399 # 399 Settled and the battle ended.








 With both arms turned into blades, Rutto slashes in.
 The 'crystalline armament' as referred to in Fraise is the burning of the life energy in the body in the dominant species from the inside to the outside.
 In a manner of speaking, it is similar to the 'fighting spirit' used by Ende and Else.
  With this, Ruto's instantaneous force also jumped up several levels and attacked Ende with an incomparable speed compared to the previous one.

''Raah!''

 Rut's blade arm is swung down on Ende. Like Ney and Lise, Ende doesn't have a divine sword. A proper bite will only cut you in half.
 Knowing this, Ende doesn't take a step back. He exhales deeply as his master taught him and draws a spiral of magic power on Tanda.

''【Fighting Qi Release】!
What...

 An explosive fighting qi was created and enveloped Ende. It's not just a fighting air. It's not just a fighting spirit mixed with divine air. It's not pure divine air like Fuyu Yoru's, but it's enough to oppose the evil family members. It's not just a matter of time before you'll be able to get your hands on it.
 It's not just a matter of time before you are able to get your hands on it. It is in the form of a serious white-bladed sword.

''Haha!''
What the hell?

 As he twisted as it was, Ende broke the blade of the mutant dominant species with a bokiri. Ende's back fist, which discarded the broken blade, neatly entered the side of Rutto's widening eyes.
 Rut's right arm, which had been blown off and broken, had begun to regenerate. Rut stops his rolling body and manages to regain his stance, stomping his feet.
 But the moment he turned his face to Ende, who was in front of him, something like an invisible fist impacted Rut's shoulder.

''Gu........! What, what...!
'You missed. I guess my 'jujin' still can't use it in a real fight.

 Ende muttered that with his right fist outstretched. When the distance is far, the hit rate is reduced, and furthermore, the power is much lower. This is not a technique that can be said to be very useful in battle. It is faster to hit them directly.

I'm not going to be able to get out of this one. I'll pay you back for the last time.

 Ende runs as fast as he can towards Rutto. Rut, who is armed, could see the movement this time.
 He guards Ende's fist, which has been unleashed, with his regenerated arm. In order to prevent it from being broken again, Ruto increased the density of the arm and remade it into a strong structure.
 There was a creaking sound, but Ruto's arm did not shatter.
 In return, he pointed his fist, armed with countless small spikes, at Ende's face.
 I'm sure you'll be pleased to know that I'm not the only one who has been in this situation.

''Guh-uh-uh!''

 A lut thrown on one back slammed into the ground.
 Just as Ende was about to swing his fist down as a follow-up, a light looming from the side caught his eye and he quickly jumped back from the spot.
 A heat ray ran through the spot where his head had been just a moment ago.
 That laser-like heat ray hit the barrier of the [Prison] that surrounded them and disappeared.
 When I looked at the end of the light shot out, I saw that Leto had just gathered the light at the tip of his right arm, which was pointed like a stake.

''Die!''

 Once again, a heat beam shot out of Leto's right arm.
 Ende ducked it with a backstep and moved away from Ruto.
 I'm sure you'll be able to find out more about this as well.

''Kukka!''

 Ney flicked his blade arm with his divine sword, and the flicked arm wrapped around Leto's torso, and with a gulp, he pulled one half of his twin to him.
 Leto flew straight through the air, spun around, and landed next to his twin brother.

'Tch, I was hoping to take you down while you were still in pieces.

 Ende clicks his tongue as he looks at the twin mutant dominant species that are poised back to back with each other.
 Because they are twins, the coordination between these two is formidable. They cover each other's gaps, and both their attacks and defenses produce not just double, but many times the effect.

''I'm sorry. I couldn't hold you down.''
Bad.
That's all right. I didn't kill Rutto myself.

 Ende returned that to Nay and Lise, who faced off with the twins between them.
 Ende kicked the earth with a foot that was clothed in fighting qi. Ruto's blade arm reacted to it and attacked Ende, but his fist, which was densely laced with divine fighting qi, played it off.
 Ende's sharp kick is released toward Rutto, who has lost his protection.
 But this time, Leto's blade arm, which was behind Ruto, is thrust out like a spear towards Ende.

