Gabriel's killing intent was incredibly thick.
Hundreds of Six-Winged Angels chanted hymns, and the brilliant Holy Light surged like a boiling ocean. The Angelic Swords in their hands glowed with intense Holy Light, pointing directly at the lone figure suspended in the air before them.
Hawk floated silently. The black phoenix underworld armor on his body, instead of dimming under the wash of Holy Light from the Heaven Dimension above, radiated a black light like a luminous gem.
"Judgment?"
Hawk looked expressionlessly at Gabriel, the Eight-Winged Angel, and the hundreds of Six-Winged Angels before him. His voice was not loud, but clear enough: "With just you?"
Gabriel wasted no words, letting out a roar.
"Kill!"
"For the Holy Light!"
Hundreds of Six-Winged Angels roared in unison, flapping their wings, forming a battle formation, and charged towards Hawk.
At the same time, Gabriel's sword of protection was already raised high, seemingly echoing the Holy Light above the Heaven Dimension. Accompanied by a colossal Holy sword of protection that spanned the sky, it descended towards Hawk's head with the will to judge all heretics.
Hundreds of Six-Winged Angels had now blocked Hawk's surroundings. Their Angelic Swords were interlocked, and as Holy Light flowed and converged within them, they instantly formed an impenetrable net above, below, and all around Hawk.
The net blocked all of Hawk's escape routes.
The colossal Holy sword of protection had already crashed down.
Hawk looked up.
He threw a punch.
No.
He extended a finger!
"Lightspeed Fist!"
"Om—"
A brilliant golden light erupted from Hawk's right fingertip.
It wasn't a single punch, but tens of thousands of punch afterimages thrown in a fraction of a billionth of a second.
At this moment, the brilliant golden light, coming from behind, instantly overshadowed the radiating Holy Light.
The first to bear the brunt was the colossal Holy sword of protection cleaving down towards him.
Gabriel, using his 'Guardian Function' to communicate with the Heaven Dimension, summoned the Holy sword of protection, which, less than ten meters from Hawk, seemed to strike an invisible golden wall composed of countless fist-blows.
In an instant.
Om—
A terrifying Impact, beyond the limits of hearing, was generated as the Holy sword of protection and Hawk's Lightspeed Fist collided.
"Puff!"
"Thud!"
"Boom—!"
As the divine net formed by hundreds of Six-Winged Angels shattered, the colossal Impact also violently flung these Six-Winged Angels backward.
As one Angel after another crashed to the ground, with a crisp crack, the colossal Holy sword of protection began to crack upon Impact with the fist-blows. Immediately after, dense patterns appeared on the sword's body.
Then!
It shattered completely with a bang, turning into the most basic, un凝聚able light, disintegrating into a sky full of light and Shadow.
As the colossal Holy sword of protection disintegrated, Gabriel, holding the sword of protection, his eight-winged right arm suddenly recoiled, dragging his body backward, staggering half a step.
One move.
Just one move!
Hawk's eyes beneath his faceplate, now like dazzling black gemstones, stared at Gabriel, his voice cold.
Jehovah, that dog, had said he would wait for him to fight his way into the Heaven Dimension.
He was here now.
What was the result?
Motherfucker.
Jehovah was gone.
Things were going wrong, so he hid?
Or did Jehovah feel that the matter of Earth was settled, so he left Gabriel and went off to do other things?
Hawk's thoughts churned at this moment.
But no matter what.
He was very angry now.
"Once again."
"Where is that dog Jehovah?"
"Heretic!"
Gabriel glared at Hawk, his eyes spitting Fire: "Insulting my Lord is an unforgivable sin."
Hawk chuckled.
"Alright!"
"Unforgivable sin, I'd like to see how you make it unforgivable for me."
"Galaxy—"
As Hawk rapidly retreated, he pointed his right finger at his glabella, and the energy projection of the Reality Stone manifested his Little Universe.
The moment he turned and retreated, the gemini gold cloth seemed to step out of his body, opening its hands towards the hundreds of Six-Winged Angels who had regained their footing and were charging again below.
"Star Explosion—!!"
A low murmur seemed to emanate from Hawk, whose right finger was pointing at his glabella and whose eyes were closed.
The sound was like it came from the beginning of the Universe, but ultimately resonated at the end of the Universe!
The hundreds of Angels below, including Gabriel, witnessed the most brilliant and shocking scene they had ever experienced.
It was a depiction of the Universe from birth to death.
Centered on the open palms of the Gold Gemini Cloth, a miniature, vast cosmic illusion, almost covering half of the Heaven Dimension, suddenly unfolded.
Then—
It collapsed inward, exploded, the birth and death of countless stars compressed into this one punch, and the destructive torrent generated by the cosmic explosion began to sweep all around.
"No—"
A Six-Winged Angel, charging at the very front, felt the immense explosive energy before him, his eyes wide, only managing to let out a hurried cry of alarm.
Then he was gone.
Gone in the physical sense.
