Knights and Magic Wand

"Then I beg you, take us away from the Spirit Realm now!" Leon still remained vigilant.

"I can send you away... but he won't give up. We... must destroy this place, to forever resolve the cycle of destiny." Kleinian's voice echoed leisurely.

Leon understood he was referring to Valary.

As if to confirm these words, a barrage of Magic Power tore through space, explosively echoing around the sacrificial site.

He and Olivia quickly scanned their surroundings.

Within countless newly appearing twisted vortexes, demons from the "future" once gathering here were crossing the rift into the Spirit Realm.

Leon hadn't seen this scene at this point in time within the shadows of Space-Time Magic's reversal.

This meant that the original future had altered, and Valary was actively summoning demons to hunt him down!

The worst scenario had happened; the demon indeed could perceive the reversal of destiny in this realm.

"...the twisted being is about to arrive... I was not born at this moment, unable to influence the present... unless you accept my power... at this moment, only you can bear..." the voice of the Star Soul continued to urge.

Leon realized that having lost the means to open a channel to the Spirit Realm through the Blood Demon, he could only choose to trust the Star Soul before him.

Seeing a giant demon had already crossed the rift, its deafening roar resounded. He no longer hesitated, turned back, gritted his teeth and actively approached Kleinian.

"Do as you say! Come on!"

"Then... we will temporarily become one..."

With Leon's nod of acceptance, Kleinian's gigantic blue flower-like shadow suddenly blossomed in the center. The shadow transformed into a swirling vortex, seemingly drawn by a force, suddenly plunged into Leon's chest.

"——!!!"

In an instant, he felt a terrifying power he had never experienced washing over his body and soul. Leon tried to scream in the pain that pierced every nerve.

Only the dazzling blue light constantly gushed out from his opened mouth and eyes.

The surge of Magic Power around them rose into a towering pillar of light, its intense impact stirred waves, even blowing Olivia aside.

The girl's golden hair fluttered, her ragged clothes flapped in the wind. She barely stopped her body from being pushed back by the shockwave by deeply embedding the Sun Holy Sword into the Crystal Land, and lifted her head, her golden eyes filled with urgency.

"——Leon!!"

She managed to call out only once, then had to pull up the sword, turning to face the incoming giant demon with its wings spread—

..... Amids the ascending blue light, the voice of the anxious call from the beloved seemed infinitely elongated by time in Leon's ears.

Countless immeasurable voices overlapped, within the blue light filled eyes of Leon he saw millions of different scenes....

.... Heat, cold, violent rain, thunder..... the movement of the earth, volcanic eruptions...

The first hint of intelligence swimming in the ocean... the first pair of eyes looking up at the starry sky.....

Memories of trillions of creatures seemed to tear apart his soul and consciousness....

Countless cycles of life and death repeatedly looped in his mind...

He thought he was about to be obliterated by the torrent of mental impact, until a flash crossed through the massive consciousness, bringing Leon back to the present.

The light embracing his body vanished, he instinctually spread the Light Wings unfolding behind him, the radiant white halo behind his head transformed into a brilliant blue transparent gem-like sparkle.

He lowered his eyes filled with blue radiance, seeing the demons attacking Olivia..... Anger replaced peace, a nameless flame surged in his heart.

There was fury towards the threat faced by his beloved.

Also an indescribable hatred for the creatures torn from the cycle of life, and a fury not belonging to him..... that was almost choked in the dream of creation.

"Get out!!!" The roar erupted from his mouth, not like words, it was akin to thunder echoing in the Spirit Realm. He raised Garner, instinctively stabbing forward with the blade of the spear releasing lightning.

Immediately, a torrent composed of pure Chaos Magic erupted out.

The blue gleam like a giant's blade, entwined with thunder, charged directly towards the demons in front of Olivia.

——Boom!!!

The light pierced the Crystal Land, sweeping across in front of Olivia, engulfing the attacking demon and a whole row of Spirit Realm Demons just stepping out of the rift.

Along the path swept by the light, the crystal rift's decay rapidly expanded, forming a deeply cracked canyon with deafening collapse, and the land made of crystal trembled and sank into a deep gully.

