“The holy form, Sacrament.”

Eis looked at the Aficionado members with admiration and reverence.

“Did you two know? To us worshippers of the Sacred God, witnessing this form is the best thing we could ever ask for.”

He looked Amelia and Reina and said.

“Just seeing it makes me filled with energy.”

Suddenly the area started to get colder, even a thin layer of frost started to appear on the land.

“You getting even more energetic would be a problem for us.”

Said Reina.

‘Shit! We’re not even done here and those three are now displaying unbelievable anima. This couldn’t get any worse.’

She cursed in her heart.

“Hm….Their sacrament isn’t bad, but it is a bit lacking compared to what I expected. The Aficionado a century back had more impressive forms.”

Richard said while watching everything from afar. Behind the Sacred church forces all had excited expressions on their faces. This was a big difference to the solemn faces they had earlier after their leader was taken, and Richard took control of their lives.

It was like they had forgotten everything bad, and only felt the urge to worship the Sacred race.

*Bam!*

At that moment Liam’s anima increased explosively again.

“Who cares if you’ve changed forms? I’ll still slaughter you for killing Brooks!”

He shouted as he approached Marut.

“I admit that you possess terrifying power and potential, but it won’t go the way you want.”

Marut moved his hand after speaking

*Bam!*

Liam was suddenly hit with a blast of Sacred Anima. He was blown back, but quickly dug his feet in the ground to stop himself.

“Cough?!”

Liam coughed up a mouth full of blood.

“See? Just a wave of my hand rendered you to this.”

Marut said.

“So what?”

Liam wiped the blood from his mouth, and said.

“That still doesn’t change the fact that I will rip you apart.”

He said with a beastly look in his eyes.

*Bam!*

At that moment, something crashed in front of Liam. He looked and saw someone.

“Christi?!”

He shouted in shock.

“Looks like you had a rough time as well, Marut.”

That’s when Eleleth appeared floating beside Marut.

“No, I was caught off guard that’s all.”

“I see. Me too. These guys are pretty tricky, aren’t they?”

That’s when she threw someone in front of Christi. It was Roc who had all of limbs broken and twisted out of place.

“……..”

Christi looked at his friend who was laying beside him with a sad expression. Despite having the power to kill the two of them, Eleleth only played with them and even went as far as torturing them.

“The reason you two were forced into such desperate situations was because you let your guards down.”

Harut appeared behind and said.

He held Xavier and Allan by their legs like they were toys.

“Oh? What do you have there, brother?”

Marut asked while looking at the half dead men that Harut was carrying.

“Just a puny king and his mutt. I was going to kill them, but I thought that even rodents have families. So I thought they would want to spend their last moments together.”

He threw Xavier and Allan in the air, and they were caught by James and Omar.

“Now that you’ve met them, you all can die together.”

He said.

“Shit!”

Amelia cursed when she saw the predicament that everyone else were in.

“Christi! Roc!”

Reina immediately rushed towards them.

“No can do.”

*Bam!*

At that moment a wall of ice appeared and block her path. She looked back at Eis with a furious look.

“Don’t interrupt them. It’s the will of God.”

Eis said.

“Fuck your god!”

Reina roared and released her wild anima. She threw a punch and instantly shattered the ice wall.

“?!”

Eis was shocked to see his wall destroyed that easily. He then tried to trap her again.

*Roar!*

But at that moment, her anima molded into a dragon and carried her towards the Aficionado members.

“Hm?”

“What the?”

They turned around after noticing Reina.

“Get away from them!”

She roared.

“Fool.”

Marut waved his hand and a light shot forward and cut Reina’s anima dragon in two. However, Reina jumped in the air at the last second to avoid it. She then rushed towards them.

“Heh!”

Eleleth rushed towards her and aimed a kick at her head.

“Move!”

*Bam!*

Reina slammed her fist on Eleleth’s leg and even blew her back.

“What?!”

This naturally shocked her.

“That girl has a massive amount of anima and strength.”

Said Harut.

“I just realized that she’s a Megal too.”

“Let’s get rid of her.”

Marut said.

“Well, Eleleth is about to.”

Suddenly Eleleth appeared over Reina, swinging her leg down.

*Bam!*

However, she was blown away by a powerful blast of flames.

“Who-?!”

*Bam!*

Before she could finish speaking a giant bolt of lightning fell on her and caused a loud explosion.

“Dammit! Who the hell was that?!”

Eleleth got up and roared.

