Every independent country can be said to have its own civilization, and where is the most representative place of civilization in a country? It is basically the royal city or capital... Therefore, the first priority for the Holy Land Ark of Light to evacuate will only be the residents of the royal capital, and the Divine Continent is no exception.

The apocalyptic disaster contingency plan has been officially activated. I need you, as the Inner Templar Knight of Farron, to assist us in completing the artifact's calibration. At the same time, gather as many residents of the Farron capital as possible near the cathedral, and teleport them directly to the Sanctuary once the artifact's calibration is complete.

"This……"

Valensa was silent for a moment before taking a deep breath and asking:

"Is that debugging work indispensable to me? Shouldn't my most important task right now be to stop Elena as soon as possible?"

"The debugging work cannot be done without you, because you are now a formally appointed Inner Templar Knight, and there are several steps that require your Holy Seal authorization."

Zero gave a wry smile:

"Your sister's arrival is really unfortunate... If she had come a while earlier, I could have taken over your duties and freed you, since I was the one who kept your Holy Seal safe before. But now it's not possible. You have officially accepted the Holy Seal, and even the Holy Maiden cannot bypass you to grant you the authority while you are still alive."

"Ah... well, okay."

Valensa scratched her head again, looking quite helpless:

"How long will this process take? What if my sister arrives in the capital before the residents of the royal city have even moved to the Holy Land?"

"It should take about an hour in total... If the capital of France cooperates well, it should be even faster."

Zero thought for a moment and replied:

"As for your sister... no one has any good ideas. For now, only the bravest among humans can find a way to hold her off temporarily."

. . . . .

In the wilderness, about 500 kilometers northwest of the capital of the Fran Kingdom on the continent of Frenoia.

While Valencia was discussing plans with the saints in the Sanctuary, her sister Elena was already quite close to the capital.

The brown-haired girl with pigtails who was walking in the wilderness seemed to take small steps, but her movements did not follow the normal spatial rules at all... Often, it looked like she had only taken a small step, but she had already left hundreds or even thousands of meters behind.

For her, when she reaches the destination has nothing to do with distance, but only with whether she has had enough fun.

The Kingdom of Fran is sparsely populated and its cities are not densely packed... There are not many towns along the straight line from Suli to the capital of Fran, but there are still a few.

Most of the towns evacuated after receiving news from the Church of the Sun, but a small number of people chose to stay for various reasons, determined to fight the evil god to the end... Of course, they have all disappeared now.

Along the way, Elena had seen the city's defense troops, fully armed and with tragic morale; the holy knights and priests, who were fanatical in their faith and unafraid of sacrifice; the adventurers, who were despicable but equally courageous; and even the fools who coveted her power and beauty.

But this was the first time Elena had ever seen, or rather, the first time she had ever witnessed, such a roadblock.

He was a bald man, over two meters tall, with a very strong build. His taut, bulging muscles gleamed with a metallic sheen, giving him the kind of appearance that seemed particularly reliable and reassuring.

But what was most strange was his attitude... He wasn't as helpless and tragic as the soldiers, nor as fearless and fanatical as the clergy.

His expression was very relaxed, and he even drank as he walked... He didn't seem to be there to fight a powerful enemy at all, but rather to take a walk and chat.

"Would you like to try some?"

Seeing the evil goddess girl looking curiously at the wine jug in his hand, the bald man grinned and handed the wine jug directly to the evil goddess girl:

"This wine was a gift from your sister; it has a very unique flavor."

"it is good."

Elena didn't stand on ceremony at all. She stuck out her little tongue and curled it up, and the wine jug in the bald man's hand disappeared instantly.

"Boom..."

Then Elena frowned, smacked her lips a couple of times, and couldn't help but spit out most of the wine, but she did eat the whole wine jug.

"You idiot bald guy, you've been tricked by my sister!"

The wine was clearly awful, but Elena wasn't angry; instead, she seemed to be gloating.

"This isn't good wine at all; it's an industrial chemical product from a technologically advanced society, the cheapest of the cheap, yet you treat it like a treasure... How incredibly stupid!"

"Is that really the case? Haha... Actually, I had a feeling about this, because this wine is quite harmful to the human body. If an ordinary person drinks too much, they will most likely die directly... This is completely different from the wines made from the top ingredients here."

