An ordinary profession creates the world's strongest

"Kaori!"

"Shizuku-chan!"

Kaori, who possesses power equal to or even greater than that of an Angel, has finally been resurrected.

Not long ago.

Aiko concentrates on trying to wake Kaori, while Yuka leads some of the students in a desperate attempt to protect her.

Although only about half of the thirty monsters left in the throne room attacked them, the situation was still hopeless. Although there were no gray dragons among the remaining monsters, they were all evolved Chimeras.

"Ayako! Activate Magic Transfer on Lily and transfer all your remaining magic to her! If Lily's barrier is broken, we're finished! Mao, you too, use all your support magic on Lily!"

"I understand."

"B-But, my magic power is running low!"

Under Yuka's instructions, Mao Yoshino, the "Grant Master" who was on the same team as Ayako, supported Liliana in maintaining "Holy Death" with a sad face.

"Damn it! These guys can even recover from petrification on their own!"

"Illusions don't seem to be working! Can they even cure abnormal conditions?!"

"Hey, Saito-chan, Nakano-chan! Aren't you two also magicians? Come help!"

Kentaro, the Earth Mage, continuously casts petrification spells. Akito, the Illusionist, attempts to induce the Chimeras to fight each other with cognitive-impeding magic. Nana, the Ice Mage, fires a barrage of ice spears.

Without weapons, the students, whose primary vocation was to be frontline guards, were practically useless. Guards without artifacts could only use their own blood to create magic circles, which was not only inefficient but also limited in its potential.

At this critical juncture, the "Fire Mage" and "Wind Mage" are clearly valuable rearguard forces, but Saito Yoshiki and Nakano Shinji, who possess these two innate vocations, have been completely demoralized by the deaths of their friends, Hiyama Daisuke and Kondo Reiichi, and can only mingle among the students who stayed behind, trembling in fear.

"Jū-Jūgo! Don't be so stubborn!"

"I'm sorry, but I can't do that!"

Kousuke and Jūgo took the vanguard role, dealing with the monsters that weren't repelled by their attack magic. However, both were already covered in wounds. Jūgo, whose primary fighting style was judo, was particularly injured. Since Ayako, the healing force, was forced to focus solely on supporting Liliana, he accumulated a significant amount of damage, leaving him practically battered.

"Damn it, if only I had a weapon!"

"Don't be silly! Unless you're as strong and durable as Nagayama, or as powerful as a ghost like Endo, you'd be dead if you just stood in the vanguard! Hold on! Only use your position as a tank for Ai when absolutely necessary!"

"Got it!"

Atsushi and Noboru could only grit their teeth and endure. Yuuka stood beside them, using the stones Kentaro had fashioned from the floorboards and skillfully throwing them, using her vocation as a "thrower" to cover Jūgo and Kousuke on the front lines.

It would have been nice if Ling and Ryuutarou could have come to help. However, they were also stuck on the other side.

Suzu must maintain the barrier that protects Myuu and Remia, while also covering for Shizuku and the others in the fierce battle; Ryuutarou must protect Suzu and fight the five monsters that attack her alone.

The remaining ten monsters stood in the way of the escape, motionless, but they could join the fray at any moment.

(Nagumo! What the hell is wrong with you?! Why aren't you resisting?! Could it be that you've already... No, no. I won't allow you to die without permission!)

At this time──

"Oh no! This is terrible! Sonobe! Here he comes, that guy is coming!"

Kentaro's wailing warning shook Yuka's eardrums. Coming? Who? Of course, she knew.

It was the apostles. Just listening to their terrified cries made it clear. They had already tortured everyone horribly in the palace.

"Nomura! Nana! Concentrate your attacks on the apostles—"

Before there was any warning, the silver flash appeared.

“Wuwu, wuaaaaaaaaa!”

Liliana screamed. She tried to resist, but only for a moment.

"teacher!"

The barrier shattered. A flash of silver light barreled towards Aiko and Kaori. Taeko, standing nearby, barely dodged the light by pushing them apart with her body. As a section of the floor vanished, creating a chasm, Taeko trembled with fear.

The defenses were breached.

The apostles approached, and the monsters swarmed over.

(At least save the teacher!)

Yuka barely suppressed the fear that was driving her crazy, and with the determination to die, she rushed between the apostle and her son. As the apostle swung his sword like cutting weeds,

"Don't even think about it."

