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822. A Bird Who Listens, A Bird Who Judges, and A Bird Who Punishes

“I did nothing wrong, Uriel. The past left me in ruins. I reached a breaking point where I thought it would be better if I did nothing at all. How easily it would have been for me to forget it al...

821. Declaration of Innocence

“Finally, they’ll become pure! Like us! Like how you created us to be virtues! How we represent the antithesis of them!” Uriel laughed.

“Evidently, that didn’t turn out to be the ca...

820. The Definition of Qliphoth

Michaela remembered Qliphoth as being nothing more than the darkness that defended the Yetzirah deep beneath Paradisio. It was the purest emanation of darkness, and she believed it to simply be tha...

819. Blood of the Indignant Angel

“I never despised you for it! I came to understand why I was shaped into the way I am! But I could never have imagined that I would be the only one to carry on both of our dreams!”

Uriel ...

818. Divine Works And Blood Arts

Flashes of red and pale energy terraformed the heights of Mount Saris. Every clash between the flaming great sword wielded by Uriel and the False Price of Paradise by Michaela resulted in a pulse o...

817. The Light of A Binary Star

“Absolution.” Galia’s voice suddenly cut in.

The woman, who was supposed to return as a Corrupted, stood in place with one of her arms covered in a pale material. It was clearly flesh, ...

816. 14 Years Ago - False Guilt

Jury recalled meeting with an Angel with three tails. The innocent smile and childish glee of finding a person who looked just like her quickly turned into despair.

Fresh, excruciating pain f...

815. 14 Years Ago - Innocence

Jury remembered seeing light before she knew what darkness was. She remembered her tiny hands reaching towards the skies as she laid on a bed of snow, curled up with her fluffy tail.

There we...

814. Because It Has Been Delivered

Galia froze beneath the eye of the storm like a martyr awaiting death. She was enraptured by the artificial eye of the Castigation Bird which hovered in the skies. Jury glanced above and saw what c...

813. Justice's Realm of Light and Darkness

1835.

It was the tail end of the age of scientific revolution. This was what Galia called her era. But what she never mentioned was what ran in parallel with it.

The approaching end of ...

812. A New Power To You, Me

At some point it became a matter of trusting her instincts. Her presence boosted the morale of their armies. It was one thing to fight for a Beholder, but it was an entirely another to fig...

811. Wave of Sins

Jury seemed lost not too long ago, but now she was taking the initiative.

“Yes. We should. But do not forget that my 2nd Branch specializes in all-out-war. Look no further than the west. My...

810. Whittling Down The Castigation Bird

Locating the Phylactery of the Memento Mori’s Heart of the City became the 2nd Branch’s and Time Reverberation’s highest priority. Small but capable squadrons of Moons, Justicers and veteran ...

809. An Obscured Truth

The Archetype of Ego demonstrated her telekinetic powers in full. The countless islands began to spiral around the mainland, crashing into one another and plunging unfortunate Librarians into the a...

808. Librarians on the Floor of Ego

The last 1,201 Impuritas appeared in a fragmented dreamscape. Floating islands populated by shattered ruins of various eras ranging from several thousand years before the Advent of Civilization to ...

807. Thread Neutralized

Magus then announced:

“The egg is the world, as I’ve heard. There are two ways to interpret it. The first is that the world itself is what creates the kind of person inside. In this insta...

806. Tides of the Moon

There was nothing for the Impuritas to exploit. The Nexus’ defenses were overwhelming, to the point where it would not be a surprise if they carried back trauma from the ordeal. The less incentiv...

805. The Honored Enoch

Enoch smeared her bloodied palms across the air. Crimson spears appeared from balls of coagulated blood. They hung overhead, transforming the hallway into what looked like the mouth of a hideous le...

804. Descartes and Enoch

Indeed. Beholder Descartes stood before them at the gates of the Floor of Wrath. Accompanying her was the Star Child and an aloof Enoch who waved her tie at the Star Child, not even sparing the Imp...

803. The Halls of the Nexus

The one-sided massacre didn’t end in the Middle Sanctums.

3,500 Impuritas were spread across the Floors of the Upper Sanctums. This number did not include the Librarians who entered the Ete...

802. Puff Puff Delight

Sloshing in their remains were the satisfied and bloated Puff Puffs, who rolled back to the girl’s side with glimmers in their eyes.

Blood trickled onto her as she reached down to pick one ...

801. Invasion of the Middle Sanctum

1,500 of the 5,000 Impuritas who were forcefully relocated appeared in a world dominated by stacked landmasses. Kilometers of land were attached to an enormous pale pillar like the branches of a tr...

800. (Cer)Berus, the Three Heads of Security

The wave of Impuritas emerged from the other side of the tunnel like a tidal wave. Nothing could possibly stop them in their tracks. This was what they adamantly believed in. The few Stars of the N...

799. Impurities of the Nexus

Iscario – the Brightest Star – was a man for forfeited his rights as a Blessed to bestow his blessings to the unchosen. No lie had ever left his tongue and were it not for him, then the Impurit...

798. Uninvited Guests

Uninvited guests were an uncommon occurrence, though they almost exclusively appeared within the Eternal Library.

It was difficult for a Blessed to ferry a non-Blessed into the Nexus without ...

797. Countdown

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796. Second Sun

Frost entered a one-meter radius from him, nullifying the attack. The magical circles formed exactly a meter out from the barrels, so getting close was the perfect move.

Moreover, this was no...

795. With A Heavy Heart

< It remembers how cold her hands must have felt >

< “You slapped my hands away. I’m sorry. What can I do so y...