His light sword, his proud six-winged feathers, and even his body, which for him was eternally immortal as long as he was in the Heaven Dimension, after being swept by this cosmic explosion-level torrent, disappeared silently, as if pencil marks had been erased by an eraser.
But this was just the beginning.
The torrent of destruction rolled over the hundreds of Six-Winged Angels like a wheel. The final fate of any Angel caught in this cosmic explosion was the same as the first Angel.
No resistance, because there was no way to fight back.
No explosion, because they completely disappeared.
In just a blink of an eye, along with the disappearance of Hawk's attack phenomenon, were hundreds of Six-Winged Angels.
Their figures completely vanished from the Heaven Dimension.
This was a Carnage.
Without a doubt.
And it was a crushing Carnage, launched by one person against an Angelic legion.
Wingless birdmen in Heaven were equivalent to ordinary people.
Two-winged ones were equivalent to extraordinaries.
Four-winged ones were equivalent to Bronze Saints.
Six-winged ones were equivalent to Silver Saints.
And Hawk was a Gold Saint.
It was well known.
Even if hundreds of Silver Saints fought a Gold Saint, without cheating, any Gold Saint could easily crush hundreds of Silver Saints.
What's more—
Hawk was also cheating.
After the attack of the gemini gold cloth, Hawk moved his right finger away from his glabella, reopened his eyes, and as the gemini gold cloth retreated, he looked at Gabriel with cold eyes.
Gabriel's eyes were bloodshot, his heart bleeding.
He was the Archangel of Protection of Heaven.
But—
What had he protected, what had he guarded?
Heaven was cracked, and even hundreds of Six-Winged Angels, who could be called the backbone of Heaven, had fallen.
Gabriel felt his whole body tremble, rage burning within him.
Just then.
Hawk's voice descended once again.
Cold, devoid of any emotion.
"Again, where is that bastard Jehovah?!"
"Demon!"
Gabriel trembled, his sword of protection clenched, his eyes spitting Fire as he looked at Hawk. With a roar, burning his Holy Light, he slammed the sword of protection into the ground before him: "Holy Domain!"
As the words fell.
A phantom of a nation formed by the purest Holy Light projected itself, attempting to descend into the Heaven Dimension.
Within the Holy Domain, any energy not belonging to the Heaven Dimension would suffer destructive suppression.
Gabriel wanted to pull Hawk into his home turf.
Hawk looked up at the Holy Light Nation attempting to descend, sneered, and in the blink of an eye, enveloped himself in a shimmering golden blur of countless fist-Shadows: "Before my fist, let alone your domain, even your god is no match!"
"Lightspeed Fist!"
"Boom boom boom—!!!"
The sweeping fist-Shadows surged upward, constantly colliding with the descending Holy Light Nation, emitting deafening sounds that made the entire Dimension tremble.
Those ubiquitous myriad fist-blows, with power enough to shatter stars, instantly left black cracks, one after another, on the Holy Light Nation, which was entirely condensed from Holy Light.
Pop!
With a soft, powerful tremor, the Holy Domain, which had immense power but also immense wind-up, was shattered by Hawk on its way, unable to even fully descend.
The backlash surged like a mountain collapse and a tsunami.
Gabriel was struck by lightning, violently spitting out a mouthful of golden blood. The Holy Light on his body instantly dimmed, and he flew backward like a meteorite, crashing into the only, intact Holy Temple.
Boom!
The Holy Temple collapsed in response, burying Gabriel completely like a tomb.
Buried in the ruins of the temple, Gabriel, holding his broken sword of protection, emerged from the rubble, disheveled and pale.
Hawk, still standing in mid-air, retracted his fist and looked calmly at Gabriel, who was trying to get up after crawling out of the ruins.
Theoretically, Gabriel, the Eight-Winged Archangel, was indeed on par with a Gold Saint.
But... that was just in theory.
Hawk's Mind Stone infinitely illuminated his mind, allowing him to continue comprehending towards the end of the Seventh Sense at an unparalleled speed almost immediately after attaining a sudden enlightenment of the Seventh Sense.
The Reality Stone materialized the power of his Phoenix Gold Universe, enabling him to unleash his inherent formidable power to its fullest.
The most important point.
His time and power belonged to himself, not to mention he also held the divine authority of the Phoenix.
Gabriel?
His power came from Jehovah.
Therefore—
While he and Gabriel seemed comparable, in reality, there was no comparison at all.
Gabriel rose from the ruins, the Holy Light on his body dim. Even the four pairs of once pristine White wings behind him were now covered in dust, and the sword of protection in his hand had broken into two.
But, Gabriel, the Archangel of Protection of the Heaven Dimension, after taking a deep breath, vibrated his wings again, ascended once more, and charged towards Hawk with his broken long sword of protection.
Then—
Thud!
Dust rose.
The fallen Gabriel tried to get up.
The next second.
Bang!
His head was violently stomped by a shoe, then with a thud, it sank into the ruins.
Hawk's foot on Gabriel's head, he leaned down, his voice faint.
"Now, can you tell me."
"Where did Jehovah go?"
... (End of chapter)
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