Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut - Volume 15 - Chapter 6

Episode 6 – The Beginning of Peace 

 Part 1 

 The old fortress site of the abandoned capital Guernica. 

The long battle surrounding the last Ruin??Avalon was finally going to welcome its end. 

Amidst the mountains of rubble and the dreary scenery that was filled with gunpowder smoke that showed the traces of intense battles, the Seven Dragon Paladins except Lux and Singlen along with Aeril were facing Fugil who was wearing Bahamut. 

Lux was at a distance where he was barely able to witness the battle. 

Lux was listening to that in a state where he was hidden in the shadows of a damaged rampart. 

"Everyone??I want you to lend me your ears for a bit while fighting." 

He could hear the voice of Aeril who was wearing Zahhak. 

She was intentionally using the voice amplification function instead of Dragon Voice surely so that her voice could also reach Lux. 

"I will tell you what I know, about the true function that is hidden in Avalon." 

Like that she told all of them the secret of Avalon. 

The Zero Ruin??Artifact Ouroboros’s true shape, and the special quality of the Divine Raiment Endless. 

It would consume vast energy in order to make all the Ruins resonate, but the power to rewrite the consciousness of all the humans on this continent would be activated in less than ten minutes. 

Therefore, right now they had to defeat Fugil and stop that at all costs. 

"I don’t know how, but it seems that Fugil had once connected with the central. If time passes like this, history will be completely changed by him!" 

Aeril was saying that while holding a certain question in her mind. 

This time, even though Fugil showed no signs of receiving the trials in order to use Avalon, yet he somehow had fulfilled the conditions to do just that. 

Most likely this man had already performed history revision by his own will several times. 

He was in possession of the whole of Avalon and completely controlled the Artifact Ouroboros. 

"Hah! That joke really ain’t funny. You are saying this sissy looking guy has rewritten the world until now? There is a limit even when falling into delusion yeah." 

Cuelebre flew with fierce speed right after Greifer spat that out with exasperation. 

He drew close to Fugil’s Bahamut that was hovering in the air and struck using his Tail Blade with a sharp trajectory. 

"??What an uninspiring man." 

In response, Fugil smiled coldly and blocked it easily with Bahamut’s great sword. 

Tail Blade had joints that looked like a snake’s stomach in its blade that could transform into the shape of a whip. It moved in order to twine around the defending great sword. 

But, when Greifer pulled back the sword with all his strength, the opponent’s sword didn’t even twitch. 

Not only did Bahamut’s output surpass Cuelebre, even Greifer’s body balance and the way he focused energy were completely seen through. 

"Chih! Let go damn it!" 

Not just that, with Bahamut’s built-in special armament Linker Core, Tail Blade’s motion got fixed in place instead. 

"I have no time to humor all of you." 

Fugil said casually. At the same time he swung down his great sword that was enveloped in energy. 

He pulled back his entwined sword and swung it in order to destroy the opponent’s Blade using the friction, but Cuelebre’s Tail Blade wasn’t severed apart, in exchange an impact ran through Bahamut’s armor. 

"……Guh!" 

"It was you who got caught, hero-sama. Don’t look down on commoners too much." 

The instant Fugil swung his sword to destroy Tail Blade that was entwined around his sword’s blade, the Divine Raiment Photon Dive was activated in counterattack. 

With the Divine Raiment of invincibility that scattered all damage to the surroundings, the opponent’s attack power got deflected back instead. 

"You are acting recklessly again like usual." 

"We are feeling the chill just from watching heree." 

Aeril who saw Greifer’s reversal of the situation was looking exasperated at his usual recklessness while the nearby Rosa was also blurting out something similar. 

If the activation timing of Photon Dive wasn’t matched with the instant Fugil swung his great sword to the end, it would be Greifer who would get done in instead. 

He had to win in the prediction of each other’s tactics and not miss the chance without the slightest deviation when moving. It was astonishing that he executed such marvelous technique so casually. 

"And then drop dead now, hero-sama! You’re going to be a legend like that yeah!" 

When Fugil’s Bahamut was sent flying by the impact, Greifer flew in pursuit. 

The tip of Tail Blade was swung down while the enemy was off balance. 

But, right before it hit, Fugil’s very existence vanished. 

"??Zero One." 

"……Chih!" 

Greifer clicked his tongue seeing Fugil disappeared using Ouroboros’s special armament. 

Surely he would use the same tactic like before. He was escaping to the space where no one could interfere with him and activate Reload on Fire, and then he would unleash his counterattack when he entered the accelerated state in the later five seconds. 

Furthermore it was a timing that was aiming at right after Photon Dive’s usage time limit ran out. 

If the invincibility didn’t run out, even Fugil would be unable to deal damage to Cuelebre. 

"Then, I’ll also cut off my Divine Raiment first yeah. The next time he show his face, it will be??" 

"??You idiot! That’s a trap!" 

Magialca angrily yelled from the rear. Greifer gasped in response. 

But, exactly a second later, the instant Greifer turned off his Photon Dive, Fugil and Bahamut reappeared. 

"??Wha-!?" 

Of course there was no way Greifer was turning off his Divine Raiment without thinking of anything. 

If it was right after Fugil in his Bahamut got hit by impact and was unbalanced, Greifer estimated that a few seconds would be necessary until he could counterattack even if he escaped to a foreign space. 

But, in reality Fugil launched a counterattack right away. 

Greifer suspected whether Fugil’s unbalanced posture was just faked, however he shook his head. 

(??No. I wasn’t tricked or anything. I simply misread it! This guy’s true strength as a Drag-Knight!) 

At the very least, the damage from the attack before really reached until Fugil’s flesh body. 

But regardless of that, Fugil recovered his balance with speed that surpassed Greifer’s predictions and counterattacked. 

Greifer was seeing the vestige of the Nocturnal Dilwy that he fought in the past from Fugil’s inhumanly absurd piloting skills. 

Fugil’s appearance was truly that of a normal human, but his movements were out of the realm of a normal human’s. 

When Greifer’s body shrunk back from the approaching threat, the space in front of him flickered like a heat haze. 

Right after that, Cuelebre was pulled back and Fugil’s Blade cut through empty air. 

"Mahapurana??I’ll leave the rest to you." 

The trajectory control of Soffice’s Vritra just barely made it in time to pull Greifer back from Fugil’s range. 

Furthermore, Greifer noticed Mel who was gliding at low altitude as though she was crawling on the ground that was full of rubble. 

"Aerial Buster!" 

The flickering heat haze that he saw just now was Mel’s Divine Drag-Ride??Wyrm Mode Ddraig Gweiber using its special armament. 

She was gliding above the ground while ejecting out combustible gas. She then ignited that gas and set the air ablaze in a wide range. 

When Fugil escaped to the space that couldn’t be interfered with using Zero One just now, Mel was releasing the gas in preparation to unleash the explosion. 

And then, after Greifer got pulled out from that area, she succeeded in attacking only Fugil. 

But, even now when Fugil was swallowed by the explosion blast that possessed terrific might, he was looking down to the battlefield with an unruffled air. 

"??He is unharmed!? Did he dodge the explosion just now!?" 

Mel was shocked, in response Soffice was quietly shaking her head. 

"No……! Bahamut’s armor is certainly worn down. But, there is almost no damage for the user." 

Aeril who heard that explanation also nodded in agreement. 

"If my imagination is correct, that man isn’t a normal human. From here it’s just my guess but, his whole body has been applied with Baptism. Fugil should have obtained tough endurance and body performance that far surpasses even a Nocturnal under Elixir’s effect." 

"……Juust wait a second. Is Elixir something that can be applied that easily? Wasn’t it explained that there is the possibility of dying from shock just from making Elixir take a hold of a part of the body?" 

"Of course. Even us imperial family only had Baptism applied into one eye and nothing more. The greater the amount of Elixir, the stronger the rejection the body will show. That man, he isn’t normal. Most likely he had the greatest amount of Elixir administered to him where he overcame abnormal amounts of pain and abnormally low chance of success through unbelievable length of time." 

99,9% chance of failure. 

No, perhaps it was even lower than that. Fugil struggled through such probability, endured agony that was beyond the imagination, and then trained to be able to move his body that had been transformed into a fantastic form. 

Even just a Baptism to a single eye made Aeril thought that her mind might break. It was because Aeril had gone through such thing that it made her unable to imagine what Fugil had gone through instead. 

Even though Fugil’s body capabilities were already far removed from a normal human, but his mind was just as abnormal. 

He didn’t get drunk and indulged in such inhuman power. They could feel the resolve to simply fight the enemy from him. 

"But even I, there is no way I can lose! Until I take revenge for the murder of my big sister and little sister! Until I stop that guy’s scheme??" 

When Aeril displayed her spirit like that, Fugil sent a glance to her in response. 

He evaded the Cannon that Mel’s Ddraig Gwiber fired and the bombardment from Rosa’s Gorynych while his lips suddenly loosened into a smile. 

"??What a foolish sentiment. So the imperial princess of the Lords can only fight for her own convenience after all." 

"You are saying that, but you yourself, what are you fighting for? Are you planning to rearrange the world? Or perhaps, are you planning to destroy it?" 

Soffice fired a lightning attack from her satellite weapon special armament, Vajra that was placed on the sky above towards Bahamut. 

But, Fugil erased the attack’s energy using Zero One, then he immediately left that spot and released the lightning attack he stole as a counterattack. 

"It’s neither of them. I have no intention to save the world or anything like that. I’m trying to save people." 

"Stay within bounds even if you are playing with words. Even though you also betrayed and killed the Lords alreadyy." 

Gorynych was steadily closing the distance and it finally caught Fugil in its attack range. 

Its weapon??the Scythe was swung powerfully and sliced off the armor of the left arm. 

"It’s working! Our attacks will land if all of us are working together! We can destroy Bahamut!" 

Aeril attacked further with her Breath Whip and diverted Fugil’s attention. 

But, even though a part of the armor was destroyed, there wasn’t even a speck of anxiety in Fugil’s expression. 

"It’s pointless. I don’t even need to defend using Zero One against an attack that came from the likes of you." 

"You’re right. ??Because, since some time ago I was only attacking in order to buy time after all." 

Fugil’s eyebrows knitted slightly at Aeril’s fearless smile. 

Right after that, the straight punch of a powerful arm that was like a battering ram directly landed on Bahamut with a speed that even the eye couldn’t follow. 

*DOGUN-!* 

"……-!?" 

"You were careless there, hero-dono. It’s troubling that you are forgetting about me you know?" 

It was the installation special equipment type Divine Drag-Ride Jormundgandr that Magialca was wearing. 

It had seven powerful arms that looked like the masts of a huge ship. One of those arms completely destroyed Fugil’s armor. 

What Aeril made Fugil forgot using Zahhak’s Brain Hack was Magialca’s very existence. 

She inconspicuously activated it to make Fugil incautious against Magialca’s attack so he wouldn’t be able to use the special armament Zero One to block it. 

Aeril had executed this tactic several times since slightly a while ago, but it didn’t bear fruit until now because she was waiting until Fugil himself entered the attack range on his own. 

Aeril was taking into consideration that if she gave instructions to everyone using Dragon Voice to guide Fugil to move in front of Magialca, Fugil would get an inkling of the tactic. 

Therefore, she was waiting for this accidental chance. 

She was repeatedly attacking in a way that could be dodged easily and waiting until Fugil entered the attack range of Jormundgandr. 

"Juust as I thought, our captain is really outrageous eeh." 

Although it was a blow that came in the enemy’s defenseless moment, that power which pulverized Bahamut with a single punch astonished Rosa. 

When Fugil’s flesh body was sent flying behind, Greifer and Mel flew after him. 

"Several of your mysteries are still remaining, but I don’t really give a damn. Drop dead here!" 

"You aren’t human no matter how I look at it, so you don’t mind even if you get killed right?" 

"??Zero One." 

But, the unarmored Fugil, whose back crashed against the mountain of rubble, casually pulled out his Sword Device. 

At the same time a huge purple Drag-Ride was summoned and his figure vanished together with it. 

"……He vanished into the inviolable space again!? I see, the Bahamut that got destroyed just now wasn’t the main unit." 

Soffice who saw that murmured expressionlessly and put up her guard to the surrounding. 

What Fugil was wearing wasn’t the main unit of Bahamut. Till the end it was just Ouroboros’s special armament Infinity. 

That was to say, even if that Bahamut was destroyed, it was still possible to use Zero One. 

"Oi Aeril! Use Zahhak’s Divine Raiment to make that guy forget the special armament he is using to vanish from space right now! If you do that he ain’t gonna be able to run away again!" 

"????" 

Aeril was holding her breath nervously while nodding. 

Fugil managed to escape at the last moment, but this time she wouldn’t let him get away again. 

Bahamut had been destroyed. Aeril stood ready in preparation of Fugil who had lost his armor to reappear. 

"Just wait a secoond. Rather than that didn’t something come out before he vanished? I remember seeing it before, that Drag-Ride??" 

"……!? Everyone, get away from there! Those with flying type fly higher??……!?" 

Magialca gasped at Rosa’s words and gave instructions to everyone from behind. 

But, the purple Drag-Ride that instantly appeared in the middle of the six of them released a jet black surge. 

"??Missing Faith." 

"……Wha-!?" 

The Divine Raiment of Divine Raiment neutralization that the land battle type Divine Drag-Ride Typhon used. 

Furthermore that ability temporarily weakened a Drag-Ride’s power output. Because of that, everyone’s Divine Drag-Rides were powered down. 

In that instant, Fugil dashed with Typhon that he was wearing and attacked the descending Aeril’s Zahhak first. 

"Kuuh!" 

She counterattacked with Breath Whip without delay, but the motion of the whip that was dulled caused it to be easily caught by Typhon’s huge arm. 

Until now they had only seen the form of Bahamut, but Fugil was perfectly controlling even the land battle type Drag-Ride too. 

The whip that was caught by Typhon was pulled and Aeril who was wearing Zahhak became unbalanced. 

The instant Aeril tried to escape to behind so she wouldn’t get pulled instead, Typhon’s left shoulder fired out the wire of Pile Anchor. 

"Uah……!?" 

The tip of the pile drove into Zahhak’s waist armor and Aeril’s throat was choked from the impact she felt. 

Fugil wasted no time to pull the wire right away. 

The right armored arm of Typhon that was waiting had already been filled with the concentrated energy of Biting Flare. 

(This is bad! I won’t be able to dodge! My Divine Raiment also won’t return to the usable state for a few more seconds!) 

Aeril was pulled closer by Typhon with terrific momentum while feeling for real the dreadfulness of the enemy’s ability for the first time. 

Ouroboros’s special armament??Infinity. 

It wasn’t just able to transform to the shape of every kind of Divine Drag-Ride, even if the Drag-Ride was destroyed it could summon another Divine Drag-Ride. 

Therefore, the options as well as the number of regenerations available to the user was literally infinite. 

The moment she shuddered from that dreadfully overwhelming battle strength, Greifer and Cuelebre leaped from behind Fugil. 

"Release Aeril! You shitty hero!" 

"??Zero One." 

Greifer and Cuelebre were temporarily banished. They were made to disappear to the inviolable space. 

In exchange the large frame of Rosa’s Gorynych thrust away Fugil’s Typhon from the side and Aeril was saved, but?? 

"??Biting Flare." 

The target of the attack that Fugil was going to unleash changed towards Rosa who was grappling him. 

The energy that was concentrated into the right palm of Typhon was directly sent into the armor and exploded. 

The huge dark grey armor Rosa was wearing was smashed apart and she was sent flying to far behind. 

"Rosa-!" 

"??!? I’m……alriight!" 

Soffice immediately raised her voice, but Rosa’s eyes weren’t dead even though she was being swallowed in a flame blast. 

The instant her armor was blasted, she removed her armor by herself using Break Purge and suppressed the destruction’s damage to the minimum. 

"Then, now is the time to??!" 

Mel assaulted with Ddraig Gwiber in Wyvern Mode aiming at the opening when Typhon’s Divine Raiment was dispelled, furthermore it was when Typhon had just struck with high firepower using its special armament. 

But, when the battleaxe it was holding was swung down toward the enemy’s shoulder, Greifer and Cuelebre who were banished just now reappeared in front of Mel. 

"Don’t tell me-!?" 

"??Kuh, so it’s like that huh!" 

Mel who was accelerating with her momentum driving her couldn’t stop her attack. 

Greifer immediately used his Blade to block the battleaxe, but in that opening that took less than a few seconds, Fugil’s Typhon unleashed a spinning kick. 

"??Mahapurana!" 

The moment Mel and Greifer received the armored leg’s kick, Soffice’s Vritra pulled them from behind and they avoided a direct hit. 

Like that they took a large distance for the moment, leaving behind Magialca at the front line while they rallied themselves. 

The reactivation of a Divine Raiment that was neutralized by Missing Faith made it in time in a hair’s breadth. 

"How unbelievablee. To think that the ability will be this absurd……" 

"For the number of regenerations to be limitless too……. So the special armament Infinity hasn’t displayed its real ability until now huh." 

Rosa was lamenting while repairing Gorynych’s armor with her Divine Raiment Tartaros Frame, and Magialca responded with a bitter expression. 

Furthermore Aeril was grasping the situation while at the bottom of her heart she was trembling at the actions Fugil executed a while ago. 

"What he immediately summoned after Bahamut was destroyed was Typhon’s armor……. And then, in order to erase the opening when he was connecting to it, he used Zero One at the same time and escaped to the space of another dimension……" 

"You are saying that Fugil cannot be stopped even if we destroy his armor? Not only that, each time he gets cornered, he can summon the optimum Divine Drag-Ride for the situation at that time one after another……" 

Mel muttered at the end in vexation at Ouroboros’s??and then to Fugil’s dreadfulness once more. 

Originally, even just to be able to use one kind of Divine Drag-Ride skillfully, extraordinary stamina, mental strength, and skill were necessary. 

