"Impossible! How could you possess this kind of power?"
As the opponent clashing with Elise head-on, the mechanical man was the one truly facing her directly.
Precisely because of that, he could understand just what level Elise's current performance had reached.
Although she was still inferior to those three great lords, she was absolutely above him!
Why was this woman always able to exceed his expectations?
He truly couldn't understand!
At first, he had only intended to control Shiva and use him to deal with Elise. After all, the God of the Bible had only reached this realm recently, so her foundation should have been unstable.
Meanwhile, Shiva had broken through with the help of the Evil Gods' power. Logically speaking, he should absolutely have been capable of suppressing her.
But in the end, Shiva had failed.
So he abandoned that plan and moved on to Plan B, releasing Trihexa from this world.
After all, the previous God of the Bible had exhausted most of her power sealing Trihexa, which was precisely what allowed the Four Great Satans to successfully take her down with them.
If the same thing happened again, the mechanical man was confident that he could finish off the God of the Bible.
But unexpectedly, even Trihexa wasn't her match?
In that case, there was no helping it. The black-robed man still had Plan C!
By fusing himself with Trihexa and adding the power of those three Evil Gods, surely that would finally be enough to kill the God of the Bible, right?
Elise's response, however, was simple:
"Sorry, but I disappointed you."
"Try to be a little understanding. I'm one of the greatest goddesses in this world! Unexpected things are always happening around me."
When the pitch-black beam successfully devoured Trihexa's destructive attack, the mechanical man knew that Plan C had failed as well.
Not only that, but even he himself had been caught in that terrifying pitch-black energy, and cracks had appeared across the steel of his mask.
If he hadn't forced out one hundred and twenty percent of his strength, that last attack could easily have annihilated him!
Damn it! Damn it!
"Why are you so strong?"
He roared at Elise somewhat hysterically, his dissatisfaction with the current situation written plainly across his face.
Even after lurking in this world for so many years and devising so many plans, he had never encountered someone like this.
No matter how hard you tried or how specifically you targeted her, nothing ever seemed to work.
She was always stronger than you expected!
He truly couldn't understand why...
"Isn't it obvious?"
Faced with such a question, Elise wore a faint smile and brought her hands together.
"Because I'm fighting for love and peace. How could people like you, who destroy the happiness of others, possibly defeat me?"
"..."
Obviously, such a childish reason couldn't possibly convince anyone, and naturally, the mechanical man didn't believe it either.
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
"What love and peace? That's the kind of thing only children believe in!"
"Our world is forged from steel! How could we possibly lose to someone like you?"
"Right! It's not over yet! I still have one final plan!"
As though he had suddenly remembered something, the trembling in the mechanical man's voice began to subside, but the way he looked at Elise remained utterly crazed.
"So what if you defeated me? I'm only one subordinate serving those great lords. Even if you destroy one of me, there will still be thousands upon thousands more coming to kill you!"
"But you won't get another chance, God of the Bible!"
After Elise had beaten him into such a half-dead state, the mechanical man clearly no longer had the face to return and meet those great lords.
If that was the case, then there was only one thing left for him to do.
"Consider yourself fortunate, God of the Bible!"
"Even now, I have no choice but to admit that you truly are a threat to our EXE world. But no matter how powerful you become, you can never surpass those great lords!"
"They will personally execute you!"
"We'll meet again very soon! Hahahaha!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the cracks across the mechanical man's face began spreading rapidly, soon covering his entire body.
Seeing this, Elise immediately began retreating.
She had heard him clearly just now. This mastermind still had one final plan. Elise had no idea what it was, but if she got caught in it, she would definitely suffer badly!
With Elise's speed, covering a thousand meters in an instant was hardly difficult.
Strangely, however, no matter how far Elise fled, she could still sense danger close by.
What's going on?
Could this be that mechanical man's contingency?
Divine Word: Transfer!
Spatial power instantly enveloped Elise. In the blink of an eye, she crossed tens of thousands of meters and returned to the Seventh Heaven.
However, even after returning to one of her own strongholds, Elise did not lower her guard, because that sense of danger still lingered around her heart.
Could it be... guaranteed to hit?
That seemed like the only explanation for what was happening to Elise.