“That would be me.”

At that moment, Amelia appeared in front of her with her palm pointing at Eleleth’s face.

“Animus: Elemental Queen.”

*Bam!*

A burst of lightning, flames, and wind was released from her palms and hit Eleleth head on.

“Christi! Roc!”

Meanwhile, Reina made it over to where the others were. She looked at their wounds and gritted her teeth in anger.

“I will slaughter you!”

She turned and looked back at Marut and Harut.

“Oh? Now where have I hear-”

Before Marut could continue he was kicked in the face by Reina.

“Y-You!”

He got mad and grabbed her feet and slammed her on the ground.

“Ah!”

Reina groaned in pain, but quickly pounced at Marut again.

*Bam!*

But she was kicked away by Harut who was nearby. She bounced off the ground a bit, but quickly stopped herself and rushed towards them again.

“This girl….She’s tough.”

Harut said.

She attacked him, but was attacked from behind by Marut. He slammed his palm on her back and blew her away.

“What?”

However, to his surprise Reina quickly got to her feet again.

*Bam!*

At that moment, the earth opened up and two giant fist attack them from behind. Harut destroyed them with a backhand strike without looking back.

He looked and saw Amelia looking at him, while trying her best to fend off Eleleth’s attacks.

Because of Amelia controlling too much elements at once and constantly mixing and changing their properties, Eleleth found it hard to get a clean hit on her, even with her Future Sight. However, she was able to place life threatening pressure on Amelia.

So when Amelia distracted herself by sneak attacking Harut and Marut, she found an opening.

“Die!”

*Bam!*

She stomped in Amelia’s chest and forced her out of the air and into the ground. Eleleth then started to repeatedly stomp her deeper into the ground. Luckily, Amelia had erected a barrier consisting of countless elements to temporarily block Eleleth’s attacks.

However, that barrier soon started to show cracks. She then tapped the ground, and slipped deeper underground to escape Eleleth.

“Wha?!”

“Quick, stop her!”

Harut shouted after seeing what Amelia was gonna do.

At that moment, everyone started falling inside holes that popped under them. Before any of the Aficionado members could do anything, everyone was gone.

“Dammit!”

Marut shouted.

“Wow. Good going, Elia.”

Richard said while clapping.

“Grr!”

Harut looked at him and glared.

“Isn’t this against the rules? They ran away.”

He said.

“Rules? I never said that you couldn’t run away. I just said you need to kill each other. Don’t get mad at me that my girl tricked you.”

Richard replied.

“Your girl? What do you mean by that?”

Marut asked.

“You don’t need to know.”

Richard replied.

“You know, I’m getting tired of this bastard.”

Eleleth walked up and said.

“Can’t we just kill him? It’s the three of us and we’re all in our Sacrament forms. I think we can do it.”

“Four if you count him.”

Marut pointed at Eis and said.

“What, you want to take out your frustrations on me?”

Richard stood up with an amused expression.

“Of course. We’re proud Sacred Race members. There’s no way we’ll take orders from a human.”

Eleleth said.

“Proud Race?”

Richard started laughing.

“Very well. Come at me if you wish.”

He started walking towards them with a smile.

“However, make your decision wisely.”

An evil grin appeared on his face.

“Because it might be the last decision you ever make.”

“?!”

The three them suddenly felt like the world had fallen onto their shoulders. They couldn’t take a step no matter how much they tried. It took all their strength to stay on their feet. Even breathing was hard.

“W-What the hell is this?”

Harut asked with a trembling voice.

“Is this really from his presence alone? I feel like I’m going to be crushed to death.”

He looked up at the approaching Richard, and he swore he saw a giant approaching rather than a man. Every step he made felt like his heart was being stepped on.

It didn’t take long for Richard to stand in front of, but to him it felt like forever.

“Well? Are you going to attack or not?”

Richard asked, but none of them could answer. Seeing that Richard placed his hand on Harut’s head.

“?!”

Harut suddenly felt like a small ant that was being touched by a giant’s hand. Just the simplest push could end his life. His body trembled before the monster in front of him. Not just him, the other three looked like they all was about to wet themselves in fear.

For the first time in their life, they felt more inferior than a speck of dirt in the wind.

“I see. Then you should work hard on finding them, okay?”

Richard said with a playful tone before walking away from them.

As they watched him walk back to where he sat and spectated everything before, unimaginable terror crept into their very souls. They all asked themselves the same question.

“Just who is that monster?”