Black energy materialized around the Dreamless, its power surging violently. The blood scythe was suddenly raised and slashed heavily toward Noah.
Noah stepped onto cyan-green vines and slid ten meters away in an instant, unleashing a skill with his full Resonance power:
"Look under your feet!"
Countless branches and vines instantly sprouted, trapping the Dreamless. But such control methods could never stop this war weapon created by the Threnodian.
In the blink of an eye, shattered vines and branches scattered like confetti. The Dreamless's figure pounced ghost-like.
Noah leaped up. The five-star Fantasia Variation at his side fired energy attacks transformed from Resonance ability as he raised his hand, consuming one layer of Photosynthesis energy to restore health to all characters.
Counterattack against the tide!
Two energy-thorn spikes seized the Dreamless's opening and pierced its chest.
"It doesn't hurt... doesn't itch!"
The Dreamless snorted coldly. Its advancing figure was not hindered in the slightest. The blood scythe in its hand flashed like lightning, aiming straight for Noah's vital points.
"Too slow!"
Noah shifted his body, dodging the blood scythe's attack by a hair's breadth. Before the scythe could chain into its next move, he anticipated it and easily evaded again.
"Faster! Come on, faster!"
Noah's voice carried a pathological excitement, growing impatient as he continually urged it on.
For the first time, he clearly felt the frequencies in his body become active and thrilled, like a joyful movement.
If a Resonator's power was an instrument capable of producing different timbres, each use of power was like playing that instrument, composing the main melody.
If the power was used just right, it would add a wonderful concerto to the main melody. With the concerto's enhancement, the main melody would become even more stirring and pleasing.
When he dodged or channeled Resonance energy, that joyful movement seemed to gain the concerto's boost, played to an exhilarating climax. It made him leap with joy, as if opening the door to a new world.
So this was how thrilling combat could be!
So this was how exhilarating combat could make one feel!
So this was how intoxicating combat could be!
Don't stop! Keep going!!!
Provoked, impatience faintly overflowed from the Dreamless's face hidden beneath the crown.
Its mother hung high in the sky watching it. Its mother was urging it to go out and harvest more blood. It had to end this person's life as quickly as possible.
The Dreamless retracted its scythe. Its blood wings flapped, its entire body spinning like a sharp rolling blade.
The two massive blood wings stabbed toward Noah like meat grinders. After being dodged again, the blood scythe hidden beneath its wings suddenly exposed its fangs like a beast.
Clang!
The sound of metal clashing rang out.
The five-star Fantasia Variation switched almost instantly to the long blade Ages of Harvest, blocking this sudden thrust head-on.
Noah let out a muffled groan. Since he had switched characters to Jinhsi, the injuries that had vanished reappeared on his body.
But—his physical condition was now far better than before, and his wounds were healing every second.
Concerto full, triggering variation during lingering resonance!
After the frequencies in his body reached the climax of a grand composition, they suddenly varied into an even grander movement, the intensity soaring to a new high once more.
The transition between movements was as natural and transcendent as an antelope hanging its horns—seamless, as if they were originally one!
Verina variation effect: Bloom.
[Bloom: Continuously restores health to the next character to take the field, healing 19% of Verina's ATK per second for 6 seconds. All characters in the team gain 15% Deepen to all damage for 30 seconds.]
"Blazing Brilliance!"
The Sentinel phantom rose from the ground. While the Dreamless's old force had waned and new force had yet to emerge, it heavily blasted it into mid-air.
It only felt the man before it rapidly forming seals, as if aligning with some peculiar frequency.
Ages of Harvest seemed to have become part of his body, wielded as easily as his own limbs, without any delay.
A, E, A, A!
Stacking four layers of Jolt took only a single breath—many times faster than before!
With a thought from Noah, the dragon horn anomaly and Sentinel phantom appeared almost simultaneously, giving the Dreamless no time to react.
This time, Noah condensed the Sentinel phantom faster, yet it was far from the frail and illusory state of before. On the contrary, its solidity was as if the Sentinel herself had descended.
He had achieved a breakthrough amid life and death. His vast Resonance power was now freely controlled, as natural as breathing.
Even Jinhsi herself at full strength could not manipulate Resonance power as well as he could now—far from it.
In the next instant, terrifying white light erupted with lightning speed amid the dragon roar—
"Sacred light!!"
Boom!
The entire ground of the Sonoro sphere shook violently. All the upright black rocks toppled, and an unprecedented massive crater appeared.
At the center of the crater, the Dreamless's wings were broken. Its pale, emaciated skeletal frame was charred black. Its frequencies were weak, like a candle flickering in the wind.
Its body trembled repeatedly, unable to rise again. Its eyes beneath the crown were filled with unwillingness, weakly whispering from its mouth.
"Mother... needs..."
"Little Dreamless, calling for mommy just to survive, huh."
Noah's lips curved in an unsatisfied light smile. The dragon horns on his head flickered faintly. The Sentinel phantom coiling around him did not dissipate after releasing the white light.
On the contrary, the Sentinel phantom seemed to come alive, slowly floating and moving around him. Its dragon eyes gleamed with human-like, majestic killing intent.
"Too bad—even if you beg me, I won't let you go!"
Noah's hands rapidly formed seals. The Sentinel phantom around him once again shone with dazzling light. Amid the dragon's breath, white light madly accumulated.
Seeing this, the massive eyeball hanging high in the Sonoro sphere couldn't help but tremble.
It couldn't understand why Its duplicates with infinite power had failed to defeat this monster-like human.
This human had fought Its casually created duplicates to a standstill, yet in a single round, he had completely crippled Its proud creation—the War Threnodian—leaving it unable to rise again.
A spatial vortex emerged behind the eyeball.
The War Threnodian Ovathrax, after instinctive consideration, chose to retreat as the best option!
It wasn't afraid of Noah—merely that Its power and consciousness had not fully revived. It had no choice but to temporarily avoid the sharp edge.
A woman's clear, ethereal sigh suddenly rang out within the Sonoro sphere.
In the corner, a blood-red Red Spider Lily grew wildly. In just a moment, it transformed into a bewitchingly gorgeous three-faced witch.
Calamity-class Tacet Discord—Hecate!
With Hecate's appearance, perhaps sensing a turning point, the massive hanging eyeball stopped its escape. The spatial vortex behind it gradually ceased.
With Hecate's appearance, three scarlet blood eyes opened in mid-air, staring fixedly at the dragon-horned man.
In the next instant, three lasers shot from the blood eyes.
"Phrolova—"
Noah was forced to interrupt the seals for Sacred light!. He twisted his head to dodge the incoming lasers and looked toward the three-faced witch Tacet Discord blooming like a Red Spider Lily.
His gradually clearing gaze was once again covered by frenzy. He shouted excitedly, as if greeting an old friend:
"I've been waiting for you for a long time—"
From the moment he noticed the anomaly with the Crownless, Noah had extended his perception and long ago discovered the Red Spider Lily in this corner.
The reason his expression had been grim was precisely because he had suspected he might have to face both the Dreamless and Hecate—two Calamity-class Tacet Discords—at once.
If it were the old him, he might not have been able to withstand a joint attack from two Calamity-class Tacet Discords.
But now, he only regretted that the enemies were too few—too few to satisfy him fully.
The frequencies in his body, which had begun to calm, surged with excitement once more. Noah's hands trembled, unable to suppress his craving for battle.
One against one? No fear. One against two? The advantage is mine!