Three Purple Traits!
The Giantess dared not take the shot and immediately tried to retreat to keep her distance.
Just as Iver was about to rush over and attack her, he suddenly made a cunning feint and stopped in his tracks.
In that split second of misalignment, the Giantess took a wrong step and just stepped out of Iver's attack range.
The height difference between them is too great.
Even after being enlarged by the Magic Cauldron, Iver is only three meters tall.
Compared to the ten-meter-tall Giantess, he looked as small as an underage child or a slightly larger dog.
But precisely because of this, the Giantess only needs to step back slightly to escape his attack range.
The Giantess also realized this.
Her pupils suddenly contracted.
—How could this human know how to use Rhongomyniad! But it was too late.
Iver transformed into a pure white ghostly phantom, flying up with lightning speed and moving to her side. The spear burning with Holy Fire, like a long nail, pierced heavily into her heart from the side and back of her chest!
The Holy Fire instantly surged into her rough, rubble-like skin, causing the Giantess's skin to crack like a spiderweb and burst into tiny sparks.
The attack struck decisively, searing her heart with the Holy Fire. The Giantess's power immediately weakened. But she did not die instantly.
Iver held the Holy Lance in one hand, hanging in the air.
He stomped hard on the Giantess and used the recoil to pull out the Holy Lance.
As she fell from the sky, the Giantess wielded her hand axe and viciously cleaved at Iver was unable to dodge in mid-air.
However, Iver remained fearless and unyielding, only a strange and arrogant arc appeared at the corner of his mouth.
He didn't try to block or defend himself, letting the Giantess send him flying.
The attack did not cause him any harm; instead, it restored him to his best condition.
The instant Iver was knocked away, he raised his Holy Lance, poised to attack.
—And so, the instant Iver was knocked away, he transformed once again into a pure white phantom, gracefully and swiftly attacking the Giantess's head from the other side.
She instinctively used her hand axe to parry and try to dodge.
The pure white phantom effortlessly bypassed the attack, stepping on her shoulder as the Holy Lance pierced her right collarbone.
The Giantess swiftly reached out and grabbed Iver's head—given her size, Iver's head was easily crushed with one hand. And she certainly could.
As Iver drew his Holy Lance, the Shadow Demon beneath him coalesced into a spiraling spear that pierced the Giantess's throat.
Under the protection of the divine power of the Supreme Heaven, the Shadow Fiend's attack caused almost no damage.
However, it was indeed hanging on the Giantess's body.
Shadow Fiend pulled Iver along, making him run across the giant's body as if defying gravity. In two steps, he flipped over and climbed toward her head, grabbing her hair.
The Holy Lance, like a steel-cast cone, was raised high by Iver, ready to pierce the back of the Giantess's head.
She couldn't escape the lock-on of this attack—even if she could shake Iver off by tossing her head, Iver could use the Holy Lance's counterattack to strike again.
This is a fatal blow.
" —Arthur!!"
A furious roar came from the doorway, and the Giant Chieftain Aspavaton arrived belatedly. "I should have eaten you long ago!"
He clearly recognized the warrior that Iver was playing at that moment.
He recognized the Holy Lance that "Arthur" was currently holding—
That is the vanguard spear, "Rhongomyniad".
It was the weapon held by his own nephew, the original owner of this temple, and the original husband of his wife— the Candle Holder Apostle Kastening, whom he had killed.
Without a doubt, this gun was powerful enough to kill his wife.
Those bloodshot eyes, gleaming with a dim yellow light, stared at Iver, Iver, with the Holy Lance raised, was instantly petrified while still in that position.
"Mr. Aleister!"
Barton couldn't help but exclaim.
Seeing this, Lily jumped out of the shadows without hesitation and attacked Aspar Waton —however, the gray threads she released could not pull him at all.
Aspar Waton didn't even notice that someone was pulling him; Lily was completely out of his sight.
The Giantess reacted immediately.
In a fit of dread, she grabbed the stone-faced Iver from behind her head. She didn't hesitate to tear off her own hair to throw him far away.
But just then...
The stone shell, which was powerful enough to petrify a dragon instantly, suddenly cracked for no apparent reason.
A howling black storm surged from the petrified Iver, its impact causing even the Giantess to drop her grip—
—That's Spell Card created by Iver using the power of the Shadow Fiend, the [Shadow Cloak], capable of dispelling control effects! [Spell: Shadow Cloak (Moon)]
[Required: Dark 1]
[Immediate, contactless, and effective immediately]
[Effect: Knocks back all nearby targets, immediately removes any current status effects such as Seal, Freeze, Burn, Bind, and Petrify, and grants complete invisibility for one minute (+30%). This effect inflicts a curse on all hostile targets in your line of sight when your invisibility is broken, with an effect equivalent to "Blinding Curse".]
