Stella muttered as she knew that what she would do was against her dearest lord’s wishes. Her dearest lord had warned her not to use this skill, but she is currently forced to do so.

She will use the Sky Divider skill, the only skill that is almost certain to kill her if she uses it.

If it were the beginning of the battle, she may have been able to quickly finish this battle using the full force of the favor of the stars.

Although that would have damaged her to the extreme, she still would have had a chance to live. But if she uses the Sky Divider, she will 100% die due to the violent power contained in it.

Even in her best condition, the power contained in it would be too much for her to handle, even using half a Demi God rank skill had almost knocked her out, so one can imagine what would happen if she uses a Void God rank skill.

She looked at the escaping fallen, she understood why he didn’t try to finish her. He had sensed his death the moment she activated her skill.

"Sky Divider."

She softly muttered as the world in front of her stopped, the cracking space, the movement of light, the running fallen, and even her body stopped.

She felt an infinite amount of power coursing through her body as she didn’t dare even move a little bit.

"hoo"

She released a deep breath as the fragment of the world hit by that breath crumbled, and her hands moved as she let go of her sword.

She knew it couldn’t withstand the attack she was about to release, and if she forced it, then this sword would be simply erased with the world.

Using her energy, she protected the sword as best as she could as her attention turned toward her stats.

Her current basic stats had greatly changed, to say the least.

-=-=-=-=-=-

Stats:

Physique: 400,000,000,000 Energy: 150,000,000,000 Vitality: 300,000,000,000

-=-=-=-=-=-

In terms of quantity alone, she had surpassed the fallen by tens of thousands of times.

She only moved her hand gently, yet the world near it slowly collapsed, falling into nothingness. The armor that had still remained in her hand fell within that nothingness.

Seeing this, she used a small amount of energy to protect the fragment of armor and pendant still in her body.

Her finger pointed toward the running fallen as she drew a line, leaving a strand of sword intent. A strand thinner than a single hair floated as she flicked her finger.

As if blown by a gentle wing, the hair-like fragment slowly moved in this stopped world.

Her skill stopped as her body was slowly consumed by nothingness. The fragments of the armor, pendant, and sword fell to the ground as she disappeared from the world, as her existence was erased from the world.

A single silver star in the sky, withered as above everybody’s reach, the stars started to weep.

The single strand of sword intent burst with a magnificent light, as in an instant, a column of sword intent consumed all in front of it.

The fallen didn’t even understand what had happened before their existence was erased with the world around them.

The line continued to travel as it burst out, creating another ravine before finally disappearing. From the sky, one could see that an X shape had formed due to the combination of the ravine’s original entrance and this new strike.

Perhaps seeing the crying stars, the sword light ended its journey short.

The world consumed by nothingness slowly healed, and after a while, all that remained were the broken metal scraps, the spherical cave, and the new entrance to the ravine as proof that a battle had happened here.

"Dead?"

The first sinner who was watching all this appeared as he looked at the place where Stella’s existence was erased.

He had watched the entire battle from the beginning to the end.

His tone was questioning as if unsure if Stella was truly dead. His empty eye sockets narrowed as his gaze looked at the fundamental principle of the world.

"Not Dead."

He muttered as he saw Stella’s erased existence slowly regenerating as if defying the fundamental law of the world itself.

"Immortality?"

"Perfect type."

"Waste of time."

He muttered as he turned his attention to the place where the fallen were erased. With his eyes, he could see that the existence of the fallen was deleted from this world.

It was the same as someone deleting a file from a computer.

This adventure was a pure waste for him, not only did he lose a fallen, but he also wasn’t able to kill the target he wanted to kill.

He also understood that he won’t be able to repeat the same tricks again as the stars and the heavens have become wary of him.

This time, with his power, he was able to fool the heavens somewhat and let a Mortal King rank fight a lord’s hero. A hero of such a high quality that even he felt a sense of fear from her future.

So much so that he didn’t dare to look into her future, after all, if he doesn’t know the future, he can change it, but if with his ability he confirms the future, then that would become the truth of existence.

"A Void God rank skill and a Demi God ranked skill at just Ascension rank. Truly favored existence."

He muttered as he stood in front of the place where the fallen had disappeared, his hands opened as an eye was formed.

The eye’s pupil was as clear as glass, as various images flashed passed inside the pupil. Finally, the image stopped before the fallen was erased.

He raised his other hand as it was thrust inside the eye’s pupil, his hand grabbed the neck of the image of the fallen, and he pulled.

From inside the image, the fallen was pulled out as he looked around with confusion. He then saw the figure of the first sinner glaring at him as the fallen’s smile disappeared.

"Disappointing."

The first sinner putter as he threw the fallen to the ground, where his body was turned into paste after colliding with the floor.

The floor wasn’t damaged, as not even a gentle wind was stirred by this attack.

"Heal yourself and follow me."

The first sinner muttered as his body turned into millions of eyes and disappeared. The fallen’s body quickly healed as its aura started to climb.

Earthen King... Heavenly King... Demi God.. False God(low)

In an instant, he reached the top of the world in terms of power as the restriction the first sinner had applied on him disappeared.

Due to having the goal to kill Stella, the first sinner had made him just a Mortal King, but since that is pointless now, he just let it use all its power.

After all, even for a sinner, a fallen is a great resource, unlike an abomination that they can create at any moment they want; a fallen is a special existence.

A fallen can be said to be an Avatar of a sinner, inheriting weakened versions of some abilities of the sinner.

But due to such strength, they are hard to create; in fact, this is the only fall the first sinner ever had.

Thus, it was given a name, a name symbolizing its importance to the first sinner.

"Failure, thus from now on I shall be called Failure."

The fallen shouted proudly as his figure slowly disappeared. The cave was once again left in silence as Stella’s existence was slowly being repaired.

On the other side, Neo looked eastward with grave eyes, he had received Stella’s last message through their connection.

’Forgive me, my dearest lord, I shall not be able to follow your command for now.’

He muttered her last words once more in his heart as he sighed. he knew Stella couldn’t truly die, but was still worried for her nonetheless.

He also understood that the waters of this world are deeper than he had thought they were. Someone at the Ascension rank was able to kill Stella, which is an almost unbelievable fact for Neo.

As for why he thought of Ascension and not the mortal king rank, well, because of common sense, as at this point in time, the Mortal Kings aren’t allowed to interfere with the lords.

His fingers tapped on the desk as his mind shifted toward Lily’s side. He knew she wouldn’t be able to hold on for much longer.

Although there is a high chance that if nothing out of the ordinary happens that Lily would be able to return, he didn’t want to leave it to illusory luck.

After all, he couldn’t gamble the life of one of his heroes and a trusted companion. He stood up as his gaze turned toward the Hall of Valkyrie.

It seems it’s time for him to summon his next Valkyrie; he wanted to wait before Lily returns to do the summoning, but it seems now he has to change plans.

"Let’s go meet my third Valkyrie."