"Time is short, so I'll be brief. Mei, I need your power."
Takatsuki's voice came from the familiar passage.
"What happened! How can I help you!"
The gloomy and heavy aura of the 59th floor, even through the spatial connection, the group could feel it keenly. The closest to the passage was Takatsuki's familiar back, and at the same time, Takatsuki's left hand also passed through the passage and appeared before them.
"I need to borrow the power of the Herrscher Core. Just hold my hand like last time."
No sooner had he spoken than Mei unhesitatingly took Takatsuki's hand.
"Then please use my power as you wish!"
Looking at the enemy chanting magic before him, and feeling the soft, boneless slender hand in his, Takatsuki gently grasped it: "Thank you, Mei, I…"
Before he could finish speaking, another hand forcibly pulled Takatsuki's hand away and held it along with Mei's: "You big idiot, this Queen and the coward are inseparable. Do you only need the coward's power?"
"Raiden…"
"And me! We've been adventuring together for so long, are you really going to leave me behind?!"
Kiana also came closer and grabbed all three of their hands at once.
"Although Bronya doesn't have the power of a Herrscher, if Bronya can help, Bronya doesn't want to be left behind by everyone either."
Even Fu Hua walked over: "Although we haven't been together for long, since we made a promise, I will also be your companion."
The five people's hands overlapped at the same time. Takatsuki had only wanted to borrow the power of one Herrscher to defeat the enemy in front of him, but unexpectedly, he was trusted by everyone.
"Since that's the case, I won't say more. For what comes next, everyone just needs to feel it with their hearts."
"Heaven's Stairway · Love Train!"
The mechanical figure of Heaven's Stairway appeared beside Takatsuki, and the D4C image on its forehead glowed, activating the ability evolved from D4C.
The several people holding Takatsuki's hand simultaneously felt the power of Love Train, as if a train had connected them, and through this train, they could lend their power to Takatsuki.
The size of the channel, with the activation of Love Train's ability, shrunk to its minimum, like a bracelet embedded on Takatsuki's left arm.
From the perspective of the 59th floor, Takatsuki's left hand appeared to have been severed and disappeared.
Meanwhile, where Kiana and the others were, an arm floated in mid-air.
But with the power of Love Train, they could "see" the enemies Takatsuki faced through a mental network.
Just as Takatsuki called out to his companions, the Corrupted Spirit's magic incantation was completed, and countless meteor showers rained down on everyone's position like artillery fire.
The Loki Familia was already heavily wounded from their last charge, and Riveria was almost out of magic power after casting several spells.
But she still bravely stood up and raised a barrier: "Everyone! Quickly come into my barrier!"
Everyone looked at Takatsuki, who had been standing alone at the very front since the beginning, doing who knew what.
"Takatsuki! Hurry over! The magic is coming!"
However, Takatsuki showed no reaction to the shouts of the Loki Familia members behind him.
"Hey! That guy's left hand, isn't it gone!"
Bete immediately saw the clean break on Takatsuki's left hand, and after he pointed it out, the others also noticed.
"Teacher!"
Ais immediately rushed out of the barrier upon seeing this scene.
"Ais!" * 8
Even with severe injuries, Ais still wanted to do her best to rush to Takatsuki's side and bring him back into the barrier.
But at this moment, the magic was already complete, and the meteor shower descended from the magic circle in the sky, heading towards everyone's heads.
Snap!
A crisp snapping sound echoed from Takatsuki's outstretched right hand.
Dense purple halos appeared above everyone's heads, and the falling meteors instantly vanished upon entering the halos, as if swallowed.
"This is... what."
"Did he do it?"
Ais also stopped in her tracks due to this astonishing scene.
The halos, like a curtain of light in the sky, disappeared one by one after the meteor shower ended, and then with the sound of another snap, they reappeared above the Corrupted Spirit's head.
Before the Corrupted Spirit could react to how her magic had disappeared, Takatsuki gave her the answer.
"Ahhh!!!!"
The damage originated from her own super-long incantation magic, and the temporary magic shield the Corrupted Spirit erected was completely unable to defend against it.
After the magic ended, what was revealed to everyone was the Corrupted Spirit, disfigured and incomplete, blown apart by her own magic.
"Great! We defeated her!"
Before everyone could celebrate, the Corrupted Spirit, reduced to half her body, suddenly let out a piercing shriek, and the surrounding small monsters instantly turned into magic power, which she rapidly absorbed, while the damaged parts of her body repaired themselves at a visible speed.
Takatsuki merely stood in place, watching the Corrupted Spirit's resupply action.
If anyone could walk to his front, they would see that both of his eyes had changed appearance.
His left eye was sky-blue, like Kiana's, with an internal pupil pattern resembling a sniper scope's crosshairs.
His right eye, however, had a purple iris and a red pupil, with a white halo around the outer edge of its iris and tiny rhombuses on the upper and lower parts.
"Ah! That's my ability! The power of the Herrscher of the Void! Mei! Mei! Did you see it!"
On the other side, Kiana, who had "seen" the scene through the mental connection, jumped up excitedly.
At this moment, Takatsuki raised his only relatively intact right hand, and a white energy accumulated in his hand.
The Corrupted Spirit on the opposite side had also fully recovered; seemingly realizing that ranged attacks were useless against Takatsuki, with her roar, countless plant thorns emerged from the ground, stabbing towards Takatsuki's direction.
Swish!
The accumulated white energy transformed into a long spear, one end of which Takatsuki held in his hand, like wielding a sharp blade, swinging it to cut down all the incoming thorns.
"Spear of the Void."
Fu Hua looked at the familiar spear and recognized it as the signature move of the Herrscher of the Void, an opponent she had once faced.
The Spear of the Void was not an ordinary weapon, but a materialization of the Herrscher of the Void's ability; it inherently represented spatial cutting, so although it looked like a spear, any part of it could perform cutting.
However, Takatsuki lacked the skill to use this type of weapon, merely swinging it wildly with brute force.
At this moment, a will descended upon him.
"I will transmit my sword-wielding techniques to you through the power of Fenghuang Down. Accept it; this is the only thing I can do."
Fu Hua's voice echoed in his ear.
Burning feathers descended from the sky into Takatsuki's vision, and within each feather, there were many memories.
Memories about swords.
Although it was not a sword, the Spear of the Void was, to Takatsuki, a sword at this moment.
However, the simultaneous influx of two core powers caused a slight discomfort in Takatsuki's body.
Just two people were like this...
Enduring the discomfort, Takatsuki looked at an item that had been kept cold in his backpack.
The fiery Dragon was thrown back into the backpack, and the balanced Tiger finally exerted its power at this moment.