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D.I.O - Chapter 221

Published at 18th of March 2023 06:46:58 AM


Chapter 221

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Boom!

As Regrants’ image faded away, Adalcha’s right arm exploded like a bursting balloon, and Thousand Scents, who had initiated an attack on Regrants from behind, bounced off like a ball hit by a bat, and shot towards the school building. The four-sided defensive barrier, which always guarded her body, blocked Regrants’ blow, so she didn’t sustain any injury; however, she had been blown away.

“What… how did you stop my Cruel Nightmare Hall attack? It’s impossible to defend against!”

Seeing Adalcha’s exasperated expression, Regrants laughed and pointed his finger at his own head.

“Oh, that? I did get caught by it. Right here.”

“You split your mind… you only experienced a part of Cruel Nightmare Hall?”

“Right. By the way, you have a unique taste… if I say so myself, your taste seems a bit perverse.”

Boom!

As Regrants grinned, Thousand Scent’s body, which had been blown away from his recent attack, collided against the school building, caused the entire five-story high school building to be smashed into pieces, and created a huge crater underneath the rubble. Though the explanation of everything that unfolded seemed drawn out and complicated, all of this happened in just a few seconds after the users first started attacking.

Rumble!

Regrants, who was about to launch a successive attack on Thousand Scents, was blocked by Lionel, who was wearing a blue fabric all over his body. Every time Lionel and Regrants’ fists collided, space bended and the earth split.

“Oh my! How are we supposed to join this fight? Isn’t this a war amongst gods?”

“Stop crying and get into Return to Heaven Formation! Split into two groups and… huh? This is?”

A blue spherical light fell over the heads of the Masters, who were conversing with each other through a whisper chat function. Though they appeared quiet on the outside, internally, the users had been busy shouting at each other.

“Damn it!”

Taken aback, Merlin grabbed Arc and Youngmin by their shoulders and teleported across space. In an instant, their bodies were moved to a residential area more than a kilometer away from the battlefield.

Boom!

The 30 or so users who couldn’t avoid the light-based attack were ‘erased’ without even having the chance to scream. Since the light sphere attack had a radius of a few hundred meters and arrived in an instant, only a few users survived the attack; The only ones who escaped the spherical light attack was Merlin, Arc, Youngmin, Jeros, who was able to teleport through space like Merlin and his group, and Cruze, who shot out of the spherical light’s range like a bullet.

“I guess he’s not going to allow us to comfortably watch and engage. Come out, Requiem!”

With a cry, Cruze kicked off the ground and jumped up, and soon, golden spiritual qi gathered in the air and covered her body. Right after she jumped up, in less than 0.1 seconds, she was aboard a Gigas, a gigantic 15-meter-tall bipedal mech weapon.

“What is that bro? Is that some sort of materialization that aura power users can use?”

At Youngmin’s question, Merlin shook his head.

“No, it’s her flying shuttle. Well, since she designed and customized it herself, at this point, I guess it can no longer be called a traditional flying shuttle.”

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Of course, there were essential requirements for all flying shuttles of a certain level or higher, such as space flight and atmospheric escape. However, the remaining functions of Cruze’s flying shuttle were focused solely on combat, so her flying shuttle probably couldn’t cross galaxies and instantly move between solar systems.

Soon, the resurrected users reappeared and started commenting.

“Oh, the flying shuttle isn’t restricted by the civilization level limitation! Come out, Gust of Wind!”

“Satelli!”

“Ugh! I think I’d just be wasting my energy if I summon my flying shuttle. My flying shuttle isn’t built for close combat.”

“I don’t even have a flying shuttle! Since we’re attacking our target from a long distance, let me board one of your flying shuttles!”

The battle was fierce, so it was literally impossible to know when one would lose one’s life. For users, death in DIO was an annoyance rather than something to fear. Moreover, in the current mission, the death penalty had been removed, and one could resurrect up to three times, so the users could focus solely on combat.

Bam! Boom! Ting!

The confrontation between Regrants and the four Grand Masters was fiercely unfolding. The 30 or so remaining melee-based Masters, who were in a Smashing Vajra Formation with Arthur at the center, constantly checked Regrants after he swept away the Valiant Heavenly City’s Holy Land ruler, Lionel, who had grabbed onto Regrants ankle before being flung away. If Regrants was able to use his full strength properly, he could wipe out the users’ formation at once, but since he was being attacked by the four Grand Masters, he was only able to hold his position by avoiding or deflecting the various attacks flung at him.

“Evidence of transcendence, burning flames…”

Merlin analyzed the battle of the transcendents and absorbed everything he could while Arc quietly chanting something next to him. Knowing that the principles of the Black Yak school of thought, which she chose to train in, relied on extreme stability, she chose to become a battle mage who specialized in a defensive form of martial arts, namely, No Thoughts Gold String Technique. Hence, she was able to engage in fierce combat while performing her spell chant.

‘It’s a completely different path from Jeros.’