The bald man smiled, seemingly unconcerned.

"But I've never tasted this kind of wine before, it's quite novel... Things are valued for their rarity. For a higher life form like you, it might be easy to travel across worlds and enjoy different creations of different civilizations, but for us, things from other worlds are always good things... because they're hard to come by."

"Haha... Your bald head is really interesting, just like the one I remember."

Elena giggled again:

"I know you... Although it's a memory from two years ago, you were quite considerate of your sister's principal back then, right? So how have you been getting along with your sister these past two years? Has she done anything bad to upset you or make you break off your friendship with her?"

"...Your sister has always been very well-behaved, and she's also my best student."

The bald man paused for a moment, then clenched his fists, making the muscles in his arms crackle, and said meaningfully:

"If only you, as the younger sister, were as obedient and well-behaved as your older sister."

"Heh, I see... So you're here to stop me too, right?"

Elena's smile vanished instantly, replaced by a look of utter boredom. She even kicked at some roadside weeds.

"Just like those soldiers, clergy, and adventurers before me... Honestly, all I want is to go home and visit, why do you all have to stop me?"

"Because you are dangerous."

The bald man said seriously:

“I don’t want to be your enemy… so if possible, could you stop here and rest for a while? I can chat with you and tell you your sister’s legendary story. When your sister arrives, she can accompany you home, how about that?”

"Then everyone else will take advantage of this time to run away, leaving only a boring, empty city for my sister and me, right?"

Elena chuckled and raised her eyebrows at the bald man:

"I don't want to do that... If you really want to stop me, then put some effort into it and let me see the power of the strongest human in my sister's memories from two years ago."

Chapter 35 Elena and Tia actually had a very bad relationship.

"...Is fighting absolutely necessary?"

The bald man's face still showed a pained expression:

“I’m several hundred years old. Fighting and killing can easily damage my health… Wouldn’t it be better for everyone to eat, drink, chat, and laugh? Your sister is a good girl who respects the elderly and cares for the young.”

"But I'm a bad girl, unlike my sister."

Elena was getting impatient, constantly shaking her head and tossing her ponytail.

"Stop talking nonsense. Are you going to fight or not? If you're going to fight, then do it now. If not, then get out of my way and stop blocking my path."

Snapped!

Before the word "road" could even be uttered, a huge fist was already in front of Elena, slamming into her face.

Elena never expected that the bald man, as her sister's elder, would be so unethical, suddenly attacking her and beating her so viciously.

This punch was extremely powerful. The shockwave generated when the fist collided with the face was like a nuclear explosion. The huge shockwave instantly overturned everything around it. Trees within a kilometer, no matter how thick, were all snapped in half or uprooted. The ground was lowered by the shockwave by almost half a meter.

Even with such a punch, Elena couldn't take a single step back, and her expression barely changed. It was as if the bald man had punched the armor of a starship, not the girl's face.

"……That's it?"

Elena spoke again, her eyes full of disdain.

The bald man didn't say anything, but just grinned, revealing his big white teeth.

Boom boom boom!

The next instant, however, an even greater burst of kinetic energy erupted from the point where fist and face met. Each burst was several times stronger than the last, and the final one was so powerful that it was earth-shattering, causing a strong tremor to be felt even by King Fran, hundreds of kilometers away.

By this time, the residents of the capital of France had received the evacuation notice. Most of them gathered in the square in front of the cathedral as required, while some had a determined look in their eyes, ready to fight and live and die with their homeland.

And the evil goddess Elena finally showed her first disheveled appearance after her arrival—she was knocked away by the bald man's third burst of punching power, spinning in the air for nearly a thousand meters before landing face down.

"...Is it all done?"

The bald man then withdrew his punching stance and took a deep breath... That last strike could be considered his most powerful, meticulously planned attack.

As the principal of the War Academy, the bald man naturally also possesses the ability to launch spiked attacks... and unlike Valensa, who can only launch two attacks in a row, the bald man can launch up to five attacks in a row, but it requires a period of preparation and preparation.

From the very beginning, the bald man never thought he could convince Elena with words. His initial demeanor and attitude were all an act, a way to buy time for his final, most powerful strike.

