Chapter 87:A Dramatic First (1)

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༺ A Dramatic First (1) ༻

The Forge of Struggle, that had been completely divided in half, tottered before collapsing. It looked as if someone had cut an apple in half and each piece fell to the ground.

Everywhere around, people were losing their balance, tumbling while screaming.

"Teach, we need to quickly get—!"

"What are you doing?! Why are you standing around—?!"

The screams of Riru and Iliya could be heard as well.

But, those sounds started to become more distant from my eardrums. They gradually slowed down and faded away.

"..."

Actually, it wasn't a metaphor, my surroundings were 'slowing down.'

The reason for this was the dense grey aura that emerged from Eleanor's body. It encompassed everything around me.

It was the Grey Devil's Authority, 'Corrosion'. It was the ability to exercise absolute dominion over all nearby spacetime.

And when thinking of its appearance in the original game, a space that was under a state of Corrosion went beyond simply stopping time; It also distorted the very fabric of space, ultimately resulting in tearing apart everything.

When the Grey Devil revealed her true power, it could even reach such a phenomenon. The ability to 'erase' a part of the world.

Since she hadn't collected all three Fragments yet, the true power of the Final Boss wouldn't be revealed. Nevertheless, this much power would be enough to obliterate the entire Forge of Struggle without much difficulty.

System Message

[ A moment of danger has been detected.]

[ Determined the situation as life-threatening. ]

[ Skill: Desperation raised to EX-Grade. ]

Amidst the slowed down world, such a message appeared before my eyes.

Except for a very small part in the main scenario, in most cases, a Devil's berserk event was pretty much a 'Game Over'.

As could be seen from the fact that it happened without me doing a single thing, the saying that a Devil in berserk would cause the destruction of the world were not empty words.

〚...〛

And...

The piercing glare from Eleanor's red eyes, as she floated in the air even though there was no space to stand on, was undoubtedly hostility verging on killing intent.

It wasn't for no reason that the system window displayed a 0% probability of survival. In the first place, my attempts to survive were rendered meaningless because of the power gap between us.

If the Grey Devil herself emerged, then I could somehow try talking with her, but even that was impossible right now.

When a Devil's Vessel went on berserk, it didn't mean that the Devil herself would descend. Instead, the Vessel's inherent evil disposition would be insanely amplified by the influence of the Fragments.

Although the Vessel contained the Devil's demonic aura, the one causing this phenomenon was not the 'Devil', but Eleanor 'herself'.

In other words...

There was no way out of this.

This was a certain death for me.

I felt the blood draining from my entire body.

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