"Whoa! Is it really this strong?"
Looking at her handiwork before her, even Jibril was surprised.
If before she had relied purely on massive amounts of energy to be superior to gods.
Then now, after gaining the shared authority from Ryuga, her strength could be said to have undergone a qualitative improvement.
Energy that surpassed ordinary gods, plus authority that could sever divine power, brought her power to its extreme.
Under such an all-out strike, even [Steel Blessing] wouldn't be sufficient to preserve oneself.
"As expected of Master's power!"
Jibril felt sincerely convinced.
No wonder Ryuga had said before that she didn't understand power. Who could have thought that divine authority effects would be so abnormal—using one portion of energy to achieve ten times the results.
With her current strength, she felt she could probably already solo-hunt Dragon Kings.
Of course, compared to the God-sama of her own world, there was still a bit of difference.
After all, even with similar authorities, her world's God-sama had far more energy than herself.
However, no matter what, she now had the qualifications for god-slaying.
Even the main god Artosh probably couldn't just stand still and take her strongest attack now.
The current her had taken a big step toward responding to Artosh's wish and granting Him defeat!
While Jibril was happily thinking about these things, Uriel, who had been observing from the side, suddenly showed joy.
"The heretical angel is exhausted! Attack!"
After releasing Heaven's Strike, Jibril indeed returned to her young girl form.
Just by seeing this change and noticing her weakened aura, one could naturally understand that the previous strike had consumed most of Jibril's power.
Realizing this, Uriel felt reassured.
Indeed, such powerful strength inevitably required a corresponding price. Although they had suffered heavy losses, as long as they could capture the enemy, it wouldn't count as defeat.
Under Uriel's call, several grand angels who had escaped disaster through divine speed rushed toward Jibril together. Uriel took out his flame sword, pointing the tip directly at the young Flügel.
"Thou hast committed the great sins of pride, wrath, and greed. In the Lord's name, punishment shall be inflicted upon the sinner!"
As the angel who ruled hell, his mastery of [Judgment] and [Condemnation] was even superior to Michael's.
Seeing himself make Jibril even weaker, his confidence surged.
"Six against one, advantage is mine!"
Just as six angels were about to launch a group attack on Jibril, to annihilate this weakened Flügel in one strike.
At this critical moment, the young Flügel smiled sweetly.
"You really took the bait easily, didn't you!"
The moment her words finished, under Uriel's astonished gaze, she once again returned to her twelve-thirteen-year-old loli form.
The magic power in the Grail was enough for her to transform like this several more times!
Seeing Jibril's death-like smile at the corner of her mouth, some angels wanted to use the same trick again and escape through divine speed authority.
But they didn't expect Jibril to slightly raise her hand and directly seal the surrounding space.
As a Flügel, manipulation of spirits and manipulation of space were both instincts they were born with.
Divine speed authority might be swift, but before space manipulation abilities, it was completely meaningless.
"Don't worry, you alone aren't worthy of making me use Heaven's Strike. Come, let me properly test the power that Ryuga-sama has given me!"
Accompanied by spine-chilling laughter, Jibril condensed a silver light scythe in her hand, then directly launched a fierce assault on the angels before her with physical abilities that even divine beasts couldn't match.
In just one encounter, an angel had his chest pierced through. Even holy light couldn't heal wounds caused by divine authority.
Seeing Jibril massacre the angels, the fallen angels and demons looked at each other, also becoming restless.
However, before they could act, they were stopped by their leader, Azazel.
"Rather than the angels' side, we should perhaps pay more attention to the God Slayer on the other side."
He locked his gaze on Ryuga, who seemed completely defenseless.
"Capture the leader first, isn't that right?"
Azazel clearly hadn't noticed that the moment his gaze turned toward Ryuga, Jibril's eyes had already locked onto him.
The task Ryuga had given was not to be disturbed, so anyone who wanted to disturb Ryuga was her enemy.
While Jibril was cleaning up the angelic and demonic legions, Ryuga was studying the Original Divine Core.
Using his physical body, etheric body, and astral body simultaneously, under triple interference, Michael's Original Divine Core was completely exposed and grasped in Ryuga's palm.
From the surface, the so-called Original Divine Core was just a regular polyhedron emitting golden light, appearing only fist-sized.
But in Ryuga's eyes, this fist-sized regular polyhedron contained information complexity even greater than analyzing Go.
Oppression of heretics, believers' blood, the cross of the divine son's suffering, slain serpentine dragons, righteous people's lamentations, saints' perseverance...
