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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Ruby
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Yuma walked up the stairs.
Before he knew it, he was climbing toward the summit of the staircase.
It wasn’t just walking.
The questions of causality were still rushing at him.
And Yuma’s accumulated achievements and the divine status of the god Incrinew, which served as a shield, were blocking those questions of causality.
Yuma concentrated all his mental energy to let the storms of causality flow past him, and continued climbing the stairs through the gray mist.
It was instantaneous.
Yuma’s body was enveloped in an azure light.
Crack
Yuma felt the transformation of his flesh beginning from his toes.
Someone’s voice came from the void.
“You must keep walking. Don’t stop.”
It was advice from Ardolak of the Joyin tribe, who had lost his flesh, lost most of his soul, and became a mass of death-thoughts, wandering inside this Transcendence Altar.
“If you get past this crisis, you’ll have almost made it.”
Yuma took those words as guidance and kept walking.
He felt a floating sensation as if his body wasn’t his own. Still, he kept walking.
Yuma’s flesh was already achieving complete molting.
“You must succeed.”
“And if you could torment those evil gods who destroyed me and my people, that would be even better. Well, I suppose that’s not something to say to someone who has already killed two gods…”
It was molting based on the divine status of Barbatos, the God of War and Struggle, who had possessed one of the most powerful divine statuses in the entire divine realm.
Step
Yuma continued moving forward.
Toward the summit of the infinitely stretching staircase.
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Above the Astes Empire on the Geherigen continent, the defensive barrier rippled.
It was a defensive barrier made of the celestial energy of the heavenly archangels.
Disruption waves spread messily from the attack that struck the barrier.
Bell’s blue hair swept back.
“…”
Her pink eyes gleamed coldly.
Azure strong energy that bloomed from her toes instantly covered Bell’s body.
Blue flames also rose from the sword in Bell’s hand.
Bell wasn’t the only one who reacted to the warning sound planted in the ground.
The celestials and elves who had been waiting in the empire appeared in large numbers.
A large number of lycanthropes also appeared from the rear.
All of this was an arrangement Yuma had prepared in advance.
Various races gathered in front of the imperial palace.
CRASH——!
The heavenly defensive barrier that used the sky as its ridgeline shook violently.
A massive and hideous existence fell onto the defensive barrier.
It was a gigantic cocoon covered in black spots all over its body.
“…What is that?”
One lycanthrope furrowed his brow at the appearance of the giant cocoon.
“Looks like some kind of star bug’s cocoon.”
The lycanthrope just made a loud sound and walked step by step toward the giant cocoon that had merely fallen onto the dome-shaped barrier.
Someone quickly approached him, placed a hand firmly on his shoulder, and restrained his movement.
The lycanthrope quickly stopped walking.
What restrained his movement was a celestial archangel.
“…I can feel very powerful divine force from inside that cocoon. It appears to be divine familiars. We don’t know what might happen if we touch it.”
The lycanthrope, who had a wolf’s head and torso with human lower body, stepped back at the archangel’s words.
Crack—
A crack appeared in the cocoon.
What broke out of the cocoon were giant beings.
Giant-shaped familiars scattering black smoke.
The dozens of giants that broke out of the cocoons stared intently at the dome-shaped barrier for a moment.
A giant raised both arms, clenched both fists together, and swung his arms toward the defensive wall.
WHOOOOOM!
Dozens of giants simultaneously.
Giant fists struck down at the barrier all at once.
CRASH!
The widely spread heavenly defensive barrier rippled.
Then cracks immediately appeared, and the defensive barrier that the heavenly side had deployed above the Astes Empire completely shattered.
Fragments of the defensive wall scattered in all directions.
The shattered barrier.
Now all means of defending against enemy intrusion from the sky had been lost.
All the ceilings that had blocked the sky collapsed.
Strange beings all fell down.
Toward the imperial palace of the Astes Empire.
Blood-red gargoyle-shaped monsters appeared, tearing through space.
The dark red flying monsters spread their massive wings and landed on the half-broken defensive barrier.
The black giants who had just smashed the defensive barrier climbed onto the backs of those gargoyles.
The black masses of divine power that covered the sky like dark clouds split apart, then condensed in the hands of the black giants.
The black divine powers transformed into weapons of various shapes.
The black giants riding the gargoyles charged toward the center of the imperial palace.
The enemies that appeared to be divine familiars weren’t all of them.
Giant insect-type familiars fell to the ground.
They were all giant insects with a minimum size approaching 3 meters.
“Evacuate for now!”
Bell said this while moving forward herself.
The aura and strength she felt from the enemies.
Because Bell had reached the realm of Grand Master, she keenly felt the strength of the incoming familiars.
They were at least beings with Master-level power.
