I became a heart-stealing thief in Azure Files

When the dragon's breath, carrying deadly poison, swept through, the barrier rippled but remained unbroken.

Xiaochun's thinking is very clear.

As a 'powerful BOSS-type enemy,' Nidhogg is undoubtedly almost immune to all negative effects...

To counter it, we need to change our approach—it's pointless if we can't inflict negative effects on the enemy.

It would be better to channel one's limited mental energy into providing support to the community within one's capabilities.

Therefore, when faced with Nidhogg's direct attack, her choice was not to interfere with Nidhogg and cause him to miss his attack, or to deflect the attack, but to assist in defense.

"A shelter woven from lies?"

Beatrice chuckled and tugged at the silk thread, and the soaring dragon immediately flew back.

"...However, you can't hide forever...what do you think?"

Accompanied by Beatrice's flippant voice, Vidfulnir immediately swooped down. A fierce, icy wind condensed into a torrential rain of ice spikes, hurtling towards Amamiya and his group.

The white-haired girl deftly lifted her mask with one hand, summoning her Persona amidst a cluster of eerie blue flames.

"I will absolutely not let you succeed—Psona! Gerda!"

"The Frozen Mirror!"

"Frozen Mirror: For three turns, inflict the 'Ice Nullification' status on all allies."

A devil's inverted "magic mirror" appears, its crystal-clear surface causing the overwhelming icicles and ice feathers to vanish completely.

"A great opportunity... Juliet!"

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Jing launched her counterattack. Behind her, Juliet's skirt began to flutter again, revealing a deep, rich red hue.

"Mahayakidaiin!"

"Maragidyne: Deals massive fire damage to all enemies, with a chance to inflict fire damage."

The towering pillars of fire surged and linked together to form lines of fire, extending to Nidhogg, Beatrice, and [Videfornil].

The attack landed on the dragon, but it was "no big deal"—after all, dragons are naturally resistant to fire.

However, the effect is completely different when it falls on the remaining two targets.

The moment the fire reached Beatrice, due to the weakness of the [Shadow Body], she stumbled and crashed into the tree roots. The threads controlling "Nidhogg" in her hand were also burned with tiny embers, seemingly about to break at any moment.

"Damn it... how dare they try to hurt me...!"

Enraged, Beatrice manipulated the threads in her hand, causing Nidhogg to raise his claws and strike down—

The target was too large, and it was impossible to dodge it...

After a quick calculation, Hifumi stepped forward and pressed down on the mask on her face.

"I am you, and you are me...Scáthach!"

The goddess of war from Celtic mythology appeared, and then she gently touched the dragon's claws as it slammed down with her 'magic wand'.

“Gayerberg!”

"Gae·Bolg: Deals extremely high critical hit rate damage to one enemy, and is guaranteed to deal massive damage based on the enemy's weakness."

"Stop all your actions—Beateritch! Everything you've done is just a futile effort on the wrong path!"

"Hifumi..."

Amamiya waved his hand at Hifumi, who was raising her voice in an attempt to persuade the other party: "An enemy like Beatrice cannot be influenced by mere verbal persuasion."

"It should be like this...directly affecting them."

Amamiya sighed softly, pressing one hand to her cheek, wisps of blue flame flowing and dissipating between her fingers.

"The fog of lies...is it? Then let's dispel it with the power of truth."

As Amamiya spoke, the blue flames surrounding him grew stronger and stronger, gradually beginning to burst into flames.

As flames burst forth, a massive figure wielding a peculiar double-edged sword and clad in a white trench coat slowly appeared.

"Psona...Izanagi-sama!"

[Psona-Izanagi·Okami (Arkana: World)]

[Introduction: One of the creator gods in Japanese mythology. In another story, she assisted the hero's Persona.]

[He is the forerunner of countless gods, ruling over the realms of heaven, sea, and night. He and Izanami, also a creator god, engage in a fateful confrontation at the end of the "Path to the Underworld."]

“Beatelice… I have witnessed the lies you have woven. Now, let you witness… the truth I present!”

Amamiya waved his hand forward, and the white giant behind him slowly began to turn the strange "double-edged sword" in his hand, which resembled a 180-degree vertical hour and minute hand.

"Clear all the fog!"

A circle of white light suddenly shone, instantly dispelling the fog of the Land of Mist, and also dispelling the dark clouds that had been swirling up all day with snow.

The wind stopped, the clouds dispersed.

In just a moment, the "Land of Fog Where Snow Falls Forever" was blessed with clear skies.

This is not over yet...

"Tell all the truth!"

As Amamiya uttered his second sentence, the Izanagi Okami behind him once again twirled the double-edged sword in his hand.

Beatrice's 'thread' was torn, and she herself was bound in place by thousands of proverbs.

Amamiya cleared his throat. He slowly closed his eyes, then opened them again with a stern look, staring straight ahead.

"Ten Thousand True Words of Faith"

The white giant swung his double-edged sword for the third time—and then, a blazing white lightning bolt, imbued with the "truth," descended from the sky.

Once, twice, three times...

"Myriad Truths: Deals massive damage with universal properties 3 times to all enemies."

A simple introduction, with exceptional results.

Amidst the scattering lightning, [Videfornil] crashed to the ground, and Beatrice was instantly incinerated to ashes by the "Truth Lightning that Dispels the Mist".

