Volume 6, Chapter 40 – This Sword Above, All Foes Beneath

Tianyin’s most fundamental goal was actually to bury the entire army.

The lives of a million people rested on Tianyin alone, and the million-strong enemy army would be dealt with by Tianyin alone.

『What I want is exactly this outcome. Samael, as a Throne-tier… you should be the one to step forward at such a critical moment.』

Tianyin’s gaze was utterly calm. In her sight, the plain below had shattered completely, like a piece of glass smashed to pieces.

It could be said that Tianyin’s charged strike had directly shattered the entire plain.

Everywhere the light of Tianyin’s sword reached, the earth broke apart.

As the ground broke, countless soldiers fell with it, plunging into the plain that had turned into a gigantic pit.

Like facing a natural disaster such as an earthquake. Against the shattered earth, aside from a handful of powerful experts who could temporarily lift themselves free, basically every being that could only stand on the ground… had fallen into the land Tianyin had smashed.

It could be said… this was a vast calamity Tianyin had artificially created with her own Throne-tier power.

「Phew… Xiaoyin, is it really okay to do this?」

A small portion of the soldiers had died beneath Tianyin’s blood-red sword light.

But countless others had died on the ground Tianyin had shattered.

Whether killed directly or indirectly, at this moment the number of beings who had died at Tianyin’s hands… had already grown beyond counting.

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Precisely because she realized the cruelty of this fact, Samael could not help using a worried tone to question Tianyin.

In response to Samael’s concerned words, Tianyin only let out a faint sigh.

『Samael… I understand all your worries, and I know you’re worried about my condition. But Samael… don’t worry, okay, I’m still me, I’m still that same Tianyin, it’s just that the current me has come to understand a lot more…』

『Killing so many people with my own hands doesn’t make me feel burdened. Personally sending so many lives to their end, even though I can already faintly hear the wails of the dead by my ears, I’m not afraid.』

『Because… I have you with me, Samael, and Sister Xiaomu, Xiaomengyao, and everyone in Dawn, they’ll all keep staying by my side.』

『I’ve already lost Julius, and I’ve lost Orgum. And because of war, I’ve lost so many people around me.』

『But now, Samael. I really, really don’t want to lose anything else because of my own weakness, my own powerlessness, my own uselessness.』

Tianyin’s tone was earnest, and her gaze was fixed on the chaotic army below.

As the ground completely collapsed, the vast army of a million had entirely fallen into the bottomless pit Tianyin had created.

『So, Samael. I’ve become this selfish now, just to protect the existences I want to keep. I can harden my heart and swing the sword in my hand.』

「Xiaoyin…」

Samael opened her mouth, then closed it again.

In fact, Samael resonated deeply with Tianyin’s words. Tianyin like this had indeed already grown more mature.

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However… maturity required a corresponding price. And Samael, who knew this all too well, faintly felt that something precious had disappeared from Tianyin.

“The Undead Grand Duke wasn’t strong enough, so he lost his own life.”

“Heavenly Father also wasn’t strong enough, so he died so dramatically for the sake of his daughter.”

“The King of Knights, the Black Dragon King. Each of them was Throne-tier, but even Throne-tier existences… have times when they’re powerless.”

Murmuring these words to herself, Tianyin once again slowly raised the knight’s sword in her hand.

The sharp longsword was lifted high above her head, and blood-red light blossomed once more.

Invisible currents of air once again began to spiral upward from below, and the sky once again fell into darkness.

Down in the enormous pit, the army that still could not climb out, and the various generals leading those troops, once again took notice of the changes in the sky above.

The aura of deathly silence.

The aura of destruction.

As Tianyin held the sword high, a chill so oppressive it was suffocating slowly spread out.

「Xiaoyin… isn’t this still enough?」

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Samael was deeply worried about Tianyin’s stance that said she was about to swing her sword.

After all, even after Tianyin had said so much, Samael still did not want to see a scene where Tianyin alone cut down a million people.

When the plan had first been set, Tianyin had not been aiming for this. According to the goal that Tianyin and Samael had envisioned, they really only intended to trap this million-strong army, then use their own forces to annihilate it.

But… with the way things had developed, even Samael had not expected Tianyin to suddenly want to wipe out this million-strong army all by herself.

『It’s not enough, Samael.』

To Samael’s anxious question, Tianyin answered very straightforwardly.

『Samael, didn’t I already say it?』

『I alone can deal with all of them.』

As these words fell from Tianyin’s lips, a blood-red sword light once again descended from the sky.

At the instant she swung the knight’s sword down, at the instant Samael’s attention was captured by this sky-covering sword light.

In that moment, the faint purple glow that had already been covering Tianyin’s eyes flashed and vanished.

As that light faded, Tianyin’s gaze instantly became indifferent and ruthless.

“This sword above, all foes beneath.”

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Those cold words, like a spoken incantation of power, suddenly rang out. Yet after this sentence left Tianyin’s mouth, her eyes returned to their normal state.

Down below, the blood-red sword light finally descended.

Bang—!

Rumble—!

At this moment, countless beings turned into white light under Tianyin’s sword, and at this same moment… the gaze of the entire world turned toward the place where Tianyin had swung her sword.

Far away, the player named Yunchou shot up from where he was sitting in fright.

And it was not just Yunchou. In every corner of the Main World where beings with a certain level of perception still existed, almost all of them simultaneously felt the soul-deep shock coming from Tianyin’s direction.

At Dawn’s main base… the capital city called Eden. Lucifa, who had seemed perfectly fine just a moment before, suddenly collapsed into unconsciousness.

“I can feel it… I can feel it! Hahahahahahahahaha!”

In the deepest depths of the Abyss, a girl wrapped in countless tentacles around her body let out a mad laugh.

“The End! That’s right! The End that Father spoke of! This law-like power that makes people feel involuntary heart-quaking fear, there is no mistake! Absolutely, absolutely no mistake! Hahahahahahahahaha!”