The moment the Uniqueness projection derived from "Red Priest" appeared in the hands of Angel, invisible and colorless flames appeared throughout the shadow-covered Giant King residence. They spread along the shadow curtain on their own, trying to expand their own territory and make other forces surrender.
If only relying on the "War Bishop" given to Angel, the connection between team members is limited to the sharing of partial physical injuries, and they are powerless against the power derived from the "fallen" authority. There is no way to save Lovia's life under the hands of a King of Angel.
In particular, "Dark Angel" has mastered the power of the Chaos Sea and is the top of the five Pathways including "Hanged Man". It naturally has a stronger influence on Lovia and "Black Knight".
But adding "Red Priest" Uniqueness is different.
Even though "Salinger’s Blood Banner" is just a projection, it has already been contaminated by "City of Calamity" and has a natural fit with this Sefirah, which makes Angel The power borrows from Molora through Sefirah's authority is almost equal to Uniqueness itself, enough to elevate her to a level close to "Conqueror".
This is the reason why she is confident that she can defeat Archangel of Sequence 1 if she is well prepared.
It's a pity that she was facing a King of Angel, or Second Epoch existed, and Ancient Sun God shared "Hanged Man" all Beyonder Characteristic, Uniqueness, King of Angel who has mastered the power of Sefirah... This is simply King of Angel in King of Angel, and it is definitely not comparable to the one who simply has multiple copies of Sequence 1 Characteristic...
Even though he held the flag in his hand and was full of courage in his heart, Angel could not help but fall into despair rationally.
The reason why she never included others in the team and did not summon "Sword of Glory" in advance before entering this shadow was because she was worried about disturbing "Dark Angel" and causing the worst to happen. However, the memory of "Betrayal Banquet" seemed to touch the trauma deep in Sastiel's heart, and actually made him wake up directly.
Not to mention she has one Angel plus four Saint. Even if her own Mirror Person can break through the shadow blockade and appear, she is not afraid of the "fallen" power, and even passes through "Yesterday Once More" The power of "Apocalypse", which briefly reappears Sequence 1, is absolutely impossible to defeat a person who has three copies of "Hanged Man", Sequence 1 Characteristic and Uniqueness... wait!
After Angel entered the battle, a flash of lightning flashed through his mind, and he discovered that "Dark Angel" was in an unreasonable state at this time.
Before "Rose Redemption" assassinated Ancient Sun God, his negative personality Sastiel had returned to the body. According to the ending of Betrayal Banquet and the current situation of Fifth Epoch, "True Creator" is the True God of "Hanged Man" Pathway. The characteristics of Sequence 1 and Uniqueness should be controlled by Him, as is the negative personality that separated and returned.
In this case, what is this "Dark Angel" in front of you?
"This is not the real Sastiel, but an evil spirit that combines his remaining spirit and will with the power of 'Chaos Sea'!"
The message conveyed by Klein appeared in everyone's mind, and they instantly understood what he meant:
What is in front of them is not "King of Angel among King of Angel", but a Residual Soul that they can defeat.
Between the electric light and flint, two jet-black flames ignited in the eyes. Sastiel, who had awakened from his deep sleep, had stood up from the throne. He was almost as tall as a giant from ancient times. The black wings on his back continued to stretch, and thick silver-white lightning appeared out of thin air in front of him. It was as dense as a sea of thunder, splashing towards everyone.
He instantly found a way to deal with connected enemies: attack each target equally.
This hit Angel's weakness. Even if she could accurately distribute the damage received by each team member, several Saint would not be able to survive such an indiscriminate attack for more than a few seconds.
What's more, the connection between them is undergoing the test of "fall" under the watchful eyes of Sastiel!
The state of becoming a whole, like an arm moving a finger, being able to communicate with each other in the heart seems to be blocked by a layer of curtain, and it seems that it will be interrupted soon.
Without having time to think about it, Angel waved the flagpole in his hand, letting the blood-stained flag flutter. The invisible and colorless flames all around instantly gathered to meet the splashing lightning.
Silvery lightning and transparent flames collided with each other, like two armies charging each other, and quickly disappeared in the air. A small amount of lightning penetrated the fire wall and landed behind Angel, causing Colin, Lovia and Derrick to dodge in a hurry to regain their status and launch attacks one after another.
