Blood Holy Scripture: True Ancestor Charlotte de Castel
Chapter 494: -24- Unlucky Dark Apostle

Chapter 494: -24- Unlucky Dark Apostle

The sword light tore through the sky, carrying an unrivaled aura of majesty.

After that sword strike, the crimson brilliance quickly dissipated, and the breath of the Dark Apostle melted away with it.

The black-red blood, like raindrops, fell from the sky, with the sulfur-like smell mixed with a strong scent of blood rushing towards one’s face.

It was the blood shed by the Dark Apostle.

Watching the black-red blood rain, Charlotte’s gaze slightly condensed.

After all, the Dark Apostle was a Transcendent of legendary status.

For a legendary, their blood and flesh had long since transformed.

Originally, Bold had evolved a Forbidden Inner City teeming with Deceit Demons due to the residual power of the Flame Demon Vararoka; if this blood rain fell on Lutecia, Lutecia would suffer similar pollution.

Just as the black-red blood rain was about to fall, the Church intervened once again.

Suddenly, the brilliance of the "Sun," symbolizing the three Legendary Clergy, burst forth, and Holy Light descended from the sky, shining on the blood rain.

Immediately afterward, the blood rain quickly dissolved and purified under the illumination of the Holy Light.

When the divine light receded, all the blood rain had dissolved.

All that fell to the ground were scattered photons.

Seeing this scene, Charlotte slightly relaxed.

The Holy Royal Court was, after all, the most powerful True God Church in Mireya.

Although the Church’s reputation had been shadowed by increasing corruption over the years, protecting the weak and upholding the holy and just remained the creed pursued by those devout followers.

With three Legendary Clergy present, they naturally would not stand by and watch the Dark Apostle’s power pollute Lutecia.

After purifying the blood rain, those three representations of the Legendary Clergy Suns slowly "extinguished."

The Divine Artifact Eternal Day was retracted, and the sacred light gradually faded.

Among them, one sun fell toward the direction of the Royal Palace, another flew toward the Outer City, and one sun’s light converged, ultimately returning to the Lutecia Cathedral in the distance.

The three Legendary figures exited the scene, and the vast pressure quickly diminished.

The sky, as bright as daylight, returned to darkness, and peace returned to the skies above Lutecia.

Only scattered photons fell to the ground, dreamlike.

Charlotte extended her hand outside the window, the photons landing in her palm, now utterly devoid of the Dark Apostle’s power.

Only the swiftly dissolving Magic Power remained.

Feeling the power of the Bloodline, split into the purest Elemental Power by the Holy Light, a hint of regret flashed in Charlotte’s eyes:

"It’s a pity I can’t absorb this blood rain."

After all, the Dark Apostle was a Legendary Bloodline, his blood rich with potent Bloodline Power.

For others, that blood was a source of pollution, but for Charlotte, it was a supplement she could absorb and devour.

Of course, she was merely expressing a regret.

With three Legendary Clergy present, plus the legendary figures from the Royal Family, even if she wanted to devour the blood, she wouldn’t dare make a move.

Thinking this, Charlotte couldn’t help but look in the direction where the sword light had risen, her mind pondering:

"That silver sword just now, it resembled the Sword of Judgment of the Valva Family recorded in the documents, could it be... the King who acted?"

New Moon King Louis V — Louis de Valva.

If Charlotte remembered correctly, this Monarch, who had been honored for centuries as "The Great," was himself a Legendary Sword Saint.

The legends’ battle concluded.

From the appearance of the Dark Apostle Albrecht to the exit of the three Legendary Clergy, it all took less than five minutes...

The battle of the legends was even shorter than Charlotte had imagined, possibly due to a vast disparity in strength.

The grand confrontation came abruptly, struck fiercely, and ended swiftly; only after the legends had exited the stage did people on the ground begin to react.

Lights in buildings all over the Royal Capital came on almost simultaneously, people opened their windows, while feeling residual fear, they asked each other what exactly had just happened.

In the manor, the servants of the Castel family had also all awakened, and the estate was crowded with servants and knights looking up at the sky, chatting eagerly with expressions of awe and excitement.

When Charlotte stepped outside the mansion in her coat, Sebastian was instructing the servants to check for any damage to the estate, although the legends’ battle had primarily taken place in the sky, the residual shockwaves had also affected the ground.

Especially in the Inner City.

Sebastian was startled for a moment.

He glanced at the sky subconsciously, and after a moment of hesitation, he asked with some doubt,

"Was it... the battle in the sky just now?"

Charlotte smiled faintly without answering, but she nodded lightly, then turned into a group of scattering bats and disappeared into the darkness.

