Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 2087, Chapter 2059: Good Luck
The top of the Spire Tower is no longer a series of spiral staircases extending upwards out of thin air, but a magnificent architectural whole.

Before reaching the top, Lan En and his group first entered a large hall.

It's unclear whether weathering and dust accumulate inside the tower when it's in the shadows.

In short, as soon as you enter, the yellow sand on the ground has already piled up to the height of your calves.

In the very center of this sand dune that submerged the hall, stood a golden cross.

It was exactly the same golden cross they had seen next to Torina on the Azure Coast.

Lan En glanced at the two of them, stepped towards the center, and reached out to touch the golden cross.

Just like on the Blue Coast, a surge of information inexplicably flooded everyone's minds.

'I leave my fears here.'

Lann withdrew his hand from the golden light of the cross: "It seems that Michaela himself is also unsure about his plan."

“That’s normal.” Messermo showed no contempt for him. “After all, what he’s about to do has never been done before: abandon the physical body and let only the soul enter the gates of God.”

Even including Michaela, only two people have actually entered the Gate of God so far.

Queen Marika did succeed, but with such a small sample size, who dares to say that God's Gate is definitely without problems?

Now, in order to stop herself from feeling lost, overthinking, and wavering, Michaela has also abandoned her fears.

“He’s one step ahead of us,” Melina said calmly, “and he’s not hesitating anymore.”

At the end, Melina's tone carried an almost wistful fear: "Michaela... he is the most terrifying god! The most terrifying demigod!"

The sunlight streamed in from outside through the windows, casting shadows on the sand and dust in the hall.

Melina's remark went unanswered.

Now that we've come this far, knowing how terrifying Michaela is, are we just going to give up on fighting her?

They fell silent, walked straight through the hall, and arrived at an elevator that went directly to the top of the tower.

After reaching the end, there is an upward staircase leading to a huge archway at the top.

As you walk upwards, you'll find that the top of the Spire Tower has a similar structure to Rodel's Palace.

At the very top is a large open-air plaza.

However, the grand square at the very top of Rodel's palace is backed by the Golden Tree.

At the very end of the grand plaza atop the spiral tower stands the Gate of God.

"Kaka~"

Lann and Messermo stepped onto the last step one after the other, their boots making a resounding thud.

The plaza at the top of the building was desolate and dilapidated, a sight that was both chilling and alarming upon closer inspection.

The entire square was covered with grayish-white sand, forming uneven sand dunes.

Upon closer inspection, one can see the remains of many humanoid creatures faintly visible among these sand dunes, and their remains are dry and grayish-white, just like the sand.

It's easy to imagine that the sand here, the sand in the hall below... could all be the powder accumulated after these corpses dried and weathered?
These corpses, which still retain some outlines, are remarkably uniform in that, even in their dying moments, they all reach out their yearning hands towards the other end of the open-air plaza—the Gate of God.

Upon closer inspection, the so-called 'Gate of God' becomes even more terrifying.

Because it did indeed look like a door with a crack. But upon closer inspection, it became clear that the two doors were not made of wood or stone.

—It was a corpse that had also turned grayish-white!
The Gate of God is a hundred meters high! An ordinary person would be like a grain of rice in front of it!
However, the enormous door, which is hundreds of meters high, is made up of layers of corpses desperately trying to climb up, with arms outstretched as if yearning for something!

They piled on top of each other, intertwined and bound together, to build such a magnificent and enormous gate!

Just like the hometown of Marika that Melina took Lann to, the originally gloomy weather and light of the Shadowlands seemed to have changed under the unique power field of the God's Gate.

The sunlight here is colder, yet sacred and majestic.

The eerie corpses illuminated by the light seemed not to be displaying a mass death, but rather to be telling the story of a glorious sacrifice.

Under the sacred yet cold sunlight, on the vast plaza with its undulating sand dunes, a tall figure stood in the very center.

"She is..."

Messermo asked cautiously, his eyes never leaving the other person since he stepped onto the square.

Lan En then took the opportunity to continue the conversation and introduced him to the man.

“Marinia, the Valkyrie, a demigod of the Golden Dynasty, and also... your sister.”

Marlene, who had been separated from him since the day he first arrived in the Shadowlands, now stood atop the central sand dune. Her golden winged helmet and prosthetic limbs still shone brightly, and her fiery red hair fluttered in the wind like a blood-stained battle banner.

