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"Lady Zero, Margie can't hold on much longer."
Vanilla turned his head and said worriedly.
"Let's wait a little longer."
Zero looked up with a gloomy face. Although they were underground, the dome was bright. She saw the God's Punishment Army moving forward along the crisscrossed tunnels, nibbling away at the enemy's position little by little. However, it was obvious that their progress was getting slower and slower.
Every pass was guarded by a large number of soldiers, and the straight tunnels were almost unavoidable. While throwing spears, they would inevitably be shot down by snow powder weapons, so they could only rely on the number of soldiers to fill the gaps between the ditches. Many of the pits were already filled with blue blood.
As for the ground, it was even more difficult to move forward.
Although Scourge could jump over the unbreakable barbed wire, he would still be exposed to the enemy's firepower, especially in the four sentry towers behind the line of defense, where the deadly fire almost never stopped.
Perhaps the third ditch was the limit of the God's Punishment Army.
"Damn it, I didn't expect things to be in such a deadlock."
She had made ample preparations for this day to come.
For example, she had found the location of Roland Wimbledon.
The peace talk of the emissary delegation was just a pretense. It would be better if she could see him, but it didn't matter if she couldn't. The letter written in the name of the pope revealed some secrets about the church and the Battle of Divine Will. This sounded like a fairy tale, and others might laugh it off, but the name of the pope was a guarantee.
Moreover, the contents of her letter were all true. Even if Roland had witches who could distinguish the authenticity of the letter from the handwriting, he would not be able to find any clues.
The surface of the letter was smeared with a special powder. It was an alchemy product developed by the Pivotal Secret Agency, and it could emit a smell that ordinary people could not detect. Every time someone touched the paper, the smell would accumulate and soak into the skin, which could not be removed even with water.
Zero firmly believed that they would be sent to Roland one after another. No ruler would not be interested in such a shocking secret, and it was impossible for them to casually show the letter to other people. In this way, the smell on his body must be the strongest among all of them. Although he looked no different from an ordinary person, to Vanilla's nose, this smell was the most eye-catching beacon.
When Vanilla used her ability, she could smell a lot of strange smells. According to her, a month of blood still emitted a faint stench, and when animals were in heat, she could also detect the strange smell on their skin.
At this moment, Roland was only a thousand steps away from them.
Secondly, considering that there might be witches in the enemy camp who could observe magic power, Zero did not hesitate to use the God's Punishment Army and the Judgement Army to attract all the attention of the Graycastle defense line. She even sacrificed some of the less important pure witches. The real decisive battle was hidden deep underground and relied on Maggie's Magic Ark to travel between the rock strata.
The final person to break the stalemate was the Black Veil Saint.
As one of the three Pure Witches of the highest rank in the Holy City, valued by His Holiness O'Brien, her ability was like the arrival of the Grim Reaper to unprotected mortals. Before adulthood, anyone who looked into her eyes would sincerely feel fear from the bottom of their hearts. After adulthood, this ability was further strengthened. As long as people looked into her eyes, they would be deprived of their minds by fear, and they would kill themselves or hurt people around them in crazy and frightening delusions.
At the same time, the branch ability awakened by the Black Veil Saint was also extremely powerful. She could not only create fear by looking into the eyes of others, but also create illusions that were indistinguishable from reality. Although she could only affect one person at a time, she could play a miraculous role at the critical moment. This was because of the Black Veil Saint's ability that Archbishop Tayfun never doubted the Pope's order.
Under the gaze of the Eyes of Death, it was not surprising that she could defeat Roland's army in one fell swoop.
Everything seemed to be going well until the start of the war, when Zero found that she had still miscalculated.
She did not expect that she still underestimated the power of the snow powder weapon.
Roland's weapon unexpectedly launched an attack from ten miles away. The mountain road was shrouded in thick smoke and flames. The church's army was hit head-on even before it came into contact with the defense line.
After turning to attack the position, she found that the situation of the God's Punishment Army was not much better.
