[Silver Ash] - Become The Strongest In Another World
CHAPTER 97: Angel Screams (2)

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(Although I said I would buy time .. How do I do it? I think subverting Harold is a pretty good idea.)

It suddenly seethed in Noelle's head after a few seconds after the start of the diversion plan proposed by her own.

He glanced at Harold for a moment, then let out a sigh of resignation.

There was no way he could subvert Harold. At least, for now.

If he really had to sacrifice the fugitive, then he would have to do it at the most appropriate time.

And Noelle also has not confirmed that Harold can withstand an attack from Charlotte for a long time.

Just as he was busy thinking, one of the halo circles hovering by Charlotte's side suddenly floated up to his neck.

Noelle easily repelled it with her sword. However, the shock effect produced when his weapons collided was quite painful for Noelle's bones.

Realizing Noelle's condition, Olivia immediately used her ice magic and froze the halo. Even if it was only a temporary measure, it would at least give Noelle time to recuperate and prepare for an escape or counterattack.

Utilizing the gap, Noelle immediately turned her hand and slashed through the halo still wrapped in Olivia's ice.

The blade of his sword easily pierced through and split Olivia's ice into two halves, along with the halo circle that was inside.

(This works, but .. It takes too much time.)

As soon as he thought about it, the halo he had previously split into two instantly melted into black smoke and fused with the halo circle that was above Charlotte's head.

It was the same phenomenon as when Olivia blew up one of those halo circles. Noelle can confirm that it's been destroyed. However, the number of halo circles remains undiminished.

On the other hand, he could see Cryll and a few others who were trying to resist the attacks of the halo circle and Charlotte chain.

For now, the situation is not so bad, and not so good either.

They could still withstand Charlotte's attack for now. However, his attacks became increasingly powerful as time went on.

Noelle had no idea how long she and the others could hold Charlotte.

For the worst situation, he might have to exert all his abilities and destroy a large part of the city area to appease Charlotte.

At the same time, the hordes of undead continued to charge in relentlessly, making their work even more difficult.

Noelle checked the area of the clock tower where Terneth was standing before, and realized that the person who caused all this was gone.

Terneth disappeared somewhere while he and the others were busy taking care of the assault.

(That bastard.)

An exasperated expression formed on Noelle's face that was busy fending off Charlotte's attack.

Suddenly, his face stiffened, and his body moved forcefully obeying his instincts, jumping as far as several meters back.

And sure enough, hundreds of black feathers immediately rained down on the place where it stood before.

The impact of the feather attack made Noelle shudder in horror. The ground and stone touched by the fur instantly melted and melted and disappeared without a trace.

Although Noelle could regenerate easily, she still did not want to feel her slowly degraded and destroyed body in a matter of seconds.

"Didn't .. He have too many ways to attack? " asked Noelle with a wry smile.

Cryll suddenly lands right beside him and replies, "Don't want to hear that from you."

Noelle glanced at Cryll for a moment, then refocused her mind on the attack Charlotte was about to launch.

Thanks to Harold's constant presence trying to attack Ein, Charlotte's attention became more distracted and made her almost forget everyone.

Charlotte continued to launch various melee and long-range attacks. However, Harold was able to avoid that easily as if he had gotten used to his movements.

Every now and then Harold would wield his sword and fend off Charlotte's attacks, then seize the opportunity to strike back. But it always fails.

It seems that Charlotte has excellent resistance to sharp weapons and various types of magic.

Olivia and Chloe are already trying to block Charlotte's movements with the abilities they have. However, all of that was only able to last for a few seconds until Charlotte finally destroyed everything with her relegation feather.

Based on what Noelle noticed during the fight, Charlotte only used the magic abilities and abilities characteristic of the angel race that she possessed.

He has not issued any signs of giving out the true ability of《Wrath》, it makes Noelle inevitably wonder about what the cause is.

As he asked Anastasia who was likely still observing them, Anastasia replied in confusion.

