Epic Of Ice Dragon: Reborn As An Ice Dragon With A System

Chapter 2268: Nobunaga’s Strongest Generals

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Both of Oda’s Generals stepped forward, each wielding their preferred weapons.

Akechi Mitsuhide possessed a slender, towering figure, both intimidating and elegantly refined. He smiled with graceful confidence, his eyes as sharp as a snake’s.

Clad in crimson armor, the Samurai gripped a single crimson katana, its long blade adorned with intricate paintings of a snake and a centipede.

Maeda Toshiie, by contrast, had a muscular, robust form, with a stoic, square-jawed face, short black hair, and calm black eyes. Despite his unassuming appearance, he harbored immense power and resilience.

His weapons of choice were a heavy spear and a wrist-mounted cannon, which he wielded effortlessly with one arm, unhindered by their weight.

The generals advanced as they witnessed their armies being decimated by the power of Oberon’s Gods, who unleashed a devastating combination of Unique Skills and Divine Abilities, overwhelming thousands of Super Yokai at once.

Super Yokai, giant beings formed from hundreds of Yokai fused through Oda Nobunaga’s powers, proved insufficient against this onslaught.

Thus, Oda summoned his Generals to clear a path for his advance.

"Who are those?"

"Two humans..."

"Humans?! Hahahaha!"

"Do they really think they can go against us?"

"Those fools from Zipangu are up for a rude awakening..."

The elves laughed, mocking the two generals as they approached. Indeed, compared to the towering Gods, the generals appeared as mere ants.

And yet...

"I’ll take the left," Mitsuhide said.

"Hm," Maeda nodded, without saying a word.

FLASH!

And then, both generals disappeared in a single second, Mitsuhide resembling a crimson thunderbolt, while Maeda moved as a black blur.

"They’re fast?!"

The elves gasped, scrambling to retaliate. The foremost among them unleashed their techniques and skills, conjuring storms of flames, ice, light, darkness, winds, and more. A group with "Elemental Body" Unique Skills charged toward the generals to shield their allies.

However...

Their efforts were futile.

"{Mirror Waltz: Kyōmen enbu}"

Mitsuhide materialized before the Elemental Body users, spinning at lightning speed, deflecting projectiles, and slashing with graceful precision, leaving afterimages of crimson energy in his wake.

SLASH!

"Gaaaahh?!"

SLASH!

"Ugh?!"

SLASH!

"Aaahhhh!"

SLASH!

"M-My soul?!"

SLASH!

"Ungh!"

The Elemental Body Unique Skill users felt invincible. Their elemental bodies granted them the power to endlessly regenerate from any damage as long as they had Mana, and they had plenty of that.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

However, they had no idea that Mitsuhide had long ago split apart even light and darkness. His blade danced gracefully as his eyes, filled with calm bloodthirst, split not only their elemental bodies but their souls into dozens of pieces.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

"H-He’s a monster!"

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

"M-My soul! Aaaagghhh!"

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

"Impossible...! Noooo!"

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

The other Elven Gods watched in disbelief as their trump cards were slain. As they screamed, their bodies vanished and disappeared alongside their souls, which Mitsuhide mercilessly offered to his master.

"Hmph, not even worth a drop of my sweat."

Mitsuhide sighed disappointedly as he sheathed his blade after finishing off over twenty Elven Gods with a single technique. They all fell like flies, falling apart and disappearing as the crimson energy of his techniques consumed them entirely.

Meanwhile, at the same time, Maeda stepped forward. Giant Elven Gods, transformed using their Divine Powers and Unique Skills, clashed against him, some resembling giant dinosaurs, others titans covered in volcanic stone.

And yet, Maeda was indestructible. His armor was unscathed as he tanked dozens of destructive blows while charging against his foes, smashing their heads with his heavy spear, followed by a piercing, impaling attack into their skulls, tearing them off and blowing up their brains.

"{Stormline Impaler: Rankan no yari}!"

BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

Despite being so huge and bulky, Maeda leaped from foe to foe, blowing out their brains with a gigantic impaling attack followed by an explosive cannon blow, combining firearms with his spear into a technique never seen before in this world.

The Elven Gods were shocked. Oberon had prepared this entire army hurriedly and without as much preparation as he wanted, but it was more than enough, or so he thought, to handle these otherworldly invaders.

Unfortunately, it turned out they weren’t enough, not at all.

However, he still had a trick, or perhaps several tricks, up his sleeve anyway.

Behind the army of Elven Gods, who looked strangely identical to one another, a white and blue portal opened, and dozens more Elven Gods poured out.

Each one overflowed with their own Divinities and Divine Abilities, as well as Unique Skills.

The two generals stared at the portal, puzzled by how it felt like Oberon somehow had a factory that endlessly created new Gods to defend him.

But surely, that couldn’t be the case, right?

"Looks like I’m not the only one with an endless army..." Oda smiled as he looked to his left, noticing a large presence approaching. "Hmm?"

It was a mass of giant skyscrapers merged with pulsating red flesh, tentacles, and crimson eyes, an amalgamation of countless wailing bodies stuck together, with many small eyes but, above all, a single, gigantic red eye staring right at him and then at the battlefield below.

"What in the godforsaken hell is that thing?!"

A monster from beyond the boundaries of Yggdrasil was slowly making its way to this chaotic battlefield, its monstrous form masking its true intentions and how it was much smarter than anyone here could ever believe.

"As the prophecy foretold... the worlds converge into a vortex of chaos. A singularity that will end all begins, as the cocoon of the wicked king starts to hatch... And I, Uroboros, shall seize it to achieve perfection."

The aberrant entity possessed thought, its intelligence surpassing what anyone could imagine.

"Aaahh... Ugh... no..."

Yet more than one mind dwelled within it.

"Silence, child. You are merely my anchor. Your connection to that beast, the dragon, allows me to move in this world unaltered. The power to nullify Fantasy flows through me. Let us see how far that can take us, shall we?"

"Lucia..."

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