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Chapter 461

“Then, as per the contract, we’ll definitely sell this through our merchant guild.”

“Alright.”

“You don’t look well. Is something wrong?”

Aurora, the legitimate daughter of the Lavren family who leads the Planetaria Merchant Guild without relying on her family’s support, asked Melissa with a rare expression of concern.

“No, I’m fine.”

“From what I saw today, the atmosphere in the mansion didn’t seem normal. I didn’t see Young Master Leon either—where did he go?”

“My older brother is busy right now.”

Older brother?

Normally, she would have called him that bastard or that jerk.

But the current Melissa didn’t pay any attention to that fact at all.

“How busy could he possibly be?”

“He’s hammering during the day, and at night he’s holed up in the underground training hall he made, staying there all day.”

At those words, Aurora found herself inexplicably bothered.

“Anyway, if you need help with anything, tell me. I’ll help anytime.”

“Yeah. Take care.”

After seeing Aurora off, Melissa let out a short sigh, stood up from her seat, and stretched.

There wasn’t a single lie in what she had told Aurora.

For the past few days, Leon had truly been moving without a single second of rest.

It was said that once one reached Master level or higher, one could endure without sleep, but Leon’s case was excessive.

“I really hate this gloomy atmosphere…….”

To her, the current Cascadia felt extremely unfamiliar.

They had not made the Archangel Gabriel’s attack public.

There was nothing to gain from letting that fact be known.

Whether they liked it or not, the problem was that the opponent happened to be an Archangel.

Arsha, who had returned to the territory, teared up with a startled expression, and Grivy didn’t even eat the snacks she loved so much and instead sank into the ground, refusing to come out.

Luna had gone somewhere while clutching the pendant, and it was hard to even see Leon’s face.

Melissa quite liked drinking coffee while watching the sound of drizzling rain outside the window, but now she didn’t even feel like doing that.

Boom!!!!

At that moment.

Startled by the sudden loud noise, she jumped up and ran outside the mansion.

And then her eyes widened.

“What is that?!”

“An Ancient God.”

Those short words carried an enormous amount of meaning.

What Leon had brought was the severed head of a gigantic one-eyed giant of unknown origin.

Melissa scanned Leon with a blank expression.

Injuries?

Luna wasn’t even here, yet not even a corner of his clothing was torn.

It wasn’t that he had been healed……

He had simply crushed it unilaterally.

She knew what kind of existence an Ancient God was from Leon.

But in the meantime, Leon had grown even stronger than before.

She knew he was getting stronger every moment, but this level of growth was absurd.

“S-so then, why this?”

“I need the core inside this thing’s head.”

She didn’t know how Leon had found it or how he had killed it, but at least one thing was certain.

Leon’s work was practically almost finished.

And although it was taking a little longer than planned, she also felt that Luna would be arriving soon.

* * *

Uuuuuung…….

Orichalcum and adamantium, which normally could not be mixed, were forcibly merged and compressed.

In that process, numerous precious materials were used, and among them, the overwhelmingly dominant one was none other than the core of the Ancient God.

As the work of injecting unknown energy into the bracelet came to an end, Merkavalt—who had been infusing dragon mana beside him—collapsed on the spot.

“I-it’s finally done. I’ve assisted in many tasks long ago, but in all my memories, nothing has been this exhausting.”

She silently watched Leon, who continued working with his upper body bare, ignoring the sweat pouring down.

“Mm.”

It was a task so exhausting she never wanted to do it again, but as she watched Leon, she unconsciously swallowed and let out a foolish grin.

“Heheh…….”

Of course, not long after, she recalled the dignity of a Dragon Lord and flinched.

“I-is it finished?”

“Yes.”

Leon answered calmly and put the bracelet on his wrist.

The bracelet, imbued with spiritual weaponization, clung tightly to Leon’s wrist as if it were made exactly for him.

It had shrunk precisely to match the size of his wrist so it wouldn’t move.

“Oh. How fascinating.”

“Let’s go test it.”

Without hesitation, Leon left the workshop.

The place he headed to with Merkavalt was the demonic realm of Cascadia.

Standing at one side of the demonic realm, Leon gazed at a massive mountain in the distance, then looked down at the bracelet.

Beep.

