Zalza slowly advanced towards the hunters as the surrounding trees and grass slowly burned.
He stopped before Christopher, who was kneeling and unable to move.
Zalza looked at him with disgust, then tapped Christopher's head with his toe.
This sent him flying backward without expending a single ounce of energy,
only raw physical strength.
Carl resisted the pressure and tried to transform the atoms around Zalza into water to drown him.
But at that very moment, Carl was shocked to find that his Sani organ refused to function.
That shock was enough to make Carl slam his head to the ground,
drowning in despair.
His Sani organ, the only thing that gave him strength, was now collapsing without a single attempt at resistance against Zalza's presence and pressure.
Mania remained silent and terrified under Zalza's pressure,
unable to make the slightest move to resist her.
Zalza ignored both Carl and Mania and advanced towards Alya,
who refused to submit to Zalza's pressure and continued to pray for the blessing of the goddess of love,
where sparks of color Pink and white were swirling towards Alya.
Zalza whistled, his face filled with admiration.
Suddenly, the aura around Alya intensified, the pressure grew heavier, and sparks formed orbits that swirled around her,
making her float slightly off the ground. Christopher looked up from afar,
his face flushed with admiration, and said, "Hehe, I really should have become a monk..."
Zalza stood there as the fierce winds emanating from Alya's aura whipped his cloak violently.
Suddenly, a huge circular gateway appeared, seemingly dividing space itself.
It was an intense white, and within it lay a deep pink.
The energy emanating from the gateway caused the surrounding trees and vegetation to evaporate.
Zalza stood smiling before the gateway, without a trace of fear, and said calmly, "You're not an ordinary nun, are you?"
Alya said, still praying and feeding the gateway with her energy, "Just a nun subservient to the goddess of love..."
Even in a moment All energy around Alya vanished,
and she collapsed to the weary ground.
Suddenly, a tall, all-white monster with a human body and a pink spear appeared.
Christopher looked one last time before fainting and said, "We survived..."
Mania, encouraged, sent some healing magic to tend to Alya.
Carl remained lost in despair.
Zalza stood still, his expression remarkably calm, before the monster.
Then, a powerful voice shook the forest from within the monster. "I have been summoned by the Maid of the Goddess of Love...
So you must leave, son of the Red Dragon,
or you will have to bear the consequences."
Name unknown.
Race: Angel.
One of the Angels of the Goddess of Love.
Level unknown.
Mania struggled to her feet as she approached the exhausted Alya and helped her recover.
Alya said in a tired voice, "You must leave, Dragon... The Angels of the Goddess of Love will not have mercy on you if you continue your corruption and cruelty."
Silence...
Zalza suddenly began to laugh heartily.
His laughter caused the entire forest to tremble;
even the earth itself seemed to shake from his laughter,
though it held no magical power.
Then Zalza said with an arrogant expression, "Huh? A whore like that sends one of her insects to kill my sovereign?
Has that old woman gone mad or what?"
A great aura and energy ignited,
transforming the atoms around the white angel into tiny sparks of fire,
making him appear like a great white flame,
while his pink spear began to gleam with a dark glow as he said in a mighty voice, "You vile lizard, how dare you insult a god?!"
With a swift movement, the angel tore through and obliterated all the trees behind Zalza,
erasing more than half the forest with a single swift spear stroke.
Zalza's face remained unchanged.
He sighed and said calmly,
as everything behind him blazed with pink energy from the angel's strike, "I truly hate people who think they are powerful..."
Zalza raised his hand and pointed his finger at the angel,
moving it casually without a trace of energy, saying, "Erase..."
Nothing happened.
The angel remained standing tall,
his spear raised, and said in a great voice, "It seems the lizard has gone mad."
At that moment, the angel split in two without warning,
simply because of Zalza's energyless movement.
Both Mania and Alya were shocked.
Mania was even more horrified, saying nervously, her eyes wide with fear, "It was an angel! It was an angel!
How could a creature defeat an angel with such a trivial blow!"
Zalza shook his finger dismissively, saying, "Tsk, tsk, tsk. That's a blow called Erasure.
A strange old man taught it to me in exchange for an apple...
and I really wanted to try it. Anyway,
that angel was weak. Next time, bring me an angel from the God of Wrath or the God of War."
Alya shouted, rebuking Zalza, "How? You lowly creature, dare to insult the Goddess of Love...!"
Suddenly, a mighty and powerful voice shook the entire earth,
even the nearby mountain began to tremble as if struck by a great earthquake.
That voice forced all the monsters to lose consciousness;
even Mania and Alya collapsed,
unconscious from the sheer power of the sound.
"Son of Rochovas... who gave you the audacity to insult me,
kill my angel, and harm my servant?"
Yes, that voice came from the Goddess of Love through a telepathic connection mastered only by the mightiest of creatures.
Zalza smiled and said mockingly, "Oh? You have appeared, old women?
Are you going to come down and kill me?
I don't think my father would ever allow it...
Does the dear Goddess of Love wish to declare war between dragons and the Twelve Gods?"
The voice paused briefly before saying, "I have no interest in you, son of Rochovas...
but there is an order you must obey,
even if you disobey me I'd cut off your head right there...
That girl over there, don't you dare touch a hair on her head!"
Zalza fell silent, a silent, annoyed expression on his face.
Then he smiled and said,
"Oh, the boredom...
Well, for the sake of the dear goddess of love,
I'll turn a blind eye to this girl and let her go...
But I can't leave the other girl alone.
I need a partner to keep me warm...
Will the goddess of love forbid me? For some random human girl?"
The goddess of love chuckled softly.
Zalza replied irritably, "Is there something funny, beautiful goddess of love?"
The goddess of love spoke in a voice that made Zalza's hands and body tremble involuntarily.
"Don't worry, I won't stop you,... but it seems he'll stop you.
I advise you to flee to the ends of the earth,
although I'm sure you won't be able to escape that man's grasp.
It seems your luck is bad;
even I don't dare disturb that man.
What did you do, son of Rochovas, to bring that man here?"
The energy emanating from that voice then vanished.
Zalza said with a sigh of annoyance, "What is that old woman talking about?
Has she gone mad?...
Oh, anyway, let's take that girl , even though I honestly don't prefer a thin girl,
but what can we do?
I don't want my head to be blown off by the goddess of love."
Zalza took a few steps forward
until suddenly !
a huge hand grabbed his head !
making him tremble completely.
Then a gruff voice came from behind him, "I found you..."
Zalza turned around slightly
to see a giant man with golden eyes staring at him intensely.
Zalza said to himself With eyes that held deep fear and anxiety (Where did this come from?! No... Is he the one that old woman was talking about?! )
Then the man said with complete seriousness and a great tone, "You have truly exhausted me,
boy. I hope you are ready for punishment."