Chapter 710: The Final Battle!
The divine energy Ban had seized from those godly creations clashed violently with the power already inside his body.
For the time being, he had to focus on digesting and suppressing it.
Ban quickly withdrew from the battlefield.
The others did not have that problem for now.
Meliodas met the attacks of the divine creations head on without the slightest hesitation. The power gathered within Lostvayne was already nearing its limit.
"I have to admit, your attacks are pretty strong."
"Since I've acknowledged them, I'll return them to you in full!"
"Full Counter!"
Meliodas swung the short blade in his hand, and a terrifying wave of power instantly swallowed the divine creation in front of him whole.
The moment the battle began, it exploded into full intensity.
There was no probing, no warm up, only a direct clash to the death.
At the rear of both camps, Ryuunosuke and Heye stood facing each other.
Neither had moved yet.
They were watching.
They were waiting.
"So this is the power of the Dragon Hunter Pirates?"
"They are clearly not divine beings, so why do they wield divine power?"
"Can this world actually create gods?"
Heye asked with genuine confusion.
Originally, those divine creations had only been summoned to test the strength of the Dragon Hunter Pirates.
But what the Dragon Hunter Pirates were displaying now had surprised even him.
After all, when he chose this world, he had specifically chosen one where such a thing should have been impossible.
And yet now, it had happened anyway.
"They aren't gods."
"They're my partners."
Ryuunosuke answered calmly.
"You probably will never understand what a bond is."
"Of course, I have no interest in explaining it to you."
"All I want now is to defeat you with my own strength."
As soon as Ryuunosuke finished speaking, he raised his hand.
A card appeared between his fingers.
The final one.
The last Health Bar Card.
"Hm?"
"A superordinate rule?"
"A human can actually possess something like that?"
"But you probably do not know how to use it."
Although Heye was somewhat surprised when he saw the card in Ryuunosuke's hand, he still judged that Ryuunosuke would not be able to wield it properly.
"Hm?"
"So you really didn't inherit all of Adam's memories."
"It looks like there are still things you don't know."
Ryuunosuke's lips curled into a faint smile.
If Heye had known that Ryuunosuke had used this exact method to kill Lilith, he would never still be standing there so calmly.
No matter what kind of existence one was, as long as a health bar existed, Ryuunosuke could kill it.
"Use Health Bar Card."
The moment the card took effect, Heye's expression changed.
"This is…"
"You…"
At that instant, Heye felt his entire life form shift.
The absolute divinity that had existed within him vanished.
In other words, from this moment onward, he could be killed.
The calmness on Heye's face disappeared completely.
His aura turned violent in an instant.
He had only one thought left now.
Kill Ryuunosuke immediately.
As long as Ryuunosuke died, then no matter what strange power or ridiculous method he possessed, it would all become meaningless.
Puff!
In the next moment, Heye appeared directly before Ryuunosuke and grabbed him by the throat.
"As long as you die…"
Boom!
Before he could finish, Ryuunosuke slammed a kick into him and blasted him away.
"Don't you know villains die from talking too much?"
Ryuunosuke snorted coldly and stepped forward to meet him again.
He was actually rather satisfied with the situation.
At the very least, Heye had not chosen to flee.
If Heye escaped from the Path of God and descended upon the outside world, then everything Ryuunosuke cared about, everything he had protected, could be wiped away by that god's arrival.
That was something he absolutely could not allow.
The battle behind them had already descended into complete chaos.
The Dragon Hunter Pirates were facing Heye's divine creations head on, while Ryuunosuke bore the god himself.
Both battlefields had become spectacles of energy and destruction.
Elements raged. Shockwaves roared. The space itself trembled.
Even Uvogin and Ban, the two most battle hungry members, had entered their all out, desperate state.
Because at this point, if they did not fight with everything they had, they might never get the chance again.
These divine creations were completely different from the ones Ryuunosuke had fought before.
They did not hesitate.
They came only to kill.
That kind of battle made everyone's scalp go numb.
Because here, inside the Path of God, death meant true death.
Even Ban's immortality and Mukai's resurrection might fail in this place.
No one could be certain anymore.
Time passed.
No one knew how much.
Finally, Ban dropped to the ground with a thud.
"I don't want to fight anymore. I really can't fight anymore."
"I didn't expect anyone besides the captain could make me fight this happily."
"Hahahaha…"
He sat there openly, grinning despite his exhaustion.
At this point, not a single drop of energy remained in his body.
Everything had been burned away in that battle.
King could no longer even maintain his floating posture.
He had exhausted all the magic power in his body through Chastiefol.
Now, even Life Essence could not replenish him immediately. He could only wait for his body to cool down and recover on its own.
"You aren't the only one…"
"All those divine creations have finally been wiped out."
"Now it all depends on the captain…"
King muttered weakly.
One after another, the members of the Dragon Hunter Pirates collapsed to the ground.
They were not dead.
But they were all spent.
Completely drained.
Only the four division captains still remained standing.
"It should be manageable."
"Should we go help the captain?"
Chrollo asked weakly.
"Help the captain?"
Najenda sat directly on the ground and even pulled out a bag of sunflower seeds.
"If the captain can't win, then with us going up in this state, we'd just be causing trouble."
Meliodas walked over and sat down as well.
"You can still eat seeds at a time like this?"
"Give me a handful."
He spoke righteously, as if that request were perfectly natural.
In a fight of this level, rushing up recklessly would only make things worse.
Even if they wanted to help, they no longer had the strength.
Yahiko, as serious as ever, took some seeds and ate them with complete focus.
Meanwhile, the battle between Ryuunosuke and Heye had entered a deadlock.
Although the Health Bar Card had stripped Heye of his absolute immunity, it had not weakened his strength itself.
A god was still a god.
It was still not easy to kill him.
"System."
"It's your turn now."
Ryuunosuke suddenly opened his system panel.
He chose the reward he had saved until now.
"Use System Attack."
In the next instant, the entire Path of God was swallowed by light.