"Wh- ... What... A mere human, do you know what you're saying? Unforgivable... Unforgivable! I'll kill you!"
Before Ainz Ooal Gown could respond, Albedo erupted with near-insane killing intent, her violent magical power constantly battering the surroundings. A mere human dared to say they wanted to marry Ainz-sama? Ainz-sama was clearly hers!
"Kill me? If you can, then come and try!"
Opposite her, Zesshi Zetsumei watched Albedo with a manic grin. Since birth, this was the first time she'd felt this way, this suffocating feeling of being oppressed by death. It was simply wonderful!
"Die!"
In the next second, Albedo unhesitatingly raised her battle-axe and chopped it down at Zesshi Zetsumei. With her immense strength, the axe sliced through the air with a terrifying whoosh, appearing above Zesshi Zetsumei's head in the blink of an eye.
"Ha!"
Just as the axe was about to strike, Zesshi Zetsumei suddenly raised her head, her face and eyes filled with burning light. Her war scythe had already been positioned in front of her at some point. Accompanied by a violent explosion, the axe and scythe collided, and a powerful shockwave swept outwards.
Amidst her flying hair, Zesshi Zetsumei's lips curled into a smile. She abruptly released her grip on the war scythe while simultaneously leaning backward. Albedo, unable to retract her force in time, lost her balance due to the recoil.
"Severance!"
Zesshi Zetsumei gripped the war scythe tightly once more, drawing a bizarre arc in the air. The sharp blade slashed down towards Albedo's neck.
Bang!
With a muffled crash, the war scythe successfully struck Albedo's neck, but facing her successful attack, Zesshi Zetsumei's expression turned grave. She had originally thought that this strike would successfully sever Albedo's head.
But the reality was that her attack hadn't even penetrated Albedo's armor, causing absolutely no damage.
"Heh!"
In mid-air, Albedo glanced at the war scythe on her neck, a brutal smile appearing on her face hidden beneath her helmet. She abruptly raised her left hand, tightly gripping the battle-axe, assuming a stance to gather power with her slender arm. After a large amount of magical power was poured into it, the jet-black battle-axe emitted a dark, eerie light.
"Die!"
With a cruel, low roar, Albedo swung the battle-axe, charged to its limit, directly at Zesshi Zetsumei below. At the critical moment, Zesshi Zetsumei hurriedly reversed her war scythe, blocking it in front of her chest, but facing Albedo's full-force attack, the instant the axe struck,
Zesshi Zetsumei felt as if a mountain had crashed into her body. Under the terrifying force, the metal grip of the war scythe bent to its extreme, and then Zesshi Zetsumei's body crashed heavily into the earth.
In the blink of an eye, the ground began to collapse continuously, centered on Zesshi Zetsumei's body.
"Die!"
Deep within the earth, Albedo raised her battle-axe once more. Amidst a savage roar, the battle-axe swung down again. Struck heavily, Zesshi Zetsumei clearly heard the sound of bones breaking in her chest, and then couldn't help but open her mouth, blood spurting out.
"Ha!"
The warm blood splattered on Albedo's jet-black armor. Smelling the bloody scent in the air, Albedo became even more frenzied, raising the battle-axe in her hand once more, pouring substantial magical power into it. In the dark underground, a black sun appeared behind Albedo.
"Human, repent for offending Ainz-sama!"
Albedo looked at Zesshi Zetsumei below, whose armor had become tattered, and her cold voice rang out. At the same time, the battle-axe in her hand transformed into a black stream of light, cleaving down at Zesshi Zetsumei. Merely in the swing, the surrounding air was crushed into substance, and the earth began to crumble.
Boom!
In the next second, the entire battlefield suddenly fell into silence, followed by a huge roar from deep within the earth. The entire ground began to undulate like the surface of the sea, spreading outwards from the Great Tomb of Nazarick, burying countless soldiers under the upturned earth.
"Someone actually managed to make Albedo use her full power?"
On a newly formed hill, Aura turned her head curiously, looking at the bottomless sinkhole several kilometers in diameter not far away. Such terrifying aftershocks of battle had already proven that Albedo was serious.
"That human isn't dead yet?"
At this moment, Mare flew to Aura's side, his frail face filled with curiosity as he looked towards the top of the sinkhole. There, two arms hung limply like mud, and Zesshi Zetsumei, covered in wounds, was suspended in mid-air, panting heavily, biting down on the war scythe.
