With light bursting up into the sky, Frelisk swings his magic sword down to erase Key's existence.

Upon landing, everything in a 100 meter straight Road-like line disappears without a trace. It goes without saying that Key's corpse is also missing when the smoke subsided.

Though it's already Frelisk’s victory, he didn't look like it. In fact, he looks very displeased.

“I'm very disappointed in you, Helius Saint. We overlooked your betrayal and waited for you to kill him yourself, but no. You let yourself get seduced by the heretic!”

Slowly turning to his back, he sheathes the sword and then crosses his arms.

When the wind blows away the dusty smoke, Cherlaine appears behind the veil of smoke while holding Key's lifeless body. And for some reason, she's holding a golden sword with her left hand.

“Still even with his death, you are still alive. If I remember correctly, you are bound to him with your life. His death means your death, but you are alive.”

Though Frelisk is talking to Cherlaine, Cherlaine ignores him and continues shaking Key's body while calling out his name with tears coming out of her eyes.

“Key! Key! Wake up, Key!”

“I slashed his heart into six ways. He's dead.”

“No, you are dead!”

Appearing suddenly behind Frelisk, Matilda charges in high speed with her long scythe and skeletal wings. Not only she looks angry, tears also falls from her eyes.

“So much anger, such narrow sight…”

Frelisk calmly talks like Matilda's nothing to him, but the way he speaks means he was expecting it.

Without pulling out a sword, he stops Matilda's attack with both hands by evading the blade and catches the handle. After that, he uses both his and Matilda’s momentum and tosses her away towards Cherlaine and Key's direction.

Matilda couldn't control her fall, but she tried her best to at least not crash where Cherlaine and Key is. Instead, she crashes into a pile of rubble. Luckily, she's stronger than a normal person and didn't break even a single bone.

“That drain sensation just now… if I'm not mistaken, you're the cursed child. I see that our wind knight failed to take his beloved from the heretic.”

He mocked everyone in front of him. Not only that, he pulls out a different sword from his scabbard and points it to them. This time, the sword is glowing in blue again. The Anti-Magic sword.

While holding unto Key, Cherlaine glares at Frelisk and directs her anger towards him. She's so angry that waves of her power is pulsing and is affecting the air around them.

“You! Why did you attack us out of nowhere?”

When Cherlaine asked him, a strong pulse suddenly hits Frelisk. However, it didn't contain any power and he remained unshaken by it.

“You make me sound like I'm the evil person here. Let me remind you, that person in your arms is the true evil here. His existence alone is inviting the Demon God's return. We of the Grey Legion are trying to prevent such evil to come into this realm.”

After he said that, a sudden explosion of magic power occurred beside him. Though it was sudden, he knows that this was caused by Cherlaine.

“Evil, you say? What kind of evil would bother saving civilians in the middle of his fight? Haven't you noticed it yet?”

As Cherlaine pointed it out, Frelisk looks around the area he's in.

“There's not a single innocent soul that got dragged into your fight! He was too distracted while fighting against you!”

“That was his decision.”

Frelisk pulls out another sword from the scabbard. This time, it looks normal. But when he started swinging it up in the air, it suddenly extends and flies like a whip.

Cherlaine and Matilda though he's going to attack, they raise their weapons to prepare against the incoming attack.

However, the whip-like sword didn't go to them. Instead, it went to the fallen shield and wrapped around it. When the prince pulled it, it went flying towards him.

When it landed in front of him, he sheathes the sword and equips the shield.

“>”

After invoking that, the crystal on the center of the shield glows in green. And all of a sudden, his broken arm makes a cracking sound and restores to its original state.

Looking back at them, he hits the ground with his other sword and then makes an intimidating expression. Not only that, a huge wave of pressure suddenly befalls Cherlaine and Matilda's body like the gravity around them became tripled.

“You have two choices. Either erase that heretic's existence, or die with him.”

His question was simple, yet the weight it carries was heavy. No shed of mercy or lie could be felt from it. If he wants, he can spare their lives or take it.

But however, the girls' answer became obvious as they brandish their sword and scythe. Cherlaine raises the golden sword up in the air as golden wings of light comes out from her back.

“I will die if that what it means to be with him. But the one who will die first will be you!”

As Cherlaine’s golden eyes glows in golden light, she gives Frelisk a brave glare while pointing the glowing golden sword.

On the other hand, Matilda grows three pairs of emerald skeletal wings on her back. Not only that, waves of deathly aura pulses throughout the surroundings that would without a doubt choke a normal person. Each end of the skeletal wings is razor sharp, and since it's power-upped by her rage, each blade can cut through steel like its butter.