The war beneath the Spire continues.

With the Golden Law broken and incomplete, people cannot die. And those who can fight on this Tower of Babel are none of the weak.

Therefore, the battle becomes even more difficult and even more brutal and dangerous.

As long as they avoid the decisive point that would immediately incapacitate someone, whether it's a severed hand, a severed leg, or even being cut in half at the waist, these powerful individuals can continue to unleash their power.

Explosions and the sounds of thunder and lightning were incessant.

However, the sounds of these colliding forces seemed to become distant when they reached the Gate of God at the highest heavens.

Lan En and his two companions walked cautiously but without hesitation toward the Gate of God on the opposite side.

All their attention was focused on the woman in the center.

“I’m sorry,” Marlenia suddenly spoke in the breeze. “We will ultimately have to face each other with swords drawn.”

Her voice remained steady as always, and was of a slightly heavy quality for a female voice.

"Now that things have come to this, I also feel regretful," Lan En said frankly, placing his hand on the hilt of his sword at his waist.

“Originally, it didn’t have to be like this.” Marlenia shook her head. “As long as you don’t get involved, Michaela won’t target you.”

Lan En shook his head: "At first, Melina did think that it wouldn't be a big deal to let Michaela ascend to the throne. After all, his reputation has always been good, and it might even be a good thing to elevate such a demigod to a god."

Marlenia tilted her head, which was covered by a winged helmet: "Then why are you here now?"

Lan En glanced at the silent soul girl beside him: "Because now, even she, who is least concerned about Michaela's ascension to the throne, just said: Michaela is the most terrifying god. By the way, do you know what he did to Torina?"

Marlenia remained silent, while Lann nodded: "Then it seems you know."

“That was Michaela’s self-sacrifice!” the Valkyrie said coldly. “He sacrificed himself to restore stability to this chaotic world!”

“But I heard!” Lann interrupted at this moment, “Torina is Michaela’s other half, aren’t they one person? Aren’t they equals?”

"That's why people say that Michaela is the most terrifying god."

When Lan En uttered this remark, the scene fell silent.

Everyone knew at that moment that a battle was inevitable.

"Crack!"

Sparks from the explosion of the prosthetic mechanism erupted from Marlenia's right wrist.

The long, sharp golden prosthetic knife also flipped over from behind her elbow, pointing in front of her palm, and was then grasped at the base by her prosthetic hand.

“Then all I can do,” Marlenia’s voice was now completely calm, “is to wish you good luck.”

The words had barely faded into the air when, immediately beside Marlene, the holy yet cold sunlight began to refract and distort.

The next moment, a large fireball flashing with dark red light and swirling with black smoke appeared beside the Valkyrie!

Messermo, who had the same hair color as Marlenia, had cold, unwavering golden eyes as he pressed the Messermo Flame in his hand toward his sister, whom he was meeting for the first time!
Originally, the fireball was only the size of a basketball in Messermo's hand, but when he instantly appeared beside Marlenia and pressed it, it had turned into a fireball with a diameter of two meters!

The characteristic of Messermo's Fire is its serpentine, winding course and swift, agile movements.

It's very easy to deform it at will.

However, after pressing down the large fireball in his hand, Messermo's cold expression remained unchanged. Instead, in an instant, he spread the fireball in his hand even more explosively!
This violently spreading flame, in other words—an explosion!
"boom!"

In an instant, the dark red flames, shrouded in black smoke, spread across almost every inch of the land!

The top of the spiral tower has a large area because the tower doesn't need to consider any architectural structure issues, so the top and bottom are almost the same thickness.

It covers almost half of the Tower Town, so the area of ​​the top plaza is also equivalent to most of the Tower Town.

But this area is already large enough in the eyes of ordinary people.

But in the eyes of true powerhouses, it is still a small place.

Lakad's lava magic can turn several square kilometers of area outside Rodel City into a lava lake after a single cast!
The impact of the Ratahn star cluster, even disregarding the direct force of the collision, has already shaken the geological structure of the continental shelf of the entire Alpine Plateau.

Marlenia and Messermo's fighting style is not the same as theirs, which seeks to cause large-scale destruction, but they are ultimately pure members of the Golden Clan and are ultimately Queen Marika's children.

Messermo was not officially recognized by the dynasty.

But this battle itself was undoubtedly a clash between demigods!

(End of this chapter)