On the ground of the ruined town outpost in front of the border.
Seraphina floated in midair, the illusory image of six wings formed from golden holy light spread out behind her.
There was no trace of her usual gentleness in her eyes. Below her feet, a team of elite knights blessed by holy light stood ready, all poised to face the enemy.
“The magic cannon is fully charged!”
A knight shouted.
“The magic traps on the left flank are ready too!”
“The Priest Order’s barrier has been deployed!”
Reports poured into her mind one after another. Seraphina’s gaze pierced through the strong wind carrying fine sand, fixing firmly on the forest ahead with its bizarre trees. It was far too quiet over there.
Though there were some low-level magic beasts roaring, they were nothing more than creatures coming to die. Not a single one of the two high-level magic beasts mentioned in her intelligence had shown themselves.
Even the magical arrays used for early warning were silent, ruling out the possibility of a flanking attack.
‘What exactly are they waiting for…!’
‘Are they waiting for me to strike first and exhaust my holy power?’
‘Or something else!’
Her instincts were screaming warnings.
‘This might be a hunting trap set specifically for me, the Holy Maiden.’
She couldn’t move. As long as she kept her holy power at full, those opponents wouldn’t dare reveal their trump cards. She had to conserve this power to deal with the worst-case scenario. Time passed slowly in the standoff.
Suddenly!
BOOOOOOM——!!!
The void in the middle of the battlefield suddenly exploded! Three abyssal fire pillars as thick as mountains materialized out of thin air and came crashing down!
Those were not ordinary flames, but flames of destruction mixed with dark magic power, hot enough to vaporize steel in an instant!
“Barrier!”
“Activate it at full power, hurry!”
WHOOSH——!
The huge semi-transparent holy light barrier deployed instantly, but the force of the three pillars of fire crashing down was too strong.
The barrier didn’t even last half a second before shattering like cracked glass with a crack! The shockwave swept over!
“Aah——!”
The heavy shield knights in the front were sent flying, shields and all. The magic cannon carriage was also cut in half. After the dust settled, a massive creature leaped up from underground. It was a three-headed hellhound!
‘As I thought…!’ ‘It’s that thing.’
Seraphina’s pupils contracted sharply. She had guessed from the reports that it might be this one, but seeing it in person still startled her.
The intelligence said there were two, but there was no sign of any other magic beasts around! Was it just bait? The enemy had calculated that she would personally intervene to protect the soldiers.
“In that case!”
The six holy light wings behind Seraphina instantly expanded!
“Then I’ll grant your wish!”
Without a moment’s hesitation, her figure vanished from midair in a flash, and when she reappeared, she was already standing on top of the hellhound’s huge head!
“Holy Judgment: Heaven’s Fall!”
Holy light gathered beneath her feet, and she plunged straight down like a golden meteor!
ROAR——!!!
The three heads of the hellhound roared simultaneously. But it was too late. The moment Seraphina descended, all low-level magic beasts within a hundred-meter radius were instantly reduced to ashes by the pure holy light, without even a scream.
The earth split open. Seraphina knelt on the hellhound’s center head, her golden hair flying in the violent magical turbulence, her holy sword already plunged into the midpoint of its brow.
“It’s over.”
Just as she was about to shred the magic beast’s brain.
HMMMM…
At that very moment, alarm bells rang wildly in her heart! A dark aura she was very familiar with suddenly coiled around her holy sword, trying to corrode her magic power!
“This disgusting corrosive power again!”
‘Behind me?’
‘No…!’
‘It’s below!’
Without even turning around, Seraphina conjured a holy light shield beside her with a backhand motion.
BAM!
A dark shadow shot up from underground, slamming hard into her shield! The impact made her frown, and she used the force to backflip several times, landing steadily on the ground.
As the dust cleared, two figures slowly emerged from the shadows, overlapping with the phantom that had just dissipated in the sky. One was a shadow demon that could burrow underground. One was a nightmare that could create illusions. Three high-level magic beasts had appeared.
“So it was a setup, all three high-level magic beasts!”
“They deliberately waited for me to come, even willingly taking that hit from me?”
She slowly raised her holy sword, pointing its tip straight at the three magic beasts, her golden pupils burning with excited fighting spirit.
