Otaku Translation: The villain only wants to live a Buddhist life Chapter 349

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Chapter 349: They Disappeared

"As expected, is it them?"

Dark's team of three had just caught up.

He wasn't the least bit surprised by the appearance of White's team. Except for themselves, the ones who could get here at the quickest time were most probably White and his team.

What surprised him was that they seemed to be fighting a monster?

Out of caution, Dark didn't immediately walk out of the passage.

Dianna and Rose were more curious than he was.

Because they had never seen [] before, they were shocked to see Robert commanding such a powerful magical spirit.

Of course, they were also nonplussed about why Robert was commanding the magical spirit to attack a stone.

From their current perspective, they could only see the side of the round stone and couldn't tell what was so special about it.

As such, when the stone suddenly fired a beam of light, they couldn't make any reaction.

……

The situation changed so fast that the three of them, who had just arrived, couldn't react at all.

At that instant, only , who was always walking by Dark's side, stepped out to guard his front in the blink of an eye.

Immediately afterwards, a beam of intermixing pitch-black and scarlet light traveled across their field of vision, instantly shooting through the passage where White's team were standing!

Boom!

The front of the lightbeam hit the wall, producing a terrifyingly loud bang.

When Emma, who had been hiding behind the sidewall of the passage, saw the lightbeam whizzing right before her eyes, the threat of death reared its vicious head in front of her for the first time.

Despite having a strong mind, at this moment, the merely twelve-year-old girl couldn't help screaming out her lungs!

"Ah—"

The sound of her scream belatedly rang after the lightbeam hit the wall.

A jumble of noises echoed back and forth in the open space.

White and Robert, who had been at the same passage, left not a single trace behind.

Just like the vanishing act of a magic show—

They disappeared.

……

At this moment, let alone Emma who had directly faced death, even Dark and the two girls were struck by a burst of breathlessness.

Dark Demon's breath stagnated as he fixedly stared at the place where White and Robert disappeared.

Rose, on the other hand, abruptly screamed out in fear right after Emma did.

The string in her heart seemed to have instantly snapped upon seeing for the first time the horrifying scene of people evaporating away, making her feel terrified.

Dianna was also stunned for a good while. It wasn't until her best friend suddenly screamed did she finally come back to her senses. She hurriedly turned around and grabbed Rose's wrist, scrambling to pull her back!

She had clearly made the most correct choice at the most critical moment.

Right now, no matter why White and Robert disappeared, there was no reason for them to remain in place.

Instead of choosing to comfort Rose, she directly pulled her into the passage and stood sideways to hide behind the inner wall.

Almost simultaneously, Dark Demon reacted as well.

But his reaction was completely different from Dianna's. He didn't choose to immediately retreat, but took out his magic card and summoned it in three seconds.

"Mon Mon."

Ditto instantly appeared in front of Dark with a serious look in its eyes.

At the same time, the round stone slowly swiveled upon feeling the aura coming from their side, turning its front with the vertical pupil to face them.

In its opened crack, the features that constituted a pupil finally became apparent.

There was no need for guesswork.

Just now, it must've been the dark red lightbeam unleashed by this eye that instantly vaporized [Blood Beast]—the 5-star magical spirit who was charging at it. The lightbeam even made White and Robert, who were standing in its trajectory, disappear.

As for why they disappeared, the biggest possibility was that their [] had been passively triggered, directly teleporting them outside the dungeon.

Dark's understanding of [Dungeon Escaper] was slightly better than that of his peers. After all, after he learned that the treasure map left by Alvette was a type of

[Secret Realm Escaping Device], he had specially searched for information about it.

[Dungeon Escaper] would be passively triggered when it judged the wearer to be in danger of death, and upon being triggered, it would be activated almost without a delay!

This was one of the reasons why it was so expensive, because wearing a [Dungeon Escaper] was truly equivalent to having an extra life.

And life was priceless.

……

At this time, Dark naturally didn't have the heart to feel sorry for Professor Nini.

After witnessing that beam of light, apart from being astonished, he also immediately realized that this should be the attack Misdreavus said had killed it.

