Feeling the strong wind as the Arfa flew with everything that it had, I continued supplying it with my life force to replace the ones that it used. Feeling the urgency through my life force, the Arfa used more of its life to fly faster.

Feeling the unease becoming stronger, I was finally able to see the capital only to notice that a membrane-like dome was covering it.

Seeing that made my heart drop knowing that there's only one kind of being in that worm goddess' believers can summon the dome. Believers that she finds entertaining to use compared to the countless worms under her.

Measuring the distance, I sent a signal through my life force for the Arfa to stop and rest.

"Knight Cron, stay here and rest with the Arfa."

"… Yes."

Hearing a weak voice as the Arfa slowly slows down, I stop supplying it with my life force as I jump as high as I can.

Feeling my other concept, I deactivated my concept of lifeforce and switched to the other concept.

'Just a bit.'

Putting a bit of the power in my legs, I kick with Strength that shatters the space itself as I fly through the air. Switching my concept back to lifeforce, I strengthened my body as much as I could while enduring the pain that was assaulting my legs just from using a bit of my Concept of Strength.

Watching the dome get closer, I pull back my arm as I clench my fist. Using the whole momentum of the drop, I punch out with everything I got on the wall only for me to feel the whole impact spread through the whole dome barely damaging the spot that I hit.

Striking the same spot repeatedly with everything I got, I suddenly noticed something below. Using my life force to enhance my vision, I saw Karina covering Charlotte while a familiar girl was slowly approaching them as well as Alfa lying on the ground with one arm missing.

Seeing that made my blood run cold as urgency started welling up in my chest. Hitting the dome repeatedly only for it to barely get damaged made my thoughts go chaotic.

Gritting my teeth for having no other choice, I switched to my Concept of Strength. Putting some strength on my right arm, I was able to finally destroy the dome with my punch only for pain to spread through my body as some parts of my arm burst from the force.

Enduring the pain from my arm, I saw the girl's arm transform into a tentacle as she raised it. Jumping inside the dome towards Karina's direction, I kick the air to boost myself towards them.

Clenching my right fist, I switched to Lifeforce and punched at the girl only for her to jump away at the last second dodging my attack.

"Bastard… I'll tear you apart."

Seeing Alfa's arm on the ground as he lay bleeding some distance from it as well as Karina covered in injury and blood made my mind fill with rage.

Looking at my arm, I noticed that it's barely healing even when I'm focusing my lifeforce on it making me direct the lifeforce into strengthening it instead of healing. Closing and opening my palm to alleviate some pain in my right arm, I can't help but feel a great deal of danger coming from the girl.

Finally remembering where I saw her, I can't help but grit my teeth at the thought of an energetic girl becoming a believer in a twisted fake of a goddess. A girl who loved music and only wanted to spread it around so everyone could find happiness from listening to it, the thought of that girl being a believer is enough to make my insides twist.

"Hmm… this is weird… I feel like I remember you somewhere…"

Placing her hand on her cheek, she looks at me curiously while frowning from time to time.

Even while looking harmless, the danger that she's exuding is enough to make me hesitate to fight her with how much my body deteriorated. Even when she's only controlling someone remotely, and her body being the second stage of concept at the least, gives her the power to easily destroy this planet.

"Karina, take Alfa and Charlotte to the Castle and tell everyone to escape the capital. I'll stall for time enough for you people to escape."

Not even waiting for her reply, I charge to the girl only for her to smile as tentacles shoot out of the ground making me jump.

Just as I was about to attack her, I felt something pull my leg before my body swung towards the buildings. Forcefully moving my body to grab the tentacle, it suddenly raised me and slammed me on the ground.

Gritting my teeth through the pain, I reached out for the tentacle only for it to move again as it slammed me through the buildings. Having no choice, I poured lifeforce straight into the tentacle. Just after a few seconds, the tentacle shattered as I got thrown through the buildings.

Grabbing the wall of the room that I got thrown into, I felt my whole body ache from going through the buildings as the tentacle swung me around.

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'… I need a way to get closer.'

Circulating my life force throughout my body, the pain from my whole body lessens except the ones on my legs and right arm.

The sound of buildings getting destroyed started echoing from afar.

'She's searching for me.'

Using some mana, I tried opening a hole in the space to access my storage to get some weapon only for it to fail to even open up the space.

'Damn gods and their passive influence in space.'

Moving my body sluggishly out of the wreckage, I looked around to notice that it was a tavern of some sort where I crashed in. Seeing that there was some blood spilled over at the wall and the tables, I knew that some of the twisted offspring of hers appeared here and devoured the people that it killed.

"Misterrrr~ Where are you~?"

