Summoning the Holy Sword

Flames blazed across the land. The scorching heat devoured the verdant plain as magma overflowed from the fissures of the melted land like creatures raising their heads with self-awareness. The sea of flames grew wider as Canary stood in its middle silently. The high temperature and violent gales congested the space around her, roaring as though they were about to destroy all living beings in this territory.

Shing!

A shimmering ice spear flitted across the air, fixing on the young lady. Without turning around and gazing at it, Canary pointed her right hand in its direction and almost immediately after, the surrounding flames whirled into a wall that defied the ice spear. Shortly after, two streaks of magical radiances flashed and dispersed the white mist instantly. At the same time, Canary twitched her brows slightly and leaned her body to the left subtly as a razor-sharp blade airflow burst out of the mist ferociously, aimed at her chest. If she were any other spell caster, she would be bewildered by this close-distance ambush. However, there wasn’t the slightest trace of panic on her face at all, not even when the razor-sharp blade was about to penetrate her chest and cut off strands of her hair. Canary raised her left arm and with this motion, the winds whirled around her arm like an obedient pet jumping onto her hand gently and morphed into a sturdy barrier in front of her.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

A series of rasps sounded as the blade collided on the wind shield, splattering flares in all directions. The formidable shield coalesced from mighty winds deflected the blade. The human swordsman who had missed the opportunity to take her down turned around and thrust his left leg at her calf. Canary took a step back, evading his attack immediately. However, she didn’t expect the human swordsman to continue his aggression and a dazzling flash of light appeared beside him once again. It was another fluctuating blade light that came striking at her like a specter.

Flame sword!

Canary witnessed the shimmering blade light but the motion of her hand didn’t come to a halt. She stooped over slightly, reached for her waist with her right hand. Along with this movement, the wavering flames gathered around her waist and quickly coalesced into a scarlet sword. She clutched the hilt and slashed forward.

“———!”

The delusive blade light split the space open, only to be stopped by a bright, scarlet ray of light. In the blink of an eye, the human swordsman and Canary collided. But shortly after, the former shuddered and his head flew up into the sky as a stream of pitch-black blood sprayed from his severed neck. Before his corpse crumbled to the ground, the impatient magma in the surroundings metamorphosed into the shape of tentacles, binding the corpse tightly and dragging it into the sea of magma. Without even making a sound, the corpse melted as it submerged. Canary didn’t even glance at her defeated enemy. She swung the sword coalesced from flames without any hesitation. Shortly after, in a loud explosion, the sword transformed into multiple meteorites that launched forward. The elf mage in the distance witnessed this scene and grimaced. She grunted, lifting the staff high up and striking it on the ground with force. The vast land froze instantly. A crystal-clear ice barrier expanded like a blooming flower with her in the middle. The blazing meteorites whistling across the air crashed onto the transparent ice shield.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Indeed. As soon as Rhode released the defensive shield, the wild, roaring purple thunderbolts exploded, breaking free from all restraints and scattering everywhere. In an instant, Rhode felt like a tiny boat trembling in the raging waves. One by one, thunderbolts that were thicker than arms bombarded the entire world mercilessly. Be it the sky, land, or space, they were all crushed by the thunderbolts. The land fissured and the earth’s crust crumbled. The azure sky tore apart like cracked, shattered glass. Everything fell apart, perished, and disappeared in this pounding of thunderbolts.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Rhode didn’t know how long the thunderbolts lasted. He did not have much time left to analyze the situation. All he could do was to hold up the shield before him in vain. Fortunately, even though this piece of shield was extremely humiliating, its quality was assured as he was completely unscathed even after the series of thunderbolts came to an end.

But it seemed like the enemy wasn’t in a perfect condition. Rhode clearly witnessed the body coalesced from the black mist crumbling. The surroundings were covered with twinkling purple lightnings like robots in movies when their armor was blown into bits and their internal parts were revealed.

“You… lackeys of Order!”

Agios swung his arm furiously. In this movement, a long, purple whip coalesced from lightning appeared in a flash and lashed at Rhode ahead. Facing this attack, Rhode dashed forward. In such a situation, the dangers of taking the initiative to get closer than fighting from a distance were much smaller.

“———!”

But at the same time, a golden light beam descended from above, piercing through Agios’s body. Lydia widened her wings comfortably, hovering in midair while raising her hands parallel to each other. Innumerable sacred runes revolved around the young lady, before transforming into an enormous mirror that were as though storing the power of the sun. Perhaps sensing that this was the crucial moment of the battle, none of them held back any longer. Facing this enemy, the young ladies gave their all.

“Ahhhhh!”

The holy radiance dissolved the black mist and penetrated through Agios’s chest, causing it to howl in agony. Before it retaliated, the earth rumbled. Erin gripped the sword with both hands. At that moment, the sleek sword that was merely one-meter-long metamorphosed into a gigantic light blade that was over ten meters in length. She flourished the light blade at the Chaos Creature from above in earth-shattering airwaves, slashing through Agios’s body and slamming into the ground.

“No———!”

Agios had expended all its energy on this attack, but didn’t expect these people to escape entirely unscathed. It had lost the strength to continue maintaining its form any longer. If it had more time, perhaps it could find an opportunity to launch another attack. But now, be it Rhode or Lydia, none of them were gracious enough for a fight to the death after it returned to its senses.

The holy radiance and flames erupted from the flat ground. At that moment, Mini Bubble Gum and Canary exerted all of their strength. The turbulent magma merged into a giant snake, widening its wings and barging into the body of the black mist. On the other side, along with Mini Bubble Gum’s movements, the enormous magical ritual on the ground surged with several chains appearing from within, binding tightly onto Agios.

“Big Brother, now’s the chance!”

“Everyone stay away!”

Upon hearing his younger sister’s direction, Rhode also noticed the crumbling presence in the center of this small world. He extended his arm and sensed the entire world taking shape in his hand. Chaos was like indestructible cockroaches. If he were to let Lydia purify Chaos, who knew how much time was needed. Fortunately, he had no intention of counting on his strength to defeat Agios either.

“Shatter!”

Rhode yelled, widening his eyes and staring at the routed part of Agios’s body. He extended his right hand and clenched with force.

Along with this action, the center of Agios’s body shattered like pieces of debris scattering from smashed lenses. At the same time, powerful streams of airflows blustered, absorbing everything in the surroundings. After losing its balance, the space here was about to collapse completely. Agios extended its arm in vain as it had already fused into this world completely. It couldn’t break free from the restraints at all. It would perish alongside this world.

“Retreat now!”

Rhode didn’t stay behind for long. He swung his arm abruptly and the fragments swirling in the air emanated brilliant radiances, intertwining into a gigantic net of golden lines that shrouded the four young ladies. Then, they disappeared entirely.

Shortly after, the space crumpled.

Everything was heading toward the end.