Chapter 60

The entire group was up before dawn the next day. The knights and demonesses got ready to march onto the battlefield as Nocturne and I prepared to face Iden. Nocturne was visibly more confident about finally facing this monster from her past. I, however, was not as confident about her encountering him. In the short time that I had known her, she had never shown fear of anything, until Iden appeared. I worried that she would freeze when she saw him, and he would be able to get an advantage when fighting her. As I put the God Killer on my hip, I could feel Ris’s power flowing out of it.

 “To protect the one you love, you will have to use me…but I wonder if the god who is supposed to create life will truly be okay with destroying it completely.” I heard Ris speak.

 “I have taken a life before.” I told him.

 “But have you destroyed a soul before?” He asked.

 “Sometimes, your only option is to destroy something completely. While it is not the