NIKKE, Swordmaster Ark Succubus Daily

It was a dragon, a real crimson fire dragon.

122. What kind of power is this?

No one expected that Nichrista would undergo such a change.

Her figure was as imposing as a mountain, and the airflow generated by her huge steel wings when they were spread out was no less than that of a small hurricane. Her scales emitted a scorching light, and her breath burned the earth like lava.

His crimson eyes flashed with majesty as he looked at John and the others, his gaze as sharp as a sword, as if he wanted to pierce through them.

Even though Nihilista hasn't made any move yet, John already feels an immense pressure.

He had seen Nihilista transform into a dragon-shaped machine before.

When he went to help Li Zuoyi out of a predicament, he had faced Nihilistha directly, but at that time she seemed to be a crude imitation of the mythical creature dragon, just a pile of various Lechers. Calling her a fire dragon made him laugh.

Today, the originally rugged-looking Nihilista has become more elegant, resembling a dragon described in ancient mythology.

A beautiful yet extremely dangerous creature.

It's almost like it's evolved.

Staring at the mythical creature before him, John's mind was in complete chaos; he almost wanted to shout:

What on earth happened?!

Nihilista couldn't help but shout it out in his heart.

How did my body become like this?

She noticed that her appearance was completely different from before.

At the same time, she also felt an unprecedented surge of power flowing through her body.

Actually, she was aware that she would change, but she thought it would only be a change in strength. She never expected that her appearance would also be completely transformed.

Is this his ability?

Nihilista now understood why the Queen wanted him so much.

Oh no, I want to have him all to myself now.

Just as Nihilista decided to keep what was about to happen a secret from him for the rest of her life, she noticed that the pink-haired Niki had already leaped high into the air and appeared in front of her.

‘Boom——’

With a sonic boom, Dorothy punched the fire dragon in the side of its face. She was certain that the fire dragon would have fallen long ago if it had been before, but now it was like hitting solid ground, without causing any ripples.

The fire dragon seemed to realize what was happening, turning its crimson vertical pupils to look at her.

Dorothy stepped on the side of the dragon's face and retreated hastily, but was grazed by the dragon's casually swept tail and slammed into the ground, kicking up dust.

Nihilista, of course, wouldn't let this opportunity pass by. She raised her sharp claws to deliver the final blow to the Niki.

A hail of bullets came from all directions, striking her and sparking.

The bullets that could shatter her armor just now couldn't even break a single scale of hers, truly as powerless as rain falling from the sky.

But in that brief moment of hesitation, Dorothy had already gotten up from where she had landed and quickly distanced herself from the dragon, dragging her badly injured body back to Rapunzel's side behind her.

Rapunzel saw Dorothy's face contorted in pain, cracks appearing all over her body. She looked like a piece of porcelain about to shatter, ready to crumble at any moment.

"Don't move, I'll give you emergency treatment." Rapunzel immediately picked up her staff and injected divine cadmium particles into the wound to treat it.

Upon seeing this, John made a snap decision and said to all the members, "Don't hesitate! Retreat!"

Although he didn't know Dorothy's true strength, the only thing he knew was that she was at her strongest when she abandoned her guns and decided to use hand-to-hand combat.

Even at her strongest, she was reduced to this state by Nihilista's attack. Needless to say, the other Nikis are probably not even able to get up.

We have no choice but to retreat for now.

"Damn it..." Isabel looked down at the giant dragon in the air, gritting her teeth in anger but helpless. She had no choice but to immediately increase her altitude and leave the battle area.

However, the Nikis on the ground could not escape the battlefield as quickly as Isabel, and were even surrounded and blocked by Nihilista like ants.

"Harlan?! Noah?!"

When Lhapi, leading his group, circled around several rocks and saw the two women appear opposite him, he knew something terrible was about to happen.

Nihilista was not simply blocking them off; he intended to bring them together.

She certainly wasn't trying to help them escape; she was simply trying to make it easier for herself to capture them all at once.

“That…” Anies pointed to Nihilista, who had bent over with her forelegs gripping the ground, and said desperately, “It looks like she’s going to burn us to a crisp.”

Lapi turned his head and saw that Nihilistha's head was already pressed against the ground, and blue flames that were constantly expanding at the throat could be seen in its open mouth.

The flames that Nihilista unleashed just now, striking the sky, even outshone the sun, demonstrating their immense power.

If they were hit directly by this flame, they would probably melt into a piece of scrap metal along with the rock fragments on the ground.

"Hide behind me!"

Upon seeing this, the defensive Noah immediately moved the star-shaped double shields floating around her to her front and deployed an energy field.

The next moment, azure flames spewed from the dragon's mouth, almost instantly covering a fan-shaped area several hundred meters in front of Nihilista.

The rocks in the area turned crimson at a visible speed, then slowly melted, and the ground was gradually scorched black by the flames.

While the energy field deployed by Noah's twin shields withstood the extremely high temperature of the azure flames, her shields, like the rocks, slowly melted.

Although her hands were in excruciating pain, she still stood in front, bracing against the deadly flames.

Fortunately, the flames subsided in time, and Noah only paid the price of having her arms melted and her shield completely irreparable, but she managed to save her companions behind her.

However, when she saw the flames in the dragon's throat begin to gather again, she fell into despair.

Just then, a red lightning bolt streaked past her at breakneck speed.

The fire dragon, which was about to spew flames the next second, was struck by the uppercut of this lightning bolt, causing it to tilt its head back and uncontrollably spew blazing azure flames into the air.

Lapi felt her brain fluids boiling, her vision blurring, and she even had difficulty standing, but she had to keep attacking, otherwise the fire dragon would…

Before she could take any further action, her body was tightly bound.