『Mmmhmmm .. I myself am not sure about that.. The skill holders of some series such as sin series will have different effects depending on the user. But, if based on the previous generation of skill《Wrath》 holders, then maybe the skill will give the effect of increasing all power by 20 times on the girl.』

"20-fold, yes ... Ahh, rather than that, why can't you know the effect of the skill you gave yourself? Isn't that weird? "

Noelle nodded seriously when she heard Anastasia's reply, until she finally looked at the air in annoyance.

However, Anastasia answered him lightly as if she did not care about it.

『It wasn't me who gave him that skill! But it was the system I had created that gave skill to a creature that had passed the set selection. After all, just because I created that skill doesn't mean I have full power over it. Some skill series such as the sin series are examples of skills that I cannot directly affect. Each skill from the series will give different effects depending on the owner.』

"Once, yes … "

Noelle understood quite the point. However, he raised his face and intended to ask again before Anastasia finally stopped him.

『Forget about that for now! Your current situation isn't very good either, you know? I've seen it now, the girl will become even stronger as the fight goes on. I think it was the effect of the skill he had. But, you guys are pretty lucky.』

Noelle doubted her ears as she heard that. While fending off the attacks that Charlotte had been relentlessly launching, she thought about the 'luck' Anastasia meant.

No matter how hard he thought about it, he did not see any luck in this situation at all.

Anastasia seemed to understand what she was thinking. Anastasia clicked her tongue in annoyance and gave a brief explanation to Noelle who still did not understand it.

『I mean, you guys are lucky because that girl is not a real angel, but an angel of evolution. Because, a true angel will have his own special weaponry that contains a power so great that it can flatten a large city area.』

"really?! Isn't that horrible?! Just how much quality did the gods desire to create such an angel weapon?! "

Noelle shouted as she refrained from shuddering in horror upon hearing Anastasia's explanation.

While swinging her sword and firing Aligma to withstand Charlotte's attack, Noelle kept thinking about the situation that was becoming more and more serious due to Anastasia's existence.

『Y-yahh .. Angels were originally created to help humans and fight the evil forces of Demon Lords, so .. It doesn't matter if they get a little stronger, right? 』

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"Oiii! Anastacia! How much longer do you need?! "

About 10 minutes after the start of the diversion plan, Noelle with a sense of tension running all over her body asked frantically to Anastasia.

"Damn! It's gone by what was promised! " noelle shouted while jumping through the ruins of the building in front of her.

Noelle threw her sword that was already linked to the blood chain towards the group of halo circles. However, all of those halo circles continued to move forward and dodged all of the slashes Noelle had given her with her sword.

Soon, hundreds of black feathers rained on him nonstop. Noelle did not attempt to fend it off, but rather avoided it completely.

During the previous fight, Noelle had already come to some conclusions about Charlotte's abilities.

About Charlotte's relegation feather, he found that the attack was 'absolute corrosive' and penetrated all types of defenses, although the attack power was not so strong.

Rather than penetrate, Noelle thought that it was more suitable to be called 'destroying' all the defenses that were blocking it.

Therefore, Noelle did not try to hold him back and instead jumped up to avoid him. Although, it would open up opportunities for other attacks to reach his body.

And it's true. Once he was in the air for avoiding that barrage of relegation feathers, another attack was a Centipede blade and several halo circles chasing and eyeing his stomach area.

Noelle painstakingly tried to maintain her composure, and threw an anchor and a chain of blood at one of the ruins of a building on the island's residential area.

He managed to avoid that. However, as an effect he had to endure the overwhelming shock that kept running his head.

Noelle gritted her teeth and kicked at the stone wall that fell on her as soon as she landed.

The stone wall easily bounced and flew for a few meters ahead and fell right over the horde of undead.

Noelle intends to re-enter the fight once she completes her regeneration. However, it will probably take a long time.

He had already consumed a great deal of magic energy for today. The sensation of anemia and nausea that he had not felt for a long time began to hurt and forced his body to stop.

On the other hand, he saw that everyone's situation was not so good either.

