Boom—!
A deafening roar that shook heaven and earth filled the entire land.
The dark clouds that had only just dispersed under Elise's purification appeared once again.
Though calling them dark clouds might not have been quite accurate, because they were actually black smoke pouring from gun barrels!
Shell after shell was fired at the same target, and flames swallowed the golden figure in an instant.
It wasn't just the mechanical forces. The three Evil Gods of this world were also unleashing everything they had against their enemy.
"What do we do? Her strength is somewhat beyond our expectations."
After fighting for so long, they had also noticed something unusual about Elise.
Whenever an attack struck Elise, blue light would flash around her, protecting her body within it.
This was the Barrier of the Stars!
However, there was no such thing as an absolutely indestructible defense. Even Elise's Barrier of the Stars had shattered countless times beneath the mechanical Evil Gods' nearly endless barrage, inflicting considerable injuries upon her.
Yet the instant after the barrier shattered, it would reappear around Elise, and even her wounds would vanish.
"Not only does she have that barrier's defense, but her recovery ability is this astonishing too?"
"It seems we'll need even more firepower. Otherwise, eliminating her will be impossible."
After witnessing this, even the three Evil Gods had no choice but to acknowledge the threat Elise posed.
They couldn't deal with her using their own strength alone. They needed even stronger weapons!
But that was exactly what Elise wanted. She had deliberately avoided attacking the mechanical forces!
As long as these machines remained intact and their numbers continued increasing, Elise's strength would rise even further!
Earlier, the Barrier of the Stars had been completely incapable of withstanding the high-tech weapons and the Evil Gods' relentless bombardment. But as the number of machines gradually increased, Elise slowly became able to block their attacks.
This had to be the first time in history, right?
Elise's Barrier of the Stars had actually been broken so easily!
If not for her absurd recovery ability, she would probably already be fighting while covered in wounds.
"This increase really is ridiculous..."
Elise knew that her adventurer level was only Level 5. Even if she could recover, there was no way it should have been as absurd as this.
Yet those limitless numbers had forcibly elevated Elise to a level that didn't originally belong to her!
Using the Lord God Space's ranking system, Elise had already reached the threshold of S-rank, possessing planet-busting levels of power.
If she weren't consciously suppressing her strength and controlling the flow of her energy, these mechanical armies might have been annihilated in an instant, causing her strength to immediately fall back to normal.
She absolutely couldn't let the three Evil Gods discover that. Otherwise, Elise would have no choice but to resort to her final measure...
Fortunately, the three Evil Gods didn't seem to have noticed and were still continuously sending more troops over!
That meant Elise had nothing to worry about for the time being.
"Still, this side effect really hurts!"
Although the spell World Purifier granted Elise an enormous increase in her attributes, it was by no means an easy spell to use. Activating it required bearing the corresponding risks.
The instant Elise activated the ability, she was hit by a splitting headache, as if Baki had given her brain a vicious smack and sent it bouncing around inside her skull...
If Elise hadn't forced herself to endure it, she probably would have fainted in the very next second and been carried away by those three mechanical Evil Gods to have certain indescribable things done to her.
But it had only lasted for that single moment!
Elise possessed the almost absurd power known as the Power of Faith. After suffering through the initial pain, she immediately used Divine Word to cut off her own sense of pain.
It might have been useless against the three mechanical Evil Gods, but when she used it on herself, it was practically unbeatable!
To keep Elise occupied, the three mechanical Evil Gods had all adopted long-range kiting tactics, maintaining the optimal distance from her.
At this rate, the battle would only turn into a war of attrition.
The mechanical Evil Gods possessed nearly endless ammunition, while Elise could continuously replenish herself through the Power of Faith...
Although her current strength surpassed that of the three great Evil Gods, the difference wasn't overwhelming. As soon as the number of mechanical troops around her decreased, Elise would lose her enhancement.
To break this balance and achieve final victory, there had to be one overwhelmingly powerful, decisive blow!
Both the three great Evil Gods and Elise realized this, but...
None of them had the time to prepare such an attack.
Could this battle really end just like that?
Of course not!
