738 Failed Tes (1/2)

Working together with a demon would obviously be highly dangerous. No matter what the plan was, and whether Karwenz was successfully killed or not, it was certain that Sophocles and I would turn on each other in the end and attempt to kill each other.

However, it would be rather regrettable if I refused to cooperate with Sophocles. He had accurate information about Karwenz, it seemed. Such information was what I needed more than anything right now.

As I hesitated, a gigantic claw suddenly swiped at me from the sky in a sudden sneak attack.

Unfortunately for Sophocles, he only smashed a slime clone into pieces. He had only attacked with a shadow, not his true body, which hadn't even moved.

From the very beginning, neither of us had been discussing at the table with our true bodies.

I was silently standing in the clouds, watching the demon humanoid figure down below which was still idly drinking tea. It seemed that Sophocles' sneak attack had been a message for me that it was time.

Some things didn't need to be stated. No matter if I agreed to join Sophocles or not, I would at least need to show off a certain amount of combat strength before I would even have the right to negotiate. This was the typical way by which powerful Chaos Faction existences negotiated.

Since Sophocles had \”sincerely\” stated his request first, he was now testing my combat strength now that I had achieved Level 4 to see if I was worthy of him negotiating with.

If I seemed too weak in power level or showed any weaknesses in combat, he would then happily kill me. Of course, the reverse was also true. I would never miss this opportunity to eliminate a Chaos Main God if at all possible.

Actually, since he had found me today, this fight had been unavoidable from the very start.

\”Haha, you're unwilling to leave without testing me after all?\”

Although this was only a test attack rather than a life and death battle now, this didn't reduce the danger one bit. The moment that I showed any type of weakness, it would instantly transform into a life and death battle.

Holy Light gathered all around me as I took a deep breath while holding onto Dawn. I fully opened up angel wings behind my back.

For angels, wings were no mere decoration or organ for flight. Their wings' true function was storage, helping them gather even more power of Order. In a way, the number of wings and quality of the wings would represented an angel's upper limit on controlling the power of Order. The more powerful the angel, the stranger its wings would appear.

Two wings, four wings, six wings, twelve wings, metal wings, wings of light, wings of fire… Angels' wings would have various appearances based on their level and job class. In a way, wings were indeed an organ with practical functionalities for them.

The most basic ability of angel wings was to draw the power of Order from the upper planes in order to replenish the angel and improve combat strength. This was why angel wings would always be glowing, and why angels extremely excelled at battles of attrition.

I took a deep breath as I drew endless Holy Light from the upper planes. The entire world was bathed in a golden light. Compared to myself before I achieved Level 4, my Holy Light gathering speed had increased by more than 10 times.

Previously, my War Angel transformation hadn't foundationally changed my strength, but my bloodline was giving me concrete power now.

War Angel was the name for my Order angel bloodline. In the ancient job class tree, this wasn't an ancient angel that would naturally exist, but was rather a glorious title for ancient angels who were given special gifts by the Creator Goddesses in certain areas. The name War Angel was also the best explanation for this type of angel's specialty.

There was only one specialty for War Angels: excelling in combat.

As the top-level fighter for the entire Order Faction, a War Angel's greatest power was how they could use the power of Order. What else would improve their combat strength more than an endless amount of the power of Order?

In a way, my pair of wings which faintly shone gold was also a top-level Myth-ranked weapon which specialized in absorbing and improving the power of Order.

I could even faintly sense that my wings were drawing Holy Light directly from the core of Heaven's Pillar (Pillar of Order). The Pillar of Order was the pillar which corresponded with the River Styx. This pillar was the source of all power of Order, as well as a river of light that was impossible for any existence apart from souls to touch.

War Angels were capable of drawing the purest power of Order from the Pillar of Order. It seemed that the Goddess of Order had truly cheated with creating this power.

The entire sky was lit up with Holy Light. My wings transformed into majestic wings of light which were the length of a battleship. Yet, I still didn't feel like I had reached my limits.

Thanks to the Goddess of Order bestowing me with such a ridiculous cheat-like ability, maybe the amount of Holy Light I could draw upon wasn't as much as a pure True God of Order's, but the quality of my Holy Light was likely even higher.

Thanks to the support of this tremendous amount of Holy Light, the length of Dawn's lightsaber was extended endlessly. This was all part of my original design so that I could use Dawn to slay gigantic demons and undead.

\”Mode #2, activate…\”

I ignited the magical runes on my sword hilt, causing five small parts to fly off.

One part swiftly flew high up into the sky, while the other four shot out in four directions, positioning themselves in four corners.

Meanwhile, as I wielded my Holy Light sword, I glowed with Holy Light and literally became a source of light.

Endless Holy Light kept reflecting off the four items, which were actually mirrors. Every reflection continuously buffed me. This was a special domain created by these mirrors with the property of light.

Thanks to the repeated reflections by these supporting magic mirrors, the Holy Light became even hotter and more dangerous. Simultaneously, since pure Holy Light had the properties of cleansing and fixing, it was now cleansing and fixing this entire area.

The next instant, as connections of light were established, I was no longer the only light source. On top of my head and at the four corners, five additional light sources simultaneously lit up, bathing the entire world in Holy Light.

Even someone as powerful as Sophocles was instantly blinded after being bathed in this Holy Light domain which had never existed before in this world.

Sophocles' gigantic body meant that there was even greater surface area that the Holy Light could reflect onto his body from. The steady pure Holy Light would cleanse and weaken all non-Order power within its area of effect. Maybe pure Holy Light wouldn't be as aggressive as the original Holy Light that the Holy Church used, but this constant weakening effect would actually be more effective against the most powerful enemies.

Powerful demons had the special ability to distort the environment and instinctively transform the nearby environment into one similar to the Chaos Abyss so that they would always have home territory advantage. Meanwhile, my Holy Light domain was capable of erasing the traces of a Chaos environment without costing me anything.

Sophocles' gigantic body actually became a weakness here. The high purity Holy Light in the air was now melting away his body as if the Holy Light was an acid.

Perhaps this wouldn't be enough to threaten a Chaos Main God like him within a short period of time, but this continuous weakening effect would be endless. If only I had a completed version of my ice magic sword Northlands right now, I could use both magic swords in combination and try and kill Sophocles forever right here and now.