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Chapter 469 The True Ancestor Who Almost Died
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At that moment, the foundation gate, which forms the basis of Itogami Island, seemed to be wailing as it shook violently.

At the highest point of this tallest building, which would immediately disintegrate the entire Itogami Island if something went wrong, a thundercloud appeared with lightning and thunder.

The thunderclouds crackled and released bolts of lightning, their immense magical power akin to tangible gravity, causing the foundation gate to creak and groan as if it were about to shatter.

Anyone with expertise would immediately recognize that this thundercloud is actually a beast.

That's right, it's the familiar summoned by Jada.

"Go! Kamasutori!"

At Jada's command, a bluish-white flash suddenly burst forth from the thunderclouds, whipping up electrified air as it hurtled toward Azer.

The true form of the flash was lightning that flew at a speed absolutely invisible to the naked eye; it was lightning powerful enough to evaporate the air.

The lightning flashed, covering a distance that could be measured in kilometers, not to mention that the top layer of the Foundation Gate wasn't even that wide.

So, in the blink of an eye, the lightning, powerful enough to smash buildings and shatter structures, flashed in front of Aize and struck him directly.

"boom!"

However, when the lightning struck Aize, it did not evaporate and destroy the seemingly frail boy's body. Instead, it was as if he had been hit over the head with a club, and he was instantly sent flying into the sky.

"...!"

Jada's pupils suddenly contracted as she looked on with obvious pleasure. Almost instinctively, she raised her hand, causing the thunderclouds above her to unleash hundreds of bolts of lightning that furiously struck Aize.

"Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom...!"

Lightning bolts rained down, accompanied by thunder and roars, causing the Foundation Gate to shake even more violently.

Logically speaking, an attack of this intensity should have been enough to destroy the Foundation Gate on the spot. However, the lightning that fell like rain did not have time to damage the Foundation Gate before it was deflected into the sky one by one, and none of them could harm Azer.

Despite being enveloped in endless lightning, Aize was unharmed, his eyes filled with coldness.

The next second, a pair of sticks suddenly appeared in his hand, which he threw out.

The clubs split into two groups. One, crackling with lightning, suddenly soared into the sky and disappeared into the thunderclouds. The other, however, whipped up a whirlwind and hurtled towards Jia Da, causing alarm bells to blare in her heart.

Her powerful wild instincts told her that this staff was extraordinary, far more terrifying than any mythical beast summoned by Azer or the familiars of the vampire progenitor.

"Shiutektori!"

Jada dared not be negligent and immediately summoned her second familiar, causing a scorching pillar of fire to erupt at her feet like a volcano.

The pillar of fire, like a giant fiery serpent, rolled and transformed into bursts of flame as it met the incoming club head-on, colliding with it.

"boom!!!"

A deafening roar erupted, causing the whirlwind and flames to intertwine and transform into an extremely intense blast that expanded from the top of the Foundation Gate.

The scene, resembling a massive explosion, caused everyone on Itogami Island to gasp in alarm, and the alarms blared even more urgently and shrilly.

"Ixkimiliy! Kovalet Riqui!"

Jada's eyes transformed into vertical pupils like those of a beast, and her face became ferocious and terrifying like that of an orc, making her look nothing like a vampire.

However, from the blood mist rising from her body, two True Ancestor-level familiars did indeed appear and attacked Aize together.

The former was a pure white mist, its true form being an explosive chill that froze the world, causing the surrounding temperature to plummet instantly while simultaneously freezing the Foundation Gate from top to bottom and blowing like an avalanche.

The latter is an infinitely vast dark world, which is the space-manipulation type familiar that once banished Nangong Nayue to another dimension. Its appearance swallowed the blast, swallowed the stick that Aize was colliding with the scorching flames, and made it lost in the other world.

"Oh!"

At that moment, the thunderclouds above Jiada's head dispersed as if they had been shattered, disappearing without a trace.

The club, crackling with electricity, shattered the thundercloud, displaying a lightning power far exceeding its own.

"Kovartlique!"

This time, Jada reacted immediately, commanding her familiar, whose true form was the Dark World, to extend upwards and engulf the lightning-struck club.

As for the explosive chill that was enough to freeze the world, it had already swept towards Aize, roaring and covering him.

