Buzz buzz buzz!
At this moment, Rover and Lynae were sitting together on one motorcycle, leading Voidworm as they sped toward the outside of the academy.
“Why did you come?!”
Lynae had clearly not expected that Rover would previously appear by her side and carry her as they escaped Voidworm’s attack.
“That’s the question I should be asking.”
Clearly, Rover had also not expected that Lynae would previously choose to abandon escaping for the sake of her classmates’ safety and stand directly in front of them.
“Haha, the moment I came back to my senses I discovered that my body had already taken action…”
Lynae scratched her head from the back seat in a humble manner.
“Next, we need to lead Voidworm to the defensive array.”
Rover looked at the monster closely following behind them, her expression firm as she spoke.
Because before coming to Lahai-Roi a portion of her frequency had been devoured by a Void Threnodian, this Threnodian creation behind her was especially fixated on her.
However, this had now instead become her opportunity.
Thanks to this point, she was able to successfully attract the attention of this big fellow.
…
At the same time, Ryuji was advancing at full speed along Voidworm’s path of advance.
However, there was one point that made things rather difficult for him at this moment.
That was speed.
Although this motorcycle was also produced by the academy just like Lynae’s, its speed was far inferior to Lynae’s.
“Tch, I didn’t expect that at a time like this the wisdom of a delinquent student would actually prove greatly useful?” Ryuji furrowed his brows as he quipped.
Unfortunately he did not understand the structure of this motorcycle.
Otherwise, if he modified it a bit and poured some Cursed Energy into it, it should be able to go faster than now.
But right now there was completely no time for him to self-study…
Buzz buzz!!
“Hm?”
Just as Ryuji was fretting, he discovered that the motorcycle beneath him had become faster?
Biu~
Just as Ryuji was feeling puzzled, he followed the prompt sound that suddenly appeared on the motorcycle and looked toward the display screen of the motorcycle.
There, a pixel girl with pink hair waved her hand toward him, seemingly encouraging him.
“Help from the academy? Truly timely. Then taking advantage of this moment…”
Buzz!
As he spoke, Ryuji forcefully twisted the motorcycle’s handlebars, making its speed rise another level.
…
Lynae was responsible for restraining Voidworm, while Rover took advantage of this opportunity to go activate the various defensive arrays in different directions.
“Tch, this equipment consumes Resonance power even more than I imagined…”
Lynae, who was “racing” with Voidworm in the wilderness, took the chance of a gap to catch her breath.
Although the academy’s new equipment could indeed inflict a certain amount of damage on Voidworm, the consumption of Resonance power was a bit too great.
If things continued like this, Lynae felt she was almost about to [Overclock].
But that Voidworm would not care about those things.
It only knew that the moment the enemy was at its weakest was the best time for it to attack.
“Roar!”
So after raising its head and letting out a great roar toward the sky, it wriggled at full speed toward Lynae’s position.
Bang!
Finally, that enormous long worm broke out of the ground.
Its momentum looked as if it was determined to repay the girl in front of it double for the fury and the damage it had previously received.
Whoosh!
“Divine Dogs! Nue! Tengu Devours the Sun!”
However, at this time, a voice familiar to Lynae rang out from the distance.
Yet arriving even faster than that voice was a strange creature.
A giant wolf-dog of adult size that had grown a pair of wings, with the wolf claws of its front half replaced by eagle claws.
“Awooo!”
At this moment, that creature charged at full force and heavily smashed toward the position where Voidworm was located.
Buzz!
Buzz!
“Hurry and leave!”
Ryuji at this moment rode his motorcycle to Lynae’s side and called for the other party to leave that place.
“Mm!”
Lynae also did not dilly-dally and immediately raced side by side with Ryuji toward a safe position.
Although Lynae still had many questions she wanted to ask the other party, those would all have to wait until after this crisis had passed.
Slash!
And behind Ryuji and Lynae, the fusion Shikigami that Ryuji had summoned—resembling both Divine Dogs and Nue—had already been destroyed by Voidworm.
“Ryuji! Those summons of yours…”
Lynae, who glanced back and saw that fusion creature being destroyed, hurriedly reminded Ryuji to the side.
“No problem!”
As Ryuji spoke, he temporarily switched the motorcycle to automatic driving, then once again made the hand seals for summoning Divine Dogs and Nue.
Whoosh!
In an instant, another creature identical to the previous fusion Shikigami flew out from the shadow and charged toward Voidworm.
This was the method Ryuji had thought of on the way to restrain that enormous monster.
An extended technique of the Ten Shadows Technique, its name was [Tengu Devours the Sun].
The original Shikigami of the Ten Shadows Technique, once destroyed, would completely disappear.
But the Shikigami that Ryuji himself fused did not fall under this rule.
By taking a portion of the characteristics of Nue and Divine Dogs and fusing them, he finally created a fusion Shikigami that possessed Nue’s speed and flight ability, as well as the power of Divine Dogs.
The advantage of doing this was that because they would not be completely destroyed, Ryuji could, under the condition of sufficient Cursed Energy, summon a large number of these fusion Shikigami to restrain the enemy.
The disadvantage was…
Slash!
“Awooo…”
When Lynae and Ryuji wanted to regroup with Rover, the fusion Shikigami that Ryuji had previously summoned was once again destroyed by Voidworm.
Although Tengu Devours the Sun was called a fusion Shikigami, its true power was still not as strong as the original Shikigami.
For example, this fusion Shikigami had not inherited Nue’s lightning or Divine Dogs’ sense of smell.
“So how are we supposed to defeat the big fellow behind us now?”
While maintaining the hand seals and concentrating Cursed Energy to summon fusion Shikigami, Ryuji asked Lynae to the side.
He had only just arrived at the battlefield, and on top of that had no terminal to contact them, so there were still many things he was unclear about.
Hearing Ryuji’s question, Lynae briefly introduced the operational plan of this time to the other party.
“In short, as long as we wait for Rover to activate the defensive arrays, we will be able to take advantage of the moment when this big worm is weakened and restrained to finish it off in one go!” Lynae said with focus.
She felt that with Ryuji’s addition, this operation should be able to be completed successfully.
“Understood!”
After calling out multiple Shikigami sufficient to entangle the other party, Ryuji and Lynae increased their speed and hurried toward the direction of the final defensive array.
And the Voidworm behind them seemed to feel that the surrounding ants were simply too many and too annoying, so it simply no longer conserved energy.
“Roar!!!”
After letting out a great roar, it disregarded the biting and attacks of the surrounding Shikigami, gathered the energy in its mouth, and finally aimed at Ryuji and Lynae not far away.
“Tch! Block it!”
Ryuji urgently ordered, having the numerous Shikigami stand in front of that Voidworm’s cannon muzzle.
Boom!!
Because Voidworm’s energy cannon was blocked by the numerous Shikigami in front of its abyssal maw, it finally exploded inside its mouth.
“Roar!!”
Voidworm began to roar in rage.
Although Ryuji’s fusion Shikigami were wiped out as a group because of the other party’s attack, that Voidworm also received not insignificant damage because of the internal explosion.
“The effective damage is very high. We can imitate this later…”
Lynae seemed to have gained inspiration under Ryuji’s command.
After muttering to herself, a resolute expression appeared on her face.