In other words, Shien was now facing Lilith alone.
In all of Cosmos, only the four of them remained as spectators.
No, not four.
“It seems someone else unexpectedly stayed behind.” Airi seemed to have noticed something and looked towards the temple, saying calmly to Anima, “It seems because of your magic power protecting that little girl, she wasn’t repelled by the barrier, right?”
“…That should be the case.” Anima sighed. “I don’t know if it’s a blessing or a curse for her.”
Anima’s words didn’t elicit much of a reaction from Airi.
As if she wasn’t interested in the girl at all, Airi continued to gaze towards the temple, causing even Lasha to fall silent.
Leisha naturally did the same.
However, looking at the massive barrier enveloping Cosmos and recalling the once slightly naive Hero, Leisha felt a mix of emotions.
“Has he grown to the point where he can construct such a large-scale magic barrier?”
She remembered that when she was secretly observing Shien, he was just a novice magician who was about to learn new magic, only able to use basic elemental magic with amplified power due to his vast magic power.
In just a few months, this novice magician had attained such magical prowess, making Leisha sigh with emotion.
Lasha, standing beside her, seemed to sense her master’s thoughts.
“This is Mr. Shien.”
Lasha said to Leisha for some reason.
“Lasha?”
Leisha was stunned and looked at Lasha in surprise.
But Lasha no longer paid attention to Leisha and also looked towards the temple.
There, an earth-shattering clash was about to begin.
…
“Boom!”
A storm of evil aura surged outwards, like a dark explosion, devastating everything.
The temple had collapsed.
All the evil beings were also blown away by the evil aura, disappearing without a trace.
The goddess with twelve black wings hovered in mid-air, like the eye of a dark storm, the core of hell’s vortex, continuously releasing astonishing evil aura.
This wasn’t the residual evil aura from thousands of years ago, but the true power of the evil god, an endless demonic poison that could drive all living beings to madness, corruption, and frenzy, the deepest darkness, the most primal chaos.
No life could maintain its rationality under this demonic poison.
A will that could resist this evil aura wasn’t something an individual could possess.
It wasn’t a sin that humans could bear. Even gods and demons would fall, truly terrifying.
Under such circumstances, within the storm of evil aura, a figure was holding a girl, resisting the onslaught of the evil aura, and exclaiming in shock.
“Why weren’t you repelled by the barrier?”
Shien, holding Elise, looked grim.
“Ugh…! Ah…!”
Elise groaned in pain, her face contorted, a flicker of madness in her eyes from time to time, telling Shien that she had been corrupted by Lilith’s power.
If it weren’t for the power of the Goddess of Life still active within her, Elise would have already lost her mind and turned into an evil being.
Only Shien, within the storm of evil aura, was completely unharmed, not affected in the slightest.
However, Shien wasn’t feeling well either.
“Boom!”
The storm of evil aura continued to rage, its power astonishing, sending Shien, holding Elise, flying like a cannonball, crashing into the outer wall of a building.
Rubble and debris flew everywhere, and dust rose, burying Shien within the building.
Lilith’s power couldn’t affect Shien directly, but it could still cause physical phenomena and impact him.
Of course, Shien wasn’t injured.
“Bang!”
With an explosive sound, Shien punched away the rubble and debris covering him and jumped out, carrying Elise.
“Damn it!”
Shien spat out a mouthful of dust-filled saliva and placed Elise on the ground.
“Hey, Saintess, pull yourself together and hold on. If there’s a way, leave this place quickly.”
Shien shouted at Elise.
“What… what are you going to do?”
Elise grabbed Shien and asked with difficulty.
Shien replied,
“I’ll stop her.”