Miasma swirled around the top of the towering structure like smoke enveloping a mountain peak, but this dangerous cloud was laced with dark magic power—eerie and suffocating.
The spacious command room at the top of the castle fortress had already been eroded by shadow.
Upon seeing the ominous presence, the knights immediately sprang into action.
“Damn it, it’s the demon race! We’ve been invaded!”
“Hurry! Her Majesty the Holy Queen is in danger! We’ve been attacked by some strange entity…”
Nine sentry soldiers using magical vision spotted the anomaly high above.
News of the enemy quickly spread throughout the entire knight order.
They set up magic arrays on various platforms across the castle, preparing to launch a counterattack.
Several vanguard knights carrying shields charged toward the top floor of the fortress, but on the necessary path, they were blocked by an impenetrable barrier.
Even a battering ram would not have been able to shake it in the slightest.
Boom—!
Suddenly, a crimson-purple beam of light erupted from the top of the castle, shooting straight into the dark dome of the sky.
The entire heavens seemed to darken, like an omen of the apocalypse.
Just as everyone fell into despair, two girls stepped forward.
“Priest corps, prepare to break through.”
Morphis floated in the air. Her body radiated light like a blazing sun, perhaps becoming the hope of everyone present.
The chanting of the priest corps at this moment became the most reassuring sound.
Philina followed closely behind her, accompanied by the loyal subordinates of the Second Knight Order.
“The evil god noticed this quickly…”
She muttered to herself.
They had personally witnessed just how terrifying the evil god could be.
After exchanging glances with Morphis, they decided to act together, combining their strongest forces.
However, Philina felt a wave of fear.
After recalling what Olivia had told her, her body grew hot and restless, almost as if it were no longer under her control.
She didn’t think that two heavenly oracle envoys, Lady Gabriella, and the priest corps fighting on home territory would lose.
She simply didn’t want to face Olivia.
If the evil god brought out everyone from the residential palace as hostages…
[Shining Saint] Morphis flew to her side and placed a hand on Philina’s shoulder.
When the two girls turned to look at each other, both of their faces flushed red.
“So close…”
“Mm.”
“The priest corps was specifically formed to combat powerful enemies. In this battle… we still have a chance.”
“Understood.”
Philina nodded.
Even though she said that, Morphis herself didn’t have much confidence either.
She didn’t know how long she and Philina could hold out, how much power the evil god had recovered, or whether Lady Olivia now saw the heavenly oracle envoys as enemies.
But at that moment, a surge of magic power caused the two battle mages to turn their heads at the same time.
A knight girl slowly walked over.
Pure silver-white power radiated from her body, and her beautiful silver hair announced her identity.
“Grand Commander Elsa!”
For a moment, the morale of the entire knight order soared. A nearby knight shouted her name.
“Miss Philina, Miss Morphis~” Elsa greeted the two of them.
“Grand Commander?!”
Morphis’s eyes widened in shock.
Philina felt something was off… Why was Elsa here?!
She was supposed to have already fallen and become a demon.
And then, the silver-white holy figure that appeared in the sky seemed to confirm everything.
A holy white robe and white veil fluttered gently in the wind along with her long silver-white hair.
It was Gabriella—the Silver-White Sword Empress!
Her appearance caused the knights to grow even more excited, some even cheering loudly.
Although many didn’t know the name of the Silver-White Sword Empress, the moment they saw her godlike presence, they instinctively began to pray.
But the good moment didn’t last long.
They all turned their eyes toward the top of the castle—the command room that originally belonged to the Holy Queen.
With a loud boom, an orange-yellow power suddenly erupted from within.
The blazing light momentarily illuminated the darkness, only to be quickly swallowed by shadow.
Shockwaves rippled out from the soaring purple pillar of light, sounding like a helpless cry of despair.
—Her Majesty the Holy Queen was in trouble.
Inside the command room, where no one else knew what was happening.
Dark shadow constructs stained the holy white robe, like thick mud defiling her pure white body.
Black, blasphemous stains covered her slender yet
voluptuous fair legs.
Her hands were lifted by shadow and hung from the ceiling.
A woman with golden hair knelt on the cold floor, her flushed cheeks illuminated by bluish flames. Her vacant eyes flickered faintly.
The demon girl lifted her beautiful chin.
A trace of awareness returned to Simona’s eyes.
“Master Liya, is this acceptable?”
“Mm, very good, Miss Simona. With this, the humans will all fall for it, right?”
Not long ago, Gabriella—who had just finished corrupting Loli—also sensed the evil god’s descent.
She walked out of the room, looked up, and saw the soaring dark magic power.
The cross symbols in her eyes flickered slightly.
She was all too familiar with the evil god’s power.
The idiot master had turned back into the idiot evil god again.
The Curse Ring was just her way of announcing her arrival.
Gabriella touched her cherry lips. It looked like the evil god was a little anxious, wasn’t she?
She tried putting herself in the other party’s shoes.
The evil god had placed a curse on the Goddess and planted a seed inside her body.
The Goddess had fallen into the abyss and become an obedient wife by her side.
From the evil god’s perspective, everything should have been completely under control.
Lady Evil God really is too sensitive~
She had originally planned to take this chance to find the evil god and explain everything clearly so the idiot Isabella wouldn’t worry.
But before she could walk far, she saw Elsa.
Elsa was panting heavily.
Her hurried appearance made it look as if she had just rushed out after something major.
She was also wearing a maid outfit, as if she had just run out from the residential palace.
“Sister…?”
Upon seeing Gabriella, she grabbed her sister’s hand and headed straight back into the room, closing the door behind them.
She then turned her back to Gabriella and fell silent for a moment.
The air grew quiet.
The only sounds were the shouts of mobilizing knights and the thud of boots on the floor outside.
“Hm? What’s wrong, Elsa? By the way, why are you here?”
“Mm…”
Elsa’s expression was complicated.
She lowered her head again.
Then she turned around and looked at Gabriella with the same worried eyes that Philina and Morphis had once given her.
“Sister… it’s very dangerous outside… Please don’t go out.”
She trembled as if she understood that some kind of crisis was erupting outside, as if she had witnessed a world-shaking disaster or the coming of the apocalypse.
“Elsa~”
Gabriella tilted her head with a smile, stepped forward, and stroked the top of her head, gently touching her horns as well.
“Sister…”
Being stroked clearly calmed Elsa down.
“Elsa, did you remember something?”