There's nothing fancy about it; it's just a punch with kinetic energy comparable to a nuclear explosion, combining five punches into one to slam into the enemy's face.

It seems they succeeded; the arrogant and wicked girl was successfully knocked away.

But will it end so easily? Of course not.

Amidst the bald man's gritted teeth and pained expression, Elena, who had been knocked away, quickly stood up and walked back towards them, wiping the blood from the corner of her mouth.

"You made me bleed~~"

Although she only took less than two steps, Elena instantly covered a distance of over a thousand meters, arriving in front of the bald man in a flash, staring at him excitedly:

"Wow, that's amazing... No wonder you're the strongest human in my sister's memory. It's incredible that you could break through my protective force field with just brute force... But with such a powerful punch, how many more punches can you throw next?"

"That's enough to defeat you!"

The bald man took another deep breath, and his muscles became even smoother and shinier as he inhaled, as if his whole body had turned into gold, or rather, golden jade.

Whoosh!

The fist whistled through the air, and the football-sized fist swung out again, its target still Elena's face.

But this time, Elena didn't dare take the punch head-on. She quickly pointed a finger, her face showing annoyance and boredom, and shot a strange wave of energy at the bald man:

"You'd better disappear first!"

Gah!

The bald man had no time to dodge and collided directly with the strange fluctuations. His body then began to fade, as if he would disappear into nothingness at any moment.

But the bald man didn't panic. Instead, he took another deep breath, and his jade-like golden muscles suddenly brightened, like a tungsten filament connected to an electric current.

"Breathing Technique, Ultimate Form: Heavenly Limit!"

Click!

When the bald man's body brightness reached about the level of a 500-watt light bulb, a glass-shattering effect suddenly appeared around him. Then, the invisible force that had been binding him completely disappeared, allowing his fist to continue forward and smash into Elena's face.

"How could this be... Waaah!"

Elena looked surprised again, and was then slammed into the ground a second time. This time she rolled around on the ground many times, her beautiful dress was torn to shreds, and her fair skin was covered in wounds from the rolling.

However, as Elena stood up, not only were her wounds as if they had never appeared, but her clothes were also restored to their original state, without a speck of dust.

But her face looked terrible.

"To actually use one's physical body to forcibly resist the laws... The last person to do this was some gossipy idiot who called himself a hero."

"Brave?"

The bald man raised an eyebrow, clearly intrigued.

"Is he a hero from another world? Like the kind described in adventure novels?"

"Pretty much...they're all a bit brain-dead."

That was clearly not a pleasant memory; Elena's face was full of disgust.

"He actually did just like in the novels, using all sorts of disgusting and nauseating words to win me over and make me give up on destroying his world... It wasn't until I ate both of his wives right in front of him that he finally showed some warrior spirit and fought me with all his might... That guy did have some skill, and I couldn't just crush him with the laws like I would with other mortals."

Did he ultimately succeed in defeating you?

The bald man seemed very curious and continued to ask questions, but the hand that had just thrown a punch was behind his back, clenched tightly and cracking, charging up for a new round of five consecutive jabs.

"Of course it's impossible."

Elena ignored the bald man's little tricks and proudly raised her face again:

"Mortals are bound by the laws, while gods are above the laws... At most, mortals who can defy the laws are at the same level as the laws themselves, and there is still a great gap between them and gods."

"...Is that really how it is? But I still want to try again, ha!"

The bald man muttered something that didn't seem too surprised, then threw another punch, slamming it towards Elena with enough force to destroy a town.

"A futile struggle."

Elena finally got serious and stopped trying to crush him with the rules. Instead, she clenched her fist and swung it at the bald man.

As the two fists, one large and one small, collided, the whole world seemed to be silenced. A few seconds later, a deafening roar erupted, and the massive kinetic energy wave created a basin, causing houses hundreds of kilometers away to collapse. A major earthquake struck the entire southwestern region of France.

After a long while, the center of the collision finally dissipated.

The evil goddess's dress remained spotless, while the brave warrior who had defied the god lay panting at her feet. His once golden, jade-like muscles gradually returned to their normal bronze color, and wounds would occasionally burst open, spurting blood.

"Satisfied?"

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