The Elf Queen

Beyond the Ritual Plaza, where the prayers rose and fell like waves, Hermes gazed up at the true miracle, the little boy who had just been delivered to him at his side.

They saw the Angel Wings of Dream, and the figure ascending upon storms and thunder.

He held the Book of Dreams in his hand, his Robe of the Sage billowing in the storm. His gloved Right Hand swept lightly across the air before him, and space itself seemed to split apart.

"Is that an Angel?!"

"Yes. He's a true Angel."

Truman rode the storm until he reached the waves. There, he saw the Queen of Calamities hidden among the lightning.

"Your Highness Cohinem, I never expected our first meeting to be under such circumstances." Truman ignored the thunder curling around him and greeted her.

"War! It was your choice!" The Queen of Calamities stared at Truman coldly. The fiercer the storm grew, the stronger the thunder became.

That wasn't entirely wrong... The Giant Race had proposed an alliance, while Truman and Sasrir had deliberately pushed the tide of history forward.

The Elves, naturally, wouldn't wait for their enemies to reach a true consensus. That was why this battle had begun.

"Yes." Truman didn't deny it. "The Elves should step aside."

Cohinem grew even colder at Truman's words. She raised her hand, seized a bolt of lightning, and hurled it at him like a spear.

Rumble!

The storm grew ever more violent, gradually threatening to swallow Truman whole.

But Truman didn't panic. He reached into the Historical Void with his Right Hand and pulled out a familiar figure.

The Historical Projection had long, fluffy, deep-blue hair like seaweed and Angel Wings on his back. Each beat of his wings shook the wind and thunder.

The Wind Angel, Leodero!

Truman and Leodero had been colleagues for centuries, so pulling him out of history was easy.

The moment Leodero appeared, the entire sea fell silent. The towering waves, hundreds of meters high, hung frozen in midair.

The Queen of Calamities frowned at Leodero's appearance. Even she couldn't be sure she could surpass his control over calamities!

"Hmph. He's only a Historical Projection." The Queen of Calamities didn't let her presence falter. She waved a hand, and the waves kept surging forward as wind and thunder gathered at tremendous speed.

"Stop!"

Truman barked the command. Leodero raised both hands and clashed against the Queen of Calamities.

Storm against storm, thunder against thunder. Even the Beyonder Creatures in the sea split into two sides and fought frantically.

Truman, standing outside the clash, didn't remain idle. He went straight for the Queen of Calamities' Spirit Body Thread!

The Queen of Calamities' body stiffened, and her thoughts began to grow mechanical. Under Leodero's attack, she was driven back step by step.

"Begone!" Seeing that she was in danger and couldn't overpower Leodero's Historical Projection quickly, the Queen of Calamities roared.

Her roar was like the wrath of heaven. Her Sequence Status crushed Leodero's Historical Projection outright, making him collapse in an instant.

Even Truman was shaken by the pressure. It was as if he'd returned to the Giant King's Court and heard the Elf King's roar. His control over the Spirit Body Thread was instantly severed.

It was the "Singing" of a Sequence 5 Ocean Songster of the Storm Pathway, but a "Singing" that could affect Truman was no ordinary one.

"The Elf King's power?" Truman understood. It made sense that the Elf Queen would enjoy the Elf King's favor, didn't it?

"I wish my next theft to succeed!" Truman held up his Right Hand before his lips and made a Wish.

Then he made it come true.

Truman reached out and grabbed at the air. His luck became good enough, and the Trojan Horse of Destiny's theft powerful enough, to steal "tsunami" directly from Cohinem.

The abilities of the Gou Three Families really were powerful when combined!

An endless storm seemed to flash through Truman's eyes. With a thought, he sent the vast sea surging back a thousand meters.

Cohinem had sensed something was wrong the moment Truman reached out, but "theft" was difficult to defend against. Her ability had been stolen outright.

"Lightning Storm!" Cohinem made the best choice available to her, commanding an endless Lightning Storm to crush down upon him!

At sea, the Storm Pathway received an immense boost. The blazing white lightning forced Truman to evade with flashes of teleportation.

He didn't even dare turn into an information stream. The storm caused by the lightning could destroy his information body.

But he soon launched a counterattack, sending the towering waves crashing toward Cohinem!

Yet when Cohinem looked down at the sea with her majestic eyes, the entire ocean grew calm and returned to her control.

This was the authority over the ocean, far more useful than the single ability "tsunami."

Truman's mouth twitched. He even felt as if he were foolishly challenging the Elf King!

Cohinem had shared in the Elf King's authority!

The towering waves came surging back. Left with no choice, Truman could only defend. He held a hand before him and unleashed "Space Barrier," raising a wall of space hundreds of meters high and thousands of meters long.

Rumble!

Silver-white Lightning Snakes struck again, battering the Space Barrier. Their terrifying aura of destruction threatened to bore through space itself.

Boom!

Endless waves slammed into the Space Barrier. Truman shuddered and lost control of space.

He flashed away. The waves accelerated to a terrifying speed in a short time, and the force they had built up was enough to overcome even space.

The Space Barrier shattered, and the waves surged onward, unstoppable!

Soon, a thorn-wrapped cloth doll appeared in Truman's hand. Its strange eyes stared straight at Cohinem.

A curse began to spread and take hold. For a moment, Cohinem was in terrible condition. Her body turned hazy, shifting back and forth between a rabbit and an Elf.

All kinds of other curses took effect, too. Even the seawater under Cohinem's control showed signs of rebelling against her.

This was Truman's Sequence One "Abomination," which he had fashioned into a Mystical Item.

But the Sequence One item proved surprisingly ineffective against Cohinem. The curse fell upon her, yet couldn't turn her into a harmless little white rabbit.

Brilliant lightning flashed, dispelling every curse.

"Not enough Sequence Status?" Truman hadn't expected that, but he quickly understood and put the doll away.

Cohinem's own Sequence Status was still Sequence Two, an Angel level Truman could easily defeat.

But she carried too many blessings and gifts from the Elf King. The authority she commanded was even more extraordinary than that of a Sequence One!

Truman was no longer fighting the Queen of Calamities. He was fighting the Elf Queen.

None of his several powerful skills seemed capable of handling this.

He didn't even dare use "theft" anymore.

He couldn't steal the blessings and abilities bestowed by the Elf King. They were blessings to Cohinem, but would certainly become curses to him—and provoke the Elf King into sending down a furious bolt of lightning.

And Leodero, summoned from the Historical Void, couldn't withstand the pressure of a superior being. He had been crushed in an instant.