Published: January 24, 2026
After Titania healed Luna and Oliver, who were still unable to move, with magic and covered them in a mana barrier, she closed and opened her hands repeatedly, checking the sensation.
“Ruu-ko, what I can give you last is the current feeling of fairy manifestation. That will undoubtedly become your strength from now on. So, don’t forget the sensation I have now as I manifest— even if you lose today’s memories.”
Titania, radiating even a divine aura, told Luna this before glaring at Belia.
“…Originally, I intended to prepare properly before manifesting you. Well, it’s fine. If I think of it as cutting out a lot of trouble in killing you, it’s not all bad.”
An ordinary person would tremble before Titania’s majesty.
However, Belia, who had seen her form before, spoke to her without any particular concern.
“Are you underestimating me? I am the Fairy Queen. As of this moment, the strongest in this world is not you, but me.”
“Hahaha. Then prove it――――!?”
As Belia made a light remark, suddenly a shockwave struck her.
She was forcefully blown backward.
While keeping Belia in her sight, Titania raised her hand above her head.
Then, over a hundred alabaster swords appeared in the sky.
When Titania carelessly swung down the raised hand, the alabaster swords rained down on Belia all at once as if responding to her movement.
“...Tch!”
Belia clicked her tongue but stretched out her hand toward the swords.
Using her supernatural ability, the air around her vibrated, and the alabaster swords stopped midair.
Whether Titania had anticipated this or not, she showed no sign of hesitation and made her next move.
“—White Dragon.”
The ground beneath where Belia stood suddenly cracked open.
Belia nearly fell into the fissure.
She used her supernatural ability to avoid the fall, but from the cracked ground emerged a white dragon made of alabaster-colored mana.
The White Dragon approached Belia.
It opened its large mouth and bit into Belia’s body with its fangs.
“Still can’t pierce through, huh.”
Titania muttered emotionlessly.
Belia should have suffered a fatal wound from the dragon’s fangs, but thanks to her supernatural ability, she was unharmed.
“—[Flame of Demise (Levatein)]”
Belia, still bitten by the White Dragon but uninjured, activated magic, and a blazing sword appeared in her right hand.
The blazing sword could incinerate even its wielder, but Belia was an exception.
Swinging it at the White Dragon, it was literally burned to ashes.
Belia broke free from the White Dragon’s grasp and landed on the ground.
“Is this the end?”
Belia provoked Titania.
“Not a chance.”
Titania had a sinister smile.
Immediately, mana gathered at the tips of the alabaster swords hovering above, connecting by thin lines to the mana at other sword tips.
To the untrained eye, a single or two lines meant nothing.
But as more lines were drawn, a meaningful shape began to emerge.
“No way!?”
Belia, realizing what it was, displayed a panicked expression for the first time.
She kicked off the ground to escape immediately.
“It’s too late now. —[Alabaster Radiance (Amaterasu)]”
From a magic circle drawn in the sky, a superheated alabaster light concentrated to a single point engulfed Belia and the surrounding area.
The light easily melted and pierced the earth.
When the light descending from the sky vanished, a huge crater remained.
“Amazing…”
Luna, who had fought as an explorer for over ten years and had never seen an attack of such power, could only marvel.
While Titania stared intently at the crater, Belia teleported above her.
Belia swung her mana-enveloped sword down.
Titania transformed alabaster mana into a sword and effortlessly blocked it.
“Tch!”
Belia clicked her tongue bitterly, frustrated that her near-ambush attack was deflected.
Despite having endured the direct hit from the massive alabaster light, Belia bore no visible wounds and seemed unharmed, though her movements were slightly sluggish.
“You’ve been soaking in lukewarm water for quite a while, haven’t you? You may have become a transcendent, but after hundreds of years—an overwhelmingly long time for a human—you’re still that color?”