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Chapter 463

A rain of fire poured down like a meteor shower embroidering the sky.

That was no ordinary flame.

Flames of judgment.

The symbol of the three-paired archangel, Raguel—fire that burns the impure.

However, the standard for what is considered impure was exceedingly ambiguous.

At present, the only thing Raguel had designated as impure was Luna alone.

Perhaps because of that, the rain of fire vanished like a lie the moment it touched the heavenly palace, yet for Luna alone, it burned with endless ferocity.

“It is futile. Raphael. With a body that has sinned, you cannot withstand even us, the three-paired archangels.”

It wasn’t that she was weak.

In fact, she was the only one on the continent of Lazarus who could serve as Leon’s sparring partner.

Although at some point Leon had begun to hesitate when striking at her, in the end, she still belonged among the strong.

Of course, whether that applied even to archangels was another matter entirely.

A spar was only a spar, not a real fight.

Raguel knew that unless Luna had some special method, she could not defeat him.

Even so, as she faced him, Luna’s eyes darted around.

She definitely would have installed it somewhere around here.

To her, this Heaven was no different from her homeland.

Its form had not changed for a long time, so even though she had spent most of her time in Eden, she knew the geography inside and out.

At present, the archangels of Heaven had deployed an extremely complex heavenly barrier—whether to block Luna and Leon’s approach or for some other reason.

Because of that, Isna had opened a rift but was almost fixed in place, unable to move.

For now, she had remained behind under the pretext of protecting Cascadia, but Isna absolutely had to come here.

“What are you looking for?”

“The barrier.”

At Luna’s reply, given without even paying him much attention, Raguel’s expression twisted.

“Do you think this is the time for you to be worrying about something like a barrier? Even now, it is not too late. Lord Michael has decided to postpone restoring you. So take that man and return to the surface. If you do so, we will no longer attack—”

KWA-AANG!!!

Luna’s fist distorted space and completely shattered one of the pillars of Heaven.

In the aftermath, one of the massive sky bridges supporting the surroundings collapsed.

“……”

“Strange. It should be here and nowhere else.”

As she pondered, whips of fire flew in from all directions.

The whips, moving so fast she could barely react, created sonic booms as they surged in from all sides, surrounding her.

Within the illusion of time slowing down, Luna’s body moved slightly.

“Too late!!”

Raguel shouted fiercely and instantly yanked back the whips, causing a massive explosion.

“You, who have fallen after losing two pairs out of your four wings, are no longer the Raphael you once were. So—”

“Found it.”

From within the massive explosion, Luna’s voice echoed—she had fallen into the interior of a completely collapsed section of the heavenly palace.

At the same time, a chilling thought flashed through Raguel.

Here?!

Only then did Raguel realize where he had arrived while clashing with Luna.

Damn it!

Even after she openly said she was looking for the barrier, he had let her come this far.

He realized his mistake, but it was already too late.

He didn’t even bother thinking about how she had come out of that last attack unscathed despite having lost all her former power.

“S-stop right there! Do you even know what you’re trying to do right now?! Do you know what that is—”

KWAJIK!!!

Raguel hurriedly tried to stop Luna, but the core—like a crystal sphere protected by powerful magic—was completely shattered in her hand.

“N-no!”

With a panicked cry, Raguel turned into a wave of flames like a flash of light, rushed in, grabbed Luna by the collar, and roared in fury.

“Do you even understand what you’ve just done?!”

Though he shouted in extreme rage, the answer he received was Luna’s fist crushing space.

JJEONG!

With that sound, Raguel was flung far away, destroying numerous structures of the heavenly palace before slowly reappearing, staggering.

“What… how is this power…”

Only then did Raguel realize something was wrong and stared at Luna with wide eyes.

He remembered that Luna’s fists had been strong even among archangels—but that was in the past.

Normally, it should have been virtually impossible for her fists to inflict direct damage on Raguel’s body.

But now—it was possible.

Only then did Raguel notice that the wings he had recently observed on Luna were different from before.

Luna had once possessed a third and fourth pair of wings, albeit flickering as light.

But now, she had only two complete pairs of wings.

“You… what in the world have you done?”

At Raguel’s question, Luna walked toward him step by step.

At the same time—

Her wings began to emit light, and from her halo, dyed black, a radiance that should never have been revealed poured out.

Raguel knew what phenomenon that was.

“Full manifestation… impossible. How can you, who had your power taken away, wield the power of the archangel of the left…?”

Luna had begun to fully reveal the power of Raphael that had been stripped from her.

Psssss…

From her back, two pairs of light wings that hadn’t been there moments ago began to form, and from their tips, light crumbled and grew into complete wings.

At the same time, the gray color of her wings turned into an endless white.

Then, an immense divinity poured out from her, and as the left archangel—the Archangel of Healing, one of the three great archangels, Raphael—her presence shook the entire surroundings.

“Raguel! Uriel has been taken down! The situation is not good—what? How is Raphael…?”

