Chapter 324: The Dragon Roars!
In Ouma's original prediction, if Stella was strong enough, then he would be able to perfectly achieve his goal.
But if Stella disappointed him, he would not hesitate to crush her head-on and show the girl a higher realm.
He believed that with Stella's talent, as long as her horizons were high enough, she would continue becoming stronger.
However, his conversation with Luke had changed Ouma's thoughts slightly.
His interest, which had originally been focused on Stella, had unknowingly been split away by Luke.
Compared to his battle with Stella, what he actually wanted to know more right now was the result of Luke's battle with Edelweiss.
Although Ouma did not believe Luke could win, there was a faint, inexplicable feeling lingering in his heart.
With that state of mind, when he looked at Stella's all-out attack, which was far weaker than he had imagined, Ouma found himself unable to feel much interest for a moment.
Silently shaking his head, Ouma threw the unnecessary thoughts out of his mind.
Then, he moved.
He gripped his Device with both hands.
It was an odachi with an extremely long blade, far longer than Ikki's Intetsu or Touka's Narukami.
This Device, named Ryuuzume, granted Ouma a natural-interference ability: the power to manipulate wind.
"To be honest, I don't really understand why the Falling Star Sword Emperor would say something like 'I'll leave it to you' to you weaklings."
As Ouma spoke, endless storms began gathering around him.
Although he did not possess Stella's abnormal amount of mana, Ouma's development and excavation of his own ability was far beyond what the current Stella could compare to.
The mana he used was far less than Stella's, yet the force he created shook heaven and earth.
With Ouma's Device, Ryuuzume, raised above his head as the center, the storm instantly formed a massive tornado.
It devoured the surrounding air, rubble, gravel, and even flames.
The hurricane, like a true natural disaster, was compressed, compressed, and compressed again, until it finally formed a sword of storm that could destroy everything.
That was Kurogane Ouma's strongest Noble Art, as well as the signature secret technique of the Wind Sword Emperor.
"Kusanagi!"
Boom—!
The moment the sword of light and flame met the sword of storm, a thunderous explosion rang beside everyone's ears!
The violent clash between two massive area attacks that seemed to pierce heaven and earth instantly blew away everything around them.
Even the other battlefields nearby were affected.
The two giant blades woven from mana stalled in the air, grinding away at each other.
At that moment, aside from Ouma and Stella, who were currently attacking, everyone else made the exact same choice, regardless of faction.
Rescue the people.
Hagun's teachers and students, who had previously been knocked unconscious, were still scattered all over the campus.
Naturally, Ikki, Touka, and the others could not watch them get dragged into this terrifying clash.
The members of Akatsuki Academy, led by Pierrot, made the same decision.
After all, their goal was to replace Hagun Academy, not annihilate it.
It did not matter how many buildings or facilities were destroyed, and it did not matter how many people were injured.
But there absolutely could not be any deaths.
Once someone died because of this, it would no longer be a competition-related incident, but a vicious terrorist attack.
No matter how powerful the client who hired them was, even they would not be able to completely overturn such a situation.
Moreover, their original goal was to take back the right to train Blazers from the League.
The teachers and students of Hagun Academy were still people of the this country.
No one present was weak.
With everyone moving together, Hagun's teachers and students were quickly moved away.
And it was exactly at that instant that the light-flame blade and storm blade, which had been locked in a stalemate, began to change.
Once all the people in the way had disappeared, Ouma, who had been holding back and deliberately maintaining the stalemate, suddenly increased his mana output.
Boom—!
The violent hurricane instantly swelled.
The standoff between the sword of light and flame and the sword of storm finally collapsed.
Whoosh—!
The raging wind suppressed the flames.
Driven by the wind, the aftermath formed a storm of fire that swept across the surroundings.
Everyone stared in shock at this clash of ultimate techniques that had surpassed the ordinary dimension.
This level of power was a terror that normal Blazers might never even touch the edge of in their entire lives.
'N-No way!'
Stella gritted her teeth and desperately pushed with both arms.
From the other side of the strength she had always been proud of came a pressure the girl had never felt before.
Luke rarely used this kind of pure power-type sword technique.
That was related to his former state.
Before experiencing the Dungeon world, Luke's physical ability had always been his weakness.
That had also created his high-speed fighting style, which focused on breaking through a point.
But Ouma was different.
Having believed in strength above all else since birth, many of his techniques were power-type sword techniques that attacked head-on.
It was not that Ouma was stronger than Luke.
But at least in terms of surface impression, the strength Ouma displayed was far more shocking.
Stella's entire body creaked, and her feet slowly sank into the ground.
With Stella as the center, cracks began spreading across the asphalt road.
'I'm actually… losing in strength?'
Experiencing this feeling for the first time, Stella found it difficult to believe.
Even Luke could only evade or cut apart her ultimate techniques when facing them.
Suppress them head-on?
Stella had never even considered such a thing.
She was the person with the world's greatest amount of mana!
The perfect cross painted by light, heat, and storm gradually collapsed.
Then, in the next instant…
Bang—!
The light blade of Katharterio Salamandra shattered with a loud sound.
Immediately after, Kusanagi, which had not weakened in the slightest, slammed directly into Stella.
Boom—!
The storm blade destroyed everything in its path.
From top to bottom, school buildings, training grounds, roads, and even rubble ceased to exist.
Along that enormous sword scar stretching beyond the limits of sight, it was as though all things had vanished.
The mark looked as though it had been gouged open by a massive Dragon Claw.
If a human took that attack directly, they would probably…
No!
Ikki, whose eyes were sharpest, was the first to clearly see the figure standing in the center of that gigantic scar.
Immediately after, a strange sense of presence suddenly rose.
Everyone realized that the situation had changed.
For the first time, a grave expression appeared on Ouma's face.
Standing inside that sword pit was none other than Stella, who should have collapsed.
The girl lowered her head and stood quietly on the ground.
There was not a single visible injury anywhere on her body.
Then, in the next instant…
Stella suddenly raised her head and stared fixedly at Ouma in front of her.
From her mouth came an earth-shaking roar.
"Rooooooaaar—!"
That was a dragon's roar!
Boom—!
A violent shockwave exploded outward in an instant.
Pressure.
Presence.
Shockwave.
And an extreme high temperature swept across the surroundings all at once.
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