“You killed the man who loved us and treated us like family. For that, even a God, I will kill.”

Both Cherlaine and Matilda overcame the pressure of Frelisk's presence using their power.

Due to the clashing powers, the air and ground shakes in great intensity.

After Frelisk gets the answer, he drops his shoulder and lets out a disappointed sigh.

“Such a waste. If you have surrendered, I would have made you two my mistresses.”

“Over our dead body!”

Matilda charges to Frelisk leaving an explosion of air and ground.

Anticipating the incoming attack, he raises his shield to the side.

CLANG!

Though it was quick, he predicted where the blade of the scythe would land. For that, he was able to shield against Matilda's attack.

“Fast, but too predictable.”

While saying so, he raises his sword up to slash Matilda. However, Matilda's bony wings grab the sword preventing it from moving.

Using her other free hand, she summons another scythe and tries to cut him from his right.

BOOM!

But before the blade could land, Frelisk kicks Matilda right on the stomach, blasting her away.

Seeing that, Cherlaine's expression became grim.

“MATILDA!”

Cherlaine leave's Key and flies to where Matilda is about to crash.

Using all her flight power, she was able to catch Matilda and flies up with her.

In a hurry, Cherlaine uses her strongest healing magic on Matilda's stomach while enduring the drain she's feeling while hugging her from the back.

“>”

“Thank you, Cherry.”

“Idiot! Don't charge without thinking! Don't force yourself to fight, your pre-!”

ZOOM!

Before Cherlaine could finish her words, it got cut off by a beam of destructive light.

Using both her golden wings, she wraps it around them like a shield.

“I understand now. I now have more reason to kill you both.”

“I'm dropping you, Matt!”

“GO!”

Since Frelisk is flying towards them, Cherlaine had to drop Matilda. Luckily, the ground isn't too far for Matilda to land safely.

“You can try to kill us, but you will die first!”

Cherlaine flies to Frelisk with the golden sword. Her flight speed is so fast she's leaving a long trail of golden light. Even so, Frelisk was undaunted and continued to charge.

BOOM!

When their swords clashed, an explosion of magic power blows away everything within a hundred meters with them as the center.

CLANG! CLANG!

The more their swords hit each other, light flickers between them.

However, the clashing of swords is one-sided.

Clang!

Because of Cherlaine's lack of experience with swords, she couldn't retaliate and barely parry his attacks. In a nutshell, she's getting pushed back.

Cherlaine grits her teeth while trying her best with her bad swordplay.

“You may be a saint of Helius Temple, but your faith has disappeared. You may be stronger than me, but you lack the experience to defeat me.”

Cherlaine could sometimes slip past the sword, but the shield intercepts it thus making Cherlaine feel the painful vibration of the sword.

Frelisk's defense is too tight for Cherlaine to squeeze in an attack. Not only that, his counters are strong that it pushes Cherlaine back with every swing.

“-## >”

Crack! Crack! Crack!

Upon invoking, long icicles appear behind Cherlaine with the sharp ends point at Frelisk.

When it got into Frelisk's attention, Cherlaine uses the chance to kick the shield up to open his defense. But when she tries to drive the sword into Frelisk's chest, Frelisk puts his sword before Cherlaine’s sword could land.

Ting!

“That was a good attempt, but you're too slow.”

“Oh really?”

With a cunning smile, Cherlaine makes the icicle spears fly towards them. In other words, she used herself as a distraction.

“Earthen Shield, >”

The crystal of the shield glows in orange this time. After that, a barrier forms around them to protect against the spears.

Seeing that, Cherlaine's smile broke and becomes annoyed. But before she starts chanting again, she receives a right hook from the prince to her face.

“I don't like hitting women, but you’re an exemption.”

The punch was so strong that it blew away Cherlaine back with her sword, and because of the barrier Frelisk erected, she hits her back on it doubling the damage she received.

But it didn't end there. Frelisk lands on the barrier where Cherlaine is sitting on, and without warning, he kicks her stomach with strong force that it made her hug her stomach while gasping for air.

“The Helius Saint I heard in the stories was stronger. I guess stories really are just lies and exaggerations of the weak.”

Frelisk sheathes his sword and grabs Cherlaine's hair and raises her up.

Using his left knee, he hits Cherlaine in the stomach again making Cherlaine let out a painful empty scream.

“This is disappointing. I came home immediately when I heard of the arrival of the Heretic and the gathering of other powerful people, but not one of you three are in the same level as me. This makes me nearly regret coming here.”

Frelisk tosses Cherlaine into the air and deactivated his barrier magic.