As Izanagi gazed up at the Land of Mist, where the sky had cleared once more, his figure transformed into a ball of eerie blue flame, which coiled back, contracted, and finally became the black and white smoky mask on Amamiya's face.

The fog of lies has been dispelled.

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Wei Hua, Why Are Your Wings So Pointy?

The land of mist, Niflheim, where the endless fog of lies and frost was instantly dispelled by the winds of rebirth, a symbol of truth.

The whole world, for the first time ever, began to "clear up".

After losing Beatrice's control, Nidhogg, who was forced to go out of control, eventually reverted to human form.

A pink-haired girl in a jet-black dress, her skirt partially scorched by flames, sat on the ice as the sun rose, staring blankly at her blurred reflection in the dappled ice.

"What... exactly have I done...?"

She murmured to herself, "Why...why am I twisted; why am I controlled..."

Amamiya and his group moved closer, forming a semi-circle to examine the seemingly dazed "Nidhogg" up close.

After observing in silence for a short while, the girls all focused their attention on Amamiya.

"Sensei...she..."

Even though she knew that the distraught shadow sitting there like a puppet without a controller was just "Nidhogg" from another world, not the real Mika Seizo herself, Hifumi still felt a little sorry for her.

Amamiya sighed and analyzed Nidhogg's situation in a calm yet regretful tone: "It seems... she has been subjected to a rather direct stimulus from Beatrice, to the point that her mind is currently in a state of confusion."

Amamiya knelt down on one knee in front of the distraught Nidhogg. Under the gazes of the girls, each with their own emotions, she cupped Nidhogg's cheek with one hand, which still bore slight charring and wounds, and with the other hand, she conjured a handkerchief out of thin air and wiped away the charring and tear stains from her face.

"You haven't forgotten... your true self, have you?"

The distraught Nidhogg showed some reaction, and his amber eyes seemed to regain some color.

"Who...are you?"

She was still somewhat confused and slightly curious about Amamiya's strange actions in caring for her.

"Why...why are you doing this?"

Instead of answering her two consecutive questions, Amamiya said some strange, seemingly philosophical things that didn't make any sense.

She looked directly at the girl's face, where the wounds were healing rapidly and sparks were flying from the wounds, and began to speak in a long, halting tone, as if telling a story.

"Losing 'honor' and 'status,' they gnaw at the souls of the dead who were thrown into Nasterlund after death for their many evil deeds... They desperately try to devour the World Tree and attempt to usher in 'Ragnarok.'"

“Nidhogg. After the raging fire that created Ragnarok…you will flap your enormous but unsustainable wings, flying across the battlefield laden with corpses…and in the end, you will fall into the abyss because of the weight of the corpses.”

"...If Ragnarok truly occurs, then you will inevitably become one of the few 'survivors' who will live alone after Ragnarok—"

At this point, Amamiya paused for a long time, her words gradually becoming sharper, carrying a heart-wrenching question: "Bearing 'corpses' for various reasons, and ultimately falling alone into the abyss—is that really the final ending you craved?"

Nidhogg was stunned by what Amamiya said /Q*cunIXR霖六榴气岜貳吧了.

She blinked, but didn't respond for a long time.

Hifumi and her group... were somewhat confused.

Logically speaking, shouldn't JOK have said something like, "Join us and do our part for Ragnarok"?

Sofia's eyes sparkled as she intently watched the scene, like a fangirl.

—Is JOK's unique "special technique for comforting girls" coming again?!

"You..."

After a long pause, seemingly unable to figure it out, Nidhogg said somewhat strangely, "You really are... strange."

"The questions you raised are ones I had never even considered..."

Seemingly regaining her composure, Nidhogg's amber eyes gradually focused, and her injuries, including her torn clothing, began to heal rapidly. Her voice, no longer sounding lifeless like that of someone on the verge of death, also began to regain its strength.

"The reason why I... created 'Ragnarok' in the first place..."

"..."

Nidhogg tilted her head in thought, then realized that her thoughts had hit a dead end again... In layman's terms, she was stuck again.

To be honest... he was mapped to "Nidhogg," which makes him seem a bit 'not very smart'.

Perhaps it's because, in the eyes of Beatrice, the master of the temple, the real-life Mika Sanzō was not very intelligent to begin with.

"I... I don't think I remember."

With her brows furrowed and cheeks slightly puffed out, the dark nebula halo above her head spun wildly... After a while, still unable to come up with anything, she seemed somewhat discouraged.

After a pause, she looked up at Amamiya with a pleading expression: "You...can you tell me?"

"My... original purpose, and... my true destination."

Amamiya was silent for a few seconds, then a smile gradually appeared on her face.

"Alright... I'll tell you why you want to create 'Ragnarok'—see that tree behind you?"

Following the direction Amamiya pointed, Hifumi and her group, including Nidhogg, Sophia, and the Goddess Norn, all looked over.

What comes into view is the decaying roots of a towering tree that reaches straight into the sky.

"What did you see?"

The goddess Norren spoke first: "I see in it... 'decay'."

Her words immediately alerted the four girls in the cram school, led by Hifumi, who also noticed something was amiss.

The tree roots in front of them clearly showed no signs of being gnawed by Nidhogg, but they were already "rotten".

Jing stroked her mask thoughtfully: "'Rotten'..."

"Rotten... I think I've remembered something."

Nidhogg suddenly realized: "This tree absorbs the souls of countless people, maintaining the rule of those false gods, and I will make it wither."