Olivia and Chloe painstakingly attempt to seal Charlotte's movements. However, all of the attack techniques they launched were easily destroyed by Charlotte's relegation feathers.

Despite that, Noelle was grateful that Charlotte's attention wasn't entirely directed at them.

"I was curious ... Between my sword and that degradation feather, which one is stronger? "

With such thoughts in mind, Noelle smiled and immediately jumped forward and made use of her chain anchor to swing from one building to another.

Noelle was already a few meters in front of Charlotte. Various attacks tried to break through with terrifying speed and power.

Noelle did not panic as she was already used to the attack. Despite that, he was still puzzled by how he should withstand all those attacks.

A halo with a degradai book attached to each section went straight to Noelle and aimed right at her neck.

Noelle avoided it with just one move. However, the degradation feathers still hit a small part of his neck.

The part that was hit by the feather attack instantly turned a dark gray color and slowly shattered into ashes. Noelle tried to cure that with her regeneration. However, as if not letting her recover, Charlotte continued to fire various kinds of attacks at Noelle.

Noelle leapt back and threw her sword towards the group of halo circles and the more and more degradation feathers, then took out Aligma and shot into all the halo circles and degradation feathers that were eyeing her.

The result he could see, Aligma's energy bullet attack was able to destroy the halo circle and the degradation book.

Right now, Noelle thinks that using a long-range attack with Aligma might be a little more effective. However, he immediately ignited that thought.

It was true that Aligma's attack in the form of pure energy was able to remove or block Charlotte's attack. However, it consumed too much magic energy, and its recoil was also terrifying.

Noelle had to keep her magic energy reserves for the worst possible situation that would happen later.

With an exasperated look on her face, Noelle pulled back the sword she had thrown before, and prepared to attack Charlotte with all the weapons she had.

However, while using her own《Clairvoyance》 to check the surrounding situation, she saw Chloe who was already breathing heavily while trying to hold back all of Charlotte's shackles using her shadow.

Olivia who was by his side also looked not so good. He spent so much magic energy just to put up a barrier and use his ice magic.

Some places in the city had now frozen due to the effects of Olivia's magic aura leaking during the fight. No wonder his magic energy was depleted so quickly.

Some pseudo-spears and hands from Charlotte's dark magic could be seen clearly circling itself as the center.

Every time there was an attack trying to reach it, the spear and hand would capture or destroy it so that all the attacks never reached his body.

His black wings also let out something like black thorns that pierced forward along with some degradation feathers that flew around him.

Every creature that approached him without being stopped by the spear and the shadow hand would be immediately pierced by the spines that grew extending from his wings.

That certainly made Noelle uneasy.

Technically, almost no attack has reached Charlotte.

(Damn you Anastasia.)

Noelle threw her sword again and aimed her trajectory to destroy all the attacks that were eyeing Olivia and Chloe.

As if seeing that, Charlotte immediately looked at him and pointed her palm right at him.

A long black thorn suddenly shot out from his palm and pierced right in Noelle's stomach.

Noelle smiled crazily as she realized that, the manner of crushing the thorn with her punch.

As soon as the thorn was crushed, he pulled back the piece of black thorn that had been stuck in his stomach until it penetrated back.

"You should know that this isn't enough to kill me."

Saying that, Noelle immediately shot Aligma right at Charlotte.

However, the energy bullet attack never reached Charlotte's body, and was instead stopped by a black shield that suddenly appeared before her.

In the next instant, several black thorns suddenly emerged from the ground and sealed Noelle's movements by blocking all her way.

One of the spines grew by slipping between Noelle's arms, and another suddenly appeared and blocked the other side. It made the movement of Noelle's arm have been sealed completely.

Noelle tried to crush all those black thorns by forcing her body to move. However, the thorn only cracked and continued to regenerate as if it would not let Noelle go.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Charlotte instantly fired hundreds of black thorns and relegation books all over the place.

Several black spears were seen eyeing right at Chloe. Noelle of course panicked when she saw that.