Countless historical image fragments, in the clearest possible way, gradually flowed into Ryuga's mind through astral body resonance interference.
It was precisely these histories carved into the planet's chronicle, and the people who once existed in history, who shaped Michael, this faith-protecting angel, with their prayers.
He held the sword of judgment, slaying evil dragons that persecuted faith, demoting heretical evil gods to demons, protecting every believer who dared to resist, and guarding humanity's future against demonic temptation.
It could be said that Michael's image was the phantom of a rebellious hero jointly constructed by Christian believers when facing persecution and desperation.
The one true God didn't need to struggle with demons, so all of the good god's combative aspects were bestowed upon him.
The sleepless angel, the holy spirit who hated evil, the warrior who slaughtered dragons and serpents...
Various prayers layered together created Michael's divine core and condensed the Original Divine Core that symbolized this god.
"So much information..."
Feeling the massive fragments washing over his mind, even with Ryuga's understanding, he momentarily felt pressure.
"Indeed, the core of Original Divine Cores is stellar particles and mythological information."
At this moment, Ryuga had completely analyzed the structure of divine cores.
The material structural foundation of Original Divine Cores was stellar particles.
So Ryuga could use stellar particle resonance for transcoding, thus absorbing and mastering the Original Divine Core's astral body through his own astral body like now.
Once absorption was complete, as long as there was sufficient energy, Ryuga could mass-produce Michael's divine core.
The information structure of Original Divine Cores was mythology itself.
If stellar particles formed the basic structure of Original Divine Cores.
Then mythology determined the differential structure between different Original Divine Cores.
Overall, Original Divine Cores were a dual structure that packaged specific mythological content and handed it to stellar particles to realize the mythological information content.
The mythological conceptual information body was responsible for determining the content and effects of divine cores.
The stellar particle body was responsible for turning the information body's blueprint into an entity that could interfere with energy and matter.
Mastering Original Divine Cores was equivalent to mastering the related mythological concepts themselves.
"If I incorporate Original Divine Cores into mythological techniques as well, I'll gain higher matching freedom and be able to achieve more comprehensive control over mythology!"
Previously, when Ryuga constructed mythological techniques, the basic units for technique construction were still divine cores, at most broken down to avatars.
This was because his mastery of divine cores themselves only reached this level.
But now, through mastering Original Divine Cores, Ryuga's mastery of divine cores had been refined to the level of human faith changes.
If divine cores were compared to software, then the previous Ryuga was only familiar with all software operations, while the current him had already delved into the software's code writing level.
Under this minute level of control, Ryuga could maximize the power of divine cores and also maximize their disassembly and recombination.
If so, the power and applicable range of mythological techniques would dramatically increase, reaching levels that ordinary gods simply couldn't understand.
At that time, Ryuga would no longer be a divine core holder, but a mythology controller.
If he could reach this level, Ryuga's advancement to fifth-order planet-destroyer would have no difficulty whatsoever, and even sixth-order stellar system wouldn't be unthinkable.
"The transition from divine cores to mythology is definitely the correct direction."
Ryuga was quite certain about this point.
"It's just that before this, there's still an important problem to solve..."
Thinking this, he focused his gaze on the gradually shrinking Original Divine Core in his hand and absorbed it all at once.
Massive torrents of information once again flowed into Ryuga's mind.
Rather than mythology, he felt what he was receiving was completely a history of mythology, equivalent to the extremely compressed lives of a million people.
"Even with my mental capacity, it takes this long to completely absorb one Original Divine Core."
Thinking this, Ryuga looked at the Army of Light that had been instantly killed by Jibril, where Original Divine Cores were scattered everywhere.
"Wouldn't these require at least several months to completely absorb?"
To absorb Original Divine Cores, he had to translate and understand the mythological core within the Original Divine Cores into Ryuga's mind through astral body resonance. Only after Ryuga understood could he interfere with his own astral body and completely absorb the Original Divine Core's power.
If he didn't interfere, before long, these Original Divine Cores would completely return to mythology and then breed new gods.
But if he absorbed them now, Ryuga's efficiency in absorbing Original Divine Cores couldn't keep up.
For Ryuga, the difficulty in absorbing Original Divine Cores wasn't in understanding—whether human prayers or changes in faith were quite easy to understand.
The real problem was that the amount of this information was too large.
So large that even though Ryuga's computational power was comparable to quantum computers, he still needed a certain processing time.
If facing a single god, that wouldn't take much effort, but wanting to use this method to completely absorb the divine cores of a divine group was too difficult.
"It seems I must solve the computational power problem."
To be continued...
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