"Iyeta?"
Dumbledore called out the name of the person before him.
Link's expression also turned solemn.
He was certain that the Iyeta appearing before them now was the same powerful existence he had sensed earlier.
Her body contained a massive amount of King's Blood.
But if that was the case, then another question arose.
Where had Number 1 gone?
"Welcome to my temple, both of you. I have been waiting here for quite some time."
Iyeta, at the very back of the hall, spread her arms and spoke.
Her voice was solemn and dignified, but paired with her blood-red skin, it created an intense sense of incongruity.
It was as if a demon were devoutly praying.
Dumbledore slowly took a step back, his expression extremely serious.
With his mental power, he could naturally sense the immense magical power bestowed upon Iyeta by the King's Blood.
No. Rather than saying that the King's Blood had given Iyeta power, it would be more accurate to say that the current Iyeta had made herself both a sacrifice and a vessel for the King's Blood, allowing the King's Blood to move freely in the world and fully unleash its own power.
In a sense, the current Iyeta was even harder to deal with than Number 1.
That was because Number 1 was truly making use of the King's Blood. When using the King's Blood, he had to purify its power first by taking a long route, in order to prevent himself from losing control and suffering a backlash, before he could use it.
But Iyeta herself was already completely controlled by the King's Blood, so naturally she had no such concerns and could control the King's Blood as she pleased.
This state was somewhat similar to Link's earlier out-of-control rampage.
"Link, stop worrying about preserving Sky City. We'll destroy this place directly in a moment, then gather the troops and focus fire on Iyeta! Let's follow the exact process you mentioned. Let the Auror forces from other countries' Ministries of Magic serve as cannon fodder, while the main forces of the British Ministry of Magic act as the artillery platform and provide the firepower!"
Dumbledore spoke anxiously.
Facing Iyeta in her current state, he really had no confidence that they could win for certain, even if he joined forces with Link.
So at this point, he could no longer worry about maintaining kindness or doing things like minimizing casualties.
After all, if they allowed Iyeta to continue existing, even more people would be harmed!
"Dumbledore, do you really think human-wave tactics can work against this king? You should understand as well, shouldn't you? At our level, unless the enemy's strength reaches a certain level, no matter how many enemies there are, it will be useless. Could it be that you would still fear ants..."
Iyeta spoke with extreme arrogance.
But before she could finish, the beastly phantom behind Link had already begun to roar.
Immediately afterward, Link shot forward like a cannonball.
Dozens of invisible blades appeared around his body and charged straight toward Iyeta, wrapped in translucent Fiendfyre.
Iyeta was clearly caught off guard by the sudden attack.
These burning invisible blades were different from normal Sectumsempra.
Not only had their power been raised to the extreme, they had also been imbued with Fiendfyre's devouring and intelligent properties.
Although Iyeta still managed to make a basic blocking motion in her haste, the white robe on her body was nevertheless sliced into countless fragments.
"Roar!"
A non-human roar came from Iyeta's mouth.
Completely enraged, Iyeta's body began to expand rapidly, instantly tearing apart the remaining fragments of her white robe and revealing a muscular, crimson body.
At the same time, Link had already reached Iyeta.
He simply made a charging motion, and the enormous amount of magic power surging from his wand formed a huge black flaming magic greatsword, which swung upward fiercely!
BOOM!
Iyeta's enormous body was sent flying.
But the expression on Link's face became even more serious.
That was because, just before the magic greatsword had made contact with Iyeta's body, a layer of armor, also crimson in color, had appeared over her body.
Blocked by this armor, Link's previous strike had actually failed to inflict the damage he had expected.
Sure enough.
Iyeta, who had been sent flying, quickly adjusted her posture in midair.
The crimson magic power unique to the King's Blood gathered over her body. The armor that had originally only manifested over a small area was completely restored, fully wrapping around Iyeta's enormous body.
Not only that, the remaining King's Blood gathered in Iyeta's hands. In her right hand, it formed a three-meter-long giant cross-shaped knight's greatsword, while in her left hand, it formed a clawed gauntlet with blades more than a meter long!
The appearance of the weapons and armor allowed Iyeta, whose original appearance had been ugly, to completely shed her 'monster' form.
