Hearing this, Angelica's expression changed drastically. "Ha?!"
Even at such a point where swords were drawn, Ritsuka still couldn't feel any killing intent from Angelica. To be honest, she was a bit surprised.
"But she didn't have enough leeway to keep holding on like this... My goal is to exhaust this remaining life of mine and do everything possible to defeat you!"
Ritsuka clenched her fists and violently shattered the 'chains of heaven' on her body. For someone like her without divinity, it was just a relatively sturdy lock. To bind the Demigod of Greece, it was still far from enough.
A stone axe appeared in her hand, and Ritsuka threw it at Angelica with all her might. The wind pressure created by the brute force made Angelica instinctively raise her greatsword to block.
"I am the bone of my sword."
"Heart of steel, and blood of glass."
The massive force on the stone axe sent Angelica flying. After all, she was using a weakened version from a class card; Angelica's strength wasn't even B-rank.
Under circumstances where both were restricted, Ritsuka in her Alcides state was indeed superior in all physical aspects.
"Having crossed many battlefields without defeat."
"Never once suffering a single loss."
"Nor has there been a single victory."
A storm of magical energy surged with Ritsuka at its center. Nearly half of her long orange-red hair had already turned silver-white—a likely manifestation of the massive drain on her life force... "I am alone, shattering ice upon a hill of swords."
"Yet, this life has not yet ended."
Wielding the simple and heavy stone axe in her hand, Ritsuka, who was forcing Angelica back step by step, glanced back slightly at the increasingly bright halo behind her.
"This false body is still..."
"Made of swords!"
The stone axe was pushed aside by countless divine weapons. The 'Gate of Babylon' fired a dozen Divine Constructs, easily repelling the offensive. Immediately after, Angelica turned and swung a sword toward Ritsuka.
The attack tore through the air but struck nothing; ice and snow began to erode the world.
A snowflake landed on Angelica's cheek, causing her to widen her eyes subconsciously as her vision shifted to an extraordinary sight.
Long hair fluttered in the gale as a snowflake landed on the tip of her nose. Ritsuka tilted her head slightly to look at the sky; the black-blue sky was a pitch-black snowy night. This was her other trump card, a power that, when used simultaneously with Alcides, would inevitably lead to a swift death.
"Individual and world, fantasy and reality, replacing everything with the shape of one's heart—the ultimate mystery of magecraft: the Unlimited Reality Marble."
Her eyes neared a golden hue, no longer matching her orange-yellow hair, and the silver-white strands now accounted for over fifty percent. She reached out and slowly pulled a sword from the ground.
"Hey! Angelica, what do you think of this world? This desolate world, like a frozen wasteland, filled with infinite sword gravestones."
Long blades and sharp swords filled her vision across the boundless world of swords. Ritsuka stood firm with a smile on her lips, dozens of meters away from Angelica, as a fine crack quietly appeared on her arm.
The 'immortality until transferred to Prometheus' quickly repaired it, but immediately after, even more parts began to break down.
"Tsk, this sight, and that life of yours which is inferior to a beast's... it seems I misunderstood..."