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D.I.O - Chapter 220

Published at 18th of March 2023 06:46:59 AM


Chapter 220

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Ting!

Along with a sound like plucking strings, a large image appeared in one corner of Deep Place. The image’s background was a high school, similar to ones that were commonly seen on Earth.

“Teacher~ We’re going on a trip during this vacation, so please accompany us, okay?”

“Why should I accompany you girls on your personal trip? I’m going to get off work and go home, so stop talking nonsense and leave already.”

A man with a solid physique was surrounded by female students. Though his facial expression was filled with a sense of annoyance, the gathered female students were happily chattering beside him.

“W-what is this? Are you girls acting out a sitcom?”

Before the start of a mission, it was quite common to show the target’s appearance and the surrounding environment. Depending on the type and difficulty of the mission, background information was often needed.

“The target of a mission that will have over a hundred Masters and four Grand Masters is a guy like that?”

Of course, in the quest description, there was an explanation that he was an Emperor of Martial Arts, but in the eyes of the gathered users, and even in the eyes of Merlin and Arthur, the target looked like an average thirty some odd year-old man. Anyway, the female students circled around him and implored him several more times, but he calmly denied their requests and sent them on their way. Before the group of girls eventually left, the 100 or so Masters had to watch the female students flirt with the male target for about 10 minutes.

“Dang, why is this mission starting so late?”

“Is it some kind of bug?”

The gathered Masters started complaining and voicing their dissatisfaction. At that moment, the target spoke up, “Hey, sorry. Did I make you all wait?”

The man, who had been tidying up his desk, raised his fist.

Crack!

The Deep Place’s wall, where the screen was floating over, was covered with countless cracks, like the spiderwebbing that occurred when a bullet hit bulletproof glass. The Masters, who had been in relaxed positions, jumped up in surprise and instantly got into fighting positions.

Rumble!

The space was torn, and the dimension collapsed; the Deep Place shattered at once and blended with the dimension that appeared on the screen. Leighann quickly chanted a spell.

[Quarantine! Create! I am the owner of Alistar!]

In an instant, the surrounding background suddenly changed with a shrill cry, a sound that seemed to resonate with each of the users’ souls. The blue sky turned gray, and all the students who were playing soccer in the school’s field disappeared. The teachers and students who were inside the school and the people in the cars that were traveling in the nearby streets all disappeared at once. The man, who was now sitting on the stairs, laughed.

“Oh, you guys prepared thoroughly. The normal type of quarantine space is observable, so you isolated and quarantined the entire planet, huh?” Regrants commented.

New beings appeared in front of the Emperor of Martial Arts, Regrant De Pecerion, who had a carefree smile.

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“… You truly are a monster, Regrants De Pecerion. You noticed our quarantine spell,” Leighann commented.

“Oho~ Emperor of Martial Arts, Regrants De Pecerion! I heard of your great achievements and prestige so much that my ears started hurting,” Lionel remarked.

“I really don’t want to fight like this…” Adalcha added.

“If they tell us to take him out, we must take him out. If one belongs to a group and receives an order, this is how things go,” stated Thousand Scents.

During this exchange, the users were also present… and not just a few, but over a hundred. Moreover, it was a powerful group of Masters, as every Master was Level 12 or higher.

However, those 100 or so Masters were completely overshadowed by the presence of the four Grand Masters.

“White Divine Celestial Dragon, Thousand Scents. Oh my God, she’s really here with us…”

“Ahh, Lionel! I never thought I’d see the day where I’d watch Grand Master Lionel fight!”

“Oh, Leighann uses a staff.”

“Wow! It’s the first time I’ve seen Grand Master Adalcha open his eyes. He looks downright scary.”

As Thousand Scents, who reached the pinnacle of aura power, raised her strength, her gray hair fluttered as if hit by a strong gust of wind. Archmage Leighann, with neatly combed blonde hair, held a staff as tall as himself and dispersed golden magic power about him. Lionel, a huge black man with no hair, loosened his body and made a succession of popping sounds.

