Reborn: Apocalypse Ready. War Goddess by My Side novel Chapter 254

Chapter 254 Different Things

Steven’s breath came fast and ragged.

Absolutely unhinged. There is no other word for it.

Alan’s gaze locked forward.

He didn’t wait for Theodore to finish building his full power.

The blade came down.

In that single instant, every person watching felt the ground tremble under their feet.

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Alan’s strike swept across the field, and a curving arc of wind energy materialized across the entire space, easily 300 feet wide, obliterating everything it touched in a single pass.

Every surface, every structure, every fragment of debris in its path dissolved instantly.

Theodore’s eyes went wide, and he scrambled to release what he had before his five–sigil pattern power could fully consolidate.

Three lightning spheres, each roughly three feet across, launched from his blade in a desperate, screaming

burst.

“Die already!”

Under every pair of eyes present, the wind arc and the three lightning spheres met.

For one suspended moment, every breath in the entire space stopped.

How are two people capable of this?

Who’s going to win?

On the surface, this exchange had already surpassed anything à Peak Divine General duel was supposed to look like.

But Alan was Four–Sigil, and his Divine Sigil rank sat a full tier below Theodore’s.

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Most people watching assumed Alan wouldn’t be able to hold.

Steven was the only one who knew otherwise. The captain’s won this.

Rank and raw power were the surface of the picture. In the mastery of the blade itself. Alan was on a completely different plane from Theodore.

He’d never seen anything like it in either of his lives.

The collision arrived.

Theodore’s pupils locked in place.

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Then they dilated in pure, uncomprehending shock.

No. That’s impossible!

The thought screamed through him without a sound.

This cannot be!

My rank is higher. My Divine Sigil level is higher. How am I losing?

He couldn’t accept it.

He refused to accept it.

The buildup time wasn’t enough. That’s why. It has to be.

The three lightning spheres made contact with the wind arc.

They detonated immediately, shredding apart mid–air, and raw lightning scattered in every direction.

A collective, sharp intake of breath ran through every person watching.

“How is this possible?!”

“Theodore’s supposed to be the Divine General here, not Alan!”

The blade light didn’t stop after consuming the lightning spheres.

It continued at the same ferocious speed, sweeping directly toward Theodore.

Theodore’s composure collapsed inward.

He wasn’t ready for this.

But there was no time left.

The attack was already there.

Theodore threw his heavy blade across his chest in a last, desperate guard.

The impact was absolute.

The straight heavy blade shattered into fragments in an instant.

The A–rank battle armor followed immediately after, buckling and breaking apart under the force.

Without the blade and armor absorbing the blow between them, that strike would have cleaved Theodore

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How is he this strong?

Does he have a cheat code or something?

Something wet fell onto his face. He looked up at Alan and saw something he wasn’t prepared for

Then a fist landed.

The impact rang through the ruins.

“Why did you hesitate? Why didn’t you activate the Divine Protection Barrier?”

Another impact landed.

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Everyone could have lived! Why didn’t you move? Why did you stand there and let them die?”

Another punch came.

Fashed

Alan’s right fist came down again and again against Theodore’s face, and the fury behind each blow was decades of accumulated grief with nowhere else to go.

Alan had broken completely.

He could have ended this with the blade. He needed to know why.

He needed to know why he hesitated, why he didn’t move, and why he let everyone die. He cost Alan the whole team. He cost Alan the woman he loved.

Alan blamed himself too, in the part of himself that never stopped bleeding. If he’d been stronger, maybe none of it would have happened. Maybe they’d all still be alive.

Steven and the rest of the squad held the perimeter, blocking Theodore’s squadmates from intervening.

Alan, had been carrying this for years, and it was all coming out now, one blow at a time.

“You worthless coward! The old captain trusted you above everyone else! He gave you the core of the Divine Protection Barrier! Why didn’t you activate it?”

Alan’s roar was the sound of something that had been sealed for far too long.

“Why did you let them all die?”

Another blow landed.

Theodore’s fog began to clear, and confusion started mixing with the fury in his expression.

Even through the beating, even with blood running from his face, Theodore’s voice rose to meet Alan’s.

“What are you even talking about? Everyone was surrounded! There was no opening to activate the Divine Protection Barrier! And nobody ever told me to activate it!”

That shout stopped Alan’s fist in mid–air.