An ordinary profession creates the world's strongest

I wanted to buy as much time as possible to reply, but it seems that I have reached my limit.

"Your injuries won't be enough to withstand another blow. You two pathetic beings, unable to become my master's pawns, I will set you free now."

Then, the silver feathers flew, and a large number of feathers emitted silver light, like stars in the night sky.

"I'll block it, Meredith, you use that move."

"That's the only way I can use. Even if I can't completely control it, I'll just have to force it."

The two men braced themselves and lightly bumped their fists against each other.

"Disappear."

A silver-feathered meteor shower fell.

At the same time, Oscar practiced under his feet, connected the black umbrella, and unfolded the ten styles of "Holy Absolute" to the maximum.

The fierce attack seemed to make the sound disappear. A silver light shone brightly on the other side of the barrier, and the earth was bombarded crazily.

“Aa ...

Oscar screamed.

The already broken black umbrella made a sound of collapse, but while Oscar injected magic power into "Holy Absolute", he also continuously repaired the damage through refining.

Oscar refined it at his fastest speed, and the huge amount of magic power he consumed every time he was attacked by Silver Feather caused his magic power reserves to decrease continuously like a torrent.

The body screamed, and blood rushed up the throat from the injured internal organs.

However, the time Oscar fought so hard to gain gave Miledy the opportunity to unleash her ultimate move.

"Let's end it with this one strike—"Black Sky Poor"!"

With Esther as the center, a black disaster star flashed with electric light.

"This is……"

Enveloped by a sphere with a diameter of two meters, Esther opened her eyes wide.

Silver Feather's meteor shower then dissipated.

"Ahem!"

Despite spitting blood again, Oscar still looked up at Esther to confirm whether the attack was effective.

It was a scourge that devoured and destroyed everything. Meredi couldn't fully control it, and once it was activated, it wouldn't stop until her magic power was exhausted.

So Oscar and the others kept waiting for a chance to land a hit. Because Esther was too strong, they couldn't create a gap on their own. The last chance was only when the opponent delivered the final blow.

"Miledi, how should I put it, isn't that sphere too small?"

"Don't be silly! For me right now... that's already my all."

Previously, it was because of the magic of Oscar for six years that it had such power.

Due to the use of her ultimate move, Meredith seemed to have no energy left. She gasped as she retorted.

"Is that so? But even if I put it that way, then—"

“You’re kidding!? That guy’s about to break through!”

"What!"

The color of the black star of disaster faded slightly, and the situation inside began to be seen.

Inside the star of doom, Esther stood with her eyes closed, her body radiating silver light, as if concentrating completely. The moment she was swallowed by the star of doom, she managed to maintain her original form amidst the all-consuming hypergravity.

Meredith groaned in pain.

It seemed she was exhausting herself simply to maintain Black Sky Poor. Esther attempted to break Black Sky Poor, while Meredi sought to crush her, a tug-of-war between the two forces.

"Damn it, if that's the case, I'll just take a gamble and shoot this inside—"

Oscar cursed and turned the handle of the black umbrella.

But before he used that trick—

“No, no!”

A loud noise sounded, and a strong impact spread in all directions with Esther as the center.

The ground was hit by the explosion, and a circular hole was blown out. Of course, Oscar and Meredith were also blown away.

Although they were able to avoid being separated from Meredith by means of chains, they were already seriously injured.

Neither of them could stand up and could only groan.

“I really struggle.”

Since there was no emotion in her words, it was hard to tell whether she meant it as a compliment or an insult.

Oscar and Meredith could only look up at her.

A fireball like the sun appeared above Esther's head.

Oscar stared at Esther and silently held Meredith's hand, and Meredith also held his hand tightly.

Then--

“—‘Sky Shock’.”

Space itself exploded.

「!?」

The fireball disappeared, and Esther was blown away. Although she immediately regained her balance, invisible explosions continued to strike Esther mercilessly, blowing her away.

"You're still alive."

"Xiao Nai!?"

"Natsu!?"

The two were startled, and Natsu smiled at them before grabbing them. A few hundred meters away, a silver explosion erupted. It seemed that even after being bombarded by the continuous explosions, Esther was still alive.

But not before Esther returns.

"We need to regroup."

As soon as Nizu finished speaking, he used space transfer to leave the battlefield.

