"Is this... the Great Spiral Thunder Ring?"
The body of the silver ring presented a spiral shape, and in the very center of the spiral was embedded a blue-purple gemstone resembling lightning.
Gazing at this ring that appeared on the electric chair, a name that suited it extremely well subconsciously surfaced in Ren Amamiya's mind.
The Spiral Thunder Ring, an accessory that could be transformed from Persona Ishtar through electric chair execution, came with the lightning-based skill Maziodyne.
"This probably wasn't made through electric chair execution, but directly crafted from the Sloth Will Seed crystal and that gemstone Treasure. After putting on this ring, I really feel like I can directly control the power of lightning, without even consuming my own magical energy."
Ren Amamiya placed the spiral ring from the blue electric chair onto the middle finger of his left hand. He tentatively activated the power of this spiral ring.
In an instant, a brilliant flash of lightning, like a coiling serpent, shot out from Ren Amamiya's left hand, which wore the spiral ring. The vast radiance of lightning illuminated the dark prison as brightly as day, blasting a hole half a person high into the prison wall.
"The power is quite good too. Just a tentative use can unleash this level of strength. It seems sending the Will Seed and Treasure to the Velvet Room was really the right decision."
Ren Amamiya fondled the spiral ring on his left middle finger with some reluctance to part with it. Just as he was feeling satisfied with the power and effect of the Spiral Thunder Ring.
The Stigmata of Thunder, hidden deep within Ren Amamiya's body, quietly appeared on his chest. Two powers of extremely similar nature began to resonate, complementing each other.
The Stigmata of Thunder space was connected to the existence of Shadow Mei, the Herrscher of Thunder's consciousness within Raiden Mei's body.
Ren Amamiya, who had stolen the Gem of Conquest as a Treasure from Raiden Mei's Palace and also obtained the Stigmata of Thunder from Shadow Mei, could be considered roughly equivalent to a Herrscher of Thunder himself.
Sensing that power and will belonging to the Herrscher of Thunder, the Spiral Thunder Ring in Ren Amamiya's left hand suddenly bloomed with a dazzling light. Under Higokumaru's utterly shocked gaze beside him, the small and exquisite spiral ring abruptly changed its shape in Ren Amamiya's hand.
"Wh-Wh-Wh... What is this? The ring turned into----a propeller?!"
The central part was a circular ring blade, with sinister and sharp blade-like fans extending outwards from the top and bottom.
This bizarre purple weapon, transformed from the Spiral Thunder Ring, made Higokumaru beside him instantly cover both cheeks with her hands. She revealed an expression of utter shock and subconsciously cried out in a loud voice.
"This is too weird! What on earth was the person who made this weapon thinking? Do they want Boss Joker to go out and fight enemies with a propeller?!"
Higokumaru floated back and forth in the air beside Ren Amamiya. She carefully examined the bizarre purple weapon in Ren Amamiya's hand. The more she pondered it, the more Higokumaru, who felt this weapon transformed from the spiral ring was just a propeller, couldn't help but vent her turbulent feelings.
"I feel like the person who made this weapon didn't put any effort into it at all! To deal with you, Boss Joker, she might have even just lazily dismantled the propeller from some helicopter! That's why she doesn't dare to come out and confront you face-to-face, Boss Joker!"
Higokumaru clenched her small fists indignantly, punching the air fiercely twice, feeling angry for Ren Amamiya.
In the deepest layer of the deepest part, Vill-V, watching Higokumaru's shocked reaction to her little invention on the virtual screen, straightened her back proudly.
"I didn't expect this visitor to activate the little easter egg I put on the ring right off the bat. It seems it's not just Jizo Mitama; his compatibility with this Divine Key, the New Seven Thunders of Retribution, is also very high!"
Seeing Ren Amamiya activate the morphological change of the New Seven Thunders of Retribution upon first contact, Vill-V couldn't stop nodding. She explained to Aponia beside her in a satisfied and fervent tone.
If it weren't for the concern that Ren Amamiya's identity and stance were still unknown, and that he possessed Jizo Mitama, which was a natural counter to memory forms.
Most importantly, Aponia was watching her eager self from the side. Vill-V would have long since rushed to Ren Amamiya's side, made a dazzling entrance as the great magician of the century's end, and then detailed her great invention to Ren Amamiya.