That was something that all the members of the Seven Dragon Paladins, the aces who represented various countries, knew firsthand. 

Thus, they comprehended just how much of a threat Fugil, who was controlling an infinite number of Divine Drag-Rides and tactics, truly was. 

Of course they themselves were also super first class Drag-Knights. 

They didn’t have the slightest intention of pulling back without fighting, but they were losing sight of how to make a breakthrough against this enemy’s bottomless power that far surpassed a Ragnarok. 

"??Don’t get flustered youngsters!" 

But, Magialca’s fierce encouragement flew into the ears of the elites who were on the verge of getting disheartened. 

"Just because that guy can exchange Drag-Rides repeatedly, it doesn’t mean that we are facing an infinite number of Divine Drag-Rides all at once! You are better at handling your own Divine Drag-Rides than that guy right? The way to break through this is already visible!" 

An angry roar was let out along with a fighting spirit from the small body that was mismatched with her age. 

The members who heard that loosened their expressions and each of them showed a fearless smile. 

It had only been three minutes since they started to fighting Fugil??everyone was exhausted from the battle that was wearing down their nerves, but there was nearly ten minutes remaining until the time when the Ruin would be reactivated. 

[The breakthrough you said, that would be that thing he used to vanish and reappear right? The special armament of Ouroboros called Zero One something??] 

[That’s a good guess for you, exactly.] 

Greifer was unusually sending his voice to everyone through Dragon Voice. Magialca immediately responded to that. 

Fugil’s true strength was also overwhelming, but it was Zero One that was giving him an advantage at the crucial offense and defense. 

It turned him into zero by transferring him to a foreign space where it was impossible for material and energy from here to interfere. 

That power to switch his existence like an on-off switch was exactly the most troublesome thing. 

[Hah! It’s amazing you can say that shamelessly, captain-sama. Actually, you were waiting for one of us to catch on that weren’t you? In order to probe the working of that special armament.] 

[Right. Though originally I planned to take the initiative and become the sacrifice. After all, my Jormundgandr is too gigantic that it feels like it will be hard to make it vanish.] 

Magialca boldly replied like that towards Greifer’s pointing out. 

The remaining members could be heard sighing in exasperation through the Dragon Voice. 

[And, did you understand something, Greifer?] 

[You mean when I got banished by Zero One? There was a spherical space with a surrounding that was made from silver walls. That was all I could confirm in that instant. After that, it felt like time stopped until I reappeared back here, I didn’t know about anything that happened outside.] 

In other words, Greifer’s consciousness became cut off except in that instant when Greifer was transferred into that space. 

[Could it be, that the place Zero One transferred you to was the inside of Ouroboros or Avalon?] 

[????] 

Aeril quickly interrupted. Her words sent everyone into thinking. 

After just a few seconds, Magialca responded with agreeing words. 

[That hypothesis is possible. The possibility that it’s making use of the same teleportation system of the Ruins to instantly teleport to the inside is high. Most likely, inside that spherical space where the target is teleported, the time was stopped except for the user Fugil. However, it seems that it cannot store huge material.] 

[……Say, even the lightning attack of my Vajra also got taken in and out though, what about that?] 

Soffice retorted with an emotionless voice. 

When the special armament of her Vritra, Vajra’s lightning attack was erased before this, even that energy could also be rematerialized back. 

[I’m only guessing but, that spherical space must be provided with a device to reflect energy. It seems that it has a property to not let the preserved thing to deteriorate or decay. More importantly??] 

[If there is only one of that preservation space, once it entered off state after taking in something, he won’t be able to use Zero One anymore unless he turn the on state again by releasing the last thing he took, is that what you meaan?] 

[…………] 

Rosa’s deduction caused everyone connected to the communication to fall silent. 

They recalled the battle until now and judged that it was almost definitely the truth. 

[I had measured the time, and it might be that it’s also unable to keep the off state for a long time. At most it is able to keep the target’s existence vanished for around one or two minutes. Though this is still not certain.] 

[In any case, it doesn’t seem like we have any other choice than to assume that hypothesis as correct and try to corner him with that.] 

[Yeah??and then at present, that guy has a fatal opening. There is no other time but now to take advantage of that!] 

Right after Magialca said that, Mel flew with her Ddraig Gwiber and approached Fugil once more. 

"How foolish. Are you unable to even realize that it’s pointless?" 

The instant Fugil confronted her with a scornful laugh, Mel was convinced that what Magialca pointed out was correct. 

"It’s no good to one-sidedly decide everything you know? After all I have seen a lot of people who laughed and said [it’s impossible] to me just because I’m young." 

"Then allow me to teach you, that it’s a foolish act." 

The Typhon that Fugil was wearing skated toward Mel’s Ddraig Gwiber and fired countless Anchors. 

"-……!?" 

The tip of a Pile Anchor opened vertically like a snake that was going to take a bite and it snapped at her shoulder armor. Then the wire was reeled back and Mel was pulled. 

But, Ddraig Gwiber transformed in that instant and it changed shape into a single Drake. 

"Transforming function……that’s not it. A different fake huh." 

"You are noticing that too late eeh. I heard that the likes of hero will often get tricked buut, are you also that kind of type?" 

What Fugil thought as Ddraig Gwiber was the special armament of illusion Sin Phantom from Rosa’s Gorynych. 

Combined with its one other special armament, the unmanned Drag-Rides Twelve Vice, created the disguised decoy. 

But, Fugil’s eyebrows didn’t even twitch. He used Typhon’s left arm to grasp the base of the wire and swung it around while also making use of the centrifugal force. 

The unmanned Drag-Ride that was caught at the tip of the wire was controlled like a flail and then without pause it was thrown at Rosa. 

"Kuuh……!" 

Rosa blocked the attack of the iron lump using her Scythe. The pain from the impact made her expression distort. 

But, using that opening Cuelebre activated Photon Dive and charged from behind Fugil. 

"I see, so you stopped covering for your comrades. But, do you think you will be able to defeat me with just that much?" 

"You better use it right away yeah, that Divine Raiment of Typhon!" 

The instant Greifer yelled, Magialca’s Jormundgandr fired its gigantic Cannon to give cover fire. Soffice’s Vritra also sent down the lightning attack from its satellite weapon. 

Within the vortex of lighting and explosion blasts, Greifer assaulted without any care at all. 

His comrades put their faith in the invincible state of Photon Dive and rained down their full power bombardment. 

The Divine Raiment of invincibility that Cuelebre possessed could be neutralized by Missing Faith. 

Conversely, even for Fugil it should be harsh to deal with this attack without doing that. 

If there was another possibility that would allow him to dodge, it would be Ouroboros’s Zero One but?? 

"??Biting Flare" 

He used the Anchor to pull Rosa’s unmanned Drag-Ride he captured until his hand, then Fugil activated Typhon’s special armament. 

He collided the explosion energy to the bombing and neutralized the impact, furthermore he fired Pile Anchor to right beside him. 

His aim was the thick rampart that was around 200 ml from his spot. 

He would use the Anchor that stabbed into the rampart to reel himself and moved away. He attempted to escape from the center of the explosion but?? 

"My bad but, I won’t let you." 

"??!?" 

The tip that was shooting toward the rampart had its direction changed abruptly by Vritra’s Divine Raiment Mahapurana. It flew away to directly opposite direction. 

The huge arm of Jormundgandr that was camping there grasped the fired tip of the Anchor. 

"Isn’t this just like grasping the red string of fate? But, you have grown much older than my preference for me to take you into consideration." 

Fugil’s Typhon was already carrying out the action of winding back the wire of Pile Anchor. 

In other words, it was like Fugil was flying towards Magialca’s position by himself. 

Like this it wouldn’t be really meaningful even if he activated Missing Faith. 

At the same time, because Pile Anchor was being grasped by Jormundgandr, he also couldn’t escape using Zero One. 

It was because the mass of the lump of target was too big to have its existence deposited and withdrawn into the on-off state. 

That was to say, this very instant was their biggest chance of victory. 

Magialca used two of Jormundgandr’s huge arms to launch a pincer attack towards the approaching Typhon from left and right. 

From the right was a fist, and from the left was an armored arm that had its tip shaped into a Blade, aiming to sever apart Fugil’s torso. 

"??Fuh" 

In response Fugil quickly spread out both of Typhon’s arms and blocked the approaching weapons from both sides. 

However in that instant, his front became empty. 

"The barrier of land battle type Divine Drag-Ride is tough, but how about we test how far it will hold?" 

In front of Fugil and Typhon, a giant cannon muzzle that was even larger than that armor was thrust out. 

Extremely thick light was fired from the Cannon that had gathered energy until the limit. 

*DOoOOON!* 

The atmosphere shook and terrific heat and shockwaves burst out. 

But, that cannon shot that matched even Lisha’s Seven Heads vanished the moment it hit. 

"??Zero One!? He cannot make himself or the opponent vanish, so he used it towards the enemy’s attaack?" 

Rosa who saw that from a bit further away was looking surprised while gritting her teeth. 

"So it’s blocked, but if it’s looked from another way, he is already in a checkmate now." 

Magialca pressed on as though to say that she had predicted this. 

She was pulling back one more of her armored arms to behind and concentrated energy into it. 

In that instant where a straight thrust from Jormundgandr’s huge arm was going to be unleashed in one more second, Magialca’s sight was covered by a flash. 

"It’s you who are in a checkmate you see, ??Zero One." 

"??!?" 

The Cannon attack that was turned into off state just now was let out from zero distance. 

It was fired at the instant when Magialca was going to turn into offense and hit Jormundgandr directly. 

Its main body was swallowed by flame blast and it was covered from view along with a faint scream that leaked out from Magialca. 

"Ku??!" 

This happened in less than a few seconds. 

Magialca discovered the weak point of Typhon that was produced by Infinity and the flaw of the special armament Zero One. She then executed a tactic that took advantage of them. 

But, due to the special armament Zero One that combined offense and defense into one, at the very end Fugil came out on top??wasn’t what happened. 

*PAKII! BAKI BAKI BAKI BAKIII-!* 

The barrier that was laid out in front of Typhon burst out. Its armor was squashed and smashed up into pieces. 

"??!?" 

The Seven Dragon Paladins including Aeril who noticed that incomprehensible result first were speechless. 

Looking closer, the straight thrust from Jormundgandr’s huge arm that was drawn back before this was piercing into Fugil’s Typhon. 

Just when they thought that the main Cannon’s attack was sent back by Zero One and Magialca got greatly damaged and defeated, she actually only had her armor and pilot suit slightly damaged while her expression was still keeping her composed smile. 

"She parried the returned cannon attack using the armored arm and barrier while counterattacking……?" 

"No, that’s not all. She converted the damage she received to amplify Jormundgandr’s attack power!" 

After Mel muttered in bewilderment, Aeril added her explanation in excitement. 

With that the remaining members also clearly comprehended what happened. It was Jormundgandr’s Divine Raiment, Hell Tempest. 

It was a mechanism which reduced the damage that the user received while storing a portion of the damage as the Drag-Ride’s energy. 

It was possible to choose the timing to release the stored energy through each weapon. 

In other words Magialca reduced the power of the Cannon attack she received just now while at the same time converting that power into her own energy. She added that energy into the straight thrust that she unleashed. 

Magialca was applying the principle of martial arts to parry that made use of the opponent’s strength to the operation of her Drag-Ride in a different form from her student Philuffy. 

"……Our captain-sama is an outrageously sly raccoon yeah. Acting to be in a disadvantage like that in battle, she ain’t losing even against the vice captain ain’t she?" 

Greifer was surprised and astonished while praising Magialca’s technique. 

Normally she never really showed her battle because of her role as commander or mediator in negotiations, but Magialca’s battle ability was a step above the members here. 

And that??was proven at this place. 

"Well, that’s how it is. I don’t know how many years you have lived, but it’s naïve to try to win against this merchant me in haggling tactics." 

*DOUN!* 

Jormungandr’s Cannon smashed Typhon and further shot through Fugil. 

"Be careful! He can escape into the other space again. 

Because Typhon’s armor that was restrained by Jormundgandr was torn off from Fugil, he could use Zero One on himself once more. 

If he summoned a new Divine Drag-Ride using Infinity at that chance, then they would need to start from the beginning again. 

Soffice yelled in panic based on that apprehension, but Magialca already took measures. 

"It’s not a worry. My countermeasure is perfect." 

Jormundgandr’s seven giant arms??the armored arm that had Wire Tail stretching out from its tip was entangling Fugil’s torso ahead. 

In other words, because the mass of the gigantic Jormundgandr was clinging on him, he was unable to escape to the inviolable space. 

"Fuu……" 

The clear superiority made Aeril and the other members whose mind was stiffened with nervousness to relax instantly. 

If it was like this, it would be their victory as long as there was no intervention. 

At the very least, Aeril and the others were convinced of that. 

In that instant, 

"??Splendid. Even from among all the people who confronted me in the past, there weren’t many that were as skilled as you all." 

"Hou? Your sense in making excuses isn’t so good there." 

Magialca replied with a fearless smile, even so she attacked further without holding back. 

She poured her strength into the rope that was created from a steel thread of Mythrildite and gradually strengthened the constriction pressure on Fugil’s torso to make him lose consciousness. 

But, even then Fugil’s expression was staying composed. 

"But, I cannot say the same for your brain. Have your forgotten that I’m playing around to buy time?" 

Fugil’s right hand that became the only part of his body that was free quickly pulled out the Sword Device in his sword belt. 

If it was a normal human, the pain would make them unable to even move. But Fugil didn’t even pay it any mind and pushed the trigger on the handle with his finger. 

"??!?" 

Seven colored light was instantly spread out with Fugil’s body as the center. 

At the same time, the voice of the Automata Arshalia resounded directly inside the brain of Aeril and the other Seven Dragon Paladins. 

– 

Those who aren’t wearing Drag-Rides and their movement won’t be perceived in this world? 

– 

When they noticed, the figure of Fugil who was restrained by Wire Tail suddenly vanished. 

It happened even though everyone was focusing their sight on him alertly. That fact made them dumbfounded. 

"-……!? He vanished!? How the hell!?" 

"Even though he shouldn’t be able to use Zero One, how??!?" 

Greifer and Mel yelled in shock. 

"……I don’t understand. What in the world" 

"Someone is saying, that something is happening just noow……" 

Soffice and Rosa muttered in bewilderment. Right after that Magialca gasped and moved Jormundgandr. 

The place where Fugil existed until just now. 

The giant arm’s fist struck the space that had Wire Tail coiling around it. 

But, there was no feedback and it ended with only the ground’s rubbles getting smashed. 

"Chih!" 

After Magialca clicked her tongue, a voice came from an empty space. 

"You noticed a few seconds too late there, merchant. All of you are unable to catch me anymore. All of you should realize already. The world’s rule at this abandoned capital??" 

Fugil’s words were spoken out dispassionately. 

Even though not even his presence could be sensed, they could hear only his voice. 

Aeril who noticed that out of place feeling gasped in surprise. 

"World’s rule? The voice speaking inside my head just now, don’t tell me??" 

"I see, it means the rule that is set up inside this territory of light huh. So this is that guy’s??Ouroboros’s Divine Raiment." 

"Wait a second! This territory of light is more than a few kl in radius you know? You are saying everything in our sight, a space this vast has its rule controlled and overwritten completely?" 

"……-!" 

Mel raised her objection at Magialca’s muttering. 

However, no one was able to voice any rebuttal toward that. 

Therefore, it was speaking volumes about that bottomless power. 

"You asked before, what is my objective correct? I’ll teach you as a reward for coming this far. The hero’s mission that I ought to accomplish??" 

Fugil’s voice that sounded like it was flowing from the darkness of emptiness. 

Everyone was lending an ear to his talk that took less than a minute while staying perplexed. 

– 

"Every, one……run, away……" 

A slight distance away. 

Lux who was lying down on rubbles reacted to the territory of light by lifting up his face. 

Even though he was desperately letting out his voice, it was too feeble and didn’t reach them. 

"……Coming. The Artifact that Fugil possess……all, anything and everything will, return to the start??" 

The yell that earnestly squeezed out from his throat was waking up Lux’s own memory. 

– 

The day of revolution five years ago. 

Count Atismata was tricked by the information that came from a traitor who was a spy sent by the emperor and got killed. 

Furthermore in the audience hall, the captured Airi was used as a hostage that sealed Lux’s actions. 

But, Fugil and Bahamut who appeared at that time slaughtered the imperial guards and the vassals, and then?? 

"No! That’s not it! I’m asking you what your objective is! Why are you destroying this old empire? Even though it was you yourself who saved this country a few hundred years ago!" 

Lux who had entrusted Airi to a safe place and came back questioned his elder brother. 

And then he was given an answer. 

The nightmarish memory was resurrected. It overlapped with the words Fugil spoke out. 

Part 2 

"??A hero opposes fate and wishes for salvation. A hero is the ally of the weak." 

– 

The castle of Arcadia Empire that was enveloped in the sparks of rising flames. 

Two Bahamuts were confronting each other with the night sky that was painted jet black and red at the background. 

"The ally, of the weak……you say?" 

Lux showed a dubious and uncanny look. Fugil smiled in response to that and replied in affirmation. 

The revolution of Lux and the others failed due to the spy that the emperor sent to Count Atismata, and Airi was taken hostage. 

Fugil who suddenly appeared there saved Lux and Airi, disposed of the imperial guards in the audience hall, and after that he ordered Lux who returned back to purge the imperial family and the chief vassals. 

Fugil said now that Count Atismata had died, such act was necessary in order for Lux to bring together the people as the new king. 

Fugil further said with that it would be possible enough to revise history. 

"My wise younger brother. Why did you pick up your sword? You who were originally in a position that was far away from conflict continued to challenge your fate to the degree that you even resolved yourself to hurt and steal from others, and you arrived until this battlefield, why is that?" 

