Chapter 146:
A crushing silence filled the decoy castle as the Hydra's golden eyes glead with uncontained amusent. The Phoenix Vanguard stood frozen, their minds scrambling to process what had just been revealed.
They weren't here to assassinate Maou-sama.
They had walked into a trap.
They had been tricked.
Tricked by what they had dead mindless beasts.
And in front of them was the predator
The predator was standing before them had no intention of letting them go.
Like they chew toys.
Like they were re cannon fodder.
The Hydra's massive fra coiled lazily around the throne room, his seven heads shifting fluidly, each one carrying an expression of either amusent, condescension, or sheer boredom. He wasn't worried. He wasn't threatened.
This was a ga.
And they were his toys.
They were just playthings.
iyo's breath was steady, but her mind raced. We need a plan.
They had strength, but strength wouldn't be enough—not when they were fighting sothing so beyond their understanding.
From what she knew the Hydra.
The hydra was at minimum a 12th dinsional boss level beast.
That ranked it higher the pest monsters race that the Sky Hawk and Lava Dire wolf that attacked the kingdoms years ago on thier birthday. All though those beast can still grazes. They could not.
But why did the monster call them 12th dinsional before.
They had not transcended that far like the noble clan heirs the Celestial Vangauard Academy allowed them to take a 5th Dinsional combat trial not 12th.
Could the Hydra have been mistaken.
No it knew sothing but what?
No matter.
Now was not the ti for thinking.
Now was the ti to survive.
Beside her, Kouki cracked his knuckles, his eyes burning with fury. "I don't care what you are." His aura flared, golden and crimson energy rippling around him as his mana surged. The Omni Energy he had converted into magic gathered in thick waves, forming intricate golden-red magic circles in the air. "You're still going to die like the rest of those filthy demons."
The Hydra blinked once, unimpressed. Then, he let out a low chuckle. "Oh? You think you're the first arrogant prince I've t?" His middle head tilted slightly, lips curling into a sneer. "Do you truly believe you can harm ?"
Kouki's fist clenched. "Shut up."
Without warning, he moved.
'Pheonix Aura' He thought using the kingdoms exxclusive technique for royal. Phoenix Aura gave him phoenix flas which gave passive regeneration and fla aura that can lt all.
Faster than thought, golden flas surrounded him. He then willed the flaming aura near his feet and the flas from the phoenix aura exploded from beneath his feet, launching him forward in a blur of speed that allowed him to travel infinite distance instantly that shattered the stone beneath him. His form blinked out of existence for a fraction of a second before he reappeared above the Hydra's leftmost head, his fist cocked back.
"Phoenix flaming fist" He yelled.
The impact was instant.
A crack like thunder roared through the room as Kouki's punch connected. Golden-red flas erupted, swallowing the Hydra's face in a torrent of destruction. The castle trembled, cracks splintering across the walls as the sheer force of the blow threatened to bring the entire place down.
But then—
The flas parted.
The Hydra's head hadn't even budged.
Kouki's eyes widened in horror.
Before he could even react, the Hydra's tail whipped through the air faster than light, slamming into Kouki's side like a divine hamr.
BOOM.
Kouki's body was sent hurtling across the throne room, his form crashing through seven stone pillars before he slamd into the far wall, the impact creating a deep crater that spider-webbed through the castle's foundation.
His vision blurred. Pain. His ribs scread, his breath completely stolen from his lungs. His fingers twitched. He tried to push himself up. He couldn't.
The Hydra tilted his head, disappointed. "Is that it?"
"Pathetic and you ca to kill Maou-Sama" it added.
Akari snapped.
"You bastard—!!"
She vanished.
In the blink of an eye, she was at Kouki's side, then above the Hydra, her hand outstretched.
She was knew she was being foolish
She was not using her clans abilities of soul bonding instead just fire beams of Manan like a angry beast.
But this was personal.
Her Kouki-Kun was hurt.
Her body moving on its owns.
A massive golden magic circle materialized above the throne room, engraved with ancient runes pulsing with raw mana. A beam of pure destruction tore through the ceiling, an unrelenting cascade of golden light surging down like the wrath of the heavens.
The castle shook. The air scread.
The Hydra's middle head sighed.
And then—
His tail flicked.
Not at Akari. Not at the attack.
At the air itself.
The golden light simply... ceased.
Not absorbed. Not blocked. Erased.
From re presence and air pressure of the tails flick.
Akari had only a second to process before a single claw gently tapped her stomach.
And then—
Silence.
Her body crumpled. The mont the Hydra's claw touched her, every nerve in her body shut down. She collapsed like a lifeless doll, hitting the ground hard.
Kaito saw his chance.
This was it.
He had to act.
Not just to win.
To prove himself. To show Akari she had been wasting her ti on Kouki.
A pulse of red energy erupted from Kaito's core as he spread his arms, his magic circles doubling, tripling, forming a massive latticework of intertwining spells.
The entire castle rumbled.
Blood magic.
A technique forbidden for its sheer inhumanity.
Kaito smirked, twisting his fingers as the very air cracked. "You might be strong, but even you can't regenerate if I erase your blood."
The Hydra stared at him. And then...
He laughed.
Kaito's heart dropped.
The Hydra's middle head grinned.
"Oh, you poor, poor child."
Then—
Kaito's magic shattered.
Not countered. Not dispelled.
Just... ignored.
His own spell rejected him.
It was like watching a storybook character trying to stab soone in the real world.
The Hydra's golden eyes glead with mockery. "How does it feel?" His voice dripped with amusent. "To be less than fiction?"
iyo's breath caught.
She understood.
He's not in their dinsionality.
This was the first sign.
Maou-sama's forces weren't just stronger.
They were smarter.
"Everyone—fall back!" iyo commanded, her voice sharp, absolute. "Only Kouki and I can fight him."
If what the Hydra said was true.
And that Kouki and her were 12th dinsional like it,
Then only they can fight it.
She didn't believe it.
But it was possible that daddy pulled string to get Kouki and Her into 12th dinsional Combat trial instead of 5th diemnsioanl
Kaito recoiled, eyes flashing with rage. "What? No! I—"
"NOW!"
iyo's Omni Energy flared, a pulse of raw pressure slamming through the room.
Kaito grit his teeth. He hated it.
But he listened.
The others backed away, dragging Akari's unconscious form with them.
The Hydra chuckled. "Oh? You figured it out faster than I thought."
iyo ignored him. She had to focus.
She had to win.
Her body tensed. Her breathing slowed.
The air shifted.
Sothing deep inside her stirred.
Power she had never tapped into.
Power she shouldn't have.
Her crimson eyes flickered—
No.
They changed.
A deep, piercing gold-blue hue.
Sky Hawk.
Her mana surged, the castle trembling beneath the sheer weight of her aura.
The Hydra's amusent vanished.
And for the first ti—
He looked intrigued.
"Now that..." He grinned.
"...is interesting."
The battle wasn't over.
It had only just begun.
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