Three scarlet blood eyes transformed into a small folding fan and were taken into Hecate's hand.
Her slender little hand grasped the folding fan and gently fanned it. Hecate elegantly tiptoed, like stepping to the rhythm of a waltz dance, gracefully approaching.
She suddenly turned lightly and slowly, the folding fan in her hand flying out like swift daggers, all struck down one by one by Noah swinging his blade.
"Come on! Come on! Don't retreat!"
Noah shouted fanatically, dismissing the phantom. Ages of Harvest was grasped back into his hand. His footsteps grew faster and faster as he charged swiftly toward Hecate.
As he drew near, Hecate raised one leg 180 degrees high, then rapidly dropped like a deadly blade.
After Noah sidestepped to avoid this seemingly exquisite yet deadly strike, the tip of Hecate's other tiptoed foot stabbed horizontally from the side.
Such posture and movements, if performed by a human, would extremely test the body's flexibility, but on Hecate, they appeared full of aesthetic beauty, like graceful dance steps.
No matter if Noah ducked low or leaned back, he would be kicked flying upward by Hecate using both feet from below, followed by Hecate's fierce execution combo.
Noah knew this full well, so not only did he not dodge, he instead held his blade and swung toward Hecate's face.
He wanted to—trade injury for injury!
The sharp long blade, carrying fierce wind, whistled as it slashed diagonally, leaving a deep gash on Hecate's face.
At the same time, Noah's abdomen was slashed open by Hecate's pointed foot, a deep gash visible to the bone. Blood flowed down as his entire body retreated three meters.
He laughed instead of getting angry, switching his Character Concerto to Verina. The wounds on his body suddenly vanished.
Ages of Harvest transformed into a floating fifth-order Fantasia Concerto beside him. Noah laughed arrogantly:
"If you don't go all out, your dance steps end here!"
One sentence completely enraged Hecate. She gently touched the stinging gash on her face. Her entire body erupted with violent energy as she summoned countless Dark Moon Maidens—each one a petal-shaped afterimage.
Hecate donned a skirt hem composed of Dark Moon Maidens. The red skirt was flamboyant, like a fully bloomed Red Spider Lily, with vein-like patterns even visible on it.
At the same time, countless Dark Moon Maidens transformed into Red Spider Lily-shaped flywheels, launching fierce attacks toward Noah. Several scarlet blood eyes opened in mid-air, lasers blooming.
Three rays.
Six rays.
Eight rays.
Twelve rays.
Dense attacks came wave after wave. Noah calmly danced on the knife-edge of death, his proficient movements like a dazzling street dance that left one breathless.
He heard the frequencies within his body playing passionately, like surging flames—fervent and wanton. He reveled in it, utterly intoxicated.
The giant eyeball suspended high in mid-air saw that Hecate could not take down Noah. It urged its precious internal power, infusing it into the paralyzed Dreamless in the giant pit.
In the giant pit, Dreamless burst out with an extremely painful roar. Black-purple energy enveloped it.
The damaged frequencies were reorganized. Broken arms and wings were sewn back. Infinite power was barbarically poured into its body, forcing it to stand once more.
At the same time, countless cyan-green branches and vines grew wildly within the [Sky-Suspended Beacon Fire] domain—it was Noah unleashing Verina's Resonance Liberation.
Two Photosynthesis Marks transformed into the shape of star flowers, firmly adhering to the shoulders of Dreamless and Hecate, like maggots in the bone, impossible to remove.
[Photosynthesis Mark: When characters in the team attack targets carrying the Photosynthesis Mark, Verina will perform coordinated attacks and restore HP to the character dealing the attack.]
Dreamless was once again trapped by a vine-thorn encirclement—it was Noah's Resonance Skill unleashed.
"Grant you a spectacular exit!"
"Grant you a spectacular exit!"
Noah laughed maniacally and leaped up. The Fantasia Concerto at his side fired Resonance energy attacks, consuming the Photosynthesis energy from releasing the Resonance Skill and once again restoring HP to all team characters.