"Greater Healing."
In mid-air, Zesshi Zetsumei used magic to heal her own injuries. A few seconds later, Zesshi Zetsumei raised her hand and removed the war scythe from her mouth, her black and white eyes staring intently at the sinkhole below, her gaze meeting Albedo's at the bottom of the sinkhole.
"Strong one, state your name."
Having recovered most of her injuries under the healing magic, Zesshi Zetsumei looked at Albedo in the sinkhole below with excitement and asked. For a long time, this was the first time she had fought someone to this extent, and she had almost died under Albedo's battle-axe just now.
"Guardian Overseer of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, Albedo."
After saying that, Albedo pulled the battle-axe, with only the handle visible, out of the earth. In the crack left behind after the battle-axe was pulled out, a illusory figure was slowly disappearing. At the last moment, Zesshi Zetsumei had relied on an item left behind by the Six Great Gods to forcibly teleport away, leaving only an illusion to deceive the eye.
"I am Zesshi Zetsumei."
In the sky, after Zesshi Zetsumei finished speaking, a ball of white light lit up in front of her chest. As the white light separated from her body, it continuously twisted and expanded in mid-air. After a few seconds, a pure white being with an appearance and size completely identical to Zesshi Zetsumei appeared in place.
"Einherjar... Valkyrie!"
At the bottom of the sinkhole, Albedo looked at the suddenly appearing Einherjar, and said with a hint of surprise in her voice. She was extremely familiar with this skill, after all, it was a skill possessed by Shalltear, who was also one of the Guardians.
And now Zesshi Zetsumei was actually using this skill, which meant that the human in front of her possessed the Valkyrie class.
"Looks like you recognize this thing, so what about this?"
In the sky, Zesshi Zetsumei seemed to have heard Albedo's mutterings below. She abruptly swung the war scythe in her hand, and at the same time, the tattered armor on her body bloomed with light. When the light dissipated, Zesshi Zetsumei in Valkyrie armor appeared.
However, unlike Shalltear's perfect Valkyrie state, Zesshi Zetsumei's Valkyrie was learned without meeting the prerequisites, thus becoming a degraded class. Compared to a normal Valkyrie, the overall stats and the Einherjar as a trump card were slightly weakened.
For example, when a normal Valkyrie obtains the first level, she will choose the weapon she needs to specialize in. In addition, in the second stage, she can continue to specialize in the previous weapon, but she can also choose to specialize in other weapons again, and also gain the ability to use all weapons within the range of slashing and thrusting weapons in a normal state.
However, in this situation, the ace warrior spirits would be weakened. To avoid weakening them, they would all need to specialize in the dripper lance, like Shalltear. Moreover, this applies to normal Valkyries, let alone the Valkyries like Kaire who are already degraded. The weakening of the ace warrior spirits would be even more severe.
Despite this, Kaire chose to accept the weakening of the warrior spirits in order to use the various weapons from the Six Gods, because in her judgment, relying on her innate ability to 'read the memory of objects' would make her more powerful with her proficiency in various Six Gods weapons than being an ace warrior spirit.
"Valkyrie, huh?"
At the same time, Shalltear, who was playing with the God-kin Captain's head in one hand in the distance, also noticed the commotion. As soon as she turned her head, she saw Kaire in her Valkyrie transformation and the warrior spirits.
"Is this your trump card?"
As she spoke, Shalltear lifted the God-kin Captain in her hand, pulling the once handsome face, now covered in blood and wounds, in front of her and asked.
"Cough... cough... You monsters..."
The dying God-kin Captain barely opened his eyes to look at Shalltear in front of him, uttering fragmented words. He had even planned to escape earlier, but before he could even get a few hundred meters away, he was caught by the suddenly appearing Shalltear, who casually tortured and played with him until now.
"Thank you for the compliment. We are the most cruel and violent monsters."
Facing the God-kin Captain's curses, Shalltear's delicate face showed a cute smile, gracefully accepting his praise. Indeed, the God-kin Captain's praise was the best compliment to her, as she was originally a monster.
Smack!
As soon as the words fell, Shalltear's palm suddenly clenched tightly. The first seat of the Slane Theocracy's Black Scripture, one of the three awakened God-kin, the God-kin Captain, died here. The headless corpse, spraying blood, fell from the sky, heavily hitting the ground not far from the Chief Priest.
"God, have we lost all hope?"
