Chapter 206
Chapter 206
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Translator: Ryuma
Chapter: 206
Chapter Title: Finally Surpassing the Limit Once More
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Number Two, with its mane of blue flames and body of bone.
Number Two possessed one unique trait.
With the manifestation of that trait, Number Two's mane shifted to the color of black flame and blazed fiercely.
"Hiiiing!"
As the black flames roared, a completely different aura poured forth from Number Two.
This black flame was none other than Krash's own.
Number Two's unique trait.
It allowed the mount to share the exact same powers as its rider.
In other words...
'Excel.'
The silhouettes of both Number Two and Krash blurred simultaneously.
In that instant, the starlight beam fired by the Reverse Night Star streaked past their position.
This high-heat starlight was a beam of destruction that erased everything it touched.
But Number Two, now sharing Krash's skill Excel identically, evaded it with ease.
Clack-clack-
The sound of hooves striking the ground echoed.
Number Two, empowered by Krash's strength, neighed contentedly as if reveling in the sensation.
"Number Two, from now on, all the dodging is yours."
"Neigh."
Number Two neighed in response.
With Krash's Excel and Annihilation Flame Erosion at its disposal, Number Two could surely evade the Reverse Night Star's attacks.
Thus, Krash entrusted his life entirely to Number Two.
Instead, Krash's eyes slowly closed.
He had entered a state of deep focus.
'Annihilation Heaven Asura alone won't defeat the Reverse Night Star.'
During the initial ambush.
Using Annihilation Heaven Crescent Flower, Krash had severed three of the Reverse Night Star's wings.
It was undoubtedly a favorable blow.
Yet precisely because of that, Krash was certain.
Annihilation Heaven Asura alone couldn't bring down the Reverse Night Star.
To extract the Four Seasons from it, he had to utterly crush the beast.
And for that, Annihilation Heaven Asura fell far short.
Especially since the Reverse Night Star, now transformed into starlight, possessed strong immunity to physical attacks.
Damage would naturally be halved.
'So I need to ramp up the output even more.'
White smoke began to billow from Krash's mouth.
Influenced by Nox, his hair darkened once more to ink-black.
Annihilation Heaven Asura was a technique that forcibly broke through the limit line by adding an instant reinforcement elixir to the Annihilation Flame Asura state.
Then, he simply needed to surpass that limit line once again.
Fwoosh-
Deep within Krash's core.
Ignis, burning the World Erosion, blazed violently under Annihilation Flame Erosion.
The roaring flames filled his body, igniting everywhere.
This intense blaze had become all too familiar to Krash by now.
Beneath the unending night sky, already shrouded in darkness.
Krash's night grew even denser with shadow.
A night where not even an inch ahead was visible.
Then, one by one, stars began to appear in that night sky.
They were the Heavenly Death Stars.
And the moment all seven stars hung in the sky.
The seven stars each poured forth their starlight.
Thump!
With that, Krash's output surged once more.
The inherent power of the Heavenly Death Stars had amplified the World Erosion's might even further.
Cold sweat beaded on Krash's forehead.
The scorching heat radiated outward, sharply raising the surrounding temperature.
Space around Krash warped visibly.
But this was still far from enough.
Smoke poured from his mouth as Krash ground his teeth.
At the same time, yet another power layered onto his body.
Excel.
The skill that accelerated anything.
It was now applied to the Annihilation Flame Erosion burning within Krash's body.
The flames already raging from the Heavenly Death Stars and World Erosion.
The moment acceleration was added, absurd results began to emerge.
Grrrrrind!
Krash bit down hard enough to shatter his teeth.
The heat pounding through his flesh from within grew ever more intense.
The Annihilation Flame Erosion's blaze had originally circulated rapidly through his body to scorch every corner.
The instant Excel was added to that circulation.
The flames began racing through him at an entirely different speed.
As a result, the fire's power blazed even more fiercely, as if gaining momentum, searing his flesh.
Just as iron is repeatedly tempered countless times to forge a single blade.
Krash's body underwent endless tempering, its output surging ever more violently.
The surrounding air currents began to shift.
The night itself started to distort.
And at that moment, the Reverse Night Star sensed something amiss.
It had been firing starlight beams to kill Number Two and Krash.
Yet now, it felt its own starlight acting strangely.
The steady stream from its hand was gradually being drawn somewhere.
As if a storm had arisen, sucking everything toward its center.
Even the Reverse Night Star's starlight was slowly flowing away.
The Reverse Night Star felt an inexplicable unease.
A sensation it had never experienced since its birth.
As if all its composing starlight would vanish, leading to its own erasure.
This eerie feeling ignited a sense of crisis within the Reverse Night Star.
Sparks crackled from its starlight body.
Its gaze fixed on the boy atop Number Two, quietly with eyes closed.
An intense heat that distorted the surroundings.
That heat grew fiercer, transforming into a single light.
Gazing upon it, the Reverse Night Star recalled why it had been scattering starlight.
Above the unending night sky, something it had never seen since birth.
To witness it, it had continuously sprinkled starlight to illuminate the night.
It was dawn.
The dawn that awakens the night.
The Reverse Night Star yearned for dawn.
But now.
Someone was awakening this night sky.
One emitting a fierce light it could never produce.
Chill!
The Reverse Night Star's starlight scattered wildly.
In that moment of dire foreboding, its starlight began to shine even brighter.