"Hyōrinmaru..."

Aize now held another knife, with a dragon-tail-shaped chain extending from the end of its hilt. The entire knife exuded a chilling aura even stronger than the explosive cold air. With a swing from Aize, it swung like an ice dragon's tail, shattering the incoming explosive cold air.

Aize swung his sword again, and countless ice birds materialized from the cold air, transforming into a flock that flew out and attacked Jiada one by one.

"Shiutektori!"

Jada immediately summoned a scorching pillar of fire like a volcanic eruption, and had the raging, serpentine torrents of fiery energy act as her guards, burning all the attacking ice birds to ashes and turning them into vapor.

But then, another sword, resembling a wakizashi, appeared in Aize's other hand, its tip aimed at Jada, gleaming coldly.

"Shoot him, sharpshooter."

At Aize's cold call, a sword resembling a wakizashi suddenly shot up, transforming into a streak of cold light. The blade abruptly extended and thrust violently towards Jiada.

The attack was sudden and fast, even faster than the lightning released by the thundercloud beast that Jada had just summoned. It tore through space and air in the blink of an eye and shot towards Jada's head.

"It's not that easy!"

Faced with this sudden attack, Jada didn't have time to summon a new familiar, but her body reacted first.

Suddenly, her hands transformed into sharp, hook-like claws, slicing through the turbulent currents with a single swing to meet the divine spear that shot towards her, now transformed into a cold, gleaming beam.

"Qiang!"

With a crisp clash, the tip of the divine spear was deflected by Jada's hook claws.

Not only that, but in the instant she deflected the spear's blade, Jada stepped forward with the speed of a gust of wind, her claws rising and falling, sending a sharp claw beam slashing toward Aize's head.

"Shh!"

Aize shifted his feet, activated Instant Step, and vanished from his spot, avoiding the sharp attack.

"Don't try to escape!"

Jada's bestial nature was on full display. She smiled and lunged forward, continuing to charge at Aize. Her claws were like the scythe of death, slashing down repeatedly, cutting towards Aize with a whooshing sound. Her attacks were fierce and deadly.

Although Azer easily dodged Jada's attack, he could tell that this vampire progenitor's close combat ability was quite impressive, not inferior to that of a high-ranking orc.

That's a bit surprising.

It should be noted that, in terms of physical ability alone, vampires are not particularly outstanding among demons. Even a True Ancestor would find it difficult to surpass an orc in terms of pure physical attributes, let alone exceed it.

With her ever-changing abilities, Jada easily imitated the physique of an orc and displayed extraordinary combat skills. If it weren't for the magic attached to her claws that was enough to easily swat away the familiars of old-generation vampires, no one would think she was a vampire.

Of course, in Azer's opinion, this level of melee ability was simply showing off to the wrong target.

After all, he was someone who could fight the Italian Sword King, who possessed divine-level swordsmanship. So, after dodging another wave of claw attacks from Jada, Aize suddenly stepped forward, his Hyōrinmaru slashing towards Jada with a mesmerizing, snow-like light.

"Pfft!"

Like the roar of an ice dragon, the slash instantly severed one of Jiada's hook claws, causing it to fall off.

"Well……!"

Jada let out a muffled groan, but instead of retreating, she opened her eyes wide and swung her other claw like a blur.

"Qiang!"

Aize swung the divine spear in his other hand, deflecting the grappling hook that came flying like a phantom. He then raised the tip of the spear, causing it to transform into a streak of cold light and shoot out.

"Pfft!"

This time, the tip of the spear struck Jada's heart, pierced her body, and sent her flying.

"cough……!"

Jada coughed up a mouthful of blood and barely managed to steady herself just before she was about to fly off the top of the Foundation Gate. She stubbornly held on to the edge of the edge, her feet like nails, and refused to retreat any further.

"Come out, Sotorol!"

Jada screamed while vomiting blood, causing a colossal creature to emerge from the space behind her.

That was a gigantic skeletal giant.

The skeletal giant had no eyeballs; its eye sockets were empty. Its enormous mouth was split open, and between the exposed ribs were pitch-black spaces, like doors that had quietly opened.

