As Claire fell from the sky and her body slowly disintegrated into nothingness, she gritted her teeth hard. There's still something that she hasn't tried and that's completely mixing her Holy Power and Demonic Power.
All this time, she's only partially mixing Holy Power and Demonic Power to take advantage of their volatile reaction that causes a huge amount of energy release. However, Claire knew that that wasn't the right way to use it. She can use both sides yet she could only use it to destroy each other. Just from that simple line of thought, she knew that she was doing something wrong.
In the first place, Claire had only been using the basic nature of both the Holy Power and Demonic Power. [Weapon Shaping] for the former and [Magic Conjuration] for the latter. Although it resulted in a very powerful arrow that could destroy high-level beings, it's nothing without its destructive capabilities.
As such, Claire went back to the true core of her Demonic Power and Holy Power which are [Worthless] and [Purification] respectively.
Claire knew exactly how these powers worked but no matter how much she tried them before, it'd just devolve back to the twisting mess of destruction it is. She just couldn't wrap her head around or imagine how she would combine the two of them properly, until now.
On the verge of death, Claire's eyes shined as realization and enlightenment dawned on her. The overwhelming fear that she's feeling right seemed to have been an illusion and her body that was being destroyed, became lighter. She lifted her arms and aimed her bow upwards. Without losing focus on the lights that were sipping from the outside world, Claire pulled her bow and the usual golden and black arrow appeared.
This time, however, the golden and black light was soon replaced by a soothing silver light.
It didn't have the same intensity as her previous arrows, but Kuruyashiki, the only other person watching her, shuddered at its sight, 'What... is that?'
With a newfound strength, Claire released the silver arrow upwards.
The same as a firework, the silver arrow went up slowly until it quietly exploded and rained down silver light, illuminating the whole dimension with its glare. It was the first appearance of what would be called the [Authority of the Silver Light] or the [Silver Light of Repudiation] in the future. The simmering light that denies all understood supernatural phenomena.
Kuruyashiki was blinded and used his arm to block the light. However, it was then that he realized that something appeared on his side and when he looked down at it, his eyes widened and his heart started palpitating, "Gagaku Kairou?" It was his trusted Zanpakuto in its most basic form.
The next moment, he found that the artificial dimension that his Bankai created started collapsing and the destructive nature of it had already disappeared.
"W-what's going on?" Kuruyashiki asked himself but he's not an idiot to stay unmoving. He found a crack to the outside world and intended to retreat from there. Unfortunately, he still doesn't realize the extent of what the silver light could do. Kuruyashiki circulated his Reiryoku around his legs, just as he would usually do when he uses Flash Step. But this time, the gathered Reiryoku only returned back to him, "!?"
Kuruyashiki tried a few more times but decided to give up on it. He then started creating a foothold to go to the hole but on his first step, even the Reiryoku foothold disappeared, "Dammit! What's going on!?"
Since it'd take too much time for him to escape, Kuruyashiki decided on a different approach and turned back to Claire who started regaining her balance in the air. Pointing his palm towards her, he shouted, "Hadou no 81! Ougon no Kokyuu (Breath of Gold)!"
But similar to his Flash Step, the Reiryoku he had collected produced a bit of golden light before returning back to his palm and doing nothing, "...Huh!?"
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After seeing Kuruyashiki's Bankai start disintegrating, Kisuke, Serafall, Kunou, and Tanis all sighed in relief, "That silver light is giving me goosebumps." Kisuke commented.
"You too?" Serafall replied back while rubbing her arms, "It's not destructive, but that light is an enemy of everyone who wants to manipulate the laws of the world."
"That's cheating!" Tanis immediately pointed out, "If she uses that in our sparring, I won't be able to use anything other than internal body techniques!"
But when Tanis turned to Kunou, she saw her still have this confident smile, "You can go around that?"
Kunou shook her head, "No. I don't think I can. However..." Kunou pointed at Claire who's struggling to breathe and shaking all over, "She won't be able to use that in our sparring. Look. After her mutation, she has the largest amount of energy by accessing both Holy and Demonic Power. But just after releasing that silver light one time already left her drained."
