"Let the others use it more cautiously."
After what happened with Airmid, Rayleigh raised the risk level of Tenseiga.
"The blade doesn't manipulate the wielder's mind. Airmid's case was due to her being too eager for quick results. As long as one uses it calmly and rationally, there shouldn't be a problem."
Hearing Rayleigh's words, Finn nodded.
Perhaps "eager for quick results" wasn't quite right. It would be more accurate to say she was desperate to save people.
And because of that, a large number of Adventurers recovered their fighting strength and immediately joined the city's defense.
The tide of battle changed dramatically overnight once again.
The high-level Adventurers, who originally needed to protect the wounded, were now free from that concern and could go all out.
The newly recovered forces filled the personnel shortages.
Evilus's previous tactics were successfully thwarted, and they suffered defeat after defeat!
...
Bang! A fist slammed into a wall.
The "Arachnia" was going berserk!
"Damn it, what the hell is going on! Are Orario's Adventurers cockroaches?!"
"Damn it all!!" Valetta used the building beneath her feet as a punching bag to vent her anger.
In just a few blows, she turned the already dilapidated house into a pile of rubble.
The members of her Familia all stood outside, not daring to provoke the tigress.
"Hey, you God of Pleasure! This isn't what you told me!" Valetta shouted, questioning a pensive Erebus who stood to the side.
Despite being yelled at, Erebus maintained the smile on his face, showing no sign of displeasure.
Even with a fearsome title like the Arachnia, in his eyes, she was nothing more than a tool.
He had never taken her seriously from the very beginning.
"Tch!"
Although Valetta was extremely annoyed, she wasn't foolish enough to attack a God. If she made a move, those two monsters wouldn't just stand by and watch!
"Enough! This is so damn annoying! I can't wait any longer! That little brat who burned me—I'm going to kill him and turn him into pig feed!"
For the past two days, whenever Valetta recalled being injured by a few pieces of trash weaker than her, she felt like her head was about to explode with rage.
Those little girls from the Astraea Familia, and that black-haired brat!
The mere thought of Rayleigh made the skin all over her body feel painful and itchy again.
Especially her face.
After getting burn, her hands scratched at her face incessantly!
As the itching intensified, the force and speed of her scratching gradually increased.
She scratched until she broke her own skin, and a mixture of flesh and blood filled the gaps beneath her fingernails.
Those weaklings who had toyed with her—she would kill every last one of them!
Otherwise, she couldn't quell this rage and couldn't wash away the humiliation.
"Hey! Where did Olivas go?!"
Noticing that a certain equally trashy man was absent, Valetta felt a wave of irritation.
At that moment, the corners of Erebus's mouth turned up.
"Olivas is doing something truly hideous to carry out his own evil. Arachnia, even you can't compare to him in that regard."
"You're saying I'm inferior to that man?" Valetta was on the verge of exploding.
But before she could rage more, Erebus left.
...
Meanwhile, inside Orario, Olivas, leading a large group of Evilus members and civilians, launched another attack.
Civilians with bombs strapped to them charged crying toward Orario's Adventurers.
Faced with these tormented people, the Adventurers couldn't bring their weapons down.
In the end, with a series of explosions, both Adventurers and civilians died.
"Hahaha, that's right, just like that! If you don't do as I say, what do you think will happen to your children? You couldn't have forgotten, could you?!" The white-haired man, the "Fanatic" Olivas, laughed maniacally.
When he saw that Orario's Adventurers were starting to hold back, he decisively ordered his Evilus subordinates to attack them.
The civilians who had been noisily condemning the Adventurers for not protecting them ignored all warnings and immediately scattered in a panic.
But before they could get away, they were surrounded by Evilus and fell into their hands!
Seeing these fools captured, Olivas immediately threatened the Adventurers, "Hey! Don't fight back, or these people will die!"
As he spoke, Olivas made an example of someone right in front of everyone.
He grabbed a man and stabbed him through the chest with the shortsword in his hand.
The man was now filled with regret after getting his heart pierce.
Why didn't he listen to the Adventurers? He might not have had to die at all if he listen to them!
At the very least, he would have been protected until the last Adventurers fell.
His face full of unwillingness as his eyes wide open and the man was casually tossed to the ground by Olivas.
Seeing Olivas's cruelty, the Adventurers froze for a moment.
They were afraid of provoking him and causing more civilians to be killed.
Seeing this, Olivas grew even more arrogant.
"How disgusting, you city Familias! You hypocrites!"
"Kill them!"
"...."
"STOPPP! Growl, Haineko!"
A young girl's voice rang out resolutely.
A massive cloud of thick ash swept in, cleanly dividing the battlefield. Someone from Evilus tried to rush through it but had two of his fingers severed on the spot.
"Reinforcements are here! It's the Astraea Familia!"
"Thank goodness!"
"That's Gale and Yamato Rindou!"
'Hmph.... so you've come, you damned hypocrites, you so called apostles of justice.'
Olivas didn't panic at the increase in opponents, instead, he grew more excited!
Because his opponents were none other than that Familia of Justice!
"That evil God seems to think highly of you. If I destroy you here, what face will he have when he lecture me in the future?" Olivas pointed directly at a woman trembling with fear.
"Hey, woman, go! Use the bomb to take those hypocrites down with you! As long as you do that, I'll spare your daughter's life!"
"I... I..." Seeing the woman stammering in terror, Olivas quickly lost his patience.
"Enough."
The Fanatic's palm pierced the woman's chest, crushing her heart.
Then, before she breathed her last, he added, "When we get back, kill this woman's child too."
Hearing this, the woman's already fading pupils forcibly focused.
She reached out her hand, as if trying to grab Olivas and drag him down with her.
But Olivas just lifted his foot with a triumphant look. He stared down at the ant groveling at his feet and, with utter arrogance, stomped on the woman's face!
"Hahaha, next! Next!"
Olivas began to search for his next target.
Having witnessed all this, the girls of the Astraea Familia were filled with rage.
"You bastard!"
"Stop!!"
Kaguya eyes glint with killing intent as she held her twin swords in her hand and took aim at Olivas.
But Olivas grabbed another civilian hostage next to him and shouted a threat, "Don't move! Astraea Familia! Or I'll kill this woman!"
The Fanatic hand closed tightly around the woman's throat.
With his Level 3 strength, a single squeeze was all it would take to completely snap her neck!
"Despicable bastard!" The girls clenched their fists, cursing him in their hearts.
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