It turned out that the instant Nihilista was struck, she had already extended her claws toward the lightning bolt. What appeared to be extreme speed to others was merely slow motion to her. However, she was in a pose where she was gathering fire and couldn't dodge.

She dared to take that punch because she had absolute confidence in her own defense.

“Lavi!” Anis shouted when he saw Lavi being captured.

123. You only think about yourself.

The captured Lapi tried to increase the output power of Little Red Riding Hood mode again, but Nihilista tightened his grip on her claws slightly, and due to the extreme pressure and the side effects of Little Red Riding Hood mode, Lapi fainted.

“Come here to me, or I’ll kill her,” Nihilista said to the men who had just surrounded her, clutching Lapi.

With their comrades captured, the Ark's Niki forces had no choice but to do as the fire dragon instructed.

“Laplace…” Maxwell saw Laplace clenching his fists, his face turning red, and tears welling up in his eyes.

"Why, why can't I summon my weapon even at this point? If it were useful, Lapi wouldn't be here..." Laplace sniffed and muttered.

Drake, standing to the side, didn't know how to comfort him.

“John, what do we do?” Harlan asked through the communication channel.

“…Let’s do as the dragon says.” John hesitated for a moment before saying, “Even if we try to escape, no one except Isabel can escape. No, her flying ability is still uncertain, and Isabel might not be able to…”

It wasn't that John was too pessimistic, but rather that the defensive and offensive power displayed by Nihilista in this form was so outrageous that even he felt he couldn't resist it.

Feeling his new body, Nihilista could sense that his strength was much greater than before.

Even if it's divine punishment, she feels she has a chance to fight back, instead of being constantly suppressed like before.

Moreover, her current state doesn't seem to be her limit; there's still a huge room for improvement.

If she could spend more time with him, she might be able to challenge the Queen. The thought made her excited.

As Nihilista watched those who had just been attacking her slowly gather in front of her with grim faces, she felt a sense of satisfaction.

This is power!

Without power, it makes no sense whether she is Niki or Rachel; she wants to be a being above both, even greater than Queen Rachel who created her.

Just as Nihilistha was still daydreaming, she dropped her claws, which were gripping Lapi, right down to the root.

"Eh?"

Before Nihilista could react to what was happening, she heard a familiar voice.

"Let's go, we should go back." Li Zuoyi said to the Nikis who had gathered together, holding Lapi in his arms.

"My dear?!" Isabel exclaimed in surprise, having decided to live and die with her companion.

“It’s me.” Li Zuoyi checked on Lhapi’s condition.

"Commander?!" Anis was surprised to see the commander here.

"it's me."

“Commander!” Laplace kept wiping away her tears.

"it's me."

“Commander…” Rapunzel and Dorothy, who was being helped up, couldn’t help but call out.

“…Hmm? Oh…it’s me.” Li Zuo looked up to confirm whether the two of them were calling him.

“Lavi’s health isn’t good, nor is Dorothy’s, and so is Noah. Let’s hurry back to Paradise,” Li Zuoyi said.

“But…” John looked at the dragon; he didn’t think she would let them leave so easily.

A dragon claw slammed down in front of Li Zuoyi, and Nihilista hurriedly shouted, "You're not allowed to leave! You're mine!"

Li Zuoyi turned to her and said, "I've already told you, I have things to do and can't stay with you all the time."

"No, don't leave me..." Nihilista's tone even carried a pleading tone.

Without him, what will she do next?

The important thing is that she can no longer imagine life without him by her side.

“If you leave, I’ll kill them!” Nihilista threatened.

"Can you do it?" Li Zuoyi asked.

The attack that just rescued Labi is enough to prove that he, having also been enhanced, can injure Donisilista's current body.

“Uh…” Nihilista understood as well, but couldn’t say anything.

“…I’m disappointed in you, Nihilista.” Li Zuoyi turned around and continued walking forward.

“Even if you resent me later, I will still…” Seeing that he refused to stay, Nihilistha panicked and reached out with her other claw to grab him.

"Commander, danger!"

Anis fired a grenade at her, and Isabel fired her gun at the same time. With Li Zuoyi present, the two of them were greatly enhanced, which did indeed temporarily stop the Fire Dragon's actions.

But what truly made Nicholasta stop was...

"Dorothy?"

Li Zuoyi, having put down Lhapi, summoned his dark gold longsword. Turning around, he saw Dorothy using her hands to block the fire dragon's claws, and several more cracks appeared on her body.

"I won't make the same mistake again, I won't let you get arrested again," Dorothy said, her body trembling as she endured the pain.

“Dorothy…” Li Zuoyi didn’t expect her to care so much about what happened before.

“How is this possible? My power…” Nihilista was surprised to find that his power was rapidly diminishing.

Otherwise, how could Dorothy, who was already seriously injured, have stopped her?

Moreover, she discovered that the scales on her body were peeling off piece by piece, rising into the air and gradually dissipating, and her body was slowly shrinking.

So that's how it is... Li Zuoyi thought that his power had enhanced her, but that wasn't actually the case. He had simply lent her his imagined power, allowing her to subconsciously conjure up her perfect form into reality.

The more power he borrowed, the more real the perfect form became, until one day the fantasy truly became reality, but clearly Nihilista did not reach the final step.

The reason this force collapsed was probably because Li Zuoyi was disappointed in her when he heard that she was going to attack his companion.

"Ahhh, my power, my power..." Nihilista tried to grasp the dissipating scales, but only grasped at empty air.

In the end, Nihilista returned to her original human form, but she was in tears and her hands were still clenching in the air.