The Goddess, Please Devour the Evil Deity!

On a floating island somewhere, after sensing the movement on the dead tree, the man wearing a mask, with black and white long hair, stood silently beneath the tree for a long time, rare for him, as he finally gazed at the massive phantom above the dead tree.
"What's wrong, King?"
— "The curse, it... encountered Lady Sister." —

A strange voice softly entered the man's mind. Although the voice was odd, it carried an indescribable excitement and anticipation. As the words entered his mind, the man's face instantly furrowed in concern.
"Lady Sister?"
Could it be…

"The Thousand-Faced Bird encountered that person?"
— "Yes." —
"Have the bird pass the curse back immediately!"

— "No need." —
"King?"
The man was momentarily stunned, his confusion and surprise evident as he spoke.

— "Let the curse try it out. It’s just as well; I also want to understand... what is Lady Sister's current situation?" —
Meanwhile, on the battlefield near the Western Siwa Alliance's border...
"Quiet, you're disturbing my daughter."

The blue-haired girl cast a cold glance at the Thousand-Faced Bird.
Without any excessive movement, her pure gaze alone brought a suffocating pressure to the Thousand-Faced Bird.
"Ga?!"

Guided by the instincts of a wild beast, the Thousand-Faced Bird's aggressive charge abruptly halted. It flapped its wings and swiftly pulled back the distance between itself and Bai Lianyue.
Its pupils sharply contracted, and an inexplicable sense of fear surged within its heart.
At the same time, it seemed that this strange emotion affected the ghostly spirits of the dead clinging to its body. The twisted grins of the spirits suddenly froze, their trembling horns shaking, and their eyes filled with an indescribable panic, as though pleading for mercy.
What’s going on?

Something’s wrong.
This thing is wrong!!
Although the blue-haired girl in front of it resembled Anna, whom it had fought before, in both aura and appearance, at this moment...

The Thousand-Faced Bird sensed an odd atmosphere about the girl.
What exactly was strange, it couldn't say.
But its instincts told it that this girl in front of it was extremely dangerous.

"You are not Liana! Who exactly are you?!"
Feeling the chilling gaze directed at it, the Thousand-Faced Bird gravely questioned.
Meanwhile, as Bai Lianyue stared at the strange bird covered in dead faces, an intense feeling of disgust swiftly rose in her eyes.

Now, Bai Lianyue was also a Fallen Beast, and one of the highest-ranking Evil Gods, but she still harbored a strong dislike for Fallen Beasts.
The beast lingering near the Viwas area, or any Fallen Beast from the other affiliated clans, was something she’d disdain.
Furthermore, considering that the bird had frightened the little one beside her, Bai Lianyue’s gaze toward the Thousand-Faced Bird turned even colder.

As for the bird’s question, Bai Lianyue felt nothing but disdain deep in her heart.
"...We’ve reached this point, and you still haven’t figured it out? Heh..."
"Uluoti is really blind for picking you as a follower, but..."

"Uluoti-sama? Blind?"
At the mention of this, the Thousand-Faced Bird's body shook, its birdhead twisting as it almost instinctively revealed a fierce, grim expression.
To Fallen Beasts, Evil Gods, as absolute rulers, were their deities, and the Thousand-Faced Bird was no exception.

Any words insulting Uluoti-sama were unforgivable to it.
"How dare you speak like that about Uluoti-sama?! You have a huge audacity!"
Suppressing its inner unease, the Thousand-Faced Bird screeched angrily at Bai Lianyue.

"So what if I said that?"
A cold light flickered in Bai Lianyue's eyes, and a suffocating murderous intent suddenly erupted from her gaze.
"I want to kill that person too."

The moment those words left her lips,
A strong sense of coldness rapidly enveloped the Thousand-Faced Bird’s body.
The chilling killing intent felt like countless swords piercing through the bird,
Even though Bai Lianyue hadn’t done anything yet, the Thousand-Faced Bird felt as if its entire body was about to be torn apart.

