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Chapter 638
SCREEEEEEEECH!
With a sharp sound piercing the ears, the unique domain 'Time Room' shattered.
At the same time, the frozen time began to flow again.
The flames of divine punishment that had been rewound by Chronos's clock were also placed in the flowing time.
WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
Along with the hot wind trapped in the unique domain, the spear of flames containing the constellation's rage tore through the atmosphere, spewing flames as if to burn everything.
The spear of flames descended at a fierce speed with a brutal sound.
The wrath of god struck Atlas.
BOOOOOOM!
The moment the spear of flames pierced Atlas, a massive flame swept across the land like a wave.
RUMBLE!
The flames that engulfed the entire city created a massive pillar rising upward, and beneath it, the intense heat swept away everything outside the city.
Thus, Atlas, which boasted the most brilliant civilization in the Midlands, turned to ashes in an instant.
Looking at Atlas, where nothing remained after being engulfed in flames, Raguel slowly muttered.
[This is the end of those who opposed God.]
Raguel turned his head towards Zeke, who was looking at the destroyed Atlas, and said.
[Foolish creature. No matter how much you struggle with the power of a false god, it's useless.]
WOOOONG!
Soon, light rippled from Raguel's avatar.
And the massive ring he summoned flew over and attached to Raguel's back.
The brilliant halo emitting light surged even more intensely.
Hera, the second beast of the apocalypse, approached Raguel.
Raguel's avatar mounted on Hera's back.
Raguel rose into the air and looked down at Zeke, saying.
[Insolent human, now the time of destruction and despair will begin.]
Raguel raised his finger toward the sky.
WOOOONG!
A beam of light stretched upward from his finger.
Then a massive ring of light appeared in the air.
RUMBLE!
From that ring of light, an inverted city slowly appeared.
It was Raguel's unique domain.
He had summoned his unique domain following Hera to completely annihilate Zeke, an unholy being who had challenged his divinity.
A city composed of numerous white, pointed towers.
Just as Raguel's unique domain, which appeared in a translucent state, was about to be fully summoned to the physical world.
CRACKLE!
Suddenly, intense flames rose from where Atlas had seemingly completely disappeared due to Raguel's spear of flames.
The flames of divine punishment were supposed to extinguish immediately after burning their target.
However, the flames were still burning vigorously, growing in size without extinguishing.
Zeke remained floating in the air, quietly watching those flames.
Raguel instinctively sensed something strange and quickly tried to complete his unique domain.
But things didn't go as he intended.
The summoning to the physical world suddenly stopped.
[What is this?]
Raguel couldn't help but be flustered when he felt the domain gradually shrinking, despite being almost successfully summoned.
Though he had destroyed numerous civilizations during his long time as a constellation, this was the first time he had encountered such a phenomenon.
'How is this possible?'
Although Raguel tried frantically to resume the summoning, the city's manifestation didn't progress, as if restricted by something.
There was only one possible explanation for this phenomenon.
'When a unique domain has already invaded the entire space...'
But Zeke's unique domain, the Time Room, had been destroyed by him.
He couldn't understand how another domain could be spread here.
At that moment, another massive flame rose from Atlas.
RUMBLE!
Flames that rose unusually high.
But something emerged from within those flames.
ROAR!
A massive bird made entirely of flames let out a long, mysterious cry.
It was Raven letting out a phoenix cry as it appeared, trailing flames.
At that moment, the surrounding scenery changed instantly.
CRACKLE!
Pillars of fire rose from all directions, and the ground was filled with burning ruins and corpses piled like towers.
WHOOSH!
Raguel couldn't help but be surprised at the pillars of fire rising from all directions.
'These are not the flames of divine punishment.'
These were flames made of a completely different kind of authority, not the flames created by his own power.
He finally realized that the scene before him was not actually Atlas.
At that moment, Raguel suddenly felt his soul trembling violently.
Raguel looked up.
He saw a long procession emerging from the burning city.
THUD! THUD! THUD! THUD!
Those who emerged from the flames were warriors wearing bone armor.
At their forefront stood a warrior wearing a skull helmet glowing with ruby - Asmodius, the captain of the second Battalion Skeleton Corps of Morningstar, raised his massive bone sword.
[For our lord! I offer this soul!]
Asmodius, who had blindly followed the Arrogant Savior, now aligned the Skeleton Corps with Zeke.
Another procession continued beside them.
THUD!
A knight in green armor leading hundreds of Death Knights and demon realm knights on ghost horses.
Arataso, captain of the first Battalion Dawn Corps of Morningstar, had appeared with his subordinates.
Even the prideful Raguel knew of the Arrogant Savior, the great demon lord, and his loyal knights, the Morningstar.
He had always been wary, thinking that even if the power of fallen constellations couldn't reach heaven, they could still ruin the physical world.
The physical world was their farm for extracting karma, so it was natural to keep watch.
[Could this be...?]
Raguel finally realized where he was.
None other than the 'Purgatory', the Arrogant Savior's unique domain.
Zeke had prepared to unfold the Purgatory domain while displaying the Time Room.
He deployed the unique domain 'Purgatory' where Atlas had been, taking advantage of the attention drawn to the spear of flames that poured onto the ground when Raguel broke the Time Room.
