A cross-dressing anime, starting with Kaguya-sama: Love Is War.

There was no singing, no delay.

A bolt of lightning, as black as ink, appeared out of thin air, carrying an aura of annihilation, and instantly struck Alphia.

Boom!

The rocks beneath Alfia's feet, along with the ground within a hundred meters around them, were completely evaporated by this single blow, leaving behind a bottomless, charred crater.

As the dust settled, Alphia's figure remained standing in the same spot.

An invisible barrier covered her body, completely isolating the dark lightning from the outside.

But her expression was no longer calm.

She felt it in that instant.

His own [Magic Invalidation] ability was shaken.

The opponent's magic, in its composition and principles, was so advanced that it could somehow "penetrate" her almost rule-like abilities.

“You…” Alphia was about to speak.

"[Hell Karma Fire]."

It was just another bland statement.

Golden flames erupted from the ground, transforming into a roaring dragon that completely engulfed Alphia.

Two extraordinary mages engaged in battle in this burning hell in such an unbelievable way.

Every time they clashed, the space trembled and magic surged.

The dissipated energy completely destroyed the surrounding environment.

"Roar--!"

With Erebus gone, Nidhogg's countless crimson eyes turned to Ryu, Alexie, Kaguya, and the others.

In its perception, these mortals who have received the grace of the gods are also delicious food.

The aura, a mixture of despair, chaos, and death, washed over them like a tangible tide.

"Everyone! Prepare for battle!"

Lynn's voice jolted everyone out of their shock.

He knew very well that now was not the time to think about how strong Frilian and Alphia were.

The monster before them was the true despair they had to face.

"Roar--!!!"

As if in response to Lynn's fighting spirit, Nidhogg let out its first real roar.

The sound was no longer a silent shockwave, but a sonic wave mixed with the roars of tens of thousands of monsters, powerful enough to tear the soul apart.

"Ryu! Alexie! Kaguya! Niz! At the very front!"

"Lyra! Iska! Flank from the side!"

"53 Reading Club!" "Selty! Leona! Maru! Rear support! Remember to maintain social distancing!"

Lynn gave the simplest instructions in an instant.

"understand!"

The girls responded in unison, their long-cultivated teamwork allowing them to instantly form a battle formation.

"—The distant forest sky now. The endless night sky studded with countless stars… cold."

Ryu's singing rang out again, this time filled with determination.

The "Elf Stream" in her hand emitted an unprecedented light, and the seventy-two light spheres condensed into a single shape, no longer scattering and attacking separately, but converging into a huge spear of light.

"【Wind of Light】!"

The spear of light whistled as it pierced fiercely towards Nidhogg's massive body.

247. Never-ending

Boom!

A violent explosion erupted from the monster's body, unleashing a black energy storm.

However, when the light faded, everyone couldn't help but gasp.

Where the light spear struck, the writhing tentacles and eyeballs only temporarily disappeared, but almost in the blink of an eye, more tentacles gushed out from the wound, instantly restoring everything to its original state.

"Regeneration ability?"

Alexie's face turned extremely ugly.

"Burning fiercely, burning fiercely, burning fiercely, unleash the full power of fire!"

Without the slightest hesitation, she activated [Crimson Blossom Threads], transforming herself into a streak of crimson light.

The rapier in his hand, "Crimson Order," wreathed in flames, was thrust towards one of the monster's giant tentacles.

puff!

The sword pierced in without any resistance, but Alexie felt as if she had pierced into a lump of insubstantial mud, completely unable to exert any force.

The pierced tentacle suddenly spun back and swept towards Alicia.

"careful!"

Kaguya's figure appeared behind Alyssa like a ghost, her long sword "Higanbana 710" drawing a blood-red arc and precisely severing the tentacle.

[A flash of blood!]

It broke instantly upon contact with the touch.

But the severed tentacles fell to the ground and immediately transformed into more than a dozen smaller, black worms covered in eyes, which screamed as they crawled toward them.

"This is never going to end!"