Even if Chloe is an immortal vampire, her regeneration will stop if she runs out of magic energy, and at this time, Chloe's condition is also in a state of run out of mana.

Noelle tried to crush all the thorns that were blocking her with all her might. He forced his body to move and crushed the thorn with his sheer physical strength.

The magic there is not working at all because the thorn seems to have the ability to 'do' or 'absorb' magic, and the technique《Magic Interference》 also does not work. Which means, Charlotte's thorns aren't something made of magic.

At a time like this, he regretted having thrown his sword the other way.

Just as she thought that, Olivia intractably took out hundreds of ice shields and made everything surround everyone.

He creates more shields once he realizes the attack is about to reach Chloe.

It might be useless since an attack from Charlotte would easily pierce through everything. However, it would be best if he could at least withstand the attack.

The black spear shot out rapidly and smashed into Olivia's first ice shield, and crushed it.

Then the spear continued forward and shattered all those ice shields as if they were all just a thin sheet of paper helplessly.

When the last ice shield protecting Chloe is broken through, it's over.

Chloe was half unconscious so she could not escape, and Olivia was almost exhausted from casting so much magic at the same time.

And just before the spear reached Chloe's body lying on the ground, something unexpected suddenly happened.

Harold, who was previously busy fighting with killing intent on Ein, now appeared right before Chloe and held the attack with his own body.

Charlotte's black spear easily pierced through her body and destroyed her internal organs. Even so, it seems that his vital organs will still be because he can still stand even though his legs start to wobble.

The sight certainly surprised everyone. No one would have thought that Harold, the fugitive now the most wanted in town, was using his own body to protect an unknown girl.

It seems that Harold himself was also unsure of what he was doing. He stared at the black spear that pierced his body with a surprised face, and smiled bitterly.

He then vomited large amounts of blood and slowly fell to the ground.

『I'm ready! 』

(You're so late, stupid.)

Noelle showed an angry face as soon as Anastasia's voice appeared and informed everyone of her preparations.

As if he did not care about the contents of Noelle's heart, Anastasia's voice again appeared. With a very beautiful and soothing tone her voice echoed throughout the area in the city of Eisen.

『Down, my son whom I am very proud of. Get down and do your job,《Protective Angel, Metatron!》』

Next, a gigantic golden-white circle pattern suddenly appeared in the sky.

The gap that formed inside the circle then shone and seemed to turn into a gate where 'a Messiah' came down in the legend.

The circle continued to spin and shine with a very calming aura, inversely proportional to the aura that the fallen angel, Charlotte, had.

A few seconds after the silence, a gigantic foot-shaped white gold metal suddenly emerged out of the hole.

The more he came out of the hole, the more he showed a figure of his majesty that could make everyone immediately complain reflexively.

Finally, the 'creature' had come out completely from that hole.

Its unreasonable size looked extremely horrifying when viewed from below, and the white armor with its sparkling golden complexion was completely clean without the slightest hint of stain, and it was completely clean, it was accompanied by two gigantic golden white shields that floated beside him.

The golden white chain that was seen wrapped around the shield then moved and released the shield, then went and wrapped around the giant arm of armor.

The only feature that resembles a human is its humanoid form.

Other than that, there is no part that can be referred to as the 'human' of the creature.

His body was entirely composed of metal armor with beautiful colors and patterns, making him radiate a certain majesty.

The three pairs of pure white wings on his back seemed to be slowly flapping. However, it did not produce any wind at all.

The head of the creature in the form of a helmet of armor finally humped and saw the figure of Charlotte from above, as if looking at her with absolute emptiness.

Can be seen from the gap in his armor helmet, there was absolutely no organic matter inside the armor, it was completely empty.

The next thing Noelle and the others knew, an extremely dazzling golden beam radiated and blinded everyone's gaze.

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(AN: in order to maintain the calmness of all those who perform fasting, I think the update of the chapter containing the element 'gore' or whatever it will be done at 7 pm. Yahh, congratulations on fasting for those who perform.)