Legend

Ray lands on the ground uncomfortable with his body's movements as soon as something unobtrusive spreads around him.

Ray used Slapenil's shoes to jump through the air again and again, a way of traveling that could also be called triangle jumping, square jumping and pentagonal jumping, but an unexpected event stopped him from moving the moment he landed.

"This... what?

"Don't you know what it is? This is the divine punishment. Taste the power of the Holy Goddess of Light through her body."

Vicente laughs at Ray's condition.

Something like a tattoo on its right cheek is glowing, making a fierce self-assertion.

(About Stigma. I mean, I guess that's the holy mark. Though there were mostly holy marks.... then the tattoo on that grandfather's hand is that stigma too? So it's also that Stigma effect that you seem to be disappearing the moment my attack hits you just now? But then)

Various ideas pass the back of your brain, but for Vicente you don't have to bother waiting for it.

The opponent was a great enemy and the only one who insulted the Absolute God.

We need to give that sin the punishment it deserves.

"Now, great enemies... receive the reward of your sins. Execute Divine Punishment"

To Vicente's proclamation, the old man erases the gentle grin that usually floats, and nods to agree with a sincere expression.

Next to the old man who sets the cane in his hand as if it were an estock, Vicente clenches his fist...... in the next moment he kicks the ground.

In Vicente's move straight towards him, Ray put up a death size in his hand and put himself in a position to intercept.

Seeing Ray like that, Vicente grins at his mouth.

The moment he saw that grin, Ray felt a fierce chill, like he had been stabbed in his spine with an ice column.

"Huh!?

As prompted by that chill, Ray flies straight to the side instead of intercepting Vicente.

Reflective motion, not thinking motion.

But the moment I made that move, the discomfort in Ray became stronger than ever.

(slow!?

Yes, I can finally do a move that I can usually do in an instant, consuming nearly a few times as much time.

Of course it is still a pretty quick move for a normal human being, but it is nevertheless a move that Ray's senses deserve to call dull and above all slow enough to feel an obstacle to intercepting Vicente as well.

It feels like you're the only one left in the flow of time, even though the other person is moving normally.

Defending as it is won't make it.

Rather than preventing Vicente's attack in Death Size, Ray, judging by his magic skills… tries to prevent it by rapidly increasing the heat of the Flaming Emperor's Red Armor.

The fine caloric adjustment is not yet completely extreme, but it is still not a difficult story to choose whether to increase or decrease the temperature.

When you can magic into the Red Armor of the Flaming Emperor to burn the fists unleashed against you, the surrounding temperatures accelerate.

"Become!?

It was Vicente who raised his dismay at this.

The thought that this could never happen resides strongly in that voice.

"Vicente!"

It was the voice of the old man who brought Vicente back to me, whose head had turned white to an absolutely impossible phenomenon.

Instead of being a grandfather earlier, he's a sharp, sharp voice with as much acumen as he can convince himself to be a part of Stigma.

Vicente, who returned to me with that voice, gives up his attack on Ray and once he jumps back, takes his distance.

"Old Master, what the hell is that... in the sanctuary where Stigma was activated, why..."

Next to Vicente, who jumped backwards, there was at some point an old man with a wand in his hand.

It was Vicente who asked the old man, but what returned to it was the act of shaking his neck sideways.

"I don't know. The movement is definitely dull, so it doesn't mean the sanctuary isn't working. Because... no, you don't have time to think about that right now,"

The ambient temperature is rising rapidly, mainly in the rays.

It is winter now...... even though it is also midnight, the snow that had accumulated around it before the battle began was all unraveled and turned into water.

The water is further evaporated by the heat emitted by the ray, which becomes water vapor to increase the ambient humidity, and the temperature is also close to thirty degrees.

Even the Vicentes away from Ray are this heat, so what happens if we go near Ray?

Especially when Vicente was just about to wave his fist to Ray earlier, and I'm pretty sure his fist would have been burned if he'd beaten him like that, his spine would be cold despite the heat around him.

Of course, if it's to inflict divine punishment on the great enemy, it doesn't matter what happens to his own flesh or his own life.

But I am a member of Stigma, one of the chosen members of Holy Light.

If that stigma can't do anything and, on the contrary, it means you've been badly injured trying to attack it, then Holy Light itself can be a laugh.

"Old Master..."

I want you to lend me your wisdom as to what to do.

When Vicente turned his gaze to the old man standing next to him with such eyes, the old man thought a little with his cane in his hand and opened his mouth.

"Well, let's give it a try."

At the same time that the old man tells you, the figure can disappear unexpectedly.

In that way, at the next moment, he abruptly appears to be Ray's present.

"Become!"

You didn't expect me to imitate suddenly appearing nearby in temperatures where my body would burn just to get close, Ray shouted a surprise for a moment, but at the next moment he was waving a death size through magic.

There was also the effect of the flaming emperor's red armor, and the instantly wielded death-size blade went to the old man as he slashed and tore the air to make the old man's torso into two as if it had even left the sound... but the moment he thought the blade had touched the old man again, the figure had disappeared.

"Hmm, I see. It's fast."

Fu Ray is uncomfortable with the old man's grunt, who shows up next to Vicente again.

(Is that... is something wrong? No, it's crazy for sure. In the first place, is it something you can metastasize so often? Even the metastatic stones created by the Bestian Empire have many tough conditions... but not metastases?

