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By a hair’s breadth, Freed escaped fro behind However, a horizontally slashed wound was carved on his chest Haji the ic Shockwave" froic Power Conversion" and back kicked Freed

BAAAM!

"GAaAHH!!"

Freed barely guarded using his left arm, but he could not kill the ans were daon

Noticing his on lost its concentration and the black Breath approached it in a dash Ion, Tio’s Breath grandly blew off the bea as it was being bloay, the white dragon soain its balance mid-air even after its belly received the attack fro Once again, Freed was on the back of an Ash Dragon with Freed Reunited in the air, Freed once again boarded the white dragon

Haji "Aerodynaht enveloping Haji rapidly, and not only froe amount of blood His "Limit Break" had reached the tie was further deepened fro his li into the ocean of ma because his "Aerodynamic" was deactivated

"Master! Hold on!"

"Guh, Ti-Tio…"

Tio flew to put the falling Hajie deepened from "Lied to solared at Freed above

Fro Yue and the girls had gathered by Freed’s side

"Haji Haji Tio landed in the nearby foothold She did it because the possibility of the current Hajijumped onto the same foothold, Yue and Shia immediately came to Hajime’s side and supported his body

"… What a dreadful force Those women are also not normal A Ryuujin race that should have been annihilated, no-chant no-array using ic-user, and a Rabbitman tribe with unexpected power and ability to see the future… They are also possibly users of Age of Gods ic And to have cornered otten beaten if I didn’t first attack, huh…"

Squeezing his words, Freed was exchanging gaze with Haji, Freed touch the wound carved on his chest with his unhurt right hand

"Why are you assuht"

Hajily because of Freed’s words But even with his tattered body, Haji intent while he declared the battle to continue

"… Of course The torrent of killing intent overflowing froive up no matter hoounded you are Not only do you have dreadful powers, you also have killing intent that could devour your ene once, then Freed ain

"I don’t want to use this method… but it is necessary to use it if it can kill powerful ene Haji to the small bird-shaped demonic beast, unknown as to when it landed on his shoulder

Then,

RUMBLE, RUMBLE, RUMBLE, RUMBLE, RUMBLE, RUMBLE, RUMBLE, RUMBLE, RUMBLE!

SPLASH!

KABOOM!

Great tremor shook the entire space, no, the entire «Guryuu-en Great Volcano», and the ocean ofsound

"Uoh!?"

"Nnah!?"

"Kyaa!?"

"Nuoh!?"

Suffering froot on all fours and screareat tre even more intense, and could be said to reach seven in the richter scale Fro the foothold, where Haji in level

"What did he do?"

Hajime squeezed his words and asked the obvious culprit behind this situation, Freed Havingabove the middle island, Freed answered the question

"I only destroyed the keystone"

"Key… stone?"

"That’s right Didn’t you think it was strange when you saw the ma? «Guryuu-en Great Volcano» is obviously an active volcano However, there’s no record of it erupting until now What Ithe activity of the underground ma reservoir"

"That’s the "keystone," huh… Don’t tell antic keystone that caleon will soon be destroyed And although I deeply regret that I can’t give eon… it isn’t that regrettable if itwith this Great Dungeon"

Coldly looking down at Hajime’s party, Freed held a pendant on his neck towards the ceiling Then, the crack on the ceiling began to be open Along with the circular hole on the ceiling, several doors above it also opened

Apparently, Freed had opened the shortcut to the outside using the proof of having conquered «Guryuu-en Great Volcano» For the last tilared at Hajion, disappearing into the passage on the ceiling

With the surrounding ed like the sea influenced by a hurricane, the nuan to s the edges of the foothold where Hajime’s party were It was a spectacle worthy to be called the end of world

In a short while, Haji decided on so, he stood up despite his injury Ions left behind by Freed and the white dragon began to simultaneously fire small beams They seem to want to kill Haji the s "Absolute Calamity," Hajime put his hand on the "Treasure Box" Then, he put his hand on the hard dragon scale covering Tio’s cheeck, as firing Breath towards the Ash Dragons overhead, to make her face him

"Tio, listen Take this and you aloneto the outside"

For aas said Then, she realized it in the next er Haji her to let herself survived, casting him and the other tay

"Master, is this one, is this one not worth spending the last ti this one? This one…"

"That’s not it, Tio I will say it just once because there’s not et the Age of Godsto fulfilback the "Serene stone" However, it is impossible to do it alone That’s why I want you to lend me your power If it is not you, it is i and return to Ancadi… Please, Tio"

Hajiaze he had never looked at her with before With his pride and arrogance, Haji by hi he needed Tio’s cooperation to accomplish his wishes, and to overcome all of the difficulties He said he needed Tio’s power There was neither trace of hi Tio at all

The sadness and anger in Tio’s heart changed radically into one of joy as she tre important by the man she liked, no, the one she wanted to be her partner in this life and death situation She would not be a woman if she didn’t answer him

Therefore, Tio only answered with one sentence

"Leave it to this one!"