The tall "Silver Knight" evil spirit behind Lovia jumped up and waved the Greatsword in his hand from top to bottom, bringing up the terrifying Storm composed of the light of morning light; Colin's two hands One sword slashed vertically and the other slashed horizontally. A cross-shaped silver-white sharp light "flashed" onto the surface of Dark Angel's body; a dazzling light lit up in Derrick's hand, and a blazing white "No Darkness Spear" took shape. He threw it out, making a series of explosion sounds.
Klein raised "Staff of the Stars", and in Reenactment's mind he recalled "Unshadowed Domain" made by "Sun Saint" that was previously split from Enyouni, letting the blazing light illuminate every corner of the hall, and even the shadow curtains covering the ground and stone pillars shrank.
Under the illumination of light, the huge body of "Dark Angel" became a little brighter, but most of it was still shrouded in darkness. "Black Knight" Lovia was also affected by Under the influence of sunlight, Klein cleverly stood on the extension line between her and Colin. Most of the light was blocked by "Silver Knight" and did not cause too much damage to her teammates.
Even if I really hurt her, about one-fifth of it will come back to me... Feeling that everyone is "connected" together, and Spirituality's abilities are shared with each other, Klein muttered in his heart, and with the Notarization ability of "Unshadowed" Derrick, he declared:
"God said it works!"
The scorching sunshine in Unshadowed Domain instantly surged, making everyone including himself feel that their skin was being burned. This was only part of the feeling given to everyone by Lovia. "Dark Angel" facing the sun would inevitably suffer more serious injuries!
After the invisible flames triggered by Angel offset each other with Lightning Storm, a small amount fell on the pairs of black wings of Sastiel, igniting them instantly, causing the King of Angel in King of Angel to have an expression of Affliction, and his whole body turned into a dark shadow, melting and falling to the ground, getting rid of the entanglement of the invisible flames.
This allowed him to avoid "Storm of Light", "Silver Rapier" and "No Darkness Spear" at the same time, but he was also exposed to the fierce Blazing Sun light of "Unshadowed Domain" in a fragile shadow form.
Continue to strengthen Unshadowed Domain... Derrick was about to summon the new "No Darkness Spear" when the voice of Angel came from his mind.
This is an order issued by the team leader!
Without any hesitation, he dispersed the newly condensed light in his hands, opened his mouth and shouted:
"God said it works!"
"God said, it doesn't work!"
A ethereal voice that seemed to come from all directions overshadowed Derrick's "Notarization", causing the sunlight covering the entire hall to disappear like a light extinguishing, and darkness returned to everyone in an instant.
At this moment of light and dark transition, the shadows under their feet came to life one after another, rising like a rising tide, about to engulf their respective masters.
And Sastiel's figure appeared in the shadows again, and silver lightning that could destroy everything appeared on his chest again. His eyes burning with dark flames scanned each enemy one by one, and the "corruption" atmosphere instantly filled the "connection" between them.
The team Angel built around themselves fell apart, and the "connection" of sharing abilities and Spirituality, and sharing damage with each other was transferred to their shadows.
The "teammates" who disappeared instantly in their thoughts made everyone hesitate for a moment, and the shadow sweeping under their feet deepened the feeling of loneliness, making them unable to fight against their own fallen shadow for a while, and they were almost enveloped in darkness.
The fear of being unable to defeat "King of Angel" resurfaced in everyone's hearts.
Is this some kind of hint, or is it the influence of Mental Plague... A flash of lightning flashed in Klein's mind, and before being completely surrounded by his own shadow, he moved the "Staff of the Stars" in his hand, Reenactment another Beyonder Ability in his mind.
When——
A distant, illusory bell echoed inside the hall, and a large mottled ancient stone clock appeared in front of Sastiel. Its gray-white and blue-black dial was Distortion distributed with three hands composed of "Worm of Time".
That was the ability that Amon had used in his prayer vision when Klein was hunting Demonic Wolf.
As the bell rang, all the shadow movements slowed down and almost stopped, and the silvery white lightning condensed on Sastiel's chest was solidified into a brilliant light.
