Above Celestia.
Ellin looked at the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles before her.
Ei had once said that the reason for drawing one's blade determined the heights one's martial prowess could reach.
The same held true for her battle with the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles.
Now, the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles was torn inside.
On one hand, she defied her own love for all things by bringing destruction upon everything in the world.
On the other, that very love made her hesitate, suffer, and weep.
Her heart was filled with pain and hesitation. Fighting with such a heart, how could she defeat the unwavering Ellin?
Ellin's white light easily dispelled all her cube attacks, and its searing radiance had even wounded her badly.
The Sustainer of Heavenly Principles looked at the girl glowing with white light before her.
Destroying what she cherished most, over and over again, had brought her heart immense pain.
Now, her heart was unbearably fragile.
Over and over, birth and destruction cycled endlessly...
This cycle had continued for hundreds of millions of years.
For hundreds of millions of years, destruction and rebirth had repeated without end, forcing her to endure the pain again and again.
To her, she lived in hell, constantly forced to destroy everything she cherished most.
She felt as though she, too, had been cast into a cycle, endlessly enduring the agony of destroying what she loved with her own hands, trapped in ceaseless torment.
To protect this continent, she had to personally destroy the civilizations she had nurtured.
Yet she loved everything, and her heart clung to all that existed in the world. She could not bear to see those brilliant civilizations vanish.
The civilizations she had nurtured from nothing were like her children.
She longed to watch those children run with