With Azrael's declaration, hundreds of red and purple teleportation circles lit up across the sky.
From the glowing arrays, dozens of girls wearing Shadow Garden uniforms stepped out into the open air. However, their attire was entirely different from the standard suits worn by the organization. Instead of the usual full-body, high-necked dark slime armor that completely covered the skin, these uniforms were strikingly revealing.
Designed with high-cut leotards, deep necklines, and sheer accent fabrics, the outfits sacrificed full coverage for maximum mobility and intimidation—boldly displaying their physiques while maintaining the iconic black-and-gold aesthetic of Shadow Garden.
The one leading this unit was none other than the succubus Charlotte, unlike the time when she was like a girl in heat when with Roxanne. Now Charlotte had a cold expression as she carried a greatsword on her back.
In Shadow Garden, every division had its own special job.
Morgana and Merlin led the magic and sealing unit. Artoria and Natasha ran the close-combat and weapons team. The vampire sisters, Luminous and Sophia, were the best at hunting down specific targets. Meanwhile, the fox sisters—Kurumi, Luna, and Kaguya—focused on gathering information.
Most of the time, these teams worked together to handle Shadow Garden's mercenary work.
However, there was one division that stood completely apart from the rest, led by Charlotte.
This team had no specific job, and it had the fewest members in the entire organization. Yet, it was by far the strongest and craziest division in Shadow Garden. Usually this division helped out with intelligence gathering and such, but when the order is given, they are the best weapons to be used.
That was because this unit served as Roxanne's personal army. It was the force she used whenever she wanted to completely destroy someone and erase them from existence.
They were known as the Executioner Squad—a group of wild battle maniacs who lived for nothing but absolute destruction. And with the arrival of this squad, the outcome is already decided.
…..
A dark, heavy mana washed over the field as every member of the squad drew their weapons. The suffocating pressure caused the ground beneath Satanael to crack further, easily overpowering the lingering chill from Lavinia's ice.
Azazel watched the squad arrive and let out a long breath, finally letting his light spear fade a bit. "Well, well... bringing out the princess's personal cleanup crew? You really aren't giving this guy a single chance to run, My Queen."
Azrael didn't answer Azazel. She simply kept her cold eyes on Satanael, whose face had gone completely pale. For all his talk of calculations, variables, and supreme weapons, he was now surrounded by a legion of bloodthirsty battle maniacs right in front of him who were way stronger than him. And as expected, even he couldn't keep his composure facing a situation like this.
Charlotte slowly drew the giant blade from her back, the heavy metal ringing softly in the quiet sky.
"Target confirmed," Charlotte said, her voice completely devoid of emotion. "Satanael. Lord Roxanne marked you for complete erasure "
She raised her blade, pointing it straight at the disgraced researcher.
"Executioners... tear him apart."
With a single collective roar, the girls vanished from the sky, turning into dark streaks of red and black light as they dropped straight toward Satanael like a falling meteor shower.
Seeing these guys coming straight towards Satanael eyes turned serious as he released his sacred gear without hesitation, " Balance Breaker: The Blade of Loss of Grace "
The ground under his feet vanished into dust. Big, ugly cracks tore through the earth as he unsealed his greatest masterpiece. A thick, dark aura surged outward, smashing hard against the Executioner Squad dropping from the sky.
In his hands, the legendary sword Arondight flared up with an intense, blinding radiance. The blade vibrated violently as its holy and demonic properties merged, multiplying into a floating storm of a hundred gleaming swords. Each blade hummed with an overwhelming aura that rivaled any high-tier holy sword, forming a spinning sphere around him.
Satanael swung his hand forward, sending fifty of the glowing swords shooting upward like blinding lasers straight at the falling girls, while the other fifty spun around him like an impenetrable wall of light.
"Behold you, trash witness, the masterpiece of my year's research! The weapon that would one day become the strongest Longinus."
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The Executioner Squad crashed into the flying swarm of swords. Sparks flew everywhere as the girls swung their dark, fluid weapons. Unlike standard holy swords, Satanael's recreated blades actually managed to hold their ground for a moment. They clashed against the heavy strikes of the executioners, blocking cut after cut, their combined holy and demonic energy exploding in bright flashes across the sky.
For a few brief seconds, the hundred swords tanked the wild assault of the battle maniacs, shielding Satanael from total annihilation.
"Impressive toys!" one of the executioners giggled, her unhinged smile widening as her dark blade rebounded off three clashing holy-demonic swords at once. "They actually don't shatter right away!"
Satanael pushed his mana to the absolute limit, forcing the floating blades to spin faster, carving deep wounds into the air as they tried to push the girls back. But Charlotte didn't let him do as he pleased.
She dropped straight through the chaotic storm of flying blades.
Ten of Satanael's swords rushed to intercept her, forming a glowing shield of overlapping edge and light. Charlotte didn't dodge. She raised her massive greatsword, coating it in dense, suffocating black mana, and slammed it down with brutal physical power.
CRACK!
Her single downward strike smashed straight through all ten swords at once, snapping the holy-demonic blades like fragile toothpicks. The shockwave scattered the remaining swarm of swords in every direction, completely breaking Satanael's ultimate defense.
Satanael's eyes went wide with pure horror. "W-What—?!"
Before he could command the floating blades to reform, three girls from the Executioner Squad appeared right in his blind spots, slipping past the broken defense.
"Weak," another girl laughed as her dark blade sliced cleanly through Satanael's right shoulder, forcing him to drop the main hilt of Arondight.
Blood sprayed into the cold air. Satanael screamed in pain as his control over the floating blades snapped completely. The remaining hundred swords lost their bright glow and fell out of the sky, stabbing uselessly into the dirt below.
Another executioner flew right past his left side, her blade cutting off two of his black wings in one smooth stroke. The dark feathers fell onto the ruined ground and instantly burned away into nothing.
" Heh, what a disappointment. You spent years researching such trash. No wonder Lady Roxanne didn't even bother to come here" Charlotte's cold voice echoed right next to his ear.
Satanael frantically tried to recall the main blade of Arondight to block, but Charlotte easily swatted the glowing sword aside with her bare, mana-coated palm, extinguishing its light completely. She stepped in close, floating right in front of his face. Her glowing eyes had no emotion at all as she looked at him like he was already dead.
"Let me show you how a worm like yourself should behave," Charlotte said softly. She raised her free hand and slammed her open palm straight into Satanael's chest. "We are Lord Roxanne's blade. And we shall make everyone our lady hate disappear from this world."
An explosive wave of magic blasted out from her hand, shattering Satanael's remaining magic shields like thin ice. The heavy hit sent him crashing down into the dirt below at insane speed, making a huge crater that shook the entire field.
Arondight flew right out of his reach, its light completely dead as it embedded itself deep into the cracked earth meters away.
Spitting out black blood, his body completely broken and his Balance Breaker force-canceled, Satanael frantically tried to crawl toward his fallen weapon. The arrogant look was completely wiped from his face, replaced by pure, ugly terror.
"No... no! My research—!"
Above him, the sky turned pitch black as dozens of red and black light streaks gathered directly over the crater. The Executioner Squad hovered in the air with their weapons raised, their smiles wild and unhinged. They didn't rush to finish him off with a clean death. Instead, their crazy eyes gleamed with cruel delight as they prepared to break him piece by piece, ensuring he suffered for every single thing he had ever done to displease their lady.
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