Chapter 247: Pure Powe

[There is no need to say much about the following time. While you were optimizing the "lantern", you also dealt with some other chores. In the meantime, you also performed an operation on Mobius, making her the "third" fusion warrior.]

[Of course, all of this was done without the permission of the "Fire Moth". After all, even the "Fire Moth" would not specifically allow Mobius to conduct such an experiment.]

[But unfortunately, by the time the "Fire Moth" learned of the situation, you had already dealt with everything. Mobius successfully completed the operation and became the "third" fusion warrior.]

[It has come to this, and there is nothing the "Fire Moth" can do. They can only warn you a few more times, telling you to be more "behaved" and not do such things without telling them...]

[Especially you! You spoil Mobius too much. Whatever she says goes, does she mean it? Do you do whatever she tells you to do? She has done this to you, and even tricked you into going to the operating table in disguise and performing a fusion warrior surgery in private... Even after all this, you still listen to her?]

「Ah… How should I put it… In order to cover up for you, Mobius has become like this in the eyes of others… This makes you feel a little bitter.」

[Your response to this was normal "This was the doctor's "wish", so I naturally had to make it happen... Besides, wasn't this my "revenge"? I also performed surgery on the doctor, and it was also done privately... but in the end, we both survived and succeeded."]

「Your words have confused the others, but Mobius is quite happy.」

[After this, you have been labeled as "infatuated" in "Fire Moth"... Eh? No, your relationship with Eden, Sakura, and Vill-V is still unclear, and there is also Aponia who obeys your every word for some reason... Tsk]

[Sure enough, you are more suitable for the label of "scumbag"]

[But you don't really mind this... you still have a lot of things to deal with.]

[First of all, you have to meet Irine and her parents]

[In order to reassure them, you took the initiative to find them and took the special "Bible" from their hands, and then paid a little attention to Irine's performance in training.]

[Well... As expected, Irine's performance is still excellent and she works very hard... It's her nature, so there's no need to worry too much.]

[After that, you met with Narcissa and the others for a while, and accepted their thanks and small gifts... Because of the previous problem with the shelter, Narcissa and the others, as well as everyone in that shelter, received a certain amount of compensation.]

[Besides, since they were children from the orphanage, Narcissa and the others received quite generous compensation, which even made the adults who took care of them feel a little dizzy...]

[Well, it seems that we don't have to worry too much about Narcissa and the others this time.]

[very nice]

[Okay, okay, in short, everything is progressing slowly in such an orderly manner.]

[And time has come to this day unknowingly]

[It's time for you, the "senpai", to help the "juniors" get familiar with the power]

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"It's really surprising that so many people came here to watch today."

Mobius took Klein and looked around meaningfully. Her eyes, which had completely turned into snake pupils, always carried an inexplicable sense of danger, causing everyone she glanced at to tremble subconsciously.

"After all, they are very curious about the physical data of [Brother], and some doubts about the previous [Uriel] crusade have not been solved, so of course they care about it."

Vill-V, who was standing by, said casually.

"And... old woman, as the "third one", why don't you give it a try?"

"Alas, I'm just an ordinary researcher. I don't know how to do things like fighting and killing."

"...Tsk, that's true. If you go, whether Brother will fight with you is another matter."

Vill-V curled her lips, gave up finding fault with this, and looked behind her... She heard some familiar footsteps.

"Hey, isn't this our big star Eden? And the famous model Sakura... Are you interested in this too?"

"I was a little concerned, so I came to take a look."

Eden said with a smile.

"Also, there have been a lot of promotional activities recently... I can just take this short period of time as a break."

"Um."

Sakura nodded, agreeing with Eden's statement.

"It's been a long time, Dr. Mobius."

"It's been a long time indeed, Eden, Sakura."

Mobius nodded in the direction of the two of them as a greeting, then raised her hand and gestured slightly. Klein, who was standing next to her, promptly handed the recording terminal to Mobius. At the same time, Klein herself picked up another terminal and planned to record simultaneously.

Mei, who was not far away, made a similar move, and Kevin, who was standing behind her, focused her attention on the figure in the center of the venue.

Of course, several observers directly under the Fire Moth are also indispensable.

In addition, there are Hen's wife and daughter Blanca and Griseo, as well as Pardofelis, who took care of Griseo so that Blanca would have time to process the data, and Irine, who was invited in advance to "observe and learn" because she was an "in-house member".

