The angel raised the sword of judgment in its hand and brought it down toward the pink-haired girl.
Via released her divine power, allowing a pair of wings to grow from her back. She took flight and, with extreme speed, dodged the angel’s slash.
She hovered in midair within the temple, looking down at the massive angel below.
“Eliminate… erase the remainder…!”
The angel muttered unclear Divine Voice from its mouth and swung the sword of judgment wildly in every direction. The sword auras formed from divine power caused considerable destruction inside the temple.
The sacred existence that the Holy Land had always secretly worshipped had now completely lost its reason and transformed into a monster filled with the desire for destruction.
“As expected.”
Via shook her head.
She did not find the angel displaying such a posture strange.
This enormous body possessed power in abundance yet could not exert it precisely. The main reason was that there was no will supporting it.
A soul like Altes’s had long since been shattered under the erosion of divine power and was fundamentally unable to support the movements of the angel’s body. It could only be driven by some residual instincts.
If such a deranged angel were allowed to go outside, it would absolutely cause enormous harm to the human race. The only option was to eliminate the angel here and permanently remove the future threat.
“Sacred Judgment!!”
The angel let out an uncontrolled voice. It finally located Via’s position and, as if gone mad, spread the wings on its back. White feathers flew out like a pure white torrent and rushed toward her.
Ding ding ding!
Via unfolded an invisible force field of divine power in front of herself and continuously blocked the angel’s white feather attacks. For a time, feathers scattered in every direction.
While suppressing her with numbers, the angel also charged forward. Gripping the sword of judgment, it smashed downward with force, continuously venting its resentment toward her.
After the previous battle, Via had thoroughly consolidated her Mythical-tier strength. Her application of divine power was not on the same level as this frenzied angel.
Although the angel’s offensive looked rather terrifying, it failed to break through Via’s defenses.
“Extraterrestrial Starfire!”
Via raised Starfall Flame and left a slash across the angel’s body, splitting the other party’s form while igniting flames on the wound.
“Immortal, indestructible!”
The angel that had fallen to the ground rapidly rose. It wiped a palm across the wound, quickly restored the injury, extinguished the flames, and once again became completely intact.
After all, it was the body of an angel. Attacks of this degree alone were still insufficient.
Via narrowed her eyes.
She observed the cracks that the angel had smashed into the floor when it landed earlier. Those cracks had already spread throughout the entire temple.
Her battle with the angel was taking place inside the Holy Mountain. If she launched an attack of powerful might, there was a high possibility of destroying the Holy Mountain along with it. At that time, the clerics outside, as well as her own elder sister, would all be dragged into it.
Yet if she restricted her power, she would be unable to completely defeat the angel, allowing it to use divine power to rapidly heal itself.
“This truly is a troublesome situation.”
Via sighed with emotion.
This was indeed a dilemma. If she continued to drag things out here out of concern for others, she might truly give the angel an opportunity to obtain victory.
However…
For the current me, this is not a problem at all.
“Accept judgment!!”
The ferocious-faced angel pounced over once more, both hands raising the sword of judgment high, intending to tangle with Via to the end.
“Gate of the Starry River!”
Via used Starfall Flame to draw a starry spatial crack in midair. Surging starlight formed a sphere that enveloped both her and the angel within it.
Three seconds later, the sphere of starlight disappeared.
The angel opened its eyes, looked at the scene ahead, and revealed an expression of shock.
What lay before it was no longer the temple inside the Holy Mountain. Below was no longer a floor that could be touched. All around was a vast starry sky. Celestial bodies moved along their original trajectories within the starry river, surrounding Via and the angel.
“Voice?”
The angel was surprised to discover that the voice it wished to utter had disappeared. It could only transmit sound using divine power.
Via likewise used divine power to transmit sound and gave a response. “Fighting in a place like that just now was not satisfying enough. Coming here, there is no need to hold back.”
“…Where?”
“Beyond the heavens of the Theia Continent.”
Via gave the answer.
Spatial magic was an extremely rare form of magic upon the Theia Continent. Those who mastered it were few and far between. Although some mages of profound attainments could achieve instantaneous teleportation, the distance was also rather short.
Leaving the Theia Continent was essentially impossible. Such an ability already belonged to the domain of myth.
It just so happened that the divine power Via had inherited specialized precisely in this field.
The angel roared and launched an attack against Via.
“Damn it!”
However, the situation this time was different from before.
Via showed not the slightest restraint. She infused a large amount of divine power into Starfall Flame, allowing Starfall Flame to exert its full potential, and swung that slash toward the angel as if lighting up the entire sea of stars.
Her divine power mobilized the energy that originally existed within the starry sky, forming a violent current of energy that swept in every direction like a spatial tsunami and swallowed the angel.
Boundless divine power continuously disintegrated the angel’s body.
Although the angel deliberately used divine power to repair itself, it completely could not keep up with the speed of decomposition.
The existence that had once stood supreme upon the Theia Continent permanently perished within the starry sky, leaving behind not even a single white feather.
After the angel’s body vanished, what appeared before Via was Altes’s soul.
Altes’s soul looked at Via within the starry sky, an expression of both shock and fear appearing on his face.
“Altes, properly enjoy the pain of death.”
Via sneered and began the punishment.
Altes’s soul was ignited by Starfall Flame. He wanted to extinguish these flames, yet it was of no use. He could only watch as he was burned bit by bit. Pain and fear submerged his residual reason as he let out terrified sounds.
“No… I cannot accept… this kind of death… I should have led the human race… to the peak!”
“Trash like you deserves precisely this kind of ending.”
Via mocked Altes.
“Aaaah!!”
Altes paid the price he ought to pay for everything he had done.
In the end, this highest leader of the Holy Land who had manipulated the war between the two races met his end amid enormous agony.
“Mom, did you see it?”
Having succeeded in her revenge, Via let out a long breath.
The pressure that had accompanied her along this entire journey was finally completely lifted.
Everything… was finally over.
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