Within it, the overwhelming darkness shot out like a cannonball, completely scooping up the space in its path and carving out a large, pitch-black crack as it flew towards Azer.

Undoubtedly, this beast's ability is to pierce through space, destroy space, and annihilate established physical boundaries.

If this attack had landed on the land of Itogami Island, it would probably have pierced a huge hole through the entire island, leading straight to the seabed.

Faced with such a dangerous attack, Aize could no longer simply use his body to withstand it as he had done before.

His own magical resistance was enough to withstand the attacks of the skeletal giant, but the space destroyed by the skeletal giant would force him to fall into the physical phenomenon of collapse. In the end, he would either fall into the cracks and fragments of space, be exiled to an unknown other dimension, or even be shattered to pieces along with the broken space.

Attacks launched against space are something that Azer, who is inside space, cannot simply ignore.

In light of this, Aize put away Hyōrinmaru and the Divine Spear, and with a clench of his fist, grasped a long spear that radiated a dazzling, holy aura.

"Forbidden Hands..."

Seven jet-black spheres suddenly appeared behind Aize.

"Jewelry!"

With a flick of his spear, one of the seven black spheres behind him flew out and transformed into a vortex.

"Om..."

As the vortex trembled, the pitch-black cannonball that had pierced through space was instantly absorbed by the vortex.

"Om..."

The vortex suddenly disappeared and then suddenly reappeared, appearing directly in front of Jia Da.

"boom!"

The black cannonball that flew out of the vortex struck Jada without losing momentum, ripping off half of her body. Her eyes widened, and blood gushed out like a fountain, staining the roof of the Foundation Gate red.

"ended."

Aize watched this scene indifferently, the tip of his holy spear unfolding, surging with immense holy energy.

This sacred aura is the natural enemy of demonic creatures, capable of easily annihilating demons, and even more easily annihilating monsters; naturally, it can also easily annihilate the demon race.

Once this sacred aura is released and strikes Jada, even if she is a true ancestor, she will perish on the spot.

Compared to the power of the Holy Lance, the simulated Holy Sword of the Kingdom of Aldeqia, and even the divine energy of higher dimensions, are nothing. This is the true ultimate means to slay the demon race.

Jada was no longer able to put up a resistance.

She will be mercilessly killed by Aize.

At least, that's how it should have been...

"boom!"

Just as Aize was about to kill Jada with a single blow, a power no less than that of the Third Progenitor was unleashed.

A beast of ice, its body shrouded in icy aura and crystal clear like ice crystals, appeared, as beautiful as a mermaid from the sea.

With a flick of its claws, a vast expanse of freezing energy surged forth.

The extremely low temperature of the freezing aura almost instantly broke through absolute zero, enough to freeze everything and freeze time and space. This forced Aize to stop what he was doing, unfold his elephant-like creature with the ability to fly, and fly into the sky to avoid the freezing aura that was rolling in like an avalanche.

"Kacha kacha kacha..."

The icy aura continued to emanate, freezing the entire Foundation Gate from top to bottom, causing the base of Itogami Island to instantly transform into an iceberg, standing tall in the center of Itogami Island.

The plaza surrounding the Keystone Gate, and even the buildings in the vicinity, were all frozen, as if they had suddenly turned into a frozen wasteland, as if entering the cold winter season.

"Nagisa..."

As Aize flew into the sky and saw this scene, his expression darkened, and his gaze was fixed on Xiaonagisa, who was standing in the very center of the icy and snowy landscape.

At this moment, Akatsuki Nagisa's eyes were open, but they were completely empty. Behind her stood a huge ice demon bird, and the terrifying coldness emanating from it was enough to remind people of the goddess of winter.

"—That was close."

Jada's voice rang out and reached Aize's ears.

"If I hadn't already subdued this Sleeping Beauty, I might be dead by now."

As Jada uttered these words with a sigh, her broken body seemed to be reversing time, and was actually recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"How long has it been? To be so close to death..."

"It seems... I haven't encountered this since I became this so-called True Ancestor, have I?"

"I never expected to be forced to this point. You are indeed incredibly powerful, Beast King."

Jada's eyes sparkled as she looked at Aize, but there wasn't a trace of resentment in them.

He didn't look like someone who had almost died at all.

(End of this chapter)