On the other side of the observation window, the so-called "competition" is about to begin.

...

"Well... okay, who's going first?"

Nozomi first pushed Kalpas, who knew that Nozomi was going to spar with someone and therefore ran over aggressively to fight with Nozomi in advance, into the wall with one hand, and told him that "the time is up and it's time to deal with business." Then Nozomi stood back in the special training ground and clapped his hands to signal to the others.

"Me, me, me! Me first!"

Dystopia raised her hand excitedly and walked into the venue on her own initiative, leaving Elysia, who was just about to take a step, to sit back in disappointment.

"Ha, Senior, don't be scared by my abilities, okay?"

"Don't listen to Elysia and call me that... And, [Telekinesis], right? It's nothing to be scared of. I already know it from the information."

"Ugh... that's boring."

Dystopia curled her lips in dissatisfaction, then rolled her eyes and asked with a smile.

"Come to think of it, since we're sparring, we can naturally choose our weapons, right?"

"Of course, whatever you choose."

"That's what you said!"

Dystopia seemed very excited. Without waiting for Nozomi to continue speaking, she concentrated her mind and "summoned" ten weapons from the weapon rack beside her... and when she saw guns, swords, and other equipment floating up as if they had consciousness, the people on the other side of the observation window couldn't help but sigh that the Honkai was really outrageous.

"Huh...Okay! That's all!"

"So we can start now?"

Nozomi glanced at the weapons she chose... well, mostly firearms, which was normal.

"Eh? Nozomi, don't you need it?"

"Need not."

Nozomi shook his head and asked softly.

"Are you ready?"

"Certainly!"

"So…"

Nozomi raised his hand to signal the others. After they reached a safe place and dug Kalpas out of the wall and carried him out, Nozomi nodded slightly.

"Just open it..."

Bang!

"A sneak attack!"

Before Nozomi could finish his words, Dystopia had already controlled the gun and hit Nozomi with it, with a slight smile on her face as she spoke. She even wanted to say to Nozomi afterward, "All's fair in war."

Then... Dystopia saw Nozomi disappear from her sight, and the shot she had just fired naturally fell into empty space.

"If you want to sneak attack, don't shout so loudly."

Nozomi's voice came from behind her, which scared her. She quickly dodged to the side while keeping some distance. At the same time, she quickly adjusted the [Telekinesis] to wrap around herself to prevent any problems.

"...Ahem, Nozomi, you're so scary like this."

After a brief moment of vigilance, Dystopia coughed awkwardly before complaining.

"And how did you get behind me? Is this considered an ability of yours?"

"Ability?"

Nozomi looked at her in confusion.

"No, I just ran behind you... Also, since you have already launched the attack, does that mean... I can start too?"

"Ah… Yeah."

Dystopia was puzzled by Nozomi's question but nodded anyway.

"Is that so? Then we have to be... careful."

?!!

At this moment, Dystopia shuddered suddenly, as if she was being stared at by something particularly dangerous.

Out of the instinct of a fusion warrior, she immediately moved backward while controlling the surrounding guns to attack in the direction of her original combat power, and then controlled the only few special melee weapons she selected to surround her to guard against Nozomi's possible surprise attack.

"It can now be controlled separately... Although it's a bit crude, it's already pretty good."

Nozomi's voice suddenly appeared from the side.

"But, as long as you can't catch it with your eyes, your attack will be useless... Try to use your ability to sense the surroundings; otherwise, you won't be able to catch me."

"Varied..."

Before she could look away, she felt the telekinesis she had gathered around her body. A fist was coming directly at her. The huge force was squeezing her strength crazily, making it difficult for her to hold on to the "defense" she had built...

More importantly, even if she sensed it, she couldn't make any effective counterattack, and she couldn't even react... The moment she sensed the attack with the help of [Telekinesis], her body flew out directly, and she rolled on the ground twice before she could barely stabilize her body.

Then, the pain came...

"Hiss… it hurts."

"This level is not a big problem for fusion warriors."

Nozomi's calm voice came from not far away.

"And, go ahead, try to do as I just said, don't use your eyes to see, use your ability to capture my figure."

"Otherwise..."

Nozomi's eyes suddenly became sharp.

"With the next strike, you can exit the game."