The silver flash struck back at the apostle, hitting him squarely. The approaching apostle was knocked back, and at the same time, silver feathers scattered like water droplets from a fountain, piercing the monsters one by one.

Kaori woke up.

"Teacher, Yuuka-chan, everyone! Thank you!"

Then, Kaori unleashed a barrage of bullets like a blizzard, destroying the monsters one after another, leaving them no chance to heal themselves.

"Shirozaki-san! To be on the safe side, I'll continue casting 'Soul Calming'. However, this might overly calm your mind..."

"As long as I can counteract the effects of the deactivation, anything is fine! Please, Sensei!"

Kaori scanned the battlefield and spotted Hajime. Yue was gone, and everyone was injured. A surge of rage washed over her, and the side effects of "Soul Calming" had no effect at all.

Then, Kaori noticed Shizuku and Tio in danger. She shouted, "Get away from them!" and simultaneously launched a powerful disintegration blast, then charged forward with all her might.

Aiko and Yuka were behind her, praying for her victory.

Due to the surprise attack of the disintegration bombardment, the four apostles attacking Tio and Shizuku were scattered at once.

"Are you two okay?!"

"Don't stop attacking! If you go on the defensive, you'll quickly be at a disadvantage!"

Tio's implication was that Kaori shouldn't waste time healing and just attack. Covered in blood, her words only served to showcase her fierce determination and resolve.

Kaori immediately followed Tio's instructions. She quickly fired a disintegration blast at one of the Apostles, who responded with a similar blast. The Apostle's plan was to use the moment when the two Apostles' blasts canceled each other out, allowing the other Apostles to move forward and surround Kaori and the others. However—

"I won't lose! I won't lose to a mere puppet!"

Kaori shouted to herself. At the same time, a surge of silvery magic surged from her body—no, the color of that magic gradually changed to a pinkish-purple white, like a violet. This indicated that her magic power had been strengthened to an unprecedented level through the sublimation magic.

Immediately afterwards, just as Kaori declared, the violet light she emitted became even more intense after a "plop!" pulsation, swallowing up the silver light shot by the apostle.

"You can surpass us with our flesh..."

The apostle had an indescribable expression on his face as he was engulfed by the beam and finally destroyed.

"Don't be careless!"

"I can still do this little thing of attracting attention!"

"How dare a mere human..."

The voice came from behind Kaori. The apostle circled around her. But before the apostle could make a move, a hand reached out from her chest. Looking closely, Tio was following closely behind the apostle, as if hugging her from behind.

Tio's dragon claws were covered with black scales and coated with compressed black flames (dragon breath), piercing through the apostle's body and the core inside.

The reason why Tio was able to successfully get behind the apostle was thanks to Shizuku's fearless and selfless attack.

The apostle treated Shizuku as a mere weed. However, in the moment when the apostle was concentrating on mowing the grass, a flaw appeared behind him, and Tio took the opportunity to deliver a fatal blow.

As Tio pulled her hand back, the apostle's body collapsed like a puppet with its strings cut. Complete cessation of function—for an apostle, that was equivalent to death.

Two of the powerful calamities, the "Apostles of God," whose power was so great that even a single enemy against a thousand was insufficient, had been slain. For humanity, this was a tremendous victory.

But──

"Really? I actually spent so much effort on this. Although my strength is far inferior to my master's, I am still a god after all. How could you possibly be my opponent?"

Hearing the voice, Kaori, Shizuku, and Tio turned their heads in alarm.

I had been so focused on my own battle that I hadn't noticed. The sounds of the battle between Yarbu and Shia had subsided before I knew it...

“““Shia!”””

What the three of them saw was Xia, who was hanging limply in the air with her neck grabbed by Yarbu.

Although she didn't seem to have lost consciousness, her resistance was very weak. There was a pool of blood at her feet, and it seemed that she had suffered a serious injury that was close to death.

The three of them were distracted for a moment and revealed a fatal flaw.

"In the name of Yarbuheit, I order—'Stop.'"

Yarbu's "divine words" began to erode the soul. Perhaps due to the effect of Aiko's "soul calming", Kaori did not lose consciousness immediately, but everyone, including Yuka and Suzu, stopped moving, and no one was spared.

