Chapter 104: Divine Descent

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‘I can’t believe this is happening.’

Buck barely managed to hold back the mid-tier demon race’s zhanmadao, sparks flying from the violent friction at the point of impact.

His feet sank deep into the soil, the muscles of his arms bulging high, veins standing out.

“Run… kid!”

Buck gritted his teeth and said.

With that, he cleaved the mid-tier demon race in front of him in one swing.

Just as he was about to go help Rayne, suddenly, another group of mid-tier demons rushed in from the surroundings, surrounding the two of them in a tight circle.

Not only that, Xuezhu and Fanjia also stepped out from among the group of mid-tier demons.

Buck could tell at a glance that the strength of these two was not to be underestimated.

“Kekeke, this human has a divine blessing of the holy attribute on him. We can’t use our demon race’s evil attribute magic, otherwise the damage will be reduced.”

“In that case, weak human, die.”

They must be demon generals.

Buck raised the greatsword in his hand, gripping the hilt tightly, ready for battle.

Then he saw Xuezhu let out an unpleasant laugh and raise its tumorous tentacles.

A red-and-white magic circle emerged above the tentacles.

Then it quickly moved to hover over Rayne and Buck’s heads.

[High-level Magic: Extreme Pressure LV.max]

Generates intense gravity, crushing the target to death.

Immediately after—

boom!

The intense gravity pressed down, instantly crushing Buck to the ground with not even a shred of room to resist.

Rayne had been lying down to begin with, and now there was even less chance of getting up.

Buck glared with wide eyes, his face twisted and ferocious, both hands bracing against the greatsword stuck in the ground, his head lowered and able only to look at the dirt.

“Is this the limit?!”

His armor shattered piece by piece across his body.

He gritted his teeth and held on, closing his eyes, his heart filled with unwillingness.

“It’s over.”

Xuezhu said with a laugh, about to end both their lives.

Rayne was just as unwilling.

“It’s over.”

Suddenly, the sky changed.

Without any warning, the gray, overcast sky was torn apart in an instant.

Then, a blindingly brilliant golden-white pillar of light came crashing down directly through the split clouds.

The light was so dazzling it enveloped the entire battlefield, all of Tattle Town, and even the distant mountain range.

Accompanying the pillar of light as it descended was a massive and intricate golden magic circle.

The magic circle slowly rotated in midair, covered in dense, tightly packed divine runes.

The moment the pillar of light struck the ground, no explosion sounded, and no shockwave was produced.

But the entire world seemed to have been pressed on the pause button.

Everyone involuntarily raised their heads.

Xuezhu’s tentacle, which had been swung halfway, stopped dead in midair.

It raised its head in terror, staring at the blinding golden light above.

Within it, a figure spreading magnificent wings could be faintly seen, slowly descending.

Fanjia also jerked its head up.

It sensed an aura that made its very soul tremble.

Holy aura!

At that moment, the gravity pressing down on Buck and Rayne dissipated into nothing the instant the pillar of light landed.

Buck felt the pressure on his body suddenly vanish and gasped for air.

He opened his eyes and found that everything around him was bathed in golden-white light.

The light wasn’t harsh at all; instead, it carried an indescribably warm and reassuring feeling.

“This is…?”

Buck froze, lowering his head to look at his own body.

The bones that had just been crushed, the torn muscles and skin, were all healing at a visible speed.

In less than a second, all his wounds were completely gone.

Not only were the wounds healed, but his stamina had fully recovered, even more abundant than at his peak.

Buck whipped his head around to look at Rayne beside him.

Rayne was also staring blankly at his own right shoulder.

It had been empty and mangled there before.

But now, a new arm had grown out, while the severed arm still lay in the pool of blood on the ground.

“This…”

Rayne’s eyes went wide, filled with utter disbelief.

“This light… what kind of light is it?”

He raised his head and looked at the sky.

It wasn’t just the two of them.

Across the entire battlefield, every survivor, even the border guard army soldiers and adventurers who had been on the brink of death, all felt the miracle at that very moment.

The soldiers whose arms had been cut off and stomachs pierced by the demons had their wounds close in an instant.

The adventurers who had collapsed on the ground waiting to die from depleted mana found their mana instantly restored to full.

“My leg! My leg is fine!”

A guard army soldier shouted, leaping up from the ground.

“God above, what on earth is happening?!”

Another adventurer stared at his own perfectly intact hands, trembling all over with excitement.

On the balcony of the Lord’s Mansion.

The view here was excellent, so good that one could see the battle outside the city at a glance.

With a great enemy at the gates, Constantine sat on a chair at the round table, leisurely taking a sip of tea.

She was still wearing that white European-style suit jacket, a row of bright silver buttons neatly arranged on her chest, with intricate white lace adorning her collar and cuffs.

When she saw this scene, she closed her eyes and broke into a smile.

“I too have tried to believe in the Goddess more deeply, Saint Freya.”

If it were the old her, she would have personally gone to the battlefield to reduce casualties.

But now, after seeing the Goddess’s face and witnessing with her own eyes the many miracles the Goddess had performed, she had finally begun to understand how Saint Freya felt.

With just a single word of faith, one could unconditionally trust the Goddess.

This time, she had done it too.

Aiwei stood beside Constantine, staring dumbfounded at the distant horizon.

From the very first moment of battle, her anxiety had never stopped.

She had even begun to suspect that the Lady Ruler had betrayed humanity and defected to the demons.

But the Lady Ruler kept telling her to stay calm.

Only now did she finally understand the Lady Ruler’s intentions.

On the battlefield.

Xuezhu and Fanjia, however, experienced something entirely different.

When the golden-white divine light shone upon them, they felt no warmth or healing.

Instead, they felt an indescribable, excruciating pain.

It was a burning sensation that acted directly on the depths of their souls.

“AAAAHHHH—”

Xuezhu let out a piercing scream, its tumorous body writhing madly in the divine light.

The tumors on its body burst open one by one, spewing black pus.

But the moment the pus touched the divine light, it was instantly vaporized into white smoke.

Fanjia wasn’t doing much better.

Its supposedly indestructible black outer armor began to melt away in large patches.

“ROAR!”

Fanjia let out a muffled, furious bellow.

It refused to be burned to death like this; it was going to fight back.

Fanjia stared directly at the illusory figure slowly descending in midair and activated its authority magic.

[Authority Magic: Absolute Reflection]

Any attack, whether physical or magical, can be reflected back tenfold.

But the next second, Fanjia was completely dumbfounded.

Its skill had activated, its mana had been consumed.

Yet…

Nothing happened.

The agonizing burning of its soul continued, growing stronger and stronger.

Its outer armor had already melted away by more than half, revealing the black flesh beneath.

Fanjia’s eyes widened in terror.

It had fought countless battles, large and small.

“What’s going on? Why won’t it reflect back!”

It had never encountered a situation like this.

Its absolute reflection, as long as there was a clear source of attack and it locked onto the target, would always reflect the damage back.

But now…

At this moment, Xuezhu beside it had already melted away nearly completely.

It raised its tentacles high, stretching toward the sky, as if trying to reach that figure too radiant to look at directly.

“I understand… he is the deity who has descended this time, untargetable by attacks…”

“B-… but… shouldn’t he also be unable to attack us? How is this…”

With those words, Xuezhu, filled with confusion and unwillingness, dissolved into a pool of blood, then evaporated and vanished.