“[Twist.]”

“Kugh…!”

Ha-yeon felt as if her body was twisting from Eleina’s Word Spirit.

No, it wasn’t just a feeling; it was real.

Space was twisting.

She quickly released mana and dodged to the side, but the sensation from before was still vivid.

‘Dangerous.’

She finally realized that she absolutely couldn’t win fighting alone.

She focused her senses and thought.

A way to win.

‘One.’

Word Spirit was beyond dangerous; it was absolute. And as far as she knew, there was only one being who could shatter Word Spirit head-on.

“Summon.”

She channeled mana into the back of her hand, where the Divine Beast’s Mark was etched.

[Which Divine Beast would you like to summon?]

“Ann, Karian.”

[The Divine Beasts, ‘Ann’ and ‘Karian’, are attempting to descend into this Other Dimension.]

The fox Divine Beast Ann. The one who, before, had ignored Kairon’s Word Spirit as if it were mere grass, even though he was expected to use Word Spirit with Eleina’s power.

And ‘Karian,’ who was among the top Divine Beasts in terms of attack power.

She thought these two were appropriate for the situation and immediately summoned them.

At the same time, she drew upon the Aether she hadn’t used much yet and poured it into the white energy and blue energy that began to form behind her.

When Ha-yeon had summoned Ann before, her status had been lowered.

And now, while researching Divine Beasts, she had found a way to overcome that.

It was to inject Aether when they were summoned.

This was why she hadn’t actively used Aether.

Well, summoning two beings at once meant she wouldn’t be able to use Aether anymore.

Clang-!

“Divine Beasts, huh? A good decision.”

As if she had given up on using Word Spirit, Eleina sent the Divine Swords, raised by mana, flying toward her.

‘You crazy…!’

The power of each one was no joke.

She had felt it before, but she was even in awe of Eleina, who used them in such a refined state without even a sliver of mana leakage.

-Contractor, lower your head.

With those words, she quickly ducked down, and above her, a white White Flame, like a Divine Sword, or perhaps even more powerful than a Divine Sword, poured out.

Eleina scattered the flames and quickly retrieved the scattered Divine Swords, creating a defensive formation to block them.

But the attack didn’t end there.

Through the gaps in the defensive formation, which had been slightly damaged by blocking the initial White Flame, an Ice Spear of absolute zero, close to blue, flew and damaged Eleina’s left arm.

[The Divine Beasts, ‘Ann’ and ‘Karian’, have descended into this Other Dimension.]

[A high-dimensional being has been summoned in the form of a familiar; temporary restrictions will be applied.]

[The restrictions are being eased with the power of Aether.]

[The status is slightly lowered.]

[The summoning time is adjusted to 7 minutes.]

Ann appeared, scattering white flames around her instead of the red flames she had used before.

Karian was also surrounded by ice that had turned a slightly bluer hue.

Their majesty… truly, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say they were gods descended from the heavens.

Perhaps it was because their status hadn’t fallen much.

-A Demon King, huh… It’s been a while since I fought a Demon King.

-It seems we’ll have to be a little more cautious this time.

At least for this moment, Ha-yeon was in the superior position.

That was what Ha-yeon and Eleina both thought.

“Dragging things out won’t be good, will it?”

Eleina’s left arm was in pretty bad shape.

She could move it, but it was a bloody mess that clearly made it impossible to hold a sword.

But even so, she didn’t seem the least bit daunted.

“Ann, Karian. I’ll need your support.”

-That’s what I was planning.

With those words, Ann immediately moved her massive body. White Flame surrounded her feet.

A white afterimage remained where Ann had run. It was a white White Flame.

But it wasn’t just an afterimage.

It was an attack with substance.

Whoosh-

The fiercely burning flames immediately rushed at Eleina and exploded.

Eleina blocked them with her Divine Swords, so there wasn’t much significant damage, but it was enough to disrupt her vision.

And at that very moment, Ha-yeon also dashed forward.

‘Left.’

She kicked off the ground. At the same time, swords clashed.

Clang-!

Three times. In that short moment, the swords clashed three times.

‘Focus.’

The world seemed to slow down in Ha-yeon’s eyes. Yet, she didn’t feel any sense of incongruity.

It was because she was in a state of high concentration.

Even so, Ann’s claws and Karian’s mana-infused ice were a significant threat to Eleina.

‘It’s a shame.’