Niz let out a wolf howl, her claws tearing apart several worms, but more monsters surged in from all directions.

"This can't go on!" Lynn frowned as he looked at the thorny situation.

Conventional attacks are completely ineffective against this monster.

Its regenerative ability is too strong, and the number of individuals that split off is still increasing.

"Where exactly is its weakness?"

Lynn's gaze was fixed on the monster's true form.

He noticed that when Ryu and Alexie attacked, all the thousands of eyes on the monster turned to them at once.

It was a gaze that was... full of temptation and malice.

It was as if it were saying: Look at me, look at me a little longer.

Lynn felt a slight tingling sensation in his brain.

He immediately looked away, a sense of foreboding washing over him.

He turned his head sharply to look at his companion beside him.

"Everyone! Don't look into its eyes!"

Lynn issued the loudest warning yet.

But it was too late.

"what!"

Maru, the therapist at the back of the group, let out a painful scream.

She covered her head, her face turning deathly pale, her eyes bloodshot, as if she were seeing some extremely terrifying hallucination.

"Mariu!"

Celty, who was closest to her, rushed over to catch her swaying body.

"Don't come any closer!"

Maru, however, was like a startled rabbit. She suddenly pushed Celty away and began to swing her hammer and spear haphazardly, her eyes filled with fear and confusion.

"It's all fake...it's all an illusion...Get out! Get out of my sight!"

She went mad.

"It's a mental attack!" Celty reacted immediately. She pushed up her glasses and shouted urgently, "That monster's eyes can induce hallucinations and corrupt our minds!"

Damn it!

"53 Reading Club" member Alisha swung her sword to swat away several small monsters that pounced on her. When she turned around and saw Maru's condition, she was immediately anxious.

Once the therapists fall into chaos, the entire team's sustainability drops to zero.

"Leyana! Use purification magic!"

"No! My singing has been interrupted!"

Le Ya Na, who was in charge of providing rear fire support, was also preoccupied with her own problems at the moment.

More and more monsters are splitting off Nidhogg's severed limbs, and their defensive barrier is being compressed little by little.

Chaos spread through the ranks.

Just then, a crimson wall of fire rose from the ground, temporarily separating Maru from the others.

It's Lynn.

He didn't chant anything; he simply stretched out his hand, and the pure [Fire Control Technique] formed a solid barrier under his will.

"Celty, take good care of Maru! Try to calm her down!"

Lynn's voice was terrifyingly calm, as if the situation before him, which could drive anyone to despair, could not sway him in the slightest.

"Everyone else, turn your backs to the monster and form a circle! Clear out these smaller ones!"

His command, like a shot of adrenaline, was injected into everyone's hearts.

The girls immediately followed the instructions, no longer looking at the enormous monster itself.

Instead, they stood back to back, focusing on dealing with the split entities that were surging in from all directions.

Without the interference of that eerie gaze, their movements became fluid and sharp again.

But the problem was not solved.

These split entities are equally fearless and seem to be endless in number.

"If this continues, we'll be worn down and die!"

Kaguya unleashed five beams of light with a single slash, instantly clearing an area, but her breathing had already become somewhat rapid.

The intense concentration and continuous fighting were rapidly depleting their physical and mental strength.

"Its true form is absorbing our dissipated magic!"

While comforting Maru, the most knowledgeable Celty keenly discovered an even more terrifying truth.

"Every time we attack, every time we use magic, the energy that dissipates is absorbed by it and used to create more clones!"

248. Found

The discovery of Celty plunged everyone's hearts into despair.

If we can't attack, we'll be worn down and killed.

Attacking will hasten your own death.

This is simply an unsolvable dead end.

"Then... we won't let it absorb it!"

Lynn's voice rang out again.

He stood alone, facing the enormous Nidhogg, crimson dragon-slaying flames burning fiercely on his body.

He stopped looking at the split entities and focused all his attention on the monster's main body.

He could feel that the more intensely the flames burned on his body, the more scorching the gaze of the thousands of eyes on the monster became.

The force that was trying to corrupt his spirit grew stronger and stronger.