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14. Second Tower (5)

We were attacking Gabriel, but as expected, the title of Archangel was not without reason, as Gabriel was on a different level from the other angels we had seen so far.

If you relax for a moment, he will come right behind you and attack you with the pitch-black spear he is holding, or leisurely dodge the attack by doing aerial acrobatics.

While we were quietly watching her and attacking, her feathers came closer without us knowing and threatened us.

Hyunseok had a hard time attacking properly because he was using the wind to gather feathers and send them to other places.

I made Flamberg or Ardvar and attacked Gabrielle, but her speed was too fast to hit her properly.

In Yeonseo’s case, she was riding a summoned creature and going around, targeting Gabriel’s weak points.

Even so, Gabriel leisurely dodged it like the old saying, “Eat rice cake while lying down,” and instead flew towards Yeonseo, knocking down Yeonseo’s summons or directly attacking Yeonseo, eating away at her mental power.

” How about this! ”

Hyunseok used the wind to get to Gabrielle and collect her feathers to return them to her, but Gabrielle just laughed.

” Ha! Even if you gather my feathers and throw them at me, it won’t mean anything! ”

With one wave of Gabriel’s hand, the feathers that had been shooting at her disappeared, and instead, several feathers shot out like arrows towards Hyunseok.

” Huh! ”

” Hyunseok! ”

He tried to quickly pull his body back with the wind and block the feathers with a whirlwind at the same time, but he couldn’t block the feathers that were shot out quickly before the whirlwind wall was properly formed.

Hyunseok wasn’t seriously hurt because the Atlantean I created collided with it and exploded, but he just fell farther than expected due to the aftereffects of the explosion.

” Phew, thank goodness it’s not too late… ”

Even now, my heart sinks when I think about how I’ve been hurt by Gabriel’s feathers more than by his direct attacks so far.

An attack that destroys body parts with just a touch… Even if it’s weakened, it was a tough fight for us right now.

‘Patruna… you said you could win…! ‘

I was used to losing body parts, so it wasn’t a big deal for me, but when Hyunseok and Yeonseo first experienced it, they panicked.

Fortunately, I can completely regenerate my body now…

I learned while treating him that, indeed, Gabriel’s current appearance seemed to have been corrupted by the energy of an evil spirit.

I felt the aura of an evil spirit along with a very subtle sense of divine power within her attacks, so I thought I knew what to do.

‘The problem is… after purifying… my body shouldn’t get hot again like that…’

But what could he do? In order to save Gabrielle without killing her, he ultimately had to approach her and purify her.

*****

” Tsk! This doesn’t work either? ”

Yeonseo, riding her summoner Marinarion, attempted to attack Gabriel while leading the Kaus series, but she dodged with ease and used all the techniques she had seen from the angels she had met so far.

The only difference was that the technique she used was pitch black, full of an ominous feeling.

” Huh, do you think that a mortal’s talent would reach me! ”

As he finished speaking, Gabriel quickly approached Yeonseo with a spear made of pitch-black light in his hand.

” I need to dodge this quickly…? Wait… what is this?! ”

In front of Yeonseo, who was trying to turn around and escape, a black feather that had been there for some time was floating around, and soon after, it made contact with Marinarion and made a ‘weeing’ sound.

It became a black pillar of light that covered her and her summons.

” Gyaaah! ”

” Yeonseo! ”

I deployed Atlantis and ran towards Yeonseo, who was blown away with her headless summons from the explosion of feathers.

” Yeonseo! Are you okay?! ”

” Ugh…. ”

As I quickly looked over Yeonseo’s body, I noticed areas filled with the energy of an evil spirit.

It was Yeonseo’s right arm, completely missing from the elbow down.

The right arm was destroyed after being attacked by an evil spirit, although there was no bleeding.

” This… This is…! Wait, I’ll treat you quickly! ”

He sent divine power to Yeonseo, purifying the evil spirit’s energy and regenerating her arm.

‘Thank goodness. If it were me again… again…’

” Sha…Charlotte? ”

” Yeah, I’m here. How can I move? ”

” Haa, sorry, it’s going to be a little difficult. Right now, while I’m here, I’ve lost contact with my summons… ”

” Okay. Don’t worry and just rest. Okay? ”

Yeonseo opened her mouth, holding my arm, breathing heavily with an apologetic expression.

” Can you beat that? ”

” Well, I guess I’ll have to try it to find out. Oh, by the way… That… ”

Yeonseo suddenly snapped at me as I started to lose my voice.

” What the hell are you hesitating for? There’s no time! ”

” I think I need to purify this again, you know? Huh? ”

At those words, Yeonseo opened her half-closed eyes wide and sighed.

” Haa, really, you… When I look at you, not only you, but even the goddess is out of her mind. How can you purify yourself and then… ”

” Ugh… I can’t help it. I didn’t know it would turn out like this! ”

” Okay. I’ll take care of it. Be careful, okay? ”

” Yeah! ”

After moving Yeonseo to a safer place, I looked up at Gabriel.

As if he sensed my gaze, Gabriel looked down at me, twirled the spear in his hand once, and then charged at me.

*****

Gabriel swings his spear at me, and I block the spear with Durandal and shoot Flamberg and Ardvar right at her, but they shoot out feathers and dodge backwards.

” Tsk! This won’t work…! Huh…? This?! ”

A brief, subtle stream of divine power was visible before the feather burst.

Gabrielle has been consumed by the evil spirit’s energy, but she originally possesses divine powers as she was the apostle and messenger of God. Of course, she is now consumed by the evil spirit’s energy and hidden in the abyss.