"…Tsk."

The sense of danger was increasing rapidly. Dystopia smacked her lips, adjusted her breathing, suppressed the pain in her side abdomen, and then... gave up controlling some guns and tried to use the extra [Telekinesis] to sense the surrounding situation.

"There are trade-offs? Hmm... It seems that you can only use a limited amount of telekinesis... If you can continue to grow, there will be a lot of room for development in the future."

"That's true... thank you for the compliment!"

Dystopia's eyes narrowed.

First, use firearms to attack in the direction of Nozomi to force him to move.

Then, she focused her attention on perception to confirm Nozomi's location... Dystopia believed that Nozomi's previous two actions should be considered his [ability], such as teleportation or something.

If that was the case, it would explain why Nozomi suddenly disappeared and then appeared in another direction.

Well, if that's the case - Dystopia focused her attention on sensing the situation around her while controlling a "sword"-shaped melee weapon beside her, keeping an eye on her surroundings.

If that's the case, then fight back with this!

Nozomi didn't have a weapon, so he could only fight in close combat. As long as he was alert, he would be able to...

...Huh?

A big question mark suddenly appeared on Dystopia's head.

It's not that she didn't sense Nozomi's figure... she sensed it, and even felt it very clearly, and could tell that he was moving.

But... but... this speed?!

So the performance that was similar to teleportation before... wasn't an [ability], but just pure speed?!

"Not enough. Your reactions are holding back your [ability]."

Even if she sensed it, so what? Even if she knew Nozomi's movement trajectory, so what?

She couldn't react!

Almost in an instant, Nozomi's voice came from right in front of her... and she just subconsciously controlled the weapon at her side, moving the "sword" beside her a little bit...

Then her figure flew out again.

"Hmm... it seems like you should stop doing so many fancy things and just practice how to use your [Abilities]... like using [Telekinesis] to drag yourself to fly? Or directly attack the enemy or something like that?"

"Hiss... huh... your relaxed attitude is so annoying."

This time, Dystopia lay on the ground, holding her stomach and gasping for a long time before she slowly stood up and spoke with a little bitterness.

"I can't help it. You are just my comrade, not my relative... What else do you want me to do to you?"

"Hey, hey, hey, isn't it too obvious that you're biased? And it's already this late, so stop showing off your affection, okay?"

Dystopia complained subconsciously, and after a brief silence, she spoke again with some caution.

"And you just... were just fast? That's not your ability?"

"Yeah, didn't you sense it?"

Nozomi shrugged and replied with a smile.

"You need to make progress quickly, okay? Otherwise..."

Nozomi lowered his body slightly and raised the corners of his mouth slightly. It was obviously a normal smile, but in Dystopia's eyes, it seemed so dangerous.

"On the battlefield, you can't be so casual."

"You're so long-winded..."

Dystopia murmured softly, and then suddenly widened her eyes - in her perception, Nozomi began to move again.

'Still fast!' he realized it instantly.

'Wait... It's so dangerous!' And she also sensed that Nozomi's attack this time... would be very terrifying.

She didn't know if it was her own instinct at work, but before Nozomi's attack arrived, she felt a stinging pain on her face - Nozomi's attack seemed to be heading towards her face.

'How outrageous! He slapped a girl in the face!' Such a thought flashed through her mind.

But in the face of crisis, in the face of such terrifying pressure, in the face of an attack that seemed to be about to blow his head off with one punch.

Dystopia also tried her best to block this attack... No, she had to fight back!

First of all, give up controlling the weapon... Those kinds of fancy tricks are useless to Nozomi, it is better to just use [Telekinesis] directly.

Then... use [Telekinesis] to attack directly... Since you can't capture it directly, just suppress it from a distance!

The most basic use of [Telekinesis] is naturally to exert "pressure"... Since it is impossible to capture Nozomi's figure directly, she will create an "outward" and "downward" force around herself to force Nozomi to slow down.

Here!

Following her own perception and with the help of extra "pressure," Dystopia finally reacted before Nozomi launched an attack and successfully locked his position.

"oh?"

Nozomi raised his eyebrows.

"I got you!"

The corners of Dystopia's mouth began to rise uncontrollably, and she gathered the telekinesis scattered around her, pushing him outward while pressing him to the ground...