[Divine Artifact Pragarach]

[Material – Adamantium, Orichalcum, Core of an Ancient God, Essence of a Dragon]

[Grade – Divine]

[A new type of equipment created by forcibly alloying orichalcum and adamantium—materials that cannot normally be mixed—under extreme heat. The dragon’s mana resides within the dragon essence, emitting overwhelming pressure on its own. Due to spiritual weaponization, it can transform into three forms, and it is a single-release absolute divine artifact rather than a sequential-release type.]

[Special Option – Increased Penetration]

[Special Option – Indestructible Attribute]

[Special Option – Form and Property Transformation]

[Special Option – Bound]

[Special Option – Ignores All Affinities]

At best, he had expected something at the level of Legendary or Epic.

But astonishingly, the Divine Artifact Pragarach possessed power befitting its Divine grade.

Was it because of the spiritual weaponization? Or because it had devoured the power that flowed from Leon’s body throughout the forging process?

Perhaps it was also due to the adamantium and the core of the Ancient God used as materials.

Neither of those were ordinary materials.

Leon slowly infused spiritual energy into the bracelet and spoke the activation word.

“Pragarach.”

Just by calling its name, the bracelet, which had been dormant, trembled and began to emit light, soon transforming into the form of a long spear.

The long spear, where white and black light intertwined beautifully, possessed a nearly perfect weight.

“This demonic realm is well maintained. I hardly see any monsters nearby.”

Looking down from a massive cliff, Merkavalt let out a brief admiration.

“I’m not here to hunt monsters.”

Leon answered calmly as he spun the spear.

Then, taking a lancer’s stance, he unleashed explosive aura.

Even the aura from a single hall was already near the extreme.

But the amount of aura Leon now possessed—having already inherited several halls under the same name of aura—was no longer at the level of a living being, but closer to a massive natural phenomenon.

It was something he had felt even when he defeated the massive creature called an Ancient God.

To begin with, how had that red-haired child known that such a monster was hiding there?

“When you fought me before… you were definitely holding back completely. What kind of aura is this…….”

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“I amplified my power this time.”

He had drawn aura from the Hall of Spears—the aura of [Heavenly Extremity].

However, once the aura exceeded a certain threshold, its efficiency and density had increased to an absurd degree.

For Leon, this was quite a welcome situation.

“This should be about enough.”

[Over Drive (Transcendence of Realm)]

The violent momentum that had been raging around Leon suddenly became as still as nothingness.

But separate from that stillness, Merkavalt, watching from behind, widened her eyes and trembled.

‘So calm…… all the more terrifying because of that calm…….’

Soon, Leon steadied his stance, stamped his foot hard, and thrust the spear toward the massive mountain visible in the distance.

KWA-GAK!!!

The speed of light and the speed of sound are different.

Merkavalt first recognized that the side of the distant massive mountain had vanished, as if pierced by something enormous.

Then, belatedly, a tremendous explosion resounded, shaking the earth.

“The firepower is definitely solid.”

“T-this is…… what…….”

Even her breath, as a Dragon Lord, could not do that to the side of a mountain.

It wasn’t just any mountain—it was one famous for its extreme hardness.

And yet, even though its side had been blown away, the peak of the mountain remained standing, supported by the intact portions.

Crack…… crack crack crack!!

Then, following that, enormous cracks formed in succession in the empty space behind the mountain, distorting it.

‘I’ve heard that physical force that reaches transcendence greatly affects space itself, but this is excessive.’

When Leon said he would face an Archangel, she had honestly wanted to stop him.

But after seeing this, her thoughts changed a little.

Leon was not a man who fought battles without possibility.

Perhaps because he had already informed them beforehand, there was no sign of commotion from those managing the demonic realm.

Even the monsters, startled by the sudden explosion, might have fled, but they seemed too terrified by the aftershock of that single strike to even move.

The demonic realm itself fell into silence.

Leon withdrew the spear, turned it back into a bracelet, and turned around.

“Let’s go. We still have the rest to prepare.”

“The rest?”

“Yes. Doping potions. Recovery potions. Buff artifacts. We’ll do everything we can.”

Leon’s preparations were completed about two more days later.

* * *

From early in the morning, Isna used her authority to create a massive door in one corner of the Cascadia mansion.

“Leon. I’ll say this again—my authority is contaminated. I don’t know what kind of effect it might produce. In the worst case, that monster might have already realized that you left your position.”

“If something happens here, you can close the door. Just… please protect it.”

“Then how are you planning to come back?”

“I’m going there to win in the first place. I’ll just tell them on that side to open the door.”

At Leon’s indifferent reply, Isna let out a hollow laugh.

“But… what about her?”