So through the flow of divine power that was shown, I learned how she created feathers.

It was a method of creating it by drawing out the divine power itself into very thin pieces, rather than transforming it by creating a ‘holy fire’ like the Flamberg, Ardvar, and Atlantes that I created.

‘It’s a little difficult… but it’s not to the extent that I can’t do it now…! ‘

But since there were still some areas where she was lacking, I decided to watch her attack a little more.

” Huh! It’s great that a mortal can wield divine powers, but hey, you’re still a mortal after all! ”

” You’re not even using divine power, but you’re being consumed by the evil spirit’s energy, and you’re talking big? ”

” What are you talking about? This is the power that God gave you! ”

‘What? You know my divine power, but you don’t know the aura of the evil god?’

Her comments gave me some insight into her current situation.

Perhaps, they are consumed by the energy of the evil god and mistake that energy for divine power. Divine power and the energy of the evil god… It is not wrong to say that both of them, which are called ‘magic’, are originally the power of the gods.

I fired Flamberg and Ardvar at her again, and she fired back with feathers, which collided with me, creating a huge roar and a blast of wind between me and her.

But at the same time, a transparent blade of wind flew from behind her.

” What…what?! ”

Hyunseok had been waiting for this moment, and with an expression that said he had struck a decisive blow

” I hit you in the head! ”

Her back was wounded as the wings on her left side were cut off by the blade.

” Oh my, on a mortal subject! ”

Gabriel, who turned away from me and barely managed to fly with only one wing left, tried to create a pitch-black spear filled with the energy of an evil god and throw it at Hyunseok.

But that was her mistake.

” Hey. Where are you looking? Your opponent is me. ”

Taking advantage of that small gap, I approached her from behind and swung Durandal around, cutting off her remaining right wings in one go.

” Ugh! ”

Gabriel, who had fallen down, was looking up at me in the sky, vomiting black blood from the shock of having his wings cut off.

*****

” How is it? Do you want to talk now? ”

When I approached her and aimed Durandal at her and asked, Gabriel glared at me and let out a ‘Huh! ‘

” Don’t make me laugh… Just because you cut off my wings! ”

The energy heading towards her back began to appear. Slowly, thinly and delicately, it created a single thick line, and from that, it extended out in the shape of a feather.

That was the way she made her wings, something I had never seen before.

” Wings… I was a little jealous. The way Hyunseok could fly. ”

I turned my head slightly and looked back. I saw Hyunseok looking at me while supporting Yeonseo. I smiled faintly and looked back at Gabriel.

” Thank you, thanks to you I think I can do it now. ”

” What…are you… saying…?! ”

It’s a little different from Gabriel’s way, but I guess it’s because the divine power I have is most effective in the form of flames.

With a ‘whoosh’ sound, a pair of wings, transparent but burning like flames, different from the wings of angels, appeared behind me.

” Hmm, I see. Should I name this one ‘Hippogriff’? ”

Gabriel and I headed to the sky for the final fight.

*****

” Hey, where are you going? ”

” Huh! How dare you be so cocky just because you can fly! ”

” Yes, yes, I guess so. ”

Gabriel climbed higher than me and began to shoot feathers at random.

” Even if you can fly, it’ll be hard to avoid attacks coming from all directions! ”

Gabrielle looks at her with a confident expression, but there is one thing she doesn’t know.

That means if I could make wings, I could easily block this attack.

” Phew, these attacks won’t work on me anymore! ”

As I quickly spread my divine power and purified the feathers that contained the spirit of the evil god, the feathers that were shooting at me had already turned a pure white color.

That is, this feather is now a lump of divine power, an object that I can do whatever I want with.

” Okay, I’ll give it back to you! ”

With a wave of my hand, the feathers that had been shooting at me changed direction and shot at Gabriel.

” Ugh! ”

Gabriel tried to block it with his wings or ward it off with his pitch-black spear, but he was already covered in wounds.

The spear she was holding began to crack due to the feathers imbued with divine power, and as the feathers became lodged in her wings, her wings also began to gradually turn white.

” What kind of sorcery did you use!! ”

Gabriel, who had drawn the spirit of the evil spirit, aimed his spear at me and rushed at me, but

” Gluon ”

With a ‘Whaaaak! ‘ sound, she gathered the Flambergs in Durandal and created Gluon, and began to slash her spear horizontally.

With a ‘Kirik, Kirik, Ssuk!’ sound, her spear split in two and disappeared. I approached her and put my hand on her chest where the evil spirit’s energy was gathered, and tried to purify it.

” Ugh! ”

When he came into contact with the evil spirit energy contained in her chest, his hand quickly rotted away, but soon returned to its original state through the divine power flowing out, and he began to accept the evil spirit energy.

After some time, my hands began to turn black and Gabriel’s appearance gradually began to change.

Her hair, which seemed to contain darkness, gradually returned to silver, and her wings also became beautiful pure white wings.

The black see-through outfit she was wearing had transformed into a pure white dress with gold embroidery as the black water flowed down.

” Where… Where is this? What the heck… ”

” Are you awake now? ”

” You are…? Judging by your aura… you are an apostle of God. ”

” Heh, yes… First… let’s go down and talk again. Heh…! ”

I left my body burning from the side effects of the purification behind and went down with Gabriel to where Hyunseok and Yeonseo were.

Now, all that was left was for Patruna and the other gods to handle, so I just lost consciousness in Hyunseok’s arms.