Since there's no wall or platform anymore, Cherlaine falls 30 meters straight down.

Falling from that height head first, anyone would die. But of course, Matilda wouldn’t allow that.

“CHERRY!”

Zooming in to intercept Cherlaine's fall, Matilda flies like a swallow with her six skeletal wings.

She grabs Cherlaine by the waist as she slows down her speed. To land safely, she uses some of her wings like legs to kill the momentum and then bounce her back on a wall to stop.

After coughing out blood, Cherlaine looks at Matilda with a weakened expression.

“He's too strong.”

“I'll say this to you, you're also an idiot. Don't fight him alone!”

Matilda supports Cherlaine to stand. Both of them look at Frelisk who is walking towards them with intense pressure coming out from him.

“If we fight even more, I'm afraid we'll destroy this place. Please be obedient and die now.”

While walking towards Cherlaine and Matilda, Frelisk switches his silver sword with a sword that's imbued with anti-magic. Like the one that killed Key, the blue light is so intense that the blade of the sword isn't visible anymore.

It's clear that he doesn't want this to escalate anymore.

“I…. I can't read the magic array of the sword. It's pure anti-magic!”

Cherlaine makes a grim look on her face as she looks at Frelisk with his sword making a ominous aura. A magician such as herself would receive a lot of damage if she gets hit by that.

But on the other hand, Matilda remains unfazed and uses magic to ignite a green colored fire on her scythe's blade.

“Use your magic to distract him. If possible, make him stop moving.”

Matilda is able to judge that Cherlaine can stand on her own. So, instead of making her fight head on, she'll become Matilda's support.

“Ok, but be careful. And don't get your stomach get hit again.”

“I know that.”

When Matilda dashes towards Frelisk, Cherlaine strikes the ground with the golden sword and draws in more power from it making herself regenerate and heal her wounds.

Clang! Swoop! Clang!

As Matilda attacks Frelisk, he deflects every slash Matilda makes with his shield. Even the fire from her blade seems to be useless against the Orichalcum shield.

However, it's actually not what it seems.

“This fire… It burns the mana out from my shield!”

Frelisk didn't expect for Matilda's fire to be a mana burning magic. Because of that, the shield that feels very light for him to carry now is gaining some weight. With every attack that Matilda lands, the shield gets heavier.

But Matilda didn't stop there.

“Cursed Dagger! >”

From her hand, an emerald crystal single-edged dagger appears from Matilda's hand.

Instead of targeting Frelisk, she aims to disarm him of his shield.

Seeing through Matilda's objective, Frelisk became alarmed and tries to immediately slash her with the anti-magic sword.

But Matilda is crafty. The moment Frelisk’s attention narrows, she invokes > she was casting under her breath. This magic made a skeletal arm pop-out from the ground to grab Frelisk's right arm that's holding the sword preventing him from slashing Matilda in half.

However, Frelisk is not that weak to be stopped by such trick, though it may not be able to stop him, it slowed him down which gave Matilda some time to execute another move.

Cling! Cling! Cling! Cling! Cling!

In five quick consecutive strokes, Matilda is able to draw a star on the shield's face with the crystal on the center. Though she couldn't leave even a scratch on it, she uses her mana to make a pseudo scratch as a mark.

“Magic shall be burned! >”

After she invokes it, she backs away from Frelisk who was able to swing his sword. Lucky enough, she only gets a scratch on her left shoulder.

Because of Matilda's magic, Frelisk's shield instantly goes into flames like a wood dipped in oil and get ignited. He throws the shield away before the fire catches his skin and it's original weight returns.

“You damned cursed woman!”

Frelisk became mad after he got his shield taken from him. But before he could charge, he couldn't see Matilda anywhere.

“>”

Just when he noticed that the sky's color was odd, he hears Cherlaine's voice resounding in the skies, and when he looks up in the sky, from a giant magic circle of holy element, spears of light rains down upon him.

This magic is Cherlaine's strongest spell, amplified by her Angel Form, the magic's scale and power increases by a great magnitude. Anyone can say that this is a sure-kill spell.

Cherlaine thought that this can end him, but instead, this made Frelisk smile instead.

“Here it is. The final Piece.”

Immediately, Frelisk removes the scabbard from his waist and raises it up into the air.

This made Cherlaine and Matilda shudder in doom. Not because of Frelisk, but the power the scabbard that was released.

“By the power of magic and swords, this magic will be sheathed and will be my blade! >”

From the opening of the scabbard, a great suction force drags and absorbs the incoming holy lances and spears falling down from the heavens.

The holy magic itself spirals down like a funnel while getting absorbed by the scabbard.