It was his first attempt to reconstruct Purgatory in the physical world, and fortunately, it succeeded.
Raguel was startled to realize that another domain had already consumed the space before he could summon his own unique domain.
[You insignificant creature! Using petty tricks!]
He tried to push away Purgatory's domain and deploy his own by infusing stronger divinity.
CRACKLE!
As the inverted city forcibly tried to occupy the domain, dimensional plasma occurred from the collision between domains.
CRACKLE!
Plasma scattered everywhere.
However, the unique domain 'Purgatory' that Zeke deployed was much larger and more stable than the 'Time Room' created by the Final Sage.
Therefore, although Raguel poured divine power to invade the domain, Purgatory didn't budge.
[T-this...]
Watching the flustered Raguel, Zeke gave orders to Arataso and Asmodius.
"Morningstar! Annihilate the enemy!"
With Zeke's command, Arataso and Asmodius led Morningstar's members, charging through the air toward Raguel.
"Kill all those heaven's hypocrites!"
Asmodius shouted while swinging his bone sword from atop a demon beast.
The Skeleton Corps members also charged bravely following Asmodius.
The same went for Arataso and the knights following him.
They advanced forward maintaining knightly dignity befitting Morningstar's first Battalion.
WHOOSH!
Seeing Morningstar's members charging toward him, Raguel shouted at Hera in rage.
[Annihilate all those demon realm trash!]
Although controlling the sacred beast Hera was a great burden without deploying his unique domain, Raguel was too enraged to care.
ROOOOOAR!
Hera, the second beast of the apocalypse, charged toward Morningstar with a massive roar.
White flames poured from its four lion heads.
WHOOSH!
Just as the white flames were about to sweep through Morningstar's members, a pillar of fire suddenly rose from the ground.
CRACKLE!
Purgatory's flames devoured Hera's white flames, opening a path for Morningstar to charge.
Hera howled again seeing Purgatory's flames that blocked its fire.
ROAAAAR!
It swung its front paws to strike down Purgatory's flames with sharp claws, and swung its tail made of white flames to sweep away Morningstar.
WHOOSH!
Just as the tail containing sacred beast's power was about to blow away Morningstar, fireballs poured toward Hera.
THUD! THUD! THUD!
Fireballs that burst from pillars of fire rising everywhere attacked Hera.
While Hera lost balance from being hit by the madly pouring fireballs, Morningstar's members invaded Raguel's domain.
THUD! THUD!
Watching this while wrapped in a halo, Raguel raged and shouted in divine language as Morningstar entered his domain.
[How dare you filthy maggots enter here?!]
Flames erupted from the ring on Raguel's wrist, and divine punishment flames poured toward Morningstar's members.
CRACKLE!
The terrifying flames that would never extinguish until burning their target swept through all of Morningstar.
Raguel shouted at Zeke who was floating above the burning Babel.
[Foolish one! Did you think such vermin could do anything to me?!]
He mocked Zeke's stupidity even in his enraged state.
But then.
HISS! HISS! HISS!
Morningstar's members charged through Raguel's flames unscathed.
Raguel was speechless seeing Morningstar completely unaffected by his power.
[H-how?]
Though startled, he quickly resonated his entire ring to pour out flames.
CRACKLE!
His divine flames concentrated on Morningstar.
But the result was the same.
Arataso and Asmodius cut through the divine punishment flames with their swords and charged forward.
Seeing this, Raguel unleashed all his power in disbelief to create stronger flames.
WHOOSH!
As the flames grew stronger, the light emanating from Raguel's body intensified.
But then.
CRACK!
A cracking sound came from Raguel's barely holding avatar.
Raguel was startled as he realized this.
He had descended to the physical world by planting dark matter in his avatar to bypass karma's restrictions using distorted causality.
Conversely, this meant he would face stronger karmic sanctions and backlash if his avatar broke.
'I dragged this out too long.'
Raguel had fallen for Zeke's provocation, fully manifesting in his avatar and using divinity beyond the permitted range.
The karma consumed was enormous.
Raguel couldn't contain his rage at Zeke for cornering him, a constellation, like this.
'I'll annihilate him and return immediately...!'
He ordered Hera, connected to his soul, to attack the isolated Zeke instead of Morningstar.
GROWL!
As Hera tried to fly toward Zeke, massive pillars of fire rose again in front of Zeke.
CRACKLE!
The Purgatory domain was essentially one with Zeke, who inherited the Arrogant Savior's power.
THUD! THUD! THUD!
Massive fire pillars rising from the destroyed Babel poured rain of fire in the air as if protecting Zeke.
The fire pillars and rain interfered with Hera's path, making it difficult to attack Zeke directly.
Raguel felt uncharacteristically anxious as he sensed his avatar gradually losing power.
'Damn it...'
With his unique domain's deployment halted, he had no options left.
'I'll annihilate everything.'
Before his avatar broke, he planned to use all his remaining power to blow away not just Zeke but his entire unique domain.
Raguel raised both hands wearing glowing rings into the air.
The halo-emitting rings began to resonate with light.
As Raguel's amber eyes emitted an eerie light, he roared.
[You insignificant creatures! I'll sink this entire continent you stand on!]