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These words are more impactful than their ferocious appearance.
Rias's crimson pupils contracted as she looked at Sona beside her, her voice low:
"It's all about manipulation, no numbers... Is he mocking us for having magic power but no skill?"
"Do not."
Sona adjusted her glasses, the lenses reflecting the light of this pale world. Her expression was more solemn than ever before.
"This is the fairest, and also the cruelest rule. Our family background, bloodline, and innate total amount of magic power are... meaningless here."
This means that the destructive magic of Gremory and the water magic of Siddi no longer depend on their bloodline, but only on their understanding and skill in using power.
Himejima Akeno's usual gentle smile had vanished. She stared at a mechanical weapon with arcs of electricity crackling around its armor. The pure power of lightning made the fallen angel blood within her tremble.
"Such pure lightning...almost without a trace of impurity."
On the other side, Kiba Yuuto's hand had already grasped the hilt of the demonic sword that had appeared out of thin air. In his azure eyes, there was no longer any confusion, only a cold fighting spirit. His gaze was fixed on the mechanical weapons wielding swords and shields, analyzing their posture and center of gravity.
"As expected, the boss's arrangements will not disappoint." Saeko Busujima licked her lips, her eyes gleaming with excitement, and the blade of her long sword drew a cold arc in the pure white light.
Kasumigaoka Utaha crossed her arms, her wine-red eyes rapidly scanning all the enemies, her brain already working frantically, trying to find the flaws in the formation and the weaknesses in the logic of these steel monsters.
Yotsuya Miko tightly gripped a specially made pistol that Zhou Ye had given her at some point. Her body trembled slightly with fear, but her feet seemed nailed to the ground, and she did not take a single step back.
The spokesperson for the Tom Cat Legion didn't give them any more time to think.
Its scarlet electronic eyes scanned the entire area once more, and a cold, synthesized voice delivered the final announcement.
“Repeatedly, death is not the end. Before you conquer us, you will experience countless deaths and rebirths here.”
"Now……"
It slowly raised the high-frequency giant sword in its hand, and the blade began to emit high-temperature energy.
"Training, begin."
The moment the words fell, the red cores on the chests of dozens of mechanical Honkai Beasts shone brightly.
【boom--!】
The earth trembled violently, and like cannonballs, they surged forth with violent air currents, charging towards the two positions where the girls were located.
The heavy footsteps converged into a torrent of steel, each stomp causing the pure white space to tremble.
"Scatter! Find your own opponents!"
Rias shouted sharply, and crimson destructive magic erupted from her hands, heading towards the enemy charging at the forefront.
The battle began without any respite.
Whoosh!
Miko Yotsuya was the first to fall. The precise energy arrow tore open her shoulder, and the bloody wound made her let out a shrill scream. She staggered and fell to the ground, the special pistol in her hand slipping to the side, blood dripping down her arm and staining the pure white ground red.
See you!
Rias's heart clenched suddenly, and destructive magic surged violently around her.
Almost simultaneously, Kasumigaoka Utaha was also struck by an arrow. The arrow pierced her left shoulder precisely, the force of which sent her flying, crashing heavily to the ground. She tried to get up, but the excruciating pain contorted her face, and large beads of sweat rolled down her forehead.
Poetry Feather!
Nami gritted her teeth, the gem magic in her hand flashing violently.
The third to fall was Shizuka Marikawa. This usually elegant and composed private doctor was now clutching her right shoulder, pierced by an arrow, blood gushing from between her fingers, staining her white coat red. Her face was deathly pale from extreme pain, and her lips were bleeding from being clenched so tightly.
Shizuka!
Nan Lixiang roared and fired her gun wildly.
The three weakest women were ruthlessly eliminated in less than three minutes of the battle.
They lay in pools of blood, the excruciating pain of their lacerations causing their facial muscles to twitch uncontrollably. Blood continued to gush from the arrow wounds in their shoulders, pooling into glaring red puddles on the pristine white ground.
You bastard!
Nami dodged the attacks of the mechanical weapons while roaring angrily at the air.
Boss! Look at their injuries! What are we going to do about the girl's skin being damaged like this?!
Himejima Akeno's gentle facade shattered completely. Looking at the three lying in pools of blood, she was driven almost mad with heartache. Uncontrollably, lightning magic erupted from her body, electrifying the surrounding mechanical weapons and sending sparks flying.
Ye! You've gone too far!
Her voice was trembling with tears.
They are just ordinary girls!
Saeko Busujima severed the enemy's weapon with a single stroke, then turned to look at the wounded, a complex emotion flashing in her eyes:
This level of training... is truly too brutal.
When Saeko Busujima was a rookie in the Demon Slayer Corps, she went through similar training. It was cruel, but there was no other way. They were facing man-eating demons. If you weren't cruel, you would be eaten by the demons. Other girls thought it was cruel, but for her, it was necessary.
Sona adjusted her glasses, calmly analyzing the battle situation, but her voice trembled slightly:
In a real battle, these injuries... would render them incapable of fighting.
