Volume 6, Chapter 30 – A Sword Falling From The Sky

After the power was devoured, Tianyin was caught off guard that she actually could not suppress it at all for a while.

For now, Tianyin could still rely on Samael’s Wrath to suppress the rampaging Gluttony. But although she managed to press down the rampaging Gluttony for the moment, it also caused her own strength to be greatly weakened in a different way.

『Samael… this won’t do, we can’t keep going like this. If I keep absorbing power, I really feel like I’m going to be blown apart from how full I am, seriously… So Samael… what matters most right now is figuring out a way to deal with this problem…』

The situation was anything but hopeful. After Tianyin laid out the current difficulty, Samael fell silent for a moment, then offered her own opinion.

「Xiaoyin, how about releasing the power you’ve absorbed?」

『Wuu… I don’t know if that will work or not… but I can give it a try.』

Samael’s idea also made Tianyin’s eyes light up. However, after she tried for a bit to follow Samael’s suggestion, Tianyin let out a helpless sigh.

『No good, Samael. While Gluttony is rampaging I already can’t control the power of Gluttony anymore. And right now Gluttony is crazily absorbing all this magic power, I really can’t do anything to control the power it has absorbed…』

It was obvious that Samael’s method was sound in theory. But it was just as obvious that once Gluttony went out of control, Tianyin was now completely unable to do anything besides temporarily suppress it.

「That really does make things troublesome, Xiaoyin.」

After hearing Tianyin’s helpless words, Samael realized this as well.

And if the power just kept getting absorbed without ever being released, Tianyin getting blown apart from being too full… that was actually a very real possibility…

「The main problem is mine… after all, I was the one who suggested you use Gluttony, Xiaoyin. If only I had not brought it up just now…」

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Samael felt a bit guilty.

Because just as she said, if she had not suggested from the start that Tianyin use Gluttony to devour the magic attacks, Tianyin really would not have ended up in this situation.

However…

『Samael, everything has already happened, so now is not the time to admit whose fault it is. Also, the suggestion to use Gluttony was something you brought up, but the one who chose to use Gluttony was still me.』

『So the responsibility is not on you. Besides… we have already managed to suppress Gluttony for now, haven’t we?』

Even though her body felt awful from being so stuffed, Tianyin still spoke such amazingly mature words.

「Good grief… Xiaoyin, sometimes you say things that really catch people off guard~」

Samael’s faint voice echoed in her mind.

In reality… as the power of Gluttony was suppressed, the speed at which Tianyin absorbed power also began to slow down.

Yet this state, in Seles’ eyes from far away, looked like Tianyin was having an easier time resisting her magic attacks.

“An opening—”

Without thinking too much, the moment Seles saw Tianyin dissolving her attack, she instinctively took it as an opportunity. Obeying her instincts, high up in the air where she floated, a pure blood-red longsword appeared in Seles’ hand.

“I am already different now, Xiaoyin.”

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“And with how different I have become, do I still have the right and the power to turn you into my possession, Xiaoyin?”

Murmuring this under her breath, Seles’ figure in the sky turned into a dazzling streak of light.

That streak of light tore through the heavens and in the blink of an eye, carrying an unstoppable posture, it shot straight toward Tianyin’s position, “falling” down.

“That is—!!”

Standing below, Tianyin also noticed the streak of light Seles had become at the first possible moment. And from the instant that streak of light appeared, Tianyin understood… it was already too late.

Clang—!

A cold sword cry rang by her ear. In Tianyin’s eyes, the blood-red sword tip within that streak of light was pointed straight at her.

As if crossing through space, the sword tip that had still been quite far away a moment ago arrived right in front of her.

Pshh—!

At the final moment, the blood-red sword tip shifted just a little to the side, and that slight deviation made Seles’ sword only cut through the sleeve on Tianyin’s left arm.

Of course… although the sword only sliced the fabric, the sword aura carried by that blade still cut into Tianyin’s left arm. So… a shallow wound suddenly appeared on Tianyin’s left arm…

Blood began to well up from the cut on her arm, and Tianyin could not help but let out a pained sound.

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「Xiaoyin!」

Samael’s tense voice rang out in her mind right away.

『Samael… I’m fine, it’s just a scratch.』

While soothing the nervous Samael in her mind, Tianyin looked toward the elven girl Seles, who had already arrived right in front of her.

“That speed is fast… no, I used this move myself just now when I was dealing with those Minotaur troops…”

Tianyin stared hard at Seles, her gaze full of wariness.

“Surprised?”

Hearing her, Seles smiled faintly.

“But Xiaoyin, you don’t need to be surprised. After all, everything you can do, I can do too~”

“Everything?”

Tianyin was not stupid, and Seles’ words were not hard to understand. As long as she thought about what Seles had just said, then added that sword technique that had just fallen from the sky…

Tianyin could be one hundred percent sure what special ability it was among the Seven Original Sins that Seles controlled.

“Copying… you can copy other people’s moves or abilities?”

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“Correct answer, Xiaoyin. Too bad there is no reward~ although if you are willing to come home with me, maybe I will give you a reward~”

As she said this, two pink blushes bloomed on the beautiful elf girl’s face.

“Who would go back with you! Wait… you can copy, which means the one who interfered with Yivrea’s astrology was you!?”

At this moment, Tianyin suddenly recalled the reason Yivrea had been inexplicably hit with backlash before.

If Seles could copy, putting aside what conditions were needed, if she had copied Yivrea’s astrology, then it would be understandable that Yivrea suffered backlash.

“Astrology, huh? Yes, I did copy that~ By the way, if no one had ever used astrology on me, I really would not have had this kind of power to foresee things~”

“And without this power, there is no way I would have killed those two underlings of yours in advance, the ones who looked so loyal~”

“…Eh?”

Tianyin’s little face stiffened for a moment.

In her heart, a bad premonition began to rise.

“That said, I don’t remember the names of those two idiots. But if it is you, Xiaoyin, you definitely know them, right? After all, one of them was Legendary rank and the other Epic rank~”