Fatal Blow

As the prayer continued, some kind of "seal" spread through the Spirit World and even reached the Physical World. It grew steadily stronger, weakening Angel's connection to both.

Only then was she certain: the culprit that had sealed off the Spirit World and prevented the Queen Anne's Revenge from escaping through it was the Chained God.

The Rose School of the Southern Continent worshiped him, but from what Angel knew, he and the Mother Tree of Desire were two identities of the same evil god.

So the Mother Tree of Desire set this trap for me... This is the second time. Is the power within me really worth an evil god's repeated attention?

Angel touched the Petrification Charm in her pocket, made using that very power, and muttered silently to herself.

Above the deck, Suah's hand, which the Queen Anne's Revenge had been bombarding, now moved to intercept the beams aimed at the other giant hand as it prayed. Thick black liquid swirling around it absorbed the attacks. Black droplets sprayed everywhere, and wounds deep enough to expose bone opened along its arm, but not a single beam pierced its defense.

Forced to watch, Angel grew anxious. She could sense the blackness covering the sky gradually turning a deep, saturated red. An aura unlike the Abomination's mad, oppressive power was slowly spreading.

"Reaper Legion, attack!"

As several cannon blasts knocked the defending Black Giant Hand aside and opened a brief gap, Angel shouted. Behind her, nine armored soldiers—eight large and one small—raised their weapons.

They were not about to attack the Abomination in the sky with ordinary weapons. Instead, through the connection Angel had gained from the Iron-Blooded Knight Beyonder Characteristic, they gathered the strength of the entire Legion to aid her next strike.

That was the strongest support this