Chapter 695: Chapter 213 Saint Unsealing

As they ascended into the sky, unobstructed by buildings, they finally beheld the enemy engaged in battle with Balgan.

What a wicked and blasphemous form it was! A massive clump of flesh and blood hung in mid-air, with rings of flesh riddled with ghastly eyes nested within each other.

Under the reflection of the twin moons in the night sky, countless substantial evil gazes fixed upon them, feeling like ants crawling over their skin, causing their hair to stand on end.

The moment they saw the Original Sin Angel, a realization dawned upon everyone: this was their target for this mission.

However, upon seeing Balgan’s current condition, a sense of sinking hopelessness slowly filled their hearts.

There were no visible wounds on his body, the only marks were from the impact of explosions.

But at this moment, he was kneeling with his eyes tightly shut, his face contorted with struggle and ferocity, as if enduring immense pain beneath the massive sphere of flesh and blood.

The surface of the strong Holy Knight’s silver war armor, which was always exuding a faint white radiance of pure Holy Power, was now missing, replaced by an abundance of bizarre and malevolent black aura.

What chilled their hearts even more was that despite the huge commotion here, no other Holy Warriors who had scattered earlier had reappeared.

This only meant one thing: their prospects were now more likely grim than hopeful.

“Balgan, hold on! The Lord will watch over you!”

Behind Yanile, a female Holy Whipper could no longer hold back. With a flick of her Thorny Whip imbued with intense Holy Power, she instantly lashed at Balgan.

This was the exclusive Divine Art of the Holy Whippers, Awakening Whip. Through devout and focused faith and intense Holy Power, it forcefully rouses targets that have fallen into abnormal mental states.

She was not worried about being obstructed by the bizarre beings in the sky, with Archbishop Yanile present, their fate was already sealed.

In reality, the Original Sin Angel in the sky remained indifferent, and her whip struck the target without any hindrance.

Crack—

With a light sound, Balgan’s face instantly calmed down, his eyelids twitched and then slowly reopened.

But what was revealed beneath those lids were pitch-black pupils swirling with rich malevolent force.

“The Lord?”

Coldly gazing at the Holy Warriors in the sky, Balgan spoke slowly, uttering words that made everyone present disbelief.

“Where was the Lord when we suffered through tribulations?”

“Balgan! You are being controlled by an evil entity! Come to your senses!”

Seeing this, the previous Holy Whipper decisively lashed out again, intending to fully awaken him.

However, no matter how her whip struck his body, Balgan showed no response and instead revealed a hideous smile.

“Don’t you understand, Lila? My mind is very clear right now; it’s just you all who are deluded by false faith!!”

“Archbishop Yanile, please make a decision.”

Witnessing this scene, many Holy Warriors couldn’t help but cast pleading looks at Yanile, who was floating behind everyone, silently observing the situation.

They were well aware that the current situation might be beyond their control.

“…He has been completely tainted by the power of an evil entity; whether there’s still hope for him, I cannot be certain.”

Although he had been informed about the Original Sin Angel through Anvis, the sight of it still inevitably made Yanile furrow his brow in concern.

The aura of this thing was too malevolent, instinctively making him want to act and utterly eradicate it.

Furthermore, the sort of strange contaminating power over the minds of Holy Warriors it demonstrated wasn’t something even Anvis was very clear about beforehand; previously, there were no Holy Warriors available for experimentation.

“You all subdue Balgan, try not to injure him too severely; as for that thing in the sky, I will deal with it personally.”

Having made his decision, Yanile’s figure flashed and vanished, only to reappear in the heavens above the Original Sin Angel.

His eyes, emanating a faint white light, reflected the massive clump of flesh below as pure Holy Light radiated from his body, swiftly coalescing into dozens of crystalline, gigantic Light Spears in the sky.

In the midst of faintly discernible holy chants, a colossal and illusory Holy Power Array materialized, stabbing towards the towering flesh angel.

At the same time, the many Holy Position holders who received the order charged towards Balgan, aiming to subdue him.

Facing his former comrades, the once Holy Knight now shrouded in dark power revealed a hideous smile. He then lifted the heavy Chain Mace and charged forward, fearless against the overwhelmingly greater number of enemies.

“His Strength has grown stronger! That kind of power is highly corrosive to our Holy Power; everyone, be careful!”

After only blocking the first strike, the Eighth Rank Holy Knight in front cried out in pain. The immense Strength permeated his shield, causing his entire right hand to nearly lose all sensation.

Even though his Strength was not on par with Balgan’s, the gap between them wasn’t originally this wide.

Meanwhile, that sinister dark power fiercely consumed his Holy Power, and he had to expend almost one and a half times his Holy Power to negate and erode a portion of that evil force.

Heeding the Holy Knight’s warning, the others also heightened their alertness. For a time, numerous powerful Holy Power Attacks rained down on Balgan, suddenly increasing the pressure on him.

Ultimately, Balgan’s Strength was not overwhelmingly powerful; if not for everyone’s reluctance to inflict irreversible damage, he would have already been down.

Meanwhile, in the sky, the battle between Yanile and the Original Sin Angel also reached a fever pitch.

The Original Sin Angel had a Special attack method, which involved using the gaze of those eyes to guide out the target’s intrinsic original sin in an unseen way.

Essentially, the corruption that caused Balgan to lose control was not an external attack, but originated from deep within his own heart.

Although Yanile was of the Ninth Rank, he had also suffered a disadvantage for not going all out immediately. But he soon reacted, stripping the part of him that had been tainted by darkness from his body.

This shed part did not dissipate but, under the fixed gaze of the Original Sin Angel, coalesced into a dark counterpart identical to Yanile, confronting his original self.

And because it had separated from Yanile, it even retained some of Yanile’s original Ninth Rank Traits.

Of course, since the Original Sin Angel was only of the Eighth Rank, the dark counterpart’s Strength was far weaker than the original.

With an indifferent gaze, Yanile watched the approaching dark avatar, as well as the Original Sin Angel continuing its attempts to Attack him, and lifted his left hand expressionlessly.

In the palm of his open hand, a golden inverted triangular mark unexpectedly appeared.

“Holy Mark, release!”

Following the soft voice, the next instant, a sun-like endless Radiance erupted from Yanile’s left arm. The terrifying power fluctuation even made the twin moons in the sky pale in comparison!

“Is this, the power of a god?”

Within the City Lord Mansion, Anvis stood with his hands behind his back before the study window, gazing at the distant battlefield where Yanile truly erupted, his eyes showing astonishment, completely unaware of being under someone else’s control.

From Yanile’s left arm, he felt for the first time in a long while a hint of the terrifying luminous humanoid form from his past life memories.

“I advise you not to try any tricks. In the presence of the greater power, your Strength is as laughable as an ant’s.”

Behind him, the female Holy Position holder responsible for guarding him sneered as she spoke.

“Perhaps.”

Anvis nodded noncommittally, calmly watching the boundless stream of light flowing from Yanile’s left arm, completely engulfing his dark avatar and the Original Sin Angel’s true form.

In the distance, a splash of bright red suddenly appeared from within the Original Sin Angel, struggling for a moment before being destroyed by the inexhaustible flow of light, shattering into pieces.

And Yanile, the originator of all this, saw very clearly that what he destroyed with the unleashed power of ‘Saint’ was a cup as red as blood.

The moment the body of the cup shattered, an indescribable aura spread out, as if some ineffable gaze had swept over this area.

Sensing all these changes, Yanile, standing in the midst of endless Radiance, remained expressionless.

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