Free Web NovelChapter 257: Chapter 256: 1 Ship Across the Sky, Overwhelming 1 City
The arena.
Viridian vines, sharp as blades, danced through the air.
They sliced across the guards’ necks, sending their heads flying high into the sky.
Such wanton slaughter sent the common folk screaming and scattering in all directions.
"Who dares cause trouble at the Sacred Combat?!"
"You’re courting death!" freewebnσvel.cøm
Dozens of temple Warriors, clad in heavy armor and wielding long-handled battle-axes, charged toward the arena gate at top speed.
Their eyes burned with fury.
The Sacred Combat was a hallowed ritual; no blasphemy would be tolerated!
This was a provocation against the Goddess!
However.
SWISH.
A sharp, green light whistled past!
Like paper before a box cutter, it effortlessly pierced through man and armor alike!
Dozens of temple Warriors were left dead on the spot!
"Such insolence!"
Nais watched this scene, his eyelids twitching uncontrollably!
These temple Warriors were under the temple’s direct command, orphans who had been taken in at a young age and forged through layers of brutal training and elimination!
Each temple Warrior was comparable to a Titled Warrior, which was equivalent to the Mid to Late Stage of Qi Refining.
And now, they had been killed so easily!
The newcomer’s strength had to have reached the second tier!
And a revered Caster, at that.
’Who on earth could it be...?’ Nais’s gaze flickered, his heart a tangle of complex emotions.
For some reason, though this disruption of the Sacred Combat should have filled him with anger and indignation as a temple Priest, he felt a faint flicker of secret delight.
Nais swore it was just a tiny flicker!
’Can you... can you end all of this?’
A glimmer of hope shone in Nais’s eyes as he clasped his hands together tightly.
He didn’t want to die!
Not even for the Goddess, not even for such a noble cause... He did not want to die! He would never willingly offer up his own life!
...
At that moment, after killing the temple Warriors, the hooded and cloaked figure flashed forward, landing in the very center of the arena, upon the Sacred Combat stage.
All eyes were on them!
The chaos in the arena intensified as the common folk shrieked and fled in every direction.
Within the arena, the sacred atmosphere was completely shattered!
"Damned bastard!"
On the high platform, several second-tier Cultivators wore grim expressions, their faces filled with killing intent!
At this rate, even if they eventually managed to suppress the chaos, the believers’ emotions would clearly be affected.
In other words... the efficacy of the cultivated Blood Sacrifice Elixir would surely be diminished!
"He must die!"
"Kill him!"
BOOM!
The next moment!
Three figures leaped from the high platform.
The bronze-skinned captain of the temple Warriors.
Prince Ainuo, wearing a golden crown.
The scepter-wielding Bishop.
The fluctuations of power radiating from them were all at the second-tier level!
"Stranger, no matter who you are, you will die today... Be honored. Your life and soul will become an offering to the Goddess!"
The Bishop cackled sinisterly.
"Dazan, twenty years have passed, and your garbage personality still hasn’t improved one bit," the hooded figure mocked lightly.
Those words made Bishop Dazan’s expression freeze.
His eyes suddenly changed as he asked, filled with shock and suspicion.
"Who are you?!"
"Heh."
Marina undid her hood, revealing her true face.
"Marina?!"
"Aren’t you supposed to be dead?"
Bishop Dazan’s eyelids twitched. He subconsciously took a step back.
The other two, and even the temple Warriors who were surrounding them, also had their expressions change slightly.
"The Blasphemer?!"
"The exiled Marina?!"
Thanks to the temple’s twenty-year-long smear campaign... Marina’s ’fame’ had been elevated to a level she didn’t deserve! ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom
Everyone present recognized that face.
And faced with the legendary "Blasphemer of the Goddess" and "Betrayer of the Temple," a figure of great infamy who had even won her ’revival match’ and returned from the Mist Sea like a great demon king... their minds were inevitably shaken!
"The Priests and Bishops of the temple are the real blasphemers who have forsaken the Goddess."
"You defile Divine Power to cultivate a divine abomination!"
"That is why the Goddess has revoked the Divine Techniques she bestowed upon you!"
Marina declared righteously, her voice echoing throughout the arena.
"Nonsense!"
Hearing these ’words of blasphemy,’ Bishop Dazan’s face turned ashen with fury.
He had already decided to kill this ’Marina’ as quickly as possible to prevent the situation from worsening!
However, things did not go as planned. Just then, the clear, sun-scorched sky abruptly changed!
In an instant, thick, dark clouds covered the sky for several miles.
Hurricane-force winds howled, their piercing shrieks kicking up sand and stones!
WHOOSH!
And amidst this apocalyptic weather, as the sky went dark, RUMBLE! The sound of the atmosphere cracking apart rang out! With a deafening roar, the dark clouds blanketing the sky were blasted apart!
A Floating Battleship—shrouded in a black and red bloody light, dark and towering, as majestic as a mountain and covered in exoskeletal armor—descended over the arena!
"What is that..."
"Oh, gods!"
Dazan, Nais, the countless Warriors, Priests, and common folk...
Hundreds of thousands of people in Aino City trembled, their gazes drawn involuntarily upward as they stared, dumbfounded!
A Sky Battleship!
For the natives of the Far South Continent, whose seafaring and Artifact Refining technologies were extremely primitive, the existence of such a thing was an unimaginable shock!
Even Bishop Moluo did not possess a single Magical Artifact.
One could only imagine how crude the Artifact Refining technology of the Far South Continent truly was!
And under these circumstances, a Floating Battleship—the culmination of Artifact Refining, Array mastery, and shipbuilding—had appeared before them!
To them, this was a divine creation, something completely beyond their era!
The shock it caused was immense!
And then, a deep voice swept across the entire city from high in the sky.
"Aino City has cultivated a divine abomination. Its sins are unforgivable..."
"So... are you ready to face judgment?!"
A figure in a black robe stood upon the Ghostly Flood Dragon, radiating an overwhelming aura.
The next moment.
The bow of the Ghostly Flood Dragon suddenly transformed, splitting open to reveal a main cannon of terrifying diameter!
HISS!
The wails of living souls echoed.
Countless crimson array patterns lit up on the bone-like cannon barrel!
A crimson orb of light, gathering explosive power, rapidly took shape!
It radiated a terrifying, intimidating pressure.
Then.
BOOM!
A crimson pillar of light, vast enough to pierce heaven and earth and run through the sun and moon, erupted forth!
[Song of Hell]
And the target of this strike was, of all things...
The Fertile Pyramid!
BANG!
Amidst an earth-shattering explosion, the entire Fertile Pyramid trembled violently, wreathed in billowing smoke!
The stone bricks, stacked high and etched with the vicissitudes of history, melted away before the crimson beam!
"Stop!"
From the direction of the royal palace, a figure over ten meters tall and resembling a Deer Demon appeared, its voice anxious.
"The King of Aino?"
Su Ye tucked his long hair behind his ear and smiled.
He reached out and made a grasping motion, and a silver-frost Moon Blade Halberd several meters long materialized in his hand.
’Hmm... Third tier...’
’When I fight the divine abomination, I’d rather not have a World Rejection Level debuff hanging over me...’
’Hmm, I’ll just use ten percent of my power... He probably won’t die, right?’
