Against the World II: Transgression
Chapter 36: The Stronger Saints, part 4
Eden is completely gone. Destruction no longer needs to be described. There was nothing left but corpses and debris. Total annihilation. The last living man—put aside Second Saint Gawain who was still in captivity—stall the young girl who thrashed in the clutches of Lumeira's hands. Although Sataniciela first killed the citizens and the soldiers, Lumeira had killed nearly four times the amount that Sataniciela committed suicide.
“Is this just my feeling, or do you want to absorb his soul?” sataniciela asked with narrowed eyes. “I didn't know you had soul-absorbing magic.”
“That's what I did.” Lumeira did not argue, but her eyes were still intense looking at the girl “Nona Vermyna advised me to absorb as much of the human soul as possible to replace half of my soul that Menez was holding. Otherwise, I will never again be able to use my full strength. Worse still, me and the other half of my soul will be completely separated forever. And about soul-absorbing magic, I don't have it. I made it.”
“...Create it? What do you mean?”
“Nona has heard of [Synthesis Magic]?”
Getting Sataniciela surprised is not easy. It takes something amazing or incredibly stupid to surprise her. However, now Sataniciela looked at Lumeira with widened eyes. No, the shock did not arise because of the question, but rather on the implications that the woman wanted to give.
“Don't say you—”
“Of course not,” cut Lumeira fast. “I can't do anything rude to someone I respect. Although my tongue is too shrewd to lie and fabricate, but everything I say to Miss and Miss Vermyna is honesty. It's okay if Miss doesn't want to believe, someone who is good at lying doesn't deserve to be trusted. I don't even believe what my mouth says. As Miss said, I'm the worst.”
“...Hmph.” Sataniciela didn't know what to say. He finds dealing with Lumeira more difficult than dealing with Mammon or Leviathan. If the demons really fit the understanding of humans, then he would say that Lumeira is more demonic than all of them. “Which is more important, how many more souls do you need?”
“I guess the empty part of my soul has been fully filled while absorbing the second hundred souls.”
“Then why are you absorbing more souls?”
“Oh, if we enjoy a delicious meal, being addicted is a natural thing, right?” Lumeira immediately turned around and threw the corpse of the girl whose soul she had originally absorbed. “Which is more important,” he continued without waiting for the response of the devil, “how do I get the full power of Gawain really out? His consciousness was still trying hard to hold back his heightened emotions. Chances are he's worried if he gets out of control and we use him to kill the others.”
Sataniciela's view soon centered on humans in the Lumeira barrier. Although there was a barrier, he could feel that his strength had risen sharply. However, he still held back. That's why he can't break the barrier. If Sataniciela was in that barrier, it would have been destroyed in a matter of seconds.
“Decosting. Just kill him. We go straight to Axellibra.”
“Ah, wait a minute, Miss, I have an idea. And I don't think this time Gawain will be able to contain his anger from getting out of control.”
Sataniciela raised her eyebrows next to her. “What do you think?”
“More easily I show you,” Lumeira's response while bringing together the palms of—and immediately negative energy flooded the city. “Oh souls who are hurt and covered in anger, return to your mortal bodies. Necromancy Magic: Grieving Soul.”
Instantly, the dead bodies were filled with negative energy, and then began to rise one by one quickly. Their skin turned pale white. Veins that normally appear green or slightly bluish now blacken and look so clearly. Most noticeable, their eyes were dark black—as if they had no eyes at all.
BLAAAAAAAAAAAR!
Lumeira immediately turned her gaze at the point where she was holding the Second Saint. The loud noise that interrupted his speech was due to the red energy that overflowed in an enormous amount from Gawain's body. The barrier he had installed had been smashed into pieces. Standing in the middle of the red energy dominated by negative energy is Gawain who is no longer armor—his skin looks like it burned out lightly.
“Good work, Lumeira. You brought his anger to—!” Sataniciela failed to finish her speech. Gawain's fist had landed so suddenly on the face of the demon. His body shot out like a straight-moving meteor. Sataniciela hit the rubble of the building, causing it to slam upwards. But impressively, Sataniciela was still able to control herself and landed with two legs—walau until dragged. “That bastard, how dare he hit me in the face!”
At the same time, Lumeira fell silent on the spot. His eyes widened. Before he had time to blink, Gawain— whose eyes had turned white with tensed veins—hinked at him. Lumeira's instincts screamed faster than her speed using sensory magic, making her reflexively cross arms in front of the face. But—
“…!”
—gawain's hand never hit his crossed arm. The punch landed smoothly on Lumeira's stomach. So loud that the blow caused a shock effect. Lumeira bounces much faster than Sataniciela. He was slammed and dragged before finally stopping.
Gawain didn't stop at hitting Lumeira. The loss of consciousness makes it move as much as anger-controlled instincts. Gawaian destroyed every approaching undead. They perish in one hit. Gawain's power is really big.
However, Gawain's action came to a halt with the sudden appearance of Sataniciela. The devil punched the saint in the face, trying to avenge the blow he had just received. Gawain's reactive speed was quite fast, he blocked the full-power punch of Sataniciela.
“Cih, the physical strength of this body is weak!” sataniciela saw that Gawain was only a dozen meters away. If he had his real body, Gawain would have bounced outside the ruined city area. “Vermyna fucking it!” Sataniciela is determined to reclaim her body.
Gawain paid no heed to the devil's annoyance. Once it stopped dragging, the instinct-driven saint immediately charged forward. His two white eyes were completely focused on the demon.
Sataniciela spits to the left and manifests a dark black spear in the right hand. He did lose in physical strength to Gawain, but in speed he was not too inferior. More than that, even though his body was no longer superior, his fighting style was still the same. A black shield just appeared against Gawain who was trying to hit him.
With Gawain's great physical strength, the shield he easily made bounced off. But actually the shield was Sataniciela made to cover the view of the saint. As soon as Gawain's punch hit the shield and made it bounce, Sataniciela had already teleported to the back of the man and swung her spear forcefully.
As powerful as Gawain's physique, no matter how sharp his instincts, dodging the attack from behind that Sataniciela did remained impossible for him. The spear shaft hit the nape of Gawain hard. This time, Gawain bounced to the ground.
The Sataniciela attack has not stopped. The series of black spears he created and he made shot to bombard the saint.
At the same time, the same pillar of lightning that destroyed the city fell from the sky and struck Gawain's body. A furious roar filled with spontaneous pain thrashed out from the mouth of the saint pride of the Knights Templar.
“Sorry if you disturb, Miss Ciela, but I also want to finish her.” Said the newly landed Lumeira beside the demon. “Gawain's punch just made my spine almost break. I almost died. I'll reply him 101 times.”