Chapter 265: You Are Very Weak
Hearing Asagiri's words, the flames surrounding the two Fire Clad Believers burned even more fiercely. Their color shifted toward a deep crimson, and the temperature in the lobby rose sharply.
At that moment, one phrase fit the situation perfectly.
"You must attack the minion with Taunt first."
Asagiri seemed to feel that one sentence was not enough to provoke them, so he added with an indifferent smile.
"Even your so called God is just boasting. A powerful Cursed Entity claiming to be a God? There is only one God in this world, and that is me, the God of Abstraction and Harem."
"You bastard... you dare blaspheme God!"
The faces of the two Fire Clad Believers twisted beyond recognition. Their bodies shot toward Asagiri like comets trailing brilliant tails of flame.
"Boom!"
A burst of fire erupted in the lobby. Mr. Ichikawa's team and the other Players could not help but pale.
Did that mysterious Player in black... die just like that?
But in the next second, Asagiri's voice came from the other side.
"How weak. Why are you so weak? It's because your anger and hatred toward me are still nowhere near enough."
The two Fire Clad Believers stood in the sea of fire and turned around. When they saw Asagiri still standing there unharmed, surprise appeared on their faces.
"A cultist... with the ability to swap positions with a summoned creature...?"
The second before the two Fire Clad Believers struck him, Asagiri had activated Kings Gambit and switched places with the Human Asura.
[Your Persona, Human Asura, has been destroyed. The characteristic "Regeneration of the End" has activated. Flame and Sacred resistance have increased.]
Through Regeneration of the End, Asagiri understood the essence of the flame power controlled by the two Fire Clad Believers.
It was similar to his Holy Cross, a mixed attack of Sacred attribute and Flame attribute. The difference was that Holy Cross was mainly Sacred damage with Flame attribute added, while the power of the two Fire Clad Believers was the reverse. Their main attribute was Flame.
"Is this the evil art developed by your Black Watch...?"
The two Fire Clad Believers slowly walked out of the firelight. The skin on their faces had been ruined by their own flames, making them look like mummies wrapped in fire, hideous and unnatural.
One of them continued walking toward Asagiri, while the other turned his gaze toward Yuuki Asuna and the others. Clearly, he intended to have one believer stall Asagiri while the other took the chance to wipe out the rest of the Players.
"Tch, I'm really being underestimated..."
Yuuki Asuna frowned slightly.
From the enemy's actions, it was obvious that he thought the other Players present, including her, Kato Megumi, and Iwanaga Kotoko, were merely there to fill the numbers. The only one they truly needed to worry about was Asagiri.
For someone with as much pride as Yuuki Asuna, that was deeply unpleasant.
However, although Yuuki Asuna was proud and unwilling to admit defeat, she would not lose her composure because of it. At that moment, she made the correct choice.
"Everyone, don't panic!"
Yuuki Asuna suddenly shouted.
"I'm going to cast a Wind Blessing that can resist flames!"
The Players, including Mr. Ichikawa, were all puzzled.
Wasn't this girl in the crimson cloak clearly a Swordsman? How could she possess a magical Wind Blessing capable of resisting flames?
Just then, the Fire Clad Believer who had been more than ten meters away from Yuuki Asuna flickered and closed the distance at terrifying speed. His right fist was wrapped in scorching flame, and with a fanatical, distorted expression, he smashed it toward her head.
"Hmph. You fell for it..."
In the next second, dozens of pale arms burst from the ground. A massive Pale Ghost Hand emerged from the void, and three black arrows shot toward the Fire Clad Believer at the same time, as if Kato Megumi and Iwanaga Kotoko had predicted his movement in advance.
And that was exactly what had happened.
Yuuki Asuna did possess Wind Blessing, but it was a Wind Blessing that could only be used on herself and her weapon. It had no effect against flames.
But the Fire Clad Believer did not know that.
He believed she truly had such an ability, so he made what he thought was the most correct decision: eliminate the support class first.
The moment Yuuki Asuna said those words, Iwanaga Kotoko and Kato Megumi immediately understood her intent and launched a preemptive strike.
This was the combat synergy between the three girls of the strategy group.
"Got you."
Seeing the pale arms created by Undead Touch successfully grab the Fire Clad Believer's legs, Iwanaga Kotoko confirmed her guess.
From the moment these three Fire Clad Believers had entered the Hotel and started speaking with Asagiri, she had felt something strange.
These guys seemed to be suppressing their own power.
No, more accurately, this flame power did not originally belong to them, so they had to be extremely careful when using it. If they released power beyond their limits, it would likely backlash against them.