Verina's assistance was stacked full once more. Noah switched to the Yuanwu character for the first time.
Sensing the change in frequencies on Noah, Hecate's movements immediately became hesitant.
In the previous peeking, she had witnessed Noah's entire battles against Crownless, the replicas, and even Dreamless. She knew Noah possessed two different Resonance abilities.
Now, a third Resonance ability had appeared. She had no idea what effect it would have.
In her moment of hesitation, Noah condensed Resonance energy to summon a Lightning Wedge standing in the center of the domain, then switched Concerto characters once more to Jinhsi.
[Lightning Wedge: Generates a ranged thunder pool. When characters in the thunder pool attack targets, the Lightning Wedge will perform coordinated attacks on the targets.]
Dreamless easily broke free from that layer of vine encirclement, instant-flashing behind Noah. Its blood scythe swung like the Grim Reaper claiming a soul.
"Good timing!"
Noah held Ages of Harvest to parry Dreamless's attack. Taking advantage of its brief opening, he swung his blade, leaving several more deep wounds on Dreamless.
The four layers of Jingzhe instantly stacked full again!
With every attack that landed, what Dreamless suffered was not only the chill of Ages of Harvest's blade edge, but also the stinging pain of plant thorns and the numbness of lightning.
It was precisely the coordinated attacks from Verina and Yuanwu. Each coordinated attack brought Noah two layers of Dawnlight.
[Dawnlight: Each layer increases Celestial Court Radiance by 44.54% damage multiplier.]
The previous Noah had never deliberately pursued stacking Dawnlight to full, but now, he was prepared to stack 50 layers of Dawnlight and unleash a big one!
A flywheel transformed from a Dark Moon Maiden came assaulting. Noah sidestepped to dodge. The Dreamless, which had been purely taking hits, finally found an opportunity to withdraw.
Hecate's hand transformed into a sharp chain sword. With a swing of her slender arm, the chain sword's segments detached one by one, turning into a long sharp whip.
The long whip lashed, producing ear-piercing explosions in the air as it heavily whipped toward Noah's back.
After Noah easily dodged the long whip's attack, Hecate teleported to Noah's side, wielding the long whip and spinning it around her body like an elegant rhythmic gymnastics performance.
The long whip brought dense attacks, forcing Noah to dodge continuously with no chance to launch attacks of his own. This made him extremely displeased:
"Really troublesome. Then I'll deal with you first!"
He took one step back. His hands drew circles in the air like Tai Chi, pinching an incantation and issuing a command. Resonance power was liberated:
"Huo Shan Xing Ling!"
A golden thunderbolt precisely exploded on Hecate's body, making her grunt and retreat several steps. Her spinning dance steps were interrupted.
A bone-chilling ghostly wind blew across Noah's back once more. Dreamless swung its blood scythe chopping down again.
"Aren't you supposed to be the ultimate weapon that copies everything? How come I've used so many moves, yet you haven't learned a single one? We've fought this long, and you're still using this same move!"
Noah curled his lips in cold laughter:
"Take another look behind you!"
Ages of Harvest was wielded by him, heavily stabbing into Dreamless's back, then piercing out from the Whisperin Core on its chest.
Noah sidestepped to avoid Dreamless's subsequent powerless blood scythe chop. He caught Ages of Harvest, and several more fierce attacks ruthlessly landed.
50 layers of Dawnlight were finally stacked full!
The four layers of Jingzhe had long been lying in wait!
Noah spun in mid-air and leaped, heavily kicking Dreamless toward Hecate's position. He sneered:
"With this level of skill, practice again in your next life!"
The Dragon Horn and Sentinel phantom appeared simultaneously. Heart-shaking, gall-bladder-trembling majestic power poured out from Noah.
He quickly pinched an incantation, targeting Hecate and Dreamless who were stacked together. White light welled up in the Sentinel phantom's mouth, ready to burst forth:
"Sacred——Light——!"
A white light capable of almost destroying heaven and earth instantly engulfed the [Sky-Suspended Beacon Fire] domain!