"Then should we help now? I don't think she'll be able to continue." Tanis turned to Ophis and Lilith while asking the question, "Although her opponent's abilities were sealed, he's still healthy."
Before Ophis and Lilith could answer, Serafall's hand landed on Tanis' head, "That's only true if the world was not the way it is. You forgot that she's currently the sole inheritor of all Faith right now."
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Claire reoriented herself while struggling to gather her breath. While it was just a single arrow, it drained all of her Holy and Demonic Power that she was finding it hard to even fly right now and materialize her bow. But just as Serafall had said, there's almost a near-infinite amount of unused energy out there for her to tap into.
Without any restriction or guidance of any system, the ownerless Faith is for her to take as long as her body can handle it.
'I probably won't be able to walk for a few days...' Claire thought to herself while looking down on Kuruyashiki who was still clueless about what was going on, 'But there's no better time to end it than now!' She raised both of her hands and removed the seal that Kisuke and Serafall placed on her so that the Holy Power wouldn't cascade into her.
Claire knows that the purifying strength of the Holy Power had a significant effect on the [Chained], so she called everything that she could.
Answering her call, Hell's purple sky cracked and a whirlpool of power unknown to the inhabitants of this world started gushing out. Within just a few seconds, it formed into a giant golden cross.
Sadly, Claire overestimated herself. She didn't know how much she pushed herself by just releasing the silver light so at the height of her gathering the wild Holy Power, it went out of her control.
She thought that it was going to disperse when the safety seal on her reactivated and she was going to lose her chance to defeat her opponent. That's what Kisuke and Serafall thought too and were about to intercept in order to help until the giant golden cross suddenly stopped dispersing and actually further solidified into a much more stable condition when Claire was controlling it.
Kisuke and Serafall stopped on the spot. More accurately, they were frozen in place and looked at the middle of the giant cross with shocked expressions.
Along with the familiar aura, a golden silhouette of a woman with a bright halo and 12 Angel wings emerged from it. As she detached herself from the cross, they also heard a familiar voice, "Ah... I got connected."
28th00: You literally pulled the “Enlightenment when losing a major battle into major powerup” shounen trope. Do you just have a list of them? Also, Serafall is gonna mald about Gabriel in the next chapter I bet. Claire’s power is basically like one of those Aoe-antimagic auras that are absurdly OP if almost all users weren’t just normal humans outside of that specific ability, which she’s not.
Redemperor D
The golden silhouette's senses were in a mess after the unexpectedly complicated and hard-to-connect to [Faith] that appeared for the second time.
'Hmmm? Where is this?' She looked up and thought, 'The Underworld? But something is different.'
But because she's not in her real body, it's also hard for her to ignore the will contained within the [Faith] that someone controlled. As she looked down, she saw a burly man with chain tattoos plastered all over his body looking up at her in shock and the first thought that occurred to when their gaze met was, 'Purify him, huh? Who's will is this?'
And when she finally looked around properly, her beautiful face widened in surprise when her eyes met with someone who was making the same expression, "...Claire?"
"...Gabriel-neesan?"
"..."
"..."
The two continued to stare at each other for a few moments and Gabriel finally asked, "...What is that form?" Genuine disbelief and curiosity was contained within her soothing voice. It was also at this moment that her senses recovered and she felt a group of familiar aura in a certain direction.
Gabriel was very curious about why Claire could contain both Demonic and Holy Power in such a harmonic way, however, due to the situation they are currently in, there's someone who she wanted to meet more than anything else.
She hurriedly turned her head and saw the people she was hoping to see, "Kisuke! Serafall!"
But at the same time, the Holy Power that's keeping her temporary body is also rapidly dispersing. Gabriel doesn't know the situation they are in but she can't ignore the reason why this Holy Power is here. Gritting her teeth, she turned to the man who had been showering her and Claire with killing intent, 'I just need a few words in.'
Raising her right arm, Gabriel declared, "Thou whom hath been tainted and shackled, receive thou retribution!"
Putting the entirety of the Holy Power that Claire called, the giant golden cross that the latter made disappeared and was replaced by another giant ornate golden cross that exuded an even holier aura compared to the previous one, "Judgment Cross!"