Her entire appearance became both ferocious and solemn, like a corrupted templar knight. Holiness and evil had completely fused together, giving anyone who looked at her an indescribably strange feeling.
Iyeta clearly felt quite good about herself at this moment.
After completely finishing her transformation, a sinister grin appeared at the corner of her mouth, and she roared at Link on the ground below.
Naturally, Link was unwilling to show weakness. He, along with the beastly phantom behind him, threw his head back and roared.
A scorching steam armor appeared over his body.
Unlike usual, this time the surface of the steam armor was also covered with a thick layer of translucent, pure Fiendfyre. This caused Link's body to expand several times, making him already about the same size as Iyeta.
BOOM!
After the roars, one red and one white figure collided.
Iyeta had clearly received professional and advanced training in ancient swordsmanship, just like Skiffen. Her swordsmanship was broad and powerful, and now that she possessed enormous strength and control, she would often strike from all kinds of strange angles in ways that violated the laws of physics, giving her storm-like attacks an eerie quality.
As for Link, he naturally knew nothing about swordsmanship.
Even his close-combat skills had only been practiced somewhat through years of physical training, and he could hardly be considered proficient.
Fortunately, Link's ability to control magic was far beyond Iyeta's. The Fiendfyre densely surrounding his body was constantly launching attacks at Iyeta from all kinds of angles.
As a result, the instant the two came into contact, an enormous number of crimson sword shadows and overwhelming Fiendfyre had already swallowed them both completely.
Terrifying energy continued to erupt, and the entire hall was almost torn apart!
Meanwhile, Dumbledore, not far away, gritted his teeth as he watched the two evenly matched opponents before him.
He still favored using human-wave tactics.
Although, just as Iyeta had said earlier, in front of wizards at their level, so-called human-wave tactics could not accomplish much. At most, they could only delay things for some time.
But even so, that could still give them some opportunities, couldn't it?
Unfortunately, Link clearly wanted to end the battle as quickly as possible.
Dumbledore guessed that this was very likely because Link was worried that Number 1 was secretly plotting something again.
Things had already reached this point, so Dumbledore had nothing left to hesitate about.
The platinum-white holy light surrounding his body suddenly erupted.
Brilliant light enveloped the two people locked in fierce combat.
As the main target of the holy light's attack, Iyeta's entire body was instantly immobilized.
An attack of this level obviously could not restrain Iyeta for long, but in a battle at this level, even a momentary pause was fatal.
With his rich combat experience, Link obviously would not miss such an opportunity.
He slightly raised his wand, and a massive amount of magic power was drawn toward its tip, causing even the Fiendfyre that had been active around Link's body to dim considerably.
At the same time, the wand in Link's hand erupted with brilliant light.
The next moment, after being transformed, the magic power was finally fired.
A gigantic beam of light with a diameter of five meters struck Iyeta's body, directly pushing her huge frame back toward the throne at the end of the hall.
The Vanishing Spell!
And it was the highest-level version, an ultra-powerful Vanishing Spell that had undergone high-intensity compression!
At this level, the Vanishing Spell could not only affect living creatures. Even mithril alloy, currently known by the British Ministry of Magic to have the strongest magic resistance, could be directly decomposed into nothingness within a short period of time.
The few stone thrones at the end of the hall were the best example.
Although they looked like they were made of stone, they had not suffered any substantial damage during the previous high-intensity battle between Link and Iyeta.
This was enough to prove that they were actually made from some kind of high-strength alloy specially produced by Sky City.
Yet now, facing the Vanishing Spell beam fired by Link, these thrones that had withstood the shockwaves of a legendary-level battle without sustaining damage were rapidly disintegrating!
Could an attack like this kill Iyeta?
Of course, the answer was no!
"Roar!"
Another non-human roar came from the only relatively intact throne at the very back of the hall.
Crimson light enveloped half of the hall, finally revealing Iyeta's body, which had been trapped by the Vanishing Spell beam.
After suffering the Vanishing Spell's attack, she indeed looked quite miserable.
Not only was the armor covering her body damaged, even her powerful, monster-like flesh had suffered serious injuries. Large amounts of blood were gushing from wounds all over her body.
And this was precisely what awakened Iyeta's ferocity.