Taking advantage of the moment when everything came to a standstill, Angel's hand that was not holding the flagpole grabbed it in the air and grasped a "Flames of Destruction" that was pitch black and seemed to contain all colors.
The flame was immediately elongated into Straight Sword and struck head-on at the shadow at her feet that was swallowing up her legs.
The flames that can destroy the body and Spirit Body at the same time, bringing complete "destruction" to the target, instantly swallow up the unformed corrupted shadow of Angel.
The same flame also appeared on the shadows at the feet of Klein, Colin, Lovia and Derrick.
The "connection" stripped from the main body with the help of "fall" has now become their weakness, allowing Angel to use the connection between all the shadows to destroy them as a whole.
The death of the shadows caused everyone to feel pain as if their souls were being torn apart. Fortunately, unlike the previous "Shadow Klein", these shadows had not yet taken shape and had not had time to take away their power, so the damage was not too great.
Most importantly, the "connection" returns to them as the shadow of the Fall dissipates.
"Attack!"
This idea flashed through everyone's mind at the same time and was passed on to everyone.
Derrick opened his arms in a hug, and "Unshadowed Domain" appeared in the hall again, lighting up every corner, dispelling the shadows under everyone's feet and preventing the shadows from Betraying oneself again.
Lovia drove the Silver Knight evil spirit to attack the tall Dark Angel evil spirit with Silver Rapier, tearing open wounds surging with black aura on his body protected by the wings, causing the "invalid" he was about to blurt out to be directly interrupted.
Sastiel's burning Black Flame eyes once again stared at this True Creator believer, Black Flame was shrunk in his eyes Sun was replaced, and a ray of light entwined with sacred flames shot out from his raised palm. The target was not the Lovia protected by the "connection", but her Grazing's Silver Knight evil spirit.
Boom——
The sacred flame burned on Silver Knight, but it was not the evil spirit Silver Knight that would be destroyed by the holy light, but "Silver Knight" Colin who jumped up from the side with his swords crossed in front of him.
As a true Silver Knight, he is not afraid of this kind of "Purification" that does more harm than actual damage to Holy Flame.
Seeing that the attack was blocked, the Sun in Sastiel's eyes immediately dimmed and turned into golden vertical pupils. The violent and illusory Storm emerged beside him, with various emotions about to blow to every corner of the hall.
"Mind Deprivation!"
Klein shook "Staff of the Stars" again.
The unformed Mind Storm immediately dissipated, and Sastiel's eyes in the shadows became distracted for a moment.
He was pulled into the dreamland by Klein.
Taking this opportunity, Angel raised "Salinger’s Blood Banner" in her hand and pointed the end of the flagpole at "Dark Angel" who was stunned in place. The invisible flames gathered again and merged with the black flames in her palm, forming Flames of Destruction on the iron-black flagpole that could melt everything.
She threw the flag violently, letting the Flame Spear formed by the projection of "Red Priest" Uniqueness pierce the black wings protecting Sastiel, pierce his chest, and nail the giant-like evil spirit to the throne at the top of the platform.
Black flames surged up instantly, almost turning the entire throne into a huge torch, and the fuel was the "Dark Angel" evil spirit that once slept on it.
Looking at Sastiel with the flagpole on his chest and Black Flame burning on his body, Angel breathed a sigh of relief.
It ended like this... As soon as she expressed this idea in "Connection", she felt that an ocean of illusion and reality appeared in front of her, as if it contained all colors and secrets.
That is the power of "Chaos Sea" that betrayed Klein's Marionette Enyouni and corrupted his shadow!
The dark and viscous illusory ocean gushes out from the "Blasphemy Slate" under Sastiel's throne, and instantly fills the entire hall, causing everyone's thoughts to almost explode. There are layers of murmurs in the ears, and the body and spirit are almost out of control.
If they were not still "connected" to each other, all the pollution from Sefirah would be borne by Angel, and Colin, Lovia, and Derrick would have turned into fallen monsters.
But even so, they could only kneel on the ground at this time, resisting the madness that spontaneously emerged from the divinity in their bodies.
