Chapter 42 – The Loli Saint and Black Magic

“Kill him.” said the Saint.

The captain took a second to confirm what he heard and then replied loudly: “As you wish, Saint!”

With a glance from the captain, the left and right guards rushed out, grabbed Tennyson’s arm and pressed him to the ground.

At the beginning, Tennyson thought that the Saint was joking, how could a saint kill someone because of such a small thing? However, when he was firmly pressed to the ground by the guards, he was like a frightened bird, finally understanding that his life was in danger, he struggled desperately.

The other party was not kidding, she was really going to kill him!

“Hey, hey, please wait a second Saint! Why are you killing me?” Tennyson kicked his legs back and forth like a chicken waiting to be slaughtered, but he couldn’t get out of the guard’s grasp. “Was it just because I said that? Stop joking around, you can’t kill me!”

“And why can’t I?” the girl smiled and asked.

“Because you don’t have the right!” Tennyson’s eyes were bloodshot and screaming wildly. “You’re abusing your power for personal reasons! I’m a believer from Winterless City, you’re not a saint there, I am not under your jurisdiction! Even if I am guilty of something, you have no right to kill me! Not to mention that I have not done anything wrong!!”

“Is that so?” the girl explained in a serious way, “The Great Sage Bellco was asked by Pope St. George to assign me personally to investigate the killings in West Wind Town. During the investigation, I have absolute command.”

“What?”

“Which means…” The girl bent down and leaned by Tennyson’s ear and said softly in an intoxicating tone. “At this moment, you’re all my people, I have the final say on whether you live or die.”

Tennyson convulsed with fear, he could not refute, and under his fear, he could not help but curse her: “I, I won’t accept this! Let me go… you’ll be punished by the gods! You blind snow witch, the goddess of light will certainly punish you!” ”

“Blind Snow Witch? Oh, we’re finally speaking the truth.” The girl raised her hand and touched her eyeballs through her eyelids, as if she quite cared about the light she lost.

After a moment of hesitation, she said: “You’re right. If I kill you like this, it would be unfair, and my reputation as saint would be ruined. Captain, please wait a moment.”

“Let me go you bastards! Hmph…”

After hearing what she said, the left and right guards relaxed Tennyson’s restraint, and he finally fell to the ground normally, instead of being pressed to the ground like a dead dog.

The girl did not pay attention to Tennyson, but instead turned around and asked: “Captain, when the believers of the Holy Light Church are fighting with the Demon race, how are people who run, act cowardly, or not proactive in participating dealt with? Hehe, I don’t have a great memory, could you please help me remember?”

“The Holy Light Church, has eradication of the evil demons as the highest doctrine, and to spread the gospels of the goddess to benefit the masses. All followers of the goddess of light, from the pope to the believers, must do their best to kill the demon race heresy!” The captain replied with a heavy voice, “Anyone who cowers, who runs, or is not proactive are regarded as fallen apostates, and will be judged by God!”

“Good! Since I’m a saint, naturally, I can judge the apostate on behalf of the goddess!” After receiving a satisfactory answer, she smiled happily, and her tone became mischievous. “Hey, Tennyson, did you hear that?”

“What does that have to do with me?” Tennyson asked inexplicably.

“Yesterday, I asked you guys to set up an ambush in Black Lake Forest, to build a demon sealing boundary, and catch that demon alive.” She faintly said another unrelated thing, “but there was an opening in the boundary and the demon escaped. What was with that opening? Tennyson, I think you should be able to answer me.”

“Eh? I, I…” At that moment, Tennyson’s felt his throat closing, and the cold sweat on his back completely soaked his clothes.

He never imagined that the Saint would suddenly mention that matter at such an important moment.

“One of the members in the formation grew cowardly before the battle and the circuit formation was not completed in time, which led to a loss of power of the entire demon sealing boundary, and thus that demon escaped!” Her tone suddenly became cold and erosive. “Who this man was, Tennyson, do I need to say more?”

“I, I, I…” Tennyson was completely dumbfounded.

How did the Saint know about this?

“Tennyson, you violated the will of God and abandoned this great mission. Since you let yourself go, I now sentence you to death in the name of the goddess!” At that moment, her body emitted an aura that made people incapable of resisting.

