The Story of the Fate of the Digital Series

Volume Three: Into the Abyss (1)

A weaker but more sincere soul.

Even a small spark can spark hope.

Let the silent heart rekindle.

Hold fast to fleeting hopes and wishes.

Drawing strength from hope is an undeniably great human trait.

When facing a common enemy, they will unite and become an existence that cannot be ignored——

(One)

Under the blood-colored full moon, Elizabeth and Nereus walked through the path paved with gravel and stepped onto the atrium. The dark atmosphere in the castle became more intense.Pursing his lips lightly, Nereus followed behind him and walked forward slowly.

Elizabeth knew that the earl would definitely feel her presence and entertain the guests who broke into the castle in some drastic ways.

She was already mentally prepared, but the only thing to worry about was Nereus.Although he can fight, he can't stand alone.

"Elizabeth, will we be good partners?"

Seemingly understanding Elizabeth's worries, Nereus looked at her with a smile on his face and said.

"You have always been, and you should behave well now."

At least, Nereus is indeed a good companion, he is not in the way at all, and always considers his companions.

"I will!"

He was so looking forward to it.

An inexplicable sense of distortion appeared.Inadvertently, a phalanx appeared beside Nereus and emitted beams of light, surrounding him.As if being tightly bound by something, Nereus' body could not move at all, and he could only look at Elizabeth with eyes begging for help.

"Be patient, I will rescue you now!"

Pulling out the light-bladed hand sword, Elizabeth slammed the blade towards the phalanx that trapped Nereus, but was bounced away.

"Elizabeth, be careful behind you!!"

Although he can't move his body, he can at least make a sound.Just when Elizabeth's attack was bounced off, a huge energy-like sickle suddenly appeared in the sky behind her. The sickle drew a strange arc in the air and roared towards Elizabeth's body!

With Nereus' timely reminder, she turned around suddenly, and Elizabeth, whose eyes became sharper, immediately used the power.The sickle swung towards him deviated from the attack trajectory, just passing him by.

It wasn't a filthy beast that attacked her, but a tall skeleton-like Digimon wearing a black hooded cape.

Seeing that the sneak attack failed, the Digimon didn't take advantage of the situation to pursue it, but just froze its body in the air, and a low and oppressive sound came out from his tightly closed jaws.

"I'm Metal Fantomon, the Lord of the City Master ordered me to entertain you first."

"Heh, it's really a treat full of 'surprises'."

With a sneer, Elizabeth took out the laser machine gun with her left hand and pointed it at the metal phantom beast.

"Release Nereus while I have patience."

There was no smile in her eyes.

"Master ordered me to only accept you, that Digimon, and these things don't need you to bring him to see him..."

The metal phantom beast's voice was still hollow and dry. It swung the death scythe in its hand, and suddenly, a huge suction force suddenly appeared in the air, sucking away the light-bladed hand sword in Elizabeth's hand.This made her startled, and when she was about to use her supernatural ability to regain her weapon, she felt dizzy for a while, and saw the ruby ​​on the death scythe emitting a faint red light.Damn it!It is disturbing my spirit! !Ability is powerful, but it consumes energy, and once the spirit is disturbed, the performance of the ability will be greatly weakened.Not only the light-bladed hand sword, but also the laser machine gun held in the left hand flew into the air with the suction force, and the two weapons were sucked into a black vortex like this, and disappeared without a trace.

"No, that's Elizabeth's favorite weapon!"

Seeing Elizabeth helpless, Nereus was very worried about her.

And the Metal Phantom Beast who had done all this grabbed the scythe with its withered fingers, and said with a contemptuous smile:

"Without your weapon, you can't fight your master, you're just a small human being."

"Humans, the rest is up to you..."

After saying that, the metal phantom beast was about to enter the dark vortex and leave.

The sound of tearing the air came, and a cyan whip shadow quickly swept towards the ruby ​​on the metal phantom beast's chest.

Hit by the sudden attack, the Metal Phantom Beast leaned back.But the Reaper's reaction was quick. It held the Reaper's scythe in both hands, and swung it at Elizabeth who was rushing towards him.

