"That bolt of lightning instantly pierced through both Will Auceptin's and my Divine Kingdoms, leaving Osekuas half-crippled before vanishing without a trace..."
As he spoke, Adam, the Sun God, took out the Bone Church and showed Grisha the gap in it:
"And after we killed Osekuas, both his body and soul shattered completely and vanished, leaving behind only the Sun's Extraordinary Characteristic Polymer."
"This gap was made by that?"
Although he had noticed the hole in the Bone Church that let light through during the battle, Amon had assumed it was Osekuas's doing. He had never expected it to be the result of such... undeserved calamity.
But... it had instantly pierced through two Divine Kingdoms and reduced a Sequence Zero at the height of his power to half-crippled?
And judging from what happened after Osekuas's death, that lightning bolt could clearly have killed Osekuas on the spot if it wanted to. It had even had considerable leeway to leave behind such room for maneuver.
"Then isn't that even more unreasonable? Osekuas offended Shopkeeper Reed's name and was punished by heavenly lightning. No matter how you look at it, it should have been the work of one of the Café's shopkeepers. Perhaps Delasion, who also wielded the Tyrant's power?"
Amon frowned.
"The same power appearing here only proves even more that the one who killed Leodro was actually a shopkeeper, doesn't it? Why bring Sonia Solom into this?"
"No, that lightning did not come from the Tyrant... It was not natural lightning, nor was it even driven by Extraordinary power."
Grisha examined the hand Adam, the Sun God, had extended and sensed the power lingering on it.
"Unconcealed strength, bearing the nature of destruction. Even the body of an Angel King could barely withstand contact with its residual power, and after