The Light Sealing Sword, the highest-level sealing technique of the Angel clan, can create a vacuum point that isolates the flow of time and space, sealing everything within it in a state of stillness. Even holy-ranked and even Realm-level powerhouses would find it difficult to break free from this seal.

However, in the war against the demons thousands of years ago, both the Angel clan and the goddess made a mistake by underestimating the power of the last remaining demons. To put it bluntly, even if the great Angel leader Ural were to face them head-on, his chances of winning would not exceed fifty percent. On top of that, the Sword Demon of the Abyss possessed a sword aura known as "Death-Granting Rebirth," which allowed him to bathe in his enemies' blood and regenerate even if his body was destroyed in battle.

After making up his mind to completely destroy the demons, Ural used the Light Sealing Sword, sacrificing his own life. The plan was for the sealing sword to seal the demons until their souls scattered, thus achieving the legendary sacrifice of the great Angel leader in the pursuit of justice.

"Well... but it's such a waste for a good man like Ural to die like that, so I thought I would leave a backdoor to see if I could find a way to directly eliminate the Sword Demon and save him in the process..." The goddess rubbed her temples apologetically and said, "So I left a gap in the seal using the Book of Original Sin and added some divine spells and a method to contact Heaven on it, and then I gave it to the church... It turned out that they took it as some kind of 'Divine Punishment Scripture' and even enshrined it as a holy relic. I thought it was quite nice, so I didn't pay much attention to it."

Artemis was also somewhat familiar with the Book of Original Sin. In the mythological era, before the Angel clan chose to follow the Goddess of the Light, every newborn Angel would brand their name on the Book of Original Sin and store a strand of their soul. If they were to commit acts against the Angel's code of justice in the future, the Divine Punishment Scripture could directly burn the soul of the apostate.

The ultimate downfall of Lucifer, the once strongest fallen Angel, was also partly attributed to the continuous burning of her soul by Heaven, weakening her state.

However, after the Angel clan chose to follow the goddess, she believed that the book somehow enslaved the Angel clan to a certain extent. Therefore, she returned the names and souls imprinted on the book, and then took the book for herself to play with.

Artemis sat on the side, eyeing the goddess, and said with a mocking tone, "So, after saying so much, you're going to blame everything on her in the end!"

"But it doesn't make sense!" The goddess frowned, realizing that something was off. "Only Ares and I knew about the backdoor seal on the Book of Original Sin, and that was ten thousand years ago... How did that little girl below come to know about it?"

"Indeed..." Artemis stroked her chin, showing a pensive expression. If it weren't for the goddess telling her, she wouldn't have known about this aspect of the Book of Original Sin.

"You said that no one knew about it except you and Ares, so could it be that Ares has returned?"

The Elf god looked up, testing the waters.

"Impossible." The goddess's tone suddenly became calm, and the air in the hall quieted down for a moment before returning to its usual liveliness.

"Don't you know better than anyone else? That guy Ares has a secret crush on this goddess. If he really could crawl back from the void, he would definitely be eager to see me first."

"...That's true."

Artemis helplessly pressed her temple and said, "But instead of gossiping about Ares' secret crush on you, shouldn't you deal with the situation below first? It seems like someone from ten thousand years ago is about to return."

The battlefield below suddenly changed, and Aya fell from the sky without warning, emitting a flashing golden and red light, as if something was surging crazily within her body.

"Huh, I never expected the Lantern would be hidden inside the Golden Dragon. If it weren't for the ability to locate it using the Divine Punishment Scriptures, it would have been a big problem," said Vira as she swiftly flipped through the black book in her hand. It finally stopped on the last page, and the golden words on the page rose into the air and quickly flew towards Aya.

"Who allowed you to touch my dragon? This guy is still my servant, don't even think about it!" When Tiran realized that her voice and even the communication of the master-servant contract couldn't awaken Aya, she quickly reacted. Her ice crystal wings rapidly expanded to a huge span of nearly six meters, and with her Chi fully activated, she swiftly stood in front of Aya and slashed her sword.

The scene around the blade suddenly distorted and trembled as Tiran exerted her full power. It was like the reflection disturbed by ripples when a pebble was thrown into a calm lake.

The space fluctuated, and Tiran's Holy Rank laws momentarily returned to her sword at the moment of its full power eruption. However, the golden runes were completely unaffected by Tiran's influence, as if they didn't exist in this world but were a projection from a higher-dimensional world. They easily passed through Tiran's sword, Tiran's body, and finally imprinted themselves on Aya.

"Even the laws..." When the runes passed through her body, although they didn't cause any harm, something seemed to be taken away from Tiran's heart.

"Ugh... Ahhh!" At the moment the runes imprinted on Aya, the golden color within the red and golden light on her body was instantly suppressed, and a large amount of red mist slowly rose from the surface of Aya's skin, attempting to gradually condense into a certain form.

During this process, Aya seemed to be enduring immense pain, kneeling tightly on the ground, her fingers leaving deep marks on the surface.

What the hell is that book! The Lantern... Damn!

