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Then Ross kicked forward again, carefully kicking the abdomen which was no longer protected by armor.

The apostle flew backward, summoning two greatswords at the same time, but Laws immediately caught up and shattered both wrists with his spinning club.

Although this attack had a spatial vibration effect, the apostle's flesh and holy armor were as strong as ever, and ordinary swords could not damage them at all. However, Rouse was able to shatter them with ordinary blows, which showed that—

"This is beyond human capabilities...!"

"Oh? A soulless being can actually have such an expression."

The apostle's expression twisted, whether out of anxiety or fear, but then a war hammer struck her forehead, further distorting her expression.

The apostle's neck snapped and bent in the opposite direction. She kicked out in a desperate attempt to escape, but her prosthetic leg also broke it. To regain her composure, she decided to fly away at high speed.

"Don't even think about leaving."

The apostles' strength was already known to be unlawful. If they were allowed to fly around at super-high speeds, employing a completely long-range combat strategy, it would be difficult for Rouse to attack them.

Therefore, after the first strike was successful and he got close to the apostle, he would never let her go. He could not let her go.

“Uoooooohhhhhhhhhh!!”

The mighty roar resounded through the sky above the southern side of the Divine Capital.

The overwhelming combo triggered several radial shock waves.

Rolls kept attacking, not giving the apostle a chance to fight back.

Without artistic martial arts or impressive magic, Rouse simply burned his soul, increased his power, and struck the manifestation of divine might with merciless violence.

“Eh, uh, oh!”

"snort!"

The apostle uttered intermittent groans, like an old clockwork puppet. His limbs were bent in unnatural directions, his entire frame twisted and contorted, and he was dying.

At this moment, two "hum" sounds were heard at the same time, and another apostle was thrown over, in a similarly miserable state.

No, the second apostle, besieged by two clones, was in an even worse state. The one being attacked by Rouse's original form was still trying to fire silver feathers, while the other remained motionless, like a broken puppet.

The two apostles' bodies collided violently in mid-air, spinning and falling. Rouse immediately dove directly above them, gripping his war club in reverse and raising it high.

"—『Final Limit Breakthrough』."

He exerted his ultimate power, instantly increasing his strength to its maximum. Simultaneously, he expanded his war club to its fullest extent, like a giant tree, and hurled it down heavily. The immense war club's mass exploded, extending at lightning speed, striking the two falling apostles simultaneously before piercing the southern avenue.

The apostles were hit hard by the continuous attacks and had no time to deploy decomposition defenses, so they were hit directly by these heavy blows... What was the result?

"Hmm, it seems the third limit is enough."

In the huge hole in the ground, only the crushed remains of the apostles remained.

Ross took back his war stick and clone, and only then did he dare to breathe a sigh of relief.

However, he had no time to rest and hurried back to Lutilis and the others.

After returning to the scene, he saw that Kime Jesus and the bishops were entangled by the roots of the magic tree. Their physical condition was similar to that of the apostles and they had already died.

His eyes turned to Lutilis, who puffed out her chest with a smug look on her face.

Ross couldn't help but smile bitterly. Looking around, he saw that while some Temple Knights were still fighting, their movements had clearly slowed considerably, and the Liberator's forces were completely dominant.

In this way, there should be no problem handing over the battlefield here to Leonardo, Creed and others.

Ross made this judgment and turned to Lutilis. At this moment, he heard a voice speaking to him.

“…Why…why…”

Turning back, he saw Lilith. Her body was deeply slashed diagonally, bleeding profusely, clearly fatally wounded. Her hollow eyes stared at Ross.

Standing behind her was Ryan Hyde, gritting his teeth, just looking at her from behind.

It seems the outcome has been decided.

However, Ryan Hyde did not kill her. It must have been for this moment.

Lilith finally fell to her knees, then leaned back onto the ground.

She seemed to have no will to fight anymore, like a candle in the wind, dying.

Royce ignored the battle around him, walked to Lilith's side, and knelt down.

"Why...why did you betray...Lord Royce..."

"Captain Lilith..."

Lilith coughed up blood and reached out towards the empty air, as if searching for something. She seemed to have lost her sight. However, her head still shook slightly, as if resisting something...

Ross took Lilith's hand.

"Lilith, I'm sorry. I still can't let go of what's important to me."

Ross didn't know whether Lilith heard this.

Her eyes were completely dull and her hands drooped limply.

Ross didn't know what kind of feelings she had for him.

However, if Ross had started to rebel earlier, perhaps she would have become one of the important things in Ross Byrne's mind that he could not give up.

Ross thought so in his heart, and reached out to gently let Lilith close her eyes.

——If only you were not born in the kingdom of God.

Ross seemed to hear her say this.

Although it was a cruel and merciless curse, for some reason, a calm smile appeared on Ross's face, and he agreed with this sentence from the bottom of his heart.

Perhaps it was because the tone of the voice just now, although it sounded a bit hateful, was also surprisingly calm.

"Lord Royce."

"Ryan Hyde. This battlefield is now in your hands. Until I return, you will protect the people of the capital. And... my sons too."

"Yes. Please leave it to me."

Ryanhead took over Rouse's instructions and responded with a powerful tone, as if he was going to put aside his worries.

"Little Lao brother."

"I told you, don't call me that... Never mind, I won't talk to you anymore! Let's go, Ryu!"

Ross lifted Lutilis onto his shoulders and leaped into the air. He didn't lift her like a princess because that would have been too easy for her.