"What are you……saying? Are you trying to dodge the question!? I’m asking you your true identity and objective!" 

The uneasiness welling up from his body. 

An emotion that was similar to terror caused Lux’s voice to turn rough. 

"Dodging the question? I’m answering your question. Surely you are wishing for the salvation of the weak. The strong called the Old Empire that has enlarged itself too much. The one-sided exploitation by the royalty and nobility using armed might and authority. The bottomless unreasonableness that is born from that system. You too have witnessed it and have had your precious things taken away from you. ??That was why, you tried to stand up." 

"…………" 

"But, do you know? The ancestors of the imperial family of the Arcadia Empire in the beginning were also existences who were persecuted and exploited. They too wished to have the average livelihood. They wished from their hearts, for a normal life without unjust discrimination and irrationality. I had watched that until now. Over and over, so many times." 

Lux couldn’t comprehend what Fugil was talking about. 

No, he was refusing to recognize it. 

Because that meant that this man wasn’t a normal human, but someone who had been alive for more than a thousand years. 

And on top of that he had burned into his eyes the repeating negative history and fought on until now. 

(There is no way that’s true. There is no way, such thing can possibly??) 

Lux’s rationality denied it. 

On the other hand, somewhere inside him there was a part of him that was accepting these preposterous words of his elder brother. 

"??In the past, there was a girl. While she was an imperial family member, she possessed a genius like someone enlightened and wished to use the power of the Ruins for the sake of the people. Using her brain that had been strengthened with Baptism, she moved Avalon and prayed for the salvation of those who were unrewarded." 

Fugil dispassionately formed his words as though he was talking to himself. 

Nostalgically. 

Benevolently. 

At the same time, it looked like a bottomless disquieting aura was oozing out from this man’s whole body. 

"She wasn’t just praying, but also took action. At that time she even saved this me who was called as a filthy evil, an existence that was an enemy for her. It was at an era so long ago, where the conflict was more severe and cruel, you see." 

"……What, do you mean?" 

"However, what do you think will change just from saving one of the weak? The system that is created by the strong cannot be overturned that easily. At present, Count Atismata has been killed. I guess you won’t believe it but, the count too was also intending to slaughter the whole imperial family just like me. If it’s necessary, he would kill even you. He was intending to accomplish the revolution with such strong resolve, as the symbol of the side of the weak." 

"……-!?" 

‘No way’??Lux thought. 

That was because at the beginning Count Atismata who was on the Anti-Old Empire faction had promised that at the very least he would guarantee Lux and Airi’s safety, and he would also carefully handle the treatment of the Old Empire’s imperial family and people close to them with a positive outlook. 

However, thinking really carefully, Fugil’s explanation was rational. 

If the fact that Count Atismata was borrowing the strength of someone from the Old Empire’s side became known by the people, there was the possibility that it would become a huge stain. 

It would be a good plan to get rid of Lux and Airi for the sake of sealing their mouths too. 

"Let me say this first, I don’t have any intention to disgrace the count’s honor or anything. That is just how troublesome this corpulent system has become. It won’t be affected at all just by saving a few of the weak. In the end the people who are rising up will be crushed by the existing system and knocked down once more to the bottom. They will have everything taken away from them as much as possible, by the people who are making this system." 

"????" 

The trend of male chauvinism and the absolute ruling by the royalty and nobility. 

In a country where the existence of disparity due to the difference in status was absolutely normal, the power relationship couldn’t be changed easily. 

"Therefore, a leader who is worthy to be the core is necessary in order to save the weak. A person who will overturn the system and bring about balance. After such person lead his clan or organization and obtains a powerful trump card, only then can the weak possibly defeat the strong for the first time. That’s why, it’s essential to sort the weak to find someone who possess the quality, talent, and then the will to fight, then saving, and if necessary protecting and raising such person. That is??the salvation system that is programmed into Avalon." 

The castle at the background was blazing brightly even during the talk. 

The flame was fanned up by strong wind to wildly undulate and rise up. 

The mission of hero that Fugil was talking about. 

Lux would be standing at the center of the [balance] that it would bring about. 

He had lost his mother, and his grandfather was executed. 

In order to protect his important little sister and childhood friend, Lux was awakened to his mission. 

And then through many twists and turns he arrived on this path, but was everything just because of Fugil’s plan? 

Was he only chosen in order to create the history that caused the downfall of the Arcadia Empire? 

"With that the world will finally change. The weak can strike and destroy the strong’s stronghold. From there the victor will exert their strength in order to create balance, eventually time will pass and move again. Perhaps the victor’s foundation will become even more unshakeable, or perhaps the loser will make a comeback, or perhaps a new power will appear. In any case the balance will tilt once more." 

"…………" 

Saving, choosing, and training the weak, then making that person to assemble the surrounding force to overturn the system. 

On the other hand, the faction of the victor would work unceasingly to build their advantage and ruled in a way so that no further reversal would occur. 

The new system would gradually turn tyrannical. One-sided. Unreasonable. Without even a shred of compassion. 

In order to change such tendency, the [hero] would move. 

The world was the repeat of such cycle. 

It was a system that was backed by the instinct of living things, repeating eternally following the same process. 

For Count Atismata, Lux was an existence that would become the bud of rebelling force. 

Was Fugil lending him his strength until now for the sake of that? 

"Lies……. There is contradiction in your words!" 

"Hou." 

When Lux wrung out his voice from his throat, Fugil tilted his head with a smile. 

"You call that the salvation of the weak!? If you are going to kill all the people on one side of the system??the imperial family and the people related to them in order to change the system, doesn’t that mean you are also cutting down the weak!? What I want is??" 

The salvation of people who weren’t joining hands with the empire by their own will, like Lux and Airi. 

To save the imperial family and related people who were reluctantly obeying the policy of the Old Empire as many as possible. 

That was the revolution that Lux wished for. 

"That’s right, that’s why I’m saying that it’s unnecessary. There isn’t anybody like that other than you two. Someone who possess even a sliver of compassion towards the people at the corner of their heart, there is already no one like that in this castle." 

"……-!?" 

Lux went speechless towards that sentence which he never even imagined. 

Lux’s mind had also considered such thinking vaguely. 

In the first place there wasn’t even a single imperial family or related person who lent their ear to his grandfather’s admonition that objected to the despotic administration of the empire. There was also no one who compromised with Lux. 

After that, Lux showed his talent as a Drag-Knight and advised the emperor and the others about bettering the standings of the people, but he only got alienated from doing that. 

Inside this imperial palace that was rotten until the root, it was Fugil alone who was listening to him. 

"You should know already from your experience. Once someone got totally stained by authority, they won’t change their mind. But you were scared of directly making a move by yourself. You were taking even special [what if] circumstances into account because you were scared. You were scared of sacrificing someone else for the sake of your objective." 

"Kuh……!" 

Lux gritted his teeth when Fugil hit the nail on the head. 

Even so he struck down the rebuttal that was welling up inside him. 

"You cannot know that for sure! Perhaps they were just scared to receive cold treatment like me in the castle that was ruled by the emperor(father)!" 

"That’s right. Those people can change their stance to whatever for their own convenience based only on the situation at that time. What will happen if such fools hold authority in replacement of the previous authority? In the end it will only be a repeat of the same. After all if they have even a shred of compassion for the people, they should have already lent a hand to you." 

"That is??" 

His argument was cut down and Lux lost any words to reply back. 

It was the truth. 

Lux was abandoned by the Old Empire, by the populace. 

Even when he tried to fight, he couldn’t save anybody. 

Until Fugil who he thought as his elder brother called out to him, he couldn’t save anything, not a single thing, not a single person. 

There was no one in this castle who tried to extend a helping hand to Lux. 

– 

"??Fugil, the emperor and the royal family inside the castle will escape if you don’t hurry. It’s possible to pursue them, but if they cause an event that is too complicated, it will cause some hindrances to the history revision." 

"Yeah, you’re right Arshalia." 

An emotionless voice suddenly came from somewhere. 

Behind the castle that was blazing up in flame, a gigantic chalk white Drag-Ride was towering in the sky. 

"Arshalia……?" 

"??That’s right. The wise woman who completed the mechanism called Avalon. The Sacred Eclipse that she created can perceive, analyze, and project a human’s heart. That information is sent to the Automata to weigh the human’s heart." 

Fugil pointed his Sword Device high to the sky along with a cold smile. 

It was a sword with really similar shape to Bahamut. 

The switch on its handle was pressed, and it started up by the command from mind control operation. 

Right after that, the gigantic chalk white Drag-Ride wriggled, and the ring on its back moved. 

– 

It’s impossible to get outside from inside a building by one’s own will.? 

– 

"??!?" 

The robotic voice of the Automata Arshalia was sent directly into Lux’s brain. 

Right after that, faint light enveloped the whole area of the imperial capital. 

Fugil who was watching it smiled fearlessly and took a stance with Bahamut’s great sword. 

"Endless??now that the world’s rule is changed, they won’t be able to escape. Then let me ask for the last time. Lux??become the next king. Capture the Emperor, the imperial family, and the vassals remaining inside the castle right now and execute them. You will replace them as an ideal new ruler and bring about the balance." 

Fugil smiled at Lux persuasively. 

It was a deeply affectionate gentle expression, just like the time when he first asked Lux about his opinion. 

"Show me your resolve, Lux. The only factor that you are lacking to be a ruler??when you grasp it, I will recognize you as the new core of history to replace Count Atismata." 

"I, I??" 

Discord was spreading within Lux’s chest. 

Would he commit crime here by laying down his hand on the emperor and the people related to him? 

If he did that, he would obtain what he wished for. 

A peaceful country without irrational discrimination and suffering. 

A life without the one-sided rule of the influential people. 

He would obtain a happy world where Airi and Philuffy’s safety was secure. 

(I will finally, get saved……. The people of this country too, if I choose this then) 

The people would recognize and love him as the hero who destroyed the absolute evil Arcadia Empire. 

"You only need to do that. You don’t need to know about my mission. If you know then you will endlessly seek it, that is just human. Therefore after you consent, I will erase all your memory about this. You just need to have resolve." 

Fugil’s words tickled his ears. 

It was a refined and pleasant tone that was fitting of royalty. 

"Now, answer me my wise younger brother. What do you wish from here on?" 

Lux told his answer towards the man who he idolized as an elder brother. 

Part 3 

And then now??Lux returned to his senses above the rubble. 

"U, uu……!" 

When he coughed, saliva that was slightly mixed with blood came out. 

Perhaps the inside of his mouth got cut, but his whole body couldn’t feel anything as though his nerves were burned off by intense pain. 

Far ahead of his gaze, Aeril and the Seven Dragon Paladins other than Singlen were lined up. They were on their guard against Fugil who he couldn’t see from his position. 

– 

Those who aren’t wearing Drag-Rides and their movements won’t be perceived in this world? 

– 

Ouroboros’s Divine Raiment, Endless changed the world’s rule within the radius of a hundred kl. 

That was to say, everyone couldn’t catch sight of Fugil’s figure and they lost sight of him. 

If they tried to react by launching a wide range attack, Fugil would surely escape to another space using Zero One only at that moment. 

Conversely right now the best plan was for everyone to strengthen their barrier and act vigilantly so they wouldn’t be attacked by the unarmored Fugil using his Sword Device. 

"……-!" 

Magialca and the others were listening to Fugil’s story during a moment that was less than a few minutes. 

The hero’s mission, the true function of Avalon and Sacred Eclipse. 

Everyone was intentionally staying quiet without interjecting was in order to grasp the effective time of Endless. 

But, the territory of seven colored light showed no sign at all of vanishing. 

Everyone was gradually comprehending that for the activation time to be this long meant that they had to fight indefinitely within the area where the world’s rule was set up by Fugil. 

"……Just as I said. I have no intention to fight you all. Right now there is no one among you who possesses the qualification as king to become the core of fate. Thus you can forget the truth of Avalon, wait for the world’s reconfiguration, and make your choice within the new history." 

The voice of the unseen Fugil resounded through the site of the destroyed old castle. 

This was the third time Fugil recommended for them to just retreat without fighting and he would let them go, however Greifer snorted. 

"Hah, I just listened to a stupid long-winded story." 

He took a stance of holding Tail Blade with both hands in front of him and made a belligerent smile. 

"An ally of the weak? Bringing balance to the world? Are you still half-asleep, you asshole. You are assuming that the Automata or Sacred Eclipse are absolutely correct as the basis of what you are doing, right? In the end, what you are doing is??" 

"Only forcing the result of your favorite fortuneteller to other people. In other words, it’s only something like that isn’t it?" 

When Greifer was going to continue his words, Mel who was standing in the middle cut in with her mutter. 

Greifer who got interrupted turned an annoyed gaze at her. 

"Oi you……. Don’t copy other people’s lines……" 

"Buut, I’m also of the same opinion with the little child here. I’m already tired of hearing that kind of nonsense." 

This time it was Rosa who was on the ground who made a fearless smile. 

"It’s comfortable to listen to the orders of someone who claimed [I’m right] like that you knoow? But there is no path ahead of blind belief. That is simply throwing away everything from yourself." 

"Though right now it feels like you are blindly believing Lux though. Well, it doesn’t matter." 

Right beside her Soffice spoke the same opinion with her expressionless face. 

"Saving the weak and keeping the balance. Giving a chance to those with the will to fight to reverse the situation. Certainly that might be a good thing, but-" 

Soffice’s emotionless purplish red pupils boiled up with spirit and she spoke her next words. 

"It’s selfish of you to cast them away when they aren’t moving just like you want. You never talk of your aim while saving and guiding people??and then killing them, right?" 

"I don’t know whether Listelka-neesan and Hayes were right or not." 

Aeril spoke to the unseen Fugil as though she had been waiting for her turn. 

"But, my answer is different. I betrayed even my sisters who were connected to me by blood for the sake of what I think is right. Perhaps I have no qualification at all to criticize you. But??" 

Saying that, she swung her Breath Whip and made the lengthily stretching whip to move within the radius of several dozens ml. 

She was searching for the position of the unseen and unarmored Fugil while preparing for the battle. 

That action displayed Aeril’s will. 

"I will believe in my own choice. I reject you in order to accomplish my own wish. Fugil, I cannot believe in you and Sacred Eclipse." 

Magialca who saw that concluded at the end with her usual wicked smile. 

"??That’s how it is. How long are you going to hide, hero-dono. Are you planning to stay still until the time runs out?" 

"……Fuh" 

Fugil whose figure couldn’t be seen using Endless’s power let out a snicker. 

"It doesn’t matter whether you believe or not. In the first place I didn’t think that you would listen just from me telling you this story. There is nothing that all of you can do." 

"What, now you are acting like a poor loser after finally giving that talk? Or perhaps, you have that much confidence in that Sacred Eclipse?  Is that monster which was greedily devouring people everywhere really a device that gives salvation to humans? You are hiding something aren’t you?" 

"…………" 

Fugil stayed silent towards that. 

There wasn’t even a sound of breathing to reply to Magialca. 

"It seems you are seriously trying to buy time huh. Is it less than five more minutes? We know the location of Avalon’s control room. I wonder what will happen if we attack there while you are hiding." 

When Magialca said that with an evil smile, Aeril gasped. 

"What do you mean, Captain Magialca?" 

"I’ll speak shortly because there is no time. Why did this guy intentionally come out? In the first place if we cannot interfere with Avalon further than this, he simply needs to wait inside. In other words??" 

"You meean there was necessity to attract attention. That underground place that is emitting the pillar of light. If everyone attacks there, will we be able to destroy the control room’s wall and hinder the system?" 

"A half-baked attack surely won’t work. At the very least it’s possible for us. That’s why you are holding us back like this. Am I wrong hero-dono?" 

"…………" 

*KIIIN!* 

In that instant, one of Jormundgandr’s armored arm??the extra-large Cannon roared. 

Magialca seemed to have worked out a plan in the middle of that conversation. She was already gathering energy. 

"If you won’t answer then I’ll give it a try myself! Fugil Arcadia!" 

And then, an extremely thick light was fired along with a roar. 

The torrent of high heat and shockwave pierced through the atmosphere and gouged out the remaining rubbles and ground. 

Jormundgandr’s bombardment aimed at a spot a few hundred ml ahead, however it was erased before it hit the targeted spot. 

"It’s averted with Zero One!? As I thought it’s there! Avalon can be destroyed!" 

Aeril yelled, at the same time the remaining members started moving simultaneously. 

Each of them activated their respective special armaments in order to concentrate their attack. It was then that a voice came. 

– 

"??Come from the tower of double helix. Spin all creation of infinitude that become zero, and establish the law of heaven and earth’s creation. Artifact – Ouroboros!" 

– 

"??!?" 

Right after the passcode that Fugil recited was heard, dazzling light enveloped the area. 

The particle of light that gathered when the Drag-Ride was transferred was dazzling the eyes because its amount was in a different league than normal. 

"Eeven if my sight is blinded, I know the direction. ??HAAH!" 

After that Rosa, Mel and Soffice also fired their Cannons towards the ground that was hiding the central. 

But, the bombardment with maximum output clashed with a similar shockwave and it got neutralized. 

"Captain Magialca’s bombardment that was made to disappear using Zero One is used here!?" 

The blast from the aftermath of two bombardments colliding with each other caused Aeril to groan. 

The other members also stopped moving. It was at that instant that Fugil’s voice resounded. 

"Connect – On." 

*GOGOGOGOGO!*, a dull and heavy metallic sound reverberated. Then a figure appeared when the dust cleared. 

Over there was Fugil who was equipping Bahamut once more and standing behind him was a chalk white castle??no, a super dreadnought class Drag-Ride which embodied a majestic appearance that towered to the sky was standing tall along with a mechanical ring on its back. 

The silver multifold armor without any cloudiness on its surface. 

Countless cannon muzzles that were placed at every part. 

This Drag-Ride didn’t function as armor. Its very existence was moving as a single fortress. 

