155 - Overwhelming (3)

155 - Overwhelming (3)

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Episode 155, Chapter 42: Overwhelming (3)

"What the hell, why suddenly!"

At one of the six seal sites in Lezero.

Narie, the head of the Eye of the Moon's Lezero branch, who was reconstructing the nearly broken seal with the Order's priests, cried out in shock.

CRACK!

The seal was almost complete, needing only the final touches.

But the seal core at its center suddenly crumbled to dust without warning.

Narie's eyes filled with bewilderment.

"Why is the seal...!"

The Order's priests seemed to share her sentiment, clutching their heads in panic.

Just then,

"...Huh?"

As Narie struggled to find a solution to this sudden situation, a strange scene caught her eye.

The dust from the shattered seal core began to glow and shoot upwards.

Similar phenomena must have occurred at other seal sites, as something glittering was rising into the sky from those directions as well.

And where these particles were heading was...

"Why, why are they going there!"

Towards the fallen angel Belial, who was battling the unknown being.

There was no time to stop it.

The particles were instantly absorbed into the fallen angel's entire body.

As everyone watching this unexpected turn of events reacted with shock,

-What... are you doing?

Belial, the one at the center of it all, was staring at Zion dumbfoundedly, as if unable to understand the current situation.

Victory had been within reach.

Not his victory, but that being's.

He had already lost a significant portion of his combat ability, and his will was fading.

It was a situation where only the finishing blow remained, to put it mildly.

So why suddenly release all the seals?

Of course, it wasn't a proper release but destruction of the seal cores, yet the difference was minimal, just a slight reduction in power.

"You said the result would be different if the seal was broken."

The Emperor smiled as he looked at the fallen angel.

"I'm giving you that chance. The chance to show me that different result."

In truth, this suited Zion better.

To completely annihilate the fallen angel without leaving any lingering issues, he needed to make him use his true power by breaking all the seals.

At first, he had fought with the seal intact because he didn't know that power, but now it was different.

And most importantly...

'This will be more fun.'

As Zion thought this, a curve appeared on his lips.

-You...

An ice-cold voice flowed from Belial's mouth.

They say when anger reaches its peak, one becomes calm instead.

That was Belial's current state.

Perfect dismissal, something he had never experienced in his entire life.

The being before him was treating him as nothing more than a plaything.

A deep sense of humiliation rose from the depths of his heart, making his blood boil.

He was Belial.

The one who once stood closest to Luminous and was revered by all the fallen.

Even if it were a deity, they couldn't dismiss him to this extent.

-I'll make you truly regret this.

CREAK!

A chilling sound emanated from Belial's entire body.

Along with it, the authority of rebellion surrounding him evolved to another dimension, beginning to engrave its existence onto the world.

The authority of heaven's opposition.

The ultimate power Belial had reached in the past to face the God of Light, a power given only to the first fallen angel.

It was an authority he couldn't fully control yet, but now wasn't the time to worry about such things.

RUMBLE!

The entire City of Light began to shake from Belial's presence as he fully regained his power, causing the onlookers to grow increasingly agitated.

-Behold, my true power.

Ignoring the people as if they didn't matter, Belial fixed his gaze solely on Zion, fluttering all his regenerated wings as he stretched one hand forward.

Was he not planning to conserve any strength from the start?

As the authority of heaven's opposition was exerted to its maximum, it completely enveloped the Emperor, who was quietly watching the fallen angel, and the space around him.

CLUNK!

With a sound as if something had caught, the laws of the world surrounding Zion began to reverse.

Gravity that pulled towards the ground now pushed towards the sky.

Expanding space began to contract.

Flowing time started to run backwards.

Heaven's Opposition Divergence.

The world, which played a crucial role in maintaining existence, was reversed by the fallen angel's authority, now exerting all its power to erase Zion's very existence.

-Foolish one. Not even trying to respond. You've overestimated your power too much.

Belial sneered as he looked at Zion, who was fixed in place by the world itself after being caught in his 'Heaven's Opposition Divergence', and rushed towards Zion's heart without delay.

The calamity of Heaven's Fall created by the fallen angel.

The very time that calamity existed was erased from the world.

* * *

A clear, transparent sky without a single cloud.

-...

The fallen angel Belial silently gazed for a moment at the original sky that appeared after his final technique had vanished without a trace.

-Did you just cut time?

A calm voice flowed from his mouth as he sensed Zion approaching.

As Zion nodded slightly in response, a hollow smile appeared on the angel's lips.

Even if it was just a part, simply interfering with time, let alone erasing it, should have been impossible.

-Cutting what cannot be cut... You truly surprise me from beginning to end.

With those words, the angel closed his eyes and folded his wings, and SWISH-

His body, having finally reached the end of its fate, quietly scattered into golden dust in the sky.

"......"

Zion silently watched this scene for a moment, then his form disappeared from that place as well.

* * *

ROOOOOAR!

A blood dragon the size of an entire city let out a massive roar and breathed out.

But that breath didn't destroy anything.

Before it could, GROOOOOWL!

It was blocked by a red-eyed wolf almost as large as the blood dragon.

No, rather than a wolf, 'monster' would be a more fitting description.

Three pairs of eyes and a tail split into nine parts.

And tentacles sprouting from various parts of its body.

Its appearance was far too bizarre to be considered an ordinary wolf.

And,

"Kyahahahaha!"

A woman standing atop the monster, bursting into maniacal laughter.

It was Liushina.

CRASH!

The monster howled once more and clashed with the blood dragon again, following her will.

A tremendous shockwave erupted from their collision.

"Whew..."

Renet, watching the clash while deflecting the shockwave, let out an exclamation of disbelief.

Not just her, but every being on the battlefield had stopped fighting and was now watching the collision of the two monsters.

After all, the outcome of this war would be decided by the victory or defeat of these two.

So any further fighting was meaningless.

'Just how far does that woman's power go?'

Until the blood dragon appeared on the blood fiend's side, she had thought everything was over.

The blood dragon possessed such immense power that they could never hope to match it.

But at that moment, the red-eyed woman who had been slaughtering the blood fiends gathered all the evil hands into one, creating that wolf-like monster, and immediately clashed with the blood dragon.

And the power she displayed afterwards was far more impressive than Renet had imagined.

As if she hadn't been using her full strength until now.

'Not only did she pull out an army from her body, but she's even facing such a monster...'

She was even gradually gaining the upper hand.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Though the blood dragon seemed slightly superior in raw power, the woman was slowly pushing it back with her unique experience and excellent control, as if this wasn't her first such battle.

'Who on earth could she be?'

The question rose again in Renet's mind.

Come to think of it, there were some clues about that woman's identity.

Extremely rare red eyes and blood magic skills that could be called the best in the world.

'Now that I think about it, there was a blood magician among Prince Zion's close associates...'

Could this woman be that associate?

'If so, does that mean this incident is also related to Prince Zion?'

Questions piled up one after another.

But Renet couldn't ponder these questions any further.

ROOOOOAR!

With a different, more desperate cry than before, CRASH!

The blood dragon's body, most of its neck torn by the wolf monster, fell to the ground.

Unable to rise again, the blood dragon gasped for breath.

The light in its eyes gradually faded, and then, SWISH-

Disappeared completely.

Victory.

At last, Liushina and her evil hands had emerged victorious.

...

A moment of silence followed the sudden conclusion.

In that silence,

"Let's go back now."

The Witch of a Thousand Killings turned towards the blood magicians and Renet, grinning as she spoke.

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