Sharkai Bai and Migast stood on the mountainside of Orkoreth.
After their brutal clash, the earth, trees, and stone walls were riddled with holes.
Sharkai Bai’s wounds multiplied. Facing Migast, victory seemed like a fading dream.
Having adapted to Bai’s strength through repeated attacks, Migast nullified his One Hit Kill completely.
“This is the Church’s special technique,” Migast declared. “Only those who’ve tempered their bodies to the extreme, like me, can wield it.”
Blocking Sharkai Bai’s kick, Migast punched him hard, sending him flying.
“Cough!”
Bai clutched his abdomen. The searing pain made standing nearly impossible.
He neared his limit. This was his third consecutive entry into Berserk Mode.
His body grew heavier. His vision blurred.
“Heretic—dismemberment! AHAHAHA!”
Gripping two steel blades sliding from his sleeves, Migast discarded his shattered glasses. He advanced step by step toward Bai.
His methods with heretics were notoriously cruel.
“......I can still fight.”
Sharkai Bai clenched his fists again.
But—
A flash of silver swept across his arms.
Both arms were severed simultaneously by Migast, his face twisted in ecstasy.
“Next...... the legs.”
As Migast raised his blades to strike—
—Sharkai Bai gripped Migast’s head and slammed it violently into the ground.
A tangible, icy killing intent radiated from Bai, spreading across Orkoreth’s peak.
——His eyes glowed purple. From the stumps of his severed arms, grotesque, scaly limbs regrew.
They were utterly repulsive.
“AHAHAHA!!! What a terrifying monster!!!”
Migast rose and retreated dozens of meters away, eyeing the creature before him.
“ROAR——!”
A massive purple laser beam erupted from Sharkai Bai’s mouth, targeting Migast.
Migast crossed his blade-wielding arms over his chest, trying to adapt with the Church’s technique.
But the laser pierced half his chest.
“Spurt!”
Blood splattered the ground where he stood.
He staggered back, barely keeping balance.
Staring at Sharkai Bai, Migast pulled a nail-sized conical object from his pocket.
“Heretic—annihilation!!!!”
Holding the cone, Migast stabbed it into his own temple as he roared.
His whole body convulsed.
Wriggling vines sprouted from within him, rapidly repairing his damaged form.
“AAAAAAAH——!!!!”
Letting out a piercing shriek, Sharkai Bai charged again.
His blood-soaked hand plunged into Migast’s chest.
But vines entangled his arm, trapping it.
Meanwhile, Migast’s pierced chest healed swiftly.
The Winged Deity Punishment Church’s first divine artifact: the Holy Nail.
It granted immortality, God’s Vines, and self-repair—immense power.
Yet the user became a monster forever, finding release only in death.
Migast had now become a “God’s Monster.”
Migast drove his steel blade deep into Sharkai Bai’s vine-bound, grotesque arm.
“AAAAAAAH!!!!”
Intense pain shot through him. Sharp spikes erupted from his trapped arm.
The spikes tore through the vines, freeing it at last.
“BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!!!!!!”
Purple lasers fired relentlessly from Sharkai Bai’s mouth, targeting Migast’s body.
Migast’s entire form was obliterated, leaving only his head. But vines repaired him perfectly, standing before Bai once more.
“AAAAAAAHHHH!!!”
“......”
From Sharkai Bai’s back, a purple tail oozing viscous fluid emerged.
Migast gripped steel blades radiating cold aura.
The two monsters charged at each other.
Inside the Winged Deity Punishment Hall, Kami Miraishi felt the terrifying killing intent and looked outside.
“The Holy Nail... is it that guy Migast? You’re doing well, Sharkai Bai.”
Kami Miraishi flicked his golden hair and vanished.
Unable to break the Six Archbishops’ defensive formation yet, he decided to watch the duel firsthand.
In the basement of the Celestial Carving Academy—
Even within its walls, Aikua Hebrai Eburna sensed events across the continent.
He felt two utterly different auras erupt simultaneously.
Aikua Hebrai Eburna, within a crystal, opened his eyes.
“Monsters of god and demon.”
The Winged Deity Punishment Church’s Holy Nail.
The God Slaughter within Sharkai Bai.
Aikua Hebrai Eburna anticipated their clash.
At Orkoreth’s mountainside, Kami Miraishi arrived and fixed his gaze on Sharkai Bai.
“Is this Sharkai Bai?”
Seeing Bai’s drastically changed form and aura, Kami Miraishi felt a flicker of fear.
“Haha, I actually feel fear?! Divine Grace.”
Fear was foreign to him.
Activating Divine Grace, he decided to fight Sharkai Bai to dispel this inexplicable dread.
“Hey, Sharksea Clan brat!”
Appearing behind Sharkai Bai, Kami Miraishi unleashed his strongest aura.
“AAAAH!!”
Annoyed by Migast’s interference, Sharkai Bai saw the newcomer and punched violently.
“BOOM——!!”
Kami Miraishi, with Divine Grace activated, was slammed straight into a distant rock wall.
“Cough...!”
He spat blood. This pain was unlike anything he’d ever felt.
He couldn’t move a finger. His chest bones seemed shattered.
Kami Miraishi looked at the distant Sharkai Bai and Migast.
“......Is this still human combat......”
A force not even Divine Grace could block.
Amidst the pain, his gaze grew intrigued.
He desperately wanted to know what monster resided within Sharkai Bai.
Above the Northern Kingdom, the Fourth Winged Angel sensed Orkoreth’s aura and grew restless.
“That Migast... I must hurry back!”
The angel spread his wings and flew rapidly toward Orkoreth, forgetting the dying Situ Sheng before him.
Watching him leave, Situ Sheng lost consciousness and fell to the ground.
“Oh? I’ve found some good material.”
Soon after, Xia Yuan arrived with the First Attendant.
Xia Yuan’s lips curled up, his eyes gleaming with excitement.