With a tremor of his Light Wings, Leon set down his gun blade, transforming into a azure meteor and plummeting onto the shattered Crystal Land, catching the falling Olivia.

With his arms around the girl's waist and knees, Leon spread his Heavenly Wings, soaring up to the crystal cliff with air currents swirling around them.

Nestled against his chest, Olivia couldn't help but gaze in a daze at the face where eyes brimmed with Thunder, skin glowed faintly, and black hair fluttered, tentatively asking the man who had just displayed such might:

"...Leon?... Is it still you?"

At the sound of her voice, Leon lowered his head, looking at his lover's face, blood still at the corners of her mouth, and his heart tightened immediately.

He instantly channeled all his strength into casting Healing Magic, enveloping his wife in his arms.

With seemingly infinite Magic Power, he forced that boundlessly warm force to penetrate the disruptive magic field, igniting Olivia's body's self-healing abilities.

In merely an instant, the girl's internal and external injuries healed completely, even the scratches on her face vanished in the blink of an eye.

"...Of course it's me."

Leon smiled lightly, glancing around at the surrounding dim blue light: "I just changed my costume's light effects, nothing to worry about."

Seeing he still had the mind to joke, Olivia couldn't help but feel relieved.

Kleinian's voice suddenly echoed in Leon's heart once more.

"...Destroy that 'cage' that imprisoned me."

Cage?

Leon set Olivia down, and guided by the Star Soul voice in his heart, looked toward the crystal pillar towering like a mountain peak in the distance.

Without hesitation, he hefted Garner, holding it inversely in his hand, the gun blade pointing straight ahead, infusing it with the maximum amount of Magic Power he could bear.

"Olivia, get away!"

Arcs of electricity enveloped the Magic Gun, its vast Magic Power extended the dazzling shaft of the gun, in the blink of an eye transforming into a massive lightning spear exceeding dozens of meters.

Feeling the gun body reach its capacity, a certain trajectory gathered in his sight, Leon roared and hurled the thoroughly electrified Thunder Spear forward.

Boom!!

Amidst the roar of electricity, the flying Garner sent out ripples of electric rings, forming a pure azure light that pierced through the giant pillar.

Instantly, the concave cracks spread like spider webs, the crystal mountain disjointing into massive chunks, slowly tilting, and under its immense weight, it gradually collapsed, while the lower portion of the pillar seemed to lose its magic, descending toward the lower Sea of Chaos.

"What— have you done!!!"

A heart-piercing terrifying roar came from a distance.

Following the sound, Leon saw a scythe blade slice through space, tearing apart time and space, and the grotesque face of the Pride Demon stepped out from the vortex.

Valary finally made her delayed appearance, unsurprisingly to Leon.

Since the Star God Kleinian had been freed under Lady Aphrodite's Great Magic.

Then Valary naturally no longer needed to personally maintain that powerful magic imprisoning the Divine Soul.

"I merely did what I had to." Leon replied coldly, opening his right hand.

A searing light emerged from his palm, Thunder roared overhead, and the thunderous light of Garner descended from the sky.

Raising the gun body, with the Wing Blade pointing at the massive three-headed demon, Leon began speaking, but suddenly, a gentle voice not belonging to him added a layer to his words.

"I told you... you would fail, and what I saw, is precisely this destiny."

Seemingly humiliated, Valary's head flickering with Demon Fire was shrouded in a furious expression.

Yet, he disregarded Kleinian's response across time, the Great Demon's eyes remained fixed, staring intensely at the entity that shouldn't have appeared.

"...Even if it's you... even if it's you! You cannot stop my lord's path to immortality!"

The eagle head on Valary's shoulder let out an ear-piercing growl, three pairs of gigantic wings spread wide, the strong arms raised the Crystal Scythe high, another pair of claws extended from the kingly robe-like wide sleeves, sketching a Dharma Seal: "I still have a chance, though I know not how you escaped annihilation, but as long as I leave you here!!"

Leon frowned, lifted the Magic Gun, the wings of the light spread abruptly, black hair flying in the rise of Magic Power, the next moment, his entire being transformed into Thunder, coursing forward as electric light.

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