The god had been wounded.
Not by the divine artifact that countered her, but by a mortal who had broken through her defenses head-on.
A sharp, intense pain spread through the god's body; Melanie's attack had truly wounded a god who had not been injured for countless years.
"Die, all of you, die!" the enraged god roared as she lunged at Melanie.
Because Leticia was standing behind Melanie, the gem in her hand would dissolve all of the god's mist attacks, so the god was now forced to fight Melanie in this wild manner.
"Hoo..." Melanie raised her sword again, and the galaxy appeared once more behind her.
Then, the brilliant light bombarded the god once again.
Having faced Melanie's sword light twice, even the god had completely lost her earlier arrogance. The clothing on her body had become extremely transparent and could vanish at any moment.
Blood was streaming from the corners of her mouth and nostrils, and her right arm hung limp at her side, making her look nothing like a god at all.
"Damn you!"
"To think... you still have strength left." Melanie's hand, holding the sword, was also trembling; releasing two consecutive sword lights was an immense burden for her as well.
She looked normal enough for now, but in reality, it would be very difficult for her to launch another threatening attack.
Incidentally, there were only two people currently capable of withstanding two of her sword lights, and as it happened, both of them were in this place.
"Throw another one! Finish her off!" Leticia, her face pale, said to Melanie in a very weak voice.
She herself had been forced to flee in panic after being hit by two consecutive sword lights back then, and this individual calling herself the Mist God was in much better condition after taking two sword lights head-on than she had been.
This seemed to indirectly prove that Leticia was indeed inferior to this Mist God.
Back then, she had been just one breath away from death, and it was only by sheer willpower that she had managed to drag herself back to her Demon Kings Palace.
But this Mist God now, although she looked a bit miserable, had not had her strength significantly weakened.
It was just a broken arm; for a god who leaned more towards being a mage, it didn't affect her combat ability at all.
"I can't," Melanie shook her head. Although she had caught the Mist God off guard with two sword lights, she herself was also reaching her limit.
The consumption was simply too great.
"It seems you've exhausted your tricks," the Mist God coughed a few times, wiping the blood from the corner of her mouth. "Even if I am to be sealed again, before that happens, I will make you, this god-profaning bastard, pay with blood!"
A burst of energy suddenly erupted from within her, causing everyone present to turn pale with shock. Thick white mist once again enveloped the Clock Tower, and even the golden light was temporarily suppressed.
Leticia, anxious and burning with impatience, poured her remaining magic power into the gem, but the gem was still a long way from being completely unsealed.
She was running out of magic power!
Leticia had already been near exhaustion from the previous battle, and now forcing her to feed this bottomless pit of a gem was truly making things difficult for her.
"Sister, why don't you let me do it?" Taking advantage of the momentary gap, Kira had run to Leticia's side. Seeing that her sister's aura had become even weaker than her own, she said hurriedly.
She had originally thought her sister still had enough magic power, but she hadn't expected that her sister's remaining magic power was even less than her own.
"You don't have much magic power left either; even if you poured it all in, it wouldn't fill it," Leticia refused Kira's request. She still had one method left, which was also the final method.
"No!" Kira grabbed Leticia's hand. "Even if it really must be done, it should be me."
"You are my younger sister; I cannot let my sister handle something like this," Leticia shook her head. She couldn't bear to see Kira suffer even the slightest harm.
That method was simply too painful.
Even she might not be able to endure it; how could she let Kira do it?
As the older sister, she should be the one to shoulder the responsibility at this moment.
"Ohara, what do you mean..." The leader looked at the squabbling sisters, full of confusion.
Could it be that they were arguing over who should self-detonate to charge the gem?
Surely not? The leader didn't want the good friends she had just met to die here.
"When we demons run out of magic power, there is a way for us to regain it," Leticia pried Kira's hand away, her eyes flashing with unwavering determination. "Burning blood; demon blood is the purest form of magic power."
According to the demons' own research, a demon can obtain at most an amount of magic power equivalent to their own total magic power reserves by burning blood.
This could indeed allow a demon in a desperate situation to gain the power to turn the tables, but the cost was extremely heavy.
That was blood flowing in one's veins; letting this blood burn inside one's own body brought a pain that simply could not be endured by an ordinary person.
Furthermore, the lost blood would take a long time to replenish, and during that period, the demon would be in an extremely weak state.
Leticia had burned her blood once before, so she knew very well how painful it was.
As for the cost, if one could survive, wasn't it just lying in bed for ten days or half a month? What kind of cost was that?
On the other side, Melanie was already showing signs of fatigue under the enraged god. Without Leticia's protection, her incredibly fragile physical defense had become the biggest weak point.
The Mist God had already left several wounds on Melanie; if this dragged on, Melanie probably wouldn't be able to hold out.
"Sister!"
"Kira, be obedient," Leticia said coldly.
"Sister..."
Leticia didn't speak again, for she had already gritted her teeth.
Magic power reappeared within her dried-up source of magic, and it flowed continuously into the golden gem, making the light emitted by the golden gem increasingly powerful.
Pain, it hurt so much!
Only this one feeling remained in Leticia's mind; her blood was burning, burning for her younger sister, for her friends.
Last time, it was for herself.
This time, it was for those she loved.
"Light up... for me!!!" the black-haired girl roared in a low voice, as if she were holding a sun in her hands.
The dazzling golden light once again dispelled the mist, causing the Mist God, who was amidst the mist, to howl in pain.
As if it had eaten its fill, after dispelling the mist in the room, the gem turned into a streak of golden light and shot towards the sky shrouded in mist.
The next moment, a sun appeared above the city.
The warm golden light dispelled the mist, making the entire city clear again.
"No! No!" Under the illumination of the golden light, the Mist God rolled on the ground, wisps of white steam rising from her body, as if the light were roasting her body.
It was over, it was over.
Won...
"Sister! Sister!"
In her haze, Leticia heard her younger sister's anxious voice.
But she could no longer make any response; her consciousness gradually fell into darkness, and she slipped into a deep sleep.