Dream Travel

Chapter 233: Less Practice
Raging ice fell from the sky, but the ice spikes that could pierce through armor could not get close to the white curtain.

Heavy attacks were always shattered by the white curtain, and Esdeath knew that all her actions had been predicted.

The Imperial Arms used by Hakumoku is troublesome. Although it doesn't have any special effects, it can see through the target's thoughts.

In the hands of the Imperial Warden, it would be a tool for torture; but in the hands of a master like Bai Mu, it would be a threat.

Bai Mu possesses excellent physical attributes, speed, and reaction time.

At least under the effect of the Imperial Arms, he will not experience any issues with his reactions or actions.

Even if an ordinary person were to use such an Imperial Arm, they would pose no threat, as their speed would be too slow. The moment their intentions were detected, she would have already killed them.

Such a master is worth fighting!
Esdeath didn't think there was anything despicable about Hakumura using such a Teigu; she herself was a Teigu user.

Imperial Arms enhance the user's power, but the user must also be able to unleash the full potential of the Imperial Arms.

At least the White Veil brought out the strength of the Imperial Arms very well.

She didn't use ice to cover her face; the Imperial Arms that White Veil used had a see-through effect, so there was no point in covering it up.

To defeat the White Curtain, the only way is to find a real opportunity—to make him unable to see you!

An ice pillar fell from the sky, imbued with a great deal of Esdeath's power, and covered with dense ice spikes.

Each ice spike is over three meters long, and the ice pillar turns into an iceberg when it hits the ground.

The attack, with its extremely wide coverage, left White Veil with nowhere to hide, and the massive iceberg concealed Esdeath's whereabouts.

Before Esdeath could move to a blind spot in the white curtain, the massive iceberg was blasted through by a pillar of lightning, shattering the ice plate beneath her feet.

A huge hole appeared in the iceberg, and through this hole, White Veil and Esdeath briefly looked at each other.

Esdeath saw that Shiro was still holding a gun with residual green lightning in its hand.

Do such Imperial Arms exist?

She thought of General Budo's Imperial Arms, but Budo was already dead.

As the iceberg fell and the hole shifted, Esdeath lost sight of the white curtain, and in that instant, she shattered the iceberg.

Broken ice and ice spikes completely covered the area where the white curtain was.

But these attacks failed.

Bai Mu moved at an extremely fast speed. Carrying the weapon box should have been a hindrance, but he had eaten Dream Erosion ingredients and gained a slight ability to control the wind.

This ability is not enough to make him take off with the wind, but it can eliminate some of the wind's effects on him, including wind resistance.

The weapon case was like a sturdy shield; the falling ice spikes struck it with a crisp sound, shattering into pieces, while the weapon case remained intact.

After breaking through the edge of the shattered ice, Bai Mu cleaved the ice blades that were blocking her with a single sword strike.

As soon as Esdeath landed, a layer of ice appeared beneath her feet. However, before this layer of ice could have any effect, it was shattered by a sword strike predicted by Hakumu.

The impact shattered the ice and the ground, and rampant lightning erupted from the ground.

Esdeath's movements were somewhat restricted while she was encased in the lightning field.

Electrical attacks are always a problem; when a living organism comes into contact with an excessively strong current, its body will inevitably be affected.

Based on the combat power displayed by the white curtain, Esdeath currently has no intention of engaging him in close combat.

His Imperial Arms, including the 'Imperial Arms' that can generate electricity, make Whitebeard a particularly great threat in close combat.

Esdeath blocked the lightning attack with ice, and just as she took a step back, the ice wall that had formed in front of her was shattered.

In his golden-eyed state, Bai Mu is like a bulldozer; he can smash through even the thinnest ice walls head-on, and he can also quickly bypass the thickest ones.

Now that Bai Mu has gotten close, she's been firmly bitten.

Esdeath drew her sword and clashed head-on with the white curtain. The overwhelming power made her decisively abandon the idea of ​​fighting with her physical strength.

White Curtain's power is no longer human power; many dangerous species do not possess such power. No, White Curtain, radiating a berserk aura, is like a dangerous species.

A humanoid... such a beast... she wanted to tame it.

However, her physical strength was no match for White Veil, and coupled with the perception effect of that Imperial Arms, continuing the fight like this would be very disadvantageous for her.

We need to address this in a different way—how about this?
With the sound of ice solidifying, a thick layer of ice armor appeared on Esdeath's sword-wielding arm. This armor spread and expanded down her back, twisting into a gigantic ice demon...

"?" The white curtain that was rushing forward suddenly stopped and retreated to avoid the attack of ice spikes from the ground.

He stared at the enormous ice demon that appeared behind Esdeath, slightly taken aback. "This works too?"
Okay... that actually works.

The colossal ice demon enveloped Esdeath, the thick ice obscuring her figure and interfering with the Observer Teigu.

This ice 'Susanoo' was not clumsy at all; it was very agile, and the ice demon slammed its fists down at the white curtain.