At the center of its enormous head that possessed a streamline shape, there was a cockpit that was covered by reinforced glass in hemisphere shape. An Automata was sitting there. 

"That is, Ouroboros……!?" 

"Big……. Even more than any Divine Drag-Ride I have seen until now……, it’s like, a Ruin itself." 

Mel who saw that muttered, and Soffice also blinked in surprise. 

"In fact it’s also a Ruin. It’s the other half of the Zero Ruin Avalon, an Artifact(Transforming Drag-Ride). It was specially made to be a Drag-Ride and also a Ruin." 

Aeril who heard them talked with a low voice while sweating from her forehead. 

The summit that governed the seven Ruins, the Zero. 

Its very existence was a castle that was installed with every kind of mechanism, at the same time it was the greatest and strongest weapon. 

It was written in the information that Aeril obtained from the Moon’s archive, that it was the last Artifact. 

But, the bottomless terror of Ouroboros’s main body wasn’t exposed in the document. 

"Let’s……fight just for a bit. Until the next awakening arrives." 

"Uh!?" 

Fugil unsheathed Ouroboros’s Sword Device. 

Right after that, the gigantic dragon that was like a fortress deployed behind him moved. The five fingers of that enormous arm were held out above Bahamut. 

[Charge Blast – On(Strengthening Support – Start)] 

A robotic voice was emitted from Ouroboros. 

There was no time to pay attention to recognize that it was the voice of Avalon’s Automata, Arshalia. 

The enormous armor of Ouroboros that looked like it was the combination of several hundred Drag-Rides shined. Energy surged like a volcano eruption and poured down on Bahamut. 

Aeril who saw that spontaneously doubted her own eyes. 

"This is……the power of support strengthening just like Drake!? But, the power output is just too different!?" 

If it was a general purpose Drag-Ride Drake, the maximum degree of strengthening was about 1,25 times. If it was EX Drake, the other Drag-Ride’s specs could be increased until around 1,5 times. 

But, the amount of the emitted energy that was transferred before their eyes was different in scale. 

The support ability that was a basic function of a special equipment type in this case possessed a power in the level of a Divine Raiment of another Drag-Ride. 

"??Reload on Fire." 

The instant Aeril felt a shudder, the Bahamut that Fugil wore was enveloped in ominous light. 

Crimson radiance was emitted from the jet black armor. 

Most likely it possessed a might that far excelled the Divine Raiment when it was activated normally. 

If for example Fugil’s time was compressed and strengthened until a few tenth of the normal, his movement after that would be in a speed that ordinary person wouldn’t be able to react to. 

Not to mention defending, they wouldn’t even make it in time to escape. They would get easily pursued and crushed. 

At that time when everyone froze after sensing the omen of destruction, a single Divine Drag-Ride flew with explosive speed and charged towards Fugil. 

"Greifer!?" 

After a short pause, Aeril who noticed that spontaneously yelled. 

While everyone was delayed for an instant at their initial response due to their wariness towards Ouroboros, it was only Greifer who moved following his instinct like a wild animal to close his distance with Fugil instead. 

The period of the first five seconds when the compression strengthening was activated. 

If it was Fugil’s own time that became the target of the Divine Raiment, his time would be drastically decelerated until it felt like he was stopping still. 

If it was used for things other than time acceleration, then it wouldn’t be a problem even if it was used for strengthening. Aeril almost thought that Greifer was making such calculation, but she noticed that wasn’t it. 

The man called Greifer who Aeril knew never really spend his time to form tactics. 

It wasn’t that he had shallow thinking, but that he would unconsciously pick the very best plan and carry it out. 

It wasn’t a logic that could be expressed in words, he was sniffing out the chance of victory by intuition. 

"But, if he use Zero One again and escapes??" 

Mel knitted her eyebrows while seeing Greifer slashing at Fugil’s Bahamut. 

"There is nothing to fear! If Fugil used Reload on Fire for time acceleration, then that’s impossible! More importantly move into offense!" 

But, Magialca immediately raised a commanding voice from behind. 

If Fugil applied the compression strengthening of time on his own time, even activating Zero One using mind control operation that originally only needed a second would be drastically decelerated until dozens of seconds. 

Therefore, there was no worry of Fugil escaping in the first five seconds??that was Magialca’s judgment. 

Greifer and Magialca’s answer was the best at this point of time. 

However, the enemy’s strength far surpassed that. 

[??Perish.] 

A single word from the Automata. 

Arshalia seemed to be receiving commands from mind control operation simultaneously. She muttered and the silver super gigantic Drag-Ride??Ouroboros moved. 

That armored arm was tightly grasping a steel tower and took a stance of drawing it backward as though it was a weapon. 

No, it wasn’t a steel tower or anything. 

The mass of steel would tower so high if it was put on the ground that they would need to look up to the sky to watch it in its entirety. It was a Blade that was made from Mythrildite. 

It was a weapon that wasn’t any different from the Blade that a general purpose Drag-Ride would have, but the mass was just too different. 

That incomparable pressure caused the approaching Seven Dragon Paladins to hold their breath. In that instant, the world was split. 

*GOO-!* 

"……Fast-!?" 

Ouroboros’s Blade was swung in a sweeping motion with a sharpness that even the yelling Mel wouldn’t be able to see if it wasn’t so big. 

Everyone was prepared for death toward the attack that far surpassed their imagination, but that slash tilted only slightly and deviated. 

"??Kuh! AAA!" 

The gigantic Blade that was swung with terrific speed left behind raging wind and shockwave in its wake. 

Just with that the remaining rampart was smashed and rubble was sent flying. 

If the slash’s trajectory wasn’t averted by Mahapurana that Soffice reflexively activated, several of them would definitely have gotten killed. 

And then although they avoided a direct hit, the attack of the Seven Dragon Paladins was completely stopped. 

But?? 

"Greifer……don’t tell me!?" 

Greifer who was an instant faster slipped through the lethal slash that was unleashed by the main body and dived into the chest of Ouroboros that was like a fortress. 

His aim wasn’t the Artifact at the rear, but Bahamut that was taking position right in front of it. 

Because of the hugeness of Ouroboros’s main body, the Blade’s threat could be avoided if one could approach until a certain distance. 

Aeril opened her eyes wide in astonishment. Right after that, the countless cannon muzzles that were placed on its stomach part fired blue beams of light simultaneously. 

*KIIN.* 

The dozens, no, hundreds of lasers that were fired from the armor attacked to shoot through Greifer. 

But, the beams that came fiercely from almost every direction were dispersed without reaching Greifer. 

The destructive power was remarkably damped and reduced until a level that could be negated by the barrier. 

It was the special armament of Cuelebre that Greifer was wearing, Mist Cypher. 

The mist of metal pieces that were scattered around as smokescreen dispersed the light energy and weakened it. 

"That’s naïve yeah? Your thinking that I can be stopped after allowing me to get this close that is!" 

Greifer slipped through two interception attacks that were at the level of bringing instant death and got close to Fugil. 

The Tail Blade that was shaped like a snake’s stomach changed shape like a whip and unleashed a slash that drew spiraling trajectory. 

It hit at Bahamut’s armor from the shoulder toward the stomach with a momentum to bisect the pilot altogether??but it was repelled. 

"……-!? What the hell is this hardness!?" 

Greifer shuddered earlier than the Seven Dragon Paladins who were watching that from afar. 

He should have accelerated enough and transmitted the energy through his sword too. 

His prediction that Fugil was super decelerating his own time using Reload on Fire was on the spot, the enemy’s Bahamut also couldn’t deal with the attack. The barrier wasn’t even deployed. 

(And yet, why!?) 

Greifer was bewildered for only two seconds. During that time an emotionless voice poured down from the head part of Ouroboros far above. 

[The surface of the armor and the pilot suit are always formed from a defensive membrane that is similar with barrier.] 

The Automata Arshalia who was piloting Ouroboros was moving by Fugil’s mind control operation. 

Even after hearing the answer from her, Greifer was unable to understand the meaning immediately. 

Certainly the armor’s surface and the pilot suit had energy that was similar to a Drag-Ride’s barrier streaming through them. The energy was always protecting the pilot automatically. 

But, if it was compared with the barrier that was normally generated, the defensive power was nothing more than a fragment. 

In short it was simply a mere consolation. Till the end it was nothing more than an auxiliary defense to add a bit more to the generated barrier, because of that the attacking side and the defending side didn’t count it at all. 

But??even that flimsy defense membrane was increased in toughness until dozens of times through the Charge Blast just now. 

"You miscalculated, stray dog. The one you are facing is this hero of origin you know?" 

Finally five seconds passed since the activation of Reload on Fire. In front of him Fugil started to move. 

However, Greifer had activated Cuelebre’s Divine Raiment just a little bit ago. 

"??Photon Dive!" 

The Divine Raiment of invincibility that would deflect all attacks. 

Greifer was preparing the stance of interception right before the later five seconds of Reload on Fire began. 

Like this no matter how many dozens of times Fugil was accelerated and dealt consecutive attacks on him, he would be able to endure it without getting harmed. 

But, Fugil kept smiling and slowly took off his gaze from Greifer and glared at Magialca and the others who were 200 ml away from them. 

"……-!? No way in hell I’ll let you!" 

The speed of Fugil who had compression strengthening from Reload on Fire applied on him wasn’t as much as Greifer expected. 

If he attacked before he could break out from this area that was enveloped by Mist Cypher, it should be possible to hold him back even if only slightly. 

Thinking so he immediately switched into offense. In that instant, his spine froze with a chill. 

"……Fuh" 

With a smile Fugil pushed his great sword against Greifer’s armor. 

No. 

He had predicted the direction Greifer would move at and placed his sword there beforehand. 

Photon Dive was a Divine Raiment that deflected only attacks that rushed towards the user within the defined speed. 

That was to say, the user would receive the external influence if the user moved closer by his own accord towards a weapon until it touched him and then strength was poured to that weapon from zero distance. 

It was the winning method that Krulcifer once used during the All-Dragon Battle. Greifer was lured into that. 

Fugil pretended that he would go to attack the others in order to bring down Greifer. 

(This man, he calculated until this far in just that instant!) 

Completely reading through the preliminary movement of an enemy’s attack and then using Reload on Fire to unleash consecutive attacks in godspeed, the Quick Shot. 

The tactic using Bahamut that Lux was specialized at was executed in an even higher dimension by Fugil. 

*GA, GIGII-!* 

Cuelebre’s tough armor was pressed and cut by the blade that was filled with energy in the state of clinging on its frame. 

Originally just pressing wouldn’t be really effective because it would be hard to obtain cutting power through the friction from that. 

Even with that handicap, the destructive power was still so overwhelming and brought down Greifer and Cuelebre. 

"GU, OOooOOOOH……!" 

The slash that was unleashed from zero distance pierced the armor and broke Greifer’s ribs. Fresh blood surged out from his mouth. 

(This way of cutting is simply using brute force! Just by making the Blade touch and moving only the joints of his Drag-Ride, the propulsive power of the Force Core is totally transmitted to me!) 

Even from the state of the blade clinging at zero distance, power was applied to the touching part by moving the rest of the body which accomplished a slash that normally should be impossible. 

An instant after Greifer was starting to freefall, Rosa’s bombardment was fired towards Fugil. 

Gorynych that was fused with more than ten Drag-Rides using the Divine Raiment Tartaros Frame was firing energy from its whole gunport, but it didn’t even serve to hold Fugil back. He slipped through all the attacks and closed the distance. 

"……He is weaving through the gaps of that bombardment!? No way!" 

Originally it should be impossible to do something like dodging a bombing that covered the whole surface of the field of vision, but Fugil’s Bahamut that was accelerated until dozens of times allowed him to make his way through even that and he drew near to in front of Rosa. 

And then, the energy that had been gathered until the arrival spot was released in a super powered slash. 

"Gah……!" 

There was no special technique at all, it was just a Blade that was swung with maximum energy filling it. 

That single attack half destroyed Gorynych’s armor and fresh blood spilled out from Rosa’s mouth. 

"Rosa-!" 

Next Fugil’s gaze moved towards the yelling Mel and Ddraig Gwiber. 

Without delay Bahamut swung its great sword toward Mel who was in range, but the sword’s tip cut empty air. 

"Dual Shift……you control the density of the atmosphere using difference in temperature to take away the sense of distance using sight is it?" 

"Correct. But, that’s not all. ??Eat this!" 

Bahamut’s armor was thinly frozen at the right timing when the accelerated state was over. 

It was the freezing ability using Dual Shift’s temperature control. 

Till the end it was only to the degree of thinly freezing the armor surface, but Mel swung down her battleaxe at the opening when Fugil’s movement was restrained??even faster than that, Ddraig Gwiber’s armor was smashed with a slash and Mel was sent flying right to the side. 

"??!?" 

Fugil sent instruction to Arshalia using mind control operation and moved Ouroboros that was towering at the back. 

The super gigantic Blade that was like an iron tower dealt a slash that brought down Mel without giving her any time to notice. 

The high speed slash that came from outside her field of vision gave Mel no way to perceive it when she was concentrating at Fugil. 

"How, can this be……!" 

"Something like that, is cheating." 

Aeril who was still safe gritted her teeth, while Soffice was staring dumbfounded at what happened. 

The Seven Dragon Paladins who were the representatives of each country should have fought to the best of their ability. 

Regardless of that, the result that came back to them was this overwhelming difference. 

Fugil who was wearing Bahamut using Ouroboros’s special armament Infinity obtained overwhelming offense and defense ability using the Charge Blast. 

At the same time Ouroboros’s main body that was moved by Arshalia was an autonomous fortress in itself. It possessed power that surpassed the Ruin Gigas. 

They had to fight these two enemies that possessed unprecedented threat at the same time. 

The remaining people who could still fight on their side were only Magialca, Aeril, and then Soffice. 

Within the interval of several seconds when their thoughts were halted and they were unable to find any breakthrough method, Fugil activated his Divine Raiment once more. 

"??Reload on Fire." 

Their whole field of vision was completely blanketed by intense crimson flash. 

What became the Divine Raiment’s next target was the main body of Ouroboros behind Fugil. 

The Charge Blast that was given to Bahamut had run out, so this time’s Reload on Fire should apply compression strengthening of only several times, but whether it would be used for time acceleration or power amplification, in five more seconds a preposterous attack would rain down on them. 

"So it’s like that……" 

Magialca was watching that while whispering in admiration. 

"Consecutive activation of Reload on Fire that is mutually used for offense and defense. That is undoubtedly that guy’s tactic of certain victory." 

In case when the Divine Raiment was strengthening Bahamut itself, Arshalia would order Ouroboros’s main body ahead to protect Fugil. 

Another way was for the compression strengthening to be applied to Ouroboros’s main body. Fugil would attack the enemy at the first five seconds to hold them back. 

"The weak point of Reload on Fire that originally is accompanied with risk is covered, and five seconds later an overwhelming attack power will annihilate the enemy. That is the fighting style of this guy……" 

"Indeed. But what are you planning to do about it, oh notorious merchant. The time for negotiations has already passed you know?" 

"Hah! This brat really does bark loudly! I’m going to make you bawl out your tears after this!" 

The countdown of the remaining five seconds due to Fugil was already approaching. 

If the attack that had been compressed and strengthened started as it is, Magialca and the others would surely get done in altogether too. 

In order to prevent that, Aeril and Soffice quickly retreated and took shelter behind the deployed Jormundgandr. 

It was an installed type, but it was like a fortress that possessed excellent offensive and defensive power that far surpassed a normal Drag-Ride. It took a stance to protect the two’s safety while preparing to switch into offense. 

(But, will it be able to endure to the end? Against the attack of that gigantic Artifact??) 

Aeril didn’t say it out loud, but she was harboring such fear inside her heart. 

Magialca’s Jormundgandr was also really big, but Ouroboros was even bigger than that by two sizes difference. 

Above all else, depending on what Reload on Fire compressed and strengthened, even Jormundgandr’s defense would surely get broken through easily. 

[Soffice! Aeril! Activate your Divine Raiment when I say so. We will die if we make even a single mistake after this!] 

Magialca spoke tensely through the Dragon Voice. A second later, Fugil’s Bahamut charged towards them. 

"Fast??! But, this time I can follow him with my eyes!" 

Fugil flew towardd them with a sharp rush and then he let out a thrust with his great sword. In response Magialca struck with Jormundgandr’s fist. But before it landed, Fugil’s figure vanished. 

"Zero One!? He is using it now!?" 

He charged forward personally to attract their attention and in that opening he made the five seconds period of Reload on Fire to progress without hindrance. 

After that he erased his own figure with the aim of launching all out bombardment from all the gunports of Ouroboros at the back. 

"This is, Cannon……? No, with such power??" 

The huge Cannon that Jormundgandr was equipped with. 

Several large cannons that rivaled or even surpassed that appeared from the opened stomach part of Ouroboros. 

Light shined from all of them and the surface was completely covered with flame blast. 

"Mahapurana!" 

Soffice activated Vritra’s trajectory control in full power to divert the torrent of the destructive energy. 

But, because the range and power were too great, she couldn’t block everything. 

If Greifer and the others who were defeated earlier weren’t sent flying to some distance away, they would get dragged into this and died. 

"It seems the Reload on Fire this time compressed and strengthened the energy……it’s coming! Both of you!" 

Magialca informed them inside the storm of power that was already difficult to describe. 

At that instant, this time Ouroboros’s main body drew near to them and along with Fugil who was wearing Bahamut they executed a simultaneous attack. 

[Blade attack, launching.] 

Ourobros swung down the large sword that was like a steel tower and split apart the rising flame. 

The seven large arms that composed Jormundgandr blocked it, and then the attack was parried away using the back of the fist. 

"Hou……" 

Fugil let out a bit of an admiring sigh without a single change in his expression. 

Originally, even Jormundgandr shouldn’t be able to endure that single attack. It meant that it was the unique control skill of Magialca that skillfully blocked it. But?? 

