Although Inori Yuzuriha hadn't woken up, her voice reached Shu Ouma's ears.
"Inori?"
"Shu, please use my power."
Inori's voice rang out again. Shu was certain that Inori hadn't woken up, but her voice was really in his ears; it wasn't fake.
"I understand. I will use your power!"
Shu reached his right hand into Inori's chest, just like when Inori summoned her Void Greatsword, grabbed the hilt, and slowly pulled it out.
The 'holding-sister-in-arms' move was ultimately reproduced in Shu's hands. Although Wang Xiaoming was the first to use it in this world, Shu also completed this classic scene.
The silver-white Void Greatsword was pulled out, and the light of Adam and Eve merged together, turning into a ball of light that expanded in all directions, directly blasting a huge gap in the monster's body.
Subsequently, in the aftermath of this explosion, Shu held Inori in his left arm and the Void Greatsword in his right, and flew away.
Gai Tsutsugami, who was outside, was thrown away by the explosion because the tentacles binding him were blasted apart. Losing the support of the power, he fell directly towards the sea below.
At a height of four hundred meters, no matter what posture he landed in, as long as he landed in the water, it would at least be a serious injury and disability. If he was unlucky, he would be knocked unconscious and drowned, or even killed on the spot. At such a terrifying height, hitting the water surface when landing was not much different from hitting a cement floor.
However, after he had fallen for a while, a beam of light flew over from the side, directly pushing him towards the monster's body, forcibly hanging him on the monster's body. It was a huge tooth that pierced his clothes and nailed him to the monster's body, forcibly stopping his fall.
Gai looked at the tooth piercing his clothes, then looked up at the sky and found Shu holding Inori and looking at him. It was clear that the tooth had been thrown over by Shu.
Shu didn't say anything, just glanced at Gai, then gripped the Void Greatsword and flew towards the sky.
"That guy, he can actually use Inori's Void Greatsword?"
From the beginning, Gai's understanding of the Void was that those who obtained the Power of the King could use the power of other people's Voids, but Wang Xiaoming's modified Void Gene did not allow this, because it was not the complete Power of the King.
But now, Shu, whose awakening level had reached 50%, possessed the complete Power of the King. He could use the King's power, so he could use Inori's Void Greatsword.
Holding Inori and gripping the Greatsword, Shu arrived in front of the monster's eyeball. Looking at this eye, which was as huge as a house, he slowly raised the Greatsword in his right hand.
"Disappear!"
Subsequently, the Greatsword swung down, merging the cutting power of the Void Greatsword with his own absorption power. This sword transformed into a huge white curtain of light, directly splitting the monster's eye in half, and even the monster's body was split in half!
732. The Awakening of the Last Person
Shu's sword directly split the monster's huge head open, the entire head was split in half by this sword.
However, the monster, split in half, did not die immediately. The intense pain caused it to wail, then it frantically mobilized all the tentacles it could use, attacking Shu in the sky.
But those tentacles, like the other tentacles before, couldn't get close to Shu's body at all. Moreover, because Shu had the Void Greatsword in his hand, Shu's attack range suddenly increased. With a casual swing of the sword, a large area of tentacles would be cut off. Because of his own absorption characteristic, every time he slashed out, the tentacles were not only cut off but also disappeared forever.
This situation caused the monster's tentacles to become fewer and fewer, and this situation gradually caused the monster to feel fear.
It didn't know how it had acquired the ability to devour, and then devoured so many creatures along the way, turning into what it was now. As a result, there was actually a creature that could devour it!
The humans watching couldn't see it, but as the main body being decomposed and absorbed, the monster could still see it. Its body was completely being devoured by the creature in front of it.
The instinct of a living thing made it afraid of being devoured, so it was also afraid of Shu.
The instinct to survive made it want to avoid Shu, but its own ability made it feel that it should be able to devour back, devour Shu, and there was also an instinct telling it that if it devoured Shu, it would become even stronger!
Ugh — — — —
The monster opened its big mouth, which had already been blasted by Shu. Although the injury was very serious, the wound had completely recovered, but there was no way to grow new flesh.
Danger and opportunity coexist! This was what this monster was feeling now. Since it had already felt it, then it would just act directly!
The monster's tentacles no longer moved towards Shu but quickly rushed towards the surroundings. It wanted to grab those Void Soldiers on the coastline.
