Chapter 24: battle (3)
As Sona was contemplating when to get Su Yang back after Rias dealt with the roast chicken, Rias suddenly spoke up.
"Sona, do you think it was a mistake for us not to participate?"
"Hm? What do you mean?"
Sona didn't catch on immediately.
"Just look at the field," Rias said with a wry smile.
She had originally thought this competition would put pressure on Su Yang. Instead, it seemed to be putting pressure on herself. If her peerage members were easily surpassed or even crushed, it would be quite embarrassing.
She directly ignored the fact that her reincarnation had failed, but Akuka understood her feelings.
"Look at the field?"
Sona looked over at the field.
"Wow..." Even with her ability to accept things, she felt that Su Yang's performance was a bit surreal.
At that moment, Koneko and Yura Tsubasa were already lying on the ground. However, Su Yang hadn't been too harsh; he had only used a technique that rendered them powerless. This technique had been covered in Akuka's lecture yesterday on "how to seal as much magic as possible with minimal effort."
Maintaining his initial relaxed demeanor, Su Yang steadily and confidently walked towards the other side.
Every time Shinra Tsubaki used a magic circle, he would lightly wave his hand and disperse the magic circle. Sometimes, he would even wait for the magic circle to form and then disperse it just as she was about to cast a spell, out of sheer laziness.
Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, Kusaka Reya, who was in charge of gathering information and scouting, also joined the attack on Su Yang.
Kusaka Reya, a second-year student, had a cute appearance and was responsible for intelligence gathering and scouting. Her rank was monk, but she also had considerable magical abilities.
At this moment, she had given up on the foolish task of gathering information on Su Yang and directly joined the battle.
Unable to analyze or calculate anything, she had no other options but to fight.
Unfortunately, even this made no difference to Su Yang.
Two hundred meters... one hundred and fifty meters... Su Yang continued to approach slowly and confidently.
He wasn't in a hurry, nor did he have any intention of quickly moving to Himejima Akeno's side to interrupt her massive chant.
Because... he was waiting.
"Tap... tap... tap..."
As he expected, no one dared to approach him after he had easily defeated two waves of close-combat fighters.
At one hundred and twenty meters, Himejima Akeno finally completed her chant.
"Tsubaki! Get ready!"
Himejima Akeno knew that Su Yang could teleport and dodge her attack, but she resolutely used her ultimate move.
At the very least, she wanted to force Su Yang to avoid it.
"Got it!"
Responding to her, Shinra Tsubaki's massive mirror appeared in front of her. This was her Sacred Gear, the Mirror of Retribution.
Shinra Tsubaki, the student council vice president, was Sona's first servant and came from a long line of exorcists. She possessed the Sacred Gear "Mirror of Retribution," which could summon reflections of powerful attacks and, if broken, would return the attack's power severalfold to the attacker.
[Ultimate Thunderstrike!]
A powerful, concentrated lightning bolt, nearly at the peak of a high-class devil's strength, shot towards the Mirror of Retribution.
"Crack!"
The mirror emitted a clear sound.
Then...
The reflected lightning, now twice as powerful, shot directly at Su Yang!
Their strategy had changed.
It was no longer about defeating Su Yang but about forcing him to dodge.
Yes... that was their simple goal.
Whether it was the knights or the chariots, their close-combat attacks had been easily neutralized by Su Yang. The monks and queens using magic hadn't even had a chance to cast their spells. They believed that Akeno's [Ultimate Thunderstrike] was allowed to be cast only because Su Yang didn't intend to interrupt it.
If he could interrupt Tsubaki's magic, he could naturally interrupt Akeno's too.
Their current strength was comparable.
At least they wanted to force Su Yang to dodge!
That was their simple thought.
However...
Facing the lightning, Su Yang had no intention of dodging.
"What are you doing, Yang? Why aren't you dodging?!" Seeing her lightning bolt closing in on Su Yang, Akeno couldn't help but shout in surprise.
"Su Yang-senpai!" Koneko's golden eyes contracted sharply.
"Yang! Move!"
Sona, who was watching, rushed towards Su Yang's direction.
She could understand dispelling high-class devil magic, but choosing to take a nearly transcendent high-class devil attack head-on was another matter!
"No need to worry."
Su Yang smiled. He had only used one of his three incarnations so far.
"Boom!"
In Sona's nearly despairing eyes, the ultimate lightning strike hit Su Yang directly!
Su Yang... didn't dodge at all!
As Su Yang was hit, Sona, who was very close to him, was inevitably affected by the attack.
However, compared to the attack Su Yang received, it was a mere trifle.
"Sona!"
Seeing Su Yang engulfed by the intense lightning, Sona injured and blown away, and the delayed Rias rushing towards the center of the strike, everyone was in a panic.
"Su Yang… Su Yang-senpai?"
Koneko, with vacant eyes, stared at the billowing dust where Su Yang had stood. Such an attack would be life-threatening even for the president! Su Yang-senpai... didn't he mention that his body's strength wasn't that extraordinary?
"I told you it's fine, didn't I?"
In Sona's eyes, filled with despair and a sliver of hope, a gentle voice emerged from the center of the lightning strike.
From the heart of the lightning walked out a young man. His fair skin was slightly dusted with dirt. He had a pair of dazzling black eyes that seemed to peer into endless stars, though they were now tinged with a hint of urgency. Perhaps the only difference from before was the small charred marks from the lightning on his body.
"Sona, it's going to be okay."
Quickly reaching Sona's side, Su Yang hadn't expected her to rush directly into the area affected by the lightning strike. How could he bear to see her like this?
Shaking his head helplessly, Su Yang's hand emitted a milky white light, gently covering Sona's body.
Incarnation!
[World Dragon Kurmava!]
The World Dragon Kurmava originates from the second incarnation, Kurma, which in mythology means an ancient turtle, but in the Hakoniwa world view, it is the all-knowing god-king. Both are referred to as Kurma in English, indicating that the World Dragon Kurmava and the ancient turtle Kurma are essentially the same entity.
Among Su Yang's ten incarnations, the [World Dragon Kurmava] includes both entities' powers and divine ranks...
Now, he was using the [World Dragon Kurmava]'s power to heal Sona.
In legend, during the churning of the ocean of milk by gods and demons, Vishnu incarnated as a turtle, diving to the bottom of the ocean, bearing Mount Mandara on his back, and using it as a churning rod to churn the ocean, granting the gods the elixir of immortality.
Therefore, the incarnation of the [World Dragon Kurmava] also symbolizes immortality and infinity!
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