"It doesn’t end with one attack……. It’s coming!" 

The gigantic armored arm of Ourobors twisted back its wrist and slashed at them continuously with terrific momentum. 

Every single attack was worthy to be called a calamity. It was a consecutive slash that could be called as the violence of mass. 

But, the glint in Magialca’s eyes wasn’t weakening. 

She ascertained the timing and angle where not even the slightest deviation would be forgiven and blocked and repelled the gigantic lump of steel. 

She was seeing through the enemy’s movement and defended like a martial art master through the medium of a huge Drag-Ride. At the side Aeril and Soffice were also exchanging attack with Fugil’s Bahamut. 

The Breath Whip ran freely from all directions to strike at Fugil from every way. 

Fugil was repelling that using the tip of his Blade while drawing near toward Aeril and Zahhak. 

"??I don’t get it. What are you using your Brain Hack for since some time ago? Why am I able to perceive Ouroboros? Why aren’t you making me to forget it?" 

Fugil unleashed a slash that sharply aimed at a vital spot while questioning Aeril with a dubious look. 

Aeril was able to barely dodge which was also thanks to the assistance of Soffice’s Mahapurana. 

But, the enemy was overwhelmingly superior in skill. 

Due to the special armament??Chaos Brand’s trait, it severed the energy that was running through the whip and like that it cut off the long whip. 

Even though Aeril should have been making attacks that was hard to dodge using her unique whip handling, she was unable to even entangle her whip around the enemy. 

There was composure in Fugil’s face despite his superiority. 

It meant that he was putting up his guard towards Brain Hack, the Divine Raiment of Zahhak that Aeril was wearing. 

That Divine Raiment which erase only the designated memory of the target would allow the user to obtain powerful advantage depending on how it was used. 

Especially if it made Fugil to forget thing like the existence of Ouroboros or the Divine Raiment Endless, it would be the same like sealing one of his weapons. 

But regardless of that, Aeril wasn’t doing that. 

In other words, she was intentionally refraining from using her Divine Raiment to use it effectively at even better timing because she was thinking to overturn the situation with a single successful action. That was Fugil’s guess. 

Perhaps because of that Fugil’s Bahamut wasn’t attacking really proactively. 

Zahhak’s whip was already cut until its length was less than half. And the fringe of her armor was getting cut and smashed. 

She was at this disadvantage even with the support of trajectory control from Soffice’s Divine Raiment. The countdown of her limit was approaching near. 

(Unbelievable. This kind of man has been existing even from more than a thousand years ago……!) 

It was fine and all that she had sworn to take revenge for her sisters, but it didn’t seem like it could be turned into reality with Aeril’s strength. 

In that case, she had to at least deal a hit as payback. No matter what, she had to stop this man’s scheme?? 

"What a foolish thinking that is, taking revenge for fools who mistook their path." 

Fugil spat out that line expressionlessly as though he had seen through Aeril’s resolve. 

There was disappointment, disdain, and then hollow scorn there. 

"??!?" 

Instantly Aeril’s Breath Whip that was filled with her anger twined around Bahamut’s armor. 

The enemy’s movement was sealed, at the same time she drew out a Blade using her empty armored arm and lunged to stab his chest with the sword tip??but. 

*KINN!* 

The sound of cutting through air that pierced the eardrum. 

Before the attack landed, Zahhak’s Blade was snapped with a strike. 

Quick Draw. 

With the perfect harmonization of mind control operation and body control operation, an action of launching just a single attack in super godspeed could be realized. 

Aeril too knew that it was one of the three great hidden techniques that Lux invented. 

(……! Did he imitate the hidden technique that Lux-kun invented!? Or else??) 

Did he guide Lux from the beginning to learn it? Such thinking passed through the back of her mind. 

"Farewell." 

"??Aeril-!" 

Soffice immediately moved to protect her, but she wouldn’t make it in time. 

In exchange Magialca’s voice quietly resounded right from the side. 

She had Ouroboros showering her with raging attacks from its super gigantic Blade and Cannon which destroyed two of her seven armored arms, even so her face was still keeping her confident smile. 

"Sorry to make you wait Aeril. The preparation is finished! Eat this??Hell Tempest!" 

Magialca blocked the Blade that was swung down with Jormundgandr’s armored arms and she yelled loudly. 

At the same time a huge magic circle was deployed behind her Drag-Ride and it was enveloped in intense radiance. 

Jormundgandr’s Divine Raiment, Hell Tempest was an ability to suck a part of the damage from the opponent and converted it into its own attack energy. 

Magialca was able to endure through the Blade and Cannon of Fugil’s Ouroboros wasn’t just because of her skill, but also because of this Divine Raiment. 

And then, the enemy had approached until the firing range and she was observing for a chance to deal lethal damage. 

For the moment when Jormundgandr had stocked the maximum amount of energy it could stock and fired it. 

But?? 

"??Zero One." 

The special armament was activated without delay toward the torrent of overwhelming energy that was approaching from the front. 

It wasn’t activated to make Fugil himself vanished(turned off), but it was to release the bombardment of Jormungandr that was stolen before to neutralize the current attack of Magialca. 

But?? right after Fugil did the mind control operation to do that, the voice of the Automata Arshalia came from the head part of Ouroboros that existed above him. 

"It’s impossible master. Currently there is no existing object or energy that is being turned off by Zero One." 

"??!? So, that’s i……" 

[So that’s it] Before he could finish whispering that, Bahamut was swallowed by the extremely thick beam. 

The boundless shockwave and raging wave of high heat were fired out with a roar. 

It sent flying not just Bahamut that Fugil was wearing, but even Ouroboros behind him far to the back. 

Even the broken rubbles and the remaining rampart were blasted away. The visibility in the ruins became much clearer. 

"Haa, haa……! Looks like I somehow made it in time there……" 

As expected even Magialca was running out of breath and she wiped the sweat on her forehead with the back of her hand. 

Aeril and Soffice who got their nerves similarly worn down also let out a long sigh and relaxed their tension. 

How did a Drag-Knight at Fugil’s level commit a blunder when operating Zero One? 

He gave a command to turn the on state and release the content when originally in that timing he had to make the attack vanished into off state. 

That was exactly the trap that Aeril laid out. 

"It’s amazing how you thought up such idea, Aeril." 

"Even like this my only specialty is in deceiving after all. It’s not something I can boast about though." 

Aeril smiled wryly at Soffice’s praise. 

If she made Fugil forgot about the main body of Ouroboros or the special armament like Zero One or Infinity, then certainly it would make the battle situation easier temporarily. 

But, even just Fugil and Bahamut were powerful enough. There would be no change for the better if they simply focused on defense. 

In order to change that into a method to decisively reverse the situation, Aeril devised a plan. 

The tactic she spoke to Magialca through Dragon Voice was to erase Fugil’s memory that he had already used Zero One’s on state. 

In other words Fugil was under the impression that the bombardment of Jormundgandr that he temporarily stored in the previous battle was still being stocked by Zero One. 

Therefore?? 

Thanks to that, the enemy’s defensive measure ended up in vain and the attack with maximum output that Jormundgandr possessed, Hell Tempest, managed to hit directly. 

As expected even Ouroboros that possessed a mass at the scale of a fortress surely wouldn’t get away unscathe from it. 

"Don’t let your guard down……. Let’s finish off that guy without delay. Grasp his position using radar. I’ll bombard Avalon’s central and stop it!" 

"Yes!" 

"I’m already really tired but……roger." 

Aeril and Soffice nodded at Magialca’s instruction and they respectively flew forward. 

They were liberated from the extreme tension and exhaustion suddenly filled them to the brim due to the backlash after struggling through the point between life and death, even so they kept hanging on to their consciousness. 

They had only seized the advantage, it didn’t mean that they had defeated Fugil. 

They controlled their impatience and squeezed out their last bits of strength. 

Their destination was 300 ml ahead where Fugil and Ouroboros were sent flying. 

When Aeril and Soffice approached near to confirm the state of damage to Ouroboros that was lying down face up on a mountain of crumbling rubble as its bed, the territory of light that was illuminating the area disappeared only to reappear again. 

– 

Destructive power other than direct attacks using mass will become ineffective.? 

– 

The voice of the Automata was audible inside their brains. 

The instant Aeril and Soffice’s body was pierced through by a shudder, impact also ran through their whole body. 

"……Gah!?" 

"Ih……!" 

Their barrier was instantly broken through and their solid armor was pulverized by a flash of a blade. 

After receiving direct hits, the two of them noticed a certain fact for the first time. 

That Fugil along with Bahamut were inserted into Ouroboros’s chest part and they combined, and he unleashed that terrific slash like that. 

(Quick Draw!? The Blade of Ouroboros’s main body was??!) 

Until now Ouroboros wasn’t directly worn by Fugil. It was moving autonomously through Arshalia. 

When Fugil along with Bahamut connected to it in the form of inserting himself into the chest part, it became possible to directly control it as though moving his own body. 

It was an attack from a gigantic Blade that wasn’t filled with energy, but the overwhelming weight that collided with them in godspeed had enough destructive power on its own. 

Furthermore, due to Endless the world’s rule was switched once more, neutralizing the bombardment from Magialca. 

The broken armor of the rising up Ouroboros was regenerating with amazing speed. 

It was the Drag-Ride repairing function of a special equipment type that Drake possessed. 

With a speed that was incomparable to a general purpose Drag-Ride, supplementary armor was summoned and assembled into the damaged part. 

Magialca who saw that dispelled the installation of Jormundgandr and quickly ran to the front. 

"What kind of guy he is……!? Even though he fully received that attack……" 

What was terrifying was Fugil’s discernment and physical ability. 

When taken by surprise, a human would need a moment to switch their feelings. 

But Fugil, despite being in the middle of receiving great damage, his concentration was as though it was completely undisturbed and he executed the best plan he could as though it was only natural. 

It was unclear whether it was his resolve, pride, or perhaps his great cause that was pushing him on. 

But that strength which surpassed anyone Magialca had seen until now allowed him to counterattack even in such situation. 

One other shocking point was how the world’s rule from the Endless that Fugil reactivated had two meanings. 

First, it took into consideration the tactics for the battle right after. If it was Ouroboros that possessed overwhelming weight and mass, it would be able to build up overwhelming superiority in a fight of pure physical attacks. 

(But, that’s not all! That guy also held me back at the same time!) 

For Fugil, he wanted to avoid Avalon’s central??the control room underground from getting targeted. 

If it was Jormundgandr’s bombardment, she would be able to aim at the control room from her current position, but it was too far if she wanted to launch a direct physical attack. 

Therefore, Magialca was forced to temporarily dispel her armor and approach near in order to replace the position of Jormundgandr that couldn’t move. 

During that time, Fugil was able to buy time to rally himself. 

He repaired the damaged Ouroboros super quickly and the flow of switching to offense was?? 

"He got me." 

The eye glint of Fugil who was still several hundred ml away pierced through the approaching Magialca. 

Right after that, the gigantic sword that Ouroboros wielded smashed the ground. Scattered rubble and flying off stone fragments attacked Magialca. 

This was an attack that was accompanied with physical substance. 

"Guh, ah……!" 

With superhuman reflexes and agility, Magialca immediately got down on the ground and avoided a direct hit. 

But, she received the terrific impact that ran through the ground and she was thrown up to soar in the air. 

The attack from a Drag-Ride that she received with her flesh body possessed a might that was almost lethal by itself. 

Fractures entered the bones of that small body build. The skin split and fresh blood leaked out from the forehead. 

"A merchant that is driven by greed is truly foolish. They will leap at the profit before their eyes without being able to see the whole situation and lose their riches. It would be better if someone who doesn’t have the caliber of king doesn’t approach near this Avalon." 

The chest part of Ouroboros that had mostly finished its repair became a launching pad that shot out Fugil who was wearing Bahamut. 

He was looking down on Aeril and the Seven Dragon Paladins who ran out of strength and had collapsed on the ground from the sky. 

It was less than ten minutes since the battle began. 

During that time multiple layers of tactics and special moves were exchanged and at the end Fugil came out on top. 

Everyone was already wounded all over. Their Drag-Rides were also dispelled. They were unable to even wear it again. 

Only Magialca alone who was laying down while slowly lifting up her upper body. She raised her blood soaked face in wordless opposition. 

"The preparation for the revision will finish soon. The time was extended because the energy is slightly diverted for this battle, but there is no problem. Surely Sacred Eclipse will newly select the king who will bring about the equilibrium called peace into this world. You can keep lying down there and wait. No??" 

Fugil who was talking paused and he averted his gaze from Magialca and the others to the side. 

"There is no need to choose. That person is right here, Fugil. The person who you guided to be worthy for the seat of the new king." 

"Guh……you, are……?" 

A man’s coated figure that was standing there was reflected on the eyes of Magialca that were empty from blood loss and exhaustion. 

The vice captain of the Seven Dragon Paladins whose fight with Lux ended in a draw where they both struck each other and concealed his figure until now. 

The Blue Tyrant of the Blackend Kingdom??Singlen Shelbrit was standing there. 

Part 4 

*GOGON, GOGON……* The sound reverberated. 

The working sounds of massive mechanisms were resounding through the site of the old fortress that already had no more traces of its original appearance. 

The control room that governed the mechanism of Avalon??the central was sending up faint pillar of light from underground, showing its position. 

Fugil who was wearing Bahamut descended to a little bit in the front of the Artifact that was towering to the sky. 

Before him Singlen drew out his Sword Device and recited the passcode. 

"??Origin ocean, whirl powerfully to the critical point. Illuminate the heaven and bring down the judgment of divine will, Leviathan." 

Particles of light converged and formed the shape of a weapon that was modeled after a dragon. 

"Connect – On." 

Singlen wore the huge blue armor and directed a fearless smile at Fugil. 

"We have faced each other at the meeting with the Lords, but it has been ten years since we talked directly like this isn’t it, hero-dono." 

"……What are you coming here for? No, did you come to receive it? The reward for the task that I granted to you ten years ago." 

"Reward for……a task, you say?" 

Magialca knitted her eyebrows and interrupted the baffling conversation of the two. 

But, Fugil and Singlen didn’t even give her a glance and continued talking. 

"??Ten years ago. You followed my guidance and obtained the seat of general at the time. But, once you obtained repose for yourself, you lost interest to everything and abandoned that position, despite possessing the disposition and strength to reform the country." 

– 

That was something that once happened in Blackend Kingdom. 

Singlen Shelbrit was a child of a concubine of a debauched feudal lord. 

He was from a prestigious family that was a relative of the royal family, a house that had produced knights for generations. 

Regardless of the family pedigree that had an ancient and honorable origin from the beginning, his father, a count, lived in depravity. Singlen and his big sister were treated coldly by their relatives since their childhood. 

But, Singlen possessed an extraordinary talent. 

His fighting skill, tactical mind, his wisdom to outwit other people and climb to the top in the world of authority were outstanding. 

Despite that, he simply didn’t try to use it. 

It wasn’t because Singlen was being considerate of his relatives, he was merely not considering them his enemies. 

He was only disliking leaping into the vortex of a dispute between fools and interacting with them. 

And then??an incident occurred. 

His sister Marche received violence from their relatives and lost her eyesight. With that incident as the trigger, Singlen urged the serfs and eradicated the whole family of the count. 

After that, Fugil appeared at where he was staying together with his elder sister and showed him the path of a Drag-Knight. 

– 

[This country is getting polluted. If you don’t become the core to bring about equilibrium to this country, one day the stagnation will surely creep up to you too.] 

– 

At that time Fugil didn’t introduce himself and only exchanged words with him. 

Singlen understood the meaning of what Fugil was saying, but he didn’t have any intention of getting as far as involved with the government of the kingdom. 

He simply distinguished himself as a Drag-Knight and climbed to the top until he became the general of the kingdom??when the surrounding influential people were starting to ostracize him, he retired in the form of intentionally getting driven out. 

He knew that the whole country was decaying, but he didn’t have any intention of correcting it himself. 

He began spending a quiet life with his elder sister, but even that didn’t continue for long. 

The vassals who feared Singlen’s strength and intelligence for trickery secretly arranged for his territory to be attacked. His blind sister was tortured and killed in the end. 

At the same time Singlen too was almost assassinated. When he was dying, Sacred Eclipse appeared and administered to him a lot of Elixir, reviving him. 

An amount that originally should have killed him immediately was restrained by the strength of his will. 

– 

[Something like strength that possesses no will would only invite ruin. While you possess a genius to the degree that is envied by other people, you averted your eyes from that truth. That is your mistake.] 

– 

Fugil who appeared there introduced himself for the first time and granted the Divine Drag-Ride Leviathan to Singlen. 

[If it’s you, surely you can change this country. You can even burn the rot of this country until the root and build a new foundation.] 

Fugil left behind those words to Singlen who didn’t try to get involved with politics. Then years passed. 

Singlen chipped off the kingdom’s military strength, created the White Ridge knight order, then used a Ruin’s horn flute, Abyss, and Elixir that he obtained from other countries to skillfully cause domestic conflict. 

Abnormal events that couldn’t be managed inside the country. The nobles and chief vassals of the kingdom were dying one after another. 

Like that the national strength was weakening remarkably and the country even lost negotiating power with other countries. 

The king and others didn’t notice that the Blackend Kingdom itself had been remade into a state where it needed Singlen’s strength no matter what. 

– 

And then??now. 

At the site of the old castle where the fight was halted, Fugil and Singlen were facing each other. 

"??I see. So that’s the reason for you guiding that foolish little brother." 

"There are multiple countries existing, and furthermore their relationships are confrontational. If one rules inside a country, then he will have to control the outside of the country too at the same time. That is my wish, a ruling system by the Drag-Knights." 

Singlen lifted the corner of his lips into a grin at Fugil’s question. 

The picture of the future that he once displayed to Lux and the others too. 

