One-way traffic

Swoosh—purple specks of light splashed onto the ground, deeply corroding the area around their feet.

Even the surrounding plants were affected; the trees and flowers that were splashed turned to ashes and withered away little by little, thus decaying.

The associations that could arise from this phenomenon almost simultaneously came to mind for both of them.

Acid rain.

"There's no need to hide anymore now that things have come to this."

Within the defensive barrier set up by the girl behind him, the first person looked around.

Looking at it with your eyes alone, you can't possibly detect what kind of enemies are around you.

Ha... Thinking of this, Accelerator couldn't help but chuckle.

"However, if you enjoy being a mouse hiding in the shadows so much, why don't I just drag you out?"

What follows is simply the most straightforward and direct strike.

The first one slammed his right foot into the ground.

It was like a joke, and then the earth spread out in all directions at the speed of a tidal wave.

The residual pressure alone instantly crushed all the surrounding vegetation.

Boom! ...

With just one strike, such a terrifying, hellish scene was achieved.

"That's true."

Besides Accelerator, Hatsune Miku confirmed another voice.

A completely new sound, one I've never heard before.

"Now that things have come to this, even if I hide on the other side of the world, you should still be able to find me like this again."

"what."

Suddenly, a man appeared, standing on the ancient tree.

First, one thing can be confirmed.

Wearing such attire that doesn't fit the atmosphere of the Age of Gods... can only mean that the other person is someone born in the modern era.

In this world, there is only one possibility besides the people of Chaldea and Accelerator.

"One of the opposing faction...!"

"You've got a good idea, little girl."

A dark purple trench coat, matching purple hair, and double pupils.

The young man's apparent age is probably older than Hatsune Miku and Accelerator.

His cloak swayed in the wind, and what he held in his right hand... appeared to be some kind of implement.

It resembles both a gun and a bow, presenting a fluid aesthetic, with silver and purple lines that evoke a captivating beauty.

So, having seen this far, we can basically confirm who the man in front of us is.

Accelerator and Hatsune Miku both looked at each other with wary and dangerous eyes.

"So you've finally shown yourself, you coward who's been hiding behind the scenes all this time."

"Don't say that. It's rare to have a team battle, and the opponent you encounter is a freak like you. It's not a scene where you can just swagger in front of them."

That's what they said, but the young man still appeared in front of them at that moment.

However, he should also understand that he can't escape the inevitable. Even if he can hide now, the two camps will eventually have to fight within the system's final time limit.

He pressed his hand to his chest.

"You can just call me Cain."

"This doesn't sound like a proper name. Could it be that you've become so obsessed with reading that you've even changed your household registration to a character from a myth?"

"Accelerator...right? Oh, how interesting, the guy with the least normal-sounding name is lecturing me on names—"

Bang! The young man, who called himself Cain, leaped onto another ancient tree in an instant.

That was because Accelerator took out a silver pistol from his pocket, aimed it at the opponent's original position, and pulled the trigger.

"...She's really hard to talk to."

Cain wiped the sweat from his forehead, but his expression remained calm.

According to what he said, this guy must have been monitoring him all along, otherwise he wouldn't have known Accelerator's name so quickly.

"You bastard, what I hate most is those scum who hide behind the scenes and only know how to spy on others. You piece of shit, you lowlife, you better be prepared to be beaten half to death. Have you bought your own coffin lid? You bastard."

The first one looked up at Cain from the ground with wide eyes.

Even at a high vantage point, the overwhelming sense of oppression still rose upwards like flames.

'That's incredibly vulgar... The level of swearing here is truly top-notch; they don't even repeat the same words twice.'

Cain twitched the corner of his mouth as he pondered such things.

While making humorous remarks, Cain still had no intention of avoiding the issue.

"However, you still haven't considered one point."

He straightened up from the ancient tree, raised his right hand, and pointed the silvery-purple, bow-like object straight to the sky.

Cain shouted.

"So, since I'm going to appear before you like this, I certainly won't die in vain. That's the most basic consideration."

Followed by.

The silver-purple artifact, shaped like a bow and arrow, instantly began to rotate horizontally.

Whoosh—! A purple sphere of light streaked across the sky.

In the next instant, the sky above the entire dense forest was completely covered by that purple-white stream of light.

"Let the earth become a sea of ​​acid rain to punish all, Artemis—!!"

Cain, shouting the name of his armed entity, leaped directly to the back.

Facing Accelerator and Hatsune Miku was an army about ten times larger than the previous wave—

A rain of purple energy arrows that swept across the heavens and earth.

Chapter 605 The Descent of the Demonic Shadow

Bang! ! !

