The Grand Priest stood in the sky, his golden wings trembling.
For the first time, there was a flicker of doubt in his eyes.
Daniel raised the sword The Heavens Honor in front of his face.
The blade shone with a bright gray light.
"Lost your ally? Got scared?" the Grand Priest asked mockingly.
"You got rid of one nuisance from the fight. That just makes it easier for me," Daniel replied.
The Grand Priest smiled, but his expression was stiff.
He spread his arms, and three rings of light formed around him.
Light surged from his entire body. With a loud shout, [Divine Edict] activated.
The air grew heavy, as if reality itself was bowing before the light.
Daniel felt his sword become heavier for a moment, as if invisible forces were holding it back.
But he smiled...
"Ridiculous. Such things don’t work on me. Death can kill anything, even reality and concepts."
In an instant, black energy burst out of his body. The aura of death expanded, and shadows swirled around him like cold flames.
[Graveborn Domain]
The sky turned black. The golden sun of faith was extinguished, and the entire land was swallowed by shadow.
It was a skill he created by combining the Glass Domain with the Law of Death. Of course, it wasn’t as simple as just merging the two; he had spent a long time imagining and forming it.
He hadn’t been able to test it until now, but this was the perfect moment.
The Grand Priest shouted in disbelief.
"How... how is this possible? Even the light of God..."
The light on his skin began to tremble. His golden wings turned black and started to burn from the edges.
Daniel took a step forward.
"In my domain, even God dies," he said mockingly. Of course, he knew he was talking nonsense, it was more to scare that buried god, in case it was watching him.
The Grand Priest screamed in rage and activated [Heaven’s Sentence] with both hands.
Hundreds of beams of light rained down from the sky, burning the ground beneath Daniel.
But he didn’t move.
The lights hit his body, yet instead of burning him... they went out.
Death swallowed them.
Daniel smiled.
He slowly raised his sword, his eyes glowing red.
He dashed forward. His movements were like a dance, swift, fluid, yet completely deadly.
The first strike cut from the left toward the golden wings.
The second, upward from below, straight into the Priest’s abdomen.
The third, horizontal, from the back of his neck to his shoulder.
With each strike, the golden light around the Priest shattered piece by piece.
With every cut, a spiritual scream echoed inside him. The Grand Priest felt something dying within, not flesh, not blood, but belief itself.
He screamed and activated [Radiant Cataclysm].
The entire sky blazed with light. The explosion swallowed everything, and Daniel vanished within it.
Silence...
The Grand Priest panted heavily. His lips trembled, and his face looked old and worn, as if he might collapse at any moment.
After all, that skill had consumed far too much power, he barely had any strength left.
"It’s over... he’s dead..."
"For something so meaningless, you used your life force?" But suddenly, a calm voice came from within the light.
From the scorched brilliance, Daniel walked out. His wounds were healed, and in his eyes glimmered the reflection of a dark moon.
The Grand Priest stepped back. For the first time, his face was filled with fear.
His eyes wide, his hands trembling. How? How could he have survived that attack?
Such a thing should be impossible. Simply impossible!
"If that’s all you had, then it’s time to end this," Daniel said quietly.
The Grand Priest floated at the center, his body trembling, golden wings burned away, and eyes wide in terror.
He muttered under his breath,
"Impossible... God’s power... no one can stand against it..."
But right before him, Daniel calmly took another step. The sword The Heavens Honor emerged through the dense mist of death, erasing the very concept of light with each movement.
With a mad scream, the Grand Priest raised his hand toward the sky.
The brightest light of his life burst from his body. Eyes went blind, the earth trembled.
[Light’s Resurrection]
His wounds closed, but his eyes went empty, soulless, like a living shell. He bit his lip as the last resort came to mind.
A trump card granted by God Himself... but if he used it, he might lose everything.
Did he have any other choice?
"Taste the power of God!" he roared in fury.
With those words, [Godfall Command] activated.
The sky split open, and from the rift, thousands of colossal pillars of light fell toward Daniel.
Each one could annihilate a nation. The air shook, space cracked, and even sound itself died.
But Daniel... smiled.
He lifted his sword, and from his mouth came only a whisper:
[ Eternal Judgment ].
The sky turned crimson, and above it, a massive sword took shape.
The giant blade descended upon the pillars of light, shattering them all.
The heavens roared, it seemed as if the world itself was about to collapse and disappear.
And in that very moment, Daniel vanished.
The Grand Priest looked around.
No one was there.
"Where... is he?!"
Before he could even react, a sword pierced through his chest from behind.
Time stopped.
Blood fell from his body like rain.
Daniel stood behind him, sword in hand, his cold, calm eyes fixed on him without saying a word.
The Grand Priest gasped for breath. The light inside his body began to explode like a dying sun.
He tried to speak, but only a broken sound came out.
"No! God, save me! Please save me! Your servant is dying!" his desperate plea echoed through the air.
But there was no response.
"Why... why won’t God answer me?! Why is He silent?!" he cried out in his final moments.
Daniel didn’t respond. In fact, even he was a bit confused, he had expected that buried god to appear.
The Grand Priest screamed, full of terror and disbelief.
"God will definitely avenge me!" he shouted, and then the light faded from his eyes. His body fell to the ground.