At this moment, the battle between Yanile and Paramisius had entered its final stage.
The ancient existence released from the Seal was ultimately unable to resist the power of holy light. Under Saint-Transformed Yanile's assault, it steadily retreated, its body once again divided and compressed into pieces before gradually dissipating within the light.
However, Yanile was not having an easy time either.
Unlike a normal battle between Professionals, fighting Paramisius was more akin to containing the spread of a natural disaster. In truth, rather than fighting Yanile, Paramisius was merely reflexively writhing and extending its body, attempting to envelop and assimilate him.
As a special existence resembling an informational state, Paramisius's true body could not be destroyed by ordinary attacks.
All Yanile could do was use his holy power, which was nearing a Legendary qualitative transformation, to assimilate its body, then control it and force it to disperse itself, thereby continuously drawing closer to its true core.
Such an operation consumed an astonishing amount of holy power.
Although the Saint Transformation state could gather a vast quantity of holy power, it was not limitless. Excessive consumption would only cause him to directly exit the Saint state.
What made Yanile breathe a slight sigh of relief, however, was that just as his holy power consumption gradually approached the danger threshold, he finally found Paramisius's true core.
It was a mass of gathered, rippling matter. Under the illumination of holy light, it appeared indistinctly, displaying all manner of bizarre and grotesque lights, sounds, shapes, and colors.
But at that moment, Yanile's heart suddenly stirred. An instinctive spiritual warning told him that an uninvited guest had joined the battlefield!
The newcomer was likewise shrouded in holy light, emanating an obvious Ninth Rank aura. It seemed that one of the Holy Radiance Church's powerful