Although Elise was currently too occupied with the battle to prepare anything herself, that didn't mean everyone else was!
'Are you still not ready, Est?'
'Just a little longer, Sister!' Est's voice came from within her mind. 'Ophis and I have already poured all our power into it!'
Because the scythe Ren had transformed into was far too enormous, Elise simply couldn't fight while wielding two weapons, so Est had separated from her at that time.
And while Elise was fighting a bloody battle with Ren in hand, Est and Ophis certainly hadn't been idle.
The two powers were continuously compressed and fused together. Even Est and Ophis themselves had no idea what exactly they had managed to create...
Chaos and infinity. Just hearing those two concepts was enough to know that neither power was ordinary. If they were fused together, perhaps they really could break the current stalemate?
'Ren, are you ready?'
'Do you even need to ask?'
The voice transmitted into her mind sounded exactly like a little girl eager to show off her abilities to her parents, overflowing with excitement.
She still hadn't fully recovered her memories, but her trust in Elise was absolute. She practically treated her like her mother.
However, even if she was mentally no more than a little girl right now, Ren was still the Dark Elemental Lord of the Elementalist world!
At that moment, Elise raised the giant scythe high into the air, and endless darkness converged upon it. In contrast, Elise's own body shone with white light—sacred power!
Black and white vortices intertwined, gradually forming a pattern familiar to everyone.
Taiji!
This also meant that Elise and Ren's powers had reached a state of balance!
"It's time to release it, Est!"
A portal suddenly appeared high in the sky, instantly drawing everyone's attention.
Two little girls, one black and one white, appeared before everyone's eyes.
If this had happened in human society, plenty of people would have started panting and drooling at the sight of such little girls.
But this was a battlefield!
More importantly, they were carrying an absolutely enormous sphere of light that somehow appeared as a dazzling, multicolored black!
Sacredness, darkness, chaos, infinity.
Four completely different powers fused together at this very moment.
And at that exact moment, a mushroom was forever planted in the EXE world.
...
"No way..."
Standing atop a field of ruins were two beautiful goddesses, staring somewhat blankly at the wreckage scattered across the ground.
They recognized these corpses. Without question, they belonged to exactly the ones they were thinking of!
The three great Evil Gods who had always opposed them!
And these two goddesses were none other than the Benevolent Goddess and the Mother Goddess of the EXE world.
They had previously sensed the fluctuations produced by the battle between the God of the Bible and the three great Evil Gods, which was why they had rushed over now, intending to help Elise fight.
However...
The scene before them was simply too unbelievable.
"Chichi..." The Benevolent Goddess looked worried. "Didn't you say before that the God of the Bible was even weaker than you?"
"Then why is it now..."
Why had this place become like this? Why had even the three great Evil Gods been reduced to corpses?
Although she didn't finish speaking, Chichi already understood what she meant. The strength of this God of the Bible was completely different from what she remembered!
"What exactly happened?"
"We need to investigate this carefully!"
With that, the two goddesses quickly began examining the shattered battlefield.
It wasn't long before they discovered a figure here...
How should it be described?
Rather than a person, the thing looked more like a charred stick. Not only was its entire body pitch-black, but it was even giving off the savory smell of roasted meat... as though something had blown it up?
"This..."
After seeing this bizarre thing, both the Mother Goddess and the Benevolent Goddess fell silent for a moment, but in the end, Chichi was the one who spoke.
"Judging from her aura, she really is the God of the Bible who formed a cooperative relationship with me back then."
What neither of them had expected was that by the time they met again, she would already have become like this...
"What do we do, Chichi?"
With the three great Evil Gods gone, the strongest deity in the EXE world was naturally now the Mother Goddess Chichi.
Which meant the decision also fell to her.
"I originally intended to cooperate with her and slowly oppose those Evil Gods, but I never expected her to be this powerful. She actually took all three of them down with her."
Chichi sighed. She couldn't sense even the slightest trace of life from the "stick" lying on the ground. In other words, this God of the Bible had essentially already been declared dead!
"All we can do now is take care of what remains..."
Before Chichi could finish speaking, the body on the ground that they had assumed was already dead actually began trembling.
