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Even though the blazing white lion was still high in the sky, Erica had already sensed the terror of that strike through her body.
Her expression changed instantly.
"Arianna! Retreat! Full speed-retreat!!"
She shouted down without hesitation.
"Yes!"
Arianna slammed the modified car into its highest gear, answering in the brief gap she could spare.
Click.
As her right hand left the gear shift, she didn't have time to notice the faint sound of something breaking somewhere unseen.
The threat above was obvious.
Even to Arianna-who had never practiced magic.
In just a few seconds, the surrounding temperature had risen by at least twenty degrees.
Anyone sane would realize something was wrong.
"Authority at this level... does Lord Hiro intend to kill Arianna and me together?"
Erica had already stopped categorizing the white lion as "magic."
This was the realm of a Campione.
How could someone who made a Campione willingly serve as his maid be ordinary?
I should've realized sooner.
No-no one would've imagined it.
For hundreds of years, only six terrestrial Demon Kings had existed.
And now, in a single day, a master-servant pair appeared.
This kind of absurdity only belongs in fantasy novels.
Even Liliana wouldn't dare write something like this.
Cursing inwardly, Erica narrowed her eyes to thin slits and forced herself to look toward the battlefield.
Before she could make out anything clearly-
the blazing white lion, carrying world-ending power, fully tore free from the firmament and plunged toward the surface.
The atmospheric temperature spiked violently.
The heat was enough to make even a Great Knight like her feel scorched.
"Oh no-Arianna!"
Thinking of the girl in the car below, who had never learned magic, regret flashed across Erica's strained expression.
Damn it.
Just like any Campione-once they start fighting, they completely ignore ordinary people.
Yet she failed to notice something strange.
Despite the searing heat even she struggled to endure, the car below kept racing forward.
The fuel tank didn't explode.
There were no screams.
As if reading her thoughts, Arianna's voice suddenly came from below.
"Miss Erica, I don't know why, but the temperature inside the car suddenly dropped. The situation outside looks serious... should you come down and take cover?"
For Arianna, aside from the rear being painfully bright-so bright she didn't dare look into the mirror-there was no discomfort at all.
The earlier heat wave hadn't entered the car even slightly.
"A-Arianna... are you alright?"
Hearing that calm, familiar voice, Erica felt like she'd seen a ghost.
"Yes, I'm fine. The car's fine too. I just don't know why."
Arianna sounded genuinely confused.
"That's good..."
Erica finally let out a breath.
She converted all her remaining magic into defensive power, resisting the steadily rising temperature.
As for Arianna's safety, she understood the reason almost immediately.
A Heretic God corrupted by Kyuo would never care about the lives of two ants.
Which meant-
I misunderstood the King.
This King named Hiro... still cares about ordinary people.
Narrowing her eyes, Erica gazed at the distant figure who had summoned two terrifying beasts with a casual gesture.
Her heart filled with guilt.
And gratitude.
On the battlefield, the pitiful God King Melqart-completely bound by Hiro's Mental Control, offering no resistance-was erased under the aftershock of the white "Horse."
The earth for several kilometers was melted into ruin.
His existence was reduced to two items, quietly stored in the system inventory.
Beyond his status as a God King, Melqart had once slain the Dragon-Serpent, carrying the aspect of a Steel Hero God.
And for almost all Steel Heroes-
Authorities tied to the sun or extreme heat were fatal weaknesses.
Even without a direct hit from the White Horse enhanced by Sun Authority, Melqart stood barely a hundred meters from Verethragna.
Under an attack with a radius exceeding three kilometers, that distance was meaningless.
Authority-level destruction.
Perfect weakness exploitation.
And absolute resignation to resistance.
To Hiro, this result was entirely reasonable.
As for Verethragna-
He lacked the latter two conditions.
But he stood at the center.
Facing a White Horse whose power had been weakened countless times.
The result was-
"Even if my form has changed! The White Horse is still the White Horse! My Authority is still mine! It still can't kill me!!"
Tsk.
If you're that tough, why did you die in the original story after one shot and one slash from Godou Kusanagi?
Holding back, were you?
Hiro clicked his tongue inwardly.
"Ding! Fourth-Tier Luck extraction complete. Congratulations to the Host for obtaining: Authority - Harvest and Decay."
"Note: God King Melqart represents the other face of the God of Life. He may cause growth or decay in a target. Cannot be used twice on the same target in a short period."
The system prompt arrived right on time.
A pleasant surprise.
Positive growth applied to living beings-
including humans.
Later, when testing Soul Materialization on Arianna, this would save him the trouble of waiting one or two years.
Hiro raised his right hand again.
The restrictions of the White Horse-once-per-day limits, divine incantations, sinner conditions-had all been nullified by the Sun Authority.
He could fire it repeatedly without concern.
Just as he prepared to unleash another White Horse Lion at full power and send Verethragna back into mythology-
"Hahaha! I wanted to say that... but it seems this body can't withstand the sun's power at this level!"
From within the blazing white light that hadn't fully dissipated, Verethragna's voice rang out.
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