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Chapter 238 - 199: Defeat (Please Subscribe)

Chapter 238: Chapter 199: Defeat (Please Subscribe)

Light!

The radiant white light converged, resembling a gigantic cross.

Beneath the cross, the original stag-headed spirit had vanished without a trace.

"I... in the name of the Holy Spirit!"

Yet Wal’s face showed no sign of relaxation, holding the cross sword in one hand and a string of beads around his neck in the other, "Evil... begone!"

The surrounding darkness seemed to be heavily struck, retreating slightly but not disappearing...

On the contrary!

The ground writhed, and then a multitude of vines burst forth from the soil, entwining around the people like pythons.

These ’vines’ were covered with reverse thorns, possessing a metallic hue.

More horrifying still, they carried a heavy taint of the Evil God’s pollution, that even the Transcendents could only have their spirits controlled, unable to resist!

Thud!

Fang Xing stomped his foot, channeling a force through his shoes into the earth, shattering the ’Evil God Aura’ gathering underground.

If he did not shatter this Evil God Aura, those vines would continue endlessly.

He leaned against the carriage, his demeanor relaxed and comfortable, resembling a spectator at a play, "Keep it up... Wandering Knight, unsheathe your sword for your justice!"

’Druid? Wizard? Mage?’

Wal’s mind stirred, swinging the cross sword in his hand, cutting off the vines entwining towards him, realizing he had been mistaken.

This foreigner was no ordinary man!

’It figures... a foreigner who has wandered up till now without dying must have some skills.’

Wal took out a bottle of Holy Water and applied it to his eyes.

It seemed as though light was leaking from his eyes, using this radiance, he pierced through the black mist and saw the stag-headed spirit!

"I vow, I shall be devout!"

"I vow, I shall protect the weak!"

"I vow, I shall repel evil!"

...

Wal muttered knightly maxims, holding the blade of the cross sword against his palm.

The blade was very sharp, and with just a light touch, blood oozed out.

When the blood stained the blade, his figure burst out like a huge bear, "Radiant Cross Slash!"

Whoosh!

The cross-shaped radiance appeared once more.

However, this time within the radiance, there was a trace of blood color.

This crimson was not enchanting but carried a touch of masculinity.

The blood-red cross sword light struck the stag-headed spirit, causing it to continuously retreat, disappearing completely into the darkness.

Swoosh!

The sword light seemed to cleave open the night, allowing light to penetrate and reveal the original path.

"Praise the Radiance, praise the Holy Spirit..."

Sofia murmured a prayer upon seeing this scene.

"Let’s go quickly!"

Wal, however, glared, "The spirit can’t be killed... I can only repel it temporarily, but I’ve also angered it..."

He looked at Fang Xing, "I’ll drive, you, young Druid or Mage, want to join?"

"Correction, I’m neither a Druid nor a Mage... strictly speaking, I’m more like a Knight, like you, a Wandering Knight. But thanks for the invite, you don’t have to worry about the journey ahead because... I will take action!"

Fang Xing was now purely a Martial Artist, not using Golden Core to convert Mana.

Smiling slightly, he too got into the carriage.

Wal didn’t say much, just snapped the horsewhip.

The carriage immediately moved forward, and not far along, they witnessed an astonishing scene.

On the trees flanking the road, at some unknown time, bodies had been strung up one by one.

They were arranged in the shape of a cross, their limbs skewered through by the branches, with blood flowing down along the branches.

"My God... it’s those bandits that should have been taken by the dragon."

Sofia covered her mouth, her complexion somewhat pale.

"Should have been taken by the dragon... what does that mean?"

Fang Xing asked curiously.

"It’s a saying from the Tulip region, similar to ’damn it’..." Wal shrugged, "Anyway, that’s how you should understand it... the nearest city here is Duncan City, which has a Radiant Cathedral. If the stag-headed spirit dares to follow us there, we’ll join forces with the Divine Shepherd there to seal it beneath the church."

The Radiant Church, of course, also wielded Transcendent powers.

And, its promotion system was very clear, starting from the lowliest Divine Servant, symbolizing the servant of God, to being able to perceive the Divine and cast Divine Arts as a ’Divine Shepherd’... then overseeing the church affairs of a region as a ’Bishop’, to the Church’s core of ’Archbishop’, mostly dressed in black robes, thus named the ’Black-robed Archbishop’.

At the top of this system was naturally the ’Pope’ of the Radiant Church, seen as the spokesperson of God on Earth, the person closest to the Divine...

"I actually have a question... what is the relation between the ’God’ worshiped by the Radiant Church, and the ’Great Master’ worshiped by the Sado Sect?"

Fang Xing curiously asked.

He actually wanted to ask whether the god of the Radiance was the ’Original Spirit’.

But such a question would be offensive.

Even now, Wal seemed a bit ready to hit him, "My Lord is the only God... all others are Fake Gods."

’So, believers of the Radiance assume that ’Radiance God’ is a level above the ’Great Master,’ and above the Original Spirit?’

Fang Xing nodded inwardly, "I heard a Great Wizard say... that the Radiance has perished?"

"My God, what blasphemy is this?" Sofia couldn’t help herself, "Just let the Dragon take you away..."