The Chief Priest stared blankly at the God-kin Captain's corpse not far away, staggering and falling off his warhorse, kneeling weakly on the ground and praying to his God, only to find that his God had already died six hundred years ago.
Smack!
The next second, a huge foot fell, crushing the Chief Priest's body directly, completely merging with the blood-stained mud. The Giant Golem, who was wantonly slaughtering soldiers, did not notice the small ant that had just been crushed to death under its foot.
"Cocytus, I'll leave the rest to you. I'm going to help Albedo."
After speaking, Shalltear didn't even wait for Cocytus to answer before turning around and flying towards Kaire. For this human who possessed the same class as her, Shalltear's playful nature was greatly aroused. By the way, she could also steal Albedo's thunder in front of Lord Ainz, which was simply killing two birds with one stone.
"Impure Impact Shield!"
Thinking of this, a hint of excitement flashed across Shalltear's face. She directly used her unique skill, charging straight towards Kaire with her shield. On the other side, Albedo also noticed Shalltear's actions, raising her battleaxe and directly joining the battle.
For a time, facing the two Floor Guardians of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, even if Kaire tried her best, she still couldn't resist. The injuries on her body became more and more serious, and her magic power gradually began to run out. Inevitably, in the last few minutes.
She, who had been given the last hope, would die here.
"How pitiful!"
At the same time, in a corner of the battlefield, the Holy Queen was watching the besieged Kaire in the sky with a smile. Since the war began, she had been quietly hiding in the rear, devouring corpses to grow while secretly collecting the necessary information.
As for participating in the battle, sorry, her purpose was only to provoke a war between the human side and the Nazarick Tomb according to the instructions of her master, Princess Renner, and to collect some information about the enemy.
"However, I didn't expect that there would be humans who could be so powerful without obtaining the power of the Gods. If she were to obtain the power of the Gods, how powerful would she be by then?"
As she spoke, the Holy Queen lowered her head, only to see something constantly squirming inside her white dress. Sticky tentacles protruded from the dress and plunged into the ground, constantly absorbing the nutrients that were everywhere on the battlefield. In just a few hours since the start of the war, the Holy Queen clearly felt that she had obtained power that she had never imagined before.
"The mission is almost complete, so I'll bring a little gift to my master before leaving."
In the midst of her words, the Holy Queen's body began to constantly squirm and melt, finally merging into the ground beneath her feet bit by bit. At the same time, one by one, soldiers from the Holy Kingdom disappeared silently from the entire battlefield.
"Hmm?"
On the other side, Ainz Ooal Gown, who was watching the high-level battle, suddenly noticed a strange aura. He subconsciously turned his head and began to look around, but he didn't find anything unusual. Therefore, cautious, he used various items and magic to check again, but still didn't find anything worth paying attention to.
"Could it be my illusion?"
Sensing the feedback from the magic and items, Ainz Ooal Gown couldn't help but stroke his chin and mutter to himself. Then, he raised his head and looked at the battlefield in front of him. At this time, after the wanton slaughter of the undead soldiers, Giant Golems, and Demiurge and the others, the human kingdom alliance army had been slaughtered for the most part.
The remaining people had also completely lost their will to fight, having long since thrown down the weapons in their hands and began to flee in all directions. However, how could they, as ordinary people, outrun the elite undead soldiers and Demiurge and the others?
At most, in about half an hour, this battle would be completely over, and the human alliance army would all die on this grassland.
"Ainz-sama, what's wrong?"
At this time, the battle maid Narberal, who had been guarding beside Ainz Ooal Gown, stepped forward, bowed slightly, and asked with a hint of worry in her voice. She had noticed that Ainz-sama seemed to be vigilant about something since just now.
"It's nothing, but... something feels wrong."
Speaking of this, Ainz Ooal Gown looked in the direction of the palace that had been destroyed by him. He still remembered that toy named Lu Minghao who had broken into the Great Tomb of Nazarick when he had just descended into this world.
Originally, he had thought that when he destroyed the kingdom, Lu Minghao would be the greatest threat to the Great Tomb of Nazarick, but even now, Lu Minghao had still not appeared.
This unusual situation made Ainz Ooal Gown's heart begin to feel a little uneasy.
Boom!
Suddenly, just as Ainz Ooal Gown was thinking about what Lu Minghao was trying to do by hiding, a figure fell from the sky like a shooting star, heavily crashing into the ground. Following closely, a broken battle scythe fell from the sky.
