"..."

Suddenly, the forces that had been fighting fiercely just now fell into unexpected silence. Commodus also took a few steps back and looked at the broken buildings with vigilance.

I saw Aaron slowly walking out of the molten magma fire. He was surrounded by layers of magic balls and magic shields. He was not afraid of the high temperature, and his face showed the sanctity and calmness of entering the kingdom of heaven.

"Aaron, you..."

There was a trace of surprise on Commodus's face. He didn't even need the Son of Prophecy to answer. The lost divinity from the giant snake and the eternal ladder had already poured into the body of the Hand of God. On top of Naira's divinity, the second

Authority at the level of Hand of God is shared.

The crystalline substance began to condense in the hands of each god's hand, crystallizing like the extraordinary properties precipitated. The fragments of the artifact began to take shape!

"It's too late, look at the good things you have done," Rorschach said bitterly, "The Hand of God has entered the second state. The divinity has become a part of the wish-making device in the material plane."

Aaron looked at the fragments of the artifact in his hand and put them away calmly. His eyes fell on Erza again, and then he looked back at Griffith.

"The pollution of extraordinary characteristics is material. As long as it is a living thing, it cannot be resisted by will alone. Erza Valkyrie, what I can say is that before human will, there is the material body first. Material is everything.

The basis and essence of existence, and consciousness is the product of matter.

"Therefore, you cannot give up your artifact. After accepting God's blessing, divinity takes precedence over human will.

"Hands of the gods, let's fight! The artifact fragment is the last chance given by fate. Only by cutting off the connection with it can you break free from the prison of matter."

Griffith felt that the truce contract was lifted, and the gods no longer paid attention to this place. Aaron's body soared toward the sky, gradually disappearing:

"Fight the final fight to the death, with the hand of God. At the end of victory, I will guide you into the highest kingdom of heaven!"

…

Aaron passed through a rift in space and left here far away. Rorschach also disappeared into the shadows.

Griffith had just walked out of the collapsed pyramid with a deep kick and a shallow kick. The moment he made eye contact with Erza, Commodus, and the three God Hands, he knew the other party's intention!

"Everyone, please listen to me!" Diana said hurriedly. Before she could finish her words, Erza turned into a bolt of lightning and shot straight into the sky. Commodus, without looking back, rushed out of Zulhakar's city wall.

Diana hurriedly called him, but the regicide didn't listen to the princess at all and disappeared into the deep rain forest.

"Then..." Alandel muttered with some disappointment, "I think everyone must have realized that we are going to have another battle next, facing Erza who is like a natural disaster and the greatly strengthened Summons

The regicide who killed his own army."

Diana sadly looked at the direction in which Commodus was escaping, and came to Griffith's side: "I originally thought that I could persuade Commodus... let's talk about it together..."

Griffith did not answer, but turned back and walked towards the pyramid he had just left. Diana, Alandel and Amber hurriedly followed.

What appeared in front of them was an ancient ruin that was desolate, dilapidated, and almost disappeared under the devastating blow. The foundation of the megalithic pyramid was deeply rooted in the ground, intertwined and twisted with the entangled root system like a giant snake.

The giant trees and vines entangled in the collapsed buildings stubbornly grew into strange and twisted shapes like giant snakes, forming roads that passed through deep and bottomless cracks in the earth.

Fragmented tree trunks and boulders mixed with fresh tree branches and leaves, sometimes intertwined, sometimes twisted, penetrated deeply into the ground, like a giant hand with irresistible power that raked through the area, leaving behind

Leaving recklessly after leaving traces of chaos.

Griffith and the others were very familiar with this place. It was no different from other troll territories in the underground world, with ancient ruins, dense rainforests, strange creatures, tangled tree trunks and strange-smelling rot.

earth.

Griffith came to the place where he had just defeated Domon, deep in the Lair of the Eternal Staircase.

At this time, the power of the holy sword has subsided, but the remaining plants nearby are still trembling and curling up on the edge of the ashes in fear, not daring to cross the border at all, as if they are afraid of being burned and destroyed again.

"This is simply a desert of destruction. The psychic lightning destroys all life wherever it goes!" Amber exclaimed, "Can you do such an attack again?"