He was saying that he would make an independent system by the Drag-Knights that was different from the existing countries and influential people, restore the world and lead it to peace. 

If he obtained Avalon in the battle this time, even that pipe dream would become reality. 

If he won over Lux and the other Seven Dragon Paladins and used them as his hands and feet, he would surely put all countries under his rule for real. 

If that was his scheme, then the intention of Singlen who was staying in the post of a general until Avalon was discovered became clear. 

If his plan was to create an independent new system, becoming something like a king of a country would only shackle him where he had no freedom to act instead. 

Thus, he was remaining in obscurity and waited for the chance. 

Until then he polished his own fang, strengthened his organization, and laid out his schemes here and there. 

"So that’s your answer??it’s splendid, my sworn friend." 

Fugil’s lips formed a dry smile while his face was staying blank. 

"You were guided by Sacred Eclipse and grew. Certainly you have the qualification to become the core of history. You can show me how you obtain the seat of the king in the battle after the world is remade." 

"Hou? Are you saying you cannot promptly decide in front of the current me? That there is an opponent that is worthy to contend against me?" 

When Singlen said so while jerking his chin, Fugil quietly kept a watchful eye on him. 

"??There is, the weak who wish for salvation. That person has no talent in fighting like you, and he cannot even speak out his own sin, even so there is such person who is struggling in their effort to live. The Sacred Eclipse is finding others who also have the qualifications to stand as the core of history." 

Fugil said that and looked at Singlen’s eyes in the end. 

"But, if your disposition and resolve are the real thing, surely you will manage to repulse that weak person. Besides, due to the Baptism that was applied to your body, one day you will also recover your memory even in the remade world. In essence it can be said that you are in the advantage. After all you have displayed that you personified the caliber of the ideal king in this era." 

"????" 

Singlen’s return. 

But, hearing the content of the conversation that he exchanged with Fugil, Magialca and Aeril who were lying down on the ground, as well as the remaining Seven Dragon Paladins whose armors were dispelled while their breathing was also faint were overwhelmed by the heartless reality. 

In the end, Singlen would move following Fugil’s plan. It was the same as though he was joining hands with Fugil. Such fact was made clear here. 

An absolute ruler which governed the flow of the world existed, which was Fugil. And Singlen who obeyed him would obtain Avalon after this. 

Magialca and others would completely forget this fact in the world that would be remade or something. 

A way to resist, 

Even the thought of trying to resist, 

The will to pick up the sword on their own, anything and everything, all would?? 

"I see, I’m glad I can hear that. Then without reservation allow me to become it, the core that you wished for??that caliber of king or whatever." 

– 

*GIGIGI……BAKI-! BAGIBAKIBAKIiII-!* 

– 

The mechanical sound that was audible intermittently from underground stopped, changing into a sound of destruction of metal being crushed. 

The sound of destruction came consecutively and got louder. The Automata’s voice reported the abnormality. 

"……! Emergency situation. Avalon’s internal devices are destroyed. The main cause seem to be ice creeping from the ventilation opening." 

"What……?" 

Fugil expressed a bit of suspicion without a single twitch on his eyebrows. 

His gaze glanced at Singlen’s face. It took less than a second until he moved to attack from there. 

Faster than that, the Howling Roar that Singlen’s Leviathan unleashed sent Fugil and Bahamut flying. 

"……What?" 

Due to the change in world’s rule by Endless, attack that wasn’t accompanied by physical substance would be neutralized in this area. 

But, Singlen used Leviathan’s Divine Raiment Lining to blow out water that possessed physical substance with Howling Roar’s high pressure, spreading out that power. 

Although he was taken by surprise, Fugil also didn’t stay quiet. 

He immediately rallied his posture, made Bahamut’s back wings shined, and flew forward. 

He brandished his jet black great sword and slashed towards Singlen. 

But, in that instant around Singlen who was wearing Leviathan, countless light frames that displayed the Drag-Ride’s system that was called tuning floated up. 

"??Senjin – Ruten" 

The instant the great sword came into contact, a force field of barrier was formed in front of Leviathan from right to left. 

That flow of power parried Bahamut’s sword tip and deflected it. Singlen then half rotated his body. 

He added the parried strength to mow down his large Blade into Fugil’s back. 

"????" 

Bahamut’s back wings were destroyed by the counterattack. 

Fugil lost his propulsion device and was sent flying. Water surged from Leviathan’s surroundings towards Fugil. 

"Shin Senjin Gouka??Mizuchi." 

Water thinly covered Leviathan’s armor. 

Water stream was controlled by the Divine Raiment to stretch out from the armor to along the sword tip. It emitted high pressure like a blade. 

But, it didn’t hit Fugil who was unbalanced. His figure vanished. 

"Zero One!? So he escaped, be careful tyrant! That guy??" 

Magialca who saw that desperately wrung out her voice into a yell. 

Even though Fugil escaped to another space, the main body of Ouroboros behind him was remaining. 

If Fugil gave an order using mind control operation before he vanished using Zero One, Arshalia would carry out the order. 

Just as predicted, the gigantic Blade that was like a steel tower that Ouroboros possessed was swung down toward Singlen as though to split the ground together with him. 

"Shin Senjin Ruten??Ungai." 

A great amount of water floated around Singlen. 

The water wall that was controlled by Lining whirled like a storm and formed a defensive membrane. 

When the sword’s tip was slightly diverted and avoided, the sword unleashed a slash with its returning movement. 

"Shin Senjin Gouka??Mizuchi." 

Singlen’s eye glint pierced Arshalia. The water blade severed the armored arm of Ouroboros that was like a fortress. 

The gigantic arm fell on the ground with a thunderous crash. The impact shook the ground in the area. 

[??Medium damage to Ouroboros. Repair, start……no, it’s impossible.] 

The robotic voice of Arshalia paused in the middle. 

The collapsed Aeril witnessed the reason why that threatening regeneration function was sealed. 

"The water that attacked just now immediately became ice……!?" 

The water severed Ouroboros’s right arm and then coiled around the severed part. It then instantly froze, hindering the armor’s repair as well as sealing the movement at the same time. 

Looking closer it wasn’t just the arm, the joints in the whole body of the Artifact were hardened by ice. 

"What an, unbelievable guy yeah……. Did he, hide his true strength, until now……" 

The water control using Lining wasn’t only able to change liquid into gas, it could also change liquid into solid matter. 

But, the other members were shocked because until now Singlen had never shown such free application of the Divine Raiment in the battles until now. 

"??Reload on Fire." 

Ouroboros cancelled Zero One and Fugil appeared. He slashed at Singlen with a single leap. 

The target of Reload on Fire was Ouroboros’s main body that was towering behind. 

He exchanged slashes with Leviatan and then took distance to the back for the moment. 

"??What are you planning? Well, I guess I don’t even need to ask that, but let me hear it before I kill you, Blue Tyrant." 

It was a cruel tone. 

Fugil was directing a gaze that was filled with hostility that would freeze the one on its receiving end towards the Blue Tyrant. 

In response Singlen smiled derisively and dispassionately told a different answer. 

"Oh? Has even your head become senile, my sworn friend? You haven’t even noticed such trivial thing? You see, before this I entered the central of Avalon together with your little brother. I controlled water through the ventilation and destroyed the internal mechanism. With this the so called remaking of the world will become impossible for a while. Even the change of world’s rule using Endless cannot go as far as stopping the water of this me." 

"…………" 

Singlen spoke out a different answer to the question with his usual haughty and arrogant smile. 

The abnormality that occurred in the control room just now. 

Fugil’s intuition that told him it was caused by an attack from Singlen was correct, but?? 

"Let me say this too, you made one more miss. Just now you used Reload on Fire to compress and strengthen heat, it seems you are trying to melt the frozen part of Ouroboros in the latter five seconds but??you have lived that long and you didn’t notice? If water is frozen the volume will increase." 

*BAKIKIKII……!* 

Right after Singlen’s words, the limbs of Ouroboros that was towering behind were getting destroyed with a strange noise. 

Just as Singlen described just now, because water was further poured into the insides of the frozen joint parts, it bloated up at the inside due to the low temperature and the ice broke the parts. 

That was to say, that was Singlen’s prediction??because Fugil attempted to dissolve the ice using compression strengthening on Ouroboros’s temperature, it induced destruction in the first five seconds. 

[Further damage to Ouroboros. Several minutes will be needed for the thawing until the repair is finished.] 

"With this you won’t be able to use the troublesome simultaneous attack. If you split your energy into your special armaments or Divine Raiment, even the repair of Ouroboros’s main body won’t go well you know?" 

"??Let me ask you one more time, Singlen." 

Fugil’s superiority was crumbling after a brief exchange, even so it was as though there was no change at all in his complexion and he asked. 

"Do you understand what you are doing? If you don’t do anything, you will be the one with the highest probability of obtaining everything. The rule that is your ideal will be possible, but why did you discard it yourself?" 

It was Fugil’s pure question that pushed aside his emotion. 

In response to that, Singlen replied with a smile of bottomless ecstasy. 

"That’s because you and Sacred Eclipse are unnecessary. Therefore, die. I won’t obey anyone. I won’t place myself under anybody. I won’t tolerate getting made to get along with your idiotic act of self-satisfaction. My answer??is only that!" 

Singlen’s single jet black eye snapped wide open and Leviathan skated forward. 

Accepting the challenge, Fugil also flew his Bahamut in a forward charge and swung his great sword widely. 

Part 5 

The battle of the two unfolded fiercely. 

At the side, Aeril was slowly lifting up her body. 

"Ku, uu……" 

There was intense pain as though her bodies would fall into pieces, and the exhaustion that made her dizzy caused her to want to throw in the towel. 

But, there was no way she could stay lying down like this. 

At the very least she had to wear Zahhak one more time and joined in the fight. 

She didn’t know what was Singlen’s intention, but now that Ouroboros was decently damaged and it was devoting its full strength for repair, this might be their chance of a lifetime to win. 

"Looks like both of us managed to survive somehow huh. It’s a pain that we are both half-bakedly obstinate yeah." 

"Greifer……?" 

The young man with a sullen expression was smiling bitterly at the side while blood was similarly flowing from his whole body. 

He pulled Aeril’s hand and made her stand, then he presented Zahhak’s Sword Device to that hand. 

Similarly, all the remaining Seven Dragon Paladins who were defeated and collapsed also struggled to stand up. 

Even though they had no spare strength remaining, they were harboring the will to fight. 

"It looks like that vice captain-sama was repairing his Leviathan while observing our fight yeah. That guy is really nasty." 

"That might be so. But, perhaps that’s not all." 

Soffice said that while her body was shaking unsteadily. Rosa who was near her reacted curiously at that. 

"……What do you meaan?" 

"Perhaps, the vice captain might have fought with Fugil from before." 

Mel added further and she spoke of her own hypothesis. 

"Normally it will be impossible to deal with the opponent’s hand easily like that even if you know about it. Even if two people are using the same Drag-Ride, their respective senses and skill will decide the performance. In other words??" 

Singlen had experienced the opponent’s hand with his own body on one occasion. 

Mel was suggesting the possibility of that. 

"I see. Perhaps your hypothesis isn’t necessarily mistaken. But, no matter what kind of connection there is between that guy and Fugil, what we should do is decided. Lolotte, take care of Lux!" 

Magialca filled her unsteady legs with fighting spirit and smiled stout-heartedly. 

When she found her servant who was also her aide who was flying to here from the rear??Lolotte, she pointed towards the rubble where Lux was lying down. 

"You all too, I won’t mind if you withdraw together with Lux you know? You all should be nearly at your limit." 

Magialca smiled at them with a bloodstained face. 

But, the remaining members each responded back with a fearless smile. 

They were saying even without speaking out. That everyone’s feelings were the same only right now in this place. 

Part 6 

"…………" 

Within his misty consciousness. 

Lux was carried on the shoulder of Lolotte’s Drake to the rear. 

During that time, the extreme mortal combat that was unfolding at the ruins far away was seared into his eyes. 

– 

"??I see, so you remembered. I knew that you received Baptism at a place that I don’t know, but before you also refused to become the vessel of king." 

Fugil exchanged attacks with Singlen’s Leviathan while muttering with a scornful snicker. 

The sight would make anyone to watch in fascination with held breath. 

Or perhaps they would shut their eyes while trembling in fear. 

The precise finesse that was like a superhuman feat, and the offense and defense from the release of wild strength were scattering sparks fiercely. 

Singlen had sealed Ouroboros’s main body early and took the advantage, but Fugil who was wearing only Bahamut was fighting back equally or even more against him. 

Thinking back, it was only natural with how he was fighting evenly against Magialca and the others just now who were working together, but even more than that, Fugil whose greatest weapon should have been sealed didn’t look like he was agitated at all. 

The Seven Dragon Paladins who were watching that from afar noticed Fugil’s true character. 

The strength of Fugil who was maintaining his sanity even after receiving Baptism that was most likely in an absurd amount. 

It wasn’t something that depended only on that existence and physical ability, but a strength that was backed by a will and resolve for fighting that wouldn’t be shaken by anything. 

Exactly because of that, they thought that they didn’t want to lose. 

Because they didn’t think that the conviction that they were carrying was inferior against that. 

– 

" Shin Senjin Midzuki??Amekiri (True Battle Array Moon Reflection ?? Web Cut)" 

Singlen used Leviathan’s Divine Raiment, Leaning, to control water and made a thick mist and heavy rain to pour down on the area at the same time. 

Within the field of vision where not even a few ml ahead was visible, Singlen sensed the rain’s echo to detect Fugil’s movement. 

It might be possible to ignore the rain using the assistance of Ouroboros’s radar, but even that shouldn’t be sufficiently usable now because of the main body’s repair. 

Singlen’s decision based on that expectation was effective, he was gradually pressuring Fugil. 

With the obstruction of the sight, Bahamut’s evasion and defense were delayed by a beat. 

Fugil who was reacting by detecting Singlen’s presence was also uncommon, but it was only in this situation that Singlen was a step ahead of him. 

"??Continuing to save the weak? Sacred Eclipse is the one that makes the judgment for that? Don’t you deceive people using sophistry. You only want to feel convinced that you are in the right." 

A slash that was enveloped in water stream pierced Bahamut’s barrier and smashed apart the armor’s surface. 

Fugil glided to dodge. His expression while enduring the raging attack didn’t show any agitation. 

Even now when he was falling into another predicament after overcoming an unfavorable situation, there wasn’t the slightest wavering in his control of his Drag-Ride. 

"Just what in the world will come from that? Are you only playing god by building and destroying sand castles alone in a place no one knows about? A hero’s duty you said? That’s what you call the construction of a future in accordance with your thinking as?" 

Fugil ascended Bahamut to escape to the sky, but Singlen used Leaning to make waves of water current to use as a foothold to chase after Fugil. 

He swept away Bahamut’s great sword and unleashed a sharp thrust before his eyes. 

*GAGII!* 

Fugil barely covered his shoulder where the Force Core existed, but he couldn’t completely block it. 

In that instant of offense and defense, Singlen changed the water that landed on the opponent into ice and restrained Fugil’s movement. 

From above Singlen struck with a Blade that had weight placed on it to press and cut through the opponent. 

"With that what will become of you who transcended humanity and obtained almighty power? The one who couldn’t save anyone is you yourself right? You foolish hero." 

"…………" 

Fugil didn’t even twitch his eyebrows at the slightest towards that provocation. 

In exchange he touched Ouroboros’s Sword Device and quickly rotated his body to launch a slash. 

"That’s?? Lux-kun’s!?" 

Aeril who saw that raised an astonished voice spontaneously. 

End Action. 

It was a hidden technique that alternately used the two varieties of Drag-Ride control to realize unceasing consecutive attacks. 

If Fugil who possessed inhuman physical ability used it, it would surely display a terrifying continuity that spanned for several minutes. 

No??more importantly, Fugil was unleashing that technique even while he was under attack and matched the timing to use it as a counter. 

The large swords of both sides scattered sparks and within a few seconds dozens of slashes were crossed. 

They were displaying an equal battle while Singlen slightly knitted his eyebrows after guessing a single fact. 

"……!?" 

Even for Singlen it was next to impossible to freeze an opponent that was continuing to move without pause. 

At the same time if Bahamut raised its horse-power and produced high heat, it could prevent any freezing. 

As though to back up that conjecture, the number of Fugil’s attacks was gradually pressuring Singlen. 

Every single sword flash was steadily accelerating and it was increasing in fierceness to the degree that the naked eye couldn’t follow. 

"What, the hell……" 

When Greifer muttered in amazement, the consecutive attacks that accelerated like a storm were unleashed. 

"Shin Senjin Oudo??Tsuchigumo." 

But, while getting overwhelmed by End Action, Singlen laid out a membrane of water on Leviathan’s armor. 

Water didn’t have shape in the liquid state, scattering the impact like a ripple. 

The thick water membrane was dispersing the slashes’ power along with the barrier. It slightly slowed down the speed of him getting hit, then the flow of the combo was severed by water bullet that was fired out along with Howling Roar. 

"????" 

"I’ll end it. Your meaningless fight, along with that filthy Sacred Eclipse!" 

Fugil was thrust away to the back. Singlen made Leviathan skate to pursue him. 

He produced thick mist and rain once more and took the stance of pursuing attack, but in that instant??Fugil took an incomprehensible action. 

"??Reload on Fire." 

Inside the enshrouding white mist, crimson light surged from the black armor. 

If it was the average Drag-Knight, that would be a point between life and death that would surely make them on guard against the unknown. 

But, a second later Singlen stepped forward without hesitation. 

"Shin Senjin Gouka??Mizuchi." 

The high pressure water current along the Blade was shot out as the extension of the blade. 

The blade of certain death that had energy focused into one point cut through the thick mist and approached Fugil. 

But, in that instant. Fugil’s Bahamut approached to near Singlen instead and slashed. 

"Gah??!?" 

