Reborn: Apocalypse Ready. War Goddess by My Side novel Chapter 253

Chapter 253 The Grand Clash

Countless shards of blade light erupted into existence around Alan’s entire body.

Darknight Asura!

Both fighters had reached the absolute limit of what sanity could contain.

Both of them released every last fragment of their power at once.

This was the collision at the very top of what either of them could produce.

Finaned

Both of them abandoned defense entirely, pouring everything into a single exchange aimed to end the other completely.

Every person watching on both sides stopped breathing.

Steven couldn’t contain the shock moving through him.

These two are beyond anything that fit inside a normal frame of understanding.

Deep underground, Lars and his people watched the feed with wide, delighted eyes.

Under every gaze present, the battle between wind and thunder reached its absolute peak.

Energy gales tore through the ruins in every direction, and lightning detonated in relentless waves.

Theodore’s straight heavy blade extended beyond its physical length as the lightning force built around it, stretching into a weapon several feet longer than the steel itself, charged to a point where it seemed like the sharpest thing in the world.

Alan’s surrounding field of blade light gathered itself and swept toward Theodore in a single, unified arc.

The impact shook the ground.

The concussion rolled outward like something that had been compressed into a single point and released

all at once.

The crowd’s ears rang from the explosion.

And it felt more like an explosion than a clash of metal.

The position where they met disappeared behind a rising column of smoke and dust.

When the air cleared enough to see through, both fighters were standing exactly where they’d been.

They were locked in a stalemate.

Theodore’s blade had carved into Alan’s left shoulder, the battle armor there completely gone, the beavy blade sunk into the shoulder blade itself, and blood ran freely down the steel and along the remaining pieces of Alan’s armor, while electric arcs spread from the impact site and scorched Alan black across his entire body.

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Chapter 252 The Grand Clash

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Thin streams of blood traced paths from multiple wounds across every part of him.

Alan’s answer was written across Theodore in kind.

Every shard of blade light had found its mark, riddling Theodore from every angle, his battle armor hanging in pieces.

Blood soaked what remained of it, and Alan’s ring–hilt saber had punched clean through Theodore’s left chest.

This was a mutual ruin.

Both of them were still bleeding from the mouth.

“Captain!”

“Captain!”

Voices from both squads broke the frozen silence at once.

Olivia and Cara were both beyond holding anything back, tears flowing freely and without end.

Steven said nothing. He had nothing useful to say.

Maybe today, one of them has to fall. There’s no other way this ends.

Theodore still had his fifth Sigil. Steven had no idea how Alan was going to answer that.

Theodore stared at Alan with a face that had cracked completely open.

A devastated, broken laugh escaped him. “Do you have any idea how much I loved her? I would have given her everything. And she still chose you.

“We were the ones who belonged together. Not you and her.

“But I accepted it. Alan, I was willing to let her go. All I wanted was for her to be happy.

“And then you let her die. Why didn’t you protect her? Why?

“She’s dead because of you. She’s been dead because of you this whole time!”

Theodore’s eyes were flooding with blood–tinged tears, and the grief behind them was the kind that had never found anywhere to go.

Alan felt something shift inside him at those words. Yvonne chose me?

So what is Theodore actually remembering?

Something in the atmosphere above the city began to shift and darken, the sky itself responding to the force he was building.

Dark clouds were converging, it seemed.

Alan registered that something was wrong, sensed the shape of it, but had no way to reach the truth of it.

What he knew was that standing still was not an option.

He surged his power again.

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Chapter 252 The Grand Clash

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It was still the fourth Divine Sigil. He had no fifth to answer with. But the pressure rolling off Alan was stronger than it had been at any point before.

His left arm was completely beyond use.

He raised the blade with his remaining arm.

The wind answered him.

A howling, massive tide of energy gales rose across the entire space, vast enough to feel like the sky was being pulled down.

Through Eye of Insight, Steven watched Alan transform into something that defied every category he had.

Something cold and astonished moved through him.

Just how far does this man go?

This wasn’t the Unity of Weapon and Man anymore.

It wasn’t just the Unity of Weapon and Man!

It had passed beyond that.

It was something higher, something that didn’t have a clean name.

And Alan’s four–sigil pattern power itself seemed to have shifted into a new configuration. In Steven’s perception, Alan had condensed every fragment of his remaining power into one single strike.

As the blade moved, it dragged every energy gale in the surrounding area into itself, drinking from the atmosphere like a living thing.

Blade Energy radiated from every inch of Alan’s body, and anyone who attempted to make contact with him now would be cut simply by proximity.