Forced to Sell Myself to the Female Lead After Killing the Male Lead

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!"

Accompanied by a miserable scream,

Welt-Sislov, who had just moments ago been charging forward with absolute confidence, was blasted away by the golden light.

Blood sprayed from his mouth as he crashed violently into the mountain behind the Duke Family's estate.

The scene

left both Lei Jie and Marquis Xiumu-Duke staring in complete disbelief.

Likewise,

far away in the distance, Miss Yumo had also fallen into a stunned daze.

As she stared at the silver-haired girl enveloped in golden radiance, Yumo's beautiful crimson eyes trembled violently. Her delicate body quivered uncontrollably as both hands clenched tightly into fists—not only because she was shocked by the tremendous power Mengxi had unleashed, but also because she was desperately suppressing the impulse that had suddenly erupted within her.

That golden light...

'T-That's divine power? It's actually this dense?'

Yumo unconsciously bit her lip.

The instant Welt-Sislov's scythe had been about to touch Mengxi's fragile body, overwhelming killing intent had burst from Yumo's crimson eyes. She had almost rushed forward to tear Welt-Sislov into countless pieces.

Yet just as instinct drove her to stop his attack, the power erupting from Mengxi had caught Yumo completely off guard, causing the Shadow of Silence Power she had been gathering in her hand to instantly dissipate...

The golden radiance that had exploded forth...

The immense holy power contained within it...

Even Yumo herself felt threatened by it.

Not merely threatened.

More than that...

She felt disgust.

A disgust...

A hatred born from the depths of her very soul.

It even stirred overwhelming killing intent within Yumo's heart...

Previously, Mengxi's Holy Aura had already made Yumo uncomfortable.

But that Holy Aura had still been something she could tolerate.

This time was different.

Even from this distance, the moment she sensed that divine power, terrifying killing intent surged into Yumo's eyes.

Crimson light slowly shimmered within her pupils.

Even the Blood Butterflies surrounding her reacted to their master's inner turmoil, frantically beating their wings.

An extreme chill spread outward with Yumo at its center.

The surrounding trees instantly withered.

The green grass beneath them shriveled into dry yellow stalks.

The members of the Heavenly Punishment Holy Church who had been hiding nearby, originally intending to ambush Yumo, didn't even have time to understand what was happening before they were enveloped by the frigid aura she had unconsciously released.

Their hearts stopped instantly.

One after another, they collapsed dead.

Kill.

Kill!

Kill her!

Erase that aura completely!

...

...

One bizarre thought after another crazily sprouted inside Yumo's mind.

Unable to endure it any longer, Miss Yumo tightly grabbed her own head with both hands, desperately trying to suppress the horrifying impulse.

However,

As another wave of golden divine power washed over her, a strange voice suddenly echoed inside her mind.

-Kill her. That is your mission.-

?!

Who?!

Who's speaking?!

What mission...

No!

No, I can't!

I can't kill her!

'T-That's the heroine! I... I can't attack her! I can't...'

For a moment,

Miss Yumo fell into complete mental chaos.

To suppress the bizarre impulses flooding her mind...

To regain her composure as quickly as possible...

She jumped directly from the treetop, rushed to a nearby stone wall, and repeatedly slammed her own head against it.

"Boom~ Boom~..."

--

Meanwhile,

After being blasted away by the golden light, Welt-Sislov gasped heavily for several breaths before blasting away the rocks burying him and barely crawling out of the massive crater.

"Cough... Cough..."

The composed demeanor he had displayed at the beginning of the battle was now completely gone.

Only shock and disbelief remained on his face.

His once elegant black robes had been reduced to tattered rags by the previous impact.

Combined with the blood covering his face and body and his completely disheveled appearance, the current Welt-Sislov looked little different from a beggar on the street.

However,

He no longer had the energy to care about his appearance.

The moment he stood up, his emerald-green eyes locked firmly onto the silver-haired girl standing amid the distant ruins.

'T-That... was the Miracle?'

That golden power...

Was that the divine power protecting her body?

The power the Goddess had left inside the Child of Destiny to protect her at critical moments?

Although the Son of God had mentioned it to him before...

Welt-Sislov had never imagined that this mysterious golden power would possess such terrifying force.

It had shattered his attack in a single instant...

And had even seriously wounded him directly?!

