Step. Step. Step.


    Adam leaped forward, quickly finding himself in front of gue Reaper, who was ready to face him as an equal opponent.


    Without waiting for his enemy to react, Adam gripped the needle tightly, thrusting it forward, intending to pierce gue Reaper''s chest.


    gue Reaper''s eyes narrowed, and he abruptly took a step to the side missing Adam''s needle right in front of him. The silver needle whizzed close to his chest, but all Adam managed to aplish was tearing a piece of cloth off gue Reaper''s coat.


    ''Shit... I''ve done this sort of thing a few times when fighting other monsters, but... this was the first time I''ve been outmaneuvered so easily.'' Adam gulped, before changing the grip of his needle, and bringing his needle down on gue Reaper, pointing his needle to the right.


    "Agh..."


    gue Reaper let out a light, casual sigh before abruptly bending backwards, letting Adam''s needle pass over his nose.


    For a moment, the silver needle reflected in gue Reaper''s calm eyes before it was reced by electric shocks followed by a bare, tightly clenched fist.


    It seemed that gue Reaper had to dodge now in some strange way. His physical capabilities were probably enough for that, but... instead, a slight smile appeared on his face.


    Bam.


    Adam''s fist mmed into gue Reaper''s face with all its might, plunging his head into the ground, breaking the cold hard floor with ease.


    Stone shards flew upward, flying apart and falling next to the cracks that spread like spider webs from the point of impact.


    "Adam! Look out!" E eximed with a slight worry in her voice. Right now, Adam was their main hope for victory, but E couldn''t just stand by and watch him fight alone. She had to take action.


    Then, Adam jerked his head to the side, only to see dozens of white projectiles. They were approaching gue Reaper like a hail of arrows, about to rain down on him from above.


    ''Hah, looks like we''re getting our first sesses.'' Adam inwardly grinned with an excited expression watching E''s attack.


    He had seen a simr attack once before when he went on a mission with Zera''s Squad, but given the circumstances, E''s attack looked much more spectacr and devastating.


    Whooooooooooooosh.


    Adam tore to the side, moving out of the danger zone.


    gue Reaper was still lying on the ground, his head buried in the ground and a trickle of blood running slowly down his pale skin from his nose.


    The snow-white projectiles reflected in his eyes like stars in the night sky, gradually growingrger andrger, making gue Reaper smile once more.


    Crackle.


    gue Reaper mmed his fist against the ground, but not out of anger, his hand moved at a right angle, to a certain point.


    Tremble. Tremble. Tremble.


    A shudder ran through the ground as a stone tform rose up from gue Reaper''s left, literally knocked out of the ground by the impact of his fist.


    Bam. Bam. Bam.


    The first shells hit that very tform, shattering it into shards, releasing white mes of explosion outward.


    gue Reaper whipped his coat before leaping forward as a ck sh whizzed through the white fire.n/?/vel/b//jn dot c//om


    "What the hell?!" E eximed in disbelief, watching as gue Reaper quickly ran away from her projectiles.


    However, a smirk soon appeared on E''s face as the projectiles from her Second Order were no ordinary projectiles. Aside from being part of one more powerful projectile, they could pursue their original target.


    Sure, gue Reaper was able to get rid of a few of the projectiles by making them crash into the stone tform, but that was only a small fraction of E''s attack.


    Whoooooooooooosh.


    Before the projectiles reached the ground, they abruptly changed their trajectory, heading after gue Reaper.


    gue Reaper turned his head back, looking over his shoulder at his undead pursuers. His eyes went wide for a moment, but that was all the reaction E deserved from him.


    "No way... He''s too fast. E''s projectiles can''t catch up with him!" Lero eximed, worried about the sess of E''s attack.


    gue Reaper''s legs were practically undetectable to Lero''s gaze. They looked like two shadows that only swayed slightly while they were actually moving at a tremendous speed, allowing gue Reaper to pass the entire Fume Cathedral in a few seconds.


    His silhouette whizzed past the columns that the projectiles asionally crashed into, unable to change their trajectory as quickly and deftly as gue Reaper did.


    "Hah, you don''t have to worry about that. He''s really fast, but I wouldn''t say it''s a problem for us." Katrin smirked confidently before mming her staff on the ground.


    Crack. Crack. Crack.


    At the same moment, roots began to emerge from the ground and walls, many more of them thanst time, covering everything around like deadly spiky vines.


    ''Grh, it took a lot of energy, but if I can stop this bastard for even a second, it''ll be worth it.'' Katrin muttered internally as her gaze grew fainter and bags appeared under her eyes as if she hadn''t slept in a long time.


    gue Reaper leaped forward, trying to dodge the roots. The tips of the first roots had failed to catch his legs, but the second time he wasn''t so lucky.


    Clutch.


    Several roots curled tightly around gue Reaper, holding him in one ce, or at least they tried to.


    Step. Step. Step.


    Beingpletely obliged by the multitude of roots, gue Reaper continued to step forward, causing them to tear like ropes unable to withstand such pressure.


    Katrin gulped. She couldn''t imagine how strong gue Reaper''s legs were if even so many roots were nothing more than weak threads against him, unable to hold the wild beast.


    But... E''s projectiles were too close.


    "ARGHHHHHH!!!"


    gue Reaper roared furiously like a true monster, tearing Katrin''s roots apart with his hands. The thorns stabbed into his hands, making blood gush, but it was a low price to pay for what he managed to achieve.


    In the next moment, gue Reaper turned into dark smoke, disappearing and ending up far behind E.


    The next thing E saw was her own projectilesing towards her. And... if she saved Oskar from his sword, can anyone save E from its destructive power?"