Although it wanted to directly devour Shu, it also understood that its tentacles couldn't get close to Shu at all, so it chose to devour the other Void Soldiers first.
The sixty-odd Void Soldiers on the coastline had always just been paddling, not causing much damage to the monster, especially after Shu and the other two rushed up, they paddled even more seriously. So the monster felt that these creatures posed no threat to it at all, and directly sent all the tentacles below it, rushing towards the coastline.
The Void Soldiers who had been constantly launching ranged attacks and paddling on the coastline never expected this kind of thing to happen. Several of them were caught by the tentacles all at once. Those ranged attack Void Soldiers had almost no close combat ability.
Of course, it wasn't that they couldn't do close combat. As soldiers, close combat fighting was definitely something they knew, but the problem was the Void's ability. Generally, those with ranged abilities weren't strong in close combat, especially since they were entangled by the tentacles. They couldn't move at all. They were directly tied up as soon as they came up, so there was no way to move.
There were also some who wanted to resist, but unfortunately, their resistance was also using the power of the Void, but the monster's power was also the Void. When the difference in power was too great, it was useless at all. Their attacks were just like before, only able to scratch the monster's scales, completely unable to stop the monster from grabbing them.
After the monster's tentacles grabbed them, it directly dragged them into the water, then dragged them all the way from the waterway and quickly stuffed them into its mouth, starting to absorb them quickly.
The Void Gene part was absorbed by Shu, so it had to replenish the Void Gene. Where did the replenished Void Gene come from? It came from these Void Soldiers. Each of these Void Soldiers had accumulated a lot of Void Genes in their bodies due to constant combat. Using them to replenish the Void Gene was the best choice.
Shu didn't have time to stop the monster because his attention was on the monster's head, and the monster's head would directly retreat when Shu approached, and even start to avoid Shu's attacks.
And after dodging the attacks for a while, the monster's head even started to recover. The head that had been split open directly returned to its original appearance.
Because those Void Soldiers that it had swallowed were quickly absorbed by it. The Void Gene quickly replenished the part that had originally been decomposed and absorbed by Shu. The part of the head that had been split open directly recovered to its original appearance.
This sudden situation made Shu feel very pressured. He didn't expect that it could actually recover.
Soon, not only did the monster's head recover, but even the tentacles that had been cut off by Shu also recovered. This wave of recovery made Shu's previous attacks seem useless.
"How did this guy do it?"
Shu, who had completely awakened, had greatly enhanced his perception of the Void Gene, especially since his ability was absorption. This made him very puzzled. He didn't know that the Void Soldiers below had already suffered a great loss and those that were lost were all grabbed and devoured by the monster.
Shu couldn't see it, but Gai below could see it. He had been hanging below, unable to go up or down, just hanging there, watching the tentacles grab those Void Soldiers one by one and feed them.
Gai, who was hanging there, was very puzzled, but when he saw the tentacles that had been cut off by Shu reappear, he understood what was going on.
And during this waiting time, his heart was not calm, he was constantly thinking about it very uneasily.
Why could Shu do that? Clearly, his ability was defense, but now he had become so powerful. Why? His bow should be the most powerful attack. Even the tentacles that Inori couldn't cut, his bow could directly penetrate, but because the penetration range was relatively small, it didn't perform as well as Inori's cutting, but his penetration was the most powerful.
But what about now? Shu was there waving the Void Greatsword, but he was eking out a living under the other party's pity.
The more Gai thought about it, the more unconvinced he became. Originally, during these days at GHQ headquarters, he had always been suppressed by the combination of Shu and Inori. No one wanted to team up with him, and those Void Soldiers looked down on him. Now, he was even being hung here, unable to go up or down.
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, and the awakening level of the Void in Gai's body also began to rise rapidly.
The last person in the trio, the Void was about to fully awaken.
733. This Is My True Power
Eve, appointed by the Apocalypse Virus, Adam, appointed by Eve, and the Adam candidates researched by the staff, three individuals with deep connections, all had their Void Genomes fully awakened. Their simultaneous awakening generated a ripple that spread outwards from them as the center.
The spreading ripple extended throughout Tokyo Bay, then to Tokyo, and continued to spread outwards, encompassing even the entirety of Japan, and still showed no signs of stopping.
