Volume 5, Chapter 95 – Astral’s Power

As powerful life energy continuously flowed into her body, the dying Isabelle successfully escaped the gates of death.

Enduring the pain, this Second Ancestor of House Solrog slowly opened her eyes.

After taking in the face of the golden-haired man holding her, Isabelle’s pupils suddenly contracted and joy immediately surfaced within them.

“Lord Astral!!”

Isabelle let out a delighted exclamation.

Though Astral’s appearance had undergone earth-shattering changes after absorbing the Heart of the World and massive amounts of resentful power, as someone who had served Astral for a thousand years, Isabelle immediately recognized his identity.

“Lord Astral!! You, you successfully broke through?!”

“Mm.”

The golden-haired man nodded with a smile.

After receiving this definitive information, Isabelle’s eyes overflowed with unprecedented excitement.

Success!!

Finally successful!!

What she had worked toward for a thousand years had finally succeeded!!

If not for her current lack of strength, Isabelle would have had the urge to jump up and cheer regardless of appearances.

“Wonderful, Lord Astral, this is really… wonderful.”

The fear and unease in her heart dispersed completely due to Astral’s appearance. Isabelle smiled as she relaxed and rested her head against the man’s chest.

“You’ve worked hard, Aisha.”

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Responding gently, a trace of tender smile also appeared on Astral’s face.

Hearing what seemed like heartfelt gratitude, Isabelle’s face flushed slightly as she buried her head deeper into Astral’s embrace.

Seeing this, Astral seemed about to make a few teasing remarks.

But just then, a cold voice filled with displeasure quietly echoed in Astral’s ears.

——”Hey, leaving me aside while showing off your affection, isn’t that a bit inappropriate?”——

As the words entered his ears, powerful and violent curse power immediately descended from the sky like a collapsing mountain. Several blue-purple energy bullets condensed from curse power attacked Astral without warning.

Sensing this terrifying pressure, Astral frowned.

Immediately, he stomped his foot, the ground cracking into spider-web fractures, then leaped up, transforming into a golden light shooting straight into the sky. In an instant, the energy bullets grazed past his afterimage below, crashing to earth and exploding. The explosion engulfed thousands of meters in radius, the earth torn apart, overturned, and collapsed under the violent force, rubble and flames weaving together into purgatory.

The rift valley where Astral had previously broken through also collapsed due to this wave of impact.

——”BOOOOM!!”——

Holding Isabelle, Astral thus arrived in the sky above. However, before he could steady himself, as Ulutiel’s wings flapped, several more blue-purple energy bullets came whistling through the air.

The attack density had increased by a whole level.

However, regarding this,

Astral didn’t panic. His eyes turned cold as powerful purple-gold spiritual power suddenly burst forth beneath his feet——”Clang!” The first energy bullet was kicked by him and immediately deflected. Then came the second, third, fourth—his movements were so fast they were barely visible to the naked eye, afterimages connecting into golden arcs in the air.

The deflected energy bullets fell like meteors toward the distant sky, then simultaneously exploded. Several blue-purple explosive flames bloomed in succession in the sky, like the sun cluster of “Doomsday,” illuminating the entire heavens. In that moment, golden light and blue-purple intertwined, both heaven and earth trembling.

The surrounding seas were directly stirred into raging waves.

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After deflecting these energy bullets, Astral slowly turned his gaze toward the nearby sky.

What entered his field of vision was a little girl flapping white wings, seemingly harmless.

Sensing Astral’s gaze, Ulutiel playfully raised an eyebrow.

“You actually kicked my attacks back? Looks like you’re genuine Divine Graced Realm. How unexpected, you came out so much earlier than I imagined?”

“”

Staring at Ulutiel’s face, Astral gave no response.

But Isabelle in his arms seemed to think of something, unease suddenly flashing in her eyes.

“Lord Astral… are you, are you alright?”

With Ulutiel’s words, Isabelle remembered something serious. That was—Lord Astral’s breakthrough completion time was much earlier than expected?!

The elves’ natural power hadn’t been absorbed yet, and the Lord’s holy relics hadn’t been delivered either.

Yet now Lord Astral had actually completed his breakthrough?

Obviously this wasn’t a normal breakthrough… but an early emergence to deal with Ulutiel’s arrival! But in that case…

“Your body…”

“It’s fine.”

As if guessing Isabelle’s thoughts, Astral directly shook his head.

At the same moment, a voice also entered Isabelle’s mind.

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——”Leave Ulutiel to me. Go help us get the refined holy relics.”——

The Lord’s holy relics?

After Astral’s words entered her mind, Isabelle’s pupils suddenly contracted.

Looking at the fine cracks constantly appearing on Astral’s muscles, Isabelle quickly understood the situation.

Indeed,

the True Ancestor who ended his seclusion early hadn’t completely controlled those two forces, causing his aura to be slightly disordered and his body to show cracks symbolizing impending breakdown.

He needed the holy relics to stabilize his bodily condition?

I understand.

Without much exchange, after understanding Astral’s intention, Isabelle solemnly nodded to him.

The next moment,

Isabelle directly broke away from Astral’s embrace, instantly rushing toward another direction of Sacred Commandment Island surrounded by white spiritual power.

“Hm?”

Seeing this scene, Ulutiel’s brow furrowed slightly.

Her wings immediately flapped, and five or six invisible “Vacuum Breaks” suddenly attacked toward Isabelle. Though unclear what the two House Solrog family members had discussed privately, allowing Isabelle free movement was undoubtedly not a wise decision.

However, before these air cannons could fly far, Astral slowly raised his hand and suddenly clenched his five fingers into a fist.

Instantly, the surrounding space distorted, directly crushing the several air cannons that hadn’t shot far.

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“Your opponent is me, Miss Ulutiel.”

Rising slowly to the same height as Ulutiel, Astral said indifferently but quite politely.

However, having her attack blocked, Ulutiel wasn’t angry but looked playfully in the direction Isabelle had departed.

That location… hehe.

Licking her lips, Ulutiel refocused her gaze on this Divine Graced Realm expert before her.

In terms of presence and aura intensity, Astral was far stronger than the Xi she had once faced. His powerful spiritual power aura continuously echoed and spread through the surrounding sky, even completely suppressing her curse power field at one point.

But even so, Ulutiel didn’t show a guarded posture. Instead, she tilted her head meaningfully, watching Astral.

“The same kind… perhaps?”

“What do you mean?”

Astral’s eyes narrowed slightly as he asked coldly.

“Nothing, I just find you very interesting, hehe~”

“Is that so, then…”

Before his response could finish, Astral instantly flashed through Ulutiel’s perception domain, suddenly appearing before the Celestial Blight and swinging his fist toward the evil god. The five light rings floating around him also fitted onto Astral’s arms, emanating rich golden light.

“I hope you… are equally interesting.”

Just as his words fell, Astral’s fist directly smashed into Ulutiel’s face…