At the same time, a faint trace of life gradually appeared within their senses, causing cold sweat to break out across both goddesses' foreheads.
"She... came back to life?"
That was what the Benevolent Goddess thought. In her eyes, this was no different from resurrection.
But the Mother Goddess Chichi, whose strength surpassed hers, immediately rejected that conclusion.
"No. This is absolutely not an ordinary resurrection!"
As one of the highest-ranking deities, Chichi could naturally sense that the God of the Bible's revival had absolutely nothing to do with her own abilities!
Chichi was certain that only moments ago, the God of the Bible had possessed absolutely no trace of life. She had truly been dead!
And that was precisely what made this so bizarre!
That tiny spark of life felt as though some terrifying existence had forcibly stuffed it into her body!
It was precisely because of that spark of life that the corpse, which no longer even looked human, gradually began recovering...
"Chichi?"
"..."
The Mother Goddess no longer dared to say anything else. She merely shook her head frantically.
This was the first time she had realized that an existence on an even higher level could actually exist.
Then what did that make gods like them?
The Benevolent Goddess seemed to realize that Chichi had reservations and didn't continue questioning her. Instead, she changed the subject.
"Since signs of life have appeared in her, we should hurry and treat her!"
With the three great Evil Gods gone, the spirit race of the EXE world had completely lost its natural enemies. From now on, they could finally live happily and peacefully!
This was an immeasurable debt of gratitude!
As the Benevolent Goddess, Resetoras would absolutely never do anything so ungrateful!
As for the Mother Goddess, she was still immersed in the sensation she had just experienced.
That feeling of being watched by another, of being completely unable to control her own body, was something not even the mechanical Evil Gods had ever made her experience!
At the same time, she finally understood why Elise had dared to risk her life fighting those mechanical Evil Gods like this. So an existence of that magnitude had been standing behind her all along!
Even death could be followed by a true and complete resurrection!
This had already exceeded the limits of her understanding!
It was a forbidden domain that not even gods could touch!
And so...
"Of course we're saving her!"
Mother Goddess Chichi clapped her hands together, determination shining in her eyes. For the sake of the spirit race's future, she was going all in!
"Not only are we going to save her, we're going to use the very best things we have!"
"Doesn't your forest have a sacred spring? If we use that sacred spring together with a union between the three of us, we'll definitely be able to restore her to her peak... No, we might even make her stronger than she was at her peak!"
"A union..."
Confusion appeared on the Benevolent Goddess' face, but she quickly realized what Chichi meant and instantly began steaming with embarrassment.
"Ch-Chichi, when you say union, you don't mean we're going to do that sort of thing with her, do you?"
The Benevolent Goddess' voice trembled. Her small hands immediately clutched the collar of her clothes, and helpless tears even gathered at the corners of her eyes.
As the saying went, women were made of water.
And there was another expression about water and milk blending perfectly together.
There was no need to say anything more. That was why the Benevolent Goddess had lost her composure so badly.
"Trust me!"
But what answered the Benevolent Goddess was Chichi's unwavering gaze.
"This decision definitely isn't wrong!"
She first closed her eyes, then raised her head to look toward the sky.
"For the sake of our future, this is already the best choice we can make!"
"We have to establish a good relationship with the God of the Bible. Only then can we guarantee our safety!"
"So... please!"
Although she didn't understand why, if Chichi was asking her, then Resetoras was ten thousand percent willing!
"It's just a union, right?"
"Then we'll do it!"
Amid the girl's embarrassed voice, they used a special form of energy to preserve Elise's body and carried her back to the spirit race's territory as quickly as possible.
...
Spirit Race Territory, beside the underground sacred spring.
"Are you ready?"
As the Mother Goddess, Chichi naturally possessed a motherly, magnificently ample bosom.
"Mhm..."
And as the Benevolent Goddess, Resetoras possessed a warm and generous chest.
When the final button could no longer hold its post, two pairs of peerless lethal weapons were finally revealed to the world in all their terrifying glory...
No, perhaps there were three pairs?
Though this was a pristine, icy spring, a place as pure and beautiful as a snowy landscape, an entirely inappropriate pink atmosphere now permeated the air.