Bringing the healed Crom and Aži Dahāka, everyone arrived at the third spatial area.
Compared to the other two combat spaces, the third space was much more vast, occupying 70% of the base's area. The ground and walls were made of steel, and dense, precise machinery was placed all around.
A strong smell of blood permeated the air, and the corpses of mass-produced Evil Dragons covered the ground.
Walking through the sea of corpses and blood, Tatsuma and the others arrived in front of a huge pit and jumped down.
A moment later, an empty underground space appeared before them. Like the floor above, the underground space was also covered with the corpses of mass-produced Evil Dragons.
In the center of the space, a graceful figure held a black longsword, emitting an ominous aura.
"Tatsuma, Yahweh, you're here."
Noticing the aura behind her, Grayfia temporarily stopped what she was doing and looked over.
"You seem to be in a tough fight." Tatsuma walked over leisurely.
Not far ahead, a black Evil Dragon about twenty meters long with four limbs and two wings stood. Poisonous liquid dripped from various parts of the Evil Dragon's body, forming huge pools of poison on the ground, emitting a strange foul smell.
"Sorry, I missed." Grayfia's expression was a bit awkward.
In terms of strength, Nidhogg was not at the Heavenly Dragon level and was weaker than the Apophis, Aži Dahāka and Crom.
But compared to them, Nidhogg had a very troublesome ability—resurrection.
From the start of the battle until now, she had already killed Nidhogg four times. However, each time he was killed, he would resurrect.
Coupled with the foul-smelling poisonous liquid, Grayfia, who had the upper hand in strength, was held up.
"Let me handle it."
Yahweh volunteered and walked up.
"Wait! I can surrender!"
Nidhogg subconsciously retreated two steps, a hint of fear flashing in his eyes.
He wasn't blind, of course, he saw the three Evil Dragons behind Yahweh and the others.
He couldn't beat Grayfia in the first place, and now he was purely relying on resurrection to drag out time, waiting for his teammates to come to support. Now that all his teammates had defected, he instantly lost the desire to fight and wanted to surrender together.
However...
"I don't accept your surrender."
Yahweh mobilized her divine power and activated Divine Arts. Surging holy light rose up, turning into several light swords that pierced through Nidhogg's body, fixing him in place.
After that, Yahweh inserted her palm into the air beside her and pulled out a shell with a diameter of one meter. The shell was engraved with a pair of wings and emitted a strong sacred aura.
"This is the Dragon Slayer Shell I just made, just right to test its power on you."
Injecting divine power to activate the shell, Yahweh threw it over and created a barrier around it.
The next moment, the Dragon Slayer Shell activated. A deafening roar sounded, and dazzling light bloomed within the barrier.
With cracking sounds, cracks appeared on the surface of the barrier like a spider web.
Finally, there was a bang, and the barrier shattered.
The surging and powerful Dragon Slayer Curse surged forward in the aftermath, causing the three Evil Dragons to frown.
"Your toy is a bit powerful."
Tatsuma also felt a little uncomfortable, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.
"It's normal for it to be powerful, the tools I'm making now are all based on you as a reference sample." Yahweh took off her goggles and replied with a smile.
Since her potential was activated, her mind had become much sharper than before. As her strength gradually recovered, more and more inspiration emerged in her mind.
Turning some of this inspiration into reality, she had now created tools that could harm Dragon Kings and Heavenly Dragons, their quality far exceeding the past. But even so, it still didn't reach her expectations.
Glancing at Tatsuma, who was still treating her tools as toys, Yahweh looked ahead.
After taking a Dragon Slayer Shell to the face, Nidhogg's body was half gone. However, with the help of his resurrection ability, the missing part of his body began to slowly recover, and his aura rose again.
"That's a bit interesting."
Yahweh took out some new tools to test.
She wasn't worried about not being able to kill Nidhogg. Immortality had its limits, and not everyone was as exaggerated as Tatsuma and Trihexa.
After testing more than twenty tools in a row, Nidhogg quickly reached his limit. After issuing a reluctant curse, he completely lost his aura.
[Yahweh successfully defeated Nidhogg, congratulations on obtaining the red trait: Resurrection.]