‘Oh, is that Grand Master Adalcha, the Holy Land ruler and instructor for chakra users?’

Merlin had his eye on Adalcha. He had seen Thousand Scents and Lionel a few times before, and he had a good business relationship and friendship with Leighann, who had jointly partnered with Merlin to patent Merlin’s innovative tech product process. However, Merlin had only heard of Adalcha in passing; it was the first time Merlin had actually seen him.

Basically, Adalcha, who had features close to an Asian’s, had completely black eyes. Though Adalcha was standing still, darkness scattered around him; since Adalcha rose to the level of Atman, he possessed an inner microcosm world within him, so it was possible to extract infinite power within a specific concept.

‘He’s a Shadow Dragon… a rare species,’ Merlin thought.

Although it couldn’t be said that a Shadow Dragon was the strongest amongst the dragon species, it was certainly true that a Shadow Dragon was a dangerous enough being that no one could treat lightly or carelessly. A Shadow Dragon, which possessed a nearly immaterial body, could output destructive combat power with just its innate, untrained superpowers and attributes. However, Adalcha, who trained in chakra to the transcendent level, was powerful beyond any Master’s comprehension.

Moreover, there was Thousand Scents, who had trained and reinforced her great spirit over a thousand years of hard work and accumulated achievements, Leighann, who could control the laws of the world by having realized the truth of the world, and Lionel, who could concentrate power and cut through dimensions after training himself to the limit. All four were powerful transcendent beings.

‘There are over 100 users gathered here, but can we deal with even one of those Grand Masters?’

In the past, the users had gone up against Mahashah, the ruler of the Forest of Despair and a transcendent, but that fight was only possible because Mahashah was overwhelmed by the staggering number of users attacking him all at once, as tens of hundreds of thousands of users participated in that closed beta test battle. Of course, the power level of the users gathered now was incomparably stronger than those who had gathered to go up against Mahashah; however, compared to the strength of any of the four Grand Masters, the gathered Master level users were insignificant.

“Oh, right. I remember. Are those the Noblesse’s kids who are participating in your second user development program?”

Even though four prominent transcendents showed up and emanated their fighting spirit, Regrants De Pecerion, a physical education teacher who was also known as the Emperor of Martial Arts, just smiled, as if he was having fun. Leighann’s eyebrows twitched at the sight of Regrants De Pecerion’s carefree attitude, as if he was welcoming a longtime friend.

“Based on how defenseless you are, it doesn’t seem like you were expecting us, but you’re acting so carefree.”

“Of course, the situation itself surprised me. To create a barrier and quarantine space around the entire planet… wow. Beyond the level and expertise required to carry out such a spell… isn’t this a pretty expensive magic spell? When I heard that you guys overthrew Jenica, I knew you guys were running wild, but it seems like you guys still care about what others think to use such an expensive quarantine spell and shield what you’re doing from other’s eyes, huh? Or are you taking precautions because I’m the Guardian of the Elohim?”

After saying this, Regrants De Pecerion raised his body, and the four Grand Masters straightened their postures to enter a combat stance. It was 1 vs 4. To be precise, it was actually 1 vs 100+, but the tension seemed to reside more on the majority’s side. Soon, a message popped up in front of the users’ eyes.

/Buy time for the Grand Masters to attack!/

/The normal mission death penalty has been removed! Resurrection cooldown shall be 10 to 21 seconds based on the user’s level! Users can be resurrected up to 3 times!/ 

/Gem points are given according to a user’s effectiveness in tying down the enemy!/

As if it was an urgent situation, the messages scrolled up quickly. The users who read the rapidly scrolling messages clenched their jaws and ran forward.

“Hmpf! We’re being used as fodder!!”

“Somehow, I knew we’d be used this way! There’s no way we’d be paired with Grand Masters!”

“Smashing Vajra Formation! Tankers, move forward and take the vanguard position!”