Leaping away from the waving death scythe in time, I saw Elizabeth holding a light whip and posing for battle.

Light Whip Souei, Elizabeth's fourth weapon.Appears to be a device handle connected to the tip, but it is actually a melee weapon that can throw a light wave whip, which can be used to attack at medium distances.And it is suitable for group attacks. Although the slow attack power is not too high, its large-scale attack without target number limit has certain advantages in dealing with a large number of enemies, and can also play a role in hindering and restraining.The light attribute power attached to the light whip can increase the effect damage to dark attribute enemies.

Elizabeth did not like to use the whip as a weapon, which reminded her of the disgusting Earl.Since the earl wanted to embarrass himself by letting his subordinates take away the weapons, it is not a bad idea to use a spare weapon.

There is a heavy price to be paid for always underestimating me, Count!

With firm eyes, Elizabeth rushed towards the metal phantom beast again.She jumped up, and quickly swung the light whip with her right hand, drawing phantoms in mid-air, heading towards the god of death.

The damage from the light whip was obvious, and the metal phantom beast that was hit by the whip made a sound of compassion, and it immediately slid backwards at high speed.Seeing that the enemy seemed to be at a disadvantage, Elizabeth, who landed from mid-air, did not love to fight, but retreated vigilantly to keep a distance from the metal phantom beast.

Metal Phantommon, annoyed at being wounded by seemingly weak humans, would not accept such humiliation.It flew towards Elizabeth quickly, the sickle in its hand began to charge, and the sharp sickle made a whistling sound of tearing the air, and waved towards Elizabeth.Leaping back to avoid the sharp slash of Death God, taking advantage of the short-term rigidity of the Metal Phantom Beast's continuous slash, Elizabeth quickly walked around behind it, jumped again and swung the light whip.

Enduring bursts of pain from behind, the metal phantom beast whipped by the light whip did not immediately turn around and fight back, but threw the sickle in its hand forcefully.The death sickle seemed to have self-awareness, and while spinning the blade, it made further acceleration, rushing towards Elizabeth like a whirlwind.

While Elizabeth continued to attack the Grim Reaper, a whining sound of breaking wind suddenly approached her ears.Sensing the danger, she hurried down to avoid it, and almost at the same time, the spinning death scythe swept across her head.

Before he could move, the spinning death scythe circled in the air, and flew towards him again.

There was no panic, the thorns wrapped around Elizabeth's left wrist glowed white, and the white-edged black thorns more than ten meters high immediately broke through the ground, forcibly blocking the attack of the death scythe.

"Don't hide from battle like a coward!"

Withdrawing the death scythe, the metal phantom beast chopped up all the thorns protecting Elizabeth.

"...Elizabeth is not a coward!!"

Nereus, who was still imprisoned when his important partner was insulted by the enemy, protested angrily.

Ignoring the protesting Nereus, the metal phantom beast flew into the air and held up the death scythe, and the ruby ​​on the scythe shone again.Suddenly, a large number of green smoke spheres appeared in the air and floated to the ground, and then threw the death scythe again.

The falling smoke spheres are highly corrosive, preventing Elizabeth from jumping easily and reducing her range of movement; and the whirling Death's Scythe also makes it difficult for her to dodge.

"You underestimate Hunters."

After dodging the whirling death scythe in a limited space until the owner of the scythe retracted the weapon, Elizabeth's gaze was very cold.

He raised the red and black shimmering thorns wrapped around his left wrist, and aimed at the metal phantom beast.The red-black thorns rushed out and touched its body.Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen red and black thorns shot out of thin air, tightly bound the body of the metal phantom beast.

Taking advantage of Death's body being bound by thorns, Elizabeth yanked it from mid-air to the ground.

Falling to the ground, the Metal Phantom Beast, realizing something was wrong, quickly inserted the death scythe into the ground.The ruby ​​on the chest was shining, and two rings of pale red circles were revolving around it, hoping that the defense circle would buy time for itself before the thorns disappeared.

