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"Hū......!"
The wind once again swept across this stretch of land.
However, calling it a grassland was no longer appropriate.
The place that had been overgrown with weeds until not long ago now did not have a single blade of grass left.
All that remained was a scorched black wasteland left behind by raging flames, along with ground riddled with holes.
Across this charred earth, crater after crater formed by bombardment spread everywhere, as though countless meteors had struck the land directly , a shocking sight.
But what was truly shocking was not the numerous craters.
Rather, it was a blade mark that seemed to have completely split the earth apart, running through a two-kilometer-wide area like an abyss.
That blade mark was a truly horrifying sight, enough to send chills down one's spine.
Looking carefully, at the far end of that blade mark stood a tall young woman.
Her head was lowered, one hand resting on the hilt of the nodachi at her waist. Her delicate face was hidden beneath her bangs, making her expression impossible to read.
Only that terrifying, gigantic blade scar had landed less than a meter from her side.
So the question arose.
If that blade mark had not fallen there, but had landed directly on the girl's body instead, what would the result have been?
The girl understood this very clearly.
Thus, the overwhelming aura surging from her body like savage floods and fierce beasts had already faded completely, leaving not a trace behind.
Immediately afterward, an incomparably bitter voice sounded from her mouth.
"Did I… lose?"
The girl recalled the scene that had occurred only a second earlier.
It was the scene of two astonishing blade lights tearing through heaven and earth, colliding violently within an interval too short to even be called an instant.
One of those blade lights came from the girl.
It was an attack into which she had poured every ounce of power within her body.
If a mountain had been struck by that blow, it would absolutely have been sliced cleanly in half like butter.
If a fighter jet had been flying at full speed, the strike would absolutely have caught up to it immediately.
A slash that pushed power and speed to their absolute peak.
And yet, it had been shattered on the spot by another slash that was faster and stronger.
As a result, only a single blade mark remained on the battlefield.
Meanwhile, the Shichiten Shichitou in Kanzaki's hand had broken into two pieces.
Clang!
With a crisp metallic sound, the severed blade of the nodachi finally fell from the sky, stabbing into the ground behind Kanzaki and standing upright there.
Kanzaki gripped the broken hilt of Shichiten Shichitou, raised her head, and looked ahead.
"Hū… hū…"
Over there, Fang Li maintained the posture of sheathing his sword while catching his breath. The pair of ice-blue Mystic Eyes in his eyes quietly faded away, allowing his dark eyes to return.
Those eyes were filled with exhaustion.
"Zheng…"
The light covering Bo Xie's body gradually dimmed. In the end, it could not even maintain its appearance and directly reverted to its inactive form.
This also meant that Fang Li's Prana was likewise on the verge of depletion.
Even so…
In the end, Fang Li had still succeeded.
The ultimate secret art of the Nanaya Assassination Arts.
In the past, it had merely been a technique capable of launching attacks from two directions simultaneously, overwhelming the opponent until they could only be struck by one side.
Later, after Fang Li's modifications, the move still launched simultaneous attacks from two directions, but one side possessed tornado-level destructive power, while the other was executed in conjunction with the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception as a certain-kill strike, combining both attack power and lethality.
And today, Fang Li had once again compressed it completely.
It was an enlightenment born from a sudden flash of inspiration just moments ago.
Kanzaki's Yuisen was a supreme technique capable of unleashing the Saint's power within her body in a split second.
Therefore, using the same principle, Fang Li compressed both the attack power and lethality of the Nanaya Assassination Arts' ultimate secret technique into a single split second, applying the essence of a drawing-sword technique to fuse the two-directional assault into one world-shaking strike.
Thus, this attack was the final form of the Nanaya Assassination Arts, born after incorporating the philosophy of iaijutsu and the concept of one-hit killing.
If the previous 'Extreme Death – Seven Nights' had merely been an improvement, then the current 'Extreme Death – Seven Nights' was an ascension.
Following the high-speed Nanaya and the ultra-fast Seven Nights Curtain, came the 'Extreme Death – Seven Nights' that had reached Godspeed.
The final form of the Nanaya Assassination Arts' ultimate secret technique had finally been born.
Kanzaki's bitterness was only natural.
"The crystallization of generations of effort from the Amakusa-Style Church… and you completed it all by yourself?"
Moreover, it was not a spell or magical technique, only a purely martial combat technique.
Through pure skill alone, Fang Li had created a supreme move equal to, or even surpassing, Yuisen.
Though its essence differed from Kanzaki's Yuisen, its principle and attack produced exactly the same effect.
Most likely, that move also possessed the characteristic of amplifying movement output so that even surpassing the limits of the human body would not destroy the muscles.
Otherwise, after unleashing such an astonishing strike, Fang Li, whose physique was inferior to Kanzaki's, would have already had his arm shattered to pieces.
"In every aspect… I lost to you." Kanzaki smiled bitterly. "I've completely run out of excuses for myself."
And that also meant Kanzaki could not obtain the Book of the Law from Fang Li's hands and save her former companions.
"So in the end…" Kanzaki said with a hint of self-mockery, "the current me can't even protect my former companions anymore?"
Completely and utterly defeated, Kanzaki's heart inevitably sank into dejection.
Looking at such a Kanzaki, Fang Li, who had already steadied his breathing, simply watched her quietly and asked:
"What? Planning to give up?"
Those utterly calm words caused Kanzaki's head to lower once more.
Give up.
She truly had to give up.
If she didn't, then what else could she do?
"From the very beginning, I knew that recklessly leaving the Amakusa-Style meant I no longer had any right to protect them." Kanzaki said quietly. "No matter what kind of danger they encountered, if I interfered, things would only become worse."
Greater power would attract even greater power.
Just like this time, if Kanzaki had intervened to help the Amakusa-Style and repelled the Roman Catholic Church, then the Roman Catholic Church would certainly have dispatched even stronger magicians, causing the incident to escalate continuously, very likely culminating in war.
And past experience had already taught Kanzaki that remaining by the Amakusa-Style's side would only bring them misfortune.
In that case, it would be better if she had never existed there to begin with.
"And yet you still couldn't stand by and do nothing. In the end, you could only think of a method like this: seize the Book of the Law from my hands and return it to the Roman Catholic Church in order to settle this conflict."
Fang Li gazed at Kanzaki and finally let out a sigh.
"There's simply no need to make things that troublesome."
Those words caused Kanzaki to freeze.
Fang Li, however, turned his head and suddenly spoke.
"Alright, you can come out now."
The moment those words fell, silence descended.
Then, several figures slowly walked forward.
Upon seeing one of those figures, Kanzaki reacted in surprise.
"Stiyl?"
And it wasn't only Stiyl.
Sylvia and Index had come as well.
(End Of This Chapter)