“Uwoooooooooh!”
With a spirited yell, Sone charged toward Meiru, blocking the spells Miledi threw at him with his Purge Territory. Darrion charged forward as well, his spear glowing brighter than it ever had before, and the rest of his Paladins followed behind him. Half of the knights were stopped by Oscar’s five remaining Shadow Knight Lords, while Oscar intercepted Sone personally, his glasses glowing faintly.
Hmph, I’ve already seen that trick. And if I know it’s coming, it can’t do a thing to me... Sone thought. He was already aware of Oscar’s glasses’ blinding flash. Closing his eyes, he relied on his other senses to keep track of his surroundings. He knew that if he could just get close enough, he’d be able to trap both Meiru and Miledi in his territory, even if it cost him his life.
Arrogantly thinking he’d gotten one up on Oscar, he continued forward...only to be hit by a surprise attack.
“Soul Shock.”
“Huh?!”
Caught off-guard, Sone lost control of his mana. His eyes flew open in surprise just in time to hear the words he’d been dreading.
“Super Glasses Beam.”
A blinding flash hit Sone in the eyes. He tried to fall back and heal, but for some reason, his consciousness seemed to be growing as dim as his eyesight. Right before he died, he realized through another knight’s telepathy what had happened to him.
Oscar’s new and improved beam didn’t just blind, it was a destructive ray of pure power. Moreover, that energy wasn’t coming from magic, but rather from hyper-focused sunlight. Part of Oscar’s glasses frames had actually been turned into a storage device to hold light and heat. He could only fire off this super beam once, but as it didn’t rely on magic Sone couldn’t guard against it with his Purge Territory.
Only a man as innovative as Oscar Orcus would have come up with the idea of firing sunlight from his eyes.
“Holy crap! Your glasses are super scary, O-kun!”
“Even worse, your naming sense is utterly awful, Oscar-kun.”
“Shut it, you two!”
“Heeey, Oscar, you never told us about that ability! Can our glasses do that too?! If not, when are we getting the upgraded versions?!”
“Naiz...I can’t believe you’ve become a glasses fanatic too!”
“That was amazing, O-chan-san! Glasses really do have the power to rule the world!”
“Don’t forget that this is a battlefield, you guys. Calm down.”
As soon as Sanctified Purge had been dispelled, teleportation to the Divine Mountain had become possible again, so Naiz, Vandre, Lyutillis, and Laus had all made their way over. Laus sighed and slapped Lyutillis on the back, reminding her to use her evolution magic on everyone.
“I-I didn’t know you had a sadistic streak, Lau-chan-san—Supreme Ascendance!” Lyutillis exclaimed, casting her strongest evolution magic spell on Miledi and the others.
“Fight! Fight for Lord Ehit! Show him a crusade that shall go down in history!” Lucifer shouted in a crazed voice, making Darrion, the remaining knights, and the two surviving apostles’ mana surge.
“Sorry, but this is the end of the line for your pathetic god,” Miledi said in a deadly-serious voice. She then raised one hand into the air and a spiral of sky-blue mana shot up toward the heavens. It pierced the dark clouds, sending them scattering, and seemingly illuminated the entire world.
“Pope Lucifer. Don’t think that the skies belong to you.”
“You insolent little—!”
With her debuffs gone and Lyutillis’s evolution magic enhancing her strength, Miledi was far stronger than Lucifer.
“Stop her even if it costs you your lives! There is no greater honor than martyrdom!” Lucifer screamed.
“Knights, fight until your last breath!” Darrion commanded.
A second later, they all charged at Miledi. But unfortunately for them, they wouldn’t even be able to reach her. After all, unlike the last time Miledi Reisen had challenged Ehit, she wasn’t alone. Now she had six comrades to guard her back...and they weren’t going to let Darrion and his ilk lay even a finger on her.
Oscar fired off blast after blast of disintegration magic while also spreading his metal wires around to trap the knights. Meiru expanded the range of her time-slowing zone, catching an apostle and ten knights with it. Naiz also deployed an expanding space corridor to keep the other apostle from approaching, while hitting a few other knights with spatial explosions. Vandre took care of any knights that managed to slip past the others, while Lyutillis erected a manifold barrier around Miledi.
Darrion used his Golden Rule to copy Lyutillis’s evolution magic to power himself up even further, but he had to contend with Laus, who was powered up by both evolution magic and his own Limit Break’s final stage.
Miledi easily managed to counter Lucifer’s magic, and sunlight shone down on Tortus once more.
“Starfall.”
The name of Miledi’s spell was an apt descriptor. A swarm of meteors rained down, glinting in the light of the sun.
“Watch out above you! Retreat!” one of the apostles shouted. Unfortunately, that warning was pointless, since Oscar and the others had the knights and apostles trapped in place.
A second later, a meteor storm that Miledi had quite literally pulled out of space hit the Divine Cathedral. Friction had reduced the meteors to little more than fist-size, but at the speed they were going, that was still enough to do serious damage. There was an ear-splitting boom as the meteors obliterated the cathedral and the knights protecting it. And naturally, Miledi had perfect control over each of those meteors, so none of them even came close to the Liberators.
Darrion switched over to copying Naiz’s spatial magic and was able to erect a spatial barrier strong enough to protect him from the meteors. However, that took all of his attention, so he wasn’t able to stop Naiz from reaching through his barrier with spatial magic and hitting him directly with a Voidshatter. Naiz was strong enough that barriers were meaningless against him now.