Chapter 606

Escano watched Jialan's relentless precision, a faint smile on his face; no matter what, Jialan's attacks looked exactly like his usual ones and caused him not the slightest harm.

"So this is the Ten Commandments? Your strength is pitiful compared to others—how disappointing."

"If you can't give me any pleasure in battle, then I'll just destroy you!"

Seeing that Jialan had inflicted no damage whatsoever, Escano's eyes showed a hint of boredom; in his view, this Jialan offered him not the slightest amusement.

Since such an opponent is useless, killing him outright is the best choice.

Raising his divine axe Rita with one hand and simply aiming it at Jialan, Escano made Jialan feel a suffocating terror—just like that time—the fear of death reentered Jialan's mind.

"Don't think I'm still afraid of you! This time, I'm different—let you see my true form!"

"Critical Breakthrough!"

Before Escano's divine axe came down, Jialan's entire body began to change, transforming from an ordinary armor state into a monstrous, grotesque armor.

Seeing Jialan's new form, Escano's face broke into a faint smile.

"Good—this form at least. But back then, you couldn't even block one strike. What about now?"

Watching Jialan's transformation, Escano's face wore a strange smile—but in Jialan's eyes, that so-called smile was more terrifying than a death horn.

"Then try it—see if you can withstand one of my strikes."

The divine axe Rita descended like a blade of apocalypse; even its residual shockwave blew away everyone in Ishgaria.

Seeing this, the people of Ishgaria were stunned—they never imagined that the Seven Deadly Sins, who seemed so harmless in Ishgaria, possessed such a terrifying powerhouse; even Jialan, whom they could not defeat, cowered before him like a stray dog.

At the moment Escano raised his divine axe Rita, Fairy Law, which had been relentlessly attacking Jialan, instantly ceased its assault—as if it had already accepted that Jialan would die at Escano's hands.

"Pathetic. Did you really escape just because of this? Then you have no right to call yourself one of the Ten Commandments."

Under the sun's radiance, a figure slowly emerged; looking at Jialan, who stood on the brink of death, the newcomer wore a sneer of contempt.

"Then your Commandment is useless—let me reclaim it!"

At the instant Jialan was about to be killed, for reasons unknown, Estaros, who had been utterly frozen by Tōshirō Hitsugaya, suddenly appeared before them.

In front of everyone, Estaros seemed to directly extract something from Jialan's shattered body.

Swallowing the thing pulled from Jialan's body in one gulp, Estaros looked at Escano with a strange smile.

"We meet again, Escano—have you shed my blessing and become something stronger?"

"Oh, it's you. I didn't expect you to show up—I thought Gaus had already erased your existence."

Seeing Estaros appear, Escano's eyes showed surprise—though surprised, that did not mean he feared Estaros.

"My blessing was originally mine—I am the incarnation of the sun. As for you, you're merely a replacement."

"Shinye, I don't know why you were revived, but it doesn't matter. You have no power to oppose me now. Having lost the Goddess Clan's power, you've fallen into the Demon God Clan—you're now one of the targets we must eliminate."

Looking at Estaros—or rather, the former Archangel Shinye—Escano's eyes were cold; though his own magical nature had been granted only after Shinye's fall.

But Escano did not feel inferior to Shinye; the power of the sun was stronger in his hands. Shinye, having lost that power, had no right to challenge him.

"Forget it. With your arrogance, even if you attacked anyone, my Commandment would be useless against you. Better to go collect other Commandments than waste time here with you."

Looking at Escano, Shinye sighed helplessly—he knew better than anyone what the power of the sun truly was.

So he had no desire to waste time before Escano; better to collect the other Commandments and reach the ultimate form with all ten.

At that time, even if Escano possessed the greatest power, he could not stand against me—for Escano is merely one man, while I will have become a god.