The flames that had heated the entire world died away.
It did not take long for the wildfire throughout the area to fall still, like sails in a windless sea.
The mountain had already been dyed entirely gray.
With nothing left to devour as fuel, flames naturally faded away.
And yet there was a simple reason the fire engulfing Heavenly Sword Mountain had managed to maintain such ferocity until now.
The source of a power that had once nearly exterminated humanity.
One of the beings called the “Seven Deadly Sins” had been there.
Conversely, the fact that the flames had now died meant that the life of their source was in danger.
The outcome was that clear.
The black-haired girl stumbled backward, coughing up blood in thick spurts.
Opposite her, the gray-haired girl remained standing on the ground despite her ragged breathing.
At last, Celine’s knees buckled, and the bloody battle came to an end.
Her body, torn apart by a rain of sword wounds, could no longer function.
It merely spilled a crimson stream across the scorched earth.
Yet the victor wore an equally bewildered expression.
Seria was fumbling around her chest.
At the final moment—
Celine’s long saber had…