“It seems the one pulling your strings has no idea about the power of this Holy Maiden! Absolutely no idea at all.”
Seraphina’s figure blurred, holy light creating numerous afterimages across the battlefield. The three high-level magic beasts all pounced on her at once.
Seraphina’s figure traced a golden afterimage in the air, her speed so fast it seemed to tear the air apart.
‘I have to take out that nightmare first.’
She made a quick judgment in her mind. Compared to the thick-skinned hellhound and shadow demon, this nightmare specializing in mental control and illusions was the most troublesome. If she didn’t remove this thorn first, the battle would become many times harder.
“Holy Light: Pierce!”
Without any tricks, the holy sword in Seraphina’s hand burst into blinding light, and her form shot straight toward the nightmare’s illusory head like a meteor! But just as her sword tip was about to reach the nightmare…
CLANG!!!
A metallic clashing sound rang out. Seraphina’s pupils contracted; she felt as if she had hit an invisible wall. The hellhound’s middle head had opened its mouth at some point, and a dark red energy barrier blocked the nightmare at that moment!
“They can cover each other?!”
Before she could change her technique, a strange event occurred. The nightmare let out a piercing scream, and its figure became illusory like smoke.
Countless pitch-black, barb-covered tentacles shot out from the void, instantly entangling Seraphina’s limbs and body.
These tentacles were not only highly corrosive but also carried a nauseating magic power, frantically gnawing at her holy light shield.
The shadow demon that had been waiting sprang up from the ground’s shadow, turning into a pitch-black blade, while from the side, the hellhound’s three heads simultaneously began charging destructive energy spheres.
All four directions were sealed off. Two earth-shattering energies struck her, tangled in tentacles, at the same time!
BOOOOOM——!!!
The violent explosion instantly swallowed Seraphina. That terrifying shockwave lifted layers of the surrounding ground, forming a huge crater. The high-energy aftermath even caused a brief distortion in space. Dust filled the air. The hellhound panted heavily.
GRR……!
GRRR……!
The hellhound let out a low growl, as if confirming the results. But then, in the next second. The three magic beasts’ originally savage eyes simultaneously reflected a scene that made their souls tremble. In the very center of the thick dust, a pillar of light slowly rose.
That was not ordinary holy light, but a white so pure it seemed capable of judging all evil in the world. Seraphina floated in midair, the dark tentacles that had been wrapped around her now turned to ash.
Her armor merged with the holy light, and the originally illusory six wings behind her became wings of light. Her expression was no longer angry, but showed a sacred and solemn indifference.
“You three beasts really do have good coordination!”
“If you were platinum level, I would have died just now.”
She was actually a bit relieved; if not for having deep enough trump cards, she would have been done for. Seraphina’s gaze swept over the three magic beasts.
“And you three, still daring to stand so close.”
The hellhound instinctively tried to retreat, the shadow demon tried to burrow underground, the nightmare tried to hide in the void. Too late.
The ball of light in Seraphina’s hand exploded, turning into countless golden chains that sealed the space of this world in an instant.
“Since you’re all together, go to hell together.”
She murmured softly, then raised her right hand high, and the pillar of light that had gathered all the holy power within ten li came crashing down with a bang.
“Forbidden Art: Trinity – Genesis Light!”
At that moment, there was only light left in heaven and earth. No screams, no struggles.
Before this absolute sacred power, the hellhound’s vaunted defense was like paper, the shadow demon’s Shadow Law was forcibly torn apart, and the nightmare’s illusions had nowhere to hide in this true light.
Three high-level magic beasts, capable of destroying an entire city, didn’t even have time to think of fleeing before their bodies began to disintegrate in the light. In the blink of an eye. The formerly chaotic battlefield fell silent.
Seraphina slowly retracted her wings of light, the sacred glow fading from her eyes, replaced by a hint of fatigue. She ordered the knights to clean up the battlefield immediately.
Then, she glanced toward the camp ruins, her figure flickering as she transformed into a beam of white light, flying at top speed toward the figure she had been worrying about.
There was only one thought in her heart: she had to get back quickly, she must not let anything happen to Yisela.
“Wait for me, Yisela.”
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