episode_0055

“People of the Eastern Continent?”

“They said, ‘People from the West should not get involved.’”

“Collective suicide?”

“That’s not it… Your Taoist was preparing a large-scale magic. I checked roughly and it seems that after we kill the goddess, she will fall out of the dimension and settle down somewhere else.”

“Then that’s fine.”

Knock knock, Abel neatly tapped the last document on the floor a few times and submitted it.

“We burned everything on our side… so is this side okay too?”

Abel’s eyes saw the ark.

Noah’s Ark, the ark that now houses all the people of the Western Continent.

No, to be exact, it was an ark that accommodated everyone except for the tens of thousands of sectarians who could not give up their faith in the goddess until the end.

Of the people who had not boarded the ark, excluding the leaders of the Holy Nation, the only ones left were Abel, Leah, the Four Heavenly Kings, and the demons who would return to the Demon World even if they died.

The rest of the people were all on board the ark, and Lucy, who would disappear the moment the goddess looked at her, was forced to leave her work.

So, now.

All that remained was to kill the goddess and her remnants.

“Yeah, it was a terrible fate. It’s time to end it now.”

“Shh,” Abel laughed.

“Therefore, right now… I want to strike the goddess.”

Abel continued, summoning the greatsword and holding it in his hand.

“The operation name is ‘Reverse’. We are―”

-I will personally break the neck of the god who does not see people as people.

And, we will fight for the right to live.

*****

Operation Reverse, commence.

*****

As soon as we entered the castle, a barricade made of all sorts of junk greeted us.

Statues of goddesses, fountains, and all sorts of expensive showpieces.

Or, things like furniture randomly looted from an ownerless house.

And behind it, you can feel the sparkling eyes of the goddess’ followers and the malice coming from them.

“You-”

“Push!”

“Let’s kill the goddess’ minions!!”

Before I could even open my mouth, the demons rushed out like a wave and crossed the barricade. In the first place, the demons usually had wings. There was nothing more meaningless than the barricade.

“Ugh… Ugh…”

It wasn’t Leah.

The heart ignored the easier request of giving it a wing while allowing its body to stretch.

If you hear the heart screaming out that it is easy, you are surely mistaken. How can a human appendage speak?

So in the end, Leah was the only one climbing the barricade. There was already a fight going on beyond the barricade, so there was no stopping it.

As we climbed up the barricade, what we saw was a more explicit and familiar sight.

The demons bite the humans, and as light flows out in response to the humans’ prayers, several of the demons turn to dust and disappear.

The ones who remained until now were all high priests and knights among those who believed in the goddess. Those who fought against the demons with one hand and a hundred others.

Black powder stained the city like a plague, and human blood dotted it.

The space was filled with a mixture of magic and holy power, and it was not enough to say that it was shaking, but it was also covered in colors that could almost be called yellowish.

Black, red, purple, yellow. Ashes and blood, demons and saints. They were all mixed together and turning into mud.

“Let’s go, Leah!”

One day, while I was feeling a little nostalgic for the familiar atmosphere of the battlefield, Abel held me in one hand, spread his large wings, and flew up in an instant. As the battlefield scenery rose up to the size of the palm of my hand, it felt like a dream.

The Four Heavenly Kings were chasing us from behind, and it was impossible not to notice that there were about five flying objects in total in the sky.

The spears and projectiles made with holy power began to focus on us all at once.

“Dare.”

That doesn’t mean it can harm us.

As Abel swung his sword once, the lumps of holy power began to split and transform into light.

And since our destination wasn’t that far away, the flight was over quickly. Our destination was the temple of the goddess.

“This way!”

“Never let them enter the temple!”

And then, they were surrounded.

It was only natural that they had infiltrated the temple from the form of surrounding and guarding it from the beginning. Up until this point, everything had been as expected.

However, what was unexpected was that the stairs leading to the goddess inside the temple, our target, were getting blurry.

There was no reason to believe it. The goddess must have felt threatened and tried to close the door. She decided to close the passage and hold out for a while.

However, since we did not know that he would abandon his followers, our faces were filled with confusion. It was not for humanitarian reasons, but because if the high-ranking followers who had been sending us their faith were wiped out, we would lose all our power. It would also be a huge blow to the future we had envisioned.

It seems like Abel can open the door, but of course the Goddess took away Abel’s authority as soon as he started to rebel against her. Therefore, the only way we can kill the Goddess is through that door.

There was not enough time. Therefore, there was no time to deal with them as originally planned. My judgment was the fastest.

“Mino. Can you stop those remnants here?”

“I will obey your command, noble one.”

There will be angels anyway as we go forward. It would be the best decision for both Mino and us to deal with the symbols of the goddess whose symbolism has weakened as the believers leave in large numbers, and with humans with blood.

“Going to where the goddess is!”

“We have to stop it at all costs… Yes?”

A red line was drawn around the neck of one of the priests.