Raising her wings, Tiran flew towards Vira who was still in the midst of casting her spell in an attempt to interrupt her. However, she was repeatedly hindered by Angelo, and Aya's painful voice continued to stimulate Tiran's emotions, making it impossible for her to calm down and think.

Go, stop her.

This was Tiran's only thought now. Unfortunately, after the sword strike that just reached the Holy Rank, her Chi could no longer support the power of the laws and return to the Holy Rank. It was just a fleeting moment.

"Your Highness Tiran, your attacks won't be able to break through mine," Angelo adjusted his posture and faced Tiran again. Even if they were to confront each other in the air under normal circumstances, even though Tiran had only reached the level of a Great Knight, she might not necessarily win. After all, relying on the cloak to hover and fight was a disadvantageous situation for him as a melee combatant who relied on martial arts.

But now Tiran's emotions were unstable, and Aya on the ground seemed to be on the verge of collapsing at any moment, causing her swordsmanship to falter, resulting in a close fight between the two sides.

"Get lost!" Tiran once again erupted with Chi, attempting to shake off Angelo and break through quickly. However, this stubborn opponent still pursued her relentlessly and directly stabbed her from behind, forcing Tiran to turn around and block.

Since it's like this, then...

Gritting her teeth, Tiran activated the Angel Covenant imprinted in her mind.

"In the name of the Covenant, heed the call -"

Originally wielding a silver dagger aimed at Tiran, Angelo felt a sense of impending danger as Tiran activated the Angel Covenant. He instinctively raised the dagger to block the incoming threat from above. However, when the platinum-glowing Angel Sword descended, it shattered his defense with a single strike. The two sturdy silver daggers shattered under the immense holy power, and Angelo's arms broke as he spat blood and fell to the ground.

"Witch? Why did you summon me at this moment? Do you not know that I almost had that demon -" Little Angel, now covered in a classical-styled lightweight armor, wielding the holy sword, appeared resolute like a mythical Valkyrie, seemingly in the heat of battle.

Having just fought the great demon, Angel unleashed her full power, utilizing the various skills of Angel's Arsenal and the Sunfire to overwhelm and exhaust the demon in a one-on-one duel. Fighting demons and upholding justice was the type of battle that Little Angel had anticipated, and being interrupted at this crucial moment was undoubtedly infuriating.

However, while glaring at Tiran, she also noticed Aya, who was obviously in a precarious state on the ground.

"Aya senpai?! What happened to her?"

"That bastard did it, dispose of her quickly." Tiran did not provide a detailed explanation, instead charging towards Viera with his sword.

Viera floated in the distance, unable to move due to the maintenance of her spell. Seeing the only protector being taken out by the summoned Little Angel, she couldn't help but worry.

...

Meanwhile, at the Holy Rank battlefield near the city of Milt.

"What's going on? Where did they go?"

Initially witnessing Little Angel dominating Saros with the Sunfire and Angel's Arsenal, nearly crushing him at every turn, they suddenly lost sight of her without any warning.

As for Ciella and Dia, they successfully chased and besieged the young man who could only run away due to his limited understanding of the laws of magic. Whether it was Flame Magic or Arcane Magic, as long as it involved the laws of magic, his defense was useless.

However, even in this miserable state, when the young man saw Little Angel disappear, a smile of victory appeared on his lips.

"Finally... Well then, I won't be playing with you two anymore. Goodbye."

Bowing, the young man turned and flew towards the grand arena.

Ciella and Dia were determined not to let him escape, but Saros suddenly blocked their way with his sword, saying, "Your opponents are me!"

"Even after being beaten like a pig, you're still obstructing us... Are you gum or something?!"

Ciella glared at him and sent a massive flaming fireball towards him.

"You've worked hard. I'll leave this to you, Lord Saros."

"No problem, as long as you can fulfill your promise." Saros gripped his magical sword, which had already been chipped, with no fear as he faced the two of them alone.

...

"Terrifying... Absolutely terrifying..."

Viera's hand continued to maintain the spell of the Divine Punishment Codex, continuously drawing out the red mist inside Aya's body. Her other hand held a talisman, supporting a hexagonal shield in front of her. It was one of the few items in her brother's nearly bottomless collection capable of withstanding attacks at the Holy Rank, yet even this precious object had been deeply cracked by the horrifying strike delivered by Little Angel just now.

"Oh no, it seems like I'm late again. You've already used this thing, huh? I was hoping such a rare antique wouldn't have to be used... Well, forget it."

The belated young boy looked somewhat helpless as he stood in front of Viola, his half-cracked talisman in hand.

"Looks like you're ready, huh? In that case, let's move on..."

With a confident nod from Viola, the storage ring worn by the boy glimmered, and two simple-looking cannons appeared on either side.

Tiran and little Angel instinctively assumed a defensive posture, but soon found it strange because the design of those cannons didn't seem to have any killing power.

If they were magitech cannons, that would be one thing, but those things were not only pointing upwards, they even had fuses!

The young boy bowed towards Aya and gave a mischievous smile:

"A Salute to the birth of the king, with these cannons!"