...

Inside the Grand Hall of Lutecia Cathedral.

Before the majestic and sacred statue of the Divine Lord, the Great Priest Charles slowly opened his eyes.

The holy radiance receded from his gaze as he sighed softly and reverently bowed towards the statue.

"May the Lord bless us, may Your radiance be everlasting and undying, may Your will walk on earth, just like in heaven..."

The next moment, the grand doors of the hall were pushed open, and two figures walked in one after the other.

One wore a red robe of the Judgment Chief, and the other was dressed in a white cardinal robe trimmed in purple. They were none other than the Great Judge Bernard of the New Moon Diocese and the Demon Hunting Cardinal Joseph.

"How goes it?" The Great Priest Charles looked toward his colleagues.

The complexion of the Great Judge Bernard was somewhat grim as he shook his head slightly, saying,

"He escaped, it was Albrecht, the third Dark Apostle of the Blood Demon Sect. He fled swiftly and decisively, not only abandoning his severed arm but also igniting his own Bloodline Power."

As he spoke, a flash of light appeared in his hand, summoning a black severed arm from the void.

The arm floated in midair, encased in a golden cage, struggling continuously under the illumination of the Holy Light, looking exceedingly eerie.

At the cut of the arm, smooth as a mirror, a silver power lingered, burning like silver fire.

Great Priest Charles glanced at the silver flames, paused for a moment, and then looked at Demon Hunting Cardinal Joseph,

"What does the Royal Palace say?"

Demon Hunting Cardinal Joseph hesitated for a bit, seeming unsure of how to answer.

Seeing his expression, Great Priest Charles shook his head,

"Forget it, don’t say it, knowing the temper of King Louis, it probably wasn’t anything good."

The Demon Hunting Cardinal sighed, but his expression soon turned solemn again.

He removed a somewhat damaged parchment scroll and a thick notebook from his chest, speaking gravely,

"Your Eminence, these were found at the location where Albrecht appeared. They have been verified to be belongings of Bertrand de Witre, from the Witre Manor which has a Teleportation Array connected to an underground temple."

The Great Priest’s mind stirred,

"Bertrand? That senior priest from the Blood Demon Sect? Where is he now?"

Demon Hunting Cardinal Joseph shook his head,

"He’s dead. From the looks of the scene, it seems he died from a Blood Rage, his body shattered, and even... his soul has completely dissipated."

"Blood Rage? The soul also completely dissipated?"

The Great Priest frowned slightly.

He took the parchment scroll and the notebook, quickly glanced through, and his expression turned grave.

Taking a deep breath, he handed back the parchment and notebook to the Demon Hunting Cardinal, saying,

"Deploy the Demon Hunting Knights, and additionally, carefully investigate the place where the Dark Apostle appeared. Check if there are any other powers lingering."

"Other powers lingering? You mean... there was another force present?"

The Great Judge’s eyelids twitched.

The Great Priest Charles didn’t deny, but instead let out a long sigh and said,

"We... have likely been used by someone."

...

At a desolate abandoned graveyard on the outskirts of Lutecia.

Crows cawed sharply, their cries harsh and bleak, while faint phosphorescent fires flickered mysteriously in the depths.

In the center of the graveyard, in front of a clearly altered gravestone, stood a sinister demon statue.

Suddenly, the demon statue emitted a deep red gloom. The dark magic power from the surroundings was quickly drawn in, swirling around the statue and forming a massive vortex.

The vortex grew swiftly, gradually warping the void and eventually transforming into a temporary spatial portal.

The portal flickered unstably, as if it had been hastily opened.

Subsequently, a stumbling figure fell out of the portal.

It was a young man, emaciated in appearance, wearing a dark red coat, with horns on his head, and a pale face smeared with black-red blood.

His entire right arm was missing, and half of his body was nearly cleaved open, with a wound still burning with silver flames, continuously dripping black-red blood that corroded the ground into pits emitting black smoke.

The silver flames clung stubbornly to his wound like a poisonous sore attached to the bone, held back only by the surrounding dark red magic power, seemingly ready to spread further at any moment.

The man anxiously glanced at the silver flames at his wound, his crimson eyes darkly looking towards the direction of the Royal Capital Lutecia. His voice was filled with shame and rage but restrained immense frustration and towering fury, nearly clenching his teeth as he said,

"Louis V... Holy Royal Court!"

It was none other than Albrecht, the third Dark Apostle from the Blood Demon Sect who had been forcibly summoned by Charlotte, survived a severe beating by the three giants of the New Moon Holy Royal Court, and had been slashed by a sword.

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