And then, the solid line split open and a fountain of blood spurted out.

“Kkaaaak!!!”

“Your High Priest! The High Priest has been struck!”

There was no time to listen any longer. We turned around and quickly ran towards the stairs.

***

“Stop.”

“How dare you, the filthy devils and traitors, stand against the Goddess.”

Exactly 187 angels came down from the top of the stairs at once and began to surround our group.

It was just like the guys I saw with Fabio and Mino last time. Normally, there wouldn’t have been a problem. If only the stairs hadn’t disappeared.

“Damn it… There’s no time to drag it out here. Leah and I will go up alone, so block the way.”

“But… Demon King!”

“I will not accept any objections. The reason I became the Demon King in the first place was to gain the power to kill the Goddess on my own.”

Eventually, the Four Heavenly Kings were convinced and stopped the angels.

They also did not obediently give in to the obstacles, but when Abel personally cut down the angels blocking the stairs and broke through the siege, the angels were helpless.

After running for about a minute, the Four Heavenly Kings turned around and began blocking the path as soon as our group reached the high ground.

“Abel! Can’t you fly?”

“It’s some kind of interdimensional passage, so it’s useless! It’s not actually a staircase even though it looks like a staircase!”

If this is the case, do I have no choice but to walk?

I didn’t look back, because I didn’t know when the stairs would disappear.

Because the floor of the stairs I was already standing on had become half transparent, to the point where I could see through it.

***

I ran like crazy.

In case the stairs break, I won’t be able to kill the goddess and fulfill the conditions to activate the ark.

“Almost there, Leah…!”

A marble temple appeared right in front of me. It was so transparent that I couldn’t even see the stairs.

“Just a little more…!”

You can just go.

With a whoosh, my feet gave out. At the same time, my body began to fall.

The stairs that had been so unstable have finally completely disappeared.

Just a little bit, just a little bit…

It was just a few more steps. Just a little more…!

Thud. Whoosh-

Thump, thump.

The sound of waves could be heard intermittently, along with the sound of heartbeats. The cold water swept over our backs, pushing our bodies up and forward.

“Ugh! …Leah? This is Leah’s magic…”

Abel and I rolled around on the marble floor a few times, soaking wet. It was quite funny.

Did I just call that out?

I felt something inside my body open up, but I didn’t have enough time to feel it. The goddess was probably still inside, trying to get away from us.

Abel and I exchanged glances. Without saying who would go first, we both ran into the temple.

*****

A temple of a fallen goddess that could hardly be called a ruin.

Gabriel, revealing his true form with angel wings, slowly approached the goddess in the center of the room at the end of the temple. A sparkling halo was clutched in her hand.

“Take back the power that came from the Goddess. Then cut off the necks of the unbelievers and rise again.”

As if performing a series of rituals, Gabriel presented the halo to the goddess.

The glowing halo struggled to avoid being absorbed by the goddess. The water of the last warriors was mostly cloudy, but it seemed to contain the will of some who had truly sacrificed themselves to protect this world.

At least they need to maintain a connection with Pangea in order to finally absorb themselves, so here’s hoping someone comes along in the meantime.

The halo of light that had been struggling for days and weeks eventually lost all its power and completely permeated the goddess’s body.

“Thank you, Gabriel. You are the angel I trust the most.”

The goddess slowly rose and opened the portal.

The goddess thought that as soon as she absorbed all of the warrior’s power and was rehabilitated, she would cut off the stairs leading here, so she could use the time she had gained to escape to the dimension she originally intended to go to after collecting Pangea.

No matter how severe the damage, the survival instinct was activated to the limit due to ‘El Trauma’ brought back by Leah and Abel’s beating.

And the unidentified demon woman, who was stronger than Abel and similar to him (Lucy was not observed when Abel kicked the eyes, nose, and ears of the body the goddess descended upon in anger and destroyed them) made the arrogant goddess of the scales feel like running away as she suffered losses.

Even though the goddess of Libra is so arrogant that no one could have predicted such a thing.

But unfortunately for the goddess, the resistance of those lights was not in vain.

Just before the portal opened, the sound of two people jumping could be heard, and at the same time, a very familiar strike made of magic flew towards the goddess.

BAM! KWAAHANG!!

The goddess quickly twisted her body to dodge the attack, but the missed blow hit the pillar of the temple, literally shattering it and turning it into rubble, covering the room in a thick layer.

Gabrielle, who was about to fly to the goddess, fell to the ground. A silver dagger that had not even made a sound was embedded in her wing. It was pulled out on its own and flew into the thick fog to return to Leah’s hand.

“I have to end this bad relationship here. If only to protect my precious people.”

“Where are you going, Goddess. Just be quiet and let the ship power you. That’s the end that suits a piece of trash like you.”

In a room where the view was obscured by dust, Abel and Leah’s blue eyes were shining like gods of death.