Chapter 493: Fighting a Rank 3 Transcendent (2/2)

And lastly Delian with his armor-piercing, blazing arrow showers all aimed at one point.

When he saw the four charging towards him, Longi swung his long sword, meeting Lith's dagger before it could stab him and deflect her. The Pillar Guardian burst in flames to try and burn him before she was sent away but it was like a flicker of a candle when it was blown away by a stronger force.

Kael, who could somehow withstand Avelin's brute force, was then stopped by Longi's leg that kicked in his direction. It created a shockwave that sent the Pillar Guardian away like Lith.

Lan's flurry of spear attacks was either deflected or dodged with precise judgements. When it ended, Longi grabbed her spear and hit her with the blunt end of it.

And lastly, Delian's blazing arrows were met with shards of metal that cut through them. Following that, his position experienced a metallic storm, piercing the Pillar Guardians body by more shards which incapacitated him.

But that's not all, as if he's waiting for it, Longi swung his sword once more, attacking another silhouette that was about to appear in front of him.

”These… Pillars are interesting but they're useless against me.” He confidently said as his sword vibrated loudly that it seemed the whole Virtual Simulation would experience an earthquake and get destroyed by his attack.

What he slashed at was my supposed location. However, what appeared there was my Avatar that instantly disintegrated into a few wisps of energy.

Using that chance that his back was wide open, I instantly appeared behind him, grabbed his head, raised it and slit his neck in one swift motion.

Despite his thick armor that seemed to ooze out with his Ability and Physique-type properties, there's no way he would let himself be restricted by it.

Using that point, his weakness was his neck and the joints connecting the parts of his body.

Longi tried to swing his sword behind him and explode with another outburst of Energy.

However, before that could happen, a colorful Energy Explosion ensued from his neck.

Apart from the Bedevilled Outburst, I layered it with Mastered Aether and other Elemental Spells of five nodes and above, resulting in a firework-like explosion.

During these two weeks, I didn't only focus on completing our pathways, I also focused on expanding my arsenal of skills. Despite having already a lot, I merged some of them to create more diversified and stronger Abilities and Skills.

Alongside Longi's death throes and angst by losing against someone sufficiently weaker than him, the long-nosed Transcendent surely realized this time that… even ants he could defeat easily could also kill him if given the chance.

Well, it was hard to mimic what I did here. However, there would always be an exception in the whole wide Universe.

If I was existing right now, for sure, there were more monstrous individuals out there, even more of a monstrosity than me who was relying on my attainment from my previous life.

Even though my girls were already rejoicing from where they were and they're itching to jump towards me and ask me how I accomplished what I did, Longi, who recovered back to his original state after the false death in this Virtual Simulation, flew back towards me.

”H-how?” He asked, his eyes filled with confusion.

”Don't tell me your memory got hit as well? Nah. That's impossible in this space.”

I shook my head and dismissed that possibility.

”No… I'm aware of how I lost. But how did you bypass every defense I set up?”

Defenses, huh? He meant his compressed Domain and some kind of Force Field being emitted by his armor preventing someone from approaching without him noticing.

”Energy Control,” I smirked and showed him a very precise work I did from wisps of energy existing around us. In less than a second, my Avatar that should be destroyed and needed some time to be created again reformed in front of his eyes.

Well, it's not just Energy Control but also Energy Molding that I picked up from watching my genius Companions.

With his mouth open for a long while, the long-nosed Transcendent eventually lowered his head and bowed in front of me.

”I lost completely. Perhaps if this is the real world, I will be dealt with by you alone in less time you use here.”

That's of course, if we're outside, I wouldn't shy away from using the World's Will's authority. That's my privilege, it's a way not to use every overpowered skill that I have.

”If you want to reach Rank 4 Transcendent, thoroughly pledge yourself to our world. Your subordinates are still not being used as fuel, you still have a chance to redeem them and become another shield for this world. I know your loyalty to your world but you won't have a world to go back to soon enough. This Overworld Serpent your world had joined in… I will dismantle it.”

It was a big word coming from me but as someone who reached the Divine Stage, I wasn't bragging. Given time, I would be able to let that organization kneel in front of me.

They're a small obstacle compared to that Divine World… the Celestial Garden.