286 – Decisive Battle – 6
ㅡQuaang!
A huge mace shook the courtyard of the imperial palace. A crack stretched out like a spider’s web centered on the place where the weight was inserted. The smashed marbles were scattered in all directions.
The middle-aged man who caused the terrible destruction drew his mace. It was an ignorant mace with a weight well over twice as large as the head.
But before he could pull it out, another mace struck him in the side. It was only for a moment, but the middle-aged man, whose back was bent in the wrong direction, flew away without making a sound.
Kung! The man’s body collided with the wall. It was an attack that would have killed an ordinary person with his upper body exploding as soon as he was hit by the mace, but the middle-aged man only stumbled after being hit and stood up again.
Of course, it didn’t mean that it was in good condition either. The cracked walls and the weak legs after walking a few steps proved that fact.
Stella walked towards the man with an extremely cruel smile on his face.
“Why are you wearing our emblem? Is it to mock the sun?”
A pattern symbolizing the sun was stamped on the man’s armor. That alone was eye-watering, but he even used the golden divine power.
Every single one of them was an intolerable insult to Stella. The very existence of that guy was truly disgusting.
How dare that thing, that kind of thing wear a pattern that symbolizes the sun and use golden holy power that symbolizes the sun.
It was even an imitation made after Stella herself on such a theme. Ever since she realized that fact, Stella’s mind had only the thought of condemning that heresy.
“That sin can never be repaid. So once you die, start over. You know?”
Stella, with a bloody yet cruel smile, rushed at the man. The golden sun rested on his pendulum. The man stood up with trembling legs and attempted to repel the attack.
It was a meaningless outburst. Stella’s mace shattered the weight of another mace that appeared in the middle of its trajectory too easily. Fragments of the shattered weapon were scattered all over the place.
I pushed his arm as it was. Without a moment’s hesitation, the swinging mace dug into the man’s right shoulder blade. His shoulder blade was crushed, and at the same time, his whole arm fell down.
Stella grabbed the man by the collar and pinned him to the ground. A human head shattered the stone floor with a horrifying sound.
The man was still alive. His right arm was shattered and his head was half-shattered, but he swung his arm around at Stella.
It was a good thing because it could cause more pain. Stella threw the man into the opposite wall. The half-crushed body pierced through one of the pillars and crashed into the wall.
“How dare you touch me with that disgusting hand?”
A smile appeared on Stella’s face as usual, but that was only because her anger had crossed the threshold, and she turned around and returned to her usual face.
I wanted to take that man alive to the Holy Land and torture him until he was torn into thousands of pieces. But there was no time for that now.
‘I have to go to help the Holy Son as soon as possible. I’d better hurry.’
It’s a pity that I couldn’t bring endless suffering to that heretic, but going to help the saint was more important than that. Golden divine power once again dwelled in the mace.
The man jumped at him and was desperate even as his one arm sat down and his blood was dripping from his broken head. Stella jumped up and slammed the man down with the power of falling.
The weight of the mace landed, crushing the man’s left shoulder blade. It was driven straight to the ground, and a new crack was added to the floor of the courtyard of the imperial palace.
Stella leaped upward once more and struck the mace down again. This time his spine was shattered. The wriggling of the lower part of the body suddenly stopped.
Judging by the fact that her upper body was still squirming, it was clear that she was still not dead. His spine shattered and his body crushed, but alive, he was filthy persistent.
‘It’s a good thing.’
It was a good thing for Stella. Because he can continue the final attack.
Infusing divine power into the mace, he leaped much higher than the first and second attacks, bending the elbow of the arm holding the mace. He passed his hand over his shoulder, preparing to strike the mace down.
“The sun will judge you.”
Then, he swung his arm as he sat down.
A weight the size of a man’s head hit the ground, and at the same time, the man’s head was completely shattered. Its essence was also crushed in harmony with the body.
A human corpse could not absorb all the shock. Half of the courtyard was overturned, and the shockwave that spread out destroyed nearby walls.
A pattern symbolizing the sun was drawn large on the ground, centered on the spot where the mace struck.
Stella saw the pattern of the rising sun on the floor and held his hands with a satisfied smile. It was time to pray to the sun and to the living saint.
