"Chester, Chester! Respond if you copy! Chester!" Cormick shouted anxiously.


    Amidst the ruins, Chester used his custom armor to protect Val, who was still casting the guidance spell. However, Chester had been sliced at the waist, with the lower half of his body a bloody mess. "Cormick, I''m fine. Keep going, keep going..."


    "Okay! Keep attacking! Hold them all back! Hold them back!"


    After putting down the walkie-talkie, Chester lost consciousness.


    With his death, the armor on Val began to fall off. Waves of white light emitted from Val''s body as distinct, rune-like patterns covered half of his being.


    At this moment, the pope turned around, stretched out his finger, and pointed to the sky. Another huge light beam was formed in the space, threatening to fall again.


    Sven rushed toward the pope as the pope was gathering his strength, but he was prated by the scepter.


    Without hesitation, Sven followed the scepter''s force downward. Upon arriving at the pope, he threw out a punch. The pope stumbled backward from the force of the punch. "Huh?"


    Sven took this opportunity to yank out the scepter from his own body and stabbed the pope.


    The pope maintained his calm as he raised his hands to defend himself with divine power. However, it did not seem to work as the scepter pierced his palm.


    "This man isn''t with that woman? The blood on him is not his own? Wait..."


    Sven''s face was filled with determination to die and endless fury.


    "I thought I had killed these two?" The pope then looked at Sven in surprise. "How..."


    Sven said angrily, "I''m taking revenge for my sister and Marie!"


    The Soaring me Technique that the pope unleashed earlier was his killing move. Even though the two of them were immune to true energy attacks, the Soaring me Technique was feared by even the gods. These were Heavenly mes that could purify and burn everything.


    The pope knew the other party was difficult to deal with, so he took the risk.


    s...


    At that time, Sven was immune, but Marie decided to jump out and protect him when she noticed that something was wrong with the mes.


    one


    By the time Sven came to his senses, the heat wave had ended. All that was left was a pool of blood on his body.


    "M-Marie?" Sven looked at his shaking hands. Marie''s blood was dripping from them.


    Sven wailed in heartbreak, but he could not make a sound. His heart was shattered into a million pieces.


    At this moment, his mind went nk as he rushed to the pope,pletely disregarding his own safety.


    "Ignorant!" The pope summoned the Heavenly mes again.


    Sven strode forward quickly, firmly holding the pope in ce.


    "Let''s see which of us dies first!"


    "You''re crazy!"


    Helpless, the pope could only withdraw the mes.


    Sven gave the Pope no time to breathe as he punched out with his fist, sting out afterimages. His blows were very strong, but they did not contain any true


    energy-perhaps because of Marie''s blood.


    The pope only felt a little pinch, nothing more than a mosquito bite. It was useless no matter how hard Sven attacked.


    He thought that he would win no matter what because he was a god while Sven was just a mortal. Soon, these people would be defeated, and he would be the master of this world.


    Cormick''s army gradually began to lose to those undead Espers. Torah was also tightly bound by the tentacles of the huge monster.