[Resurrection (Red): After death, you can consume a certain amount of soul power to resurrect. If the number of resurrections exceeds the limit, the soul will be permanently damaged.]
A trait that adds immortality, with side effects.
Identified as trash, not as good as Indestructible.
Glancing at the effect of Resurrection, Tatsuma threw it into the material area, preparing to sacrifice it later.
"Tatsuma, how do you plan to deal with this guy?"
Grayfia walked over from not far away, dragging the severely injured Rizevim in her hand.
"Just kill him directly."
Tatsuma waved his hand and gave his answer.
He had kept Rizevim before because he was interested in the Evil Dragon souls in his hands. Now that the goal had been achieved, Rizevim had lost all value.
"Wait... wait a minute! Don't kill me!"
Seeing Tatsuma's decisive reply, it was Rizevim's turn to panic, and he quickly stated the words he had prepared.
"Tatsuma! I can help you!"
"As long as I'm here, you can control the Old Satan Faction without any cost, and even control Ophis!"
"Oh right, and Cao Cao!"
"That guy is preparing to make a move on you. As long as you spare my life, I can help you..."
Boom!
"Too much nonsense."
Tatsuma snorted coldly and lowered his fist.
"Grayfia, do it."
"Yes."
Grayfia lifted the Vorpal Sword, ignoring Rizevim's pleas and swung her sword down. The sharp blade split Rizevim in two, and True Darkness devoured his soul completely.
The son of the first Lucifer, completely fallen.
[Grayfia successfully defeated Rizevim Livan Lucifer, congratulations on obtaining the red trait: Committing All Kinds of Evil.]
[Committing All Kinds of Evil (Red): When acting with the evil in your heart as the goal, physical stats are greatly improved, stamina and demonic power recovery speed are greatly increased, and fatal damage is offset once every twenty-four hours.]
Material + 1.
Glancing at the new trait dropped by Rizevim, Tatsuma threw it into the material area.
Closing the panel, he looked at Grayfia in front of him, who was in a daze and asked, "How do you feel?"
"...I don't feel anything."
Grayfia came back to her senses and replied indifferently.
As a Devil of the Lucifuge clan, she had never thought that one day she would execute a descendant of Lucifer. But when this moment truly arrived, she found that her reaction was calmer than she had imagined.
Compared to killing Rizevim, she was more concerned about the thoughts of the man in front of her who had taken everything from her.
"What are the next arrangements?"
"Clean up the battlefield, and I'll go to the Underworld with Rias and the others later."
"I understand, then I will go to Hueco Mundo to hunt Hollows according to the original plan."
Tatsuma reminded, "The Hollow you killed not long ago was an Espada from Hueco Mundo, be careful when you go to Hueco Mundo next."
Szayelaporro's position among the Espada was not low. When Hueco Mundo discovers his disappearance later, there will inevitably be a big move, and stronger people will be sent to investigate.
Tatsuma was not worried that Grayfia couldn't win, but strength didn't determine everything in this world.
Targeting with tools, ability counteraction, ambush attacks...
If she was careless, there was a high possibility of getting injured.
"Don't worry, I will be careful."
Grayfia also understood this principle and nodded slightly in response.
Seeing this, Tatsuma didn't give any more instructions. He turned around and led the crowd away from the underground, arriving at the management area above.
After enabling trait sharing and sending Grayfia and the three Evil Dragons to clear out the mass-produced Evil Dragons that survived in the corners, Tatsuma and Yahweh came to the central control room, an area filled with a large amount of energy stones.
These energy stones were one of the materials Rizevim used to produce Evil Dragons. Tatsuma didn't stand on ceremony and accepted these spoils of war one by one.
Yahweh, on the other hand, went in a different direction from Tatsuma, came to the central system, and tapped on it a couple of times.
Having monitored Rizevim twenty-four hours a day, Yahweh not only obtained the resurrection progress of the Evil Dragons but also conveniently obtained the password for the central system. Saving the time to crack the authentication system, she quickly called up the confidential documents in the central system.
"As expected, I wasn't mistaken before, Rizevim was investigating Trihexa."
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