I rely on myself

Chapter 458: The Invading Mercenaries

“Oh my, I know that gods are willful, but it’s a bit too much to say such arrogant words.”

"……What?!"

Following this voice, a burly figure descended from the sky holding an extremely huge sword. The blade cut through the air with an extremely sharp sound and chopped straight towards Perseus.

Such a powerful attack was of course discovered by Perseus early on. Without any hesitation, he stepped quickly and created a large distance, completely avoiding the sudden attack.

"Ah……"

Seeing his sudden attack being avoided, the burly figure did not get discouraged at all. It was rather that he had expected this. After all, the other party was a god after all.

"boom!!!"

The heavy sword blade chopped directly on the ground, causing a huge noise that matched its momentum, and even a deep crack extended on the ground.

Everyone at the scene was so focused on this sudden intruder that they didn't notice that the figures around them were quickly preparing something.

When Kusanagi Godou heard the sudden voice, he felt somewhat familiar. After seeing the other party's burly figure, he instantly recognized who the intruder was and shouted subconsciously.

"Uncle Luke! How did you get here? That man is very dangerous. He is the God of Disobedience. Please leave quickly!"

Kusanagi Godou was surprised, but he also loudly warned the other party of the danger of Perseus, and Luke responded by————

"Hehehe, we meet again, little brother. If it's dangerous, of course it's dangerous, but this is work after all, so there's nothing we can do."

Luke easily pulled out the giant sword that was deeply embedded in the ground with one hand. Looking at his nonchalant look, you can tell that it didn't take him much effort. It shows how amazing his strength is, at least it is far beyond the level of ordinary people.

"……Work?"

To be honest, Kusanagi Godou was confused. Shouldn't the other party's job be to deal with the aftermath? But the battle wasn't over yet, so there was no such thing as a cleanup. Was everything the other party said before a lie?

Kusanagi Godou couldn't help but have such thoughts in his mind, and Luke also took action again.

Facing the disobedient Perseus, Luke was on high alert, not daring to be distracted at all, and said at the same time: "Hurry up, Ain, it's your turn!"

"I know, I know. Captain, please stop pushing me. Is this the Lord God? His aura is truly astonishing."

As this conversation continued, three more figures broke in. Kusanagi Godou looked at them and vaguely remembered seeing them at the previous barbecue party, so they should also be Uncle Luke's subordinates.

The moment the three figures broke in here, they immediately came to the surroundings of Liliana's standing figure, vaguely surrounding her in a triangular shape.

Seeing this scene, Kusanagi Godou's heart tightened and he couldn't help but feel a little worried. Just when he wanted to ask, the female mercenary named Ain took action first.

She stretched out an arm towards Liliana with an open palm, saying, "Because you have the blood of a witch, you are dominated? How unlucky, but fortunately there is a way... Steel! Break the shackles here and return freedom to the bird in front of you." As the spell fell, a strange power fluctuation rose from Iin's body, cold, sharp and tough. This was undoubtedly steel, but looking at the power of steel, Perseus' handsome eyebrows frowned.

Since he had no impression of this kind of steel power, and when he saw this power, he felt something bad in his heart for some reason.

Confused by this, he couldn't help but whisper to himself: "What on earth is that? This power of steel..."

On the other side, along with the surge of the power of steel, something suddenly appeared on Liliana's body. Although it could not be seen by the naked eye, the people present were not ordinary people, so they all "saw" it through some sense.

At this moment, Liliana was wrapped in something like shackles and chains. It was the power of control of Perseus.

Logically speaking, any power exerted by the gods would be very difficult for ordinary magicians, or even great knights and great magicians, and if they want to fight back, they must use some of their best tricks.

Although no one knew what kind of magic the female mercenary named Ain used, it could be concluded from the short spell that it was probably just an elementary magic that should not be able to dispel Perseus, but the facts surprised everyone.

With Iin's magic of removing the shackles from Liliana, although the shackles were not removed instantly, they were broken at an extremely fast speed. In just four or five seconds, Liliana regained her freedom.

“…Ha, ha, this is, could it be the power of steel?”

After being untied, Liliana gasped for breath, as if she had just surfaced from the deep sea and was breathing in large amounts of oxygen.

Although she was dominated by Perseus, Liliana was still able to receive the outside world, but she was unable to control her own body. Therefore, when the domination was released, she could react so quickly.

"Ah, that's what you thought, the power of steel, but it's really strange, isn't it? For a genius like you, it should be very easy to obtain this power, but why..."

"........."

Liliana was speechless to this, because it was just as the other party said, it was almost not difficult to obtain this power of steel, let alone a genius like her who had the support of a large magic society like the Bronze Black Cross.

The reason why she did not obtain the power of steel was very simple, that was because of her identity as a witch.

Because she was worried that it would affect the series of witchcraft she had learned. After all, the power of steel is still "steel", even if this power was created by humans.

The witch's power originated from the Earth Mother, and the power of steel is exactly what is counteracted by it. Because of the fear of conflict between the two powers, Liliana did not learn the now widely circulated power of steel.

Although he was very interested in Liliana's reasons, Ian also understood the current situation, so seeing Liliana's silence, he did not continue to ask, but instead reminded her.

"By the way, now is not the time to talk about this. It is better for us to retreat first. After all, with our strength, it would be too arrogant to intervene in such a battle, so as not to delay the retreat."

With that, Ian took Liliana and two other companions and evacuated from here to avoid dragging down Kusanagi Godou and Luke.

(End of this chapter)