Chapter 455: The Fight For The Whole World To See II

[Proto Earth]

The monster that Axel had suddenly manifested with his esper ability, is a wyvern that is about two times the size of a bus and has a firepower similar to a tank. Baring it's teeth towards Lilia, it then breaths out a mouthful of flame that is quite inferior to a dragon's flames. Nevertheless it was still hot enough to kill a person.

This was the test given by Axel to her. If she wants to join the fight, she should be capable enough to handle this level of threat. After all the fight that was happening on the main battlefield away from the decoys he had made, was a battle between monsters.

Pass Axel's test, defeat all the monster that he will release, that is how Lilia could get to Kaido's aid without being a burden.

The moment the wyvern spat out its flames, Lilia then has no choice but to instinctively use her skill "shadow walk" to hide in the shadows and avoid the attack. After avoiding the flames, she then pop out from another location through the shadows, as she jumps into the air, and slashed down her short sword towards the wyvern neck.

In just one slash, blood spilled all over the place like a rain, as the wyvern closed his wound by compressing ots muscles, before turning towards Lilia and releasing another breath attack.

In that moment, Lilia called out to her system as she begun to equip her suite which has its own defensive function against such an attack.

"Sys! Equip combat suit!"

(Sys: "Equipping!")

Under her command, her system equipped her with her usual outfit that is used whenever she dives into a dungeon. The moment she equipped her suit, a thin barrier suddenly formed around her, as it literally protected her from the wyvern's breath.

(Sys: "Daily auto save has been activated")

"Sys! Enter combat mode"

(Sys: "Entering combat mode")

The moment Lilia gave that command, the suite suddenly popped out a helmet, as it completely covered her face and prepared her for combat. By equipping the head gear that covered her face, she then could clearly see in the night, as the system helps her find the weakness of the enemy and give her solutions the moment she asked.

However for Lilia who is already quite experienced in combating monsters, she rarely uses such function as the weakness of the monster she was facing was a monster she always faces in the dungeon.

The moment she entered combat mode, her speed suddenly increased as she dodged various attacks from the wyvern and easily get close to its proximity.

After jumping off from the metal beam beside it, she then stepped on its head, before she plunged down its short sword towards its eyes and repeatedly stabb it. By stabbing it to the eye and the fact that she is using a short sword which has quite a length on it, her attacks repeatedly attacked its brain, which completely killed the wyvern itself.

However Axel was still not satisfied with Lilia's performance, so he  egun manifesting an even more difficult opponent. An insectoid.

"I admit! You really did great, but that's not enough... alright how about this, if you can defeat this insectoid, I'll allow you to join Kaido"

When Lilia heard those words, she then looked towards the Insectoid and immediately dived into the shadows. The moment she pops out behind the insectoid, the monster itself suddenly turned around in quick reaction and delivered a counter fist which directly hits the sword that Lilia was swinging towards it.

Surprisingly despite the insectoid seemingly looks stronger than Lilia, thr latter herself has also a considerable strength to the point that she can manage against tough enemies all on her own. Due to that, instead of being overpowered by an insectoid monster who were rumored to be as strong as titans, Lilia herself was able to offset the power of the insectoid and stand her ground.

This feat naturally surprised Axel and the insectoid itself, after all they never thought that Lilia would have such strength rivaling of a powerful creature.

Due to that, the insectoid delivered another blow with his other fist, which was easily blocked by Lilia's dagger. Following that, the insectoid launch blow after blow after blow, only to be repeatedly blocked by Lilia.

In that moment when the insectoid launched its 10th consecutive attack, Lilia then quickly blocked it with her elbow, before countering attacking with a back spin slash which forced the insectoid to duck down, before tackling her, lifting her up, and smashing her down to the ground.

However before the insectoid could pull itself away, Lilia then quickly endured the pain, as she pulled the insectoid in a hug and repeatedly stab it on its back. Unfortunately the insectoid's carapace blocked the stab on the back, as Axel laughed at commented on her attempt.

"I forgot to tell you, that's a beetle type insectoid... rhinoceros beetle to be exact"

While this information came in a surprise for Lilia, the insectoid quickly lifted her up, and angrily threw her towards the iron beam, before charging at her with a head butt.

Luckily for Lilia she was able to quickly integrate herself into the shadows which allows her to dodge the insectoid's attack.

After popping out of the insectoid's blindspot, Lilia quickly switches out her dagger and shortsword for a chain blade, as she then quickly released her skill.

"Smokescreen!!!"

In a single moment, a huge smokescreen erupted towards the surroundings, which quickly blurs everything in just a matter of nano seconds. Naturally this caught the insectoid off guard, after all with the smokescreen, it naturally disabled his senses for seeing things with his eyes. After all rhinoceros beetle mostly rely on their sight to track down its prey and avoid predators.

