Chapter 147:
The air was thick with tension, the weight of the failed mission, her failed plan, her bringing her friends into danger with her overconfidence pressing down on every fiber of iyo's being. The Hydra's golden eyes glead in the dim light of the throne room, unblinking, unbothered, almost... amused. Like this entire encounter was nothing but a ga to him.
iyo's breathing was steady, calculated. But her mind? It was racing. She had known the mont they stepped into this castle that sothing was wrong, but this? This was worse than anything she could have anticipated.
She should have know that Maou-Sama would not be as easily beaten as she planned.
What was she thinking if Shin-Sama could not defeat Maou-Sama then how could they re heirs.
This was her fault.
She got her friends
she got her brother
and more importantly she got her Hakashi-kun in this ss.
So she had to do sothing.
And what was that soemthing get them out.
After all if that disgracful beast Noboru can almost kill Maou-Sama who's above dinsionality itself along with the founding king Shin-Sama and his brother who were equally as strong to the point they needed to seal him in a prison with a forbidden technique then she should be able to beat this damn pet Hydra of Maou-Sama
However as kuch as she hated to admit it.
The Hydra was toying with them. He wasn't even trying.
Her fingers curled into fists, her nails biting into the flesh of her palms as she pushed all unnecessary thoughts aside. Focus. Focus. Focus.
Her eyes, once purely crimson, had shifted into sothing deeper—golden with flecks of blue, a piercing radiance that had never been there before. She didn't notice. She didn't have ti to. But the Hydra did.
"My My Little princess. I am Curious. You have my curiosity," the Hydra mused, his middle head tilting slightly as he observed her. "You, child, are different."
iyo didn't respond. She moved.
Mana surged through her body, Omni Energy already converted into pure magic. Her 5th dinsional magic, strength speed and everything buffed by the Sy Hawk to 12th dinsional level Her entire form blurred, vanishing from sight for an instant before reappearing directly above the Hydra, magic circles forming mid-air beneath her feet, boosting her forward like platforms of light.
Her blade—ford entirely of condensed energy—flashed as she brought it down in a clean arc, slicing toward one of the Hydra's seven heads.
A direct hit.
Or so she thought.
The mont her blade connected, an earsplitting clang echoed through the air, a shockwave rippling outward from the impact.
The Hydra hadn't moved.
However irs scale was pierced.
Not to the scale where it would be a threat but to a point where her attack ws considered 12th dinsional anything less even an 11th dinsional attack would be re fiction.
iyo's strike had landed—her magic-enhanced blade colliding with his obsidian scales—yet there was but a a scratch.
Her eyes widened. Impossible.
The Hydra's lips curled into a grin. "Oh, that hurt a little."
With a lazy flick of his tail, the entire space distorted. A rush of force slamd into iyo before she could react, sending her hurtling backward, crashing through the pillars of the throne room.
Stone shattered, the sheer force of her impact sending tremors through the castle's foundation. Dust filled her lungs, her vision montarily flickering, her body screaming in protest.
She gritted her teeth, forcing herself up. Her fingers dug into the cracked floor, pushing past the pain.
She could hear it. The Hydra's laughter.
No. I won't lose here.
Mana surged again, golden-red magic circles forming instantly beneath her. Her body flickered, vanishing in a burst of speed.
This ti, she moved unpredictably.
She zigzagged mid-air, magic circles materializing beneath her feet as she propelled herself in random, rapid directions, never staying still for more than a fraction of a second.
The Hydra's heads followed her movents, his amusent deepening. "Ah, you are an intelligent little one."
But intelligence wasn't enough.
iyo knew that.
She needed to break through.
Her mind worked at rapid speed, analyzing every microsecond, every failed attack, every tiny detail. The Hydra's scales were—
Thicker than anything she had ever encountered.
Dense. Compact. Almost impenetrable.
Almost.
Her eyes sharpened.
If she couldn't cut through them
since even being equal dinsionality those scales is like 3rd dinsional kitchen knife trying to cut diamond.
She would break them.
iyo's magic flared. This ti, she didn't aim for a clean slash. She twisted mid-air, gathering montum, her blade shifting—its energy fluctuating, condensing, changing form.
Her blade of magic flickered—no, it shrank, growing thinner, sharper, the very molecules compressing under the sheer pressure of her will.
She wasn't trying to cut anymore.
She was trying to shatter.
She shot forward, faster than before, pushing beyond her own limits.
And—
CRACK.
The Hydra's eyes widened ever so slightly as a faint line ford across one of his scales.
For the first ti—sothing had broken.
Silence.
The Hydra blinked.
Then—
He laughed.
"Fascinating," he rumbled, his seven heads all focusing on her now. "You are weaker than . Far, far weaker than . Even with whatever you are using to temproarily beco 12th dinsional"
His grin widened.
"And yet, you can hurt ."
iyo landed, her breathing ragged, her blade still glowing in her grip. She knew. She knew she couldn't win this fight alone. But she could do sothing more important.
She could make this monster take her seriously.
She steadied herself, ignoring the burning in her limbs, the exhaustion creeping into her body.
The Hydra humd, amusent flickering in his golden eyes. "Interesting. you have the power of A re pest-class beast of the 12th dinsion... and yet, you hold intelligence beyond what a Sky Hawk should."
iyo's breath hitched.
Pest-class?
Aky hawk?
What was he talking about?
Noboru was the Sky Hawk and Lava Dire Wolf combined she and Kouki were normal.
No matter that.
Was that all she was to him?
No.
Fuck him.
And Fuck his statent.
The Hydra was trying to confuse her.
Her jaw clenched. "Shut up and fight."
The Hydra grinned. "Oh, I will."
And then—
Everything changed.
The Hydra moved.
No. He didn't move.
He ceased being in one place and simply existed in another, his massive form reappearing in an instant right before her.
iyo's pupils dilated— No ti to react—
A single swipe.
Pain.
White-hot, blinding pain.
She barely had ti to register the claw tearing through her before she was sent flying—her leg pierced straight through, blood spilling into the air as her body slamd into the farthest wall of the throne room with a sickening crack.
She scread.
Not just from pain.
From anger. From humiliation.
She hit the ground, hard, her leg completely mangled, the bone exposed, blood pooling beneath her.
The Hydra exhaled in satisfaction, his grin never fading.
"Now that," he mused, "was fun."
iyo's vision blurred, her breath uneven. Her fingers twitched against the cold stone. She tried to move. She couldn't.
No.
No.
No.
She refused to go down like this.
She refused.
But the pain—
It was too much.
Her head tilted slightly, her gaze flickering toward the others—toward Kouki.
He had been watching.
And he had snapped.
Kouki's entire body trembled, his golden-crimson aura warping into sothing wild, uncontrollable. His breathing was ragged, his fists clenched so tightly that blood dripped from his palms.
His sister.
His pride.
His everything.
Was in agony.
And that was unacceptable.
A growl rumbled deep in his throat, his vision tinted red, his mind clouded with sothing darker, sothing ancient.
Sothing that wasn't his.
And yet, it was.
Fire surged through his veins, but it was different from before. It wasn't just his Phoenix Aura—it was sothing primal, sothing raw.
His Eye turned into that of a wolf with Lava style slits.
Sothing hungry.
The Hydra's golden eyes flickered toward him, intrigued.
And then—
He grinned.
"Oh other one awakens his power... this is going to be interesting."
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