The Seekers began to stir restlessly.
The giant angel floated in the sky, looking down on the conquering force of over a thousand people. Lorenzo, with a tense expression, gave instructions to the Seekers behind him.
“Everyone, battle stations! We don’t know what kind of monster that is. Prepare for an attack!”
Everyone readied their weapons, heightening their vigilance.
Lorenzo also drew the longsword he carried on his back, pointing its tip at the angel floating in the sky.
It was the first time he had seen this type of angel… He didn’t know its true strength, but there were so many Seekers here. They should be able to handle it sufficiently. Lorenzo thought so, and slightly raised the corner of his mouth.
The giant angel slowly spread its wings. The six beautiful wings sparkled and emitted light.
The angel floating in the sky had no arms or legs. It had a bizarre appearance, like a head and torso with wings.
It was undoubtedly above the rank of Cherub, the second highest rank of angels.
As the conquering force remained unable to move, a round halo of light floated above the angel’s head. It wasn’t an angel’s ring.
It was a much larger halo, emitting a much stronger light.
“That is—”
Lorenzo frowned as he looked up at the sky. The halo, which was fifty meters in diameter, flickered slightly.
The next moment—countless rays of light fell from the halo.
He didn’t understand what was happening, but Lorenzo shouted at the top of his lungs.
“E-Everyone, guard with Barriers!!”
The Seekers, bewildered, erected Magical Barriers and prepared for the attack. What came towards them were thousands of “Swords of Light.”
Lorenzo’s face contorted at the sight of the unprecedented attack.
The countless swords assaulted the Seekers with tremendous speed.
Piercing through the deployed Magical Barriers, the Swords of Light pierced the Seekers’ bodies. The pierced humans swelled up and exploded into pieces of flesh.
Only a few of the higher-ranking Seekers, such as Lorenzo, managed to block the “swords” with their Magical Barriers.
More than 800 members of the conquering force died instantly. The remaining Seekers couldn’t believe the scene before their eyes and were at a loss for words.
Only Lorenzo regained his senses, glaring at the angel in the sky.
The giant angel, without any emotion, without moving, floated in the air and looked down on the humans. As if it were looking at insects.
“Damn it…”
Lorenzo gritted his teeth and readied his sword again. He had to attack somehow, he thought, when light began to seep out from the ground a short distance away.
—That light… is it overflowing from the lower levels!?
While Lorenzo was confused, the light rose into the sky and took shape.
Three angels appeared. They had the same shape as the original giant angel.
“It’s increased to four!?”
The Seekers felt despair. Even one had overwhelming power—and now there were four.
The angels lined up in the sky at equal intervals, resonating with each other.
Four halos floated in the sky. Giant rings covered the sky.
“This is bad! Run—”
Lorenzo’s shout came too late. More than ten thousand “Swords of Light” fell from the sky.
An unimaginable number of magical attacks. The Seekers, including Lorenzo, erected Magical Barriers, but they couldn’t withstand it.
They were pierced one after another, and people died like insects.
Lorenzo desperately tried to endure, but it was useless. In the end, the Barrier shattered, and the Sword of Light pierced his body.
The swords pierced his abdomen, chest, and shoulders, and Lorenzo could no longer stand and knelt down.
In the sky he looked up at last, the angels floated as if nothing had happened.
There was no way to win against such monsters. Lorenzo’s body swelled up and exploded into tiny pieces a second later.
All that remained on the vast plain were the pieces of flesh of over a thousand people.
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“What’s this? Is the ground shaking?”
Representatives from various countries had gathered at the facility built around Orpheus.
It was Manuel Machado, the President of Portugal, who raised his voice. The chair he was sitting on was shaking, and the teacup on the table was rattling.
The people waiting at the facility went outside all at once. Everyone had a stiff expression due to the obvious anomaly.
“Hey, look at that!”
Someone pointed at the sky. Machado followed suit and looked up.
Light was swirling in the sky.
“Did that… come out of Orpheus?”
Jorge, the Portuguese ambassador to the United Nations who was next to Machado, was confused and unable to answer Machado’s question.
The light rising into the sky eventually took shape.
It was a giant monster with six wings. Four angels appeared in the sky.
Everyone panicked, and some even ran away.
“What happened to the Seekers!? Why are monsters coming out?”
Machado shouted angrily. No one answered.
They were just frightened by the scene before their eyes.
The angels resonated with each other, creating large rings above their heads. Rings of light covered the sky.
Many people were momentarily speechless at the beautiful sight.
But the anomaly occurred immediately. The giant rings sank. As if attacking the ground, the light poured down like rain.
No one was able to react in time.
The people around Orpheus were pierced by the “Swords of Light” and exploded in less than two seconds.
Politicians, the rich, Seekers, and officials all died regardless.
Death comes equally to everyone.
On that day, tens of thousands of people died within a ten-kilometer radius of Orpheus. The conquering force was annihilated, the leaders and officials of each country were turned into lumps of flesh, and only a very few survived.
The conquest of Orpheus, the world’s largest Dungeon, ended in complete failure.