-You escaped with your life.
As Roland made that declaration, Gabriel happened to explode into fragments, becoming a mass of formless energy.
He was not reenacting some classic scene.
Gabriel was, after all, an archangel capable of freely manipulating celestial bodies. Yet because she was not an independent individual, merely a tool formed by a phase according to her concept, Roland, with his superior standing and permissions, was her natural counter.
Even so, for that very same reason, although the power she displayed was insignificant to the truly strong, annihilating her was rather troublesome.
Roland's power had shattered and scattered her, but that did not mean it had harmed her essence.
It was like punching water: the water would splash everywhere, but that did not mean its mass had decreased.
As long as Angel Fall remained active, inevitably dragging down a portion of angel power, Gabriel would acquire a body from matter again.
Without interrupting the ritual or directly erasing her with the all-purpose Imagine Breaker, the only way to destroy her was to devour every last bit of her angel power.
Neither option was difficult for Roland, though.
The Shadow of the Red Dragon behind him extended a claw, gathering the angel power that should have dispersed into a ball and allowing Gabriel to gradually revive.
However, after being shattered and reassembled, the angel could no longer maintain even the appearance of the girl she had replaced upon falling, instead revealing her true form.
A blue ring of water hovered above her head. Her skin and clothing had completely merged, with golden, leaf-vein-like lines spread across the white fabric, secured by pins of the same color.
Even her facial features were expressed through the fabric's contours, and her entire body seemed to have condensed from water and ice.
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