Haji so, he was directly touching the Tio’s body while she was in her dragon for the "Treasure Box" with her skin, Tio quietly rubbed her head against Hajime It was the best expression of love she could do now Hajiently stroked Tio once before he parted Tio turned her gaze to Yue and Shia Then, she nodded powerfully having felt that the two also haven’t given up

"Tio, deliver this e to Kaori and Myuu "I will ed"

The too nonchalant h inadvertently, and after a beat, she flew at once while cladded by a powerful wind Using barrelroll to evade the incoh the group of Ash Dragons The Ash Dragons, sensing the crisis froon’ssmall beams were counterbalanced by Tio’s Breath, but it wasn’t easy because the bea one after another However, the ushed out fro Tio

It was the small beams compressed and fired by Yue’s "Absolute Cala bullets were fired and the shock wave blew the Ash Dragons away

Suddenly, on had reached outside, the doors on the ceiling began to close Realizing she didn’t havewith resolution of receiving the boht speed was further increased, but the fired off son scale

"H it on~!"

Just as she said, Tio’swith the increons daed her body It was the effect of "Pain Conversion" in "Dragonform" Thewith temporary boost of her ability, an awful skill derivation Incidentally, it was so for several hundreds of years So, rather than "breaking through the wall (as in the wall before the skill derived)," it was ons soh the storht before it closed Looking above, a sht of the outside There were still several doors that had begun to close one by one

Without thinking about the consequence, Tio used her onfor life she had, it was a speed she had never use before She literally flew, turning into a gale

She passed through one door, two doors, three doors, and she finally arrived at the last door; a thick door connected to the outside Tio was going forhile surrounded by black wind like a cannonball And light bullets attacked her froon had noticed Tio, and thus they stopped to attack her Now,while evading, Tio didn’t lower her speed even if she could not evade the boon fired off the beaic power, the bea It was only half of its usual power at best However, the dae, if Tio was hit by it, would still surpass the one she received from the small beams Furthermore, her speed would fall if she evade or intercept it If so, she ht not make it in time before the door closed

Tio steeled herself, and she further raised her speed using "Pain Conversion" right after the boht bullets

And at that ti in between Tio and the inco The floating crosses, all-ranged weapons, Hajiht behind Tio

The three Cross Bits that cale of the beah they were destroyed one after another by the force of the beam, they had interrupted the beam and protected Tio Furthermore, another four Cross Bits flew to Tio’s side to protect her

"Nuhaa~, can’t hold it! Masterrr, this one love you~!"

Even though he ma, Hajiround to protect Tio Thus, Tio roared towards the world, shouting her love Being especially strong even ast the Ryuujin tribe, Tio had never been protected by a man up until now It was always her who did the protection That’s why, the fact that she was protected during such an extremely difficult situation made her exploded in joy from the sensation she had never felt

"Guuroarrr!!!"

With a dragon’s roar, she passed through the last door Having turned into aunder the sunlight that poured down surrounded by the gigantic sandstorm

"For the situation to turn out like this…-! What a on is covered in wounds I will kil-!?"

Tio who flew overhead on astonished, but he iaze and tried to attack However, his plan and words were interrupted The four Cross Bits had surrounded Freed and the white dragon from all directions before they were aware of the his escape to promptly put up a barrier After all, it had been proven that the Cross Bit’s offensive power could not destroy the barrier And although the result ht have been different if they were loaded with explosive bullets, the exploding-slug bullets in Shia’s ranged attack were scarce, and Haji, thus he had no time to implement it on the Cross Bits

However, the Cross Bits have one more powerful attack method This method made Freed’s composed expression freeze, proven by hoas bloay along with the white dragon after receiving a huge da it was odd the Cross Bits didn’t shoot and abruptly shined red, but in the next moment, they exploded

The four Cross Bits had been positioned in all sides to not let their targets escaped frorand, powerful impact and the bullets that scattered like a stor Freed and the white dragon

"GAaAAH!!"

"RUaAAAAn!!"

Theas they were bloay

In addition, Tio attacked with tornado, pushing Freed and the white dragon into the sandstorm Tio had wanted to shoot out Breath to kill them for sure, but she could not because she didn’t have th left

Tio watched the place where Freed and the white dragon had disappeared for a while, then she e at all She quietly watched the «Guryuu-en Great Volcano» before her without even a trace of her perverted tension re "This one will believe in thee," she turned around and fleards Ancadi

After several tens of reat earthquake with «Guryuu-en Great Volcano» as the epicentre, with sounds surpassing roaring sounds, a great explosion occurred that even cracked the atmosphere, and temporarily blew off the sandstorm Black, black smoke rose fro rocks went flying, and sparks scattered froreat eruption of «Guryuu-en Great Volcano» that was recorded to have never erupted in history In a way, it was a historical ain wrapped with a veil of gigantic sandstor sound that see with the spouted black smoke was certainly seen by the people of Ancadi Their uneasiness grew stronger It was also felt by the girl and little girl aiting for their important people to return