That was why, when the Fire Clad Believer attacked Yuuki Asuna and concentrated most of his flames around his right fist, the flame protection around the rest of his body naturally weakened. As a result, the pale arms that could not touch him before were now able to restrain him.
The Pale Ghost Hand's target was precise. It directly seized his burning right arm.
At the same time, the three arrows fired by Kato Megumi struck the Fire Clad Believer's body like black meteors.
The first arrow hit and shattered immediately, unable to pierce even the flames around him.
The second arrow pierced through the flame protection, but the arrowhead only sank shallowly into the Fire Clad Believer's body before turning to ash.
Then the third arrow pierced straight through him, leaving a hole two or three centimeters wide, with flames burning inside.
This was the passive effect of the Bloodstained Nightingale Bow. When it struck the same target repeatedly, the power of each arrow would continue to rise. Unless the target dodged Kato Megumi's shots, even arrows that could not initially cause damage would eventually increase to a terrifying level after consecutive hits.
"Sword Skill..."
"Be careful!"
Just as Yuuki Asuna was about to attack, the flames around the Fire Clad Believer suddenly expanded as if they possessed a will of their own, surging toward her.
Although Yuuki Asuna could not see his true form clearly due to insufficient mental strength, she heard Iwanaga Kotoko's warning. Without hesitation, she interrupted the Sword Skill charge she had been preparing and quickly retreated.
"Crack..."
Under the scorching heat, the hard marble tiles first cracked, then began to melt like mud.
While Yuuki Asuna, Kato Megumi, and Iwanaga Kotoko led the other Players in battle on one side of the lobby, the fight on the other side was even more brutal.
"Boom!"
Asagiri sidestepped a punch from the Fire Clad Believer. In the next instant, when the flames on the enemy's arm lunged toward him, he activated Kings Gambit again and swapped positions with the Human Asura on the other side.
[Your Persona, Human Asura, has been destroyed. The characteristic "Regeneration of the End" has activated. Flame resistance has increased.]
At the same time the Human Asura was destroyed, Asagiri, now shifted to the other side, had already condensed a Cold Frost Spear. He threw it with his right hand, while the black gun shaped summoner in his left hand was already pressed against his temple.
"Persona, Human Asura."
The Fire Clad Believer condensed a shield of flame in front of him, blocking Asagiri's Cold Frost Spear. Even so, the force of the impact drove him several meters backward.
He slowly raised his face, which was now almost completely stripped of skin, the exposed flesh burning with fire. He stared at Asagiri and the Human Asura standing there, then attacked again without saying a word.
In less than a minute, including the most recent strike, the Human Asura had already been destroyed three times.
During the latest destruction, its Sacred resistance did not increase. That was because the Human Asura's resistance had grown high enough to completely nullify the Sacred attribute attached to the flames.
After several rounds, the Fire Clad Believer began to grow anxious.
He had originally thought he could easily kill this "Black Watch Commander," or at the very least gain the upper hand. But reality was far from his expectations.
Asagiri possessed Kings Gambit, and his reflexes, explosive power, and speed far surpassed ordinary humans. His mobility was absurd. Even the flames controlled by the Fire Clad Believer could not keep up with him. And whenever he finally found an opening, Asagiri would instantly swap positions with the Human Asura, then seize the gap created when the believer concentrated his flame power into an attack.
Moreover...
The Fire Clad Believer did not know whether it was his imagination, but he felt as if the black humanoid creature controlled by his opponent was gradually growing stronger.
At first, his flames could melt that humanoid creature outright. But by the latest attack, he had needed to use all his strength just to pierce through it.
"What, are you wavering?"
Seeing that the Fire Clad Believer had stopped attacking and become cautious, Asagiri chuckled lightly.
"Is your faith in your God only worth this much?"
"You..."
As a fervent believer, he naturally could not accept such an insult from Asagiri.
The Fire Clad Believer, who had already sensed something was wrong, completely lost his composure. His body burned with roaring flames as he raised both hands and condensed an enormous fireball, his voice distorted and deranged.
"Die, heretic. Die..."
However, what the Fire Clad Believer did not expect was that this time, the Human Asura charged straight through the fireball.
Although its black body rapidly melted under the unbearable heat, it opened a path.
Only when pain shot through his chest did the Fire Clad Believer belatedly lower his head.
An arm had pierced through his chest.
His beating heart was clenched tightly in that hand.
The Fire Clad Believer raised his head. The flames in the patterns on his face dimmed sharply as he stared blankly into the emotionless pitch black eyes beneath the dark gray mask.
"How... is this possible...?"
"Didn't I tell you?"
Asagiri crushed the enemy's heart in one hand. Watching the Fire Clad Believer's body slowly collapse to the ground, he spoke softly.
"You guys are very weak."
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