A fist was cleaved in two by Bai Mu's Dream Erosion Greatsword, and the impact forced Bai Mu to retreat a distance.

The ice on this thing is much more solid; Esdeath must have put a lot of effort into it.

Having repelled the white curtain, the damaged Ice Demon quickly recovered and, without giving the white curtain a chance to heal, unleashed a barrage of two fists at it. The attack was accompanied by a hail of ice spikes; although the attacks themselves weren't particularly powerful, the sharp ice spikes posed a constant threat.

Esdeath's attacks were so dense that she was designed to overwhelm White Curtain.

Avoiding the White Veil's attention is one way to deal with the Observer Imperial Arm, while exceeding the opponent's response limit with attacks is another.

It takes time to receive and process the information captured by the Observer's Imperial Arm. No matter how fast the White Veil is processed, can it process multiple pieces of information at once?

Inside the Ice Demon, Esdeath's smile began to turn mad; she was eager to see how the White Curtain would react next!

boom--

The attack from afar struck the Ice Demon, causing it to momentarily freeze. In that instant, the Ice Demon's arm was severed by the white curtain.

Esdeath reacted quickly; ice spikes shot out from her severed arm, forcing the white curtain back.

She frowned slightly and glanced at the direction from which the attack had come. The white curtain could not see her through the ice, but she could see the outside world. In fact, through the refraction of the ice layers, her perspective was even wider.

The attack just now was delivered by an Imperial Arm that Najenda used before, and now it's being used by a pink-haired girl.

An ice spear appeared in the Ice Demon's hand, and the Ice Demon raised his arm.

Mine, who was sniping from a distance, was startled; the intense sense of crisis greatly increased her mental stress.

But before the ice spear could be thrown, the arm holding it was severed by the white curtain.

Mine clearly saw that after this attack, the white curtain was knocked away by the Ice Demon's other fist.

"That idiot, I can take it down!!"

Through the scope, Mine saw an even worse situation: the Imperial Arms carried by the White Veil had fallen.

To prevent the Ice Demon from taking that thing away, White Curtain directly swung his greatsword to parry, sending the Imperial Arm that he couldn't reach further away.

Mine pulled the trigger; the sense of danger she had just felt made her shot even more powerful.

However, a sneak attack is only effective the first time; it becomes less effective the second time, as the powerful attack is blocked by a thick ice shield.

Esdeath, however, did not let her guard down, for the white curtain that had landed had already planted the giant sword in the ground, and she took out a sniper module from the weapon case on her back.

He smashed the weapon case on the ground, using it as a support and connecting it to the sniper mode's Ling Shu, with blinding lightning converging on the weapon.

The bright light slightly affected Esdeath's observation of the white curtain, but she could clearly see the white curtain's maniacal smile!
"!!?"

The Ice Demon plunged its arms into the ground, creating a thick wall of ice that continued to break through the ground and crash into the white curtain.

The rapidly spreading ice wall was swept away by the lightning pillar blasted out by Ling Shu.

White Curtain had been preparing ever since it began dealing with the living Beatrice, but that cute-looking alchemist was a disappointment.

The energy stored in the weapon crates under the white curtain had nowhere to go, and the energy in the crates kept accumulating, with nowhere to release it...

He wasn't like some poor loli mage who liked to unleash explosive magic and couldn't get used to not doing it every day.

So the weapon crate's energy source kept accumulating until now—the violent lightning strikes shattered the layers of ice walls, and the Ice Demon was also blasted to pieces.

Green lightning remained in the trajectory of the attack.

The spot where Esdeath stood was relatively intact, as the Ice Demon had blocked most of the attacks for her.

Strands of electricity flickered across her body. Panting, Esdeath stared at the white screen devoid of the Observer Imperial Arms, then leaned on her sword and stood up again.

She expended a great deal of her power to block the attack from the white curtain.

After this attack, Bai Mu's hand, along with the Spirit Pivot in his palm, was smoking, and he was not in good condition either.

White Curtain stuffed Ling Shu into the weapon box, which Esdeath kicked over as if it were a projectile under her gaze.

Fraud?

Seeing the weapon box hurtling towards her at breakneck speed, Esdeath didn't try to catch it head-on. The box was probably a Teigu (Imperial Arms) and part of the same set as the gun.

The white curtain simply threw the thing over, and Esdeath's first thought was that this thing might self-destruct.

So she used her limited power to freeze the box in front of her.

The figure in white appeared from behind the box, but Esdeath dodged his attack.

Without the Observer Imperial Arm, White Veil was simply a fast and powerful humanoid Danger Species in her eyes.

The unpredictable white curtain poses less of a threat in close combat.

White Curtain's melee skills are not very refined. Although he is very powerful, his skills are built on numerical stats and lack the necessary rigorous training.

He must have acquired such power in a short period of time.

Esdeath, who has been involved in hunting since childhood, has great confidence in her judgment of the white curtain; it's something that can't be faked!

(End of this chapter)