This equipment was crafted by Iver himself, so it was naturally suitable for use in the Promotion Ritual! Amidst the roaring torrent of shadows, Iver suddenly vanished into the shadows.
His being thrown by the Giantess also freed her from the range of his spear—
Therefore, it's only a moment away.
Blood spurted out—
Emerging silently from his invisible state, Iver's Holy Lance had already pierced one of the Giantess ' eyes.
As the Holy Fire burst within the Giantess's brain, her head exploded! Aspar Waton roared and lunged at Iver.
He had just raised his hand, aiming it at Iver.
Iver immediately felt an extremely strong sense of threat.
That was a profound sense of crisis, completely different from the feeling felt when fighting the Giantess—
But it was too late.
Because the time for the ceremony has arrived.
Iver fell from the sky.
He didn't even glance at the Giant Chieftain Aspavaton, but instead turned to Barton with a bright smile and raised three fingers high, as if to remind him of something.
The next moment, a pure white light shone before everyone's eyes, including all the ritual participants who had already died.
That was the brilliance of a hastily constructed dream world suddenly collapsing and disintegrating.
Before everyone's eyes, a series of constantly changing images appeared: a monk with flames burning his hands together, gradually withdrawing the flames, and the next moment he was pierced by countless sea urchin-like shadows.
The person, looking terrified, kept retreating, and the next moment he was instantly hoisted up by the threads of shadow, and then his head was severed;
A person with an expressionless face holds a thin gray thread between their hands, wraps it around their hands several times to make a thick rope, and then strangles the calm, closed-eye person from behind. The scene changes to the same person, who sits quietly on the ground looking into the distance, holding another person who is also not resisting. With a snap, the person easily breaks the neck.
The man, his face flushed red, shouted something, then was pierced through the body by a huge, sharp shadow spear that shot out in front of him, and his entire body fell into the shadowy mud and slowly melted;
The man cowering in the corner stared intently at the bronze door that had been opened with a large hole, while the Shadow Demon stood silently behind him. The faceless Shadow Demon grinned a terrifying smile, its grotesque shadow claws lightly resting on the man's shoulder, whispering something in his ear, before countless sharp, barbed spikes pierced through his back.
Finally, there was the young man whose heart was pierced by the Shadow Fiend, and who fell helplessly from the air.
He flashed a smug smile, raised three fingers, and stared at the camera as if he were staring at the person behind the camera.
The image then freezes on the young man's smile.
The entire scene collapsed and turned into the Blood Sea, dripping onto the ground.
Unlike the Full Moon Ritual, this "highlights" does not include the subsequent scenes of defeating the giants... it only shows the "death replays" of each person.
And Iver returned to the Blood Sea world where he first started.
There were no other chairs, only the knight Gawain, clad in silver armor and wielding a golden holy sword, quietly watching Iver and nodding slightly.
A series of light screens rapidly descended before his eyes, displaying Iver's settlement points: [Necessary Task completed]
[Unnecessary killing: Killing other people (Points: 1200)]
[Escape the Crisis: Leave the storage room you are in (Points: 500)]
[I am the Saint!: Possessing the Holy Lance (Points: 100)]
[The Nature of the Transcender: Actively attack the giant and deal effective damage (Points: 1000)]
[Courage to overcome the odds: Slay a giant with the Holy Lance (Points: 3000)]
[Total points: 5800, ranked first]
The next moment, the figure of the Pillar God, whom Iver had never seen before, appeared from afar—
It was a giant snake with purplish-red scales, resembling a dragon.
His entire body was covered in feathers that changed from light green to deep blue, and his tail had magnificent blue-purple tail feathers that were as fluffy as a phoenix or a peacock, and two wings that were spread high. The wings were still colorful, with two huge pure gold feathers that hung down from the tips of the wings like a bishop's shawl.
—That is the Pillar God Serpent Father Path of Transcendence.
He hovered in the air and slowly dropped a blue-purple feather.
It burst open in front of Iver, turning into blue-purple smoke which Iver inhaled.
Three heavy buzzing sounds emanated from Iver's eyes, and three beams of purple light flashed out simultaneously:
[Challenger's Courage (Purple): You have defeated the seemingly invincible. Facing the strong, you will not waver.]
[The Silent Dead (Purple): You have died, and you have risen again. You may die again, but you will return in silence.]
[Shadow Avatar (Purple): You are the vessel, and also the avatar. The shadow is no longer your enemy.]
After thinking about whether to post it at 6 PM or just now, I decided to post it just now! Chapter Two, updated!