Extraordinary beings who have reached the limits of humanity, incorporate a ring seal stone, and break through to the sixth rank, become angels.
This allows them to condense an Angel's Halo.
The Angel's Halo floats above the head, a symbol of angelic power surpassing humanity and an external manifestation of the ring seal stone.
The halo is controlled by the one who condensed it and can be considered a part of the angel's body.
An angel can give the halo a physical form or recall it in an instant with a single thought.
Depending on the angel's power characteristics, the halo displays different colors and forms.
Cyan represents wind.
Red represents fire.
Blue is water, white is light, yellow is earth...
An angel can lend their halo to others, though their own power is weakened during this process.
However, they can recall it at any time with a single thought.
Normally, only an angel can withstand the halo's power, but there are exceptions.
Those near the human limit with matching attributes can temporarily bear its power to break through their limits.
"Olorine!"
Tobin shouted, hoping to stop her.
But she wouldn't turn back now.
She took the cyan-glowing Angel's Halo from the wooden box.
Gripping its edge with her slender, pale fingers, she raised it.
As she put it on, it floated above her head.
Immense power flooded Olorine's body, wind energy filling every inch of her flesh.
Her pupils turned green, and the pressure of a higher life form made it hard for everyone to breathe.
This was the power of an angel.
Olorine swung her sword, instantly suppressing the Guardian of the Undying Wardrobe and sending it flying.
She pursued immediately, her body vanishing like a phantom under the power of the wind.
The second strike slammed the Guardian of the Undying Wardrobe heavily into the ground.
Outside the gray mist valley, its power was severely weakened.
It let out an angry roar, and as it did, countless skeletal claws wreathed in black death energy reached out from the air to grab Olorine.
Olorine held her sword before her, firing countless cyan Sword Qi that shredded the claws into dust.
But the black mist did not dissipate; under the guardian's control, it surged toward her.
This death energy could corrode life force and reduce vitality.
However, the Angel's Halo above Olorine's head glowed faintly.
Under angelic power, toxins and curses from lower life forms were useless.
Olorine vanished again, blinking in front of the guardian and piercing its chest with her longsword.
An instant kill.
Though Olorine only wielded less than half the power of a real angel through the Angel's Halo, she could still one-shot a guardian capable of crushing a fifth-rank swordsman.
The power of an angel was on a level far above that of humans.
Olorine pulled out her sword, and the halo dimmed.
With the formula copper plate in her hand, the outcome was decided.
Tobin watched her from a distance, still unable to understand why she had betrayed him.
Olorine held the formula copper plate and looked back at him.
By now, Tobin and Feanor Grey had stopped fighting, as everything was settled.
As for the three fifth-rank freelancers, once they confirmed the box contained only a monster and no ring seal stone, they had already left.
Those old men nearing the end of their lives wanted no part of the feuds between major powers.
"Why did you betray us? Did we mistreat you, or did the Grey family give you something better, Olorine?"
Tobin asked in a heavy voice.
"In your eyes, loyalty to William VI ranked before me."
"But in my heart, your importance ranked before my loyalty to William VI."
"Perhaps if we were the same—if we both were loyal, or both valued each other—the result would have been different."
On the day Tobin got married, she had imagined him defying orders to run away with her.
But Tobin simply followed orders and accepted the arranged marriage.
Tobin had grown old.
She had kept her youthful appearance, hoping to catch his gaze.
But he always treated his loyalty to William VI as absolute.
Everything had settled.
Tobin let out a long sigh and raised his staff.
"I will do my best to stop you, even if it costs me my life."
Olorine raised her sword, saying no more.
In the midst of the tension, a loud explosion rang out.
It didn't come from either of them, but from...
Feiwan!
'Oh, my ancestor!'
Fete had already beat a hasty retreat, fearing he would be caught in Feiwan's wake.
"Is it you who has been hiding all this time? Whose person are you, the Grey family's?"
Tobin looked at Zeno, who had suddenly appeared, while watching the reactions of the two from the Grey family.
He found that both Feanor Grey and Olorine were looking on with wary eyes.
'Not from the Grey family?'
Feiwan floated in the air, her gaze sweeping around before locking onto the formula copper plate in Olorine's hand.
She had received her master's orders.
The Undying Wardrobe didn't matter, but the formula copper plate must be seized if possible.
Feiwan raised her hand, summoning fire wyverns that pounced downward.
The dragon flame was spat out mercilessly, and its terrifying heat left everyone speechless.
Just as they were about to dodge, they found countless plants surging out of the ground, winding around their bodies.
This terrifying plant ability, could it be!
Everyone looked up and saw the figures in the sky, and Feanor Grey's heart skipped a beat.
Two figures were standing in the air.
Zeno and Feiwan.
Along with two massive spatial magic spiders standing in the void on their eight legs.
Zeno and Feiwan each stood atop a spatial magic spider, looking down.
Zeno held the silver Staff of the Puppeteer, wearing Fire-Extinguishing Light Armor with a head-armor obscuring the upper half of her face.
"Zeno!!"
The one who had stolen the Grey family's masterpiece grade magical artifact!
She actually dared to strike at both the Grey family and the Northern Prince's forces in Gray City!
"How dare you!!"
As a direct descendant of the Grey family, Feanor Grey roared in anger and raised his staff!
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