Three hundred meters above Alice's head, a hundred-meter-large cherry-colored giant sword appeared in mid-air.
Lifting her right hand gently, Cherry Blaze surged continuously in Alice's palm. In the blink of an eye, a cherry-colored long spear floated above her palm.
"World-Destroying Flame Spear!"
Lifting it with a sudden force, the cherry-colored long spear immediately rushed into the clouds.
After entering the clouds, the entire sky was instantly covered by countless dark clouds. Thunder and lightning intertwined, and the strong wind blew incessantly, as if a great storm was about to arrive.
Suddenly, a cherry-colored flame spear, a hundred zhang in size, descended from the sky and rushed towards Illustrious with great momentum.
The power of the flame spear was somewhat terrifying. Wherever it passed, the aura of destruction caused the space to vibrate. In the blue sky, this flame spear appeared extremely spectacular.
Kardan took a deep breath of the slightly cool air and said, "What a terrifying move! Is this the legendary ultimate technique of the King of Cherry Blaze, the World-Destroying Flame Spear! It is truly formidable!"
"It is rumored that when the First Calamity, Harbor Princess, faced this move back then, she had to avoid its sharpness and dared not take it head-on. From this, one can see how terrifying this move is," Limo said softly.
"Hahaha! This move is so terrifying that even I couldn't take it. This Illustrious will definitely be sunk!" Kardan inferred.
Limo nodded and said, "It seems we don't even need to take action. Alice alone can kill Illustrious here!"
Looking at the huge flame spear, Illustrious's expression did not change in the slightest. She held her long sword high, and countless Aura surged from her body, converging towards the ship-slaying great sword. The ship-slaying great sword gradually erupted with a dazzling light.
The light became more and more dazzling, and in the end, it was like the sun, making people dare not look directly at it.
The unique ability "I Alone Am Supreme in Heaven and on Earth" began to activate, and Illustrious cast "Gaze" on Alice not far away.
Feeling Illustrious's "Gaze", Alice immediately became serious. It was this feeling again. Whenever Illustrious cast "Gaze" on her, she felt like she had turned into a weak slime, while Illustrious would become a dragon. Facing the dragon, she could only tremble under the crushing power.
Through "Gaze", Illustrious's power and speed skyrocketed, and she instantly possessed the power to crush Alice.
With a slightly cold expression, Illustrious looked at the flame spear in the sky and immediately swung her sword down heavily.
"Crushing Slash!"
With a low shout that resounded through the sky, a hundred-zhang large energy crescent blade shot out from the ship-slaying great sword.
The crescent blade carried sonic booms, tearing through the sky. Its forward momentum seemed as if it wanted to split the entire world in two.
The crescent blade tore through the sky, and finally, under the Gaze of countless eyes, it collided with the huge flame spear with a roar.
The two collided violently like meteors. In an instant, a monstrous energy shockwave splashed out from the center, and the immense pressure actually caused the sea below to surge with waves.
Although the flame spear was powerful, the power contained in the crescent blade was too terrifying. The flame spear only resisted for a moment before it was slashed in half with a roar.
The flame spear, cut in half, turned into fragments and fell into mid-air, and finally, the fragments gradually disappeared into the blue sky.
After defeating the flame spear, the crescent blade was weakened quite a bit, but its remaining momentum did not diminish, and it continued to shoot towards the sky.
Looking from outer space, after one-third of the planet's clouds were split in two, the crescent blade finally disappeared.
"Hiss!" Seeing that Illustrious had shattered Alice's flame spear with a single slash, everyone couldn't help but gasp. This woman's strength was truly terrifying! Now that they had formed a deadly feud with Illustrious, it seemed that they absolutely could not leave Illustrious in this world! Otherwise, it would surely bring disaster upon their mansions.
"Alice, I didn't expect you to hide such a powerful move. You really gave me a fright! But the force was still a bit lacking. Do you have any stronger moves than that? If you do, use them, so I can broaden my horizons!" Illustrious smiled and said.
Looking at Illustrious, who was still alive on the opposite side, Alice took a deep breath and then said coldly, "Illustrious, I admit that your unique ability is very strong, but don't be too arrogant. If we attack together, you will definitely not survive."
"Oh! You want to attack in a group? I don't mind, but wouldn't it be too boring if it ended so quickly?" Illustrious said with a confident face.
Alice said unhappily, "Hmph! You can only be calm for now. We will let you know how powerful we are later."
