Mereoleona lay at the center of a smoking crater.
Most of her body had suffered severe burns, charred black all over. Her Coat of Justice and suit had long since turned to ashes.
Only a few scraps of underwear remained on her body, preventing the Divine Beast of Censorship from appearing.
"Cough, cough. Cough, cough."
As she tried to rise, she coughed violently. Every breath brought searing pain, and her consciousness was on the verge of fading.
Although Sakazuki had held back and had not directly taken her life,
these injuries still counted as grievous wounds. An ordinary person would have long since gone to the Underworld.
In the distance, Sakazuki glanced at Mereoleona, who had lost her ability to fight.
Then he slowly lowered his fist, slipped it into his pocket, turned around, and prepared to leave.
In his view, this first "Paramount War" had already ended.
However.
Just as Sakazuki took two steps forward,
an indescribably powerful aura, accompanied by even fiercer and more vigorous flames,
erupted from the crater where Mereoleona lay.
With a thunderous burst, it shattered the double seal formed by the magic barrier above and the Chakra barrier technique.
In the blink of an eye, it formed an enormous pillar of fire that shot into the heavens and boiled the White Sea.
"What... is that?!"
Cries of alarm immediately erupted throughout the various camps of Army Headquarters.
At the same time,
inside the pillar of fire, Mereoleona lowered her head and crouched on the surface of the boiling magma.
The grimoire floating before her, also radiating firelight, rapidly flipped through its pages with a rustle.
At last, it stopped on a new blank page.
At the same time, lines of glowing white magic runes, spell formulas, and magic circle patterns rapidly appeared.
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