85 – Clear the New Royal Bridge

The sacred White Flame, or Sacred Flame, blazed fiercely.

The Sacred Spear, imbued with that transcendent heat, flew towards the Demon King.

“This might be a bit dangerous.”

It was an attack that used all the remaining power of the Divine Beast. Even the Demon King couldn’t casually evade it.

Eleina partially withdrew the power of her deployed Sacred Domain. Perhaps because of this, the darkness that filled the surroundings lessened slightly, and she could feel light seeping in, but that wasn’t important now.

The darkness torn from the Sacred Domain soon formed a shape.

It was a wall. She intended to block it.

‘A gap.’

This was a gap that would never come again. It had to end here.

Even when Ann came here and fought together, it was only a close match. And after this, Ann would surely be reverse-summoned.

If so, the result was obvious.

End it here. There would be no more chances.

Ha-yeon knew this as well, so she began to draw up all of her mana.

-I should prepare now too.

Like Ann, Karian gathered all the mana he had left to maintain his remaining time, preparing a spell that would reverse-summon him.

Karian’s spellcasting time was short.

But since he still needed preparation time, Ha-yeon ran.

“Constellation.”

[The Constellation, ‘Moon-Cleaving Flash,’ nods, acknowledging.]

If the Sacred Domain was fully deployed, even contact would be difficult. But now, the boundaries of the Sacred Domain were considerably shaken.

Hairel also offered one last bastion.

[The Constellation, ‘Moon-Cleaving Flash,’ bestows upon you the skill, ‘Divine Sword Unification(SS).’]

[The Constellation, ‘Moon-Cleaving Flash,’ faces significant restrictions due to excessive interference and support that transcends dimensions.]

[The Constellation, ‘Moon-Cleaving Flash,’ bears all the cost.]

[You will be unable to communicate with the Constellation for the next four days.]

He passed on a skill to her and retreated for a while.

Even so, this was a skill more precious than anything else. Knowing this, she briefly set aside the yellow Divine Sword she was holding in one hand and grasped the red Divine Sword with both hands.

Then, she activated the skill.

[Skill, ‘Divine Sword Unification(SS),’ is activated.]

[Resonating with the Divine Sword.]

[The Divine Sword does not reject. Becoming one with the Divine Sword.]

A state where the sword becomes me and I become the sword.

There were no directly helpful effects. Only that.

The sword is felt. The sword is felt trembling.

A fearful emotion? It wasn’t that.

Exhilaration.

What the sword was feeling now was exhilaration.

Exhilaration from a fierce battle. And Ha-yeon was feeling it too.

Whether she had been feeling it originally, or whether she had become assimilated by using Divine Sword Unification, she didn’t know.

But that wasn’t important.

“So… this is how you use it.”

Mana flows into the sword.

Not recklessly cramming it in like before.

A pure flow of mana injected into a defined area.

It was different from the past, where she had barely managed to reach it by luck by cramming it in completely.

She injected mana only into the precise, minimal path, reducing consumption. And then she injected the remaining mana again.

The power increased exponentially.

And that wasn’t all.

Mana also resonated with the sword, enhancing its properties and power.

As a result.

[The effect of the unique title, ‘Sword Demon,’ is further enhanced.]

[Health increases.]

[Strength increases.]

[Mana increases.]

[Unable to control emotions even more.]

Omnipotence.

A sense of omnipotence different from when she had transformed into a dragon before.

Unlike the past, when her power had exploded temporarily after gaining several lucky encounters, this was power that had completely become her own.

It felt like she could do anything now.

Bang-!

In front, Ann’s Sacred Spear and Eleina’s dark mana collided, and a roar echoed.

But they weren’t being pushed back.

‘About 30 seconds.’

That was roughly the time it would take for Karian to cast. Besides, a little more time had passed since then, so maybe it was about 20 seconds now.

It was enough.

‘Now!’

When Eleina was completely focused on the Sacred Spear, Ha-yeon swung her sword.

The sword trembled slightly, and flames began to seep out.

A blazing heat that seemed to burn anything.

Blue flames spewing from the sword’s blade engulfed the surroundings.

It didn’t just mean the flames were getting bigger, it was devouring the Sacred Domain. Seizing and eroding the surroundings.

The fuel for that power was Aether.

She burned all the remaining Aether in her body at once and unleashed it.

[The authority of the Flame Light Divine Sword(SS), ‘Azure Flame Divinity(SS),’ is activated.]