Rias's destructive magic became even more violent with rage. As she fought, she shouted: "Ye! Enough! Stop this training!"
However, Zhou Ye's voice did not ring out.
The Talking Tom-themed mechanical weapon coldly announced:
Training continues. The injured will be healed by [Heart of Life] in ten seconds and can rejoin the battle.
what? !
Nami stared wide-eyed in disbelief.
Sure enough, ten seconds later, the bodies of Yotsuya Miko, Kasumigaoka Utaha, and Marikawa Shizuka were enveloped by a green light that appeared from the sky. Their wounds healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, the bleeding disappeared, and they stood up again.
However, the excruciating pain, the feeling of flesh being torn apart by arrows, remained vividly in their memories.
Yotsuya Miko touched her shoulder, which had been injured earlier and was now fully healed, but her hand was still trembling.
That really hurt...
Her voice was choked with emotion.
Kasumigaoka Utaha bit her lower lip, her wine-red eyes glistening with tears of resentment.
This pain... is more real than I imagined.
As a doctor, Shizuka Marikawa understood the severity of the injury best. Looking at her undamaged shoulder, she felt a wave of fear wash over her.
"If this were in reality...we would already be dead," she said softly.
The mechanical weapons gave them no time to reflect before a new wave of attacks began.
Round two begins.
The spokesperson raised the giant sword in his hand once again.
This time, everyone understood. This was not a game, not a drill. This was real, brutal training at the cost of blood and pain.
Nami clenched her fists, her eyes burning with an indomitable spirit:
Boss, you bastard! Since you want us to suffer like this, then we'll show you just how strong we really are!
Rias took a deep breath, and her crimson magic coalesced once more:
Since we can't escape it, let's fight to the end!
The second round of education, fraught with blood and pain, is about to begin.
Chapter 127 Blood and Pain
The second round of education, marked by blood and pain, began with the cold pronouncement of the humanoid mechanical Honkai Beast.
This time, the girls had no room for wishful thinking. Their eyes burned with an indomitable spirit, and their magic and fighting spirit erupted with unprecedented intensity. However, reality was colder and more precise than they had imagined.
"Destroy!" Rias chanted loudly, and crimson destructive magic gathered in her palm into an extremely concentrated energy ball, which slammed into a humanoid mechanical Honkai Beast blocking her way like a meteor. That was the power that the Gremory family was so proud of, enough to blast even a high-level demon of the same rank into dust.
However, the humanoid mechanical Honkai Beast simply raised its left arm unhurriedly. On the arm, a seemingly ordinary circular shield instantly unfolded, with a deep vortex swirling at its center. [Void Shield]
The destructive magic orb struck the shield, but the expected earth-shattering explosion did not occur. It was like a clay ox sinking into the sea, silently swallowed up by the small whirlpool without even a ripple.
"Energy absorption complete. Threat level assessment: Low." A cold, synthesized voice emanated from the weapon.
Rias froze.
"What a joke!"
Himejima Akeno's figure appeared behind the weapon. A thick, golden lightning dragon descended from the sky, carrying a sacred aura capable of purifying all things and a violent power capable of destroying everything, and slammed down on the weapon's head.
【Boom! 】
Lightning burst forth, and electric snakes danced wildly.
However, when the light faded, the weapon remained standing intact, simply raising the [Void Shield] above its head. The vortex slowly stopped spinning, and instead, golden arcs of electricity began to dance across the surface of the shield.
"Lightning magic sample collected. Analysis in progress... Conclusion: Power is acceptable, technique is crude."
"This is impossible……"
For the first time, the resolute look on Akeno Himejima's face was replaced by pure astonishment. Their two strongest attacks had been so easily neutralized.
On the other side of the battlefield, the situation in Cangna was equally dire.
"In the name of Sidi, transform into a cage of strangulation!" She formed hand seals, and the pure white ground beneath her feet instantly liquefied, transforming into a surging torrent that formed dozens of high-speed rotating water tornadoes, coiling towards the three humanoid mechanical Honkai Beasts that surrounded her. This was the exquisite water magic of the Sidi family, enough to control the battlefield and trap and crush the enemy.
But the red cores on the chests of those three weapons simultaneously flashed with blue light.
[Click! Click! Click!]
Extremely cold air erupted from their bodies, freezing even the air in their wake. The moment Cangna's prized waterspouts came into contact with the freezing air, they were visibly frozen from the bottom up. In just two or three seconds, the dozens of menacing waterspouts were transformed into crystal-clear, lifeless ice sculptures.
"Artificial freezing device activated. Target's magical attributes have been completely neutralized. It is recommended that the target abandon ineffective attacks."
Cang Na pushed up her glasses, her blue eyes narrowing in shock beneath the lenses. Zhou Ye wasn't training them; he was telling them a fact in the cruelest way possible: everything about you is within my calculations.
The situation for the melee group was even more desperate.