As Yarbu himself said, his divine words weren't as powerful as Esid's. Tio and Shizuku should have been able to dispel them on their own. However, they couldn't stop the apostle's attack.

Silver feathers formed a magic circle, sending a powerful lightning strike downward. Lightning's ability to easily penetrate the body affected Kaori, who possessed the body of an apostle, as well as Tio, whose body was covered in black scales.

Yarbu's attack didn't stop there; he added a finishing touch. He threw Shia into the storm of lightning and simultaneously activated his Word Spirit.

"Additional order—'Accept'."

The four used their magic to boost their defenses, attempting to resist, but a split second later, as Yarbu had commanded, they disarmed. With a short wail, they collapsed to the ground simultaneously. Their limbs convulsed, their bodies severely burned.

This was why Xia was defeated by Yarbu. She had the ability to resist. If she had a moment's opportunity, she could also break the curse.

However, in a battle where every second counts—no, every second counts—if one is blocked at a crucial moment and the damage continues to accumulate…even someone as strong as Shia will eventually run out of strength.

"Well, it's about time. Let's end the entertainment here."

It seems that the containment of the demon tribe is about to end.

Yarbu looked up at the glowing [Divine Gate] in the sky and began to cast some kind of spell.

Dark golden particles filled the throne room, forming a swirling vortex. A magical circle gradually emerged on the ground, its structure extremely complex and bizarre.

"To atone for my loss of composure, I will use you as a sacrifice. For my Lord, I will offer your lives (and your magic power)."

After all, Esid's goal is to seize the magic power of the whole world. As long as Yarbu takes care of everyone present and absorbs the magic power and gives it to Esid, it is indeed possible to please him and make up for the mistake of incomplete possession.

The reason why he didn't kill everyone immediately was not only to vent his anger and pass the time before completing the containment of the demon tribe, but also it seemed that seizing magic power was one of Yarbu's goals.

"Your goods are all of excellent quality, and the master will surely be delighted. However... there seems to be some worthless junk as well."

As the magic circle on the ground neared completion, dark golden particles began to gather around everyone. Though there was no physical sensation, it gave people a deeply uncomfortable feeling, with goosebumps and goosebumps, as if bugs were crawling all over their bodies.

At this time, Yarbu's gaze fell on Myuu and Remia.

Yarbu flicked his finger, and a spatial portal immediately opened beneath Myuu and Remia. The next moment, they fell from the void, landing beside Yarbu. Ling and Ryuutarou had no time to resist.

Yarbu then waved his finger, and Myuu's body floated into the air and was then pulled over.

The effect of "Divine Words" seemed to have worn off, and Myuu let out a mournful cry.

“Mom, Mom—!”

“No, stop it! Give my daughter back to me—Ugh!?”

Myuu struggled in mid-air. Although Remia desperately tried to get her daughter back, she could only stretch out her hands and couldn't even stand up.

Because the effect of the "Divine Word" on Remia was still there. Even so, although she was undoubtedly an ordinary person without any special abilities, she was still able to make a slight cry and reach out her hand. This was already amazing.

However, even though the power of maternal love is so strong, it is still completely unable to resist Yarbu.

"You're going to die soon, so at least be of some use in the end."

Myuu, as if her body was nailed in mid-air, hung her head, motionless. Then, she was moved in front of Hajime.

"Look carefully, anomaly! This is divine punishment!"

It thwarted Esheed's game. It thwarted Esheed's coming.

These were serious crimes that could not be forgiven, so Yarbu decided to execute the child who regarded Yarbu as his father in front of Shi as punishment to force him to repent.

“Dad! Dad!”

The children cried out in agony, but no one could move.

Shia and Shizuku were severely injured by the lightning and had managed to regain consciousness. Tio and Kaori also tried hard to decipher the "divine words", but if they continued like this, they would definitely not be able to save Myuu in time. Not to mention the others.

Furthermore, with the dark golden magic circle covering the entire throne room complete, everyone's life force began to drain away, their bodies becoming increasingly weaker.

Yarbu stretched out his hand towards the back of Myuu's head, like the Grim Reaper about to swing his scythe.

"Look up, anomaly! I know you're still alive!"

Now, Hajime no longer felt the effects of the "divine words".

Yarbu's laughter echoed in the space.

Keep echoing...

At this moment, Yarbu suddenly realized that he could only hear his own voice.