The blazing Azure Flame advanced towards the enemy without stopping.

Eleina was flustered by the sudden burst of flames, and this time, she tore off more of the darkness that made up the Sacred Domain to create a barrier.

“Stronger than any attack you’ve had so far! Did you have some kind of epiphany?”

“No time to talk about that.”

Mana exhaustion. To be more precise, it was Aether exhaustion.

Aether wasn’t that strong because it was a power attributed to my body in terms of skills, but pouring out that much at once inevitably led to exhaustion.

She still had mana, so she would get up soon, but it was impossible to join the fight right now.

But she was still worried.

Because they still had one more attack left.

-I hope you won’t forget me.

A storm of ice.

A huge storm made entirely of ice surrounded Karian.

Ominous ice fragments floated around. The power of each one would also be tremendous.

Karian called this technique this.

-Annihilating Ice

The storm of destruction. Before the aftermath of Ann’s Sacred Spear and Ha-yeon’s Azure Flame Divinity had even ended, Karian’s storm flew towards her.

A Constellation of a lower rank would have had their body torn apart in this storm.

But Eleina was not of a low rank.

“I didn’t think I’d have to release it like this, but….”

Eleina tore off the last remaining darkness of the Sacred Domain and created the final barrier.

With this, the Sacred Domain would soon collapse.

As proof, the darkness that filled the sky gradually broke, and light leaked through the gaps.

‘Will the attack… be blocked?’

If it hit well, it would be a fatal wound. Still, there were many other benefits gained.

The biggest of these was Eleina’s mana consumption, and the cooperation of her companions that could be obtained by releasing the Sacred Domain.

-I’ll be going now.

-Fight to the end.

With those words, the two Divine Beasts who had exhausted all their mana were reverse-summoned and retreated.

But she wasn’t worried. Because there was someone as reliable as those Divine Beasts on their side.

“I knew you’d come out.”

“Raven.”

Raven approached Ha-yeon and said that.

It seemed that the moon he was fighting had been used in some way to block Ann, Karian, and Ha-yeon earlier.

Looking at the others, they had some minor injuries, but none were seriously injured, except for Veronica.

‘Is it okay?’

Ha-yeon also had quite a few injuries that she didn’t even notice, but they weren’t serious enough to worry about.

She once again gripped her sword tightly and watched beyond the storm.

And after a while. A voice was heard.

“You’re really amazing…. Even if you received support. You’re still my other half.”

The smoke cleared in an instant, and Eleina revealed herself.

The damage was considerable, with one arm completely covered in blood and tattered, and most of the clothes she was wearing were destroyed.

It was as if it proved that there wasn’t much left.

The amount of mana felt within was also not as vast or threatening as before.

“We must not give her an opening.”

The moment they gave her an opening here, it would be the end.

She would recover. Knowing that, Ha-yeon said that to Raven, and he nodded slightly and raised his sword.

Ellen was out of the battle to recover and maintain Veronica, Seol-ah was guarding those two, and Kaede and Jin Na-yeon rejoined the front line.

And the moment they arrived, the positions were quickly set.

Me and Raven charging, Kaede removing and assisting with obstacles, and Jin Na-yeon assisting and guarding what Kaede missed once again.

Ha-yeon, who gave the order as it was, immediately ran towards Eleina.

She couldn’t use that ‘authority’ power from before. Because she had used up all of her Aether.

Still, the ability of Divine Sword Unification wasn’t just that, so she pushed forward as it was.

“I’ll have to be serious.”

Silver streaks of light forming around her. At first glance, they looked like harmless light, but in reality, each one was a beam of destruction with tremendous destructive power.

Since they were streaks of light, it was difficult to deflect them with a sword, and avoiding them all made it considerably slower to move forward.

“Raven.”

“I understand.”

Both of them had innate combat senses that were second to none.

In this situation, that short conversation was enough.

Ha-yeon, who said that, immediately drew up mana and used dragonification, only on the wing area, not anywhere else.

She had no choice but to break through in one go.

“Blood Sword Technique.”

Raven, who was behind her, put away the iron sword he was holding and created a magic sword made of blood.

Not an ordinary blood sword, but a concentrated blood sword filled with mana.

He was sure that the power was probably not as strong as the blow she had unleashed earlier, but it was close to it.

“Then, let’s go.”

It was the beginning of the final charge at the New King Church.