She asked cautiously, perhaps finding it strange that Luna had not yet arrived.

“She’ll be here soon.”

They hadn’t set a specific time, but things were proceeding as planned.

And Leon had already sensed the presence flying toward Cascadia.

“Hah! Something’s coming!”

Merkavalt, who had stayed behind temporarily to protect Cascadia, widened her eyes and looked toward the distant sky.

Not long after, a mass of pure white light flashed across the sky like a meteor shower and landed on the ground without any impact or prelude.

“Luna. You’re not hurt anywhere?”

“Yeah, I’m fine. Here, the pendant.”

Luna handed Lucifer’s pendant back to Leon.

Then she leaned into his arms and embraced him.

Leon stroked her back.

“Was it hard?”

“Too many things happened. Very hard.”

At her exhausted voice, Leon glared at the pendant.

‘What did you do?’

—What do you mean? Drawing out more of an Archangel’s inherent power than before isn’t exactly easy. Don’t worry. I didn’t do anything dangerous.

At Lucifer’s unexpected answer, Leon narrowed his eyes.

‘Why are you being kind?’

—A simple whim. Still, they do resemble those born from inheriting my power.

Come to think of it, had Michael called Lucifer “mother”?

Originally, Lucifer’s appearance was male, but in the mural she had appeared as a young girl.

It likely meant that differences in outward form meant nothing to her.

“It’s opening.”

Soon, Isna gestured.

Then the swirling tear in space began to pulse.

It warped as if being compressed, then exploded outward, scattering fragments forward.

However, no one was struck by the fragments.

The shard-like debris that burst out slowed in midair, then stopped as if time itself had frozen.

Even the sound waves in that area stopped, leaving only complete silence.

“Leon.”

Melissa approached and tightly grabbed Leon’s arm.

“You’ll be okay, right? Don’t come back injured. Mother and Father left home and never returned.”

She spoke with trembling eyes.

“Please. Come back safely. This is an order from the head of the family.”

“I will obey, Head of the Family.”

Regardless of the difference in strength, it was true that Leon’s presence had a tremendous influence on this mansion, but if Melissa was bearing the weight of the head of the family, Leon intended to respect that.

It was his promise as her older brother to support her, who had desperately tried to protect the family.

Afterward, Leon looked at his youngest sister Arsha, who was on the verge of tears, lowered himself, and pulled her into an embrace.

“O-older brother…….”

At her tearful appearance, Leon said nothing.

“Older brother will be back. You know, right? Your older brother is strong.”

“Sniff…… sob…….”

Leaving her behind, he spoke to Grivy, who was carrying a large bag on her back.

“You’re all ready, right?”

“Yes! Grivy is fully ready!”

On her shoulders and head were Serqet and Sur, and behind her stood the liquid spirit Tiamet.

Originally, he had considered summoning them through spirit summoning, but since he didn’t know what might happen, it seemed better to move together.

Afterward, Leon glanced once at Isna, Lispa, Merkavalt, and Ashuria, who remained in the mansion.

“Take care of the house while I’m gone.”

“Just make sure you come back. Anyone would think you’re going off to die.”

At Isna’s scolding, Luna and Leon stepped without hesitation into the rift leading to the heavens.

A blinding light momentarily covered their vision.

And then, when the world brightened again, what appeared before them was a solemn, pure white palace in the sky.

“So this is the heavens?”

Luna quietly nodded.

Soon after, the halo and wings that had been hidden above her head were revealed.

Unlike before, there were no two pairs of light wings, but rather two pairs like a typical archangel, though they felt different somehow.

“Leon. I’ll go first.”

With that, she looked toward one side of the heavens.

“Raphael. Opening the gates of heaven is not permitted to anyone without proper authority. And yet you dare do this—how shameless.”

Soon, a mass of white light gathered, and an archangel in red attire descended rapidly.

Archangel.

Raguel.

At his presence, Luna frowned.

“Raguel…….” 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

“Before proceeding with enforcement, I will ask two things.”

Unexpectedly, he spoke first.

“Go ahead.”

“Did you truly come up here thinking you could stop Lord Michael? Regardless of the gap in power, with your rank, it is impossible, human.”

“I’ll handle that myself.”

At Leon’s answer, he said nothing.

Then he turned to Luna.

“Your child. What exactly is it?”

“What?”

“It doesn’t get tired at all.”

For a moment, it felt as though dark circles appeared beneath Raguel’s eyes.

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