How does it feel like to watch someone you thought was invincible and worshiped, fight a losing battle, it must be devastating right!.Masako was feeling the same as she watched the Sky Prism Divine Punishment slowly break all the Defences set up by Sukehime. For Some reason Masako who never doubted her grandma"s strength today thought that her grandma"s strength was not enough!.
This very thought made Masako very desperate, She wanted to go and help her grandma but unfortunately her strength was not enough, feeling help all she could do was watch as her Invincible grandma lose for the first time.
If possible she would not hesitate to trade her life for her grandma"s.
Even with her mother and father emperor dead, Masako had a better life than the rest of the royal orphan in the place thanks to her grandma. Masako has many Siblings and relatives but none she could trust and depend upon, Her grandma was her only last relative who genuinely cared about her and never wanted anything in return, this Selfless love shown by Sukehime never let Masako feel that she was alone in the world.
But Sukehime was dead then Masako would lose the guiding compa.s.s of her life therefore she rather chose to trade her life for her grandma"s than watch her die.
One thing never crossed Masako"s mind that in present condition if Sukehime is unable to Successfully ward off the Divine punishment then she will also die as the collateral damage of the Sky Prism Divine Punishment.
Unlike her Hito, James and the team were all knew this and were worried about it, they felt like a bunch of trapped rats, because even if they knew that they will died they could not escape and flee as once they leave the Nether flame dome they will be out of Sukehime"s Concealment Array.
Once out of the concealment array they can no longer hide from the Sky Prism Divine Punishment and they will also be instantly targeted by the Sky Prism eye. Similar fate awaited them if Sukehime lost.
If not for the Main task James and the team did not care if either of Sukehime, Hito or Masako died because the team considered them as Npc"s. Clearly they all did not have self righteous ideologies like Trisha, Who would rather put herself in harm"s way than see her benefactor die. Since Sukehime Protected the team from the Hive Mother and Nether flame Fiend Trisha felt that it was wrong to knowingly let Sukehime die.
Never in their wildest dream would have they thought that their greatest golden thigh would be the reason for their Disaster.
Hito would Just found a way to find the way to find the answers for the question haunting his sleep was also very worried right now, if it was before getting info form Leon Hito would not mind dying help Sukehime, because back then he saw no hope to find the answers for his Questions. But now it was different. He had finally found a way to clear both the name of his father and master; he did not want to die without clearing their names.
Clearly none of them Hito, James and the team were not ready to die yet unlike Masako who would trade her life for her grandma"s in a heartbeat.
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Finally at Laser x8, 72 Shine tempered secondary defence layer of the array was completely shattered and the Laser beam collided with the Primary defence layer of the array. With this the Defence line formed with the combined 72 layers of light blue shine shattered and dissipated with the wind into the darkness.
As the Laser x8 beam collided with the primary dome of the 108 Thunder Tempered array, Masako"s Heart came out of her mouth in fright, Hito and the tea team had somewhat similar experience .
Will Masako, Hito and the Team were focused on Sky Prism Divine Punishment, a Sudden prompt notification appeared in the Team"s Status screen,
[ Warning - Using a Scenario prop will lead to penalty. ]
[ Alert - Scenario Item prop " Groud Pouch " Detected. ]
[ Notice - Scenario already under penalty, another penalty added! ]
[ Penalty 1. Scenario Reward decreased by 10 percent. ]
[ Penalty 2. Explore by oneself. ]
[ Penalty 3. Scenario Reward decreased by 10 percent. ]
Seeing this Prompts James and the Team were Sh.e.l.l shocked, before they could recover from their shocked state, they heard the arrogant voice of Leon which forceful brought them back from their muddled state,
[ Guy"s thank you so much for your help, if it were not for you guys I do not think I would ever be able to complete my objective.]
Hito and Masako were also on M-Chat and clearly heard Leon"s Message, but were confused as they did not know what was going on. But Mari and Luca were more confused than they were because they did not understand what Leon was trying to do? What was his objective?
One being the fiance and other being the follower of Leon both clearly never expected Leon to betray them like this.
[ Leon you son of a pitch, what are you up to? Why did you use another Scenario prop? Explain or otherwise I don"t mind killing you!!] Justin"s anger soared.
Rest of the team looked at Leon to hear him explain his actions but what they got in return was nothing but a disdainful gaze and a sneer.
[ I do not need to explain anything to you guy"s if you have a Scenario prop then go ahead and use it, I do not mind! ] Leon Sneered as he disdainfully gazed at the team.
James and the team were very angry and their anger showed on their faces.
They already let leon off easily when they knew that he was the one who used Scenario Search prop, If not for Sukehime, Masako and Hito they would have already taken care of him.
Despite Leon not seeming to have learnt his lesson and repeated the same thing again they could no longer tolerate Leon.
They were lucky that the third penalty was Just a 10% reduction in their reward, if it was something else worse than they would not even have the luxury to argue with each other.
When a Scenario prop is used no one can guess what kind of penalty will be implemented by the World Terror, especially since they had already used one prop before.
Leon repeatedly using scenario prop was nothing less than pushing the team to the edge of a cliff. The team could no longer tolerate him.
Janet shouted [ WTF!! Do you mean? We are all one team! You owe us a explanation. ]
[ Why are you getting angry at me? If you want to be angry then be angry at yourself for being so poor that you are not able to own a single Scenario prop. It"s not my fault that you guys are poor. ] Leon was enjoying the look on the faces of the team.
James caught the s.a.d.i.s.tic light in Leon"s eye"s and said [ you are enjoying this aren"t you? Guys Ignore him we have larger troubles to worry about then argue with this s.a.d.i.s.tic b.a.s.t.a.r.d. ]
Clearly they could not do anything to Leon under the eye"s of his master Hito, so James just decided to not care of the things he can"t control but prepare for the worst just incase.
Hearing James, even though the team was unwilling they decided to ignore Leon. But even if they ignored Leon, Leon did not want to let them off easily, he wanted to enjoy to his heart"s content before he executed his final plan.