CH 262

/Flame Buster. Maximum./

Arc rushed toward Mary.

The magic spell she had chanted and prepared beforehand was activated, and soon, her magic power was rearranged according to the preset circuitry of the magic spell. Soon, an explosion rang out.

/Magnum Revolver./

Six magic spheres rose above Arc’s shoulders as sparks burst out.

Arc’s body accelerated rapidly, and her punches, which were powerful enough to knock down a building, poured out like thunderbolts towards her target, Mary.

/Lightning Blade of Zeus!/

And suddenly, lightning flashed from Olympos, Merlin’s Divine Weapon, and soon rained down upon Mary.

Since he had used up a considerable number of his Howling Spell magic stones during the Gold Dragon raid, Merlin was running low on Howling Spell magic stones. However, it only took him about a day to produce one Howling Spell magic stone, so Merlin wasn’t too concerned about his dwindling stock.

“Ah, what is this all about?”

However, even after seeing all these destructive attacks, Mary spoke in a carefree, no, to be more specific, in an annoyed tone of voice.

Boom!

Bam!

A stream of cloudy white air soon swirled around her and swept away all the party members’ attacks that were sent her way.

Each and every one of the attacks were destructive and exceedingly powerful, so they couldn’t be easily ignored; however, Mary blocked all the incoming attacks without breaking a sweat.

“This is… amazing. She really is a transcendent, albeit she seems to be a pseudo transcendent rather than a full transcendent.”

Sungmuk, who noticed that the energy that Mary utilized was strong qi, looked at Mary with an exasperated yet impressed expression. Based on his memory, he recalled that Mary was strong.

However, amongst all Jin Continent’s martial art practitioners, past and present, only three martial art practitioners had ever reached the transcendent realm; Mary’s skills and abilities had been nowhere near the level of those three practitioners, so she hadn’t been anywhere near the transcendent realm in the past.

However, in such a short time, she had developed at a frightening speed.

After Sungmuk remarked aloud, Mary casually replied back.

“You seem to be misunderstanding something.”

“I’m… misunderstanding something?”

“Yes. Of course, I know you… but you never really knew me. The ‘me’ you know is only [a part] of me.”

[Whoosh-]

The space behind Mary opened, and soon, a huge image of a wolf appeared.

A magic circle, which emitted a powerful aura of magic power, began to rise from the surroundings, and Mary’s white hair started fluttering in the air.

Mary gracefully bowed her head.

“Let me introduce myself again. Intruders, my name is Marionette Hold. A guide NPC, a helper NPC, a spokesperson for DIO, and a cute girl who has become an idol star, but…”

A tremendous force began to emanate from Mary, who took a step forward.

It was the power of transcendence that a [fake] transcendent, like the Gold Dragon, could never imitate.

“I am DIO’s Skill Master and the guardian of this space. I don’t know what your purpose is in visiting this place, but whatever it is, you shall not succeed, as it is impossible for you to enter this space.”

Internal energy…

Magic power…

Chakra…

Pure spiritual power…

All spiritual powers that existed in DIO, including divine power and life force, were concentrated in and emanating from her. Moreover, it wasn’t just the case of Mary possessing a small bit of each of these powers; she had mastered each and every spiritual power and reached the pinnacle in each field.

“Frozen Spear. Maximum.”

However, as if she couldn’t feel the tremendously powerful and daunting aura radiating from Mary, Arc created a Frozen Spear.

Ark ran forward and grabbed the spear made of ice; a spell engraving soon appeared on the spear.

“Longinus.”

“Tie her up. Hold onto her. Suppress and suffocate her!”

“Heavenly Circulation of Plums.”

“Ugh, I guess I should do something as well! Lightning strike!”

“Crush and suppress her!”

Arc, Merlin Sungmuk, as well as Quiet Heaven and Ellie, started attacking Mary with their spells and abilities. Mary, who had just emanated a tremendous fighting aura and spirit, was taken aback by the sight.

“I don’t understand. Can’t you feel the power gap between me and you all?”

With a light wave of her hand, Mary shattered all the incoming attacks.

