Supreme Couple In Apocalypse: Undead King & Demonic Queen-Chapter 235: Echoing Far & Wide! (7), Rotten Maw!

'We are trapped here, and Lilith can't escape een if she wants to,' Erix's fists were clenched as he looked at the battle raging below. 'We didn't have any choice but to fight in the first place!'

'Trapped…' Rin didn't need more from Erix to understand the situation as her face also became a tad more grave.

They were in the fallen land, which was a closed region in a way. The city's part would only go up for one hour a day, and according to time, it did go up an hour ago and returned.

Next, Leiro said that he could only affect Lilith upon seeing that the strange rule power was not affecting her.

This means Leiro had already judged the situation beforehand. He was not in a hurry because he knew there was no escape for anyone here for the next twenty-three hours.

'He must have gotten that Rat's memories as well. The plan was perfect, but why…us? Why Lilith?' Erix frowned. 'Is it truly because of Granny May's random machinations, as Lilith said?'

'Yeah, but Granny May did say that she doesn't control everything,' Rin said, her grip on Erix's hand tightening, 'Let's believe in Lilith and try to think of some combo attack with our specialized power.'

'Yes,' Erix nodded. 'The Abyss rule is not protecting her anymore because she has broken past some sort of limit. She is an exception, but she also has exceptional powers.'

'If only we could see their full stats,' Rin regrettably said.

'They seem equal for now, but stats can be buffed and debuffed easily…'

Rin and Erix suddenly saw Leiro turning into a rotten particles and appearing before a beastfolk Rat.

Everyone in the city's plaza saw Leiro's creepy face up close, smiling and waving his hand.

"Hello, everyone. I am Leiro. Nice to meet you."

*Booom!*

A powerful spiraling drill shot towards Leiro from behind and exploded instantly.

The Rat-man almost pissed his pants, but he was unscathed and protected due to the rule.

Rat-king subordinate heard Leiro's laughter in the distance as the battle had already moved somewhere else.

'Phew....'

…

"Let's do it," Rin nodded at Erix, and Erix also nodded as they started using their Mana to produce their respective super exotic elemental energies.

Chronace Flow and Nihilir Essence gathered above them.

"You focus on Time, and I'll focus on Space aspects," Erix said. "The other powers won't damage him or anything, but with a heavy focus on Time and Space, we should be able to debuff him heavily."

"Time to disorient and slow him while Space traps him?...wait we can do more because of our Super Exotic element's mixed aspects," Rin muttered before her eyes shone. "I have some ideas."

"Me too," Erix grinned, "Let's be quick and see what we can do. That strange dream and spiritual battle we fought also gave them some ideas to use Spirit Force differently."

"Same," Rin nodded with a determined expression, "Let's do this and support Lilith so that she can land her strongest attack."

…

"It looks like I can't be at leisure anymore," Leiro said as his broken teeth slowly recovered. His face didn't have a smile anymore.

'Powerful soul, spirit force, and abundance of magic knowledge…along with high mastery of her elements,' Leiro stretched his arms. 'If this is all she has at the level she displayed, It shouldn't be hard.'

"Are you done?" Lilith asked with a bored expression. "All you did the past ten minutes was running around, blocking, and dodging. Why?"

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Leiro chuckled and said, "Of course, I wanted to spend more time with you before eating you."

"You were assessing my powers and limits," Lilith indifferently smiled. "The stronger and tricker I unleashed my skills, the stronger and faster you became, but with much conservation."

"It seems that you actually want to or….need to finish me off fast, so you were assessing me while minimizing your output," Lilith raised her eyebrows. "You also absorbed a lot of energies, even wrestled away death power from the Umbral's control…"

"It seems that you are not as free as you make it out to be, eh?" Lilith questioned with a grin, her tone mocking.

Leiro's expression faltered before he entirely put it down and sighed, "I don't like intelligent prey, especially the likes of you."

"It's fine," Lilith smiled as she waved her hand, "You can't afford to stomach me in the first place."

Leiro ruthlessly grinned, his strange mouth stretched and black teeth shining. "You can say that to my stomach."

Lilith felt something and vanished from her spot before the position that she was in previously exploded as a strange, corrosive, beastly mouth took a forceful bite.

It was a rotten, beastly mouth with misty, Rotten gray-black rotting energy skin and particles. It had a set of pitch-black teeth with gray patterns.

Lilith felt cold. 'So that is his…'

'Alright, I guess I'll have to adapt to the style of my savage cuties.'

That strange mouth that clamped a bite was powerful.

Not, it was really powerful even for Lilith as she judged that the power of that mouth and those teeth would penetrate her defense.

If she got bitten by it even once, it would spread decay all over her body and even her soul.

Just like how Rin and Erix fought against those Royal-order hunters, she also had to fight like that and dodge instead of defending because…

One hit, and she would die or at least nearly die.

'Troublesome…but,' Lilith's eyes glinted with maniac light and thrill.

The five crystals around her released threads of energy while her dress shone.

*Clamp!*

The Rotten Maw appeared behind Lilith again to take a bite, but it only caught her afterimage as Lilith flew up and spread her senses.

'That bastard…trying to hide and attack?' Lilith's dress shone, and her body protruded vein patterns for a brief movement before she vanished from her spot and appeared right behind Leiro before her clawed hands woven by the threads of her crystal shot at Leiro's head.

Leiro only smiled strangely, his hands stretching towards her instead.

'Tsk,' Lilith had no choice but to cancel her attack as she turned into a stream of shadow before the Rotten Maw behind her took a bite.

"Struggle is futile, lady. Just let me bite you and be done with it, hahaha!"