A fierce beam of light, seemingly capable of swallowing the heavens and the earth, fell rapidly from the other end of the sky.

The graceful arcs and magnificent colors of each arrow in the rain of arrows possess a unique and breathtaking beauty.

That was a beauty that was like thorns, beautiful to behold but untouchable, incomprehensible to humankind.

Boom! The force erupted, shaking even the mountaintops several kilometers away.

The ground within a radius of hundreds of meters and several kilometers shook violently for a moment, with a force exceeding that of a maximum earthquake. As a result, the air and the sky itself emitted an unusual purple glow.

Accelerator and Hatsune Miku were still hiding inside the barrier that had been set up.

click-

"—!"

The girl looked up at the top of her head, where a crack suddenly appeared on the cube-shaped defensive barrier.

Just the next moment.

A rain of arrows with a highly concentrated density, fired from a single point—

It broke through the protective barrier she had set up.

A force that seemed to impact and corrode space was projected in, along with a bewitching purple hue that possessed a deadly beauty.

"Interesting, but do you know why I don't attack you right away?"

Even so, the girl did not show any shock at the breaking of her defensive barrier.

Because from beside her, another shadow had already closed in instantly.

That white, demonic figure approached with the speed of a ferocious beast.

"That's the only way to expose your true colors in the shortest amount of time, you idiot."

Bang!! This time, what stood in front of him was Accelerator's own hand.

As the number one in Academy City, facing the beautiful rain of arrows that seemed to truly engulf the entire continent, he directly stretched out his right hand, grasping the purple-white stream of light with his five fingers as if reaching out to grab it.

The direction of energy was instantly reversed.

bass--

Cain, still standing atop the tree, felt a force powerful enough to pierce through the air.

In that instant, a bloody mark appeared on the right side of his cheek.

"Has it been parsed...?"

If that's the case, then the attacks from my weapon will no longer pose the slightest threat to the person in front of me.

*Poof!* Just as Cain had expected, at least several hundred arrows of light that should have pierced the ground in one go were all bounced back in an abnormal arc in front of the tree trunk.

I almost dared not think about it, but my body had already acted first.

Cain accelerated instantly, escaping the ancient tree in one breath.

Boom!! The spot where he was standing was blasted apart, and the ancient tree, which was nearly ten meters tall, was completely rotted away in an instant by the rain of light arrows.

Under normal circumstances, Cain should not have been able to dodge those arrows of light.

Although it is only a manifestation of spiritual power that resembles light in form, the arrow itself still possesses a speed far exceeding that of sound, which is infinitely close to the speed of real light.

But he had already anticipated that his attack would be reflected by the invisible membrane surrounding the guy in front of him.

He also knew very well that before the other party could use this ability, they had to make close contact first and analyze the enemy's power system through some means before they could so easily manipulate the direction of energy.

He had all the basic information he needed about the enemies of the two people in front of him, which were on opposing sides.

Therefore, he was also very clear about one thing.

'I cannot defeat them on my own.'

No, even in a one-on-one fight, the chance of winning against either of these two people would probably be no more than 50%, and against the white-haired person, the chance of winning would be even less than 30%.

Cain knew very well that he couldn't defeat his opponents, let alone two of them. Even if he amplified his power several times or dozens of times, he didn't think he had any chance of compromising and winning.

However, from the very beginning, I never intended to confront them head-on.

"Artemis".

—Buzz! The silver-purple spear on his right hand shone with beautiful light once again.

Cain once again dodged the rain of light arrows that Accelerator was manipulating in reverse, and raised his hand, causing the gun-bow shikigami weapon in his hand to emit a dazzling purple light.

From the perspective of Accelerator, dozens of purple lights suddenly appeared in the sky.

The light bullets, about the size of a soccer ball or volleyball, flickered in mid-air, while simultaneously differentiating into even more subtle shapes.

All those rays of light shot towards the two of them in a distorted manner.

Of course, these orbs of light were not aimed at either Accelerator or Hatsune Miku.

The ground beneath their feet was instantly swallowed up by endless sand.

boom--! ! ! !

A cloud of sand and dust, approximately one hundred meters long and thirty meters high, swept in all at once.

Accelerator didn't even glance at it.

Thump! His right foot stomped on the ground, causing an invisible impact to spread within a radius of five hundred meters.

In an instant, the soil and rocks that were supposed to engulf the area of ​​several hundred meters were disintegrated.

As his movements ended, Hatsune Miku was surrounded by a brand new radiance.

That was the scattering floating magic cannon prepared after instantly transforming into the magical future 2019.