"Seven Thunders of Retribution, as one of my early Divine Key works in the Previous Era, has many flaws and imperfections in my later view. It's rare to have the opportunity to reforge a Divine Key with the Herrscher of Thunder core from the current civilization. I've streamlined the transformation forms of Seven Thunders of Retribution to three... It's a bit inappropriate to keep calling it Seven Thunders of Retribution. Forget it, the right to name it will be left to the user themselves!"
"In short, the current Key of Judgement has been streamlined by me into three forms: a long-range gun, a close-combat tachi form, and a propeller form that combines the essence and advantages of the previous two, capable of both ranged and close combat, and can even assist in high-speed movement and defense!"
Vill-V's tone was full of pride as she extended a slender hand, introducing the propeller-form Key of Judgement, which she highly esteemed, to Aponia beside her, whose expression had quietly tensed.
"..."
Although she was already used to Vill-V's unreliability, Aponia was still severely shocked by Vill-V's fantastical ideas, which were completely incomprehensible to ordinary people. She almost failed to maintain her composure.
Judging by Vill-V's past track record of causing trouble, the new Key of Judgement was already a relatively reliable Vill-V product. At least the new Key of Judgement could actually be used in combat and wouldn't cause the user to suddenly overturn in the middle of a battle.
The Divine Key Vill-V created in the Previous Era using the Herrscher of Wind core had no combat function at all.
The Key of Judgement, Seven Thunders of Retribution, even incorporated a lottery system that changed with the user and adapted to the environment. If the user was unlucky, at a life-or-death moment against an enemy, the user of Seven Thunders of Retribution might even comically pull out a slingshot or a lipstick, falling into an embarrassing situation of being unable to counter the enemy.
Aponia, who knew Vill-V inside out, knew that making the Key of Judgement into the shape of a propeller was already a rare display of reliability from Vill-V.
But as the initiator who entrusted Hare to send the Herrscher of Thunder core to the Elysian Realm, and as Ren Amamiya himself, who would actually have to fight with the Key of Judgement.
Aponia could fully imagine the enormous shadow that would form in Ren Amamiya's heart, and the deep despair he would fall into.
Just as Aponia slightly lifted her eyelids, looking at Ren Amamiya on the virtual screen with a compassionate gaze, her expression, which she had barely managed to maintain under the influence of Vill-V's abstract behavior, instantly crumbled.
"N-Not a bad weapon! It has a kind of threefold, abundant, all-purpose attribute of intense beauty. I wonder if I can use it to cast a lightning-attribute Myriad Truths!"
Ren Amamiya gripped the handle in the center of the propeller, which connected the two upper and lower blade-like fans. He weighed the perfectly balanced Thunder Propeller in his hand, spun the Thunder Propeller lightly once, and after feeling the extremely smooth and silky sensation, Ren Amamiya immediately nodded in extreme satisfaction and praised it.
"Eh, eh, eh?! Boss Joker, are you serious?!!"
Hearing Ren Amamiya's evaluation of this propeller weapon, Higokumaru and Aponia, in the deepest layer of the deepest part, simultaneously revealed extremely synchronized, dumbfounded expressions.
As for Vill-V, her pink and white gradient pupils instantly shone brightly. When she looked at Ren Amamiya, it was as if she had met a kindred spirit and fellow enthusiast who could understand her great art. Her eyes were filled with emotion.
If Aponia hadn't caught her, Vill-V would definitely have met Ren Amamiya face-to-face.
Ren Amamiya held the propeller's handle with one hand. The two blade-like fans on the outer side of the ring blade began to rotate rapidly under the effect of electromagnetic force.
Accompanied by surging lightning and strong air currents, under Higokumaru's bewildered gaze, Ren Amamiya's body rose straight into the air. Using the propeller as a weapon, he continuously released three golden-purple thunderbolts of extremely formidable power towards the surrounding ground.
"Now, even without Puss's help, I can fly a helicopter myself. What a great invention. I didn't expect Lavenza to be so creative."
Ren Amamiya released his grip on the propeller's handle. Empowered by electromagnetic force, he didn't fall due to gravity. Instead, under Higokumaru's dazed gaze, he steadily descended back to the ground with the help of the propeller swirling around him.