“So this is the power of the Bottomless Scabbard…”

“It's stealing my magic's power! And for some reason, I can't cancel it!”

Frelisk has a very large opening, but Cherlaine and Matilda didn't notice that because they are too overwhelmed by his power.

When the magic has been absorbed by the scabbard, the sky goes back to normal and the air calms down.

Frelisk returns his scabbard to his waist. After that, he puts his free hand above the opening of the scabbard and gripped the air in front of it like he's holding something.

“Behold, the true power of the Bottomless Scabbard! >”

Before he could pull it out, a raging colorful light bursts out of the scabbard's mouth which is brighter that the sun's light, blinding everyone who looks at his direction.

As he slowly pulls the sword out, the raging light becomes stronger as it envelops him.

“Now, you shall see what true power is like!”

A soundless explosion of air pushes everything away from Frelisk. Even Cherlaine and Matilda, they had to use every way possible to not be blow away.

As the light slowly disappears, Cherlaine and Matilda looks at Frelisk while rubbing their eyes.

When they finally see what happened, their expression became grimed with doom. Not only that, their skin felt a menacing cold air and chills run down their spine.

In full, multicolored armor, Frelisk stands in front of them.

It is clear that Frelisk has become one with his power. Cherlaine and Matilda's expression is a proof of that.

“I-Impossible! That much power… no living soul should be able to sustain such magic!”

Cherlaine could feel the intensity of his power with her >, but even if Matilda doesn't have that kind of power, she understands what's standing in front of her.

Under the full plated helm, Frelisk chuckles while watching Matilda and Cherlaine tremble on their knees.

“I am very thankful to you, Helius Saint. Because of your power, I am able to finally unlock the strongest magic power of the Bottomless Scabbard, the >.”

After saying that, he stretches out both of his hands. After that, two blades of blue light from both of his palms grow out. When he clasps them together, it became a great blue sword.

“This power… These are from Divine Fragments!”

Cherlaine finally realizes the familiarity of the power she could feel from him.

Hearing that, he starts chuckling again.

“Yes, you are correct. I have Divine Fragments, but I stowed them away into the scabbard and turned them into swords. But all six of those, it wasn't able to stimulate the scabbard’s true potential.”

While saying so, he swings his great sword in a nonchalant way like testing it. Yet, his raw power was enough to create a strong gale to blow nearly everything.

“But, when I heard that the wielder of [Infinity] had come, I knew that he could unlock this power. Unfortunately, he died before I could make him use his strongest magic.”

Looking at Cherlaine, he points the sword's tip at her while gathering mana unto the making it glow luminously.

“Luckily, you used yours against me. As expected, holy magic’s Grand Level spell would be strong enough to stimulate it. Because of your power, I am able to finally use this.”

Both Matilda and Cherlaine could see that Frelisk has a lot of openings now, but both of them are unable to move a muscle because of the immense pressure they could feel from his power.

Unlike before, he's three times stronger than Cherlaine and Matilda combined. Both of them are made aware of that just by standing in front of him.

“Well, as thanks, I will give you both a quick and painless death.”

Frelisk jumps into the air with his sword. With it, he makes the sword's power grow even more thus making the blade of blue anti-magic light grow bigger than a three-story building.

As he comes down to cut them down in one blow, Cherlaine and Matilda couldn't do anything about it because they became frozen with fear.

All they could do is to close their eyes and wait for the light to end their life.

But in the midst of despair, a calm and lax, yet heavy with rage sounding voice echoes through the air.

“Don't touch my brides.”

Accompanied with a sound of wind breaking and a smell of carbonized air, a beam of violet light pushes the sword's blade of power and misses Cherlaine and Matilda.

Shocked, all three of them look at where the voice came from.

To their surprise, it was Jane wearing a purple colored armor from her toes to her neck. Her left eye has two lined up lenses with numbers which are calibrating distance and such. But what's the most eye catching of all is the giant weapon she's carrying with both arms.

A twenty inch wide barrel enclosed with crystalline metal is as base, a grip on the center and trigger in the back, and a tube-like chain from the end of the barrel connected to the back of the armor. It wouldn't be a mistake to call it cannon.

Looking closely at Jane's eyes, her left eye is colored violet instead of brown.

But even with that, for Frelisk, he knows who that person is. He can tell from the intensity of magic aura Jane is releasing.

“You! How are you alive?!”

He scowled at Jane in disbelief. More like, he refuses to believe what he is looking right now. Even Cherlaine and Matilda, they couldn't believe it.

“Though I'm borrowing her body, you are correct. I'm still alive.”

Speaking through the armor, Key makes a comeback.