However, this strange sensation, along with the fear in its heart, was quickly swallowed by the anger surging from within the bird.
"You!!"
With a shrill screech, the Thousand-Faced Bird flapped its wings again.

The hundreds of faces attached to its body, linked with darkness, now showed no trace of fear. Instead, there was only the murderous intent and rage from the Holy Library of the Church.
"How dare you think of such disrespect?! Seeking death!! Puh puh puh puh puh!!!"
Any insults to the Sky Evil God were intolerable to the Thousand-Faced Bird.

Let alone words spoken by Bai Lianyue.
It had to eliminate anything threatening Uluoti-sama!
This was the reason for their existence as followers!

The Thousand-Faced Bird's enormous eyes suddenly narrowed.
It threw its head back and let out an earth-shattering roar.
Then, terrifying curse power began to surge from its body, spreading wildly like a tidal wave to all directions.

Where the curse power reached, the earth cracked, and countless rocks were sent flying, an air filled with a suffocating cold aura instantly spread.
Even the Western Siwa Alliance's stationed troops on the outskirts felt this chilling aura,
Even at a distance, the soldiers trembled,
Their hands holding their guns shaking uncontrollably, and even the mechs' control systems emitted alarms due to the interference of the curse power.

Anna urgently looked toward the dim light in the sky.
"What’s that? Purification?... The Thousand-Faced Bird is really going for it... What’s happening over there?!"
Little Aeria, are you all right?

But as her heart wrenched with pain, Gremil accelerated his charge recklessly.
...
With the release of the demon spirit, the Thousand-Faced Bird completely broke free from the restraints that had bound its power, its massive wings spread to their limit, like a sky-shrouding canopy descending.

Its enormous beak slowly opened, and with a chilling chant, the concentrated dark blue curse power surged violently in its throat, and even more horrifying, the eyes on the sides of its head also opened their mouths, each blood-red eye flickered with eerie blue light, as if gathering power from the depths of hell.
At this moment, the curse power released from the Thousand-Faced Bird’s mouth caused not only intense shaking of the space, but also created a vortex of curse power that sent a tremendous pressure to the demon soldiers on the battlefield, every trace of energy it emitted seemed to tear the space apart, carrying an earth-shattering momentum.
The Thousand-Faced Bird’s body was now filled to the brim with curse power, accumulating to its utmost. The entire sky was bathed in a strange blue glow.

Clearly, its dazzling and furious anger had reached its peak. It would utterly destroy Bai Lianyue, along with this land, and those little demons, erasing them into nothingness.
At this moment, its Thousand-Faced Birds no longer sought to add to their collection, but instead intended to erase these human traces entirely,  the only thought in its mind.
As for the Holy Stone Uluoti-sama had told it to bring back?

Heh,
The Holy Stone isn’t so easily destroyed.
After waiting for these people to turn to dust, it would retrieve the Holy Stone and bring it back.
"Puh puh puh puh puh!"

Faced with the blinding eerie light in the sky, Bai Lianyue gently patted the little one's head in her arms,
"Good, just sleep for now. When you wake up, everything will be over."
As she spoke, a strong sense of drowsiness began to wash over the two children. The younger half-fox child directly closed their eyes and fell asleep in Bai Lianyue's arms.
Aeria seemed to resist the drowsiness for a moment, but soon, the girl also tiredly closed her eyes.

"...I envy you."
Looking at the sleeping children in her arms, Bai Lianyue said with some melancholy.
She didn’t want to let the children see any more... but... she felt that the things to come were better left unseen by them.

"Suddenly,"
The children's spirits might break...
Raising her hand slightly toward the Thousand-Faced Bird, which was about to unleash its fatal strike in the sky, Bai Lianyue nonchalantly lifted her left hand.

"Just right,"
After such a long absence from battle,
"I'm a bit hungry..."