This meant that the huge stone-like eye was undoubtedly the part the monster at the bottom of the abyss had left behind.

"A single eye can actually insta-kill a 5-star magical spirit?"

He swallowed a little, the fingers holding onto his magic card slightly trembling.

It wasn't out of fear, but excitement!

People would react differently when faced with adversity.

Previously, Dark had always thought that he would be the type to play dead at desperate times.

But in fact, it was just the opposite.

"It has just fired an attack similar to [], so there's a low probability of it firing a second shot without any interval."

"There is light flickering in its eye, but it's not very strong at all."

"Most of the level III [deadly sin] cards are on CD, only [Lust III] crafted from the Moon Goddess' [Lust] can still be used."

"It won't be a problem to use it together with [Pride Ⅱ]."

"The magical spirits who can evolve using [Lust Ⅲ] are DemiDevimon after de-evolving, Eevee, and Ditto, who barely makes the cut."

"But Black Gatomon and Umbreon have limited use, so I'll just choose Ditto."

"I'll first try it out with Ditto as the main striker and Gatomon as the support."

"Then summon other magical spirits depending on the situation."

"As for [Wonderland]..."

Calmness, wisdom and courage.

The qualities Dark didn't possess in the past were gradually blooming as he once again walked through the path of learning.

"Gatomon!"

"Meow!"

Gatomon swiftly crouched down, putting its paws in the stance it had learned from .

Then, as though their souls were connected, it briskly set out with a kick of its feet, bolting like a flash of white lightning. Upon closing in on the round boulder, it leaped up in an instant, the cat-claw glove on its right arm glimmering with a chilling light.

……

Even though the hardness of the stone before its eyes might be beyond belief, Gatomon still had the confidence to cut it.

But when its claws slashed down from above, the three scratches that spread from the void landed on a polygonal blood-red light shield!

Slash!

An extremely grating sound instantly rang.

The blood-red light shield was cut by the claws, but it managed to endure without breaking apart.

The part that was cut rapidly recovered, restored to its complete state.

Failing to land a hit, Gatomon spun in midair, kicked at the shield, and used the reaction force to fall back.

From its position in midair, it clearly saw that the flickering blood-red light in the eye of the round boulder was becoming weaker.

Evidently, the blood-red light shield it had promptly conjured had whittled its energy reserves.

Thinking about it logically, by continuing to attack and weaken it, there was a high probability that it might be able to prevent the stone from firing that terrifying dark red lightbeam again!

Gatomon clearly perceived the situation.

Its original idea of wanting to retreat to Dark's side immediately changed. Instead, upon landing on the ground, it nimbly rushed forward once more.

……

Gatomon's action was in line with Dark's idea. He swiftly used [Lust Ⅲ] and [Pride Ⅱ] to raise Ditto's ranking, quickly promoting the 1-star Ditto to a 4-star.

After becoming a 4-star, Ditto broke into the second tier and gained the capability to completely replicate the data of second tier

magical spirits.

The possibility of a mere eye being above the second tier wasn't very high.

Judging by the intensity of the lightbeam, Dark thought that this eye was more likely to be a 6-star.

But of course, even if the eye was one or two stars higher than the rank he judged it to be, Ditto could still replicate part of its data.

"Ditto, Transform!"

"Mon Mon!"

Morale shooting up upon receiving the order, Ditto's malleable body swelled and morphed at an extremely fast speed, its shape becoming exactly the same as the round stone.

Although Ditto's ranking wouldn't change in accordance to the round stone's, by sensing the information coming from the magic card, Dark still managed to confirm its level—it was indeed within the second tier.

In other words, in terms of level, it should be inferior to the previous two tentacles.

But those two tentacles were like blue cards with high star rankings, possessing only a single ordinary skill of ejecting corrosive liquid.

On the other hand, this stone-like eye was akin to a purple card, or even an orange card. The lightbeam it unleashed was equivalent to an ultimate move that could transcend levels.

Among the two, which was stronger and which was weaker could be seen at a glance.

