Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'-Chapter 1258 - 258: Empire Line: Toward the [Spiritual Deer] Ending (53)

The mountain bird carried a flower to the treetop, lightly trembling its wings, placing the blossom atop the nest. The vibrant flower always pleased the female bird, allowing her to lay down the day's exhaustion of nurturing offspring and entwine with the male bird sweetly.

Today, the weather was clear and sunny, a rare great day. The forest creatures in the border area of the Border Abyss, being far from civilization, remained untouched and vibrant, thriving in a wild growing state. Perhaps after a million years, a unique civilization might be born.

The Starry Abyss is so fair, giving any creature the opportunity to transform into civilization.

Rumble rumble rumble——————!

The next moment, the alternating silver-red fierce light descended from the sky, the surging heatwave like a flood completely engulfing and destroying the entire valley.

Now, the opportunity was gone.

Bang!

The flame-haired girl stepped barefoot onto the ground, instantly sinking the continent. The mountains swiftly collapsed and crumbled, and the dust from the nuclear explosion echoed even a thousand miles away, the blast waves almost tearing the solid space of the Border Abyss apart.

Before Li Aozi's incarnation as the flame-haired girl could steady herself, a blade instantly descended, slicing through dimensions and time, striking the girl's forehead right when her toes touched the ground.

—Clang!

The clash of sword blade and skin produced the sound of metal ether colliding. At the spot of Apostle Arthur's sword blade cut, layers of metal armor spawned out of thin air, blocking the attack.

But, did it really block the attack?

Crack boom crack crack crack crack!

Fiery currents danced and bloomed, showing no regard for any armor, advancing unimpeded and causing destruction. The flame-haired girl tilted her head, stepping back ceaselessly, her forehead constantly generating new armor. Arthur took this opportunity, landing on both feet, withdrawing his blade, flipping his grip, whirling around and jumping, like a sudden scythe, chopping down from above.

[Meteor Fall Gravitational Scepter]

The flame-haired girl raised her hand, a black-and-white interwoven scepter rapidly forming in her palm, rotating swiftly, force rising from the ground, instantly sweeping away the slash.

Arthur seized the moment, his body seemed to lose weight, and even though the flame-haired girl exerted gravitational pull, she couldn't capture him, having to watch as Arthur twisted bizarrely in mid-air, moving out of attack range, circling half a round in the air before immediately launching from a deft angle, thrusting his sword straight at the girl's throat.

His speed didn't appear fast, but even light couldn't keep up with his track.

No dialogue, no communication, no meaningless provocation.

The First Apostle Arthur displayed nothing but pure combat desire.

What was his reason for being here? Who sent him? What was his purpose?

—There was no time to ponder these thoughts.

The clashing of sword blades and scepter demanded full concentration just to avoid being at a disadvantage in close combat.

Arthur's attacks were, like the fire he brought.

Each sword stroke carried a sense of fate, as if trying to avoid it would inevitably reveal a flaw, forcing one to attempt a hard parry. This was somewhat akin to the Void Executioner, but as a True Divine Apostle, Arthur exerted far more pressure than the Void Executioner.

Ka!

Arthur's sword struck the scepter, the flame-haired girl immediately deflected the long handle, swinging the lower part to attack Arthur's toes. However, Arthur leapt into the air, striking the girl's chest with a kick, immediately maneuvering his posture, swinging the sword in his hand, tearing through spacetime dimensions.

The next moment, Arthur appeared eighteen seconds before, in the midair where the flame-haired girl had just descended upon the gorge, lifting the blade towards the girl's fair neck.

Pa! 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

The girl's head flew high, with a hint of surprise.

"You lost."

Arthur raised his hand to catch the girl's head, lifted her flame-colored long hair, and said calmly:

"Undeniably, your swordsmanship has been honed on the battlefield, forming your own school. If this were your past life, in a fair duel, I wouldn't be your opponent, but you clearly haven't recovered that perfect stance yet—"

Before he finished speaking, he saw the headless corpse silently raise its hand, the palm blossoming with a warm flame, the blood-red sunset glow slowly illuminating her body, reconstructing the girl's visage at the severed neck with the light beamed from all directions.

"A Healer could drive you crazy."

The flame-haired girl flicked her head, sending waves of fiery red hair swirling, she glanced at Arthur:

"Your strength is peculiar, as if you can't dominate your own Mandate. No, to be precise, that sword—it's dominating your Will?"

Arthur stared blankly at the unscathed flame-haired girl, lowering his head, his tattered cloak fluttering constantly, he steadied his blade, murmuring:

"…No need to worry."

The next moment, he tore open the timeline again, arriving an hour prior.

At this moment, Li Aozi had his back to him, a grin on his face, the visage was ignited by flames, just transforming into the slender and beautiful flame-haired girl, the crimson pupils shimmering, her lips slightly pursed, leisurely saying:

"Just one of me is enough—"

Hiss!

Arthur silently stepped out of the timeline, thrusting his sword into Li Aozi's back, the slender blade piercing the heart, Arthur slightly exerted force, lifting Li Aozi from the ground.

"Lord Leoz!"

"Damn it, this guy is a True God, directly attacking across the timeline."

Oshen and others were startled by the sudden attack, but years of combat proficiency made them immediately take on a True God stance, surrounding Arthur.