A part of Leviathan’s armor was cut while avoiding direct hit. Then, Singlen lunged forward in a counter. 

Bahamut handled the attack with exquisite angling and a flash of Quick Draw landed on Leviathan’s chest. 

*BIKII-…..!* 

A crack ran through Leviathan’s chest part and the robe Singlen was wearing……the armor suit was partly destroyed. 

The impact shot through Singlen’s lean body and he vomited out blood. 

"……!? What did Fugil do just now? If he is compressing and strengthening his time, then he should be unable to move fast in the first five seconds, and yet??" 

When Mel pointed out with a dubious face, Magialca wiped the blood on her lips and responded. 

"If I guessed from the result, then he really was applying the compression strengthening to time. However, it was applied only to the surrounding rain excluding himself." 

"What do you mean by that?" 

Greifer showed a baffled expression to that. In response Soffice told the answer with a small voice. 

"Inside this thick mist, Singlen is sensing the echo of the rain that is controlled by his Divine Raiment to comprehend Fugil’s position and movement. In other words if he slowed the pouring down rain around him with Reload on Fire’s time acceleration??" 

The timing of that echo could be put out of order. 

"You meaan he is tricking the vice captain and luring him to attack? To be able to think up such idea while getting involved in such a ferocious battle……" 

Even Rosa who was skilled in such tactical exchange was astonished by that exquisite feat. 

At the same time, all the members who were struggling to return to the front line were harboring a certain thought. 

That was how this was similar to Lux. 

Lux’s many tactics and application of skill that brushed aside every kind of inferiority. 

Exactly because they had fought him as an enemy or had continued to witness such feat from nearby that they got such a misapprehension. 

Perhaps Fugil had encountered every kind of enemy many times and continued to challenge them until now. 

But, such indulgent imagination was crushed instantly. 

Because Fugil held Ouroboros’s Sword Device before his eyes and quickly thought quietly. 

"Over Limit??On" 

"??!?" 

Seeing that gesture, the Seven Dragon Paladins who were holding their respective Sword Devices shivered. 

Light frames whirled around Fugil. 

Additional parts were summoned and connected. Bahamut took a new form. 

Singlen was sent flying and his movement stiffened from the impact for less than a few seconds. 

Fugil finished the process of Over Limit within that slight opening. 

[Ouroboros’s repair is fifty percent complete. Should it resume battle mode?] 

"Don’t be concerned Arshalia. You repair the function of the destroyed central and hurry with the preparation of the remaking. It might become something incomplete, but that’s fine." 

[Acknowledged, master.] 

The Automata’s robotic voice replied to the order. 

Right after that, the atmosphere around Bahamut exploded and the armor flew like a bullet. 

It was as though the weight of the additional armor was nonexistent. Black wind that the eye couldn’t perceive was rushing. 

There were limiters placed on Drag-Rides in consideration for the pilot who was human. 

There were also limiters that were restraining the mobile frame so that the Drag-Ride itself wouldn’t be destroyed. All of those were taken off. 

The crimson light that was surging from the armor turned into flames and the sword gouged the enemy like the fang of a violent dragon. 

Dust was whipped up and covered visibility along with the destruction of the armor that was caused by the offense and defense. 

The consecutive attacks possessed a might that even his own armor that was attacking couldn’t endure it. 

Fugil unleashed fierce attacks like a violent dragon, even so every single one of his movements was dispatched with terrifying accuracy and skill. 

"Did I touch your nerves? This foolish ruler who pretends to be a hero!" 

In response Singlen also fought back with vigor. 

Fugil brushed off the thrust of his opponent’s Blade. After parrying the momentum his sword returned and ran through under the armpit of Leviathan’s armor. Singlen blocked with the Divine Raiment Leaning. He dispersed the impact with a wall of water and the moment the attack stopped, he used his left foot as an axis to rotate and return a sideway sweep to Bahamut’s back. Fugil swung up his great sword in a big movement to place the sword’s blade on his back as a shield to blocked the attack. At the same time he swung his blade that was enveloped in high density energy with the aim of destroying the enemy’s weapon. Singlen made ice trail along the point of contact and derailed Fugil’s hand movement. In that instant the great sword that Fugil swung down split the ground and shook the foothold. The tip of his sword instantly flipped and slashed up, attacking Singlen’s face. Singlen diverted that with water current and barely dodged, but his forehead was slightly grazed and blood flowed out. Without even any time to comprehend that Fugil’s aim was his eye, the next attack was advancing on him. 

The wheels of Leviathan’s armored legs rotated in high speed and it retreated backward. Fugil went in pursuit, in response blades of water that trailed along the Blade slashed from outside the range. Although Fugil’s armor was cut up, he paid it no mind and stepped forward. 

Although Bahamut’s armor was strengthened, the compensation for the piloting that was too intense squashed the armor with creaking sound. 

Right after that, like a bow that was drawn to the very limit, the stocked up strength was released. 

Recoil Burst. 

This was a hidden technique of Drag-Ride control that made use of an intentional rampage which was caused due to the contradiction of the two systems of command. 

A transcendental might was unleashed with the sacrifice of one’s own Drag-Ride and flesh. 

– 

"??!?" 

– 

Magialca and the others who were more than 100 ml away were horrified by that scene. 

The attack that was unleashed from Over Limit brought a destructive power that was beyond their imagination and pulverized Leviathan. 

Singlen also used the defense of Shin Senjin, but Fugil didn’t pay any mind to things like damage to himself from the backlash, he simply stabbed the double-edged sword to not let go of the chance to finish off the opponent. 

Thus, Fugil himself didn’t get out of this unscathed. 

The armor of Bahamut that was strengthened by the rampage state crumbled into pieces and the fragments were digging into his limbs. 

Despite that, Fugil’s eyebrows didn’t even twitch. 

He stood upright soaked in blood and turned his gaze towards Singlen who was sent flying. 

"Does that guy even feel any pain? Just what kind of monster is he, yeah……" 

"……No, I don’t think that’s it. It’s only my intuition but, it’s not that he isn’t feeling pain??" 

A calm bearing. 

But, Fugil’s eye glint that was somewhat hollow made Aeril to harbor a mysterious thought. 

It wasn’t that he didn’t feel pain, he didn’t care about agony. 

This man was feeling pain from something else, from a different matter. 

Aeril herself didn’t really understand why such imagination crossed her mind towards the enemy of her sisters. 

"That’s right, no one understands it. Arshalia. Those fellows didn’t understand a single thing, what you are fighting for, why you were trying to save other people despite possessing everything and able to monopolize them for yourself, they didn’t even try to think about it??those people, they weren’t human." 

It sounded like a monologue. 

Or perhaps he was talking to everyone here. 

Fugil quietly took a stance with his bloody Sword Device. 

"I??was unable to fulfill my promise with you. Why, did I survive that Baptism? Why, did those people betray you who were their benefactor?" 

Nothing was reflected on those eyes. 

No, there was the face of the Automata called Arshalia there. 

"There won’t be any answer. In that case I have to continue to ask the world. The end of the line of the Sacred Eclipse that you left behind, the end of the line of the peace that you wished for, I will??" 

It was as though he was chasing after that face, and then. 

When they realized, the blood flowing out from Fugil was stopping. 

When he wiped the blood and threw away his coat, the wound that should be there was vanishing. 

"????" 

Greifer and Mel who saw that knitted their eyebrows and held their breath. 

They had certainly witnessed the proof that Fugil wasn’t a normal human. 

Different from a Nocturnal or an Abyss, most likely he was a complete being that had Baptism applied to his whole body. 

He was the embodiment of the ideal that the Lords were aiming for. 

"Why did you save me? Me who was your enemy, being a hero, it’s……. Why did you try to grant my wish. Why did you wish to save everything……" 

There was nothing in Fugil’s expression. 

He was simply forming words that were quietly filled with emptiness. 

"Let’s redo it. Let’s destroy this distorted world once more and begin anew. If I don’t give up, surely, I will be able to finally reach it, that is exactly??" 

Fugil drew out his Sword Device and lifted it to the sky. 

In that instant, the territory of light of seven colors vanished and the light spread out once more. 

– 

When oneself receives an attack that is unleashed by another person, they won’t receive an attack from another different person.? 

– 

At the same time the Automata’s voice was sent into the brains of Aeril and the others once more. 

The change of the world’s rule by the Divine Raiment of Ouroboros??Endless. 

The content was a rule that prevented the battle of many against one. 

Even though they wouldn’t be able to even oppose him unless they grouped up, they were prevented from cooperating. 

Conversely Fugil who was alone could act without any limitation at all. 

No, a reality that was even more terrifying than that was standing in their way. 

"So it finally revived……! That damn monstrous Drag-Ride??" 

Endless activated once more and Ourobors took a fighting stance. 

The other side could deal attacks of two people by himself alone. 

In contrast Magialca and the others had to fight them one by one. 

In addition they were already wounded and exhausted. Each of them wouldn’t be able to fight in several more minutes. 

[Infinity……activate. Transferring Bahamut.] 

Bahamut that should have been completely destroyed was summoned once more before Fugil’s eyes along with Arshalia’s monotone voice. 

[??Oi, you all. Retreat while you can still move. This time it’s serious.] 

Magialca who saw that lifted Jormundgandr’s Sword Device and deployed the huge Drag-Ride. 

She took position in the front and took a stance as though to protect Singlen who had just gotten done in. 

"Just what are you prattling huh, captain-sama, did you finally grow senile now?" 

"You, the punishment of lese majeste is severe. You can get scolded later by Lolotte. It’s what you deserve." 

Magialca responded to the exasperated Greifer’s loose-lips with a wicked smile. 

Rosa guessed the hidden meaning from that short exchange and turned her gaze to them. 

"I wondeer, is it already absolutely impossible to win with our strength?" 

"…………" 

Aeril swallowed the words that she was going to say. 

She and Rosa were of the same opinion. It showed that it was most likely the correct recognition. 

Fugil only sent a glance their way and didn’t move. 

Fugil further summoned Bahamut’s additional armor in front of Aeril and the Seven Dragon Paladins who were still unable to reorganize themselves. 

"Over Limit??On" 

The second Over Limit by Bahamut. 

The armor was rearranged along with an intense light, transforming into a form with increased offensive power. 

Furthermore Ouroboros behind him applied the support strengthening of special equipment type by pouring down energy. 

It was a despair that was piled up over and over again. 

Everyone knew from a glance that it was simply a foolish act trying to fight the enemy before their eyes. 

"Then, why??are you still fighting?" 

When Soffice asked with an emotionless tone, an answer immediately came back. 

"It’s vexing but, right now that guy is the only possibility. That is necessary in order for me to obtain Avalon." 

Magialca sent a glance to the back where Singlen was sent flying to and she smiled. 

"You can still say something like that? I can respect even the spirit of a merchant if it goes until that far." 

Mel sighed in exasperation, but Magialca didn’t look shy at all. 

"Naturally. After all I’ll be troubled if the effort I piled up is spoiled by this kind of irresponsible device. It will be sayonara if I can just extract enough treasure to replace the funds I used to reach until here. After that my own talent will be plenty enough to take over the whole world." 

She talked about her own desire quite indifferently and took a stance along with Jormundgandr. 

Four of its huge arms were already destroyed, and her breathing was also in gasps, but it didn’t look like there was even a shred of giving up in her. 

"Remaking the world? A convenient redo? Such thing is the height of boorishness. A fool who cannot even learn from their own mistake won’t arrive at the correct answer for an eternity. That’s why I hate it, what that man is doing. That’s enough reason to fight." 

"????" 

The remaining members took a deep breath seeing the fearless smile of Magialca. 

They affirmed their will, just for what they were holding the Sword Devices in their grasp, and then?? 

– 

"??Here I go. Reload on Fire." 

Fugil lifted his Sword Device and activated Bahamut’s Divine Raiment. 

The target of the ability was Ouroboros that was towering behind Fugil. 

He was planning to compress and strengthen time by dozens of times and switched into offense at the later five seconds when it entered overwhelmingly accelerated state. 

"??UooOOOO!" 

Instantly Greifer roared and charged forward with Cuelebre’s flight. 

It already wasn’t a situation where cheap tricks would work. 

He activated his defense using Photon Dive and accelerated toward Ouroboros’s chest in a straight line. 

In case Fugil performed compression strengthening on time using Reload on Fire, it would be mostly unmoving in the first five seconds. 

Greifer’s aim in that case was to deal damage to the main body in that opening and stop Endless. 

At the same time he used Photon Dive earlier in order to break Fugil’s focus but?? 

*GINN!* 

The instant Greifer attacked with Tail Blade, Fugil’s great sword crushed it. 

It was the rewind of the scene they saw before this. 

The only weak point of Photon Dive??the effect to disperse the attack wouldn’t work only in the case the user was the one moving and touching toward the opponent’s weapon. Fugil took advantage of that and destroyed Greifer’s armor apart. 

"Guh, ga……!" 

If Lisha and the others were here, they would surely notice that it was similar with Critical Hit that Lux mainly used when he was using his Wyvern. 

The starting point of the opponent’s attack. If the point before the strength was released was crushed, the attack’s power would be reflected back toward the enemy as it was. It was a special technique of counterattack. 

However, the attack of Bahamut that also used the strengthening of Over Limit had a might that far surpassed that. 

The impact instantly pierced through the barrier and blew up Cuelebre’s armor from the inside. 

Cracks entered the young man’s bones here and there and a lump of blood was spat out from his mouth. 

It was a decisive defeat. 

Even so Greifer pulled out his Sword Device and activated the special armament Mist Cypher. 

He obstructed the field of vision using mist that was made from metal particles and even sealed detection using radar. 

Even though he understood that it was nothing more than a bit of a hindrance, he desperately hanged on with tenacity. 

"So you throw away the fate that was saved by Sacred Eclipse by yourself. You cannot even discover the path that you should follow, in the end you are just a stray dog." 

Fugil’s gaze was extremely chilly. 

But, even while falling with his Divine Drag-Ride destroyed, Greifer lifted his sword towards the heavens with loud determination. 

It was though he was thrusting his fang towards the existence standing at a height he wouldn’t be able to reach in any way. 

As though he was rebelling even against the fate that was guided by Sacred Eclipse. 

His consciousness didn’t cut off. He was continuing to maintain Mist Cypher’s mist of metal particles. 

"So what huh? You think I’ll just wag my tail after getting fed on a whim? I’m not that vice captain-sama but, I’m also fed up. You can try to kill or rule anyone as you please but??. A human who cannot stomach that……exists right here!" 

At the end he threw Cuelebre’s Sword Device towards Fugil who was hovering in midair. 

Fugil easily flicked it away using Bahamut’s great sword. In that instant lightning pierced through the mist from above and hit. 

"??Agreed. I too cannot accept your method. You are the one who possess everything, and know everything there is. To look down on us from above and laugh at our choices, is selfishness." 

Vritra’s special armament??Vajra. 

The satellite weapon floated in the sky and dropped lightning attacks. Soffice also tackled towards Ouroboros along with it. 

A Drag-Ride that was hit fully by electric shock would have its movement temporarily restrained. 

Thus Mahapurana that Soffice activated next drew in Bahamut while at the same time she stabbed the tip of her Blade towards the opponent’s torso. 

The pulling power and the power of thrusting to pierce through. 

Soffice attacked using all her remaining energy, however, it was defended by Fugil himself instead of Bahamut. 

"??!?" 

It was no other than the Sword Device of Ouroboros that Fugil drew out himself. 

It diverted the tip of the Blade that Soffice lunged with and the direct attack toward the flesh body was averted. 

It was unimaginable that the slash of a Divine Drag-Ride was diverted only by a Sword Device and the sword skill of a flesh body. Even the expressionless Soffice looked shocked. 

She once more understood with her body that Fugil himself was an inhuman existence that surpassed a Nocturnal. Right after that?? 

"??To obtain strength, suitable qualifications and caliber are necessary. All of you don’t have that." 

Fugil who dodged the Blade using godly sword skill told Soffice whisperingly. 

After that, he sent his thought into the Sword Device he was holding and a flash of Quick Draw smashed Vritra. 

"Ku??a" 

Next after Greifer, Soffice was starting to freefall. In order to prevent further attacks towards her, Mel and Ddraig Gwiber attacked Fugil from behind. 

"??Dual Shift! Fall down you!" 

The Divine Raiment that manipulated temperature. 

Mel used it in diverse ways, but in this moment she focused great heat at the part that gave moving power to Bahamut. 

Fugil’s Bahamut received Soffice’s lightning attack before this. Furthermore it was using Over Limit, so the heat of the Force Core was high. Seeing that she took action to make the Drag-Ride overheat. 

"??……" 

That choice gave result and Bahamut’s movement dulled considerably. 

But, in that instant Ouroboros that was standing by behind Fugil moved and a flash of the gigantic Blade it lifted directly hit Ddraig Gwiber. 

"A, kahah……!" 

The accelerated slash of Ouroboros that was target of Reload on Fire was already unavoidable. She understood that. 

She already resolved herself and poured her whole defensive strength into her barrier, but the might of the attack was just too much in a different dimension. 

Ddraig Gwiber’s armor was crushed, her arm and ribs broke, and intense pain burned her brain. 

She crashed onto the ground. Within her hazy consciousness, Mel gripped her Sword Device tightly even then and continued to use Dual Shift. 

Although she received a direct hit, she twisted her body and only barely avoided having her Force Core destroyed. She continued to maintain her Divine Raiment. 

She avoided instant death from the slash of the super accelerated Ouroboros because of her preeminent senses in Drag-Ride control. 

And then, she continued to send heat to restrain Fugil’s movement even while she was dying was because of her obstinacy as the youngest Seven Dragon Paladin. 

"Mel! Stop it already! You’re going to die if you continue to use your Divine Raiment like that!?" 

Magialca who saw that called out to her in panic. 

In the first place Mel who was young and had low stamina had passed her limit since a long time ago. 

