Reborn as an Extra Chapter 557: The Unstoppable Bard. Part-2.
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Using the air as his stepping point with a powerful kick, Rio hurled his body straight into the skull of a bull-like beast.
This colossal creature towered over structures like insignificant toys, hurtling ahead at a blistering pace, yet Rio collided his forehead against it utterly fearlessly!
The beast's frame shattered from the raw force of Rio's head collision, with its brain contents spraying in all directions as the cranium burst open like a melon struck by a mallet!
Numerous beasts in the vicinity got hurled backward by the resulting blast wave, though several endured the blast and lunged toward Rio right away.
Within just a few split seconds, Rio whipped his flute around ten thousand times, slicing through every creature within a kilometer's reach!
Wasting not even a moment, Rio surged ahead at tremendous velocity.
By eliminating thousands of beasts in mere instants, he had torn open a vulnerability in the enemy lineup, and since his goal was to skirt past the chaos entirely, he had no desire to eliminate every foe there.
Rio hoisted his flute over his shoulder before slashing it down, crushing a beast flat with intense atmospheric force and harnessing that pressure to propel himself upward into the heavens!
Though flight came naturally to him as an S-ranker, this aerial assault granted far greater swiftness; it seemed as though Rio was vanishing and reappearing elsewhere!
Propelling skyward brought Rio nearer to the rifts in space that endlessly vomited forth more beasts!
Sensing his impending action, hordes of serpentine aerial creatures dove at him to intercept, but they arrived too late.
Employing the atmosphere and emptiness as his base, Rio assumed his position suspended in the air while grinning slyly.
"If it was in the outside world, I couldn’t have done it with my current strength, but the space-time fabric here is weaker in the spirit realm, so I am quite sure this skill will succeed today!"
Rio swept his flute through the atmosphere like he was merely slicing wind, yet the true impact targeted the very weave of space and time!
Rio had witnessed Ashtel once brutally ripping apart the space-time weave before sealing the rupture shut purely with the might of his grip!
At present, he lacked the power for such a feat, but Rio had devised a diminished adaptation of that technique.
These rifts in space merely represent fractures in the space-time weave that have torn and split, making it entirely logical to simply 'mend' the 'weave' once it's torn.
Drawing on that principle, Rio adapted it into his technique; he wielded spatial and temporal essences to stitch the damaged space-time weave, employing his sword intent as the 'thread' or 'connector.'
In this way, he effectively sealed the rifts that had been relentlessly unleashing beasts!
"I succeeded! Hehe~..."
Having pulled it off for the initial attempt, Rio felt immense joy; this technique had lingered in his thoughts for ages, but prior weakness had barred him from executing it.
However, the fragile space-time weave within the spirit realm served as an ideal testing ground for Rio, allowing success on the very first go!
As though detecting Rio's cheerful state, the airborne serpents grew furious and charged him at velocities surpassing military aircraft!
"Heh, you are just on time; I just learned a new skill, lemme use it on you!"
Rio grinned while adjusting his form and resuming his pose aloft.
Rio repeated the identical technique, though now he directed it not at sealing a rift but at the encircling serpents!
He twirled his flute in a sweeping circle about himself, channeling spatial and temporal essences to bind the swarm of serpentine beasts together!
Treating space itself as the weave and his sword intent as the implement, Rio stitched the monsters' forms to one another!
The serpents' bodies fused in bizarre and twisted configurations.
Their merged mass overwhelmed their frail wings, sending them plummeting to the earth in a flash!
Ignoring any further delay with them, Rio blasted forward like a projectile!
He soared and rammed his flute into the visage of a colossal primate leaping to assail him!
The primate beast's upper body disintegrated entirely, its guts exploding outward as Rio sped past without pausing for the wreckage to hit the soil.
Vast hordes of beasts swarmed toward Rio, yet he precisely pinpointed gaps in the lineup each time.
By pulverizing the beasts at those gaps, he pressed onward without squandering a single instant!
Rio's velocity was such that foes barely registered his presence before he had slain their allies and fled far beyond reach.
His blistering pace rendered continuous pursuit nearly unattainable.
Various distant-attack beasts unleashed their abilities at Rio, but such efforts proved futile, as they could scarcely glimpse his lingering trails.
Rio darted with such rapidity that every minor shift generated thunderous sonic blasts, scattering hundreds of beasts via the blasts alone prior to pulverizing the formidable ones into pulp!
A formidable S-rank beast finally obstructed Rio's path, by which point he had penetrated the heart of the full horde's arrangement!
"You are too slow and late!"
Rio deployed the technique he'd freshly mastered; he packed miasma at his blade's edge under immense sword intent compression, intensifying it to its utmost!
And on this occasion, Rio crammed two million threads of miasmic essence into that compacted miasma sphere!
"Checkmate!"
A detonation of such ferocity erupted that it fractured space massively around the site!
Its might vaporized thousands of beasts instantly, their forms disintegrating under ferocious spatial disturbances in mere heartbeats!
A vast pit spanning ten kilometers wide and plunging a hundred meters deep materialized!
The blast's ripples carried such intensity that fragments melted into liquid fire while hurtling outward with devastating power!
Rio had deliberately targeted the lineup's center with this move to inflict maximal havoc, and the plan worked flawlessly!
The elite beasts clustered around the formation's nucleus, which bore the brunt of the devastation.
Almost every S-ranker and elite creature nearby dissolved into oblivion as the space-time weave splintered; the rest got torn asunder by the spatial surges.
And the handful of survivors endured soul-shattering corruption from the miasma right then!
This assault's sheer terror and potency would, if unleashed beyond these bounds, mimic an SS-ranker's strike, drawing scores of SS-rankers to berate Rio immediately.