With that now gone, this situation is almost tantamount to Lilia fighting against a blind opponent.

Using her clones to spread out the chain like a net, Lilia then begun to prepare herself in order to deal with the insectoid.

First off she send off her clones to attack the insectoid all over the place, as the rest of her other clones begun to spread out the chain all over the place like a net. After that she then commanded her clones to use all of her critical skills in order to breakthrough the insectoids carapace, which soon begun to show signs of breaking due to numerous critics strikes the clones had landed on the insectoids body.

However the insectoid naturally fought back, as he begun to kill the clones one after the other while Also blitzing throughout the area to take down the clones that are quite a distance from him. Unfortunately none of them were Lilia herself who had meticulously hid herself from within the smoke by limiting her presence like some sorf of a hidden predator.

This type of skills are often used by wild animals in the wild, as they hunt for prey. In order to blend into the surroundings and avoid the prey of ever noticing them close by, they would often calm their breathing as if they were non-existent, while also calming all of their muscles as if they were dead. By doing this, even though they were just standing still and not moving anywhere, they would often be perceived as somewhat invisible due to their lack of presence. Like some sort of a camouflage.

One amazing thing about it, is that even though the insectoid is just right infeont of Lilia, the insectoid itself couldn't even sense her presence making her invisible from his detection.

Not long after when the clones managed to heavily break the insectoids carapace, Lilia then begun to move in lightning speed, as she wrapped the chains around the insectoids neck before it could even react, as she quickly run towards the edge of the building and used her strength to pull the chains off the building.

Just like that since the chains were also wrapped around the insectoids neck, the insectoid itself was also pulled along, as it was thrown off the building and come falling down from great heights.

However the moment Lilia managed to throw the insectoid off the building, she then quickly anchored the blade on the ledge of the building, as she quickly jumped off from the edge, while using the chains to swing her towards the falling insectoid.

While she was in the middle of swing down, she then encased her legs with mana as she enhanced her muscles on her legs causing arcs of lightning to appear from being overcharged with mana.

With this, the moment Lilia got close to the falling insectoid by swing directly towards it using the chains, she then squarely kicked it right at the chest, which caused the overcharged energy on her legs to flow directly at the carapace of the insectoid, and blow him away with powerful force similar to getting hit by a speeding bullet train.

Due to force distributed from Lilia's attack towards the carapace of the insectoid, not only did the insectoid got blown away, his carapace was also destroyed as the force was too much due to it being at the point of breaking apart.

With nothing to protect its soft insides, the insectoid then crashed through multiple corridors, until he got blasted through the other end of the building, where Lilia's other clones are waiting, by jumping on him while dealing with powerful blow one after another.

Lastly for the last attack, all the clones that landed on the insectoid then begun stabbing it with detonating knives, as they pushed the insectoid down to crash on the surface ground, before exploding consecutively which will ensure that the monster will die from that attack. Once the carapace was destroyed, it was quite easy for anyone to kill an insectoid since they tend to have fragile insides.

After that explosion happened, Lilia looked down from the building, as she noticed the insectoid scattered parts, from the wreckage of the explosion. With this, Lilia managed to pass Axel's test so that she could join Kaido himself.

While she was thinking of this, Axel suddenly appeared behind her, as he expressed his amazement from the tactics she had thought in order to deal with the insectoid.

"That was a genius... you night as well be a battle genius, I never expected that you would rely on the momentum and gravity to breakthrough the insectoids defense, anyway you won and as per agreement I'll let you join Kaido"

Before Anyone could even react, Axel quickly changed the scenery to the area near the place where Kaido and his group where fighting, as Lilia almost got motion sickness from that sudden shift of scenery. No matter what she really can't afford to get used on this reality manipulation ability.

"This is as far as I can send you, in fact with your speed, you would be able to join the fight in a matter of few minutes"

Hearing that Lilia then slowly nodded as she begun to walk away and check around the area on where they just suddenly teleported, but before she could do even take a single step, Axel then gave her his own message that he wanted to say towards Kaido.

"Send this message to Kaido, He can't die, I'm the only one allowed to kill him... remember that"

The moment Axel finished saying those words, the space around him suddenly twisted and swirl, as he was gone by the next second, as if space itself had eaten his existence. After seeing this, Lilia momentarily blinked in surprise, as she turned around and decided that it wasn't worth noticing that weird phenomenon.

Reality manipulation, it was so weird and complex that even she avoided to understand. After all reality manipulation is almost omnipotent based on how one uses it.

With that she then exits out of the alleyway as she ran towards the area where the battle was taking place.