"Unfortunately, Miss Investigator, all the previous power relied on Aaron's energy," Griffith said frankly. "He has achieved his goal, so he probably won't be generous with me anymore."

"But it also unlocked the seal of your holy sword, didn't it? He is very kind to you~" Alandel took over with a smile, "When we are beaten up later, can he come to save us again?

?Do you have any mysterious crystal necklaces, rings, etc. that you can call for help in an emergency?"

After trudging for a while, Griffith suddenly stopped and said in a deep voice:

"This is it."

They crossed the fighting area and came to the pyramid that was not completely destroyed. Hanguang's earth-shattering blow directly turned the cultivation room on the bottom into powder, and all the plants that were originally entrenched in the pyramid shrank to the last corner.

Impressively, a huge flower field was formed.

Dense blood orchids and vines cluster together, like a red and green sea voyage, as gorgeous as a dream.

Griffith looked at this situation and couldn't help but take a deep breath, and then stepped forward.

"Be careful!" Diana exclaimed. Although the blood orchids here are only the last refuge, they are clearly the last remnants of the Eternal Staircase. They have lost their habitat and nutrients and will soon wither. On the verge of extinction,

At a critical moment, any creature will do extremely crazy things in order to survive!

Griffith took a deep breath and said:

"It was not a good idea to use Hanguang inside the pyramid. During the battle, I was always worried that the excessive power would shatter the entire building and bury us alive. However, I did it in the end. Do you know why?"

Amber looked at him, and her spirituality was touched. The horror she had witnessed in Raven vaguely emerged again, and this time, at the core of the gloomy psychic vortex, it was Griffith!

Amber asked: "Isn't it to completely destroy the Eternal Staircase? Only here can we completely destroy its foundation and strive to free Erza from its control."

Griffith nodded slightly: "This is one of them.

"There is another reason..."

Speaking of this, Griffith's eyes flashed with a hint of fanaticism!

"This damn thread of life has been entangled with me since a long time ago. Krista, Elodie, and Erza have been eroded. He is behind so many tragedies."

Diana whispered: "Burn this place. Without the support of reality, the control of Erza by the thread of life will weaken. We can... help her escape."

Griffith stood upright on the ground, the bone ring in his left hand was filled with spiritual energy, and it seemed that even the deep darkness could not bear to be ravaged, and he let out a low sigh.

"No.

"This is a curse brought by the outer gods. They wantonly confuse and harm humans when they are ignorant and weak.

"Wouldn't it be too kind to give it destruction so easily? What I want is to be like this now - on the verge of destruction, the lingering Eternal Staircase, just one thought can strangle it to death. Now, the Eternal Staircase is the most vulnerable

By that time, all that was left of its conspiracy was this small fragment. It was its turn to taste what it was like to be enslaved.”

Griffith leaned down and grabbed the surviving blood orchid with his left hand with the bone ring. These crazy plants were trying to escape like they were attacked by natural enemies, but they were grabbed.

Powerful spiritual energy was echoing. Griffith, who had obtained the divinity of Naira and Domon successively, appeared in the hand of a diamond-shaped crystal. When his spiritual energy was poured through the crystal, the authority to control the armies was irresistibly eroded.

spread.

The corpses buried in Zul'haka, sacrificed to the Stairway to Eternity over hundreds of thousands of years, have been awakened.

The rotting animal bones in the rain forest were driven by powerful spiritual energy to gather together and drill out of the humus soil.

Scattered throughout the underground world, the undead lieutenants who were already in place heard Griffith's will.

Across the rainforest, sea and mountains, the giant beast buried in Verona opened its eyes in its sleep, with blue flames burning in its eye bones!

Diana had a premonition of what was about to happen, and her body couldn't help but tremble: "Griffith, please think about it again. Commodus has gained new strength, and he still has an army here."

"That's very good, princess. This way, His Highness the Prince will have enough time to surrender before he is destroyed by me."

A cruel smile appeared on the corner of Griffith's mouth.

Even now, the promotion of the Sequence 5 "Conqueror" still lacks a ceremony and a battle that has not yet ended.
Chapter completed!