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Chapter 388 - Dawn Breaks White, a Funeral Song for a New Beginning, Part Two

From the center of the battlefield, spanning several kilometers in diameter, to its very edge—a distance I could cross in just a few strides.

Propelled by a continuous activation of [Rocket], I closed in on the crimson tsunami in an instant. What spread before my eyes was, as expected, a familiar vision of hell.

As I passed, I swiftly lopped off the countless necks sprouting from that hellscape that were within my reach… and an immediate sense of wrongness shot through the hand gripping my dagger.

"—Tough…!"

The blade went through, and it wasn't hard to take them down in one strike if I aimed for a vital point—but the feedback was completely different from the Remnants of the Red Circle I had fought in the southern basin.

This was the result of a blow from my rabbit dagger, fully charged with the momentum of my approach. A half-hearted swing wouldn't be enough to slice them cleanly in two… a thought I conveyed via my ultimate player skill.

"Secret technique: High-Speed Blind Typing!"

With a clang, I momentarily sheathed the rabbit dagger, deployed the system window with my recently acquired skill, and fired off a message.

'They're pretty strong.'

Typing out a few words like that was a piece of cake. I was sure Goldow, the recipient, would issue a warning to everyone else.

My job as the vanguard was done—now, it was time to wreak as much havoc as possible!

It was entirely my fault for charging in with zero hesitation, but a beat later, I restarted my engine, scattering the phosphorescent light of [Scareless] that now dwelled in my avatar, and blasted off once more.

Fangs, claws, thorns, and more rained down on me, the lone figure who had plunged into the horde. I weaved through every vicious weapon, swinging my arms with all my might.

This was the very definition of having no place to stand. But, if I could step on the air—

"Barely… somehow, I can manage!"

I could feel the presence of that certain something resonating with me, but my rabbit dagger probably wasn't manifesting a special effect like the [Evaquartz].

However, with the strength boost from the double whammy of my [Twaibolt Mirari] and [Scareless], its already high base specs were more than enough to be effective.

I leaped, I slashed, I smashed them, gradually widening a circle of emptiness within the tsunami—well, yeah, I knew this would happen.

No matter how much I raised the peace index in my immediate vicinity, it was a drop in the bucket compared to the spawn points that had appeared all around the entire circumference of this vast battlefield.

My heart nearly broke as I watched the great crimson tsunami relentlessly encroach inward, but without any area-of-effect attacks, there was nothing else I could do.

"…Where does it all end? This whole damn hellscape…!"

I muttered to myself as I swung my arms wildly, trying to reduce the burden on the main force by even a single percent… and then, a few seconds later.

As if growing impatient with something.

The beloved sword that had remained silent in its sheath rattled with a clatter.