Wang Xiaoming, sensing the fluctuation of the Void in the air, understood that the final moment had arrived.
This wave of Void eventually encompassed the entire Earth, and the instant the wave fully affected the Earth, all the Apocalypse Viruses suddenly became active.
Even Wang Xiaoming could feel the power of the Void within him beginning to stir.
The power of the Void that Wang Xiaoming possessed was provided by the Void Genome, essentially a branch of the Apocalypse Virus. And since the mother body of the Apocalypse Virus was Mana Ouma within Yuzuriha Inori, Wang Xiaoming's power was also a branch.
However, the power of the Void didn't offer much improvement for Wang Xiaoming, so it wouldn't have a significant impact on him. Furthermore, the power of the Void was absorbed by Esther, so the power of the Void would be completely suppressed by Esther.
But it was different for others. After the Apocalypse Virus became active, the Void Awakening degree within all Void Genome soldiers began to surge. Their Void Genomes were like subjects encountering their king, receiving an order to become active, and each one of them became active.
In an instant, all the Void Genome soldiers who were still alive began to erupt. A Void Genome with a 50% Awakening degree represented immense power, which made them extremely happy, but their joy lasted less than ten seconds before a new change arrived.
The powerful force was uncontrollable. Their bodies began to rapidly crystallize, and their power was being released uncontrollably in all directions.
Immediately, all the Void Genome soldiers panicked. They were all unable to move, but they were constantly releasing power outwards. In reality, they weren't releasing power outwards, but frantically absorbing the activated Apocalypse Virus. The most direct manifestation was that the purple crystals on the surface of their bodies were increasing, and they were almost completely surrounded by purple crystals.
However, their consciousness was incredibly clear. In absolute clarity, they watched themselves being continuously surrounded by purple crystals, but were helpless to do anything. This was the most terrifying thing.
But soon, someone helped them solve this problem.
The monster, seeing these people motionless, directly pulled them all into the water with its tentacles, and then devoured them one by one. Before, when the Apocalypse Virus wasn't active, it still needed to throw these people into its mouth to devour them, but now it didn't even need to put them in its mouth. It could directly absorb them with its tentacles.
The Void Genome soldiers possessed a massive amount of Apocalypse Virus, even a lethal dose for them, but for the monster, this dose was simply the best supplement.
Its power was enhanced again, and even the scales on its body turned purple at this moment. Purple crystals began to appear all over its body, a symbol of the Apocalypse Virus.
The monster absorbed these powers, and its strength instantly underwent an ultra-powerful enhancement.
Shu Ouma, watching the monster change its appearance, frowned, raised the Void Sword in his hand, and slashed down at the monster's head again.
This time, the Void Sword once again cleaved open the monster's head, but the cleaved head didn't disappear like before, but recovered again.
"Nani?"
This time, Shu Ouma was truly shocked. He could have solved it with one strike before, but this time he couldn't even hurt the opponent.
As long as it recovers quickly, it doesn't count as being hurt, right?
"Impossible."
Shu Ouma could feel that his strike just now had absorbed a lot of Void power, but why did the part that the monster absorbed reappear?
Of course, it was because the monster was constantly absorbing new Void energy from below to replenish itself. Let's see if you absorb faster, or I replenish faster!
Not believing it, Shu Ouma slashed out again, and the monster was still injured, but it still recovered to normal the first time, just like before.
Moreover, after being slashed once, the monster didn't continue to be beaten, but began to fight back.
It waved its tentacles, and even lowered its height to attack Shu Ouma, releasing all the tentacles that were originally rushing towards it, and then waving them in the air to attack Shu Ouma. Those were thick tentacles with a diameter of seventy or eighty meters. That level of tentacle, one hit would feel like being hit by a skyscraper!
Shu Ouma waved the Void Sword in his hand, wanting to cut off the huge tentacle, but this time, the Void Sword didn't succeed. Although a huge opening was cut in the huge tentacle, it wasn't cut off. The purple crystals covering the tentacle blocked the Void Sword's attack.
Use Void to defeat Void!
Bang—
Unable to cut off the tentacle, Shu Ouma was directly sent flying by the tentacle.
The whole person was like a cannonball, smashed into the sea with a 'pa' sound.
Thanks to the strengthened body after the Void Determination, he wasn't directly killed by this whip, nor was he smashed to death on the sea surface.