She hadn't expected him to possess an ability that guaranteed a hit. Elise was genuinely startled.
She understood perfectly well just how powerful an ability like that could be. It was the kind of thing that would never stop until it reached its target!
"I need to strengthen my defenses immediately...?"
Before Elise could act, that sense of danger suddenly intensified. At the same time, Elise sensed that something seemed to be watching her.
Recalling what the mechanical man had said, Elise's expression turned grim.
"Looks like the thing I was most worried about really did happen..."
Before she could even finish speaking, Elise vanished from the Seventh Heaven, leaving nothing behind.
Only then did Elise finally understand what method the mechanical man had used.
It wasn't an illusion or a curse. It was something far simpler.
Teleportation!
It was essentially the same principle as the Divine Word: Transfer that Elise had just used. Although it possessed no destructive power, it could lock onto a chosen target and teleport them to a designated location.
There was no need to explain where the mechanical man had sent her...
At this moment, even if someone searched every corner of the DXD world, they would never find Elise, because she was no longer there at all. She had gone to another world!
"This really is a disaster. Even I might cry..."
In the EXE world, atop a mechanical structure, Elise raised her head. Although she couldn't see with her eyes, she could still sense the three terrifying figures in the sky that resembled black holes.
The three great Evil Gods of the EXE world!
...
This was a forest.
Of course, it was no ordinary forest, but a sacred land where the elven race had lived for generations.
At this moment, two gods were discussing an important matter here: how should they deal with those three Evil Gods?
"I've reestablished contact with the God of the Bible from the DXD world. She agreed to help us."
"That's wonderful, Chichi!"
These two gods were none other than the two deities in the EXE world who opposed those mechanical Evil Gods.
The Benevolent Goddess, Resetoras.
The Holy Mother Goddess, Chichi.
However, at that exact moment, the Holy Mother Goddess frowned and abruptly looked in one direction.
"Chichi, did something happen?"
The Holy Mother Goddess was one of the very few beings in this world capable of rivaling the mechanical Evil Gods.
If even she was frowning, then whatever had happened definitely wasn't something minor!
"It seems we'll have no choice but to move our plan forward..."
"The God of the Bible from the DXD world has already arrived in our world and is currently fighting those three Evil Gods!"
...
"You're still refusing to give up?"
"You should know that if you continue resisting, the only result will be your destruction."
The voice coming from the sky made Elise frown.
There was no doubt that it belonged to one of the three great Evil Gods of the EXE world. As for exactly what that one was called, she couldn't remember.
Who would bother memorizing something like that?
Although she knew about the three great Evil Gods of the EXE world, Elise had no idea what abilities they possessed. She hadn't read that far at all. All she knew was that Great Red eventually got cut down.
Judging from the current situation, these guys really were absurdly powerful. In a direct confrontation, Elise could only flee while getting beaten all over the place.
But there was nothing she could do about that.
Although Elise had completed her transformation through the Power of Faith, the gap between her raw strength and theirs was still far too large.
And the reason Elise was fleeing wasn't only because she was facing the three great Evil Gods. There was also the endless mechanical army!
Whether they walked on land, swam through the sea, or flew through the sky, this mechanical army had everything.
And within Elise's perception, there were simply far too many machines. They filled the entire range of her senses and continued pouring endlessly into it...
That was somewhat terrifying. Could the number of these machines actually be infinite?
Even Elise absolutely did not want to get dragged into an endless battle like this.
Unfortunately, sometimes she simply had no choice.
At a certain moment, Elise suddenly stopped moving.
It wasn't because she had escaped the Evil Gods' encirclement. Rather, she had discovered a new problem.
She... couldn't escape!
Elise had been fleeing in the opposite direction from the Evil Gods this entire time, only to now realize that perhaps this entire route had been deliberately arranged for her by them.
Once she reached this place, she would fall into a true encirclement!
No matter which direction she looked, there were mechanical monsters everywhere. There was simply nowhere left to run!
Elise had realized this as well, which was why she stopped where she was.
"What should I do? Should I use this?"
The fingers of her left hand lightly tapped her eyepatch. In a crisis like this, the first thing Elise thought of was naturally her ultimate trump card.
The ultimate divine technique known by the Lord God Space as the Gaze of Corruption. In all the time Elise had been alive, she had never encountered an enemy this move couldn't deal with!
