"Don't come any closer, Miss Taylin."
Messiah stood in front of Taylin, his hands already on the longsword at his waist. He was ready to fight at any moment.
The Chief Justice who was walking towards Messiah was emitting a strong murderous intent. His target was obviously the Frost Elf Taylin behind Messiah.
"Messiah … The Holy Tree, Enlucia, is very angry and uneasy."
"The Holy Tree?"
Messiah tilted his head and glanced at the sapling in Taylin's hand. It was waving its two branches wildly.
If it was a cat, it would probably be brandishing its claws at the fellow who snatched its dried fish. However, the grudge between the World Tree and the Court of Heresy was not as simple as snatching the dried fish.
"Anyway, back off first."
Messiah once again looked at the Chief Justice who was walking towards them. He had already taken out a wand and a dagger from his magician robe and was walking straight towards Taylin.
The Frost Elf Taylin also noticed the dangerous stranger. She kept backing away from Messiah …
Messiah stared at the Chief Justice. Her hand that was holding the hilt of her sword was covered in cold sweat.
She had never hesitated to draw her sword in her entire life. She was facing a Chief Justice, a comrade of the Church.
If Messiah pointed his sword at the Chief Justice, it could be said that she had betrayed the entire Church. She would be sent to the Holy Assembly of the Church to be judged.
The Chief Justice did not look at Messiah. He only stared at the Frost Elf Taylin, or the World Tree in Taylin's hand.
The Chief Justice named Tailbone's eyes were filled with twisted malice and anger. A voice kept whispering in his ear, "Destroy that damned sapling! Kill that elf!"
In the end … Messiah did not stop him. The presiding judge brushed past Messiah and walked towards Taylin.
The Presiding Judge raised the dagger in his hand. Almost no one noticed that the dagger was covered in Grey Fog …
At this moment, the roots of the World Tree in Taylin's palm suddenly began to extend, and a large number of spikes appeared on the surface of the World Tree, as if preparing to block the attack of the dagger.
The sound of steel colliding with steel replaced the sound of the dagger stabbing into flesh …
In the end, Messiah made his move.
"She … is not the target!"
Messiah used the scabbard to block the Chief Judge's attack on Taylin. Even the scabbard, which was made of high-quality Aderic steel, could not withstand the heavy blow.
Cracks appeared on the surface of the scabbard, and Messiah's hand was slightly numb. However, she still blocked the attack for Taylin.
Messiah's persuasion did not have any effect. The Chief Justice seemed to have lost the ability to communicate with words. In his eyes, there was only the Frost Elf and the small sapling.
All he wanted to do was to break the sapling!
Hot sparks burst out from the friction between the dagger and the scabbard. The Chief Justice ignored Messiah and once again walked towards the Frost Elf behind Messiah.
The staff in the Chief Justice's other hand began to gather an indescribable magic …
Messiah knew that there was no turning back now. She used the hilt of her greatsword to hit the Chief Justice's chin, and then used her shoulder to hit the Chief Justice's chest.
The huge force forced the Chief Justice a few steps back.
In the end, Messiah still saved the Frost Elf and risked betraying the Church.
However, the reason why she saved Taylin was not because she liked the Hearthstone, nor was it because she wanted to please the Chaos Demon. It was because Messiah believed in the doctrine of God, that the weak should be protected.
As a knight, she once swore not to attack the weak and helpless … This was the justice that Messiah believed in, even if it seemed contradictory and childish to outsiders.
"I repeat, she is not the target!"
Messiah did not know what happened to the Chief Justice. His eyes had lost the intelligence that a human should have, but as an assassin, his movements were still agile.
The Chief Justice's staff released magic that could not be detected by the naked eye. The magic formed a sharp blade and attacked the Frost Elf.
Golden runes overflowed from the hilt of Messiah's sword. The Chief Justice stood in front of Taylin, and the sound of glass shattering echoed in the tavern.
The defensive magic that Messiah hurriedly constructed could not withstand the Chief Justice's attack. The armor on her shoulder was torn, and some blood flowed out.
After a few short clashes, someone finally noticed the battle. A magic circle formed by pure white magic appeared under the Chief Justice's feet.
The pure white inscriptions surrounded the Chief Judge's body, binding him.
This was a forbidden spell from the Inscription System of Order.
Myrcella scanned her surroundings and quickly spotted the figure of the man in gray.
This imprisonment spell was cast by Noland's Sage. Gray mist appeared on the Chief Justice's body, and the surface of the runes began to crack.
Even a Sage's binding spell could not restrain the Chief Justice's movements.
In order to prevent him from doing anything more dangerous, Messiah could only choose to strike the Chief Justice's neck with the hilt of his sword while he was restrained.
Messiah swore that this strike would shatter a normal person's neck into pieces. A Chief Justice's body could not be so fragile.
He had no … bones.
When Messiah struck the Chief Justice's neck, it did not feel like he was striking a humanoid creature, but some kind of soft-bodied creature.
The Chief Justice did not faint. Instead, he struggled even more crazily. Just as the runes around him were about to break, another large number of pure white runes formed a prison around the Chief Justice's body.
The binding magic created by the man in gray completely restrained the Chief Justice.
Two judges walked out from the crowd. When Messiah saw them, he was ready to fight. However, they only grabbed the Chief Justice who had lost control and dragged him out of the tavern.
Messiah heaved a sigh of relief, but his heart was filled with unresolvable gloom.
The two judges must have seen how Messiah attacked their leader. After this mission was over, she would be sent to the Holy Parliament for questioning.
"Wait a minute, Messiah … your shoulder is bleeding."
When Messiah was about to leave, the Frost Elf Taylin called out to her.
"It's just a scratch. You have to be careful."
The wound on Messiah's shoulder did not hurt his muscles, so it was not a scratch. Taylin also saw through Messiah's comforting words.
"Please accept the Holy Tree's gratitude, as well as mine."
The World Tree in Taylin's hand suddenly reached out its roots and touched Messiah's wound. When the roots reached into the wound, Messiah felt a strange feeling.
Under the influence of the World Tree's power, the flesh on his shoulder grew rapidly.
The World Tree began to display its power, and at the same time, it released its own aura. This seemed to be the World Tree's intention.
Not only did the Chief Justice start to lose control, but the other judges in the tavern also showed signs of losing control.
"Golden Professor Bang Bang! Sir Lorian! I said I can definitely … "
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