It was true that Merlin and Sungmuk were powerful beings, as they were both Level 19, and Arc and the two pets possessed formidable power, but Mary was DIO’s Skill Master, guardian of the system control room, and was currently in Crimson Mode. In this state, she could easily overwhelm any of the seven Holy Land grandmasters.

Even though Mary’s overwhelming power could only be maintained within DIO, Mary wasn’t an opponent that Merlin and the others could deal with.

“Killing users is a bit embarrassing and beneath me, but I’m under orders to eliminate any and all unauthorized beings who try to trespass the system control room, so it can’t be helped. However, I’m still a bit surprised that I’m confronting users rather than an external entity.”

At the same time as she murmured, two streams of heat burst out from the magic circle that she had created under her feet.

It was the SS Rank, super-high-level destructive spell, Hell Fire.

Quiet Heaven and Ellie were swept away without being able to put up much of a resistance.

Whoosh!

Then, a red aura erupted from the Divine Weapon that she held in her left hand.

She targeted Sungmuk.

“Hmpf!”

Sungmuk spun his body and enwrapped his entire body with a beautiful layer of blooming plum blossom leaves.

Even a veteran master practitioner of the Frost Mountain discipline wouldn’t be able to imitate such a perfect defensive plum blossom move.

The blooming plum blossoms, which were known to even bloom through the snow, were all made of strong qi, the pinnacle achievement of martial arts. Hence, Sungmuk’s defense was strong enough to withstand a direct hit from even a nuclear missile.

“That’s useless.”

However, Mary scoffed at Sungmuk’s actions as she wielded her Divine Weapon, Rage.

Crack!

Rage.

Soon, the red aura that was circulating around Rage burst into the plum blossom leaves wrapped around Sungmuk’s body. Numerous cracks started to appear on Sungmuk’s plum blossom barrier; it was as if a glass window had been struck by a rubber mallet.

Though Sungmuk’s plum blossom defensive barrier withstood Mary’s initial attack, his defensive barrier shattered and dissipated in an instant. Soon, Sungmuk’s body was swept away by Rage’s red aura.

“Lightning Fist. Maximum.”

Arc stood in front of Mary. Dazzling lights flashed from both her fists, but that wasn’t all.

Flash!

The ‘Lightning Blade of Zeus’, shot by Merlin, hits Arc’s back. Of course, Merlin had modified the spell and removed its destructive qualities, so only the Lightning Blade of Zeus’ electric shock was sent out. The massive electric currency fused with Arc’s Lightning Fist spell.

“It’s a really refreshing and creative attempt… but do you truly believe that you can affect me with such a pitiful attack?”

Even though Mary was facing a lightning bolt attack that possessed a voltage of tens of billions of volts, an amount of voltage that couldn’t easily be produced in a nuclear power plant of any size, Mary remained calm.

No, to be more precise, she was so carefree that she extended her defenseless head to meet Arc’s attack.

“Full Lightning!!”

A thunderbolt of tremendous power struck Mary directly in the face, accompanied by a powerful, blinding flash of light. For a human-sized target, such a powerful attack should have been enough to evaporate its target, let alone singe the target completely black.

However, though the attack seemed to have landed, not a single strand of Mary’s hair stood up.

There seemed to be no visible effect from the multi-billion voltage attack.

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This result was natural since the attack had never landed on Mary’s body.

When one entered the transcendent realm, one’s physical body also deviated, to some extent, from the general laws of physics.

However, that deviation shouldn’t have been to the extent wherein Mary could lightly accept an electric shock attack of tens of billions of volts.

The reason why she was safe was because of a very thin, invisible, single layer of film that wrapped around her entire body.

“Strong qi self-defense…”

“Now, do you all see and realize that there’s no hope? Well, I don’t want it to seem like I’m bullying you all, so I’ll quickly send you on your way. Goodbye.”

Once Mary finished her words, she shot out with Rage.

It was a natural movement, but Arc didn’t even try to avoid the attack.

Arc knew that Mary’s simple act of lifting and extending her sword contained the extreme pinnacle achievements within the martial arts practice, so Arc knew she wouldn’t be able to avoid such an attack.

Bam!

Soon, Arc’s body bounced off like a billiard ball hit by a cue stick.