding her surged like boiling water, continuously reinforcing the defense.
For a moment, the two actually fell into a brief stalemate.
However, Raynare's strength ultimately far surpassed Kiba's. Under the absolute difference in power, the stalemate was doomed to be short-lived. The dark runes on the light shield grew brighter, and the rebound force grew stronger. Kiba Yuuto's arms began to tremble slightly, and the light at his sword tip showed signs of being slowly pushed back.
"Yuto!" Seeing this, Akeno Himejima suppressed her worry over Rias's injury. She knew she had to create an opportunity for Kiba now.
She rapidly formed hand seals with both hands, and the lightning power around her erupted. "Lightning Arrow – Hundred Volley!"
Countless extremely condensed blue lightning power arrows appeared out of thin air like a fierce storm. Carrying deafening thunder, they overwhelmingly shot toward Raynare's flanks and rear from various tricky angles. She attempted to use a saturation lightning strike to interfere with Raynare's defense, distract her, and buy Kiba Yuuto a chance to break through.
Koneko Toujou also moved again. She chose not to attack head-on, but instead used the confusion and light interference created by Akeno's lightning strike to minimize her presence. She sped along the ground like a true shadow, aiming for Raynare's lower body. Sharp demonic qi claw blades extended from her fingertips, aiming directly for the opponent's ankles and knee bends, attempting to disrupt her balance.
Facing this sudden multi-pronged attack, a trace of impatience and anger finally flashed in Raynare's eyes.
"Annoying flies! Get lost, all of you!"
She maintained the frontal light shield to block Kiba's holy sword. Not even turning her head, she simply stomped her foot heavily.
Boom!
A powerful Dark Shockwave burst forth from her center and exploded outwards. The first victims were Akeno's dense lightning power arrow rain. Most of the lightning arrows instantly shattered and were annihilated upon contact with this Dark Shockwave, failing to achieve the desired interference effect.
Koneko, who had rushed close, felt as if she had been violently struck by an invisible enormous force. "Ungh!" She let out a muffled groan. Her small body was directly shaken and sent flying backward by this brute force, smashing heavily into the secret room wall with a dull thud. A trace of blood even spilled from the corner of her mouth.
The absolute disparity in strength rendered her subtle sneak attack pale and ineffective.
At the same time, Raynare's frontal power suddenly intensified. The dark runes on the Darkness Erosion Wall shone brightly. "Break!"
She let out a cold shout. Kiba Yuuto felt an irresistible enormous force surge toward him like a collapsing mountain. "Crack…"
The holy sword's blazing white light was forcibly pushed back, and he even heard the overwhelmed groaning of his arm bones. The skin between his thumb and index finger split open, staining the sword hilt with blood. He was violently thrown back—sword and all—spitting out a mouthful of blood while still airborne, and crashed heavily onto the ground. He struggled to get up but found it momentarily impossible.
With just one burst, she instantly severely wounded Kiba and Koneko, and easily neutralized Akeno's offensive. The strength of Fallen Angel Cadre Raynare was truly terrifying.
"Yuto!" "Koneko!" Rias endured the severe pain in her shoulder and the corrosion of the dark power. Her heart twisted with pain upon seeing her two servants instantly injured.
Akeno quickly retreated, shielding Rias. Her expression was extremely serious.
Raynare shook her hand, as if merely brushing off some dust. That hateful, cat-and-mouse-like playful smile reappeared on her face. "Is that all you have? The Gremory Family servants are truly weak~ Well… the game should end now~"
Her gaze swept over the injured Rias, the struggling Kiba, the blood-lipped Koneko, and Akeno who was shielding Rias. Finally, that cold, murderous gaze once again locked onto Shin, whose face was pale due to excessive True Qi consumption.
"I'll start by eliminating you, the most annoying little bug!"
She let out a sinister laugh, casually raised her right hand toward Shin, and slightly curled her five fingers. An extremely condensed, lightning-fast purplish-black Fallen Angel Light Spear instantly formed in her palm. Carrying an aura of destruction that could tear apart everything, it shot silently through the air like the Grim Reaper's javelin, aimed directly at Shin's heart.
This strike was far more terrifying than the previous Shadow Tentacles. It contained Raynare's intent to kill and immense power. His aura was locked onto, making evasion impossible.
"Shin!!" Rias and Akeno cried out simultaneously.
