Thinking of this, the Great Priest no longer hesitated.
As the giant eye on his mask rotated, he scanned the crowd of Divine Guards above!
Gurgle…
The eyes on the arms of the Divine Guards seemed to receive some kind of empowerment.
Dense blood vessels wrapped around the entire eyeballs, and at that moment, they began to spin around frantically!
And the movements of the Divine Guards instantly… became incredibly erratic and jerky.
In the eyes of Ileya, Holly, and Franlot—who had been carried away by Amisa—the current actions of these Divine Guards looked like they were twitching rapidly!
They moved so fast that only afterimages remained!
This was the [Time Acceleration] applied by the Great Priest.
Rather than calling it a buff, it would be more accurate to call it a Curse.
Because accelerating an individual’s time by ten times was not only painful for the person but also forced the brain to operate under a high load…
At the same time, it meant that the lifespans of the Divine Guards were now in a ten-times acceleration mode.
This was also a way to force these Divine Guards to settle things with the Captain in front of them quickly!
The sooner they dealt with her, the sooner this Curse that accelerated the loss of life would be lifted…
They glanced at each other, and then, as if by prior agreement, the eyes on their arms rotated toward the same direction simultaneously!
But… right at that moment!
The originally scorching air around them unexpectedly turned freezing cold in an instant!
The dozen or so Divine Guards whose time had been accelerated suddenly heard voices in their ears that sounded incredibly slow to them, yet were cold enough to chill them to the bone…
“It’s so hot…”
“I’m burning to death… help me…”
“Save me… save me!!”
These voices sounded somewhat familiar.
No… they weren’t just familiar; weren’t these the fellow believers who had been burned to death by the aftershocks of the flames earlier?!
Why… why could they hear the voices of the dead?!
Although the Divine Guards, who had never encountered Necromancy, were not afraid of ghosts, they still felt the same sense of horror as a brave person watching a horror movie for the first time!
That was right… just as the Great Priest made up his mind to pay the price to kill the Captain…
A certain Lady hiding underground had also made up her mind.
And her decision was… to let this Captain have the final victory.
After all, these Cultists did not look like the type who could be reasoned with.
Therefore, she decided to make a little use of the waste.
She let the Remnant Souls of those burned believers, carrying a powerful obsession for survival, find the Divine Guards above!
Of course, these ghosts couldn’t cause any fatal damage to these powerful Cultists.
But it was quite simple to keep babbling in their ears—
It was like… when you were driving, or in a team fight, or in a one-versus-many situation during a Counter-Strike match…
And some jerk next to you kept whispering, “Seriously, man, what are you doing? No, man—”
Clearly, the simple people of this other world had never had their mental state messed with like this.
The impression given to the people watching the battle from below was…
The bodies of these Divine Guards were twitching rapidly and incessantly, as if they were… shooing away mosquitoes?
“What are you doing?!”
The Great Priest was already so angry that he was becoming incoherent.
With such a good opportunity, why weren’t these guys acting quickly?!
Naturally, he did not know the feeling of being haunted by Remnant Souls.
And…
Whoosh!
One Divine Guard prepared to ignore the harassment of the Remnant Soul and reached out his left hand toward the Captain, who was wrapped in burning flames.
However, he failed to notice an illusory figure standing right in front of him!
Hum… The Divine Guard’s ability activated, but… the fireball ahead did not react at all!
That was it! This was another weakness of these guys that Ileya had discovered.
While their individual attacks were very strong, another fatal flaw was… this ability seemed unable to be released as an area-of-effect.
It could only attack the target that the eyeball was facing.
So, theoretically speaking, even the lowest-level Skeleton Soldier could block an attack involving the domain of “Time.”
This was something the Lady had thought of beforehand, but…
“How is this possible?!”
“That works too?!”
While the Divine Guard was surprised, the Lady underground was even more surprised.
She had only tried to let some Remnant Souls block the guy as an experiment, but she suddenly discovered… after the Remnant Soul, which could originally only whisper in someone’s ear, was hit by the opponent’s ability…
Its soul body actually became more solid, and even its Soul became much more condensed.
‘Hiss… in my previous life, I heard the elders talk about thousand-year-old vengeful ghosts and ten-thousand-year-old Zombies…’
‘Could that be applied here too?!’
The opponent’s Time Acceleration on her Wraiths allowed them to grow faster…
No! It wasn’t just Wraiths. In this World, anything that became stronger, rarer, or more precious the older it got… could be accelerated with this ability!
Previously, Ileya felt that this ability of theirs, similar to Time Control, was quite overpowered when used in battle.
But… looking at it now, it was simply a waste of a heavenly gift!
‘Hmm, I suddenly feel like switching sides. What should I do?’
“La… Lady?! That’s something summoned by the Lady’s ability, right?!”
At this moment, Amisa, who was in the shadows of the ruins, finally saw the gradually solidifying Wraiths.
She asked Arthur beside her with some excitement.
“Yeah… it seems they are fine too. In this situation…”
Arthur looked at the ground around them, which had been burned beyond recognition, and then at the stunned, naked man beside him.
“It’s the right choice not to come out.”
Franlot: ‘What… do you mean? Wait! That person in the Shadow is… a woman?!’ (He subconsciously covered his private parts.)
( °口° ; )
This was social death! Social death in another world!
‘System! Is there some kind of Point System or something?!’
‘Can I exchange for a set of clothes to wear?!’
He roared in his heart, but unfortunately, aside from his status panel, there was no voice to answer him.
Hum!!
On the battlefield below, the atmosphere became even more tense.
Compared to the Captain above, who had means of self-protection, the other members of the Heretic Interrogation Squad were currently in a quite passive state.
Although they were far superior to these “Divine Guards” in terms of both physical fitness and combat experience…
They did not possess the Captain’s terrifying ability to burn everything.
Their weapons, which originally shone with a cold light, were now all covered in rust… as if they were antiques picked up from some ancient battlefield.
“Cough, cough… cough, cough, cough!!”
Most of the squad members who had just clashed with those Divine Guards were now kneeling on one knee, coughing incessantly.
Though they were all in their prime, within just those few minutes of engagement, their internal organs had already begun to fail, giving them the physical sensation of being sixty or seventy years old…
Forget about fighting with all their might; even just running forward a few steps would make them feel dizzy and lightheaded.
‘Dammit…’
Clang! Sigrid, holding her scythe, gritted her teeth tightly. As her weapon deflected the long sword of the attacking Divine Guard…
Crack! On her black scythe, a chip actually broke off during the clash!
This wouldn’t do… if they continued to fight like this, they would certainly lose!
Whoosh! The giant scythe swept horizontally, forcing back the Divine Guard who clearly didn’t want to get entangled with her either.
The troublesome thing about this group of Cultists was… one had to possess a death-defying resolve to truly inflict effective damage on them…
‘But… a death-defying resolve?’
Thinking of this, the young woman subconsciously tightened her grip on her scythe with both hands.
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