He was a High Eighth-Tier existence!

It seemed...

Those fools from the Asumos Church hadn't been exaggerating this time.

For a moment,

Intense regret flooded Welt-Sislov's heart.

Had he only been more cautious and prepared his defenses beforehand, he would never have ended up in such a miserable state.

'Damn it... I got careless...'

However...

I'm still alive!

Which means...

You're still the one who's going to die!

According to the Church, divine protective power like this can't be used continuously!

That power can protect you at most once.

After that...

Let's see what you do!

Even though I've been seriously wounded...

I still possess Eighth-Tier strength!

The intense pain only made Welt-Sislov's expression grow more ferocious.

Recalling how utterly humiliated he had looked just moments ago filled him with even greater fury.

He wanted nothing more than to completely erase the girl who had made such a fool of him.

'Blood Scythe, return!'

As that thought crossed his mind, emerald light suddenly flickered within his palm.

Far away, the blood-red scythe buried beneath the rubble sensed its master's summons.

It burst out from the ruins and instantly flew back into Welt-Sislov's hand.

Gripping the weapon tightly, Welt-Sislov let out an eerie laugh as he prepared to launch his final attack.

However,

After finishing his cold laughter and looking toward the silver-haired girl once more,

His pupils suddenly contracted violently.

?!!

'What?!'

Wrapped in intertwined golden and silver radiance,

The distant silver-haired girl slowly opened her mismatched eyes—one gold, one violet.

Then, completely unexpectedly,

She attacked first.

In the blink of an eye, she transformed into a streak of golden light and charged straight toward him.

An overwhelming sense of danger instantly surged through Welt-Sislov's heart.

Ordinarily,

Welt-Sislov would never have cared about an attack from a Sixth-Tier girl.

Even if only one finger remained, a High Eighth-Tier expert like him could easily crush a Sixth-Tier opponent.

However,

To his astonishment,

Mengxi was no longer merely Sixth Tier.

Strengthened by divine power,

The Child of Destiny's cultivation had been forcibly elevated all the way to Peak Seventh Tier.

Of course,

If she were only Peak Seventh Tier, Welt-Sislov would not have been this alarmed...

The important point was that the energy within her wasn't ordinary Holy Aura.

It was divine power—

A force even more terrifying than Holy Aura itself.

Just like the Shadow of Silence Power,

The same volume of divine power contained far more might than magic or battle aura.

Therefore, among opponents of the same level, those wielding divine power could almost always completely overwhelm users of ordinary magic.

Although the Child of Destiny was only at Peak Seventh Tier...

The pressure erupting from her caused Welt-Sislov's expression to change dramatically.

The smile on his face disappeared without a trace.

'It can raise her this much?!'

This damn heroine is outright cheating!!

He cursed inwardly.

By then,

Mengxi had already reached him.

Her sword, enveloped in brilliant golden light, slashed directly toward his face.

The absolute suppression brought by divine power caused the dark emerald magic surrounding Welt-Sislov to become unstable and insubstantial.

The icy killing intent radiating from the blade made him experience the threat of death for the first time in a very long while.

"No! Don't think that just because you have divine power, you can defeat me!!"

Forcing down the fear rising inside him,

Welt-Sislov roared as he swung the Blood Scythe in a direct clash against Mengxi's attack!

"BOOM!!!"

In an instant,

Blinding light erupted as the two terrifying powers collided head-on!

The sword wrapped in sacred radiance violently crashed against the scythe overflowing with sinister blood energy!

The devastating shockwave instantly spread outward from the point where the two weapons met.

The earth shook violently.

Mountains crumbled.

The heavens seemed to split apart.

The two nearby peaks, already riddled with damage, collapsed completely.

As the two overwhelming powers continued clashing,

Welt-Sislov, who had already suffered severe injuries, found himself gradually unable to endure.

Pain slowly spread across his face.

Under these circumstances,

The golden aura surrounding Mengxi steadily suppressed Welt-Sislov's dark emerald magic.

"Clang!"

Accompanied by a deafening explosion,

The golden radiance completely overwhelmed the emerald light.

Welt-Sislov was sent flying by a single sword strike.

He shot high into the sky before crashing violently into the barrier surrounding the battlefield.

Another mouthful of bright crimson blood burst from his lips...