''Kuch!''

 He deflected his upper body to duck it, and Ende broke free from the scene by rolling to the side.
 Leto moved without even looking at Ruto. He intercepted Ende, who was attacking Ruto behind him, while turning his attention towards Ney and the others.

''It's still troublesome.......these two.......''
That's my line. I didn't expect this from a little fish. Yura's going to laugh at me, that's for sure. 'Leto! Let's just do it all at once already!
Yeah. I'm getting tired of this. I don't like it when a woman sits on her haunches in front of me. Let's do it, Lutfi.

 Leto smiled fearlessly as he stared at their former 'king' standing behind Nei and the others.
 With a crunch, countless crystalline metal pillars radiated out from underneath the two men's feet like a bamboo shoot.
 The metal pillars covered the two men's feet in the blink of an eye, pushing them up.
 The multiplying metal soon formed a single figure, and began to expose its eight legs and body in front of Ende and the others.
 It is a spider. From its head sprouted twins from the waist up.
 In this world, there is a demon race called Arachneh, whose upper body is female and lower body is a spider. Although it resembled that Arachneh's appearance, Arachneh's upper body was not split into two halves of a man and a woman, and it was not as hard as metal to begin with.

''So you're revealing your true nature?''
It's also the power Yura gave me. I've been hiding it because it was annoying, but it doesn't matter now. I'll kill you all and then take you in.

 It's like it's Rutto who's talking, but Leto's voice is mixed in. It seems that they have become one and the same in the true sense of the word.
 I can see the flow of magic in Ende as well. Their nucleus, which used to be in the back of their throats, has now moved to the spider's heart. The two nuclei are now functioning as one nucleus.
 Leto's right arm and Rutto's left arm began to change significantly. Eventually, a giant pair of scissors 《scissors》 appeared there.
 These were not scissors like a crab or scorpion. They are metal cutting scissors used by humans.

''Sora!''

 The tips of the closed scissors attacked Ende.
 The scissors pierced deep into the ground where Ende had jumped back as quickly as possible.

''I'll cut you in half!

 This time Leto's voice sounded a little like Rut's mixed in with Leto's.
 Leto's right arm, which served as Leto's scissors, reached out to Lise and closed in relentlessly in an attempt to cut her in half up and down.

''Lise!''

 Nay reaches out to his sister, who has completely missed the run.
 It's not Lise's torso that Leto's shears are trying to break up. It's her neck. In other words, they are trying to slice Lise open with the entire nucleus at the back of the dominant species' throat.
 Once the nucleus is destroyed, it is no longer possible to regenerate, even for the dominant species. That would mean death.
 A moment before it seemed that Lise's head was going to be split apart by Leto's scissors, the scissors stopped with a high-pitched sound. No, it was stopped.

''Na........!

 A crystal-like pillar had emerged from the ground in front of Lise. The pillar interfered with Leto's scissors, and he was unable to close them.

You son of a b*tc*!

 The crystal pillar was easily severed as Leto put more power into the scissors with the divine energy of an evil god. However, in the meantime, Lise escaped from the scissors.

''How dare you interfere with me.......!

 Kicking, Leto turns his gaze to the person who would have created the crystal pillar. To Mel, the 'King' of the Frays, who stands calmly.

''This battle is what Endemuon and the three of them wanted. So I was going to watch it quietly, but........ I've reminded myself that I too need to draw a line. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I thought that you are still fellow countrymen 《Flaze》....... That's what I thought........no, I guess I did.
"Ha. We've already given up the Freys and their silly way of life. With this power, I can do whatever I want.
'We're no longer bound by Frase, or any of that stuff. We're free! They kill more and more people they don't like, rampaging and living the way they want to! I won't do as you, the King, say.
'Really........you can't hear me anymore.......'

 Mel slumped slightly and quickly looked up to look at Leto and Ruto in front of him.

''As the 'King' of the Frays, let's stop you guys from running amok. [Crystal Binding Chain 《Prisma Chain》]

 Under Mel's power, one crystal pillar after another shot out of the ground. The pillars transformed into the shape of chains and restrained Leto and Ruto's bodies in a cancerous manner.

