"Hmph!"
The greatsword, drawing a fierce and severe wind in an instant, slashed towards the large black sphere.
The edge of the greatsword wasn't the sharp type; if anything, it could be counted as a blunt weapon.
But under the enhancement of the two Failed Works Gauntlets, the moment the blade edge touched the Modified Entity—it was like splitting rivers and overturning seas. The surface of the black sphere curled with wave after wave of ripples.
The greatsword, stained with blue light, cut into the side of the black sphere's body without any obstruction. Pitch-black liquid droplets oozed out continuously, leaking and flowing all over the ground, coagulating into a puddle.
Alain, still in mid-air, felt time seemingly stand still—he could clearly see the surface of the sphere suffering the strike, and the turbulent waves rising and falling on its skin.
This... isn't enough.
He gritted his teeth tightly. He hadn't applied the burst to the blade edge for this wave.
In the next moment, the greatsword, which had stayed inside the black sphere's body for less than 0.5 seconds, instantly flashed into a blue crescent moon.
Whoosh!
He forcibly slashed the Modified Entity in half.
"Holy... sht.*"
Mila, witnessing this scene, couldn't help but curse aloud.
She originally thought that after this move, her boyfriend might be weak against the black sphere due to the physical toll of nightly revelry.
She didn't expect... everything to proceed so smoothly.
That black sphere, which didn't look very pleasant to begin with, was utterly destroyed into two halves amidst his slash.
The shockwaves of the greatsword continued to wreak havoc inside the virus's body, like sparks on a weld—every molecule and line of code of the virus was being detonated.
Bang, bang bang!
A series of faint explosions and the smell of smoke permeated the tip of Mila's nose.
Gazing at the virus's miserable state, Mila's starry eyes flickered, and she couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
This guy... he's really got the touch!
The aftershocks of Alain's slash, like burning sparks, quickly shattered the rest of the black sphere's body.
In an instant, it devoured most of the black sphere's body.
"Alain, you're so amazing!!!!" Prankster Mita praised loudly, without any attempt to hide it.
Cool Mita watched this scene and couldn't help but nod as well.
She reached out her hand, pressing onto a wisp of the pitch-black particles falling from the shattered virus.
There were still scorch marks on the surface of the particles.
She hummed softly, "As expected of the man I value."
"Uh..." Cute Mita looked at her friend's demeanor, then glanced at the virus in her eyes.
"Y-Yes, he is pretty amazing."
Alain, still in mid-air, observed the state of the large black sphere through the shockwaves.
As expected of the two Failed Works Gauntlets stacking; the effect caused could be said to be gratifying:
He had almost slashed the large black sphere away.
However, when dealing with a Steward Entity, the word "almost" could be said to be—just a Bad End.
"This is a bit bad."
Alain's thoughts were stretched infinitely long. He watched the surface of the black sphere being continuously destroyed by the cleansing blue light...
But at the same time, it was also regenerating.
Destruction and rebirth intertwined together on the surface of the black sphere.
Judging by the speed, the cleaning speed was undoubtedly faster.
But the cleaning of the greatsword had its limits.
Just as Alain expected, the moment the tips of his toes tapped the ground, the part of the black sphere that suffered the slash had instantly become almost invisible.
And the Modified Entity, which originally occupied almost half the ceiling, now only remained the size of a fist.
Wu!
Alain stepped on the ground, and before he could even stand firm, he planned to leap high into the air again.
Holding the greatsword, his eyes were full of the black sphere's high-speed recovery state.
I can't keep waiting. I must take the opportunity to change tactics!
The first limb—the sphere that was originally the size of a fist had reached the size of a head.
At this time, Alain had only reached half the swinging distance.
No good... I'm a bit too late.
He frowned slightly, having underestimated the recovery speed of the large black sphere. Or rather, Alain didn't have much understanding of this kind of large Modified Entity.
The only time he saw it, it was defeated by the combined efforts of himself and Crazy Mita, so he couldn't see exactly how fast its recovery speed was.
Alain originally thought the large black sphere recovered 0.2 per second, but now it seemed that wasn't the case...
It reached at least 0.3.
At this moment, being in mid-air, he had just reached the distance for a greatsword slash, while the black sphere had already grown from the size of a head to the size of an adult male's upper body.
I'm afraid, in at most two seconds, it will recover to its original state.
If he went up to slash with the unbuffed greatsword, although he could beat it down to a sliver of health like 0.01, the recovery would just restore it again... I'm afraid it wouldn't even outpace the Modified Entity's recovery speed.
I'm numb... It's too late! The damage isn't enough. If only I could add another blade.
But Alain had to do it.
Gritting his teeth, he glanced at the invalid gauntlets.
But in his peripheral vision, there was a shadow of bright red interwoven with blue, accompanying him into mid-air.
He looked at her, his thoughts seemingly frozen, his mouth slightly open, as if a sci-fi movie had appeared in reality—
Mila was holding her tachi, linking up with him in mid-air!
The girl's crimson-blue eyes met his gaze, flashing with a distinct slyness, like a prank that had succeeded.
The unsheathed blade hung at her waist.
Her right hand held the hilt, her left hand grasped the scabbard. She leaned forward slightly, her gaze quickly leaving Alain's body and landing on the Modified Entity.
Seeing her in this state, Alain's gaze couldn't help but drift to the last time he met Mila in reality...
The incident where the other party chopped down a resurrected stone statue.
At that time, he thought that stone statue was a toy, after all, he had bought one when he was a child...
But he didn't expect—
You actually really know how to do it???!!
The current Alain couldn't care about that much anymore; he hurriedly focused his attention on Mila's offensive.
A greatsword transforming into azure blue, a tachi slashing into silver light—
Two blades of light, at an inclined angle of one above and one below, slashed simultaneously onto the not-yet-recovered Modified Entity.
The man and woman in mid-air grunted softly, each using their full strength.
Alain looked at Mila's sharp tachi and understood that the last sliver of missing damage had been replenished.
Under the corrosion of the cleaning acceleration, the black sphere, the size of an adult's upper body, had only a few remnants left.
And the tachi made up for the final damage deficit.
The moment the two blades crossed in mid-air, the figure of the black sphere was no more, leaving only a puddle of foul black water on the ground to testify that it had once existed.
"...Success!" Alain was about to look at Mila, only to see the girl smile slyly at him at this moment.
"???"
In his gaze, Mila casually threw away the tachi and raised her eyebrows at him.
In the next moment, Alain, who had not yet landed from mid-air, felt himself being embraced into a warm hug.
What the f*ck?
Alain was shocked.
Wu!
Mila's small feet landed steadily on the ground.
The girl's silver hair carried a faint teasing air as she looked at the "shy" young man in her arms.
"How is it? The taste of Princess Midenlai."
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