Maybe the old man's abilities aren't metastases.

With such a doubt, he sets his sight on the old man at the end of his gaze, keeping the heat of the Flaming Emperor's red armor intact as he sets up his death size.

Wouldn't it be strange if it were the Stigmas who said they showed up just outside Ray earlier and didn't seem to have scratched a single piece of sweat on their faces?

Once you think it's suspicious, one question after another.

He also disappeared when he avoided Ray's flying slaughter, for example, but wasn't it a place where the old man showed up again after the flying slaughter had slashed and torn the wall instead of the old man, with no different dimensions than before he disappeared?

Even when metastases are used, it should be very difficult to show up in places with different dimensions.

Of course I may have to convince you if you tell me you have that much skill, but still, from Ray's eyes today, all I have left is suspicion.

(But the attack I ate when I walked out the window was definitely real.... Want to try some more? I guess it would be fine if I could touch it directly by hand just before it disappears if I could. But I try... even if I try, how do I try?

While I was trying to figure out how to beat them inside, neither were Stigma's two watching in silence without doing anything.

However, there was something difficult even for Vicente to do with his all-in-one offensive skills that would damage his body if he approached him in the first place.

And most importantly...

(How can you use all that power in the sanctuary?

Yes, that was the biggest question for Vicente.

Originally, if we expanded this sanctuary, all those in the realm would not be able to exert half the power they could have.

The only exception among them is those with stigmas.

Only those with stigmas can demonstrate a higher ability than usual within this sanctuary.

But even in such a situation, the great enemies at the end of their gaze were decent... and that was what left them with as much power as they could still cross.

This was inherently unlikely, and a matter that, if poorly done, might also raise issues with regard to the doctrine of Holy Light.

That's why Vicente can't understand the presence ahead of his gaze... and therefore can't even tolerate it.

"He who defies the power of the Holy Goddess of Light in a disgraceful way... you are still our great enemy!

Calm down, Vicente.

"But, old master!

He was an old man pinching words to calm Vicente, but Vicente tries to say it back to such an old man instantly.

But at the next moment, the gaze directed from the old man to Vicente changes to something as sharp as it penetrates.

"I told you to calm down. Didn't you understand that word?

"That's... yes. I'm sorry."

In front of that gaze, Vicente can't say anything more, just calm down.

Seeing how Vicente looks like that, the old man returns to his usual favorable look and laughs.

"Hey, hey. I hope your lord is serious, but it's not easier to get blood on your head. I've told you so many times."

"... Yes"

"Well, I know why your lord cares so much about him, but perhaps the problem with this matter isn't that complicated."

The words, which the old man tells as he was half-confirmed, deserved consternation for Vicente, as well as respect.

Why is Ray showing all that fighting power in the sanctuary? Because you don't know anything about it, but you've already solved that question.

"Why is that?

"What, it's not that hard. In the first place, there were a number of keys to solving the question. For example, his movements themselves have been dulled by the grace of the sanctuary. You understand that."

"Yes, my rate of reaction to the attack is definitely dropping, too. But..."

"Don't rush to answer that. In other words, the fact that the movement is still dull, as I said, undoubtedly has sanctuary effects on him. But there's no effect that's attenuating on that red thing. … at first glance, it looks so"

"At first glance?

To the words of the old man, Vicente turns his gaze once again to Ray, who is activating the Red Armor of the Flaming Emperor.

Overwhelming calories, felt even so far apart.

If anyone knew anything, they would never believe that the current season is winter.

Spring...... no, recognize it as summer.

If I had attacked Ray earlier, I would have probably... No doubt my own fists would have been burned.

"Hmm. Frankly, he's too capable to have that much strength even if he's attenuated by the effects of the sanctuary. That's what Non decided."

"Stupid!

It was a word from a respected person, but still the man denies it reflexively.

Naturally. The protection of the Holy Goddess of Light suppresses the opponent's power to less than half, but it means that they still have the ability to harm themselves.

That means that Ray's power is above ourselves, protected by the Holy Light Goddess.

Unforgivable, unbearable, unacceptable, impossible.

Such thoughts fill Vicente's mind...... eventually his absolute until anger at Ray fills not only his mind but his body as well.

"Relax. This is also a test God has given you, the Lord. Only by breaking that test will Nong and others show sincere prayer for God. That the opponent is a great enemy, defeat him and show him the power of faith such as Non. I mean, that's what it is."

The expression that was stained with Vicente's anger in the words of the old man instantly quiets down.

If you defeat the great enemy at the end of your gaze because of your faith, it will be an indication of your faith and at the same time a joy of God.

When they asked me that, it seemed like nothing but my immaturity was mad until a moment ago.

"Okay, old master. I was immature.... give him divine punishment for his great enemy. That's all you have to think about at last. That way God will receive my faith and I will also be held in God's love. … to wrap everything in this world with the love of the Holy Goddess of Light to create a day in which everyone can live in peace and happiness"

"Mm-hmm. Non feels the same way. There must be no such person. In the name of the Holy Goddess of Light, divine punishment be upon the great enemy"

"Divine punishment!

Screaming sharply, Vicente kicks the ground and goes forward.

Ray also waits for Vicente, wrapped around the Red Armor of the Flaming Emperor to take action, rather than things getting stiff like this.

Oddly enough, it was almost simultaneous for both sides to make the decision to move things around.