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Chapter 459: Godslayer

The le, enorlow, the blade see clouds rolled along its length

Although the presence of God was terrifying and intense, the waves of holy poashed right by the great saber The light parted against its sharp edge like water There was no resistance for Constantine to interact with

That shi outward and away All that reantic – blade But then, as a powerful light welled up inside of it, Xuanyuan Shishi’s shistled through the air as a beae of God

Godslayer!

The light in Constantine’s eyes flared brighter Froht erupted out and lay upon the figure of God behind him That divine silhouette was even clearer, as His hand reached out for the encroaching saber

The great figure and the enore curtain shirated! Once h the air They swept around the silhouette of God like soeable as the tide The weapons, i in deadly eddies

The Second Co was built on a foundation of Faith Much to Constantine’s consternation, Xuanyuan Shishi’s sas able to cut right through waves of pure divine Faith – so completely as to sever the e of God was carved in to a hundred ht, and then disappeared The mistblades were also affected, and swayed unstably overhead However, they recovered enough to fly up in to the air over the center of the ring

Constantine’s face was the definition of disbelief

It destroyed Faith! This ability co the Pontiff’s Citadel was built on!

“HERESY!” Constantine’s howl rang loud, tearing through the arena His hand snapped out, and an orb of golden light grew in his palm It swelled and stretched until it took on the shape of a spear He hurled it with all of histhat struck the ment!

“Boom—!”

The blades were immediately blasted away in all directions No small number were destroyed, those that were struck by the spear directly

The Second Co and the Spear of Fate; these were the symbols of Constantine’s mastery The Spear was one of the Pontiff’s most cherished treasures, a spiritual weapon without equal The Pontiff bestowed it upon hion was revealed It served its purpose now, as the unexpected addition of a divine weapon set the ain heard that heartless grunt The evaporated reh the air until they coalesced some distance away This time, however, they did not become swords This time the mists condensed in to the form of a man Meanwhile, the Spear of Fate dissolved in to a beaht and raced back to its ht in his hand, as his shining eyes were filled with violent intent He glared daggers at the distant figure of Shishi

This man had the ability to undermine Faith, and thus was a threat to the Pontiff’s Citadel Constantine, High inquisitor of the faith, had to ensure all threats were eliminated He himself was a man built on a core of Faith If Xuanyuan Shishi could shake those deep-seated believes, than he could destroy the man who relied upon them Constantine knew this clearly, and it filled him with a terrible fear

He poured all of that emotion, and all of his own holy power in to the spear The weapon flashed, releasing a pulse of radiant light before settling back to norolden runes etched in to its shaft They pulsed as though with a heartbeat, and eht

These were the souls of fallen Adepts, the fires of so many spirits that were taken by the Spear of Fate It burned with their stolen essence as the Fires of Judge to ash