Hearing her distant voice, I grabbed one of the wooden pillars in the middle of the tavern and pulled it off.

The sound of buildings getting destroyed got closer only for it to stop when it was near the tavern. Glimpses of bigger tentacles waving around sometimes appear from the wall that I came through.

The sound of someone landing on the ground echoed outside as it moved toward the door of the tavern.

"Are you here~?"

Opening the door slowly as if she were playing a game of hide and seek, I threw the pillar straight to her only for a tentacle to pierce through the wall and grab the pillar midair.

"That's a rude way of-"

Jumping over the pillar, I was able to reach her side. Strengthening my body to the limit with the life force, my punch successfully hit her.

"… Hey Mister… what did I just say with being ru-"

Her head only tilted a bit from the hit as if my attack barely contained any impact. As she was about to move her head to look at me, I slammed her head on the wall and started dragging it across other buildings.

Throwing her in front of me after dragging her through multiple buildings, I punched her body with more strength than earlier. Watching her crash through the buildings, I jumped away from my spot before tentacles attacked the spot.

Looking at the building that she flew in as it collapsed, I looked at my hand as the feeling of hitting a body that didn't even explode from the hit made me feel excitement and nervousness at the same time.

Feeling the sensation of my body becoming lighter, I realized that my body was slowly getting used to fighting again after a few hundreds of years of living peacefully. The sensation of hitting the flesh of my enemy and feeling pain from their attacks started making my unfamiliar body synchronize with my soul.

The sensation of fighting someone much stronger than I currently am made my soul crave the long-lost excitement.

"HAHA!"

Hearing crazed laughter coming out of the collapsed building, I clenched my fist as my body tensed up.

"That punch! Those eyes that are full of hatred! Even if you are sooooooooooo~ much weaker than before, however, that feeling of my existence itself feeling the pain of your punch, I'll neeeeever~ forget about that!"

The wreckage exploded as something shot towards me.

Staring straight into her eyes, her smile spread widely as if to show how much of a crazed being she was. A smile that is full of insanity, joy, and hatred stares straight into my eyes as if engraving my very existence into her eyes once again.

Appearing in front of me before I could react, I suddenly felt a burst of pain in my stomach, I grabbed her shoulder and smashed my head straight to her face sending her flying towards the wreckage once again.

Looking down at my stomach, I saw a spike impaled on my stomach. Pulling it off, I slowly healed my body as I watched her stand up from the wreckage.

"Now~ Let's have our second round in full swing!"

Spreading her arms in the air, I noticed that her arm looked different compared to earlier. Tiny tentacles entwined as they covered her arm to look like a bundle of muscle.

"Let's~"

Just as I was about to charge over to her, she suddenly appeared in front of me without being able to see her move.

"Start~!"

I was suddenly sent flying through the buildings. Stopping myself as soon as I found balance and recovered the broken parts of my skull, I looked in front of me to see her walking slowly towards me before suddenly disappearing and appearing in front of me again.

Not letting my guard down, I was able to react properly this time. Throwing a punch to meet hers, as soon as our fists met, I felt every bone in it break just from the first exchange.

Tilting my head to the side, her fist barely missed my head as I was about to dodge a second attack. Using the opening, I grabbed her neck and slammed her on the ground with all my strength.

I was about to follow up with an attack, I was sent flying as I felt my ribs break from her punch.

Unable to breathe, I focused my life force to heal my ribs and the organs that got affected as I started coughing blood.

Just as I was about to stand up, a hand grabbed my neck and raised me.

"You really are too weak now, Resha. Not only did your aura change to something different, you got so much weaker."

Speaking with disappointment oozing out of every word, she looks at me with a bored expression.

"It's been what? Fifty thousand years since you imprisoned us with that woman, and you just became weaker through that time? I'm so disappointed in you, Resha."

After finally recovering my arm enough to be used in a fight, she suddenly tightened her grip on my neck making me unable to move.

"I was expecting you to at least last a few rounds of my attack, though it seems like I overestimated you. Don't worry, we will make sure to savor that woman, Resha~"

Her arm transformed into a spike as she readied herself while aiming for the soul crystal in my body.

Just as I was about to activate my Concept of Strength, my body suddenly dropped down along with her arm before a shield smashed into her, sending her flying to the wreckage of the buildings.

"Forgive us for being late, Great Grandfather."

"Sorry that we're late, Grandfather!"

Taking a deep breath as I was finally able to breathe again, I looked at the source of the voice to see a man wearing glasses while donning silver armor along with a man in full heavy armor carrying a tower shield.

"You brats… shouldn't have come…!

Coughing up the remaining blood in my throat, I stand up feeling slightly weak as I look at the girl looking unscathed and already regrew her arm.