The one who was least affected at this time was Klein. He opened his eyes with difficulty and looked at Angel, who was standing in front of everyone. His long pale golden hair turned black at the end and formed into thick snake hair, with a Affliction struggling expression. He cast his eyes on Sastiel on the throne.
This past "King of Angel" has not completely dissipated, but moved in Black Flame. His eyes were dyed with a brass color, and an illusory river appeared in each eye, connecting end to end, surrounding the burning throne and Himself.
He simulated Snake of Fate's "Reboot" ability!
Klein, who had seen this scene, was shocked that within a few seconds, the "Dark Angel" in front of him would return to the state where it had not suffered any damage not long ago. He raised "Staff of the Stars" without hesitation, manifesting another ability:
"Stealing."
Through the big stone clock Reenactment Amon just now, Klein knew that the King of Angel at the top of "Marauder" allowed himself Reenactment his ability at least for now, so he immediately reached out and grabbed the gray and white stone slab under the throne of Dark Angel.
The invisible connection between "Blasphemy Slate" and "Dark Angel" was immediately transferred to him, as was the aura of "Chaos Sea" that filled the hall but was actively blocked by Angel.
With a bang, Klein's thoughts exploded. A black ocean that accommodated everything seemed to appear in front of his eyes. The skin on his body disintegrated into transparent worms, which quickly spread to the depths of his body.
But as the aura of "Chaos Sea" was contaminated by Stealing, Angel, who was fighting against it through "City of Calamity", regained consciousness, and her eyes He paused for a moment on Klein, who was on the verge of losing control, and then turned to look at Sastiel, whose eyes were filled with River of fate, about to become "Reboot".
The weaknesses of this evil spirit are clearly visible to Angel, who still possesses some of the power of "Conqueror".
With a slight shake of her wrist, Silver Rapier from "Silver Knight" Colin brought her the flames of Demoness and Hunter. Black Flame, which can destroy everything, "flashed" into Sastiel's body, shuttled through every inch of his body, taking away his last will and spirit.
The pair of brass-colored eyes with illusory rivers connected end to end dimmed and were covered with jet-black wings. The huge body that had become tattered quickly dissipated as if blending into the surrounding shadows.
Without the controller, the "Chaos Sea" aura that filled the hall was gone. The shadow curtains covering the walls, floors and stone pillars began to disintegrate, revealing the dusk light that turned orange again.
This shadow area hidden inside the real Giant King’s Court and coexisting with reality finally lost its power to maintain and began to communicate with the outside world.
The gray-white "Blasphemy Slate" at the bottom of the huge throne also appeared from the shadows, and the fine text on it, which seemed to have the common origin of all languages, was clearly visible:
"Twilight Giant"Pathway...
"White Tower"Pathway...
Angel didn't bother to take a closer look, and quickly turned to the direction of Klein, and found that the squirming transparent "Worm of Spirit" on his face and the back of his hands had gradually returned to his body. The signs of losing control slowly disappeared, and he was truly relieved.
At this moment, the clothes on Klein's chest were torn apart, and a ball of dark flesh and blood shot out from inside, rapidly expanding and growing in the air, turning into a giant shadow hand.
That was the "seed" planted by "True Creator" for Klein on the ruins of Demonic Wolf's castle, and it was one of the driving forces that prompted him to come to Giant King’s Court.
It cut off all ties with Klein without mercy and moved towards the real target:
The first piece "Blasphemy Slate"!
This is the purpose of the evil god. With the help of Klein, who possesses the power of Sefirah, he pushes open the door of Giant King's residence and clears out the evil spirits that contain part of his own spirit and will. The evil spirit of pollution "Dark Angel" clears away the aura of "Chaos Sea" that all Gods avoid, and then takes away the piece of "Blasphemy Slate".
But he is not the only one who has the same purpose?
While the giant shadow hand was still growing and taking shape in the air, the corner of the Double Door fan behind the Dark Angel throne shimmered with light.
Then, a black-haired young man wearing a pointed soft hat and a classic black robe walked through the closed door and appeared in the hall where the dusk light gradually enveloped the room.
He adjusted the monocle in his right eye socket, looked at "Blasphemy Slate" that happened to appear in front of him, and raised the corners of his mouth slightly.
PS: Two chapters in one.