"The Radiance has never perished..."

Wal shook his head, as a Wandering Knight, having left the Church Knights, he had seen more people and was no longer as blindly fanatical as before, no longer drawing his sword upon hearing slightly offensive remarks.

Moreover, with the stag-headed spirit possibly attacking at any moment and this man of unknown depth beside him,

Of course, he couldn’t make a new enemy.

As for what was said before about taking action?

Just listen!

...

When the deer-headed spirit was forced to retreat.

Inside the manor.

On the altar, the previously black eyes of the deer head suddenly shed two lines of blood tears.

"Damn... Why did a Radiant Knight suddenly appear?!"

The aged face of the Mensa wizard grew incredibly ferocious. "People of the Radiant Church... all should die! Come here!"

He shouted commandingly, and the gatekeeper walked in, his eyes completely white.

"Go... prepare enough sacrifices!"

Mensa ordered, and the gatekeeper immediately went out. Soon, several screams were heard from within the manor.

Quickly, he walked into the secret chamber holding a tray.

On the tray was a human head, its skullcap opened and two branches inserted, with blood flowing from the facial features.

"Deer-headed spirit... please accept my offering..."

The Mensa wizard began to dance a strange dance, his body contorting in defiance of physics, and his face also twisted as if becoming another face.

Stab!

A purple-black tongue, like a snake, shot out and quickly burrowed into the skull of the deer.

Mensa’s eyes rolled back, and his body began to convulse violently, as if his soul was leaving his body...

...

"Here it comes!"

Atop the carriage, Fang Xing suddenly smiled slightly.

"Huh?"

After a while, Wal belatedly drew his Cross Sword, and seeing the glow on the blade, he looked at Fang Xing with some suspicion and surprise.

Unbeknownst to them, the surrounding road had become hazy, and a thin mist kept spreading.

From the forest next to the road, the deer-headed spirit emerged again.

"Now it can be confirmed that this Natural Spirit is definitely being driven by someone..."

Fang Xing stood up, stretching casually.

Boom!

As he moved, it seemed as if a furnace rose around them.

Masses of white mist evaporated, even the darkness was dispersed, revealing the true form of the deer-headed spirit enshrouded in the fog.

It was a deer-headed human spirit, its human waist wrapped in animal hide, and two large antlers grew from its deer-like head.

These two fan-shaped forked antlers were almost bigger than its body.

At this moment, there was another human head in the middle of the antlers.

This head was incredibly old, its hair like ropes, connecting many antler forks, making it seem like a spider hanging among the antlers.

"It’s Poison Witchcraft... There is a wizard cursing us!"

Wal’s expression changed.

"It’s aimed at me."

Fang Xing was now certain.

He had seen this old face in the wizard’s memory.

The other party should be called Mensa, the Great Wizard of the Sado Sect.

"What a pity... Only brought one person?"

Fang Xing sighed, a speck of golden light emerged from his body, then transformed into a golden sun.

Under the cover of the golden sun, numerous black vines instantly turned into torches!

Not only that, the tiny golden flames even enveloped the deer-headed spirit.

"Ah!"

The human head atop the deer-headed spirit screamed in agony, Mensa’s old voice crying out, "What... what spirit’s power is this? Foreigner... don’t think you’ve won..."

"If I don’t kill you, how can I claim victory?"

Fang Xing lightly leaped, his form moving from atop the carriage to the side of the deer-headed spirit.

His Spiritual Power reached far and wide, seeming to follow the connection from that old head, seeing a manor, seeing the aged wizard, and the bleeding altar...

"Die!"

Fang Xing lightly pointed a finger at the forehead of the old head.

His Martial Arts Will concentrated intensely, like a spear, traveling along the intangible spiritual connection to the inside of the manor.

"Ah!"

Suddenly, a scream came from inside the secret chamber.

"Great Wizard!?"

The gatekeeper immediately entered, only to see the wizard’s corpse lying on the ground,with a bloody hole in his forehead.

"The Great Wizard is dead?"

The gatekeeper’s expression was odd, first disbelieving, then with a hint of ferocity and elation: "Ha ha... you old guy, finally dead, I... I can become the new Great Wizard now!"

Unfortunately, he celebrated too soon.

Mensa’s corpse suddenly shed a layer of mask, then a purple-black tongue shot out and burrowed into the gatekeeper’s mouth.

The gatekeeper fell to the ground immediately, his body convulsing intensely.

Seconds later, he got up again, touching his own face: "Who exactly was that... that..."

Recalling that finger-point, an incredulous expression appeared on Mensa’s face.

In memory, that figure seemed to come to life again, extending that deadly finger!

"No... can’t think about it... must not remember..."

"I..."

The possessed gatekeeper’s face was filled with immense panic, unable to stop his own thoughts.

Finally...

Bang!

A blood hole appeared on his forehead as well, falling dead on the ground.

This time, no purple-black tongue appeared.

Instead, as time passed, a layer of eroding darkness gradually covered the entire manor, and a humanoid figure wearing a mask, only an upper body with painted chest, appeared, roaming the manor, indiscriminately killing.

This was after Mensa’s death, the spirit within his body, losing its restraint, began to create havoc...