Leonardo, Creed and the others bid him farewell with rebellious smiles. With his companions bidding him farewell, Rouse rushed to the front of the palace to meet up with Bandu and the others.

——Mount Kailash, 8,000 meters above sea level.

The sky above the majestic Great Temple was dotted with black spots. Thousands of demonic swords poured down from it like a torrential rain.

This was the first wave of attacks in response to Pope Lucius's declaration of war.

The Light Guard Knights gathered on the rooftop spread their white wings at the same time and dispersed to avoid the attack.

Only Luciro and four knights holding the second holy shield remained where they were.

“—‘Sanctuary’.”

"—'Flowing Holy Fortress'."

"—[Shield of Retribution]."

"—[Sacred Binding Protection]."

A barrier with a spatial blocking effect emerged like a vortex, and at the same time, a top-level defensive skill with attack reduction, reflection, and a "Vajra"-like effect was activated. The quadruple protection plus the barrier of the Second Holy Shield enveloped Lucil.

Then, Oscar's opening greetings bombarded fiercely on the roof of the Grand Temple.

At the same time, decomposition artillery fire from four directions shot towards Miledi and others.

Meredi unleashed a gravity ball, distorting the trajectory of the bombardment, sending it flying downwards to meet the Light Guard Knights attacking from below.

However, the knights' reaction speed and flying skills were extraordinary. They immediately changed to a spiral flying method to avoid the bombardment and counterattacked at the same time.

A massive slash of light, a beam spear with exceptionally strong penetrating power, a shock wave like a tsunami, and each beam arrow possessing supreme destructive power.

The scale of each move is beyond the reach of any individual.

That was probably the effect of Lusil's "Declaration of Holy War," which further increased the ability value after becoming an apostle. The increase rate was probably comparable to that of sublimation magic.

"It would be disastrous without the divine weapon!"

Currently blessed with the power of Ascension and equipped with a divine artifact that prevented abnormal states, the effects of decay were suppressed, maintaining her stats at a level similar to normal. Meredith could clearly sense this fact. Simultaneously, she erupted with azure-colored magic.

“—‘Bad Tribulation’.”

The merciless, wide-area gravity field brought down the Light Guard Knights in the air, along with their attacks.

"Remember that move is called 'Negation of Heresy'?"

That was the second card in Luxilu's hand, which could force our side into a decaying state.

Mei'er said this while walking around behind Meredith.

In an instant, the accordion knife and the second holy spear crossed.

“It hurts like hell!”

Mei'er frowned, her chest pierced. The knight she'd fought was instantly decapitated, his expression still utterly stunned. Mei'er recognized his face; it must be the knight who had used his short-range teleportation ability to send the Pope into hiding.

"Thanks, Mei'er. Did you use it?"

"Yeah, and it keeps going. It makes my vision sway constantly, which is quite disgusting."

The reason Mei was able to foresee the sudden attack of the teleporter was because she used the regeneration magic "Future Vision." By tapping into the essence of regeneration magic, "interference with time," she gained the ability to visualize reality as it would appear seconds in the future.

"Brother Oscar, Metal Bart's defense was just breached."

"Still unable to defend completely... This seems to indicate that the opponent's strength has increased significantly."

Oscar analyzed this, and gently waved his hand, clad in a black armored glove. And so—

"This is... a metal wire!?"

"It also has a spatially fixed effect!"

The four apostles that were rapidly attacking from all directions were entangled in the spider web that had been spread in the air without them noticing.

This thread was so thin it seemed to dissolve in the air, and it also had the effects of "bending light" and "impeding cognition." Without experience, even an apostle would be unable to defend against it.

Oscar can also activate "spatial fixation" at will on any part of the metal wire. Once entangled, it can exert a very powerful binding effect, making it impossible to break free easily.

The apostles' expressions changed slightly, and they simultaneously unleashed their decomposition magic at full power. This would likely only take two seconds to break free. But for Meredith, that was just enough time to activate Black Sky Poverty.

"—'Black Sky Poor'."

A swirling black star of ultimate disaster appeared in the sky in each of the four directions. The four apostles desperately resisted the pressure, groaning in agony.

Under the influence of his weakened state, Meredith was unable to immediately eliminate the apostles and could not help but frown.

This short time difference was enough to save the apostles from being wiped out right at the start of the war.

"What a tricky magic."

Darion was the first to break free of the "Bad Tribulation," flew up to the same height, and raised his holy spear and pointed it forward.

Then four flashes of light came out from the tip of the spear, each of which struck "Black Sky Qiong" at a different trajectory.

“Eh!? No way!”

After being hit by the flash, the curse star instantly disappeared, as if Meredith had taken the initiative to remove the magic.

Looking at the astonished look on Miledy's face, one could tell that the truth was certainly not the case.

"Xiao Mi! Oscar-chan!"

Hearing Mei'er's nervous warning, the two men hurried over to her.

"──"Nami Castle Wall"!"

As Mei'er created the water canopy, a huge bolt of lightning struck down from the sky.

A powerful flash of light made everything before my eyes appear white. Thunder roared, threatening to burst my eardrums.

The thick, impure water film served as an insulator, successfully blocking the lightning strike, but it couldn't neutralize the impact. The water film exploded. At the critical moment—

"—'Absolute Image'."

The "Wall of Waves" was regenerated by the "Absolute Situation." However, witnessing this powerful destructive force, Mei'er's expression could not help but tense up.