That Day When Suzuki-kun Wasn't the Mob-B! Chapter 280: Spamming Destruction
The sudden, catastrophic eruption of the demonic sword blast instantly stunned the entire battlefield. The sheer, overwhelming immensity of the blue light completely overshadowed Vali's flashy Juggernaut awakening. Vali's massive aura suddenly looked like nothing more than a fragile balloon waiting to be violently popped.
"No way..."
Nobody could utter a single coherent sentence. Rias, Sona, Xenovia, Irina, Asia, and Issei simply stared in absolute disbelief. They never, in their wildest dreams, expected Finn to instantly unleash a finisher within seconds of the fight starting.
Typically, high-level supernatural battles follow a predictable rhythm. The combatants would trade blows, testing each other's strength while casually wrecking the surrounding environment, and only unleash their ultimate, world-shattering techniques when forced into a stalemate.
Yet, Finn completely shattered that unwritten rule. He didn't hesitate. He simply aimed his blade and pulled the trigger on a tactical nuke.
A gigantic, piercing blue pillar of light erupted from the tip of Balmung, entirely obliterating the darkness and turning the midnight sky into blinding day.
No one could ignore it. The localized spatial barrier Rias, Sona, and Akeno had desperately erected was instantly punctured and violently shattered into a million pieces, the absolute microsecond Balmung fully activated.
Why was Balmung this strong when, in the original story, it was just wielded like a normal sword by Kiba?
It was all due to his sharing ability from the other Suzukis.
When Finn had originally confiscated the demonic sword Balmung from the Hero Faction in Hong Kong, he didn't just store it away. Utilizing his sharing ability, he had accessed the specialized 'Synergist' crafting abilities from the Suzuki of the Arifureta universe. By combining advanced, otherworldly blacksmithing techniques with his immense, Ultimate-Class Demonic Power and the Manager's guidance, Finn had modified and overhauled the legendary weapon.
Balmung, a blade historically wielded by a legendary Dragon Slayer, had been perfectly weaponized into an ultimate, mass-destruction cannon capable of severing the sky.
The activation was instantaneous, and it unleashed its full payload, fully intending to obliterate the White Dragon Emperor into nothingness!
"?!"
Vali was completely stunned. The blinding, razor-sharp aura of destruction was inches away from vaporizing him. Finn hadn't held back a single fraction of a percent! Furthermore, because the blast was infused with the absolute 'Dragon Slayer' affinity, Vali's draconic armor felt like it was actively melting just from the proximity.
Yet Vali's immense, arrogant pride refused to die.
"I WON'T LOSE!"
With a desperate, guttural roar, Vali unleashed absolutely everything he had!
"Compression Divider!"
Since Finn was playing dirty by instantly going all-out, Vali abandoned all strategy and activated his absolute ultimate technique. While Vali had looked down on Finn just moments before, seeing this destructive blast made him realize Finn was a genuine, life-threatening monster.
"YOU ARE STILL WEAKER THAN ME!" Vali screamed, pushing his Longinus past its limits.
Miraculously, the massive, piercing blue pillar of light that was about to erase him suddenly shrank in half. Then it shrank again. And again. And again.
"No way..."
Onlookers gasped in absolute disbelief as Finn's ultimate attack was reduced and absorbed right before their eyes, until it completely vanished into thin air.
"Hmph!" Vali sneered from the sky, attempting to look haughty and victorious.
Yet, beneath his silver helmet, Vali was desperately biting his lip to keep from vomiting blood. The physical backlash of halving and violently absorbing a blast of that magnitude was agonizing. Worse still, because the energy was laced with the Dragon Slayer affinity, the Demonic Power he had just absorbed acted like a highly corrosive poison, literally burning his draconic circuits from the inside out.
Still, Vali refused to show weakness. He clenched his fists, preparing to violently expel all the condensed energy he had just absorbed to blast Finn into oblivion!
"Watch this fight closely, Partner," Ddraig's voice echoed solemnly from Issei's gauntlet. "Do not blink. That is your ultimate rival, the White Dragon Emperor, wielding the absolute power of Albion—"
But before Ddraig could finish his dramatic narration... the sky violently ruptured.
The blue pillar erupted once again. And this time, it was even thicker, brighter, and infinitely more terrifying.
"Balmung."
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!
The sheer density of the demonic energy, the absolute sharpness, the suffocating heat—everyone who witnessed it felt a primal, biological certainty that this attack meant absolute death.
Vali felt exactly the same.
"AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Vali screamed, throwing up both hands as he desperately tried to resist the blast!
[DIVIDE! DIVIDE! DIVIDE! DIVIDE! DIVIDE!]
