Stelle had returned to her original appearance.
She was still being blasted backward again and again, the bat in her hand flying from her grip.
But Stelle did not give up. Her eyes burned with fighting spirit.
She clenched her teeth, forcibly steadied herself, charged forward, and grabbed the bat.
The instant she caught it, the power of Destruction blazed across the bat like raging flames, turning the entire thing into a torch.
Stelle gripped the bat with both hands and charged toward the barrier ahead, glaring furiously as she shouted:
"Flame-Chasing... has never been 'Destruction'!"
"It is the act of breaking through the cage..."
"'Trailblaze'!"
As Stelle smashed her bat into the final barrier formed from Iron Tomb's hatred, images of the Chrysos Heirs flashed before her eyes.
At that moment, Stelle no longer seemed to be herself. It was as though she and everyone from Amphoreus were smashing their fury into the barrier together.
With a deafening boom, the scarlet, chaotic barrier was brutally smashed open by Stelle's golden power of Destruction, leaving a perfectly round hole in its center.
Amid the sound of the barrier's energy shattering, Stelle broke through it like a force of nature and returned to the battlefield as though escaping a cage.
At the same time, behind Stelle, Cyrene's incomparably massive body passed through the opening in the barrier and arrived at her side to fight alongside her.
Ahead of them were Dan Heng and March 7th, who had been instantly defeated earlier.
The moment Stelle and Cyrene returned—
Their bodies were reconstructed in the blink of an eye, as though time had reversed.
Stelle had finally returned. She had survived a desperate situation.
She fell from the sky with a smile on her face, dropped to one knee, planted her bat against