Chapter 425: She is Saintess Lucia, is 【Ella】, and is a God!
With the arrival of the three chairmen, the tide of the battle instantly turned.
Lucia was tightly bound by chains made of alchemy runes, her expression unchanged, as she spoke indifferently, "It seems your target was not the oil..."
"The oil is certainly something we wish to obtain, but only after dealing with you," Harrov responded with a sneer.
Just now, their airship was not flying aimlessly, and going to the oil fields was merely a ruse!
The importance of petroleum is self-evident, but precisely because of that, it must not become a battlefield!
"How come there is only one person? Where is the Judgement Chief?" Vittorio was very surprised; according to their previous plan, Lynn and the others would have tried to lure both of the Church's legends over to resolve them together.
"Dealing with this one first is not so bad," Aurora thought, with a trace of a smile in her eyes.
If it were four against two, there might be some mishap, and if the enemy were to break through forcefully, that would be troublesome.
But now it's four against one, the advantage is ours!
Aurora thought so, but she soon noticed something was amiss, as the Holy Maiden of the Church before them was too calm. Even being surrounded by them, even when bound by Vittorio's alchemy, one could not see a trace of worry on her face.
"Is this all to your plan tonight?" Lucia asked, somewhat disappointed.
The fact that the wizards' target was not the oil did indeed surprise her. However, neither Vittorio and his companions hiding here with polarization magic nor the alchemy formation set up beneath the ground had escaped her perception; she simply hadn't paid it much mind.
To her, whether it was one person... four people... or even ten people made no difference!
"Since you're all here, then let's resolve this together!" Lucia's gaze became very cold, and terrifying waves of Divine Arts surged around her. The chains that firmly bound her vibrated violently.
[Projection——Divine Domain!]
Immense sacred chants echoed through the night sky, and then grass and vines sprouted from the barren land, breaking through the soil, destroying all the Alchemy Arrays on the ground.
Lucia levitated, her eyes shining like stars, and the chains that bound her instantly shattered. The entire wasteland became a land blessed by the Divine in the blink of an eye, as far as the eye could see...
Lynn retreated quickly, but was still enveloped by the Divine Domain. What shocked him most was that the other party did not use sacred chants when unveiling the Divine Domain.
Previously, when the other party used powers that exceeded those of a Cardinal, it also seemed that there were no prior prayers, unlike Edwell...
In an instant, all the pieces of information converged in his mind, and the confusion from before was suddenly unraveled!
"You are not the Church's Holy Maiden!"
Lynn's pupils contracted, and then he stated conclusively, "You are 'Era'? That... false god?"
Within the entire Church, only one person had the power to command the Pope to baptize the 'evil' wizards and wield the strength of the Divine Kingdom without uttering sacred chants!
That is Era, the god whom the Church worships!
"What?"
Harrov, Vittorio, and Aurora were all shocked as they looked towards the levitating Lucia, and upon Lynn's reminder, they too quickly realized the truth.
A Holy Maiden, selected from the nuns and changed every few years, living in luxury in the Holy City, should not possibly possess such power!
It might just be some kind of divine descension!
What sent chills down their spines even more was that the other party was evidently conscious, her thinking very sharp, completely different from what they had previously anticipated...
This was undoubtedly the worst-case scenario!
"Have you found a way to eliminate the poison of faith?" Vittorio asked word by word, his expression one of horror yet filled with intense longing.
Spiritual Energy belief to becoming a god... That was a shortcut to a higher realm, a path they had once abandoned!
The biggest obstacle was the poison of faith!
It would corrode one's will, completely assimilating oneself into the god of the believers' fantasies!
Saintess Lucia paid no attention to the title of false god. Looking down from on high, her star-like eyes scanned the four people around her, finally focusing on Lynn, and she said in a cold voice,
"This is your last chance, it's not too late to regret now!"
Responding to her was the Undying Flame that emerged around Lynn...
The message was clear, it was fight and nothing else!
Although the developments had gone somewhat out of control, all their preparations were for this battle!
There was no reason to surrender before the battle began!
Saintess Lucia said no more. Since she couldn't use them, they were a threat that must be eliminated!
As for the alchemic constructs and various novel techniques, she would naturally search it out from their minds!
The battle was about to break out!
Harrov made the first move, space-time around him twisted, accompanied by the slight sound like the shattering of glass, black threads rapidly spread within the Divine Domain's projection, collapsing domains and shattering flora wherever they passed...
This was the legendary magic of the force field category—[Space-Time Blade]!
At the same time, the damaged alchemy runes on the ground silently pieced together, locking down on Saintess Lucia from all sides...
Saintess Lucia's expression remained indifferent as chains and invisible blades that could cut through space-time passed through her body, sucked into the spatial vortex.
It was at this moment that Aurora urgently spoke up,
"You're attacking an illusion. Be careful, Vittorio, her real body is on your right!"
Vittorio's heart already resounded with an alarm, his domain compressed to less than three meters around him by the Divine Kingdom, his perceptive abilities greatly weakened.
Somehow, Saintess Lucia's figure had already appeared at his side, her right hand, shining with Divine Radiance, had already pierced through his protective magic...
A fear that struck deep into his soul surged through Vittorio's brain...
His strong sixth sense told him that if he was hit, he would surely die!
Luckily, Lynn and the others had already reacted. A powerful laser beam sped past.
Although, after losing the Ruby as a focus, he could no longer instantly evoke a fifth-level laser, and despite the beam being reflected back, Saintess Lucia dared not gamble on that probability. Layer upon layer of water curtains emerged around her, bending the beam at several angles, but she also lost the chance to kill Vittorio...
[Great Decomposition Technique], [Death Finger]
Under the combined efforts of Harrov and Aurora, the layered water curtains immediately shattered, the intense laser beams slashed out once again, and Vittorio also seized this opportunity to increase the distance, breaking free from the opponent's control…