The number of Masters residing in the imperial palace was extremely small.
However, even if they hadn’t reached Master level, there were many knights who had achieved upper-level Sword Expert.
They were those who had explored countless methods to face beings stronger than themselves.
“Form ranks—!”
A tremendous shout rang out.
The knights held spears instead of swords.
They lined up in a long row and raised their spears forward.
“Protect this great land!”
All the imperial court mages raised their staffs high and deployed defensive magic.
Various lights scattered from the imperial mages’ staffs.
All omnidirectional defensive magic was deployed in overlapping layers.
Gargoyles and black giants charged simultaneously.
ROAAAAAR!
The lycanthropes opened their mouths wide and encouraged each other’s bravery.
The archangels with spread massive wings clashed with the black giants.
The giant spears held in each other’s hands faced off.
Gray waves spread widely in all directions.
BANG!
Countless exchanges of offense and defense continued.
Arms and legs rolled around on the empire’s land along with thick blood.
Not only the divine familiars’ arms and legs, but also the lycanthropes’ arms and legs rolled around.
Gargoyle-shaped black demonic familiars faced off against pure white archangels.
Bright red blood flowed thinly from the massive wings.
Pure white feathers soared along with the gargoyle’s head.
The mayhem continued.
No matter how perfectly the knights formed their defensive formation, with human bodies and human-reachable abilities, they couldn’t completely defend against attacks from demigod-level familiars.
Heroes.
Not because they wanted to become heroes, but with hearts that simply wanted to protect the empire, the corpses of knights who had stepped forward lay scattered on the ground.
Entrails spilled out.
Heads and blood stained the imperial palace floor.
Brigitte stood on the platform, her pure white hair flowing.
The corpses of knights came into view.
Her mind grew cold.
These were unnecessary deaths.
That’s why her heart ached even more.
A golden halo burst forth like the sun from behind Brigitte.
“The radiance above the crown embraces the warriors Bellow the crown.”
“Warriors of the empire, the radiance of Astes protects you.”
“Draw your swords.”
The Imperial Song rang out.
Since the Imperial Song was limited to humans stepping on Astes’ land, it couldn’t provide advantages to the celestials, lycanthropes, and high elves.
The warriors of the White Night clan including Bell.
“Annihilate the enemies!”
And it shone upon the Dawn Knight Order under Yuma’s command.
Dawn Knight Order Captain Casiella shouted, her red hair flowing.
The knight order members followed behind Casiella.
SLASH!
Bell’s sword pierced into the body of a very long crustacean-type giant monster familiar.
What flowed through her entire body like flames was protective strong energy.
CRASH—
She stepped on the ground.
She drew out her physical abilities to their absolute limit.
Her entire body screamed, but now wasn’t the situation to consider the aftermath.
Bell tilted her body diagonally and moved forward as if sliding.
SWOOOOSH!
Bell’s body moved at a speed that far transcended human limits.
Bell’s eyes blazed intensely.
The body of the long, giant snake-shaped monster split open.
Both flesh and bones were diagonally cut in half.
Dark red smoke endlessly poured from the dead familiar’s body.
Bell cut through the remaining corpse of the giant dead snake familiar with her sword and walked outside.
Even though she had just slain a familiar, she didn’t stop moving.
Without caring about the flesh and blood covering her entire body, she threw her body forward again.
Not only her sword, but even the protective strong energy wrapped around her entire body became a single sword.
The place Bell was heading toward was the dark red being that had killed two celestials and two imperial knights.
Its twelve arms each extended intense sword paths.
And its body was the same size as Ades, the king of the giant god tribe who had bound the feet of the White night clan for hundreds of years.
The aura emitted by the dark red being, the Crimson Heat Asura, was also similar to the savage aura that had emanated from Ades’ entire body.
A clear demigod-level familiar.
Bell rather abandoned hesitation at the sight of the Crimson Heat Asura emitting such savage momentum.
‘I’ll break it.’
The king of the giant god tribe whom she had toppled by relying on the being called Yuma.
It was time to prove herself by breaking a being equal to him.
Intense white heat blazed from Bell’s entire body.
She bent her knees.
She shot her body like a bullet.
Red flashes extended in all directions.
The countless slashes created by the Crimson Heat Asura’s twelve arms accelerated rapidly.
It didn’t end with just twelve times.
The Crimson Heat Asura moved its arms endlessly.
With the momentum to annihilate everything in sight.
SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH!
The gray fortress of the imperial palace was mercilessly cut diagonally.
Countless long sword marks were drawn on the ground.
Into the heart of that terribly cold wild dance, a blue flame plunged.
CRACK—
The red slash trajectory was torn by the azure flame’s sword path.
SLASH
The red trajectory was grotesquely twisted.