After a brief pause, Shu Ouma rushed out of the sea again and flew into the sky.
He hugged Yuzuriha Inori in his arms. At this time, Yuzuriha Inori's face was pale, and it was obvious that the impact of falling into the water just now had affected her. She hadn't woken up in the first place, and now she had suffered a heavier blow, which made him angry again.
But anger couldn't stop the monster's attack. The monster's tentacles lashed over again, but this time, the monster's attack didn't succeed. A thick beam of light shot over from the side, directly severing the monster's tentacle, as if it had melted, directly penetrating through it.
"Don't treat me like I don't exist."
Not far away, Gai Tsutsugami maintained the posture of shooting an arrow and spoke coldly.
He held the bow in his left hand and stretched out his right hand towards the sky, maintaining a virtual grip. Purple crystals appeared out of thin air, turning into an arrow in his hand, and then placed it on the bow. The arrow changed from a purple crystal state to a white light arrow, aimed at the monster's other tentacle and shot out. The light arrow instantly turned into a huge pillar of light, directly penetrating and melting the other main tentacle.
"This is my true power!"
734. The Final Winner
The Bow that Pierces Everything. Under normal circumstances, the arrow he shoots is gathered from his own power, that is, using the Apocalypse Virus in his body to turn into an arrow. The amount of virus in his body was completely insufficient in the early stage, so the power in the early stage was very low.
But now, it's completely different, because the complete awakening of the Void power in the three of them's bodies has caused the global Apocalypse Virus to become active. Not only is it active, but even those activated Apocalypse Viruses are constantly gathering towards Japan.
The current Japan, especially Tokyo Bay, can be said to be surrounded by the Apocalypse Virus. The air is full of hidden Apocalypse Viruses. Just taking a breath is a large amount of Apocalypse Virus.
Therefore, the Apocalypse Virus that Gai Tsutsugami can now use can be said to be inexhaustible. He doesn't even need to use the Apocalypse Virus in his body. He can directly gather the Apocalypse Virus in the air with his right hand to turn it into an arrow, and then shoot it out.
The arrow formed by the gathering of sufficient Apocalypse Virus has unparalleled power and can be easily solved.
This is Gai Tsutsugami's true power!
Gai Tsutsugami, who had awakened his true power, could also float in mid-air, just like Shu Ouma, except that he didn't have a girl in his arms to hold.
Gai Tsutsugami looked at Shu Ouma, and Shu Ouma also looked at Gai Tsutsugami, and then they acted together.
Shu Ouma raised the Void Sword in his hand and slashed directly at the monster, while Gai Tsutsugami also gathered an arrow again and shot it at the monster.
The attack that the monster had to face suddenly changed from Shu Ouma alone to Shu Ouma and Gai Tsutsugami. One attacked the monster's head from above, and the other attacked the tentacles supporting the monster's body from below.
With this set of attacks, the monster couldn't withstand two super-strong outputs at the same time, because after Gai Tsutsugami and the other two awakened at the same time, their speed of absorbing the Apocalypse Virus was too fast. Although the monster was also absorbing the Apocalypse Virus, the main source of the Apocalypse Virus it absorbed was the Void Genome soldiers below.
And the number of Void Genome soldiers was limited, or even very limited. All the Void Genome soldiers were absorbed by the monster before they could fully absorb the Apocalypse Virus, which led to the monster's Apocalypse Virus reserves skyrocketing in a short period of time, but there was no new source of Apocalypse Virus. It didn't rely on absorbing the Apocalypse Virus from the air, but relied on its own body to devour the opponent.
Unlike Shu Ouma and Gai Tsutsugami, who could directly absorb the Apocalypse Virus by breathing.
Without a new source, but there were still two enemies below who were constantly absorbing the Apocalypse Virus and then attacking it, which made the monster unable to resist at all.
Even if it wanted to devour Shu Ouma to reach its strongest state.
But unfortunately, it couldn't do it.
In the monster's painful wailing, its body was constantly ravaged by Shu Ouma and Gai Tsutsugami together, and finally fell after suffering numerous attacks.
The huge body fell into Tokyo Bay, directly creating a huge wave impact in Tokyo Bay.
Although it wasn't to the extent of a tsunami, this performance was also like a 500-meter-high skyscraper suddenly collapsing, and it was still collapsing into the sea.