It was a tranquility unthinkable for a human who had just blown up the courtyard of the imperial palace.
Selene was immersed in the shadows, observing her surroundings.
Not a single ray of sunlight came through the window that was covered with a curtain. The ceiling chandelier was smashed and all the torches were extinguished. All around was darkness, and it was very quiet.
But it wasn’t a problem at all for Selene. Darkness is just a means to reveal the sacredness of the moon. The darker the darkness, the brighter the moon shines.
Selene pricked up her ears and looked around with all her might. It seems that there is no one in his room but himself, but in reality that is not the case. Several battles had taken place in this room since earlier.
As if proving that fact, the fishy scent of blood circulated in the air. How much blood had been spilled, it was difficult to determine the location of the opponent by smell.
Of course, it was the blood of the other party.
ㅡ Knock.
Finally, Selene heard the sound she had longed for.
‘I found it.’
The sound of a very tiny drop of blood falling on the floor. It was so small that most people couldn’t even hear it, but Selene’s ears didn’t miss it.
Sacred power was concentrated in the rapier. The blade was dyed silver, symbolizing the moon. It took less than a second to get here.
After finishing her preparations, Selene jumped out of the shadows. Although she was in total darkness, her purple eyes clearly recognized her target. A distance that can never be missed, and must not be missed.
Selene thrust the tip of her rapier into the shadow near the wall. I heard the sound of a knife tearing raw flesh.
“Go to hell and confess your sins, heresy.”
A human form began to emerge from the spot where it was stabbed with a rapier. It was a man in full dress, wrapped in opaque cloth from head to toe, and wearing gauntlets and shin guards instead of armor.
The tip of the sword went right through the middle of the forehead. Selene, who confirmed that fact, roughly pulled out her rapier. The man’s body, whose essence had been pierced, collapsed on the floor.
Selene vented her resentment for daring to imitate herself and create heresy. It was a pity that she could not interrogate her because she had to go to help the saint as soon as possible.
Sunlight came through the curtains again. It was a fight between the Heretic Questioner in the realm of the moon, so the sun, who briefly moved away to not interfere, returned.
Selene joined her hands in front of her chest and prayed to the moon. Meanwhile, the man’s corpse turned into black mud and evaporated.
“The Heretic Questioner!”
As Selene prayed, she heard someone rushing towards her. She had Aurora and Nyx at the head, the Knights of the Argent Dawn, and even the Inquisitor.
In effect, almost all the people left in the audience room had gathered. Selene, who brushed off her flesh and blood from her rapier, spoke her gravely.
“How did you get here, Emperor of the Empire?”
“I need to go to Delta right now. Delta is dangerous.”
Selene’s expression changed dramatically when she said that her saint was in danger. As much as the pope, perhaps more important than the pope, was the saint. It was a word that could never be overheard.
“Okay. What can I do?”
“I will explain.”
Paat, a white cloud of light suddenly appeared in front of the eyes of the eight people. I’ve seen it once when I was with Delta, so this is already the second time, but that doesn’t mean I wasn’t surprised.
The first to respond were Stella and Selene.
As soon as the two noticed that the sun and moon had descended to this place, they knelt down on the floor and tried to pray, but suffered symptoms of hyperventilation and fell to the floor and passed out.
It’s just that other people didn’t faint, but the reaction was generally similar. Except for Nyx, whom the goddess is familiar with, the other five people knelt down without realizing it.
The goddess who descended in front of humans was such an existence.
“Goddess, being with Delta-san…… ?”
Nyx asked, bewildered.
After she brought Selene, she tried to ask the goddess the location of her delta, but she hadn’t even raised her prayer yet, and never imagined that it would appear right in front of her eyes.
“Delta went alone to stop it. My role was to prevent the Immortal Centipede from encroaching on this world.”
Eclipse’s tone had changed to a very calm and quiet one.
“Then why did you come here because all the immortal centipedes disappeared?”
“You got it right.”
At some point, the immortal centipede that seemed to fill the outer dimension suddenly stopped. It’s not that the number has decreased, it’s just that one hasn’t come at all.
That was a very bad omen.
Because that means that the power of the World Eater has become so strong that it can distort even the distortion outside the world.