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Chapter 556
Zeke brazenly spouted provocative and blasphemous words toward the Constellation.
The master of the Snake Palace watching from behind the angel made no response to Zeke's insolent behavior.
Zeke steadied his breathing while gripping Leviathan, observing the angel floating in the air.
'So this is him exercising patience. Then I'll give him another push.'
Zeke flew toward the angel with his sword imbued with chaos energy.
BOOM! BOOM!
He violently swung Leviathan at the angel.
CRASH!
Since the barrier was no longer effective, the angel physically blocked Zeke's sword with its half-remaining wings.
As powerful sword strikes rained down, even the half-remaining wings couldn't withstand it and slowly began to crumble with cracks forming.
Zeke spoke to the angel again.
"To think this pathetic power is the authority of a Heavenly Constellation. It's not even comparable to the powers of those filthy demons from the Demon Realm."
In that moment, light flickered in the angel's eyes again.
ZZING!
Light poured from the angel's eyes toward Zeke.
Though powerful enough to destroy half the city, it wasn't particularly fast.
And Zeke wasn't amateur enough to just take the hit.
After dodging the angel's attack, he immediately drove his sword into its flank.
THUD!
Zeke's sword strike pierced straight into the angel's side.
Though unclear if the statue-like angel could feel pain, it seemed to take some damage as it staggered backward.
With its wings almost destroyed and cracks all over its body, it looked pathetically shabby compared to when it first appeared.
Zeke considered the nearly crumbling angel before raising Leviathan for the finishing blow.
'Unlike those fallen Constellations, it doesn't easily fall for provocation...'
Before his thoughts could finish, intense light poured from the angel's body.
WOONG! WOONG! WOONG! WOONG!
Along with the flowing light, the angel's tattered body instantly returned to its original form.
At the same time, the aura emanating from its body felt completely different from before.
RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
Zeke's expression changed as the powerful Constellation's aura spread in all directions.
'The provocation worked.'
Like with Wirinom, he had provoked the Master of the Snake palace to directly descend into their avatar.
WOONG! WOONG! WOONG!
The angel stared at Zeke while emitting such brilliant light that it was difficult to look at directly.
Then the Constellation's will was transmitted directly into Zeke's mind.
[Blasphemous and insignificant mortal.]
Though this was a unique realm rather than the physical world, it was the first time since the Age of Constellations that a Heavenly Constellation had directly descended into an avatar form.
The Master of the Snake palace who had descended into the angel's body continued speaking.
[The sin of insulting a god shall never be forgiven.]
With those words, the Master of the Snake palace unleashed his authority.
CRACKLE!
Massive lightning rose and struck down as if connecting heaven and earth.
Zeke steadied his breathing as he observed the massive lightning spear enveloping the angel's body.
'So this is the true power of a Constellation.'
The fallen Constellations had their original divinity damaged and powers weakened when they fell to the Demon Realm.
But the Heavenly Constellations had strengthened their original divine power through karma created in the physical world, allowing them to wield even greater power than during the Age of Constellations.
And Zeke could clearly see with his own eyes the Constellation's power that shook the holy city of Laocoon.
He realized that the Master of the Snake palace's power was the source of light magic.
He recalled how Morgan Buffon, who had been a knight of the Snake Palace, had used the Constellation's authority through Hersion.
'Compared to this power now, the authority contained in Hersion was truly just a speck of dust.'
The Master of the Snake palace who had descended into the angel spread his wings wide toward Zeke.
Light emanated from the two pairs of wings before transforming into lightning.
Thus four spears arose from the angel's back.
The spears made of lightning rose into the air.
[I shall erase you without leaving even a trace of your soul.]
CRACKLE!
The four spears imbued with lightning power that split heaven and earth flew rapidly toward Zeke.
BOOM! BOOM BOOM! BOOM BOOM! BOOM!
Zeke raised his sword as he watched the four spears flying toward him.
WOONG! WOONG! WOONG! WOONG!
Chaos energy gathered in the raised Leviathan.
Zeke shot forward and swung his sword at the four spears.
BOOM! BOOM BOOM! BOOM BOOM!
The sword strike infused with chaos energy collided with the four incoming spears.
CRACKLE!
When the lightning containing the Constellation's authority clashed with the chaos energy that nullified Constellation power, powerful shockwaves spread in all directions.
But unlike before, Zeke's sword strike gradually began to be pushed back.
The chaos energy that had worked against fallen Constellations was insufficient against a true Constellation's authority.
BOOM! BOOM BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Soon Zeke's sword strike shattered and the four spears plunged down toward him.
CRACKLE!
The lightning spears flying from all directions created massive lightning of light that was incomparable to heavenly thunder.
A massive pillar of lightning formed that seemed like it would swallow the entire holy city of Laocoon.
Zeke was swept into that lightning storm.
BOOM! BOOM BOOM! BOOM BOOM! BOOM!
Zeke was trapped in a place that seemed impossible for anyone to escape once caught.
The Master of the Snake palace who had descended into the angel's body openly displayed its displeasure.
[The sin of a lowly creature insulting a god weighs heavily. Until your soul is extinguished, you shall suffer terrible agony in this lightning storm, neither living nor dying.]
This was true divine punishment from a Heavenly Constellation.
The Master of the Snake palace realized he had consumed significant karma despite only briefly descending into this unique realm.
Just as they were about to return to the heavenly realm after delivering punishment.
TSSS! TSSS! TSSS!
They felt an alien energy stirring within the lightning storm.
The Master of the Snake palace turned its gaze toward it. The different flow existing within the storm became more distinct.
As they wondered about this, a massive lightning vortex flew toward the Master of the Snake palace from that location.
BOOM! BOOM BOOM! BOOM BOOM!!