Even so she gritted her teeth and endured from losing consciousness. 

She received the gaze of Fugil who was looking down on her coldly, even so she didn’t back down from it. 

"I……won’t recognize, it. I lived in a world where there is no redo……. No matter what kind of unhappiness I met, even if I’m mistaken, something like righteousness can only be found by yourself." 

In her childhood, her whole family was slaughtered by the Abyss in her birthplace, the Ymir Theocracy. 

Even so holding the pride of her distinguished family in her heart, Mel stood up alone and lived on. 

She overcame the death of Orphel who was like her mother, opposed the fate where there was no turning back by any means, and faced her weak heart. 

"I, won’t recognize it……. I cannot believe someone who did such thing. That’s why??I won’t lose. Against something like fate that you made to repeat??" 

She had been struck down and fell on the ground, prostrating without being able to stand up, even so Mel continued to grasp her Sword Device. 

The little remaining armor of Ddraig Gwiber shined. Fugil was restrained by the power of the Divine Raiment. 

"Fuh……" 

Fugil scoffed. He commanded Ouroboros that was standing behind him. 

The Blade that was like an iron tower was swung down once more. In that instant, a huge armor skated forward and blocked it. 

Almost at the same time, Mel ran out of strength and lost consciousness. 

In front of her, Rosa wearing Gorynych was standing. 

*BA, GIGIGIGIII……!* 

Impact ran through Gorynych along with a thunderous sound. Its two arms that were blocking the slash were smashed up. 

But, using the rearranging ability of the Divine Raiment Tartaros Frame, the arms were repaired while grabbing the sword at the same time. 

Gorynych grasped the weapon and pulled, and immediately restrained Ouroboros. 

Rosa gathered up the parts of Drag-Rides that were destroyed in this place until the limit, and then she combined them all into Devil Machia Mode. 

Unlike Fugil, Rosa didn’t have anything like superhuman stamina. She spat out blood due to extreme exhaustion, even so a smile surfaced on her lips. 

"You said a good thing there, even though you are just a kid." 

"Rosa……!" 

Aeril reflexively raised her voice seeing the girl who talked with a sarcastic tone. 

Under the power of rule change from Endless, they couldn’t attack Fugil and Ouroboros together, but it was possible for more than one person to block their attack. 

Even that possibility was a gamble, but Rosa splendidly won the bet. 

"No matter how much it get accelerated, it’s meaningless if it cannot move. Really unfortunate isn’t iit" 

"……What’s the point when you can only buy time for several seconds? Are you okay with squandering here what you finally obtained?" 

Right after Fugil spoke coldly, the main cannon that stretched out from Ouroboros’s chest was gathering highly dense energy. 

It was an overwhelming power that originally needed dozens of seconds until the energy was gathered, but the time acceleration from the compression strengthening made the energy gather with terrific speed. 

Even so there was no fear in Rosa’s eyes. 

The thing that was finally obtained by Rosa who was made to act a false personality. 

With that conviction filling her, she burned her life that was going to vanish from holding Fugil back. 

"Yes, I’m happyy. I believe that the person who saved me won’t betray me. That’s whyy, I’m not feeling scared anymore." 

"Kuh??!" 

Aeril immediately tied up Mel behind Rosa with her whip and pulled her away. 

Less than a second later, Ouroboros’s main Cannon fired. 

Impact and explosion enveloped the whole field of vision. 

The Devil Machia Mode Gorynych that received such might right from the front was smashed up. 

"??U, AAAH!" 

Aeril let out an agonized scream behind Jormundgandr that Magialca redeployed. 

Inside the scorching hell where she couldn’t even breathe. 

It was a space where if it was human who wasn’t wearing a Drag-Ride, their flesh body wouldn’t hold and they would not be able to take action. Fugil wearing Bahamut glided through it. 

He pieced through the violent storm of dust and leaped to in front of Magialca. 

"??Reload on Fire." 

Crimson radiance surged from the jet black colored sharp form and covered Magialca’s Jormundgandr completely. 

No, there was stillness as though the time of everything had stopped. 

It was the lead up for Violent Strike that Lux also performed. 

It was compression strengthening of time towards the wide area of the surroundings, but what Fugil used was incomparable to that. 

Aeril saw Fugil slashing within the space that had been decelerated until the extreme. She was tasting a delusion of having her time being halted. 

"……No consideration, huh" (Magialca) 

The word that Magialca said just before was burned into Aeril’s brain. 

Aeril burned into her memory the progression of Bahamut hacking Jormundgandr’s huge armor into pieces, even so she maintained her will strongly so that her concentration to her Divine Raiment wouldn’t be cut off. 

(Did I??face this battle for the sake of taking revenge for my elder sister and little sister?) 

No. 

Aeril thought deep inside her heart, that she just didn’t want to recognize it. 

The people who fought here, not one of them could accept the path of living a life where they had to be subservient to this hero who was also like an inhuman god. 

That was a reason worthy for the proud dragon users to risk their lives and fight. 

"Ku, u……" 

Magialca was letting out a faint groan inside the wide range area that was decelerated to the extreme. 

Even while Fugil was one-sidedly attacking fiercely, he was unable to catch sight of Magialca’s flesh body. 

"??I see. So it’s your work." 

Fugil’s gaze caught Aeril who was hiding behind Jormundgandr. 

With the Divine Raiment of Zahhak that had been destroyed until it couldn’t even fly anymore, Aeril made Fugil to forget the existence of Magialca, which he noticed. 

"Ku??!" 

Aeril swung her half destroyed Breath Whip as her last resistance, but it was unquestionably crushed due to the difference in time acceleration. 

And then, the instant the attack finished raining down, the remaining five seconds began. 

The time accelerated and the impact of slashes that Magialca and the others received struck, radiated, and pierced through their whole body. 

The huge armored arms of Jormundgandr were sent flying and destroyed, leaving a single fist behind. 

Right after that Ouroboros came pushing and swung up its large sword, it was at that timing a faint voice came from behind. 

"……How? I have never given that to you." 

Fugil directed an awakened gaze to behind Aeril and the others. 

*KIN-!* There was the sound of cutting through wind that instantly severed the atmosphere. 

In the eyes of Aeril who was sent flying and got her armor dispelled, the huge silhouette of the resurrected blue dragon was reflected. 

"That’s??" 

The surface of Singlen’s body was dyed jet black and red light was emitted from his taken off eye patch. 

And then the huge armor that was wrapping his small body was changing form into something bizarre. 

"Over Limit……, is it. So that guy also obtained, a trump card??" 

Right after that, intense light flickered and ice restrained Ouroboros. 

[The internal of Avalon is damaged once more. The remaking a few minutes from now is impossible.] 

Arshalia that was staying in the head of Ouroboros informed Fugil once more with a robotic voice. 

Leviathan in Over Limit. 

It was covered with additional armor and transformed. With its power output that represented its true form, Singlen attacked the control room once more. 

"It’s natural that you don’t know. After all you aren’t god or anything. You were unable to see through what I’m doing. Whether it’s about how I asked your little brother just a while ago how to do Over Limit too." 

"????" 

Aeril who saw Singlen’s cold smile kept lying down on the ground while guessing the truth from the two’s conversation. 

Aeril also knew how Lux could use Over Limit only at special situations where he remembered his memory. 

And then, now she was seeing Singlen facing Fugil like this, a certain type of conviction was born inside her. 

Could it be that this man was intending to defeat Fugil right from the start? 

He was trying to invite Lux to enter under his command since some time ago might also be for that, the same with him asking Lux most likely after their decisive battle just before about the method of Over Limit that Fugil never told to him. 

That perhaps, at the surface he was acting to realize something like the system of world unification under a country in order to hide his true intention from being perceived. 

But, 

"??How foolish. Why are you going that far? Are you unable to stomach my mission until that much?" 

"Exactly. I cannot stomach it at all, your whole existence." 

Singlen who released the strength of Baptism laughed in front of Fugil’s chilly gaze towards him. 

"You who seriously believes the delusion, that it is salvation for things to move just as you want it. That hubris of thinking that anything and everything can move just as you want it, I cannot tolerate that." 

"…………" 

"I also know how you altered history to exert influence to kill my elder sister. No, in your words that is the result of rousing someone who ought to be saved though. It doesn’t matter. It’s intolerable for me to live in an ideal garden that you fiddle around with. It’s so unpleasant that it’s better to die. Your existence that is." 

"……Fuh" 

Fugil scoffed at Singlen’s insult. 

Right after that, Leviathan dashed with an explosive force that made that large frame punched through the air. It approached towards Bahamut with powerful speed like a bullet and swung the great sword that was enveloped with water current. 

Leviathan that had activated Limit Break also increased the power and amount of the water current enveloping its body, furthermore Singlen also placed a great amount of obstacles made from ice around Ouroboros, holding its movements in check. 

However, Fugil also wasn’t losing. 

He avoided lethal attacks using Zero One, and aimed to activate Reload on Fire at pivotal points. 

The offense and defense with both sides displaying godlike feats that the eyes couldn’t follow anymore were interlacing before Aeril’s eyes. 

"Your method of pushing and creating an ideal that doesn’t even exist to other people, the selfishness of making me who was not even interested to go along with it, you making me this angry. All of those make you undeserving to live. I’ll take away everything you have! And push you down into hell!" 

The water current that was controlled with maximum output was giving a boost to Leviathan’s movement. 

The movement of kicking on the ground and dashing, the movement rotating the body to dodge. 

The instant sparks scattered from the exchanged attack, Bahamut’s armor froze. 

When its back wings were frozen and it fell, the frozen ground clung on the frame and stole its mobility. 

Leaning’s water control. It not only treated water as a weapon for offense and defense, it also freely controlled liquid and vapor, cornering Bahamut that was in Over Limit state. 

But, although Fugil was being pushed back, there was no hesitation in his control of Bahamut. 

He avoided lethal attacks with the best movement at the fastest speed and launched counterattacks. 

Even while his armor was smashed and gashes were carved onto his body, he was dodging with the shortest motion and then?? 

"Taking away everything I have, and pushing me into hell you said?" 

While he was sent flying and Leviathan’s pursuit was incoming, Bahamut’s armor shined red. 

"????" 

Singlen’s two eyes opened in alert and he immediately made a wall of ice as a shield. 

But, in that instant Bahamut’s slash easily broke through the defense and cut apart Leviathan’s armor. 

"??Gah!" 

Singlen’s left arm was sent flying along with the armor. Leviathan was smashed apart into pieces. 

"??Reload on Fire. I applied compression strengthening to hardness and made the endurance of everything around into less than a tenth." 

Originally it was the later five seconds that needed to be watched out at the process of compression strengthening, but if the first five seconds??the dampening effect was utilized, the target would receive weakening effect. 

Singlen who was at an advantage stopped his attack and immediately switched into defense because in the previous battle, the counter of Lux who used the neutralization of pain for counterattack had been imprinted into his consciousness. 

That battle that was held inside Avalon was also monitored. 

Fugil had grasped what happened in that battle, using that he took advantage at the opening in Singlen’s consciousness. 

In this extreme situation, Fugil surpassed Singlen in pure tactics of offense and defense and obtained victory??wasn’t what happened. 

"??It’s you who got caught, damn idiot." 

Crimson eyes opened glaringly and the blood soaked demon laughed. 

In that instant, Fugil noticed his position. 

Right beside him, Magialca and Jormundgandr was drawing back the last remaining huge mechanical arm, and unleashed a full powered punch towards Bahamut. 

Instantly, the Divine Raiment’s magic circle sparkled and a proportion of the damage she received until now was put into the attack, creating the maximum destructive power. 

"??Hell Tempest!" 

Impact burst out and explosion blast swallowed the area. 

Jormundgandr’s strike was hardened by dozens of times due to the compression strengthening from the Reload on Fire that Fugil activated. 

The fist screwed into the inside, causing the impact to permeate until the interior of the body due to the martial art’s unique stance of punching. Even if for example the Drag-Ride wasn’t smashed, Fugil would surely die from this. 

It wasn’t like Magialca and Singlen had made arrangements in advance to cooperate with each other in this predicament. 

A coincidence. No, it was unknown who was the one who started it, but their bodies moved as though hailing each other and their breathing were unknowingly harmonizing with each other. 

Normally their relationship was like cat and dog that were impossible to get along with each other, but they were in agreement at the single point of wishing to defeat Fugil. 

"……How foolish, hero-dono. What do you think a human is? Do you intend to make them into works of art that is put into a frame as decoration? Or as treasured pets with prestigious pedigree?" 

"It’s laughable that you who obtained everything with money are saying that." 

Singlen whose left arm was severed along with the armored arm was standing up while holding a sword with his remaining right hand. 

Despite his lethal wound that was gushing out blood, he called out to Magialca with a jesting grin. 

"That’s the fruit of pure effort. A tyrant like you has no right to criticize it." 

In response Magialca also insulted back with gasping breath while keeping her gaze nailed on Fugil. 

"But Fugil. Your method is even more intolerable. You see, you are imposing on humans. In your mouth you are speaking about saving the weak while deciding that they have to be existences that is worthy to be saved. Then you are choosing and recreating the world many times so that they become like that." 

Even Jormundgandr’s fist was cracking due to the backlash of the impact of punching with the backing of the highest level of Hell Tempest. 

Even that last remaining weapon was already unable to display its function satisfactorily. 

Fugil was standing up unsteadily. Behind him the armor of the restrained Ouroboros was shining. 

The attack just now only half landed. Bahamut was safe and Fugil too was maintaining a composed mind although he was vomiting blood a bit. 

Magialca and Singlen noticed that the reason for that was due to the support of Ouroboros behind him that was obstructing them. 

Just now, Ouroboros attacked Bahamut from behind. 

Therefore Magialca’s attack was neutralized by Endless’s rule change. 

– 

When oneself receives an attack that is unleashed by another person, they won’t receive an attack from another different person.? 

– 

The world’s rule that was continuing to be activated since some time ago due to Ouroboros’s Endless. 

Magialca had tested with Aeril secretly before, would the rule of impossible to attack be applicable in case someone attacked their own self. 

The result of the experiment was, it was impossible. 

Thus Magialca attacked Fugil with confidence, but the attack that Fugil launched towards himself through Ouroboros was the water blade of Singlen that he turned into off state using Zero One. 

[Attack, unleashed, by other person] 

Because the original starting point of the water blade was Singlen’s Leviathan, even though it was an attack that was received from Zero One turning it on, the rule change was applied to it. 

[Doesn’t, receive] 

In other words even though Magialca’s attack landed, Fugil didn’t receive its effect at all. 

It wasn’t a simple distortion of physical law. So to speak, it was a change of phenomenon. 

Magialca comprehended once more how Ouroboros was the strongest and greatest Artifact. 

And then, that instantaneous thinking capacity to immediately launch water blades from Ouroboros behind him after predicting Magialca’s attack slightly ahead. 

But, even with all the chances of victory running out, she had no intention of backing off here. 

The determination that was dwelling in Magialca’s chest provided no option of surrendering. 

"??I, love them. People’s selfishness, ugliness, and even their biased desires. All of those things that you disdained and try to erase from this world." 

"That’s exactly why I have to fulfill my mission. Humans cannot control themselves with determination. On the surface they wish for freedom and peace while they are obsessed with their own self-interest and drag other people into ruin. Therefore??the world has to be managed. Her and I have lived until now for the sake of that." 

In response Fugil calmly drove Bahamut and approached in front of Magialca. 

The armor was damaged and stained with blood due to the blade of water that hit him. 

Even so not even a single flaw could be seen from his movement. 

There was also no hesitation towards his own conviction. 

"Fuh……. Human is half an animal. Even the thinking that oneself is right is a selfish hubris. Of course evil also exists. But you see, imposing something like an ideal that you believe has to exist no matter what towards the whole of mankind is just wrong! Know that it’s evil to not even understand what you are stealing!" 

Magialca drew out her Sword Device and put all her strength into her grip. 

The last remaining armored arm of Jormundgandr unleashed a full powered straight punch that was added with a twisting motion. At the same time Singlen also fired water blade from the tip of his broken Blade. 

Fugil flew while dodging all of them in a hair’s breadth and landed a flash of sword into Jormundgandr’s remaining armor to pierce through it. 

Magialca received the backlash from that impact and blood spurted out from her whole body. 

Even so a peaceful smile was emerging on her lips. 

"Looks like……I can stay free until the very end. I’ll leave the rest to you Lux, and also my favorite pupil." 

The small statured body that was like a girl powerlessly crumbled down to the ground. 

Beside her, Ouroboros that was reigning behind Fugil skewered Singlen and Leviathan with the tip of the giant Blade that was like a steel tower. 

"……Pushing me into hell? Since that day more than a thousand years ago, my hell has been continuing all this time." 

A tone that was filled with emptiness. 

The completely freezing gaze was directed to Singlen’s corpse and Fugil spoke. 

"That Sacred Eclipse and Arshalia, they should be able to save the world. This distorted repeating cycle, the chain of unhappiness should be severed. They were trying to save everyone. All of you are unable to reach until that far. That’s all there is to it." 

"??Hah" 

Singlen died with Sword Device in hand while he kept showing his smile. Fugil felt like a laughing voice suddenly leaked out from him. 

"Farewell Singlen Shelbrit, the vessel of a king who I recognized." 

After speaking the words of parting, the robotic voice of the Automata Arshalia called out to Fugil from Ouroboros behind him. 

[Due to the regeneration of the destroyed mechanism and Ouroboros’s battle, the energy has become insufficient. It will be incomplete but, will we still carry out the world’s remaking using Endless here?] 

"??Yeah, Sacred Eclipse is already choosing the next vessel. We have to make this battle to come to an end on this occasion and usher in a new peace." 

[Understood, my master.] 

Fugil dispelled Bahamut and he was teleported to the center of Avalon. 

A few hours after that. 

Intense light covered the world with the old castle site in the abandoned capital of Guernica as the center.