Fifteen Spiritual Warriors revealed their true forms, and the overwhelming Divine Power indeed briefly suppressed Arthur for a moment.

His wrist gripping the sword stalled for a second.

But only for that second.

Arthur's gaze flickered slightly, his left hand extended from his sleeve, lightly snapping his fingers.

Ping!

In the next moment, the mountain rock layers where the conference room was located were instantly obliterated, and the earth was filled with broken weapons, the stench of corpses and the pungent smell of gunpowder spreading relentlessly.

A battlefield.

The battlefield of the Foreign Domain spread like an ignited scroll, continuously expanding over the land of the Border Abyss.

Oshen's pupils contracted in an instant as he pulled someone beside him:

"Quick, get out—it's the Divine Country!"

Everyone calmed down immediately and retreated, but even so, it was already too late.

Arthur's Divine Country had completely opened.

「(Primordial Abyss Divine Language) Granted from the heavens, returning with the stars and moon, drinking the white dew under the morning light, casting the sky with mountain copper, weaving the wild fire, cutting off the truth from the distant heaven and earth, abode of the heavens, Terrestrial Divine Kingdom.」

Arthur coldly recited the spell that stirred the Divine Power, and instantly, the battlefield intertwined from all directions, completely surrounded them. A towering, dilapidated castle stood unwavering behind Him.

He drew the treasured sword from Li Aozi's back, raised the blade, and solemnly declared:

「King of the Sword Enclosed Arena—descend here.」

"Ugh!"

An invisible force instantly pressed down, causing Oshen and the others to collapse under the weight of the Divine Country, each almost bending over like bowing, struggling to stand on the ground.

"Damn it, this guy is indeed the Divine Country of the Primordial God Clan, unlike the Evil God, we can't just find a loophole and escape." Atreya Nightwind complained: "Who exactly is attacking us?"

Whoosh———Boom!

Elevent struggled to wield the magic wand to shoot, as various knights burning with flames surged from all directions, urgently saying:

"There are too many zealots at this level of the Divine Country... Could He have lived all the way from the War Beyond the Abyss?"

"Probably! This guy is under the command of the [Goddess of Truth] Charlgarnia, I was hunted down by that goddess before, her power is not to be underestimated."

Oshen slashed left and right, still unable to withstand the crashing burning knights. As they collided with him, they quickly expanded and exploded, and even though the damage wasn't high, as they kept piling on, no one could endure it.

After several rounds of bombardment, Oshen and the others quickly exhausted one resurrection opportunity.

Their levels weren't high to begin with, and even when revealing their true forms, facing such large-scale enemies, they couldn't possibly perform well.

"What should we do?" Someone shouted: "It doesn't matter whose slave he is now, this guy just wants to wipe us out together, right!?"

Oshen blocked an attack, looked into the distance with a complicated gaze:

"...Believe in Lord Leoz."

Pa!

Arthur's body was instantly slammed into the rock layers, creating a 'big' shaped crater, and as He just raised His head, crushed stones pelted down on His chest, and a pale girl's hand immediately clasped down on His face.

"Ha... I knew you'd open the Divine Country!"

The flame-haired girl forced Arthur's head down into the rock layers, the wounds on her body already healing when switching postures:

"Every move you make is meant to kill me, that's great, you even used a timeline attack, right? Too bad, I have an immortal body, even if you go back hundreds of years—no, back then, you were even more no match for me."

Arthur struggled forcefully, yet found not the slightest chance to move.

「...So, you deliberately gave me the chance to open the Divine Country.」

"Initially, I wanted to see what you'd do after resurrecting, but you were too weak, couldn't even kill me once. On the original timeline, you must have found you couldn't kill me on the frontlines and started looking for opportunities? I'm too familiar with these tricks. I used to do the same against Leviathandal."

The girl spoke casually, then slowly pressed, questioning the opponent:

"I let you open the Divine Country, to find a place for a secret conversation. Who let me have no Divine Country—so, Lord Arthur, was it Redd Gold who sent you?"

After speaking, she kindly reminded:

"This is your Divine Country, even if I kill you hundreds of times, you won't die, and you can't kill me. Even if you expel me, what good is that? Outside, you are even less my opponent, so it's best you answer what I ask honestly."

「No.」

Arthur faced the flame-haired girl's gold-red eyes through His fingers, slowly saying:

「I sought you out for the Goddess's freedom, of my own accord.」

The flame-haired girl was surprised:

"Hoho? So, you know about Charlgarnia and Redd Gold's situation?"

「For five thousand years, I've been striving for the Goddess to break free from that demon, even if it meant selling my soul to another demon, I'd do it.」

As Arthur spoke, He raised the blade again, directly stabbing into the flame-haired girl's abdomen.

However, the flame-haired girl's expression remained indifferent.

"The [Sunset Priest] is entirely a healer's stance, you cannot kill me."

The flame-haired girl said calmly, raising her hand to grip the sword hilt at her waist, casually pulling.

Thrust——

Bright crimson light scattered outward, the flame-haired girl held Arthur's blade in one hand, released the grip on His head with the other, and stepped back two steps, the abdominal cut already healed.

"You've done well, Arthur." The flame-haired girl slowly said: "Even I don't know how strong I am now, thank you for roughly assessing my power."