At the sudden attack, the Master of the Snake palace spread their wings and deployed an absolute barrier.
The absolute barrier imbued with Constellation power was incomparable to the angel's.
When the solid hexagonal barrier deployed, the lightning vortex scattered without reaching them.
The Master of the Snake palace discovered Zeke calmly emerging from the lightning storm that no one should have been able to escape.
Not understanding, they emitted light from their entire body while shouting divine words.
[How can a mortal resist a Constellation's authority?!]
The Heavenly Constellations thought of mortals as mere livestock in a farm.
Mortals had always been the Constellations' playthings, beings who trembled at their authority and begged for mercy.
For such a mortal to not only insult a Constellation but even challenge their authority was something they simply couldn't believe.
The fallen Constellations constantly watched how mortals grew and developed power while seeking chances to intervene in the physical world.
But the Heavenly Constellations only exploited karma, showing little interest in what powers mortals possessed.
They simply took what they needed, erasing and recreating when something lost its use.
Zeke had aimed to exploit this complacency of the Constellations.
Having escaped the lightning storm, Zeke said to the Master of the Snake palace.
"How disappointing that a Heavenly Constellation is only this strong."
The Master of the Snake palace could hardly bear such insult from a mortal they considered a mere creature.
[Even suffering is too luxurious for you. I shall erase your very existence here.]
The Master of the Snake palace spread his wings wide behind them, brought his hands together before his chest, and formed a triangle.
CRACKLE!
A core of violent lightning was generated within the triangle shape formed by the Master of the Snake palace's hands.
As the purest lightning energy was condensed, the surrounding space distorted.
Zeke raised Leviathan with some tension while wary of the ominous energy emanating from the Master of the Snake palace.
Chaos energy rippled from Leviathan.
In truth, while facing the Master of the Snake palace, Zeke had been waiting for the Arrogant Savior's power to be fully absorbed.
He had calculated that once he absorbed the Arrogant Savior's power and elevated his divine rank, he could sufficiently face the Master of the Snake palace.
However, absorbing the Arrogant Savior's sealed form took longer than expected.
CRACKLE!
As Zeke gripped Leviathan again, white lightning surged up from Laocoon's ground and concentrated on the Master of the Snake palace.
He could feel all the power constituting Laocoon gathering.
A Constellation's authority using an entire world itself as their power was on a different dimension from physical realm authority or demonic authority.
RUMBLE!
Zeke held Leviathan and expanded chaos energy to withstand the pressure coming from the Constellation's power.
Then the Master of the Snake palace slowly extended his hands forming the seal while looking at Zeke.
[Repent, sinner.]
ZZING!
Strong waves spread from the triangular mudra created by the Master of the Snake palace.
At the same time, Zeke realized he was somehow trapped within the Master of the Snake palace's palm.
RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE!
Looking around, both above and below were the Master of the Snake palace's palms.
'How is this...?'
It was an attack that transcended all concepts Zeke knew.
In that moment, the very space surrounding Zeke was dyed with the purest lightning energy.
WOONG! WOONG! WOONG! WOONG!
White light burst from the Master of the Snake palace's hands.
Trapped in those palms, Zeke was engulfed by the Constellation's divine thunder pouring from all directions.
CRACKLE!
The divine lightning seeks to burn and purify all that holds blasphemy.
The Master of the Snake palace trapped Zeke in his palm, drawing out their original divine power to erase not just his soul but all traces of his existence.
Everything existing in dimensions left records in the dimensional server, the Akashic Code, but a Constellation's original divine authority could erase even those records.
Originally, it was an absolute law that mortals could not oppose Constellations as higher dimensional beings, and no one could overcome this law.
CRACKLE!
After unleashing divine thunder, the Master of the Snake palace withdrew his power, sensing the foolish creature who opposed them had completely vanished along with all traces.
[To think a mortal would dare oppose a god. Perhaps divine punishment should be brought upon the earth...]
But then….
CRACKLE!
Though they had withdrawn the divine thunder, its energy remained in space without dispersing, sparking small flames.
The Master of the Snake palace sensed something strange.
Just as he reached toward the undispersed energy.
SWOOSH!
A sword strike flew toward his hand.
Though startled, the Master of the Snake palace was a Constellation with absolute power.
An absolute barrier automatically formed to block the incoming sword strike.
The Master of the Snake palace naturally thought the sword strike would scatter against the absolute barrier.
SWOOSH!
But the incoming sword strike pierced the absolute barrier and cut off the arm of the angel the Master of the Snake palace had descended into.
[Impossible!]
Sacred blood like streams of light dripped from the severed arm.
The Constellation dwelling in the angel's body couldn't feel pain.
But they were frozen in shock that a mortal's attack had affected their avatar.
As a guardian who had long maintained dimensional order and absolute laws, only once had a mortal's attack ever reached them.
'The God Slayer Solomon...'
The Master of the Snake palace's eyes wavered as he recalled Solomon.
But he soon shook his head.
'It's impossible for that to repeat.'
The Master of the Snake palace felt strong displeasure at the mortal who made him briefly recall memories of Solomon.
He raised his power again.
They intended to erase this entire world along with the unpleasant mortal.
Just as the Master of the Snake palace brought his hands together to draw up power.
SHWEEEEEK!
Something flew toward them at extremely high speed.
The Master of the Snake palace raised another barrier.
Even after seeing their barrier pierced just now, they tried to block head-on rather than dodge.
An even stronger absolute barrier spread.
But it was useless.
A streak of black light pierced the barrier and struck exactly in the center of the angel's chest where the Constellation dwelled.
THUD!
The Master of the Snake palace involuntarily screamed in unbearable pain that shook his soul.
GROOOOAR!
A spear made of adamantium imbued with chaos energy.
It was firmly embedded in the physical body of the avatar where the Constellation dwelled.