Even conceptual gods like Freya in the DanMachi world couldn't withstand it. Elise had forcibly devoured part of her.
If their eyes had remained locked for even longer, perhaps even a goddess like Freya might have ceased to exist altogether!
At first, there hadn't seemed to be any problem because Elise had treated it entirely as a charm ability. But after learning that it could devour souls, she had decisively stopped using it.
Unless she was truly at the brink of life and death, she absolutely would not use it. Besides, she didn't even know whether the ability would work on mechanical lifeforms.
"Wait. Did I forget something?"
Speaking of the DanMachi world, hadn't Elise obtained an incredibly rare spell there?
She had barely used it since then and had almost forgotten about it entirely!
...
The scene shifted to the mechanical Evil Gods.
"She stopped?"
"She probably accepted her fate. After all, she can't defeat even one of us in single combat."
"She rejected us earlier too. She doesn't want to become one of us."
"Then we'll simply destroy her!"
The three mechanical Evil Gods led an almost endless mechanical army, surrounding Elise layer after layer.
But when they truly arrived before Elise, they discovered that things were not quite as they seemed.
The pure-white girl simply floated beneath the dark clouds, sacred light shining from her body.
"Judgment—"
At that moment, the girl truly seemed to transform into a god passing judgment upon the world, bringing even the three great Evil Gods a faint sense of threat.
"Verdict—"
As soon as the word fell, even the three Evil Gods could sense something enveloping their bodies.
"Evil!"
A feeling of weakness immediately surged through them, but to the mechanical Evil Gods, such a minor reduction meant practically nothing!
With only the slightest resistance, that sense of weakness vanished completely.
This was the spell Elise had obtained in the DanMachi world, Scales of Judgment. It could classify an enemy as good or evil, thereby increasing or decreasing their abilities.
Some might think this spell was far too weak in front of Evil Gods. It seemed practically useless, with its boosts and reductions pitifully small.
But the strongest aspect of this spell had never been its enhancement or weakening effects. It was the classification itself!
With only a single word, every mechanical lifeform present had been classified by Elise as an evil existence.
Which meant all that remained was to activate another spell...
Elise had only tested that spell once before, but because there had been too few enemies at the time, she hadn't been able to see what it could truly do.
Now she would finally witness its true form!
"The Scales of Judgment have delivered their verdict—"
"Primordial beauty shall soon descend."
"In the name of God—"
Without anyone noticing exactly when it began, the light radiating from Elise grew brighter and brighter. Even the dark clouds filling the sky gradually dispersed beneath that sacred brilliance.
At this moment, Elise's radiance reached all the way into the heavens. Nothing in the world shone brighter than she did, and even the three mechanical Evil Gods stopped in their tracks.
Then came the final lines of the spell's incantation.
"I offer up this body..."
"Let all evil and corruption in this world vanish within this purifying light!"
Spell: World Purifier.
Elise entered the World Purifier state. Her attributes increased dramatically, and purification power radiated from her entire body. But this purification was nothing like the gentle kind she normally used.
If anything, rather than healing, this purification was closer to destruction!
Whenever evil units existed near Elise, all of her attributes would increase.
And the greater the number of evil beings around her, the greater the increase would become!
Just take a look. How many mechanical monsters were surrounding Elise right now?
The answer was unknown!
There were too many to count!
In order to eliminate Elise as a threat, the mechanical Evil Gods had deployed an unimaginably vast mechanical army!
And that just happened to perfectly satisfy the conditions of World Purifier!
So in the eyes of the three Evil Gods, Elise's previously weak aura surged in an instant until it reached a level even they could only look up to!
For a moment, even they were left utterly baffled.
What... just happened?
Can machines hallucinate too?
Elise, meanwhile, clenched both fists and carefully felt the tremendous power filling her body.
So strong!
She had never possessed power this overwhelming before!
At the same time, she also understood that if the mechanical Evil Gods hadn't brought an army this enormous, she probably never would have reached this level.
"But what should I say at a moment like this?"
"Right!"
Since she was currently the World Purifier, then surely that line was the most appropriate thing to say, right?
This impure world shall be purified by my hand!
"The human world has become filthy again!"