As soon as Bell’s right foot touched the ground, her body continuously became blurred.
Blink.
Unlike Yuma’s skill-like [Blink], this was a result achieved by concentrating physical ability, movement techniques, and magical power.
WHOOSH!
Bell’s blue hair flowed like a lion’s mane as she reached right in front of the Crimson Heat Asura, smashing through the red slashes.
GRUNT!
She concentrated the strong energy she had expanded throughout her entire body onto a single sword in an instant.
She had to crush it.
The red monster before her eyes with the blue flames gathered on her sword.
Yellow Springs.
A powerful horizontal slash that swept horizontally.
Six of the Crimson Heat Asura’s arms were swept away and torn off by Yellow Springs.
Dark red blood painted the clouds above.
In that gap, the Crimson Heat Asura’s red sword strike came down toward Bell’s right shoulder.
The sword strike that crushed her armor pierced through the faintly remaining protective strong energy and dug into her shoulder blade.
Since she had hastily retrieved her sword to offset the sword strike, the blade didn’t dig deep, but it was by no means a light wound.
Terrible pain shook her mind.
However, she held onto her consciousness.
“You will become a great swordsman.”
It was a phrase that had become a curse at some point.
Because she thought she couldn’t become that.
‘I will become one.’
Even if it was out of resentment.
Because it was too miserable to stop like this.
She thought of those words she had felt were a curse as a prophecy again.
Veins stood out on her neck.
She opened her mouth.
“UUUAAAAAAAH!!”
She expelled a battle cry.
She expelled all the sword paths she could perform.
She annihilated all the red sword lights.
Six of the remaining eight arms were destroyed.
Dark red blood thoroughly soaked various parts of Bell’s body.
For an instant, strength completely drained from her entire body. Bell’s two feet stopped abruptly. Her vision blurred.
SCREEEECH!
The [Crimson Heat Asura] brought down the two swords held in its remaining two arms.
Just before the two swords touched Bell’s neck and waist.
RUMBLE——!
Lightning fell vertically from the sky.
CRACKLE…!
Cloney’s black hair fluttered as she stood on the cliff.
Her golden eyes shed light.
6th Circle.
It was lightning created by Cloney’s hand, who had reached the stage called the graveyard of mages.
What the 6th Circle lightning magic Thunder accomplished wasn’t just half-burning the Crimson Heat Asura’s two arms.
CRACK!
It also awakened Bell’s consciousness.
Emperor Brigitte’s [Imperial Song] was directed entirely toward Bell.
Radiance rippled behind Bell’s back.
A sword strike of her entire soul falling diagonally.
The atmosphere screamed.
The Crimson Heat Asura’s body tilted diagonally.
Familiar, annihilated.
Bell knelt on her right knee and sat down on the ground.
RUMBLE—! RUMBLE RUMBLE!
Wherever Cloney’s staff pointed, lightning bolts of thunder fell in succession.
Each time, imperial knights survived from the line of death.
Hope.
The celestials, high elves, lycanthropes fighting desperately.
And the empire’s finest.
Therefore, the people of the imperial palace could have hope despite the corpses of knights and soldiers trampled on the ground being abundant.
That’s when it happened.
Black lightning struck from the sky.
That was a massive door.
Rumble… rumble…
Something descended from within that door.
The number was four.
They slowly descended while conversing with each other.
“They’re lasting longer than expected.”
“The insects.”
“However, what’s certain is Yuma. That god-slayer hasn’t been visible anywhere from the beginning of the battle.”
“It’s certain that he’s not here right now.”
Gods.
The Eight Evil Gods.
Two of them had been annihilated from the world.
Now led by Omerta, the [God of Flames and Sorrow], one of the Eight Evil Gods who had become six main gods.
Three gods were descending together.
They were combat-type gods of each hierarchy.
“I will personally tear apart that bitch who killed my familiar over there.”
The gaze of Crios, the [God of Revenge and Courage], a god belonging to the 1st hierarchy though not one of the Eight Evil Gods, was directed toward Bell.
The mouth of Omerta, the god at the front, opened.
“First, we kill all of these. Then we find out whether Yuma is inside the empire or not.”
“Even if he exists, he won’t be in perfect condition. We will certainly kill him. And after that, we can just destroy this entire Geherigen continent.”
For the murder of one human called Yuma.
And the destruction of the continent.
Four gods had descended from the divine realm.
The divine power of the gods, which was on a completely different dimension from the presence that the familiars had emitted until now, pressed down on the Astes Empire.
Dark clouds cast over the faces of the empire’s people and each race.
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Damn it, no more chapters.
Ruby TL, COME BACK!!!
Hey sry for the delay! schedule’s back to normal now…
Yay!!!