The rotating magic circle carried a scorching temperature, and it would burn you if you touched it.Carefully observing the direction of rotation of the double magic circle, taking advantage of the gap, Elizabeth rushed into the magic circle and took the death scythe away with all her strength.

After losing the master's control power, the blade formed by energy disappears, and the sickle returns to the appearance of a scepter.Now, Elizabeth's spirit will not be disturbed, and she can use her abilities.

"Let's see how you fight without this?!"

To restore the right to use the power, the first thing she did was to break the metal phantom beast's weapon face to face.

When Elizabeth used the ability to break the scepter, the metal phantom beast that finally broke free from the shackles of the thorns immediately floated away, keeping a distance from her.

The weapons were destroyed, and the fighting power of the god of death was greatly weakened.

Driven by pride, Metal Phantom Beast would never allow itself to be defeated by a weak human being.

The gathered energy was released from the ruby ​​on the chest, and the metal phantom beast immediately launched an attack, and a series of sharp arc-shaped shock waves shot towards Elizabeth like arrows from the string.

Freely stretching the thorns, she quickly moved to the height of the atrium wall, using the height difference to move back and forth at high speed in the atrium to avoid the enemy's attack.

Get close to the enemy, swing the light whip again and sweep towards the metal phantom beast.After only being whipped a few times, the cunning Grim Reaper dodged the light whip with teleportation, and appeared on the other side of the atrium in the next instant.

Arc-shaped shock waves roared from a distance again, using the same method, Elizabeth, who dodged the shock waves back and forth, stretched out the red-black thorns to restrain the metal phantom beast again, preventing it from using teleportation to attack herself again.

The metal phantom beast that lost its weapon and continued to consume the stored energy, but was bound again seemed a little tired of dealing with the humans in front of it.

The red jade on the chest shone with a faint light, and three circles of circles revolving around it appeared around the Reaper, which was its last defense.

Waiting for the opening to appear, Elizabeth quickly rushed to the inside of the magic circle again, and her vision began to sway and distort.

Twist it——

The spine connected to the bone was twisted as if being twisted by an invisible giant hand, until the entire vertebra was broken, and the metal phantom beast lost half of its body under the twisting force.

Elizabeth will not kill Digimon without authorization, but it does not mean that she will have compassion for the enemy.

The metal phantom beast took a breath, and quickly formed a seal with its hands, and a phalanx stretched out from its hands as the center.Dazzling light erupted from the phalanx, covering the bodies of Elizabeth and the metal phantom beast.

"Elizabeth!!"

With an involuntary cry, the phalanx that restrained Nereus disappeared due to the influence of light.Recovering freedom, Nereus spread his wings and quickly flew to Elizabeth, who was covered by the light, and stretched out his hand to her, trying to pull her out of the light.

However, before his hand reached it, Elizabeth's body had already disappeared into the light, and his hand only caught her remaining breath.

Elizabeth was taken away...

Not only Elizabeth, but even the metal phantom beast completely disappeared in the light.

Suppressing a stronger sense of uneasiness than before, Nereus, who was left alone, looked around blankly.

Nereus, who was standing there in a daze, subconsciously looked at the 'Mirror of Truth', trying to find Elizabeth's figure, but the mirror showed nothing.

——What should I do when I am alone?

Although Nereus looks young, he is a very smart child, and he understands his current situation very well.Uncle's castle must be full of terrible beasts, powerful Digimon subordinates, and dangerous traps.Even if he can project bow and arrow weapons, he still can't be alone.

Elizabeth's situation must be more dangerous than her own!We must find a way to find her! !

Just when Nereus was worried and helpless, he heard a voice.

"Mother……"

The voice appeared in his mind. Although it was only a short process, his mother's voice instantly reassured him.At the same time, Nereus understood everything.

"I understand, I will follow your request..."

"The heroes who saved the digital world can definitely do it. I'm a good boy, right? Let me fulfill my mother's wish..."

Thus answered Nereus, holding the Realm of Truth in his hands, his eyes sparkling with hope.