"Hehehe... Then I really must see it." Illustrious sneered.
Alice said softly to the people around her, "Illustrious is very strong, and I am not her match. Let's follow the original plan and sink Illustrious!"
"We should have done this long ago. You can't handle it, yet you insist on being brave; you are simply wasting our time," Kardan mocked.
Alice was furious. If it weren't for the fact that she needed to rely on Kardan to help contain Illustrious, if it were any other time, and Kardan dared to speak to her like that, she would have long since beaten Kardan until he couldn't take care of himself.
"Don't say that! Alice must be doing this because she lost to Illustrious last time, so she wants to defeat Illustrious personally this time. It's a pity that Illustrious's unique ability is too foul. No matter how strong we are, as long as Illustrious activates her unique ability, she possesses the power to crush us," Limo said with a kind and gentle face.
Limo is still a good person! Alice was moved... as if! With a dark heart, Alice thought this was a conspiracy, and she maliciously guessed what kind of schemes Limo wanted to use to harm her.
Looking at the smiling Limo, Alice, who couldn't fathom her bottom line, could only give up and put her focus back on Illustrious.
This Illustrious is a monster. She emerged out of nowhere, and it only took her eleven years to upgrade from a Gold-Plated Ship Girl to a Five-Star Legendary Ship Girl.
Originally, Alice didn't put Five-Star Legendary Ship Girls in her eyes, but Illustrious's unique ability, "Fantasy of the Bright Moon Wandering," was very terrifying. Simply put, this unique ability is to copy others' abilities.
Heavens! Copying others' abilities—just hearing this makes one feel terrified. Illustrious, this guy, has such an ability and also very smartly copied her master Shinano's unique ability, "I Alone Am Supreme in Heaven and on Earth."
Damn it! Having one Shinano in the world is hard enough to deal with, and now another Illustrious, who is not at all weaker than Shinano, has jumped out. And as it happens, both of these Ship Girls come from the Pacific; it really makes her jealous, envious, and hateful!
However, these are no longer important, because Alice now wants to sink Illustrious completely! What she doesn't have, others cannot have either. "Let's attack!"
Alice's monstrous Aura surged out. Countless Aura wrapped around her body like flames. Grasping into the void, a sword of Cherry Blaze appeared in her hand. Looking at Illustrious opposite, her body turned into a stream of light and shot towards Illustrious.
At the same time, Limo and the others also unleashed their auras and pushed them to the extreme, then turned into streams of light, following closely behind Alice.
"Well come! Today, let's have a hearty fight!" Gripping her silver sword tightly, Illustrious turned into a stream of light and went up to meet Alice and the others.
"Bang bang bang..." In the blink of an eye, Illustrious was fighting with Alice and the others. Violent collisions resounded in the sky. Sword lights and sword shadows flashed, and sword Qi crisscrossed. The seven people fighting together were all among the world's peak powerhouses. When these people fought together, the space trembled incessantly for a while.
Because these people were fighting too fiercely, the entire space shattered and repaired, repaired and shattered. Not only that, countless strong winds blew incessantly, thunder and lightning tossed and turned, and dark clouds densely covered the sky.
Watching Illustrious and the others' battle turn the entire space into an apocalyptic scene, Atago couldn't help but be surprised. "Is this the battle between the world's peak powerhouses? It is truly terrifying!"
After the few fought for a hundred rounds, there was still no winner.
Facing six of the world's peak powerhouses, any ordinary Five-Star Legendary Ship Girl would likely have been defeated long ago. However, Illustrious was no ordinary Five-Star Legendary Ship Girl. Relying on her unique abilities, she was not only holding her ground but was actually pushing her six opponents into a precarious and dangerous situation!
This was only because Illustrious didn't want it to end so quickly; her holding back created this seemingly equal stalemate. If Illustrious were to get serious, Alice and the others would fall within ten seconds.
As she fought, Illustrious said, "Not bad, not bad! You guys are truly impressive! Fighting you makes me feel quite refreshed! As expected, it's only satisfying for a Five-Star Legendary Ship Girl to exchange moves with opponents of the same level!"
While Illustrious was enjoying herself, Alice and her group were miserable. No one likes being suppressed in a fight, and they were no exception.
The longer they fought Illustrious, the more alarmed Alice and the others became. Illustrious didn't seem to tire at all; she grew more excited and energetic as the battle progressed. This berserker-like warlike style made them suffer inwardly, especially when Illustrious used "Gaze" to attack—the crushing power of it was terrifying.
