SSS Class Awakening: Start With A God-Level Choice System

"All my soldiers, return to the Valford Empire!"

Imbuing his words with the authority of an imperial decree, reality heeded her command. Even without Elyndra ordering it, reality flattered her like a servant wanting to gain its lord's recognition.

As reality distorted, all the imperial soldiers, including Veylan, disappeared from the battlefield, returning to the Valford Empire.

With all of them leaving the Demon World, Elyndra no longer had to worry about them.

Sending them to train in the Demon World, even if the time was short, still bore fruit as Elyndra felt her Rulership Energy stat attribute increasing. After all, the higher the quantity and quality of her subjects, the higher her Rulership Energy stat attribute.

After the battlefield was cleared out, only Elyndra, Mira, and Isolde remained.

Mira had already ordered her Servants of Sloth to fetch Aria's nukes.

In just a while after Mira's command, the Servants of Sloth returned with 3 One-Star A-rank nukes and 1 Two-Star A-rank nukes.

Mira ordered her servants, "Throw and detonate those nukes on the Demon Kingdom. Position it in a way that ensures the destruction of the Demon Kingdom while letting the Demon Castle receive most of the damage."

Bowing to Mira, the four servants holding the nuke disappeared and reappeared above the Demon King.

Before the four servants threw and detonated the nukes, Mira enlarged the white pillow she was lying on and gestured Elyndra and Isolde to sit and ride on it.

As the enormous white pillow levitated in the sky, Mira controlled it to fly away from the Demon Kingdom.

Just as Mira, Elyndra, and Isolde flew away from the Demon Kingdom, a blinding white light flashed throughout the area, followed by a loud explosion.

Elyndra and Isolde already expected it, so they had already closed their eyes. As for Mira, her eyes were already closed as she was still sleeping.

A loud explosion rang out that, if not for their durability as a powerful Awakener, would have already deafened them.

Their flight speed was very fast as they outran the shockwave and heat of the nuke before it came into contact with them.

When they looked back behind them, they saw three mushroom clouds, which were dwarfed by a bigger one at the center. The four mushroom clouds sprouted from the Demon Kingdom or whatever was left of it.

Temporarily, they couldn't tell as the heat and white light blocked their sight. And rather than opening their eyes, they used their mana or a magic spell to perceive the world around them without using their five senses.

The combined power of those four nukes might not be able to kill a Three-Star A-rank Awakener, but it was more than enough to injure them. Additionally, that was assuming that Awakener wasn't caught off-guard and sufficiently defended himself.

So no matter what, the Demon King, whose power they estimated to be at the peak of Three-Star A-rank Awakener, shouldn't come out unscathed. Even if he did, his Demon Kingdom and citizens would undoubtedly be exterminated and obliterated without even leaving their ashes behind them.

That was indeed the case. The four nukes made by Aria were heavily modified, as while the explosion radius wasn't big, the energy and power of the explosion were more concentrated.

The blinding light lasted longer than a regular nuke explosion, but from what they could perceive, only the throne room of the Demon Castle seemed to remain.

After several minutes had passed, the effects of the four nukes' detonation had mostly ended, and only the four mushroom clouds lingered.

The heat left behind by the explosion could be easily ignored by them. With Isolde casting magic spells to create barriers and mana shields to protect them, they flew unhindered as they headed towards the Demon Kingdom.

As they expected, nothing was left aside from the throne room of the Demon Castle, eerily floating in the sky. Whether it was the Demon Kingdom's citizens or their houses, only a huge crater was left to show just how destructive the four nukes were. Not even their corpses were left.

Looking at the throne room of the Demon Castle above the Demon Kingdom, Isolde commented, "Sure enough, something's wrong with the Demon King's castle!"

"For his throne room to be unaffected by the nukes' explosion, the runes required would be innumerable. If we recklessly barged inside, we would have been seriously injured, even if we didn't die."

Although Mira didn't speak, the hundreds of Servants of Sloth appearing beside her meant that she had to treat the threat of the Demon King seriously.