As she swung down her arm, the giant cross transformed into a stream of golden light and rained down on the stunned Kuruyashiki.
Kuruyashiki felt an indescribable force freezing him in place and he could only watch the cross and the golden lady in awe. He knew that this was the end and even if he could dodge, he wouldn't because the light is not a death sentence, but a path to liberation, 'Ah... Finally...'
The warm light blinded, covered, and started dissolving his flesh along with the detestable chains. But strangely enough, he doesn't feel any pain or suffering. It was a light that is filled with good intentions from the Chief Angel of Chastity.
The golden light formed a pillar that pierced through the sky, leaving a majestic sight for everyone to witness.
The soothing light soon disappeared, leaving behind nothing of Kuruyashiki Kenpachi, including his chains. And along with their disappearance is the halt of the senseless violence that's happening all around. Everyone was quiet as the golden silhouette flew and caught Claire who already lost consciousness and started falling due to losing the support of the Holy Power.
While her body started disintegrating, Gabriel gently stroked her head and with her soothing voice, "You've worked hard. You may rest, Claire."
After making sure that she was okay, Gabriel turned to the distant Kisuke and Serafall and said, "We need you. Please return as soon as you can."
A few seconds later, she completely disappeared, leaving behind a silent, strangely peaceful world and a falling sleeping girl.
But it was only a few seconds later that everything jumped into action once again, and this time, with renewed vigor.
Kisuke and Serafall appeared near Claire, not to catch her, but to intercept numerous people filled with killing intent aimed at the young girl.
Serafall put a thick wall of ice that stopped Nnoitra and Zommari in their tracks while Kisuke immediately released Tiamat and his Hollowfied form to block Szayelaporro and Yammy.
All of them are already in their Resurrección form which is very different from their previous forms when they were alive, 'A peacock, a mantis, a dinosaur, and a buddha... Their form is much clearer and compact compared to the last time they were seen.' Kisuke thought to himself after giving them a quick glance, 'It looks like the chains did more good to them than the Shinigamis that have to learn [Magic].'
While it's obvious that all of them have a much more powerful form than before, they are all making the same expression, and that's fury and fear.
"...You! Kisuke Urahara!? How are you...? Wait, what are you!?" Szayelaporro shouted in Kisuke's face while pressing down his claws on Kisuke's Hierro-covered arms.
Kisuke, meanwhile, only grinned at him and replied, "What now? The self-proclaimed all-knowing doesn't have an idea? So much so for having the Eyes of Hell."
"You bastard... !?" Szayelaporro wanted to kick him away to get to the young girl who summoned a strange being and killed an immortal. But before he could do so, a Magic Circle appeared in front of Kisuke's face, and in an instant, Szayelaporro's face was blasted by an explosion, sending him tumbling backward.
On his other side, Kisuke lifted his forefinger on the hand that was holding Tiamat pointing it at the rampaging Yammy, and blasted the Hollow that was cosplaying as an ancient reptile with his pure black Cero.
"Kunou, Tanis. Take Claire away and hide. But don't get too far from us. We don't know what might happen next."
Tanis and Kunou who also arrived to secure Claire both nodded, "Yes! Please be careful!"
Kisuke checked Serafall's side and saw that she froze her opponent's solid and already temporarily stopped the threat.
'Phew... That sure took a turn. Who would have thought that Gabriel would suddenly appear?' Kisuke was finally able to arrange his thoughts and calm down. But within his calmness, is a deep worry, 'We need you, huh? Just what's happening on that side?'
He also glanced at the cracked sky that was slowly healing after Claire summoned all of that Holy Power from the World of the Living. At that moment, Benihime's blurry voice came to his head, [..suke! Ki..ke!]
'Huh?'
[They a.. mov...!]
Although half of it was not clear, Kisuke understood the situation, 'Shit! They blocked the communication and I didn't even realize it!' Gabriel's previous words already disappeared to the back of his head.
Szayelaporro who was about to attack suddenly stopped and started contorting as the chains on his body suddenly manifested and started contracting on him while also eating his flesh, "AHHHH!!!"
His voice that's filled with pain and suffering started something else.
28th00: No more playing around, huh?
Redemperor D
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