Among the tankers, Adol, who was given the nickname ‘Iron Wall’ and was the most famous tanker, summoned his Tower Shield and ran forward. Meanwhile, Hanma and other tank-type users lined up behind Adol. They emitted spiritual qi, according to the formation and process they usually followed. Soon, golden ripples emanated out from the users’ bodies accordingly.

Woong!

Initially, the user’s individual powers didn’t resonate well with each other. Every user’s spiritual wave was unique and different, and the user’s individual, specialized powers basically rejected each other’s, so the extent to which users could combine their powers was to avoid causing direct opposition.

However, there was a very rare, special case between twins in which their individual spiritual waves coincided and resonated perfectly, allowing spiritual waves to have an added effect and to execute advanced techniques. Martial artists and mages who could attain this resonance could generate overwhelming spiritual waves and advanced formations.

Ting!

When about half of the hundreds of Masters tuned into the resonance of the Smashing Vajra Formation, a huge wedge-shaped wave pressed the surroundings and spread out. Regrants whistled after feeling the force, which cracked the stone stairway he was standing atop of, emanating from the formation.

“Oh, it’s the resonance synchro function. Jenica was always complaining about how hard it was to fine tune and implement it, but it seems she finally succeeded!”

The Masters, no, all the DIO users including Masters, were able to synchronize with each other’s spiritual powers, just like what a small percentage of twins could do. Even abilities in areas that could never be mixed, such as magic and divine power, resonated in a way that didn’t harm each individual user, so as long as one learned the method and implemented it correctly, one could resonate with another and maximize the formation’s output power.

In other words, the more users there were, the stronger the output force.

Whoosh!!

It was the same kind of spiritual pressure that oppressed Mahashah, the transcendent figure who attacked Starting in the past. However, at that time, the average level of the users was low, so the users were able to suppress and overwhelm Mahashah through sheer numbers, but now, the average level of the gathered users, albeit a small number, reinforced the overall spiritual pressure to a considerable force. Above all, Arthur, the strongest swordsman and a member of the Heaven above the Heavens, was located at the center of the Smashing Vajra Formation, so the formation’s overall force was heightened to the extreme.

‘So intense and powerful… if I stand in front of it, no, if I became the formation’s target, I wouldn’t be able to escape and would surely die,’ Merlin thought.

Merlin groaned inwardly while generating magic in the back half of the formation, but Regrants laughed while watching the spiritual wave rushing at him like a tidal wave.

“Just what are you all planning to do…?”

Boom!

As Regrant’s hands cut through the air, as if shooing pestering insects away, the spiritual wave, which had been rushing at him like a tsunami, instantly dispersed, and nearly fifty players bounced in all directions like bowling pins hit by a bowling ball. The move was done in an instant, so the users didn’t even have time to scream. The entire scene seemed unreal, like a movie using low-quality CG effects.

“Cry, Alistar! Pulverize!”

Once Leighann yelled out his spell chant, the ground trembled, and everything on the ground bounced off into the air like fired bullets. The force was so powerful that the steel podium located in the field shot high into the air in an instant and soon looked like a dot in the sky.

Crack!

However, Regrants flew right in front of Leighann and broke the defensive magic barrier that protected Leighann’s body. Regrants had easily resisted the upward force exerted by Leighann’s spell and crossed through the empty space to attack Leighann.

“Darkness, illusory dreams, eternity, destruction, isolation, and humanities… open.”

“O-oh my God! Adalcha is simultaneously opening five concepts?!”

Not caring whether the chakra users, who were watching from a distance, screamed with astonishment or not, Adalcha emitted a plume of darkness spiritual qi as he opened his chakra concepts. The huge power he created already had a designated target, so he didn’t even need to hit it.

“Cruel Nightmare Hall.”

Adalcha’s inner microcosm world opened as Adalcha activated his pinnacle destructive attack, an attack which plunged the target into a nightmare that repeated forever, eventually leading to ruin. As long as a target range was specified, the chakra attack was powerful enough to put hundreds of thousands of people to death.




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