The Divine Dividing system shrieked mechanically, frantically trying to halve the incoming attack. Yet, for every fraction Vali managed to divide, Finn simply poured twice as much Demonic Power into the blade, completely overwhelming Longinus's absorption rate.
The blue light instantly melted Vali's absolute Juggernaut armor into slag. The razor-sharp aura violently slashed his body, and the sheer kinetic impact drove him out of the sky like a falling meteorite.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!
The earth violently shook as a massive, towering mushroom cloud rose from the crater's epicenter.
"...What exactly were you saying just now, Ddraig?" Issei mumbled, completely at a loss as he stared at the devastation.
"...." Ddraig remained entirely silent.
The invincible White Dragon Emperor, Vali Lucifer, was utterly defeated. He lay broken and bleeding at the bottom of a massive crater, buried under tons of scorched rubble. He stared up at the starless, smoke-filled sky, his chest barely rising.
Vali had genuinely believed he was the strongest. Yet, in front of true, absolute power, he was nothing but a fragile child playing dress-up.
And in that agonizing moment, a deep, terrifying sense of regret settled into Vali's shattered bones. He realized, too late, that Finn was not like the arrogant Satans or the forgiving Angels. Finn would not offer him mercy, and he certainly wouldn't try to recruit him.
Finn was a predator. And Finn intended to kill him.
"Ah. He's dead," muttered a shadowy figure watching the fight from a distant rooftop, knowing Vali's fate was sealed.
Down in the crater, Finn slowly raised the blade one final time.
"Balmung."
Finn's voice wasn't loud. It was terrifyingly calm, completely emotionless, and almost quiet. Yet, as the gigantic sword of light violently erupted for the third time, it shook the very souls of everyone watching.
Three times.
Finn was literally spamming attacks that rivaled a tactical nuke.
This third blast was exponentially more massive than the previous two. The blinding blue light violently pierced the atmosphere, the sheer heat generating a localized vacuum. Seeing the impossible scale of the attack, everyone on the battlefield felt a suffocating, paralyzing shudder.
Even Sona and Rias were entirely at a loss. They couldn't scream, they couldn't intervene, and they certainly couldn't stop it. Like dinosaurs watching the absolute certainty of the meteor falling, they could do nothing but brace for the end.
I'm so sorry, Azazel... Vali thought, closing his eyes as tears mixed with the blood on his face. He remembered his foster father repeatedly warning him not to provoke the Balam heir. He felt so incredibly powerless, terrified by an enemy he never should have challenged.
Goodbye—
"PLEASE FORGIVE HIM!"
Just a second before the blade fell, a desperate, utterly broken voice shattered the silence. A figure boasting twelve massive, black Fallen Angel wings violently threw himself directly between Finn's blade and the broken boy in the crater.
"DON'T KILL HIM! I WILL DO ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING!" Azazel screamed, dropping heavily to his knees in the dirt. "YOU WANT MY RESEARCH?! YOU WANT ME TO OFFICIALLY WORK UNDER YOU?! WHATEVER IT IS, I SWEAR I WILL GIVE IT TO YOU! EVEN MY OWN LIFE! PLEASE, JUST LET HIM GO!"
"Azazel... stop..."
When Vali forced his eyes open and saw his proud foster father groveling like a pathetic, broken man, he weakly reached out, desperately trying to stop him. Vali knew perfectly well that even Azazel couldn't survive a direct hit from that blast! Azazel should have run!
Yet, Azazel was so incredibly desperate to save his surrogate son that he willingly threw away his absolute dignity in front of the world.
"Please... I am begging you..." Azazel sobbed, pressing his forehead into the bloody dirt.
Finn paused. He stared down at the Governor-General of Grigori. The absolute, blinding light of the blade illuminated Finn's cold expression.
"I heard that," Finn stated, his voice ringing out with absolute clarity. "If you ever break your word to me, Azazel, you will not even have time to blink before every single living being you care about is erased from this world."
Instead of shrinking his attack... Finn poured even more power into it.
He smoothly shifted his wrist and swung the blade directly upward, firing the Balumg straight into the sky!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!
The devastating beam of blue light violently pierced the stratosphere, tore through the exosphere, and shot directly into the vacuum of space. It didn't stop until it violently slammed into the surface of the moon.
Everyone on the ground watched in absolute, mind-numbing silence as a massive, visible explosion blossomed on the lunar surface, forever scarring the moon.
There was no sound of the distant impact. There was no localized destruction on the ground. Yet the sheer, impossible scale of the feat made their hearts hammer with a terrifying realization.
They all stared at the handsome young man standing casually in the ruined courtyard, casually resting the dragon slayer blade on his shoulder, and realized they were looking at a true monster.