Against the World II: Transgression
Chapter 52: Grand Foreigner, Part 1
KANNA didn't find the right words to answer the question of the creature before her?
Of course he knows why he is so angry. From the beginning, Xavier was a traitor. The boy lied in many ways. In fact, there are many occasions where Kanna (if she is a little paranoid) can uncover those lies. The fact that the boy hated his father was more than enough to make him aware, not to mention the incident where El's mask was destroyed. Everything was so clear in Kanna's eyes.
However, instead of trusting his instincts and wits, Kanna trusted the words of the deceiver and traitor. Of course he was angry. Be it on yourself for being blind, or on Xavier who has betrayed their friendship. But, more than that, he is angry to find that Vermyna did not lie when he said his relationship with El— with Xavier. The boy betrayed her in every way.
“You don't want to answer?” Vermyna didn't fake her amused look. “You don't need to answer. The answer is very clear to anyone. But, enough talk. Let's get this over with. I have killed one Edenia doll, killing another is not impossible.”
Kanna instantly creates a barrier that shuts them both in. The barrier covered one third of the total area of the Ice Gheata Continent. In addition to limiting the destruction they will cause, the barrier is also to make sure no one interrupts. Kanna wasn't kidding; she was going to finish off Vermyna at this place right now. His death will ensure his position as the strongest – he will be able to dictate how the war should end.
“I will thicken your barrier with my dimension barrier. Like you who wanted to kill myself without interruption, I also wanted to kill you without hindrance. Only one of us will come back alive.”
Kanna let Vermyna do what she wanted to do. At the same time, a sword blade shot out from his open right palm. The surrounding snow and ice melted and then evaporated rapidly; his body released a heat wave that no fire could have been able to control. In less than a minute, there was no more snow and ice inside the barrier.
“Is this how you say you're ready?” Vermyna raised a red dagger on each hand, purely made from her own blood. “Then, I go forward. I won't hold back.”
Before Kanna's eyes could blink, Vermyna was already before her with a body clad in blackish-red lightning and a whitish-gray aura. This ex-vampire is serious with his words – he is in front of Kanna with an extraordinary desire to kill. Both of his daggers swung fast and sharp.
Kanna moved the sword without its hilt, blocking the opponent's dagger slash. Likewise with another dagger slash. His fast, flexible and efficient movements allowed Kanna to keep up with Vermyna's barrage of dagger slashes. He was a little surprised by his own strength, let alone the Parallel Mind of Raphael (whose power had incarnated beyond what Kanna could have imagined) had worked to quickly analyze Vermyna's strength.
However, Kanna has not been able to deal with all of Vermyna's attacks with both feet in place. The momentum of the queen's attack was too great for her to accept with both feet rooted on the ground. Kanna fended off every shred of Vermyna while moving backwards. Not only was it useful to reduce the moment of the opponent's attack, it also made him able to mene—
—The voice that suddenly filled his head made Kanna lose focus, her sword failed to serve both dagger slashes. And, Vermyna didn't waste a chance. Both of his daggers instantly unleashed his assassin technique, Grand Advance Far End, in a distance of almost zero.
Perfect Shield of Michael ensures Kanna cannot be harmed, either physically or by magic. However, life energy was an exception in everything.
Kanna's perfect defense is impregnable. If not for his body already being as hard as Kurtalaegon, he would have already been cut in two. However, despite failing to leave a wound on Kanna's body, the energy released by Vermyna's technique caused the princess to crash into a small hill that was previously an iceberg and the loss of ice and snow made her original shape visible. He was pushed tens of meters into the body of the hill.
Vermyna didn't just stop. He immediately released a blackish-purple laser that was layered with whitish-gray energy at the place where Kanna crashed. The laser energy was not one, but dozens. Vermyna had no interest in giving Kanna a chance to breathe a sigh of relief if she still needed to say hello.
Absolute Prison of Haniel helped Perfect Shield of Michael to bring Kanna's impenetrable defense to a higher level. However, just like the attack earlier, Vermyna's attack this time also pierced through Kanna's defenses like a hot knife on top of cheese. The lasers went unstoppable. The hill was destroyed, Kanna was hit by all the lasers by a landslide, making it bounce until it hit the barrier wall.
However, Kanna was not hurt at all. The inner body can indeed be injured, in contrast to the outer body which is as hard as Kurtalaegon. However, the Heavenly Garden of Gabriel ensured Kanna would be instantly healed before the pain that an attack gave her reached her brain. At this point, unless Kanna could be eliminated instantly, getting Kanna injured was impossible.
Not wanting to let Vermyna continue to attack, Kanna directly directed the Parallel Mind of Raphael to change from defending to attacking. The Invisible Swords of Selaphiel and the Sky Blessing of Barachiel were instantly deployed. Vermyna who fiercely shot out her dangerous laser was instantly preoccupied by the lightning that filled the air and invisible swords scattered all over. Kanna doesn't have to control everything, Parallel Mind of Raphael did it for her.
This gave Kanna time to focus on the voice that had filled her head. He immediately did the most basic thing: ask directly.
Whoareyou?