As two sonic booms burst forth in quick succession, Helson, who had been behind Valentina, suddenly appeared before her, his speed so fast it surpassed Valentina’s imagination. In her pupils, tinged with the color of ice, the emotionless, icy bird’s beak mask drew nearer, signaling that Helson, who had initially only intended to find Fisher, had finally harbored a killing intent towards Valentina as well.

“This is a death you’ve sought out yourself, don’t blame me.”

Valentina’s pupils shrank slightly. It was only now that she realized the kind of monster Fisher had been up against. But by then, the awakening was far too late.

Helson’s hands, like iron clamps, stretched out and grabbed Valentina’s wings. In the next second, a titanic force came to rip her apart along with her wings and body. Fisher, who she had been flying with, noticed this scene, clenching his teeth as he turned to face Helson head-on.

“Helson!”

Seeing Fisher approach of his own accord, Helson fiercely smacked Valentina’s back, sending her crashing deeply into the ground. Then his wings behind him shook as he caught Fisher, who was coming toward him, and smashed him through the crudely constructed Church School below.

“Boom!”

“Cough cough!”

As clouds of dust soared into the air, a massive crater was smashed into the very heart of the school. But there was no further shattering of space, and beneath him, Fisher was almost bleeding from every orifice. It wasn’t just from being smashed by Helson—his own magic power consumption had indeed been too much.

“Fisher, do you even understand the meaning of the Completion Manual’s existence? It’s a path that leads to the ‘Ultimate Truth,’ the only answer that can help free humans from ignorance and frailty. I’ve given up so much, waited for so long, just for that moment… I believe that with the truth, I will lead everyone out of ignorance. On that day, when everyone becomes rational, no longer erring due to desire, I will be truly satisfied.”

Pinned to the ground, Fisher coughed a response. He did not answer Helson. Instead, he looked around at the school center, shattered by his immense strength, next to the still-intact Bell Tower, where the familiar figure of a nun in black stood.

Only then did he realize—despite how much he dreaded to admit it—the nun had quietly exerted a profound influence on him. The doctrines of the Church, which he had always scorned, had actually been etched into his mind a long time ago.

Then, as if uttering words he would never have said before, he spoke to Helson,

“I’ve witnessed the same filth you speak of, and I recognize the same ignorance in many less-than-ourselves as well, but in the end, I did not walk the same path as you. I was fortunate to encounter those who were ignorant yet shone brightly. She made me deeply realize that fragile living creatures, unable to reach perfection but always striving towards it, are in essence human. But you, Helson, have strayed far from what it means to be human.”

“I understand you because of the misfortunes you’ve encountered, but I can’t agree with the choices you made under the dragon’s beguilement… But you know, the rebuke of scholars is not what should be done right now, pain or death are a bit more direct.”

Fisher lay on the ground with a faint smile, watching the figure of the nun leading Little Fisher farther and farther away. In his eyes, Teresa’s image began to change—she was as sunny and bright as she was in his childhood, and in his dream, she seemed to notice him lying in the giant crater, now grown, and she also seemed to see the Double Ring Magic in his hands, which was now fully formed…

The formation of that magic signified that Fisher had become one of the very few Magic Masters in the human world, the second living human Mage capable of constructing Double Ring Magic since Helson.

Leading Little Fisher, Teresa smiled proudly at the grown Fisher, then extended her hand towards him, as if to say,

“Cast your steadfast spear at that dragon that beguiles humans!”

Helson looked down in astonishment, only to see in Fisher’s hand, a glow matching the Mythical Rank had taken shape, and its honored name was,

The ten-ring Double Ring Magic, “Dragon Slayer Spear”!

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