Ren Amamiya had just tested the attack power of the spiral ring in its propeller state. Under the same power output, the lightning power of the propeller form was clearly two to three times greater than that of the spiral ring form, and it also had the function of assisting flight.
It wasn't just physically spinning the propeller to ascend into the sky; he could also manipulate electromagnetic force to levitate in the sky and move at high speed.
As for the propeller weapon design that Higokumaru found unacceptable, Ren Amamiya didn't think it was a big deal.
A propeller wasn't much different from the Fuma Shuriken weapon used by ninjas.
And in the world of Persona, what's wrong with using a propeller as a weapon?
In short, Ren Amamiya had no objections.
"Lavenza? Who is Lavenza? That Judgement Propeller is clearly the masterpiece of this great magician Vill-V! How can that person named Lavenza falsely claim the copyright of the work?!"
Hearing that Ren Amamiya was satisfied with the propeller form of the Key of Judgement but didn't praise her, the great magician, and instead praised a stranger named Lavenza.
The previously smug Vill-V finally reached her breaking point. Her brow twitched in indignation, and she subconsciously wanted to teleport to Ren Amamiya's side.
However, even if Vill-V initiated the teleportation procedure, her body remained motionless, unable to teleport to Ren Amamiya's side as she wished to clarify who the true creator of the work was.
Golden butterflies danced around Vill-V, shedding dazzling golden scales as their wings fluttered, completely enveloping and sealing her body.
Aponia had fused her own consciousness with the Elysian Realm itself. Without activating the backdoor program for a surprise victory, Vill-V couldn't directly contend with Aponia in terms of Elysian Realm authority.
"Vill-V, [Please do not meet with that visitor holding Jizo Mitama before the situation has been clearly investigated]."
Aponia sighed softly. She calmly and firmly admonished Vill-V, who was full of schemes, applying the power of her precepts to Vill-V.
Although Vill-V had ways to pay a price and break the precept's binding, at least for a short time, she wouldn't be able to sneak off and meet Ren Amamiya.
Vill-V herself was well aware of this. She raised her hands in a dejected manner, signaling her surrender to Aponia.
Unable to go to Ren Amamiya's presence personally, Vill-V could only turn her gaze back to the virtual screen in front, observing Ren Amamiya's next move.
"Next is the Persona fusion process. Let's use the guillotine first."
Ren Amamiya's gaze flickered back and forth between the guillotine and the blue electric chair, finally settling on the heavy and cold guillotine.
"Persona----Come forth, Huodou! Boreas!"
Following Ren Amamiya's call, two white spirit bird masks spontaneously appeared in mid-air in front of him, then transformed into Persona Huodou, which had a mane like molten golden-red lava and resembled a saber-toothed tiger.
And Persona Boreas, whose body was covered in blue-cyan fur, surrounded by an aura of biting cold wind, and resembled a wild wolf.
As the number of subdued Personas increased, the levels of Personas like Huodou and Boreas could no longer keep up with Ren Amamiya's growing strength. It was time to fuse them into stronger, new Personas.
Ren Amamiya gently grabbed at the void with his hand. Two blue cloths appeared in his hands. He lightly flicked them onto the bodies of Huodou and Boreas, completely covering the bodies of these two enormous Personas.
Just as Hare had previously thought, after Ren Amamiya had personally witnessed her projecting dream objects into reality and materializing them, he had also gradually figured out how to temporarily project dream creations into reality for use.
Creating one or two pieces of cloth to wrap around a Persona's body was a piece of cake for the current Ren Amamiya.
"This guillotine is really user-friendly. Not only can you define the number of ports yourself, but you can also freely adjust the size of the ports. Even large Personas can easily fit their heads in... It's just a pity that you can only add up to three ports at most, so you can't perform fusion work for more than three Personas. But it's enough for me now."
Ren Amamiya remarked on the guillotine device while releasing the guillotine chain he held, allowing the heavy, sharp blade suspended above to crash down towards Persona Huodou and Persona Boreas, who were wrapped in blue cloth and struggling uneasily due to instinct!
Clang----!!!
The sound of the guillotine blade crashing to the bottom echoed mournfully. Higokumaru's face turned pale, and she shivered, clutching her own neck tightly.