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In this very moment, the battle was entering its next phase, as the destruction they caused slowly becomes unbearable for the whole city to bare. Due to Kaido's pressure towards their group, Janus has no choice but to further Amp the capabilities of his whole group to the next level causing more major destruction in their own fights. However despite that they were still being suppressed by Kaido's bombardment.

As if that wasn't enough, Belial and Argos would also try to intercept them in between Kaido's bombardment, making it almost impossible for them to counter attack.

In fact it would have been quite bearable if they have Tomas tank the attack themselves while they prepare for a counter attack, however the person himself is being held down by both Aileen and Fengris as they try their best to prevent him from rendezvous back to his own group.

In this very moment Argos swept in from above as he zoomed past Kaido and try to atleast take down either Lucian or Ekaterina along with him. However before he could get close to them, Janus switched Argos position with his, as Kaido's attack landed on him instead of Janus.

However the moment that happened, Belial suddenly tackled Ekaterina from the side, as they crashed through the building next door and land towards the street a few blocks away from them.

"Ekaterina!!!"

As Lucian called out her name in worry, Janus realized that one of them had been snatched making him click his tongue in annoyance. There were so many things that are happening at the same time, due to this, Janus can't concentrate on one single thing making it impossible for him to reactfast enough if simultaneous attack happened at the same time in high speed.

If he was annoyed by this situation, Lucian on the otherhand begun to panic, as he created a full mechanized armor similar to fictional movies and tried to follow where Belial dragged Ekaterina. However before he could go to her rescue, Janus quickly caught his hand and asked while he simultaneously defended themselves from Kaido's bombardment.

"Where the heck are you going?"

"Ekaterina! I need to save her"

"We can do that later"

"She needs my help"

As Lucian tried to urge Janus to let him go and rescue Ekaterina, Janus couldn't help but be even more annoyed towards Lucian, as he soon set aside his own pride and let him go. After all Ekaterina was also his teammate and since it was rumored within their group that Lucian had really formed a type of bond with Ekaterina, he figured that no matter what he says, Lucian would choose to disobey his orders rather than abandon Ekaterina.

"Tsk! Fine! But remember once something happened to you guys  it will be up to me on how to utilize you"

"Whatever"

After saying that Lucian then ran after Belial as Janus was left alone to deal with both Argos and Kaido. Thankfully he still have atleast Madrigal to ambush Argos, as she drag him down on the ground and preventing him from helping Kaido in breaking Janus defenses.

Now the only one that Janus had to deal with was Kaido himself.

"Looks like you can't even take full command anymore among your group, your slowly breaking apart"

As Kaido said this, he then punched Janus barrier with a friction strike, causing his barrier to break and blast away Janus towards the piled up rocks. However his attacks didn't end there as he continued his onslaught and turned the whole area into a sea of flames.

Unfortunately Janus suddenly submerged down deep into a shadows to avoid Kaido's attack and appeared behind him. With one chance Janus enhanced his strength to a bulkier state as he attack Kaido from behind  and catch him off guard. However due to Kaido's pyschic barrier always active during the fight, the primary damage was blocked by it, as the force from the attack itself simply blew kaido away by a few feet.

"Do you really think I would lose even if my members disobey my rules, your wrong... even if I am alone against you all, I can still take you all down all by myself"

As Janus said that, he then quickly enhanced his strength using a skill as he suddenly rushed towards Kaido in a breakneck speedand grabbed his head before dragging him across the wall while running upwards along the buildings walls.

In response to this, Kaido enhanced his psychic ability on his fist as he punched the wall with all he got, causing it to produce a shockwave which formed a huge crater on the wall and blast him off towards a far off building away from Janus.

However with Janus speed, he was able to close the wide distance between them in a single breath, as he elbowed Kaido straight towards the mall behind the 3 floor building he was standing on.

After crashing through the front door of the mall and landing on the front escalator, Kaido then groaned for a bit, as Janus suddenly appeared before him, causing him to quickly got up to avoid Janus initial stomp attack, only to get punched to his side with Janus follow up attack which was so fast that he couldn't even react fast enough.

But before he could be blown away by that follow up attack, Janus begun riddling him with rapid attack which further pummeled him down a peg.

A right hook to the face, a low kick to his side, straight punch to his chest, an uppercut with his left, a knee kick to his head, and a hammer strike on his back. Just like that Kaido fell down face flat, as he continued to groan dye to his body enduring the shockwave of Janus attack.

However right as he thought that it was all over, Janus suddenly grabbed Kaido from the back, as he threw him towards  the clothing department store, causing him to crash on the multiple corridors full of clothes.

"Don't disappoint me now... you piece of sh*t, fight back"

".... give me a sec"