But this was undoubtedly good news for him.

Dark quickly checked [Ditto]'s magic card and soon figured out the name of the lightbeam——[ Beam(魔眼射线)]!

And that round boulder was called [Devil Eye(魔眼)].

[Devil Eye] was a very common name that didn't reveal any distinctive traits.

And thus, Dark couldn't deduce further information about the abyssal monster from this name.

But this had little to do with their current battle.

His main purpose in making Ditto transform into Devil Eye was to let Ditto fire the [], thereby killing Devil Eye by giving it a taste of its own medicine.

But when he was about to issue the order, he was shocked to find that Ditto's magic energy was not enough to unleash [Devil Eye Beam]!

"This is bad."

Dark reflexively looked up at the field.

Gatomon was holding off against Devil Eye.

Despite not using its ultimate [Cat Punch], Gatomon's normal attacks were not to be trifled with.

After taking its hits, flickers of light would visibly appear on Devil Eye's [ (魔光守护)]. The blood-red light that was constantly gathering in its eye would also dim down, never once able to reach a "strong" state.

From this, it could be seen that Gatomon had done a great job at subduing it.

This gave Dark more time to think.

Magic energy flowed through his fingertips, continuously exchanging information.

"The minimum requirement of magic energy for [Devil Eye Beam] is 1000 points, but Ditto only has 400. Let me see..."

Getting an idea, Dark immediately reached towards his card pouch.

Although he rarely used them after crafting them, there was in fact a type of charging card stored in his card pouch. Moreover, there were altogether five of them!

……

Card name:

Type: Item

Effect: Recovers 200 points of energy upon intake.

……

Magical spirits were a kind of miraculous quasi-lifeform.

If their magic energy was at full state, its magnitude would directly increase upon being charged by magic cards like [Energy Potion].

Even though the capacity was not infinite, the maximum limit was generally very high.

Dark resolutely took out [Energy Potion] and successively used five of them on Ditto, making its magic energy abruptly rise to 1400 points!

Although 1400 points weren't much, it could more or less make up for Ditto's shortcomings.

Furthermore, with 1400 points of magic energy, it could finally unleash the [Devil Eye Beam]!

……

After implementing his move, the corners of Dark's mouth faintly rose as his eyes gleamed with a hint of excitement.

"Ditto, it's your showtime."

"Mon Mon!"

Ditto responded before opening its vertical pupil, the blood-red light in its eye gradually becoming brighter.

A terrifying aura correspondingly spread out as its magic energy converged.

Dark reminded: "Gatomon, prepare to fall back."

"Meow!"

Gatomon, who was pummeling Devil Eye, immediately responded with a loud cry.

With a sudden burst of movement, it pulled back in a flash of white.

Ditto, who had transformed into a Devil Eye, instantly fired the [Devil Eye Beam].

But unlike the dark red ray that Dark saw earlier, what Ditto was unleashing was a pure pitch-black ray that didn't contain any blood energy!

In the blink of an eye, the shining black light crossed over the horizon.

"Kiee——"

At this instance, Devil Eye unexpectedly let out an insect-like screech.

The blood-red light of [Devil Light Shield] flowed into its eye, enabling it to shoot out a [Devil Eye Beam] before Ditto's [Devil Eye Beam] hit its body!

But in front of Ditto's [Devil Eye Beam], the [Devil Eye Beam] it mustered in an emergency was thin and short, like a cheap knockoff.

☺▌▋▌█▉▉▉███████—☹

In a complete lack of suspense, Devil Eye's thin and short ray was instantly swallowed by Ditto's thick and long ray.

Immediately afterwards, Devil Eye's rocky shell quickly melted. The cracked stone rapidly turned smaller under the pitch-black ray, at last leaving behind only a clump of pitch-black powder.

By the time Ditto closed its vertical pupil, there was only a handful of black powder left at the spot where the Devil Eye was.

……

Astounded by the might of [Devil Eye Beam], Dark couldn't help feeling extremely grateful for the vigilance he had constantly kept after straying into the hidden rift.

……

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