"Illustrious, you can only act smug for now. Soon, we'll show you our terror," Alice said irritably.
"Stop talking big. You're all being beaten so badly you can't even counterattack, yet you're still running your mouths." Illustrious shook her head; she didn't believe for a second that Alice could defeat her.
To show Alice her true strength, Illustrious exerted a bit more power. She flashed in front of Alice, gripped her ship-slaying great sword as countless wisps of Aura rapidly condensed, and then swung down fiercely.
Taking the blow, Alice was knocked back dozens of meters. After steadying herself, she murmured under her breath, "Tch! What a monster!"
Flashing again, Illustrious appeared not far above Kardan's head. With an icy expression, she swung forcefully, and a ten-zhang wide crescent blade of energy shot out, hurtling toward Kardan like a lightning bolt.
After using all his strength to block this wisp of Illustrious's sword qi, Kardan grumbled, "Hey! Can you guys stop slacking? I'm almost at my limit!"
"Who's slacking? I think you're the one slacking! Ah..." Before Limo could finish, she was struck by Illustrious's sword as the latter suddenly appeared behind her. Her body turned into a streak of light and crashed into the sea.
As Limo was knocked into the ocean, everyone grew tense. They were relying on Limo's core sealer to seal Illustrious. If anything happened to Limo, their mission to sink Illustrious would fail!
Fortunately, Limo surged out from the sea, allowing them to relax. As expected of the King of Frigid Frost, she wouldn't fall so easily.
"How is it? Are you okay?" Alice found a brief opening to move to Limo's side.
"Pah! Just a minor injury, it's nothing!" Limo spat out a mouthful of blood.
"That's good. You are the core of our plan; you can't just fall like that." Seeing Limo's pale face, Alice could only take her word for it when she said she was fine.
"I think it'll be very difficult to actually injure Illustrious. Let's just use the core sealer!" Limo suggested.
"Let's wait a bit longer and see!" Alice explained. "Illustrious is clearly in peak condition right now. If we use it too early and she dodges it, what then?"
Limo said solemnly, "We can't wait. If this continues, I'm afraid we'll enter a weakened state before Illustrious does. It'll be even harder to sink her then."
"Fine! We'll cover you," Alice decided.
Suddenly, Alice and the others launched a fierce assault on Illustrious. Seeing this, Illustrious had to use her true skills to withstand their attacks.
While Illustrious was pinned down by Alice, Limo reached into the void with her left hand, and a golden sphere with strange patterns appeared in her palm.
Gazing coldly at Illustrious not far away, Limo murmured softly, "Illustrious, take this!"
Countless wisps of Prayer Qi began to converge toward the golden sphere. Once it reached the energy required to activate the core sealer, the golden sphere transformed into a golden Oriental dragon and lunged toward Illustrious like a lightning bolt.
Alice and the others, who were fighting Illustrious, immediately fled when they saw the dragon approaching. They certainly didn't want to be sealed by the core!
The golden dragon's aura was terrifying, radiating a majestic dragon pressure! Faced with this terrifying sight, Illustrious didn't panic or run; instead, she was eager to try and take the hit. "What a terrifying move, but in my eyes, it's nothing. Watch me shatter it with one strike."
She slashed her ship-slaying great sword into the golden dragon, expecting to shatter it, but the dragon was completely unharmed. From the sensation transmitted through her Tachi, Illustrious felt as if she were cutting through air; the dragon had no physical substance at all.
Under Illustrious's surprised Gaze, the dragon first broke through her Ship Qi Shield, then surged into her forehead in one breath. Upon entering her consciousness world, the dragon reached her legendary core in the blink of an eye.
Looking at the legendary core before it, the dragon let out a heaven-shaking roar, opened its bloody maw, and swallowed the legendary core whole.
After consuming the legendary core, the dragon erupted with a blinding light. In an instant, it transformed into a golden light sphere about a foot wide.
Inside the golden light sphere was Illustrious's legendary core. However, the core was now sealed; it had lost its former golden luster and turned a dull black.
Feeling that the dragon had finished sealing Illustrious's legendary core, Limo said with a joyful face, "It seems the sealing was a success! I thought Illustrious would dodge when the dragon appeared, but I didn't expect her to charge forward to attack instead. She really walked right into the trap!"
Alice mocked, "Illustrious! This idiot must have gotten overconfident, thinking she was invincible and could do whatever she wanted."
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