How Highly Could He Rank in This World?

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"Crack... crackle..."

Rubble rolled across the inch-by-inch fractured ground, producing crisp yet faint sounds that echoed through the surrounding air.

The center of the forest that had once occupied the same corner as the abandoned church had completely vanished. All that remained was reddish-yellow earth split with countless cracks and tree debris scattered everywhere.

In the middle of that wasteland, two figures stood facing each other.

Off to one side, a man with five pairs of pitch-black wings on his back lay unconscious on the ground.

Looking at the figure opposite him, clad from head to toe in heavy white armor, Noah raised a hand and turned his gaze toward it.

There, the Qi Scales, which had originally been tough enough to rival an immortal body, had been reduced to an extremely dim and fragile layer. It could probably only block attacks on the level of an ordinary High-Class Devil now.

Of course, Noah had not done that himself.

"Did you notice?"

Opposite Noah, Vali, covered in white armor, spoke.

"This is the ability of my Sacred Gear, Devine Dividing. The power of anyone I touch is halved every ten seconds. That diminished power becomes my nourishment, for my own use."

As he said that, Vali seemed to be proving the truth of his words. The light wings behind him spread wide, scattering starlike particles as his aura abruptly surged upward.

"All this power was stolen from you just now. Unless you defeat me directly, this Godslayer of yours will soon become weaker than a human child."

Hearing that, Noah merely clenched his fist and remained silent.

It was not as though