She not only summoned them to protect herself but also Isolde. As for Elyndra, she didn't need their protection as they knew that the next battle would be mostly left to Elyndra, with the two of them assisting her from the sidelines.

Observing the throne room floating in the sky, Elyndra replied, "No matter what the Demon King is up to, absolute power will destroy all schemes."

She didn't have any intentions of underestimating the Demon King as she already treated this battle seriously. Deciding to go all out at the start to catch the Demon King off guard, Elyndra unsheathed her sword.

The blade slid free with a sound like a sovereign's decree echoing through the heavens.

It was a longsword of imperial make, slightly longer and sleeker than a standard knight's blade, its narrow edge tapering to a lethal thrusting point. Golden and crimson filigree ran along the shallow groove in its center, intricate as royal embroidery, while runes of sovereignty shimmered faintly beneath the surface, pulsing in rhythm with her heartbeat.

The cross-guard curved like a pair of gilded wings unfurled in command, the pommel crowned with a flawless crimson gem that burned with the light of a miniature sun.

In her grasp, it was less a weapon and more an extension of her throne, each movement promising judgment, each swing carrying the weight to alter the very laws of battle.

The Valtoria Empire had an exclusive swordsmanship style that the imperial family and elite awakeners belonging to the empire used, namely the Valtoria Imperial Swordsmanship. It was based on the traditional swordsmanship of the Valtoria Empire, which was further developed and improved by the SSS-rank Sword Saint.

The Valtoria Empire had two SSS-rank Awakeners as their imperial guardians, and one of them was the Sword Saint, a powerful Five-Star SSS-rank Awakener. He was hailed as the World's Greatest Swordsman, and while he wasn't the strongest, he was the undisputed second.

And so far, Elyndra's attainments in swordsmanship had reached Grandmaster-Level proficiency. Her talent in swordsmanship, or rather, her talent overall, was so monstrous that just at the age of sixteen, her swordsmanship was the second best in the entire Valford Empire.

Even those Awakeners who were stronger than her might not necessarily have better swordsmanship than her. Only the Sword Saint, who specialized in swordsmanship, was more proficient than her, but mainly due to her not living as long as the Sword Saint or focusing on swordsmanship like he did.

The sword Elyndra was holding was no ordinary blade. It was Regal Severance, a growth-type SS-rank artifact recently acquired by the Sword Saint during one of his Otherworld Missions.

Forged in a distant high fantasy world where Rulership itself was the supreme power system, Regal Severance was the crown jewel of an empire that spanned entire continents.

Its creation was blessed by the very laws of sovereignty, allowing it to channel the purest form of imperial might.

In that world, even planetary-level sovereigns coveted it, for the sword recognized only those who met three absolute conditions: a pure imperial bloodline, unrivaled talent, and the bearing and demeanor befitting a true ruler.

When the Sword Saint brought it back to the Valtoria Empire, it immediately sparked a silent war within the royal court.

Elyndra and her sisters each sought their acknowledgment, knowing the weapon would grow in strength alongside its wielder and eventually surpass most SSS-rank relics.

The tests were grueling. Each sister faced visions conjured by the sword itself, trials that judged their authority, resolve, and capacity to command not just men, but the very world around them.

In the end, Regal Severance bowed to only one.

Elyndra emerged from the final trial with her crown-like aura burning brighter than ever, the sword's once dormant runes blazing gold in her grasp.

From that day on, it became an extension of her throne, and anyone who saw her wield it knew that resistance was not only futile but heretical.

Since her mother and father already possessed their own SSS-rank weapons, no one in the empire disputed her claim. It was not because they dared not, but because the sword itself would never again answer to another hand.

Since she arrived on the Shattered Throne World, Elyndra had only used this sword once, and that was when they were still weak and still had to rely on it to defeat stronger enemies.

Later on, when they piled up rewards from completing side missions, Elyndra had yet to unsheathe it again, as even when she fought Veylan, her Rulership Energy stat had already accumulated too high to the point that she wasn't forced to use it.

So, for the second time, Regal Severance made its appearance in this Otherworld!