"―――――――――――!"
Unable to vocalize, it unleashed a silent roar, its starlight pouring even more ferociously toward Number Two.
The starlight was like a bombardment.
Thousands of rays splintered, indiscriminately devastating the surroundings.
The fierce barrage dyed the land beneath the night sky.
However, there was something the Reverse Night Star didn't know.
The more Krash's output rose.
The stronger Number Two grew in tandem.
Number Two, spewing intensified black flames, performed acrobatics alongside Excel.
Amid the cascading beams of light, it neighed and dodged every one at high speed.
It was a movement bordering on the divine.
"――――――――!"
The Reverse Night Star raged further, unleashing a torrent of light spears at Number Two.
But the more it did, the more defiantly Number Two accelerated.
The Reverse Night Star's assaults and Number Two's evasions repeated endlessly.
And atop that Number Two.
Krash's body continued surpassing limit after limit.
The Annihilation Flame Erosion's heat now blazed hot enough to cloud his mind.
Amid heat so intense a single slip could shatter his sanity.
'More.'
Krash was still pushing his output higher.
'More!'
Surpassing limits beyond limits.
That alone filled Krash's mind.
To break that limit, he had to employ his utmost measure.
In that instant, pure white frost overflowed atop Krash's body.
It was the Cursed Frost Fang.
To forcibly expand his physical limits.
To endure the heat, he borrowed the Frost Fang's power.
Thanks to it, the cooled interior of his body could now draw forth even greater heat.
Before long, the night sky brimmed with black flame.
Within that storm-like black flame.
As if placing the final punctuation.
Crunch-
The instant reinforcement elixir shattered in Krash's mouth.
Fwoosh!
The roaring flames enveloped his entire body in a flash.
Finally, having surpassed the limit of limits, Krash's body reached an entirely new realm.
The stage beyond Annihilation Heaven Asura.
Amid the blazing black flames.
A pair of crimson eyes gleamed vividly.
Annihilation Heaven Rakshasa.
The new realm Krash had tenaciously breached by surpassing the limit line.
Facing it, an unprecedented sense of crisis struck the Reverse Night Star's mind.
It was a realm so absurd it instilled dread even in a 9-star Erosion Beast.
Yet, proving its dominion as a 9-star Erosion Beast was no lie.
The Reverse Night Star spread its arms wide.
If escape was impossible, then kill the foe.
To embody that simple truth, parts of its starlight arms and body began to disintegrate.
The remaining starlight converged into a single point of light.
Before the Reverse Night Star.
A small orb of starlight formed.
But this starlight orb held power on a wholly different level.
Devouring surrounding space, it endlessly absorbed light, visibly dangerous at a glance.
Whether aware or not.
A sheath of lightning formed around Krash's Thunderclap.
Within it gathered black flame power incomparable to before.
Even the black flames inside the sheath accelerated under Excel's influence.
In this state, Krash lacked confidence to even reach the Reverse Night Star and swing his sword.
He couldn't take a single step.
"Number Two."
But here, one stood ready to serve as his legs.
Unfazed by the Reverse Night Star's starlight orb, Number Two twisted its body and charged.
Its speed built acceleration, whipping the wind as it closed the distance.
Krash gripped Thunderclap tightly in response.
His arms and entire body trembled.
The black flame power in the lightning sheath felt heavier than ever, threatening to slip from his grasp.
Krash clenched Thunderclap desperately.
"Give it everything you've got."
With those gasped words, Excel surged over Number Two once more.
Spewing black flames, Number Two accelerated to invisibility.
In that accelerated world.
The Reverse Night Star's orb of light finally completed.
In an instant, all surrounding light condensed toward it.
The amassed light erupted like a star's final supernova.
Number Two charged straight into that exploding starlight without hesitation.
It had entrusted everything to Krash.
Abella trusted Krash.
A servant would never doubt their master's trust.
Before the exploding starlight.
For some reason, all sound vanished for Krash, and even light seemed to slow.
The surroundings appeared stark white.
The violently spinning Excel, on the verge of overload, had accelerated even his thoughts.
In that accelerated mind, atop a serene lake.
A single droplet fell slowly to mark the end.
The moment that droplet touched the lake's surface in Krash's heart.
Ripples spread across the entire lake.
At the ripple's center, boiling water surged upward.
The moment the geyser reached the edge of his consciousness.
Crack!
The lightning sheath containing Krash's black flames finally cracked and shattered.
Fwoosh-
The belated roar of black flames filled the air.
Witnessing it firsthand, the Reverse Night Star saw a blood-red moon rise above Krash's head.
That red moon shone so brilliantly it evoked the dawn the Reverse Night Star so desperately sought.
"――――!"
A soundless thunderclap roared from the Reverse Night Star's maw.
And encompassing that roar and the starlight explosion, black flame descended upon the world.
The extended black flame tore through the starlight blast and finally reached the Reverse Night Star.
In that instant, Number Two and Krash pierced through the black flame inferno, reflecting in the Reverse Night Star's eyes.
Despair at defeat and Krash's unyielding resolve to victory crossed paths.
"Rest now."
With those words, the overheated sword thrust forward explosively.
Annihilation Flame ErosionSix Forms
⟨ Annihilation Heaven Raksha Flame ⟩
The Rakshasa's black flames engulfed the Reverse Night Star.