When Klein discovered that the "Dark Angel" had awakened, his heart tightened and he was on full alert, but he wasn't overly terrified or anxious. After all, he had preliminarily confirmed that the real "Dark Angel" had returned to the body of the
Moreover, he had just had a fairly normal exchange with the residual spirit of Sasril the Dark Angel, and didn't sense any obvious hostility from him.
But as soon as Lovia, the elder of the "Council of Six" from the
Just awakening from slumber, without using any Beyonder powers or revealing a mythical creature form, had instantly thrown a Sequence 4 demigod of the same pathway into losing control. What terrible status! What horror!
At that moment, the titles that had been echoing in Klein's mind flashed through his thoughts:
The Left Hand of God, the Deputy Lord of Heaven, the King of Angels among Kings of Angels!
Klein was no stranger to dealing with Kings of Angels; on the contrary, he had terrified the Red Angel
However, in most of these divine encounters, he either didn't engage in combat with the Kings of Angels, or relied on the power of the Source Castle to instantly escape or cut off the connection. He had never truly faced a King of Angels or deity head-on, except for that time he was caught by the Angel of Time Amon, engaging in multiple clashes over just a few days.
But at that time, it was mainly a battle of wits rather than fighting. The Angel of Time Amon mostly displayed the traits of the "God of Trickery," not fully revealing the status and power of a King of Angels. Only at the very end did these appear, but they were blocked by the Goddess of the Night using the youngest son of the
Even so, when the Angel of Time Amon occasionally showed his might along the way, he easily dealt with the "strongest helper squad" that Klein had summoned — something Klein couldn't replicate now, as it surpassed his own peak strength. After all, trying to summon the historical void projection of
And now, Klein, Colin Iliat, and Derrick (The Sun) were facing the King of Angels among Kings of Angels, the malevolent Deputy Lord of Heaven, the Left Hand of God that had made a Sequence 4 demigod collapse and lose control in an instant.
Such an enemy, such a status, such power — how could they not feel despair?
For a moment, Klein thought of simply abandoning Derrick and that chief of the City of Silver, relying on the summoning of the Source Castle, and with a single thought, returning to "Above the
In the whirlwind of thoughts, Klein raised his "Star Staff."
Just then, the shadow into which Lovia had broken down and lost control stopped flowing, and a low voice filled with pain but not madness rang out:
"He is not that strong!"
As she spoke, that curtain-like shadow split apart, revealing what was hiding behind it.
It was a writhing mass of flesh nearly two meters tall, with a pair of pale gray eyes protruding on top that seemed to gaze upon the entire world, still retaining obvious glimmers of rationality.
From other parts of this mass, arms, forearms, thighs, and legs without skin, covered in thick flowing blood, grew out. Some propped up the body, others contracted layer by layer toward the "chest," tightly clutching a large, milky-white human skull.
The shadow curtain fell back over the mass of flesh, becoming her cloak.
Then, a phantom in silver full armor over five meters tall appeared before Lovia.
This was the "Silver Knight" she grazed.
She could still control herself, and she launched an attack against the Dark Angel Sasril.
Seeing this and hearing Lovia's words, Klein and Colin Iliat, without needing further explanation, quickly understood what she meant:
The Dark Angel Sasril was not as strong as he seemed. He simply used the authority of "Corruption" and the influence of higher-sequence individuals on lower-sequence ones to make Lovia's body fall, betray, and collapse on the spot. But her spirit remained clear and rational, and she could still control her power to some extent.
Of course, with the loss of control of the body, massive corruption would erode Lovia's spirit, and soon she would go completely mad, unless they could quickly and timely end the battle and find a way to turn her into an evil spirit to survive in another form.
With this understanding, combined with the first "Blasphemy Slate" he had just seen and his own speculations, Klein made an initial judgment about who the enemy they now faced truly was:
It was a product of the remaining spirit, will, and aura of the Dark Angel blended with the power of the "