The God Of Power-Chapter 162 - 161

Chapter 161:

The battlefield was deathly silent. The Broodmother's colossal corpse lay split in two dead, its insides steaming as its golden venom seeped into the scorched ground poisoning everything it touched. The once-unshakable force of nature—the monster that had nearly wiped out the Phoenix Vanguard—had been felled in an instant.

A beyond 13th dimensional and perhaps dimensionality itself being dead.

And the one who stood atop its ruined form was Celestia. The loyal knight of Noboru

The golden-haired elven knight twirled her sword lazily in her grip, the blade dripping with the remnants of the beast she had cut down without so much as breaking a sweat. It took Akari having a rage boost and tapping into the paradoxical omni energy to even graze it and Celestia killed it with a single cut. Her piercing golden eyes scanned the battered group before her, lingering on Meiyo for a moment longer than the others.

All they could think was what kind of monster was staring them down and Stella she for some reason made them even more scared.

A smirk curled on her lips.

"You look worse than I expected."

Meiyo's body tensed instinctively. The weight of Celestia's presence alone was suffocating. Even without her Sky Hawk's power active, she could feel it. A pressure beyond normal. A warrior who had surpassed the limits of this world. surpassed the limits of dimensionality itself. A being trained to get revenge on Maou-Sama and the founding kings themselves. A being trained for one purpose—execution.

And she wasn't alone.

A soft giggle echoed through the mist. Light. Innocent. Deceptive.

Then, from the shadows, Stella stepped forward.

But something was... wrong.

Her usual playful demeanor was intact—her head tilted slightly, cat ears twitching, tail swishing behind her as she tapped a finger against her chin. But the energy that radiated off of her was wrong.

Dangerous.

Lethal.

Her cat like pink eyes flickered, sharp and calculating, scanning the Phoenix Vanguard like a predator assessing prey.

Then, her lips curled into a teasing smile.

"Nya~ oh my, they do look weak, don't they, Celestia?"

The moment she spoke, a cold wave of dread washed over the group.

It wasn't just the fact that Stella grandpa and Noboru's supposed maid, the one who had always been in the background, harmless, weak was standing here.

It was the way she stood.

Unbothered. Relaxed. Smirking like she was in complete control.

The others felt it, too.

Hakashi, despite barely being able to stand, clenched his jaw. Duck's normally carefree expression hardened, his hands twitching slightly. Akari, still hovering with unstable power, felt the hairs on her arms rise as something deep inside her screamed DANGER.

Then it happened.

Stella changed.

The pink faded from her hair, strands darkening into an abyssal black that shimmered unnaturally under the broken sky. Her soft, round catlike features sharpened, her golden eyes shifting—becoming deeper, ancient.

She blinked once.

And when she opened her eyes again—they were hazel gold, slitted like a predator's.

The playful smile never left her face.

Follow current novels on freewebnσvel.cѳm.

But now, it felt monstrous.

The air around her seemed to twist, warping as an unseen force pulsed from her very being.

Meiyo staggered backward.

What... is this...?!

Even without her Sky Hawk Vision, she could feel it.

A presence that shouldn't exist.

A being that didn't belong to this world.

And in that moment—she knew.

Stella no, whoever this was was something far beyond anything they had ever encountered before.

She stretched lazily, feline-like as she rolled her shoulders. "Ahhh~ much better. It's been a long time since I've had to drop the act~" She turned to Celestia, who remained standing calmly on the Broodmother's corpse.

"Celestia-chan, what are you going to do the kids who burned down your home? Killed your people? Trapped Noboru-kun in that realm?"

Meiyo's breath hitched.

What did she just say?

Celestia's golden eyes narrowed, but there was something in them.

Hatred.

Rage.

A deep, unforgiving fury that had simmered for years.

"After what your family did," she murmured, her voice calm—too calm. "Faking evidence to destroy the Dragon Kingdom. Slaughtering innocents. And trapping Noboru in that hell."

Her grip on her sword tightened.

"I will send you to your families in pieces."

A chill ran through Meiyo's spine.

This wasn't just an enemy.

This wasn't just another obstacle.

This was vengeance incarnate.

And then, Celestia's gaze flickered toward Meiyo again.

"And you," she said, tilting her head slightly, her expression unreadable. "You really don't know, do you?"

Meiyo swallowed hard, her body refusing to move. "Know... what?"

Celestia's lips curled into something sharp.

"About Noboru. He's not the beast. It's you you and your brother that power you tap into is the beasts and you don't just have the power you have the entire beast inside you. You Meiyo have the sky Hawk and your brother has Lave Direwolf. But no matter you will pay."

The battlefield felt too quiet.

Like the world itself was waiting for her next words.

"Pay for the crimes of your founding king, along with the others, the founder of the Phoenix Kingdom, the Demon Empire, and the others you all worked together to trap Noboru-Sama in that prison realm."

Meiyo froze.

Lies.

This was a lie.

There was no way she was the Sky Hawk and had it's soul.

That was the beast.

She wanted to deny it.

But the way Celestia spoke with such certainty—

No. No, no, no.

She wanted to deny it. She wanted to reject it.

But something deep inside her twisted.

A whisper in the back of her mind. A doubt that had always been there.

Celestia continued, her voice laced with something sharp.

"I was there. I ran to save him. I fought my way through the armies you sent. But instead of being thrown into the same prison realm as him, I was cast away—trapped in an alternate version."

not Stella whoever she was let out a soft giggle.

"That's where I found her~" she purred. "You see, I wasn't born in this world like you think, Meiyo-chan."

The way she said her name—mocking. Knowing.

Meiyo's throat went dry.

"I was sent here," Ayumi continued, "by Ayame herself~"

The demon goddess that saved Noboru from Shin-Sama when he was about to destroy the kingdom.

The one they all the founding kind feared.

Ayumi grinned wider, stepping closer. "She had me assist Celestia-chan, trained her, helped her complete her Combat Trial. And now"

She stretched her arms out dramatically.

"Here we are"

Silence.

No one spoke.

No one could.

Because none of them—not Meiyo, not Akari, not even Rika—knew what she was talking about.

None of them knew who Stella truly was.

None of them knew about Noboru's past lives.

None of them knew who Ayumi was and is.

None of them understood.

All they knew—was the overwhelming sense of dread.

The realization that these two Celestia and Ayumi were not here to negotiate.

They were here to wipe them out.

Meiyo's fingers twitched. Her breath came out uneven.

She needed to think. She needed a plan.

But her mind was blank.

Because for the first time—she was afraid.