''Kook! This is...!

 The spider's body begins to crackle and tear off the crystal chains that restrain it. The two who had turned their attention in that direction were slow to notice that a boy with a scarf fluttering in front of them had come around.

''Nah........!
The secret technique of Bushinryu, Shinra's Spiral Palm.

 Ende holds out his palm and dong! And as if to crush the ground, he took half a step forward and drove his palm, which was wrapped in a spiral of divine Qi, into the spider's body.
 Pang! The only sound was loud, but it made no difference to both Leto and Rutto.

'We've paid our debts now,'
''What are you saying........ ⁉︎''
'What? You're not going to... lie! What is this?

 Leto and Rutto's dark golden bodies dissolved.
 The two of them understood. That Ende's blow earlier had shattered the nucleus of the two men inside their bodies. It did not damage their bodies at all, but only impacted the nucleus, shattering it instantly.
 Even the blessing of the evil gods that were guarding the nucleus, as their attendants, were no match for the true god's blessing.
 The body of the spider crumbled as black smoke rose and Leto and Ruto fell to the ground. Their bodies couldn't hold their shapes either and gradually dissolved.
 They opened their mouths to scream something, but it did not come out in their voices.
 Even though it was retribution for selling his heart to the evil gods, Nei closed his eyes at the last sight of his former compatriot. If he made a mistake, he could have been like that, too.
 When Ney opened his eyes, all he saw was a black, smoking, sooty object making a stain on the ground. The twins, who had once been the dominant species, had disappeared from this world altogether.

''Nay are you okay?''
Yeah, I'm fine.

 Nay replies briefly to Lise who called out to him. Even though they didn't get along with each other, they had spent tens of thousands of years with each other. Ney has mixed feelings about this.
 I'm sure you'll be happy to know that I'm not the only one. It's the Regingrave that Fuyao Yao rides.

''Looks like it's all taken care of.''
You too.

 Ende raises his hand to answer Fuyuya's voice that came from Regingrave's external speakers.
 As if in response to that voice, the barrier of [Prison] that surrounded the four of them disappeared like pale snow.

''All that's left is to clean up the remaining mutants. I'm sorry, but can you go out with the Dragon Knight 《Dragoon》?''
You're still such a rough user, Fuyu Yoru. Well, never mind. But in return, I'll get paid properly.
"Yeah. I'll buy you a cutlet bowl, ten-don, eel jumbo, whatever you want.
Why is it limited to food......... No, I know, but....

 Ende glances at the three dominant seed girls behind her. These girls eat really well, despite the fact that they don't take it as energy. Almost all of the rewards Ende earns from the Adventurer's Guild disappear as food expenses.
 The three of them might eat up at least one dragon.
 Ende reminded himself that even if he was rewarded with money, if it would disappear as food anyway, it would probably be better to get it in kind from the beginning.


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Well, I guess it's all over for now, huh?

 Leaning back in the Regingrave's seat, he calls up the data from the surrounding map from his phone set in the center console. The number of mutants left, zero. The cleanup is complete.
 There was a fair amount of damage, but no deaths. I wonder if the damage from the two heavy knights taken in by the anemone mutants and Su's Ortlindeoverlord is significant. No, though there are some heavy knights that were wrecked.
 My head hurts when I think about the aftermath. For now, I'll have to wait until the Two World Congress to discuss the future. Western World........I think the kings of the Western Continent are now fully aware of the magnitude of this attack.
 Considering the captured frame gear and the behavior of the mutants up to now, it's not surprising that a frame gear type mutant was created.
 We'll have to constantly think of something that exceeds that.... Let's just leave this part to the doctor.
 If Ende and the others are right, now the only remaining dominant species is that dominant species called Yura.
 But a moment after that sea anemone mutant disappeared, the shadow in the darkness seemed to be different from Yura's...
 Did Ende and the others call in new friends from the 'Crystalline Realm, Frasier' as they called it? I don't know about that either....
 There's no point in thinking about it. We just have to do what we can do now.
 I fully opened up Regingrave's communications and sent out a message to everyone.

''Operation completed. I'm not going to be able to get a hold of you. We're going to return all planes.