These seemingly shallow trenches were actually more difficult to deal with than the towering city wall. The warriors seized the horizontal trenches one by one against the flying projectiles. However, they did not expect that the enemy did not care about the loss of the front line at all. They orderly retreated, giving way to the God's Punishment Army who had paid a heavy price to approach, and then continued to rely on the follow-up channels to block the warriors' actions. During this time, Zero even saw a supernatural being!
Maggie's Magic Ark could not be maintained forever, and the momentum of the God's Punishment Army was getting weaker and weaker. However, the current situation was still far from her original expectation.
According to Isabella's perception, less than half of the enemies were wearing God's Stones. If she wanted as many people as possible to see her, she had to gather them together. At present, the God's Punishment Army had only advanced to the third trench, and the gathering situation in the remaining trenches was still too sparse.
Once the Black Veil Saint was exposed to the public, the time to use her ability would be extremely limited. How many people could pay attention to her within one or two breaths? Perhaps many people would be knocked down by the snow powder weapons before they came to their senses.
"Your Holiness, the ark... is about to collapse..." Maggie's face was covered with sweat and her voice was trembling slightly. Obviously, the overuse of magic power was a great burden on her. At the same time, cracks appeared on the four walls of the space, and the dome began to dim. Zero knew that she had to make a choice.
In other words, she had no other choice at all.
"Float up and act according to the plan!"
Maggie took a deep breath and began to control the ark to quickly approach the ground. At the moment when the ark rushed out of the ground, the magic power instantly dissipated, and the pungent smell of smoke, dull continuous roars, and the smell of blood suddenly filled the surroundings.
The Black Veil Saint looked back at Zero deeply, and then jumped out of the square pit formed by the ark.
It was foreseeable that this would be the last time she would serve the church.
The battlefield suddenly became quiet, as if an invisible giant hand had pinched everyone's throat.
"Isabella!" Zero shouted, "Activate Infinity!"
After a few crisp sounds, a few flowers of blood bloomed behind the Black Veil Saint, and then she fell back to the bottom of the pit like a rootless leaf.
Isabella clenched her teeth and held the Sigil in her hand.
The black translucent Magic Stone suddenly emitted a dark luster, as if it absorbed the surrounding sunlight. An invisible ripple spread from here. Under the effect of "Infinity", it quickly spread throughout the entire battlefield. The amplitude of the ripple was exactly the same as that of the God's Stone worn by Roland, but in the opposite direction. Under the influence of this ripple, the black hole formed by the high-quality God's Stone disappeared without a trace.
Almost at the same time, Zero turned into a ray of light and rushed to the King of Graycastle who was thousands of steps away.
The moment she flew out of the pit, she looked down at the entire battlefield from a high vantage point.
Hundreds of mortal soldiers collapsed in the pit.
Shock and fear on the faces of the enemies.
The Transcendent was closing in quickly.
The Judgement Army who took this opportunity to charge.
Everything seemed to stop until the deadly fire on the sentry tower appeared again, and the flow of time on the battlefield resumed. The sounds of fighting, roaring, crying, and the explosion of snow powder intertwined, forming a shocking ode.
As she got closer and closer to the high platform, she saw the gray-haired prince and God's smile.
...
Nightingale clearly witnessed this strange change. In the world of black and white fog, the magic radiance of the shadow was extremely eye-catching. It was like a hazy cyclone, rushing to the rear of the camp at an extremely fast speed.
She knew that this was the last and most fatal blow of the Pure Witch.
"Protect His Majesty!"
Shavi stretched out her hand and propped up a wide magic barrier, which was enough to cover the entire high platform.
She summoned her magic longbow and shot an arrow of light that was as dazzling as the sun at the dim light.
Nightingale grabbed Roland, who had lost the protection of the God's Stone, and ran backward. No matter what the dim light was, it was obviously coming for His Majesty.
However, it was moving too fast.
In the blink of an eye, the dim light passed through the arrow of light and the magic barrier, catching up with the two unhindered. Even the fog could not block its tracking.
Nightingale pushed Roland away without hesitation and rushed toward the dim light.
Unfortunately, her last effort was of no use. Everything happened in a flash. The dim light penetrated her body and directly entered Roland's.
"No!" She let out a heart-wrenching cry.
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