Though non-mages wouldn’t understand what was different, the truth was that Arc and Jeros were practitioners of the same Black Yak school of thought. Black Yak’s standardized characteristics, which were formed on absolute stability, could be personalized to suit each practitioner. Thus, Arc went down the path of utilizing defense while in combat while Jeros focused on building huge magic formations based on the Black Yak’s solid stability principles.

Ting!

“Hmm?”

But at that moment, a strong ripple spread out from Arc’s body. Unconsciously, Merlin flinched after feeling the qi waves, but before he could say anything, a loud noise rang out from behind him.

Bang!

When Merlin turned his head to check where the noise was coming from, he saw Regrants holding a huge bullet in one of his hands. Regrants smiled as he looked at Cruze, who was seated in a gigantic Gigas a considerable distance away from him.

“If this hits me, will it do anything?”

[…]

Cruze, who had been firing non-stop with the built-in railgun on her Requiem flying shuttle, was shouting, ‘Oh man, all these bullets are useless if it doesn’t hit him!’, before she momentarily flinched and hesitated. Though she knew there was a considerable difference in power between her and Regrants, she never expected that Regrants, who looked like an average middle-aged human man, would be able to snatch her materialized flying shuttle’s railgun bullets with his bare hands. Moreover, Regrants didn’t even put up a defensive barrier around him.

[Fine then. Have a taste of this! Operate Divine Weapon! Crown of Nihility!]

Though it wasn’t observable from the outside, a brilliantly shining white crown was placed on Cruze’s head after she called out for her Divine Weapon. It was a Master weapon that instantly amplified her memory capacity. With the Crown of Nihility, she could amplify her memory to a petabyte (1 million gigabytes), so she could materialize things that she could not even dream of materializing normally.

[Operate Limited Arms! Burst! Genocider!!]

A large, 15-meter-long silver weapon was summoned. The weapon looked quite heavy, even in the hands of Requiem, which was quite large. The body of the weapon, which resembled a bazooka with a handle attached to its cylindrical body, began spinning in different directions and made mechanical whirring sounds as soon as it was summoned.

“Huh? Hey, that’s…”

[Since you’re so confident, take this!!]

Ping!

A short beam of light, which looked comparatively shabby for being fired from a large-barreled gun, sped forward at the speed of light towards Regrants. Regrants raised his right hand to defend against the attack.

Whoosh!

At the same time, an enormous amount of energy was felt across the battlefield. The power was enough to make Arc, who had been chanting in a concentrated state, stop for a moment. Also, the Masters, who were operating Smashing Vajra Formation, made shocked expressions as they hurriedly stepped back dozens of meters. Merlin groaned as he realized what type of weapon Cruze had materialized.

“… She materialized an anti-matter cannon?”

“D-damn it, are you crazy!? Why are you using something like that in a confined space where everyone is gathered!” one of the Masters shouted.

“Ahh, damn it! Log out! Log out!”

“Did she lose her mind! Is it such a hopeless situation that she needed to utilize a self-destruction type of attack?”

“No, before that… how did she even materialize an anti-matter cannon?”

Everyone was shocked and taken aback by the unfolding scene, so they tried to escape the area, but unfortunately, logging out took a considerable amount of time. Of course, by using one’s EXP points, one could reduce one’s logout time, but since EXP points could be used in so many other ways, no one really focused on reducing their logout time. It took nearly 10 seconds for even Arthur, who acquired the most EXP points, to log out.

Ting!

Conceptually, antimatter was something opposite to matter, so the moment it combined with matter, it annihilated the matter-based object and converted it into energy. The energy was usually diffused as heat and light, but the problem was that the amount of this newly created energy was so enormous that it was difficult for ordinary people to imagine or contend against.

The energy emitted by antimatter was equal to the mass of the two substances combined, so in theory, antimatter annihilated in pairs. However, in terms of outputted energy, the released energy was equal to 43 billion times the initial input mass. In other words, just 1 gram of antimatter possessed the explosive power of 43,000 tons of TNT, which meant that it could exert more power than a modern nuclear bomb.

‘But wouldn’t the antimatter contained in Cruze’s antimatter bullet be only 1 gram?’

Thinking this far, Merlin reflexively grabbed Arc and Youngmin. He decided to teleport through space and escape the area of destruction radius. The antimatter bomb’s power was certainly staggering, but it was far from enough to blow up an entire planet. Even if an antimatter bomb exploded, if one could travel hundreds or thousands of kilometers from the detonation location…

“Tsk.”

At that moment, Regrants grabbed the antimatter bullet.

Pop!

And with a simple squeeze, the antimatter bomb was extinguished.

[… Huh?]

Cruze groaned. She had used up all her amplified strength to shoot out that single shot, so her Crown of Nihility instantly disappeared. And then, in front of her, a huge palm of strong qi appeared.

Crack!

Not only the Gigas, which was over 15 meters tall, equivalent to that of a five-story building, but also Cruze, who was riding atop the Gigas, was squeezed into the size of a human’s fist. Naturally, it was an instant death for Cruze.

“How… how was he able to extinguish the antimatter bullet so easily? The antimatter bullet should have possessed an unimaginable amount of energy.”

As if hearing Merlin’s groaning voice, Regrants kindly answered.




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