"Ah!..."
A scream suddenly echoed among a group of Agent, and one Agent fell down, covering her empty chest with an incredulous expression.
The scream roused the surrounding Agent, and in the instant before they recovered, the "Avenger," imbued with infinite demonic death energy, revenge, and hatred, drew a perfect arc in the air.
Five of the elite among the Church's elite Agent were bisected by this sudden attack.
"heretic, die! Accept the judgment of our Lord!" The remaining Agent only reacted to see a black-haired girl, who had appeared among them at some unknown point, holding a Dead Apostle's magic sword, standing in the middle of their bisected comrades.
Undoubtedly, this was an undeniable heretic.
Seeing the gold-trimmed, angel-emblazoned priest robes they wore, it was clear that these were the highest-level Agent in the Church; each of them likely possessed actual combat capabilities no less than a Color-rank Magus.
After receiving the optional mission from Black Princess: "Destroy the Saint's Body," Rin unhesitatingly leaped down from the mountain peak using Featherlight Art.
With the wolf's footwork, the concealed aura of martial arts' unity with nature, and the perfect invisibility spell completed by End Magic, Rin's entire presence was perfectly erased.
Because the Agent' protection was too tight to directly attack the angel's body in the center, she quietly approached and, with a preemptive strike, killed one Agent.
Following that, she drew the Avenger from her magic pouch and, with one sword, killed five more.
Waving her sword, she stirred up a roaring magic sword wind, deflecting the sky-full of Black Keys.
Rin attacked and immediately retreated, fleeing rapidly.
Currently, she had no support from Black Princess; Rin was still just a close-combat Color-rank Magus with relatively high combat power.
She estimated that if she faced them head-on, any random Agent could challenge her, and if they swarmed her, Rin would have no chance at all.
When eradicating heretics, they don't play 1v1 with you.
"God, please entrust this body..." The opening lines of the Baptism Chant were all the same.
Subsequently, the outermost Agent began their operation to eradicate Rin.
Five Agent pursued, their hands and feet wrapped in shining holy patterns, engaging Rin in close combat, while ten more Agent launched spell attacks.
Rin's figure was like a nimble nocturnal spirit cat, deftly weaving through the howling holy light of the holy baptism, avoiding any contact with the Agent.
Rin was familiar with the Church's combat style; once entangled, it was a continuous, relentless assault, link by link.
The Baptism Chant could attack, defend, fight from a distance or up close, and was a complete mysterious system independent of magic.
As Rin nimbly dodged and weaved through various attacks and encirclements, her keen, almost precognitive sense of danger alerted her to an abrupt threat.
Rin immediately looked up at the sky and saw a pale golden cloud permeated with sacredness appearing in the air.
"God said, for the evil demons, he shall deal with them by lightning."
Ceremonial Sacred Art: Lord's Divine Punishment!
Divine lightning to punish evil demons—this was a line from the Bible.
The sacred art performed based on this summons lightning imbued with sacredness to purify wickedness!
Boom!
A massive, sacred white lightning bolt struck Rin's figure with a roar.
No matter how fast Rin ran, she couldn't outrun lightning.
The lightning-struck area shimmered with a golden-white electrical glow.
When the lightning dissipated, the ten-meter crater was empty.
The Agent gathered around, and several close-combat-proficient Agent went down to the bottom of the pit to investigate.
The Agent standing at the forefront picked up a pinch of charred ash from the bottom of the pit, and everyone involuntarily breathed a sigh of relief.
"Evil has once again been purified by the Lord."
"The heretic has been punished; may the fallen comrades rest in peace."
"..."
Just as all the Agent thought Rin had been reduced to charcoal, the leader of the outer pursuit team, who was holding the pinch of charcoal between her fingers, suddenly felt something was wrong.
Where was the Dead Apostle magic sword that the heretic had been holding just now?
No matter how strong the Lord's Divine Punishment lightning was, could it really vaporize a magic sword directly, leaving not even iron slag?
Coupled with the sudden, elusive surprise attack that had appeared out of nowhere earlier, the leader Agent instantly realized something was amiss!
Realizing that returning to defend was already too late, she loudly warned the inner circle guards, who were already a kilometer away: "Protect the Saint!"
Before the warning could reach them, three red-rose colored spears appeared out of thin air in mid-air, less than a hundred meters from the inner circle Agent.
Like arrows shot from a bowstring, they struck the Holy Word Barrier set up by the inner circle Agent to protect the Saint.
"Phantasm Collapse!"
Accompanied by a delicate shout, the three Red Rose for Exorcising Demons spears instantly shone brightly, their mystery-breaking characteristic magnified to the extreme!
Even if the Baptism Chant transcended the realm of magic, as long as it remained within the mystical, it was still a target for the Red Rose for Exorcising Demons!
Ping!
The Holy Word Barrier shattered like stained glass, and all the Agent involved in setting up the barrier gasped.
No opportunity would be missed!
Amidst the lingering aftershocks of the exploding magic power, a figure subtly flickered, suddenly appearing with a pitch-black Dead Apostle magic sword!
Clang!
The blade pierced through her chest, and an Agent was instantly struck, with the Saint, who was undergoing spiritual ascension, directly behind her.
A pair of strong hands gripped Rin's blade tightly.
The Agent, pierced by Rin's sword, unleashed her strength as a Church elite.
With immense power and unshakeable faith, she instantly compressed the muscle tissue pierced by the magic sword, making the Avenger's blade feel as if it were cast into her body!
The blade did not pull out as usual, causing Rin to momentarily freeze.
Following closely were the destructive attacks from the other quickly reacting inner circle Agent.
These Church elites, who swore to defend the Saint to the death and eradicate heretics, had allowed a heretic to penetrate the inner circle—this was an unimaginable disgrace!
Holy light, Black Keys, sacred armament... various sacred attacks sealed off all of Rin's 2.9 dodging spaces.
Delayed by the momentary hesitation from not being able to draw her sword, Rin seemed to have no chance to react.
However, facing such a situation, Rin, standing still, merely smiled.
All sorts of sacred attacks passed right through "Rin"—
Boom!...
Phantom magic? Not good!
All the Agent realized they had been tricked the moment their attacks missed, and by the time they reacted, it was a scene that made their livers and guts split!
The flow of time in the world, as seen through the Agent' eyes, seemed to slow down a hundredfold. They clearly saw a ripple-like disturbance in the empty air behind the kneeling saint, and a young girl's figure gradually became clear within the rippling distortion. A hand-blade, shining with a metallic luster, stabbed towards the unsuspecting saint's back—
"Pfft!"
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