Only Esther was left looking around in the air, her gaze shifting to the south.

"here it is……"

"One hundred kilometers south of the volcano. That's the maximum distance I can move at once."

Nez tiredly answered Oscar's question. Meredith looked around and raised her hands in joy, but...

“Ugh!?”

"What are you doing?"

The moment she raised her hands, pain came immediately and Mireidi burst into tears.

Oscar reluctantly held up his black umbrella and used the eleventh style of "Holy Light" to rain down light.

"Oh... this is a lover's umbrella."

"Ah~ Yeah, yes."

Meredith deliberately blushed and snuggled up to Oscar, who, because he was seriously injured, did not complain and only made a perfunctory response.

"If you guys are busy dating, then I'll go back?"

Seeing the two of them healing together under the same umbrella, Natsu couldn't help but roll his eyes at them. He took out a magic recovery potion from his pocket and threw it out, taking it himself.

The two thanked him, drank, and asked about Natsu.

"Why did you come here?"

"...Those two kids asked me to come here."

"Koito and the others are really capable."

Meredith gave a wry smile.

"No matter what, you saved our lives. Thank you, and I respect your decision."

"Yeah, you saved me again. Thank you, Xiaonai."

“…You’re welcome.”

Both Meredith and Oscar understood that Naz must have come here after a lot of inner struggle.

Natsu tried to keep a straight face in response to their sincere gratitude.

This was the first time he had used a spatial explosion since that day. When attacking Esther—no, even now—Natsu's mind flashed back to the past, and he felt a surge of nausea. But he truly felt fortunate that someone had come to save them.

"And then? It's a hundred kilometers away, so I think we can buy some time, but... what are you planning to do? Just run away? I think that's going to be difficult."

"No, we're not running away."

"Yes, we can't escape."

The two answered very clearly.

Natsu pondered for a moment.

"But do you have a chance of winning? They're an opponent that even my 'Sky Shock' can't handle, huh?"

"That's why we have to fight. It's best not to think that we can escape the pursuit of the 'Apostles of God'. I have escaped once before, but my position then was different from now."

To verify Berta's claims, she had once visited the main temple. Back then, she had merely observed from a distance, a typical voyeur, or, more bluntly, an intruder. During her escape, she could only use gravity magic as flight, relying on a continuous stream of area-of-effect magic. Because the Apostle of God was required to protect the church, she was able to barely escape.

But this time, the enemy already knew that Miledi and the others were "atavists", and they also clearly identified the two as enemies of God and took action to eliminate them.

Esther will surely not let them escape again. As long as she gets serious, it will be impossible to escape her pursuit.

"And you're here."

After hearing Oscar's additional explanation, Naiz suddenly understood why the church's ace came here.

Esther didn't come here to chase after the two of them, because it was only when they arrived here that they were discovered to be "Atavism".

Then the target of God's Apostle is——Nez.

"You said you'd consider letting us visit as friends, right?"

"How could we possibly leave our friends behind?"

Natsu hadn't said they were friends, but they believed in that future, risking their lives? Natsu felt his soul tremble.

Ahh, here it comes again, I am being protected again.

"...How can I defeat her? I don't have a move stronger than 'Sky Shock' you know?"

Natsu felt his mood would relax if he thanked them, so instead he declared his willingness to share their fate.

Miledy and Oscar seemed to sense his feelings and they smiled happily.

"Even so, she can even withstand my 'Black Sky Poverty'... I'm at my wit's end."

Meredith held her head, not knowing what to do.

When Meredy was distressed and Natsu had a serious expression.

Only Oscar pushed up his glasses, looked at the two of them, and then looked up at the sky and said:

"It's not that there's no way. It's absurd, though, and I don't know if it will work. It's a very unfavorable gamble. And even if we win, we might be buried with them."

"Really? Oh!"

"At this point, any method is fine."

Meredi showed an excited look, while Natsu's mouth curled up slightly.

Oscar nodded and was about to explain the tactics for conquering the Apostle of God, when—

“““!?””””

The three of them looked towards the northern sky together.

Oscar immediately used the telescope function of his black glasses, but saw a silver meteor in the sky.

"is her!"

"How is that possible! It's a hundred kilometers away! That's too fast!!"