Mad red light flashed in her eyes. The muscles of her limbs bulged as she continuously exerted force, and she actually forced the entire Vanishing Spell beam apart in an extremely strange manner.
Seeing this, Link was not particularly surprised.
He naturally had never expected the luxury of being able to kill Iyeta with a single Vanishing Spell.
If Iyeta were really that easy to kill, Dumbledore would not have been so wary earlier and wanted to use human-wave tactics.
So from the very beginning, he had only planned to use the Vanishing Spell to inflict some damage on Iyeta.
Judging from the current situation, the damage Iyeta had suffered from that single Vanishing Spell could not actually be considered severe.
However, the problem was still not serious.
This was not his battle alone. Link believed that even if something unexpected happened, Dumbledore would find a way to make up for it.
Thinking this, Link continued increasing his magical output, and the corners of his mouth also rose.
Just as he had expected, the next moment, another equally solid and enormous Vanishing Spell passed beside him and precisely landed on Iyeta.
This time, Iyeta, who had already been struggling desperately to hold on, finally lost the ability to resist and was directly swallowed by the Vanishing Spell.
As Link and Dumbledore continued closing in step by step, the crimson armor covering Iyeta's body, along with her flesh and blood, rapidly disintegrated. Before long, Iyeta's entire body had shrunk by a full circle, and in many places even her bones were exposed.
But what made Link uneasy was that those exposed bones were also crimson, just like the armor.
And even under the light of the Vanishing Spell beam, these bones showed no sign of being dissolved.
This was enough to prove that the King's Blood had completely fused into every cell of Iyeta's body and was firmly entrenched within her bones.
The strange power of the King's Blood could not actually be broken down by the Vanishing Spell.
Because it had never had a physical form to begin with. It was a pure form of power, something similar to a soul.
"Damaging her to this extent is already the limit. We can't keep this up. It's meaningless. The Vanishing Spell alone can't kill her!"
Link spoke coldly.
Upon hearing this, Dumbledore exchanged a glance with Link and nodded. The two immediately withdrew their wands at the same time.
And the next moment, with the Vanishing Spell's suppression gone, a sky-high blood light surged from Iyeta's body.
The flesh on her body began to slowly recover, but the broken armor recovered first, barely hanging over her now 'thin' body.
With this body, she obviously could no longer support Iyeta in making elegant attacks like a 'knight' as she had before.
On all fours, the crimson energy greatsword and clawed gauntlet that had already shattered appeared once again.
The clawed gauntlet sank deeply into the ground, fixing her body in place, while the crimson sword in her right hand was raised high, causing Iyeta to assume a strange beast-like posture.
"Hiss... Hoo..."
A heavy, strange breathing sound came from Iyeta's damaged throat.
As the beast-shaped Iyeta slowly moved, a terrifying and strange aura filled the entire hall.
But Link, who was within it, merely smiled lightly. He turned his head and exchanged a glance with Dumbledore. Then his body flashed, and he charged out again.
The beast-shaped Iyeta was not afraid in the slightest. Dragging her damaged body, she engaged Link in battle.
The loss of parts of her body caused Iyeta tremendous pain, which seemed to have caused the human rationality belonging to Iyeta to enter a protective sleep.
Therefore, what was now controlling Iyeta's body and fighting on the battlefield was pure beastly instinct, the nature of the King's Blood.
Link had to admit that although the beast-shaped Iyeta before him had lost her rationality and could no longer use all kinds of advanced swordsmanship to suppress him,
the emergence of her beastly instincts had also made Iyeta's senses countless times stronger.
She had even achieved an exaggerated predictive ability similar to 'Observation Haki', while her movements were fierce and strange, almost impossible to predict. As a result, the moment this new round of battle erupted, Link was already under several times more pressure than before.
If it were a one-on-one fight, Link really was no match for the beast-shaped Iyeta.
But as he had said before, Link was not fighting alone.
BOOM!
Another enormous roar rang out.
Blinding platinum-white divine light burst forth, like the blazing sun driving away the crimson divine light within the hall, directly enveloping Link and the beast-shaped Iyeta, who were entangled with each other.
This was the purest positive magic power.
In a manner that was almost impossible to understand, it actually exerted a restraining and suppressing effect even on the beast-shaped Iyeta, whose entire body was filled with the King's Blood.
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