But they were too far away and in poor condition themselves, making rescue impossible. Kiba and Koneko were severely injured on the ground, unable to help. The aura of death instantly enveloped Shin completely.
His pupils contracted sharply. The blood in his entire body felt frozen at that moment. The Light Spear rapidly enlarged in his vision, bringing an oppressive feeling strong enough to cause an ordinary person to suffer a mental breakdown.
He couldn't dodge it. He couldn't block it. The Body Protection Talisman definitely couldn't withstand an attack of this magnitude.
Just at this critical moment, when everyone thought Shin was doomed—
Shin's gaze, which had been slightly scattered due to overexertion, suddenly erupted with an unprecedented sharp light. The extreme danger instead activated the core of his Dao Heart, sparking an unyielding resilience and an unprecedented calmness.
His brain worked frantically within one-hundredth of a second. He couldn't dodge it, nor could he take it head-on. Then… change its trajectory. Or impede it.
Almost instinctively, he abandoned all thoughts of retreating or dodging. He stomped his feet hard on the ground. The pitifully weak True Qi remaining in his body circulated frantically at an unprecedented speed, no longer flowing gently but bursting forth almost like combustion.
With speed invisible to the naked eye, his hands formed a simple "Kun" Character Seal and slammed it fiercely toward the ground.
"Earth Veins heed my command, gather earth into a wall! Rise!!!"
He let out the most hoarse and strenuous shout since his transmigration.
Buzz—!!!
Following his shout and the slamming down of the Seal Incantation, the hard floor of the secret room—less than a meter in front of Shin—suddenly let out a dull roar. An incredibly thick, two-meter-high, and roughly three-meter-wide giant Earthen Wall, like a sleeping behemoth suddenly awakening, abruptly and without warning surged up from beneath the ground.
The wall was forcibly condensed from the dirt and rubble beneath the secret room. Its surface was rough but exceptionally solid, and a faint, heavy Spiritual Qi of the Earth Element, belonging to the great earth, was attached to it.
This Earthen Wall appeared too suddenly, its timing executed with flawless precision. It perfectly intercepted the fatal Light Spear's path.
Boom!!!!
In the next instant, Raynare's killing blow—the Fallen Angel Light Spear—violently struck the sudden, thick Earthen Wall. A deafening explosion rang out. Dirt and stone flew everywhere, and smoke and dust filled the air.
The hastily formed Earthen Wall naturally couldn't fully withstand the Fallen Angel Cadre's full-powered strike fueled by anger. The Light Spear instantly pierced the wall, emerging from the other side. However, after being impeded and weakened by the Earthen Wall, the Light Spear's speed, power, and the destructive will contained within were all significantly diminished. Its color became dim, and its size was reduced by nearly half.
More importantly, its trajectory—which had been precisely locked onto Shin's heart—experienced a subtle deflection. The weakened Light Spear whistled past Shin's shoulder, finally slamming into the wall behind him and blasting out a scorched crater, yet failing to injure Shin in the slightest.
Shin stumbled back a few steps from the blast wave and fell onto the ground. His face was ashen as he gasped heavily for breath. All the strength in his body seemed to have been drained by that single action, and not a drop of True Qi remained in his dantian.
But he… survived.
Silence. A deathly silence.
Everyone was stunned by this sudden, completely unexpected scene. Rias, Akeno, and even the injured Kiba and Koneko widened their eyes. They stared in disbelief at the Earthen Wall that had suddenly appeared—which now had a huge hole in the center and whose edges were still crumbling—and then looked at Shin, who was sitting slumped on the ground, disheveled but unharmed.
This… what kind of ability is this?! To be able to instantly change the terrain and condense such a thick Earthen Wall?! This is definitely not magic! And certainly not a Divine Artifact! That heavy, solid aura connected to the earth was a power system they had never encountered before.
The sinister smile on Raynare's face completely froze, replaced by extreme astonishment and suspicion. Her killing blow was actually blocked?! Blocked by that strange Power to Control the Earth?!
Her gaze locked onto Shin, who was slumped on the ground. For the first time, her purple eyes showed seriousness and… a hint of indescribable greed.
"The Power to Control the Earth? Not Magic Power, not a Divine Artifact… Kid, the secrets you hold are far more interesting than I imagined!" Her voice was filled with the excitement and cruelty of someone discovering a new toy. "It seems I can't simply kill you… I'm going to take you back and 'study' you thoroughly!"
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