Leo ran straight to the barrier, and he was again repelled by its force.
He had refused the empresses' help.
The statue's voice had also become quiet.
"It's him!" a female, overjoyed voice was heard by the male statue.
"This..." The male statue was not able to make sense of the woman's words.
"Hmph! Never underestimate a mother's intuition!" the female voice spoke.
The male voice didn't dare to carry on the conversation further.
…
Leo had failed countless times trying to grab the barrier. The empresses didn't help him because they had understood his intentions.
He stood right in front of the barrier and channeled his first spell.
"Earth wall!"
The most basic earth elemental skill was cast.
The ground suddenly jerked up behind Leo and turned into a wall of his height. To everyone's surprise, the wall attached itself to him completely, becoming an earth armor.
The earth armor only covered his back area, leaving the front completely exposed.
Suddenly, he touched the barrier.
BANG!
A loud explosion was heard.
Due to the earth armor behind Leo, half the repelling force was absorbed by the earth, but his hand remaining on the barrier caused some of his muscles to rupture.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
The repelling barrier's mechanism turned more violent, and it began to increase the force significantly.
The moment his muscles broke, they began to regenerate abnormally quickly—muscles, tendons, nerves, and finally the bones.
With every part breaking and regenerating instantly, they became stronger.
The force of the explosion also began to increase abnormally.
Now that Leo had already placed his hands on the barrier, he began to cover it with his spiritual energy. Due to the chaotic nature of his spiritual energy, it began to breach the barrier instead of covering it.
The spiritual energy immediately began to overlay the barrier's runes. Surprisingly, the process was too slow.
He had to stay in the same position for at least a few hours. But with the increasing repelling force, he would barely be able to hold on.
There was no way he would give up after coming this far.
At this moment, his eyes lit up with several colors, and something awakened inside him.
He had called for something.
Leo didn't know what it was, but he trusted it wholeheartedly.
…
In the darkest and deepest part of the abyss, an exquisite coffin floated aimlessly.
Suddenly, the coffin exploded into smithereens, and a humanoid figure emerged from the explosion.
Pointed ears, black eyes with red pupils. A handsome figure with the charm of royalty, dressed in a butler uniform. He wore white gloves engraved with various complicated runes, and his pointed black shoes enhanced his elegance.
The humanoid figure was in a turmoil of emotions.
"M-Master?!" His emotionless face turned into one filled with longing.
"M-Master is calling me!!!" His longing face immediately turned into that of a gyaru obsessed with its love.
Pink hearts appeared in his red pupils, destroying his elegant charm and replacing it with a gyaru's obsessive aura.
He immediately turned in the southwest direction and—
BANG!
The force at which he launched himself broke the very fabric of space, making it nearly irreparable.
"I'm comiiing, Master~" he screamed, his cheeks bulging completely red.
...
In another place in the depths of the abyss, a giant skeleton with eight pairs of hands floated. Its body leaked an aura of death and chaos.
THRUMMM!!
Its lifeless eyes suddenly turned into a green, firefly-like shine in its black sockets.
CLACK!
"MASTERRRR!" It spoke with a heavy voice capable of decimating worlds.
It turned its head toward the southwest direction and—
BANG!
Another irreparable space appeared in the depths of the abyss.
...
In a white shrine filled with the aura of life and mercy, a beautiful woman wearing a white angel's dress sat on her throne.
Suddenly, she opened her eyes. Her eyes were completely white, and the pupils shone with a radiant golden light. Inside this golden light was a white star brimming with sharpness.
"What happened, Goddess?"
An old man wearing the pope's uniform stood up from among the believers gathered before her.
"My Master has called me!" The whisper from her lips reached every single believer's ear.
She rose from her seat, and three pairs of white wings capable of sheltering any lifeform emerged from her back. A green and yellow halo appeared behind her head, giving her the majestic appearance of a goddess.
The throne she had been sitting on was left with a sticky liquid, and if the believers looked at their goddess's AHEM, they would notice that she was soaking wet.
The shrine emptied immediately as the goddess left.
...
In the deepest part of hell, three pairs of ferocious red eyes lit up simultaneously.
SNARL! WOOF!
The red eyes immediately disappeared into the darkness.
...
Meanwhile, at Leo's place.
Leo was now hundreds of meters away from the repelling barrier, lying unconscious.
He had become anxious and channeled all of his chaotic spiritual energy, destabilizing the repelling barrier and successfully breaking it.
But the moment the barrier broke, another appeared.
With the new barrier, Leo was repelled ten times faster than before, breaking the thick earth support behind him.