That was Ha-yeon’s thought.

In her opinion, this wasn’t their full power. But the location was too restrictive.

Because her companions were nearby, she couldn’t freely use massive techniques.

-Enchant.

-Enchant.

At Ann and Karian’s short words, White Flame and Blue Ice surrounded the red and blue Divine Swords she was holding, respectively.

Opposing temperatures flew toward Eleina.

“How fun!”

Eleina thought.

This was enjoyable.

Why? She wondered, but when she thought about it, she had always liked fighting.

From the moment she was born until now.

It was just… that after she fell as a Demon King, the word ‘compulsion’ had been added to this fight.

After becoming a Demon King, she had no choice but to live like a puppet, following the will of the now-vanished Godhood.

Then, when the one who commanded her suddenly disappeared, she simply acted according to the last order she had received.

But now, that compulsion had almost disappeared.

Of course… having fallen as a Demon King, it was impossible to go back because of the ‘Demon King’ instincts.

Eleina thought.

She wanted to enjoy this fight for longer.

And she wanted to see their full power.

It wasn’t long before her body moved.

“Sacred Domain Deployment.”

From her feet, a pitch-black darkness spread out.

The authority of a Constellation and a Demon King.

Sacred Domain.

Stars shining in the pitch-black darkness.

Dark Star.

At that moment, the connection with the outside world was severed.

‘Sacred Domain?’

Even as she watched the attack flying toward her, Ha-yeon thought.

Then, she looked around.

At first glance, it was like the galaxy of the ‘universe,’ but it felt… somehow darker.

“An isolated space.”

Eleina’s short words, spoken after taking considerable damage from Ha-yeon’s attack. Ha-yeon didn’t understand the words at first, but she soon realized what they meant.

‘The Divine Beasts can attack freely.’

It meant that the spatial restrictions had disappeared.

But one question arose.

‘Why?’

Why had she deployed a Sacred Domain and created such a space?

That was the question, but she put it aside for the moment and moved.

-I don’t know what her intentions are… but at least we’re free now.

Ann immediately moved.

She even took out the Aether that made up her body and prepared an attack.

White flames were condensed into one place.

She didn’t know the technique properly, but it was clear that it would be an attack that transcended common sense.

“Ann, what’s the time…?”

-It will take about a minute. And after using this, I think I’ll have to return.

Karian didn’t use a large technique at the same time.

She was thinking of supporting them now, and then preparing her own attack the moment Ann attacked.

“Sword Draw.”

She sheathed the blue Divine Sword, not the red Divine Sword that had lost its enchantments due to using the technique.

After using all the skills related to Sword Draw.

She slashed horizontally forward.

Shatter-

Ice of absolute zero was propelled forward.

And watching that scene, Eleina raised her left arm, which was only being ‘lifted up’, and said.

“La-Graphurda.”

In an instant, moonlight with a silver sheen was grasped in her left hand.

With a slight gesture, she sent it flying forward.

The light fragments, moving at a rapid speed, collided with the ice sword energy. In an instant, they emitted a huge light, swallowing the ice sword energy and disappearing.

“Ro-Cradio, El-Ladi.”

As she continued to mutter words that seemed to be in a language used in her homeland, attacks of various shapes and forms poured down on Ha-yeon.

‘It’s dangerous to let her get close.’

Having seen that scene earlier, Ha-yeon moved while firing sword energy from a distance.

It was at that moment.

“Ugh…!”

A fragment of light, flying from an unexpected space, struck her left shoulder.

And exploded with it.

She dropped the sword she was holding in her left hand.

Fortunately, she quickly retrieved it, but… her left arm was quite unstable.

‘The nerves are severed.’

She couldn’t feel her left arm.

‘This is bad.’

Every loss was important now, and the loss of her main force, her left arm, was too severe.

‘Ann’s attack is also 20 seconds away.’

There wasn’t much time left.

-Fall back for a moment.

At Karian’s words, she immediately retreated backward. Of course, she didn’t just stand still, and as long as her mana held out, she constantly sent out ice-infused sword energy.

Karian was more focused on defense than attack, protecting Ha-yeon from the incoming attacks, so there were no major problems.

After 20 seconds had passed.

-White Flame that purifies the world.

Ann said.

-I will destroy the world of evil.

Evil-Slaying Divine Spear.

A giant White Flame Divine Spear, created above the sky, flew towards Eleina.