Takamiya Mana endured the intense pain radiating from all over her body and the weakness brought on by excessive Spirit Power consumption, driving her slightly sluggish Manifestation Device, and with difficulty flew to Ellen Mathers's side.
She looked at the scorched battlefield below and the annihilated troops, then gazed at the indifferent, god-like figure high in the sky, her voice carrying a barely perceptible tremor:
"Madam Ellen! Our forces... are... continuing to fight is meaningless! I request an immediate retreat!"
Ellen's gaze was fixed on the Herrscher above, not even sparing Mana a glance. Her voice was like something pulled from an ice cellar, carrying an almost insane stubbornness:
"Retreat?" She repeated the word, as if she had heard an absurd joke, "Do you think... in her presence, we can still get away?"
Her gaze followed the figure suspended on the spatial mirror steps, watching the earth burning beneath her feet and the wreckage of falling warships.
"Unless we defeat her... none of us will leave this grave."
Before she finished speaking, the thrusters on Ellen's back erupted with an unprecedented Dark Blue Flame!
The pendragon was driven at full power, carrying her like a reverse-shooting meteor, tearing through the air, charging resolutely towards the Heavenly Judgment Herrscher high in the sky!
(Fly! I must fly higher than her! Just like she did before!)
At this moment, offense and defense were reversed. Once, Chinatsu had looked up from the ground, burning everything to charge at an invincible god, ultimately stepping onto a higher plane than her opponent.
And now, it was Ellen Mathers's turn, the magician hailed as the world's strongest, to fight with all her might, attempting to fly over that absolute Territory constructed of space and thunder, to challenge the existence that had already transformed into a natural disaster.
The Heavenly Judgment Herrscher looked down at the stubbornly charging golden streak of light, her eyes still devoid of any ripples. Facing Ellen's desperate charge, she didn't even move an inch.
Just as Ellen's lightsaber was about to enter effective range, attempting to use interference light to block her movement path—
"Sizzle—!"
An ear-splitting thunderclap exploded!
The Heavenly Judgment Herrscher's figure suddenly blurred, and in the next instant, she transformed into a surging, flashing purple lightning bolt!
No longer flying, but like true lightning, freely warping and flickering through space!
Ellen's pupils constricted. She rapidly swung her lightsaber, and precise, deadly interference light rays scattered out like a fishing net, attempting to capture the trajectory of the lightning.
However, her predictions, her calculations, her absolute precision that she was renowned for, completely lost their meaning in the face of this lightning-fast speed that surpassed the limits of vision and reaction!
All the light rays futilely passed through the afterimages left by the lightning, unable to even touch the opponent's clothes!
Seeing this, Mana also gathered her strength, attempting to cooperate with Ellen from the flank to launch a pincer attack. But her movements, in front of the lightning, appeared even slower and clumsier.
Just as the two were scrambling, trying to pinpoint the omnipresent lightning—
The lightning suddenly paused, then, with a speed several times greater than before, appeared between Ellen and Mana as if teleporting!
"Boom!!!"
It wasn't an explosion, but a pure energy impact! A circular, purple halo, containing ultimate thunder and spatial tearing power, violently spread out with the Heavenly Judgment Herrscher as its center!
Ellen and Mana didn't even manage to make an effective blocking move. They only felt their protective Territory emit a mournful cry like fragile glass, instantly being crushed and collapsing!
The terrifying impact slammed heavily into their Manifestation Devices and bodies!
"Pfft—!"
Both of them simultaneously spat out a mouthful of blood, blasted away like kites with broken strings, tumbling in the air, their Manifestation Devices sparking, completely losing balance and the ability to counterattack for a short time.
They barely managed to steady themselves in mid-air. The intense pain and the sudden draining of power made their vision go black. They could only futilely look up, gazing at that figure high above.
The Heavenly Judgment Herrscher, at some unknown moment, had returned to her original position, and had even stepped onto a higher spatial mirror step.
She stood with her back to the sun, which was gradually obscured by smoke and dark clouds, only emitting a pale halo. A massive shadow enveloped her, completely hiding the details of her face in darkness.
Only her eyes, burning with golden Prism, like two will-o'-the-wisps in the abyss, coldly looked down at them.
Behind her, the blood-red, headless warrior phantom, emanating an aura of endless war and slaughter, solidified once more.
Its heavily muscled arm armor slowly moved, following the Heavenly Judgment Herrscher's slightly lowered center of gravity, performing an incredibly clear, incredibly standard—
Drawing sword stance!
An indescribable, bone-chilling killing intent, like tangible shackles, instantly gripped Ellen and Mana's throats! It was a premonition of death, a declaration of the end!
At this moment, time seemed to stretch infinitely.
The two stared blankly at the backlit figure high in the sky, about to unleash the blade of finality. Their consciousness seemed to have drifted away, falling into a deathbed hallucination.
Despair, like the deepest darkness, completely swallowed them.
And that massive greatsword, flickering with destructive lightning, along with the invisible blade simultaneously raised by the blood-red warrior phantom, was about to bring this uneven battle to its final conclusion.
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