Even Kamael, one of the three-paired archangels who had joined late, fell silent as he saw the power pouring out around Luna, as if it were impossible.

To begin with, the power Luna was now emitting was not the power she originally possessed.

The power she wielded now came from none other than the progenitor archangel—Lucifer.

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Luna herself did not know why Lucifer had made such a decision.

At first, she had only tried to forcibly reawaken her power.

However, despite her efforts, the complete power of the archangel that had already vanished did not return.

—As expected, I shouldn’t have made that bet.

Lucifer, who had been watching Luna, frowned as if dissatisfied, then took a portion of his own power—the same power Luna had possessed when she was an archangel—and, as if igniting a catalyst, forcibly reawakened her power.

As a result, Lucifer seemed to have expended a considerable amount of power, but neither Lucifer nor Luna mentioned it.

After all, all the power of the current archangels originated from Lucifer, so in a sense it was natural.

But why Lucifer had suddenly acted on a whim to help her remained unknown.

Behind Luna spread four pairs of radiant wings.

Faced with that explosive divinity, Raguel and Kamael wore tense expressions.

“Be careful, Raguel. If that is a complete Raphael, then the level of that power is—”

As Kamael tightened his grip on his spear to warn Raguel, his eyes suddenly widened.

A pure white spear of light had suddenly pierced through Raguel’s abdomen as he floated in midair with three pairs of wings spread.

“Ghk!”

Raguel gasped and looked down at his abdomen.

There, a pure white spear of light that had pierced through from behind protruded, making its presence known.

Hello? I’m a spear of light. I’ve pierced through your body?—as if making such a self-introduction, the aftereffects of that power crushed Raguel.

Nothing had been seen flying toward him.

Kamael hurriedly pulled Raguel away from Luna.

Within this area, it was almost impossible to evade the spears formed from Luna’s divinity.

Both archangels knew that well.

A lump of result where the process had been erased.

The pure white spears of light she wielded possessed that kind of power.

Why, as the Archangel of Healing, Raphael alone possessed such overwhelming power was incomprehensible, but the three great archangels were beings whose strength could not be compared to the other four archangels.

KWAJIK!!!

Kamael forcibly grabbed the spear of light that had pierced Raguel’s body and shattered it.

“Get a hold of yourself. No matter what, we still have to stop Raphael.”

At Kamael’s words, Raguel clutched his abdomen, from which light, instead of blood, was flowing out.

It was an extremely grotesque sight for light to leak from where blood should flow, but it was nothing new.

That was the nature of the divine spear Luna had just fired.

However, since it was not a perfect power, there were still ways to deal with it.

“I’ll divert her divine spears in another direction. In that moment, you subdue her—”

As Kamael spoke, he flinched and turned his head.

There, Luna was gathering a sphere of pure white light in one hand.

“Where’s Elpiria.”

She spoke.

“Raphael…”

“Where is my daughter!!”

The rage of one of the three great archangels was something even the three-paired archangels could not withstand.

“This is impossible. She’s evolving even further? She hasn’t even had her power back for long…”

“No matter that this is the heavenly palace where it’s easier to use power…”

The two archangels instinctively raised their heads the moment they saw the sphere of light in her hand being clenched and crushed.

And—

They looked up at the sky, their faces turning pale.

Dozens of the same divine spears that had just pierced Raguel’s abdomen were now revealed, pointing downward.

Even one was difficult to evade.

In the past, Raphael had never used more than one at a time.

Because the recoil on herself had been immense.

But now—what filled their vision were dozens of divine spears.

It was clear that this absurd phenomenon was not merely because of the location being the heavenly palace.

What mattered was how Luna, who seemed to have only just regained her power, could wield it even more precisely than before.

Kiiiiik… Kkik!!

It was as if space itself was being crushed by the clash of power, the tips of the spears distorting.

Seeing that, Kamael screamed.

“Run!! Raguel!!”

Even Raguel, who would jump into a pit of fire if it were Michael’s command, abandoned hesitation and tried to escape at once from that place.

Puh-buh-buh-buh-buhk!!!

But—

Faster than their escape, several divine spears ignored the process of flying and were already embedded in Raguel and Kamael’s bodies.

“Kraaaagh!!”

“Kuh-huk!!”

They avoided fatal wounds.

But Raguel and Kamael were pierced by the spears of light and slammed straight into the ground.

“Guh…”

If they had not been archangels of the same attribute, it was chilling to think what would have happened to them.

Had they survived by luck?

No.

Most likely, Raguel and Kamael would have died—or suffered damage severe enough to lose their form.

“Your hand is far too heavy against your family, Luna.”

If not for the appearance of Gabriel, one of the three great archangels, who blocked most of Luna’s divine spears.

“Gabriel…”

Seeing Luna grinding her teeth, he let out a short sigh.

“The one you should hold resentment toward is not them, but me. So direct that anger toward me.”

Saying so, Gabriel grabbed the divine spears embedded in the subdued archangels’ bodies and crushed them as if shattering them.

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