Next morning, George came to the stadium again.
The Great Heghatha Festival would last for a whole week. Today was the second day.
Today, his goal was to closely monitorMegumi Mikoshiba throughout the day, connect to the Megami network when she begins her evolution, and also experience the entire process from level five to level six.
Hiding in the air, he watched Megumi Mikoshiba and Ryuko Ozawa pair up for a two-person, three-legged race and emerge victorious.
After that, while Megumi Mikoshiba went back to the dormitory to change clothes, a Yohio clone who was being treated in the Academy City was mistakenly pulled into the next competition for being mistaken for Megumi Mikoshiba.
Later on, there were incidents such as the Yohio clone being kidnapped by someone from Shidou Kouyou, and Megumi Mikoshiba beginning to search for the Yohio clone.
These situations were predicted by Arithma yesterday when he gave him information, so he was not too surprised.
He did not participate in the entire event at all; he just watched from the air.
Until evening, Kouichi Kimizuki found the Yohio clone on the rooftop and controlled the Megami Network through the Megumi Mikoshiba clone, luring her to the rooftop.
"What would happen if the chosen person of Arithma, hidden in the shadow of the first substitute, were used as an accelerant for your pure power?"
Kouichi Kimizuki pressed the button to control the Megami Network, and a purple and red lightning formed in the sky, instantly injecting into Megumi Mikoshiba's body.
The electric power within Megumi Mikoshiba's body began to wildly grow, with white electric power covering her entire body, and even forming horns made of lightning on her head.
"That's enough."
George pulled his hands apart in the air:
"Plasma Electromagnetic Cannon!"
The massive plasma cannon directly vaporized the still entranced Kouichi Kimizuki.
He didn't want to be disturbed by this Kouichi Kimizuki through the prosthetic brain during his connection experience from level five to six.
Since the biggest variable is removed first, it is safer like that.
Landing in front of Megumi Mikoshiba, George reached out and grabbed her shoulders, actively entering the Megami Network, and then entering Megumi Mikoshiba's mind, trying to assimilate with her as much as possible.
At this moment, the thunderous armor formed by the lightning on Megumi Mikoshiba's body also spread to George.
George could clearly feel the level of evolution of Megumi Mikoshiba's physical abilities, as well as all the feelings during the process of evolution.
"I'm sorry, little sister. You are not welcome here."
Entering Megumi Mikoshiba's spiritual world, he found a girl manipulating Megumi Mikoshiba's spirit to attack a building without windows.
So he stepped forward, grabbed her neck, and threw her out of Megumi Mikoshiba's spiritual world.
The girl was named Kouka Soshite, who was once a friend of the zeroth Yohio clone, Pele. She was one of the test subjects in "Artificial Room".
Due to her involvement in a terror attack against the Academy City Consolidated Council Board after the death of Pele, she was arrested and imprisoned. Then, deceived by Kouichi Kimizuki, she intended to seek revenge on Director-General Arithma by using the evolved Megumi Mikoshiba.
"Now we can start advancing properly!"
By using his mental power to remove Kouka Soshite, George began to experience the entire process of evolution from level five to level six together with Megumi Mikoshiba.
"One percent, two percent, three percent, four percent."
When the evolution reached 30%, both of them wore thunderous armor again, and faint electric light halos appeared around their heads. Furthermore, like actual electric arcs, electric arcs appeared around them.
Spiritually, George felt that he had somehow grasped the essence of electricity, and all the lightning-based spells he had learned in his mind became clear and simple at this moment.
All the doubts and misunderstandings about lightning magic that he had previously also vanished instantly.
This feeling was as if he had studied various lightning magic for hundreds of years.
If he ended the leveling process at this point, he felt that with his current understanding of lightning, the power of those lightning spells would be significantly enhanced when casted.
Even the ancient lightning magic that required several minutes of incantation could now potentially be released in just a matter of seconds.
"How did both of them fall for it?"
The door to the rooftop was flung open, and Abarame Gouma and Xiao Bing charged in.
But they were taken aback when they saw both Megami clones immersed in the evolution phase.
"Let's save them first!"
The two ran from left to right, respectively towards George and Megumi Mikoshiba.
Although George had his eyes closed, he was very aware of the situation around him and naturally noticed the two.
"It's not possible now."
He manipulated the electric arcs around him, constantly knocking away Xiao Bing while at the same time controlling the rebar underground to emerge from the ground and bind Abarame Gouma's feet.
Abarame Gouma's right hand could deactivate any superpower or magic. If he touched the body, it might be possible that the current state of evolution would also be deactivated.
Therefore, he naturally had to stop their actions.
As for Megumi Mikoshiba's safety, since he was now connected with her, if it reached its limit, he would awaken her to stop the evolution.
Abarame Gouma found himself bound by the steel bars from deep underground, and immediately stretched out his right hand to deactivate George's control over the steel bars.
However, even though he managed to deactivate it, the deformed and bound steel bars remained. He had to break them open to continue moving.
However, this posed another problem. As soon as he separated the steel bars from his left foot to work on his right foot, George controlled the separated steel bars to re-wrap around his left foot. By the time he worked on his left foot and then his right foot, his right foot was being re-wrapped again by George.
He had watched Abarame Gouma's battle yesterday and discovered many weaknesses in him.
Abarame Gouma's right hand can indeed clear any magic and supernatural abilities, but it only applies to his right hand. Moreover, although his body is stronger than an average human, it is not so strong that it surpasses human limits.
Therefore, as long as his speed exceeds the reaction speed of his right hand, it would be easy to control him.
While Abarame Gouma was struggling with the steel bars, Megumi Mikoshiba's progress bar for her evolution was rising steadily.
"35%, 40%, 50%, 51%, reached the limit!"
When Megumi Mikoshiba's evolution surpassed 50%, her body began to become somewhat transparent, and her entire head was replaced by countless stars. The lightning also turned black, enveloping both of them.
At this moment, George felt that he and Megumi Mikoshiba had seemingly touched a corner of the divine level of this world.
However, he knew that he couldn't continue any longer. If he did, Megumi Mikoshiba's personality would completely disappear, and his soul in this body would be greatly affected, making it difficult to control the situation.
Maybe he could gain a glimpse into the realm of level six divine beings if he could persist until 100%, but afterwards both his body and Megumi Mikoshiba would be extinguished.
To lose a clone in a world is still not cost-effective overall.
(Chapter Complete)
