Sevenfold Heavenly Mountain

Ganzros City had activated its magical barrier as soon as the battle began, but the barrier, built at enormous expense by Archmage Tingen, was shattered at once by radiance projected down from the Sevenfold Heavenly Mountain. The runes engraved on the four magic towers cracked, and their magical glow went out.

After praying for divine guidance, the bishops of the major temples steadied themselves and sent people to evacuate the faithful near the Wizard Tower.

Under the Continental Convention, Legendary beings and those above them were forbidden from unleashing wide-area attacks in densely populated places. Violators would face divine punishment.

Both sides in this battle had deliberately limited the range of their attacks and had not violated the Continental Convention, so the gods had no grounds to intervene in a war between two Demigods.

Inside Tingen's Wizard Tower, just as the dim yellow fireball was about to strike, Light of All Worlds suddenly unfurled a pair of pure white wings.

Layer upon layer of illusory scenes appeared around him. Light of All Worlds, standing before Jiang Hao, exchanged places with an illusion in Mochulia, within Golden Heaven.

Light of All Worlds vanished, and the illusion appeared in his place.

Bang!

Struck by both "Setting Sun" and the damage transferred through the Yata Mirror, the illusion shattered.

The next moment, Light of All Worlds reappeared where he had stood.

At the same time, his wounds began to heal. The charred flesh on his back writhed, revealing fair skin, and his spine returned to its original shape.

Two winged angels appeared beside him, one on either side.

Seraphic Attendants... As Jiang Hao looked at them, information about them came to him.

Seraphic Attendants were native beings formed when warriors from other planes were reborn on the Sevenfold Heavenly Mountain. They loved battle and had always stood on the front lines against evil.

Some of the stronger Seraphic Attendants were recruited by gods to serve as their warriors.

The handsome Seraphic Attendant on Light of All Worlds' left curled his lips into a smile and beat his wings. "Heh. You're nothing like a native False God born of the Heart of Nature Plane."

"Since the Heart of Nature Plane merged with the Main Plane, I've slain three False Gods at my lord's command. They were born before you and had more original worshippers than you, but none was nearly as troublesome. I killed them with hardly any effort."

"You have a Divine Artifact, but you shouldn't. Who's backing you? That lady?"

"I know you won't answer. That's fine. I'm only distracting you."

As he spoke, a flash of silver appeared before Jiang Hao.

"Heh. The power of the Prophecy School has blocked your sense of danger. Even as a Demigod, you can't sense a threat when someone gets right up close."

Jiang Hao twisted instinctively, dodging the silver flash with a movement no ordinary person could make.

The next moment, Light of All Worlds and the Seraphic Attendant on his right attacked together. Two beams of Light of Judgment, so pure they would admit nothing but the radiance of Dawn, blazed forth.

The attendant on his left chuckled as the beams struck out.

"Heh. I lied. Assassins are known for killing in one strike, but only against those below the Demigod level. Even a Legendary assassin can't harm a Demigod's divine essence. Assassins aren't known for raw power, after all, so I had no need to block your senses."

Jiang Hao's Demigod-level divine intuition stirred. The feeling of imminent danger made his hair stand on end, and he moved to evade almost by instinct.

Suddenly, another silver flash appeared and stabbed straight at his head.

If he dodged the Legendary assassin, the Light of Judgment would hit him. If he dodged the Light of Judgment, the Legendary assassin would hit him.

Faced with the Light of Judgment, which his divine intuition warned him against, and the silver flash, which stirred no sense of danger at all, Jiang Hao chose to dodge the former.

Inevitably, the silver dagger pierced Jiang Hao's head. It twisted slightly, then withdrew, drawing a mixture of white and red matter from the wound.

The Seraphic Attendant on the left chuckled again. "Heh. I lied again. I didn't block your senses. I reversed them, making you mistake an attack that couldn't hurt you for a dangerous one, and an attack that could kill you in one strike for something harmless."

"A Legendary assassin's attacks are weak, unless the assassin has a fine weapon. Ather's dagger is Legendary. In the last epoch, a Master Assassin used it to slay the Demigod dragon Alfred. That's how it earned its new name: the Silver Dragon Slayer."

A middle-aged man with an ordinary face, a gray robe, and slightly cloudy eyes stepped out of the void. Quiet and unassuming, he looked like any other man walking down the street.

Light of All Worlds stepped forward and slowly folded his wings. His face was expressionless, his voice indifferent. "The fallen evil god who stole my lord's authority is dead. Fulgres, Cecil, take his body back to Mochulia for my lord to deal with."

The two Seraphic Attendants nodded and stepped forward together.

Suddenly, a short sword covered in blood-colored runes thrust into Cecil's chest. A slight twist of the blade shredded his heart.

His powerful body fell at once. Crimson blood poured out, staining his pure white wings.

Jiang Hao, who should have been lying on the floor, stood up. The great hole in his skull, which exposed the white brain inside, rapidly healed. He looked at Fulgres and chuckled. "Heh. I lied to you too. I wasn't dead at all."

The sudden turn startled Ather. Instinctively, he turned incorporeal and hid in the shadows, but a silver flash emerged from the darkness and pierced his head.

Mirror Ather, identical to him, held an identical Silver Dragon Slayer. He twisted it slightly and drew out the same mixture of white and red matter.

"Something's wrong... We need to get out of here."

Fulgres and Light of All Worlds unfurled their pure white wings at the same time.

Layer upon layer of illusory scenes appeared around them. Illusions in Mochulia, within Golden Heaven, exchanged places with them.

The two illusions took their places in the Wizard Tower, while Fulgres and Light of All Worlds appeared in Mochulia.

But the next moment, a Meteor streaked across Mochulia.

In Golden Heaven, Light of All Worlds lowered his head and stared at the "branch" piercing his chest, disbelief in his eyes.