Deploying The Sacred Four.

The training modules inside the Oracle Chamber had finally entered their absolute crystallization phase.

Locked inside a high-intensity live simulation mock battle, the celestial angel girl—Rouge—was single-mindedly managing a two-versus-one engagement against the human Heroes.

“Second Configuration: Maximum Capacity (Accel-Sau) – Precision Barrage (Zand Arrow)!”

“Second Configuration: Blossoming Fire – Flame Flower Buster!”

Deflecting several thousand incoming light projectiles with a masterfully projected defensive geometric wall, Rouge executed an immediate vertical leap to clear a sweeping sequence of blazing flame slashes. Even operating with a celestial angel’s base variables, absorbing a direct hit from a relentless combo array of this caliber stood a hundred percent probability of triggering severe structural integrity failure.

Furthermore, the duo was masterfully tracking her casting and parrying intervals, ruthlessly driving their payloads straight into her blind spots one after another. Far transcending the raw offensive multipliers they commanded prior to initializing the trials, their synchronized coordination metrics had been polished by several full ranks.

Completely incapable of continuously enduring the unmitigated pressure of their relentless joint onslaught, her lines finally buckled.

“Eeek…?!”

Enveloped in a blinding flash of explosive light, Rouge was violently blasted across the sector.

“ Pant, pant, pant… At long last… our vanguard achieved an absolute clear…!“

“Working in absolute synchronization, our consolidated power pool can horizontally challenge even a celestial-tier entity, can’t it—”

Her hand firmly gripping her black bow, Ludmila shrieked, her respiratory functions heavily laboring.

Fiore, similarly bracing a pitch-black rapier, let out a deeply satisfied smile right beside her. The specialized raiments enveloping their frames shared an identical pitch-black color profile with their weapons. Wrapped entirely in a dense, pulsing dark aura that closely mirrored the taxonomy of the demonic, these black Heroes commanded a baseline power index that astronomically outclassed their historical settings.

“Heh-heh, with this milestone checked off, the absolute entirety of your training blueprint verifies complete. Both of your profiles pushed your parameters beautifully to maximize the yield. Rouge processes an immense volume of joy~”

Rouge smiled warmly, her features softening. Witnessing the leap-frog growth metrics of her disciples filled her internal processors with pure, unadulterated gratification. She felt an immense wave of pride as their master, and profound happiness as their friend.

Yet—precisely because those affinity metrics were so deeply locked in, an intense wave of bittersweet sorrow cutely hijacked her emotional processors. All because her predictive simulations tracked the exact parameters of the grueling destiny waiting for them down the line.

( …Kindly ensure your survival parameters remain active down to the final frame, both of you. My precious friends.)

The celestial angel Rouge loosed the deep prayer within the hidden foundations of her matrix. Zero percent directed toward her sovereign Lord, she broadcasted the thought strictly as her own un-routed personal wish. Purely, sincerely—she dedicated the prayer to their safety.

The exact fraction of a second Ludmila’s group evacuated the perimeter to step into the corridor, two alternate Heroes were right in the middle of an exit sequence, transitioning out from the adjacent chamber.

One was a remarkably refreshing, handsome young man cloaked in an elegant mage-type robe. The other was a heavily armored knight encased completely in full plate armor.

The Sacred Four of ‘Water’, Shion—intersected with the Sacred Four of ‘Earth’, Reawelt.

“Has your profile successfully finalized its training modules?” Shion queried, shifting his neck to scan their coordinates.

Directly tracing his lineage as a straight-line blood descendant of the legendary ‘Sword Saint’ Zylas, the youth’s character sheet celebrated his physical blade arts as the absolute strongest white-handed close-quarters specs in the entire surface world. Furthermore, his raw magical proficiency stats effortlessly cleared the court-wizard benchmark of any major empire, allowing his build to execute a combat style that fluidly synthesized both blade and spell matrices—taxonomically classified as a Magic Swordsman.

“Correct. Has your own vanguard checked off the milestone as well?”

Answering Ludmila’s tracking query, the two male Heroes gave a heavy, confident nod to lock down the alignment.

“My arsenal has successfully integrated an entirely new power matrix.”

“At this current threshold, processing low-stat demon chaff requires zero percent of our caution metrics, you know.”

“Maintain your alertness parameters at maximum.”

An elegant voice vibrated loops across the corridor, and materialized right behind the open threshold of the door they had just cleared was the silhouette of a young boy. His facial specifications presented a near-flawless copy of Rouge’s own features.

“Our builds were masterfully refined under the direct hand of that absolute entity,” Shion validated.

It appeared that exactly like Rouge had anchored the instructional blocks to coach Ludmila’s squad, this boy had assumed the role of the personal training director managing Shion’s parameters.

“We are launching our vanguard deployment, Noir-sama.” Shion executed a deeply respectful, formal bow, while Reawelt silently provided a minor, focused nod to confirm his readiness.

“Valiant Heroes, I pray that the absolute algorithms of military fortune favor your alignment,” he—Noir—smiled, his optical arrays twinkling.

“Our celestial angel cohorts shall continuously monitor your coordinates across all timeframes, you know.”

Materializing smoothly right across the adjacent doorway, Rouge’s signature re-entered the grid.

“Push your performance stats to their absolute limits, everyoneっ!”

Barring an explicit administrative clearance authorized direct from the lips of their absolute Lord, the two celestial angels were strictly blocked from physically crossing the threshold into this sector. Under default regulations, executing a face-to-face vocal handoff across the barrier doorway like this stood a high probability of being flagged as a minor protocol violation. Even so, for them to manually override their parameters to deliver these parting words proved that their internal processors were experiencing a heavy trace of reluctance to log this farewell.

“ —We are launching our advance.“

Her heart saturated with a deep payload of pure gratitude, Ludmila bent her delicate frame to execute a profound, solemn bow.

Leaving the perimeter of the Grand Cathedral behind them, the unmitigated rays of natural solar light—which her visual sensors hadn’t processed in several months—felt exceptionally bright and blinding. A beautiful sensation of absolute liberation marking the conclusion of their trials intersected flawlessly with an intense, roaring surge of high-velocity exhilaration signaling the initialization of a world-ending campaign.

At long last, the final step was active.

“Our vanguard flatly refuses to log a secondary defeat loop next time.”

A historical data file detailing her previous engagement against the Demon King—the exact hour her lines had sustained a total crash—re-emerged across her memory loops. Back during that entry phase, her physical motor functions had been rendered entirely non-serving before his stance. An astronomical, hopeless discrepancy had completely separated their baseline capability indices. Her system had been thoroughly crushed, broken down by an absolute, desperate void of power.

“However, my current character sheet has completely rewritten those variables. My settings are entirely different now.”

Ludmila aggressively clenched her fist with absolute, ironclad conviction. Her twin-tailed blue hair and bright yellow ribbons violently rippled and snapped against the rushing wind.

“My blade shall guaranteed execute a summary bisection loop to liquidate the Demon King. And immediately alongside that objective—I shall anchor permanent peace across the fabric of this universe—”