Maybe it was because she was too excited, or maybe she hadn't yet fully controlled her [ability]. This time she used all her strength, and in just a moment...

boom!

Cracks suddenly appeared on the ground covered by [Telekinesis], and there were even signs of sinking... This was an area with special features!

"ah..."

In an instant, Dystopia reacted and hurriedly tried to retract her [ability] and planned to go forward to check on Nozomi's condition... She knew that when she first used her [ability] with all her strength, she directly crushed an airplane into a "ball" without any gaps.

If this power is concentrated in one person.

"stay back..."

"…Huh?"

Nozomi's voice was calm as usual, but with a hint of tenderness, which made her feel confused and surprised.

"But... you can't do that on the battlefield. It's not good to show mercy to the enemy."

"No, why are you..."

"You underestimate the physical fitness of fusion warriors, especially mine."

Nozomi smiled and clenched his fists.

"I don't have any special [abilities], Dystopia."

boom!!!

Her figure followed Kalpas's footsteps and was directly embedded in the wall... No, Kalpas was even better than her; after all, Kalpas was "pressed" into the wall.

"I am simply stronger than you."

Looking at Dystopia who had fainted, Nozomi stood up again and stretched his body.

"Okay, next one!"

...

"Wow... is Nozomi that guy so cruel?"

Hen looked at Dystopia, who had just been brought back by Kosma and was still unconscious, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

"Humph, that guy didn't go easy on her! If it was on the battlefield, this little girl would have died countless times!"

Kalpas on the side snorted coldly.

"I know, I know. Getting beaten and injured in the base is better than dying on the battlefield, but it shouldn't be that serious, right? It's just a sparring match... Well, everyone will be unhappy if we do that."

"It's okay~ Nozomi is very measured~"

Elysia said with a smile as she carried the unconscious Dystopia aside and handed her to the medical staff who came rushing over to pick her up.

"I'm just worried that Nozomi's attitude will make everyone unhappy... Didn't you see the look on Kosma's face just now? Hiss... Oh, no, that's right. After all, my girlfriend got beaten, so I have to fight back anyway."

In the end, Hen suddenly remembered something, touched his chin slightly, and said half-jokingly.

"Don't say this in front of Kosma, or he'll be shy~"

"Isn't that better? Haha~"

Hen laughed twice, then tilted his head and looked at the others.

"Speaking of which, with Kosma's ability, how do you think he can fight against Nozomi?"

"Hmm... maybe 70-30, Kosma-30~"

"I'm not sure..."

Hua on the side shook her head, indicating that she would not comment, and Aponia simply kept silent... Anyway, she was not planning to play, and her ability was not suitable.

"Humph, that brat... can't even last three minutes!"

Kalpas on the side said casually.

"Not really? You know, Kosma's ability is still very threatening. If you give him time and enough energy, he will be able to survive..."

boom!!!

"...huh?"

Before anyone could finish their words, the familiar roar was heard again.

What followed was Nozomi's familiar voice.

"Okay! Next one!"

At this time, less than two minutes had passed since Kosma appeared on the stage...

"..."

Hen was silent for a while, then took the initiative to walk into the training ground, first looking at the wall...

Well, it's not embedded in the wall.

"Hen, he's here."

Nozomi's voice attracted Hen's attention, and then...

He saw Kosma embedded in the floor.

"Ah... Nozomi, you really are too kind. Please be gentle..."

"Don't worry, it's nothing serious. With the recovery ability of a fusion warrior, he will wake up in ten minutes."

"...With the recovery ability of a fusion warrior, it will take another ten minutes to wake up. This is outrageous, okay?!"

"Well, you're right... But unfortunately, I've already let it go, really."

Nozomi said seriously.

"Ahh... If that's the case, then you're too scary."

Hen complained like this.

"What? Are you scared? Are you worried that you won't be able to show your handsome side in front of Griseo?"

Nozomi raised his eyebrows.

"Should I let you go a little later?"

"You must be joking! Why would you have to do this?!"

When it comes to Griseo, Hen is no longer sleepy. He first dug out the unconscious Kosma and handed him over to the medical staff, and then Hen stayed in the training ground.

"Come on! Give it a try! I want to see how outrageous you are!"

"Okay~"

Nozomi replied with a smile.

One minute later...

Nozomi pulled down the mark embedded in the ceiling and then shouted with a smile.

"Okay! Next one!"