With the Skeleton Soldiers serving as cannon fodder, the members of the Inquisition were finally able to exert their full strength, and the battle turned into a slaughter almost instantly!
In an instant, five Divine Guards and two Assistant Priests were killed on the spot!
And that was only the beginning!
Seeing this, the others instantly lost their will to fight… Everyone who didn’t want to die began to retreat!
As mentioned before, there weren’t many fanatics here; most were just like Loco, cultists who wanted to climb the ranks at any cost!
“You!!”
Before the Great Priest could even roar, the other members of the Inquisition had already made their move!
Each of them pulled a bottle from their waist, which seemed to contain a pale golden liquid.
“May God’s grace be with you.”
After chanting this phrase in a low voice, they threw the bottles toward the combat zone in front of them almost simultaneously!
“What is this?!”
The Divine Guards, who had Tenfold Acceleration active, naturally dodged the bottles without much effort.
Some even caught the bottles mid-air and held them in their hands, their faces showing 70% disdain and 30% confusion.
They could only tell that these things appeared to be ordinary crystal bottles, though they were engraved with some holy-looking runes.
Was it holy water?
Crack… With a crisp sound, a small crack appeared without warning on one of the bottles held by one of the men!
“Idiot! What are you doing?!”
“I… I didn’t touch anything!”
“These things are going to explode! Throw them away, quickly!”
Crackle!!
Following countless crisp sounds, whether the crystal bottles were caught or still in the air, the runes on them flashed with a faint light in the next second!
Then, they exploded!
Amisa, standing behind the crowd, discovered that as the bottles shattered, one of the members of the Inquisition made a hand seal.
‘This is clearly the other party’s Transcendent ability, but it looks quite weak.’
‘It doesn’t even have Rank 1 strength, and as for that guy’s battle just now…’ Amisa hadn’t observed him specifically.
‘It’s really strange…’
Almost all of her knowledge regarding the Inquisition came from rumors.
Amisa naturally didn’t know the difference between these guys’ “God-given” abilities and the abilities bestowed upon Transcendents like them by a Supreme Being.
Splash!
At that moment on the battlefield above, as the bottles shattered, the pale golden liquid inside splashed out!
Though it was everywhere like raindrops, the Divine Guards, who had accelerated their own time by ten times, merely flickered their bodies to avoid it, not letting a single drop of liquid land on their clothes…
Sizzle… sizzle! Whoosh!!
However, avoiding the liquid didn’t seem to matter!
In the next instant, the liquid in the air was directly ignited by a spark rising from nowhere!
That was right—the golden liquid was nothing else but oil!
The oil ignited automatically almost the moment it touched the air, instantly connecting into a single sheet! It formed a massive curtain of fire across the sky!
“Uh?!”
The Divine Guards at ten times speed could dodge scattered oil, but this connected cloud of fire… there was truly no way to dodge it, no matter how fast they were!
In an instant, this expanding, exploding… Purifying Fire, which could ignite almost anything, directly swallowed several Divine Guards who had failed to react!
Their bodies were wrapped in flames as they let out shrill screams, moving rapidly through the air!
Because they had accelerated their own time tenfold, the speed of the burning was also ten times faster… In an instant, these guys turned directly into balls of fire!
By the time they hit the ground, they were nothing more than ash wrapped in flames!
“Great Priest! Great Priest, hurry and cancel… Ahhh!!”
Some of the quicker Divine Guards, or those who had anticipated trouble, were only grazed on their hemlines and could have been spared.
However, because of the Tenfold Acceleration, these Divine Guards—who originally had a chance at life—were instantly ignited into human torches!
In an instant, the situation was completely reversed. Whether in the air or on the ground, nothing remained but the agonizing screams of the cultists…
Thud…
At that moment, the Great Priest sat straight down on the ground, staring at the scene of purgatory before him and at the Captain of the Inquisition, who had reappeared in mid-air after being freed.
“It’s over… everything… is over…”
“Since it’s all over, would it be possible for me to borrow some of your things for a bit?”
Before he could say anything else, a light, airy voice sounded beside him.
“Huh?!”
The Great Priest turned his head and saw a white-bearded, white-haired old man looking at him with a smile.
“You—” Before he could react, the hand Arthur had kept in his pocket suddenly darted out and then withdrew.
Crack…
“Sorry~ our Lady wants this~”
Arthur now held the Eyeball Mask that the Great Priest had been wearing, shaking it slightly.
‘What… thing?’
The Great Priest clearly hadn’t reacted yet. Furthermore… ‘Did I turn around? Why… why is my line of sight… actually showing me my own back…?’
Thud!
In the next second, the Great Priest, whose neck had been snapped, collapsed to the ground with a look of utter confusion.
The light gradually faded from his eyes.
Then, a black hole appeared out of thin air beneath his corpse, swallowing him whole.
Arthur casually tossed the mask into the black hole as well.
The projection of the “True God” that had not yet fully manifested dissipated.
The Great Priest was dead, all the Assistant Priests were dead, and the majority of the Divine Guards were dead!
At this moment, the True God Sect had clearly lost its momentum.
The followers had long since begun to flee in all directions like headless flies!
Whoosh…
Only now did the burning flames above finally dissipate.
However, the Captain, who had been freed, did not look at the fleeing cultists or her own members first…
Her gaze followed those wailing, translucent figures and looked straight toward the ground of the Ruined City.
After a few seconds of silence, the Captain said nothing, merely raising her eyes slowly.
“Heretics, all shall be purified.”
Whoosh!!
In the next second, she charged toward the Divine Guards who had lost their will to fight and were trying to flee, wielding her rusty giant axe!
In one-on-one or even three-to-one situations, this Captain of the Inquisition could easily deal with these Divine Guards without needing any external help!
Observing from below, Arthur also noticed that the strand of white hair that had been at her temple earlier had now disappeared.
‘Is it because the caster was killed that the curse was lifted?’
However, Arthur’s gaze shifted toward the other members, who were in high spirits.
Although these guys were full of fighting spirit, the parts of their bodies that had become weakened due to the Divine Guards’ attacks showed no signs of improvement.
‘In that case, is it only her case that is special?’
Whoosh—!!
Just as Arthur was thinking about these things, the Captain split a fleeing Divine Guard in two with one swing of her axe!
The afterglow of the flames was about to land on Arthur, but he didn’t dodge or hide, his expression remaining calm.
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