Was this the power bestowed by the Goddess of Light?

“No, no, no!”

Without waiting for Tennyson to defend himself, the surrounding believers begun to talk amongst one another.

“Who knew that the person who destroyed the boundary yesterday was Tennyson! Damn, I couldn’t tell that he was a coward. How could this happen?”

“Although the Saint is blind, but her holy heart can see through all that is evil and filthy!”

“It’s all thanks to the Saint who saw through his pretense, the Holy Light Church must not allow apostates to exist!”

“Long live the Saint! Kill this cowardly degenerate, sentence him to death!”

The demon sealing boundary was destroyed and the demon escaped. This incident made everyone on the scene ashamed, everyone was resentful, and now they finally found the object to vent their anger on!

Tennyson —— everything was his fault!

She successfully won over public opinion, and the Saint raised her mouth slightly. Now, no one remembers that she originally wanted to kill Tennyson because she was called a “Snow Witch”.

“Tennyson, do you still have anything you want to say?”

“No, no… no, it wasn’t like that! At that time… at the time… right! I remember!” Tennyson was desperate, and finally remembered something as he was about to die, his bloodshot eyes were darting back and forth. “Saint, I didn’t cower! I don’t know why but I fell into a short coma, like some sort of black magic… Yes, someone must have secretly used black magic to control my consciousness so I couldn’t complete the circuit formation!”

“Black magic?” The girl sneered. “What do you mean? These are the most loyal followers of the goddess of light. Do you suspect that one of us can use black magic?”

“No, no… but it was definitely black magic. I’m absolutely not mistaken! Saint, please believe me!”

“Enough! How foolish, what black magic, shouldn’t you have tried to come up with a better excuse? Or are you trying to say that I used black magic to interfere with your thoughts?”

“Eh?” Hearing her mockery, Tennyson was not only unashamed, but had a sudden realization.

Of everyone present, if there was anyone who could use black magic, the only one who’s capable is the Saint herself ——

That day, she wasn’t too far from the boundary. If it was her, there was definitely a chance to quietly cast black magic to interfere with the squad, and stealthily destroy the boundary, and no one would even suspect her!

There were rumors before that the Saint did not want to kill the demon, but to let it go. Now it seems like that rumor was 80% true!

“Don’t tell me… it was you?” Tennyson was frightened by his own guess.

No matter how you put it, she was a true Saint, or was the Goddess of Light also blind to let such a wicked person who mastered black magic to pass the Saint Selection and earn the title of Saint?

Even if she was called “The Snow Witch”, she would not be so depraved!

“Hehe, since you weren’t successful with your excuses, now you want to smear the reputation of this Saint?” She issued the final order, “Captain, shut him up, drag this coward to the forest and execute him!”

“Yes, Saint!”

“Snow Witch, it was definitely you! I remember, it was you! You cast black magic on me, destroyed the boundary, and deliberately let the demon go! You’re all being deceived! Deceived, I tell you. !……Mm! Mmmh! Mmmmh!!”

Bam.

The left and right guards clenched their fists and smashed it on Tennyson’s face. His face quickly became distorted, not only breaking teeth, but making him vomit blood, and he couldn’t say anything anymore.

Soon, the mute Tennyson was dragged into the forest, accompanied by a muffled voice, and his head fell.

“Sigh, I really hate these clever fellows. He even knew of black magic? If I let him say anymore, that really might have been troublesome.”

Saying that, there was a strange strand of blackish purple light within her right hand, but it was hidden under the cover of the gorgeous white robes, and did not attract anyone’s attention.

“Tennyson, if not for the fact that you didn’t have enough willpower and you weren’t pious enough to the goddess, my black magic would not have worked on you. You were the only one of the 20 believers deploying the boundary that was affected by the black magic, so the only one you can blame is yourself.” The Saint mumbled to herself.

At this time, the captain returned with his left and right guards.

“Saint, he has been disposed of! It’s all because of Tennyson that our mission has failed!”

“All because of him? Oh, yes, it was all his fault.” And so, the Saint found someone to take the fall. “After going back, that’s what we’ll tell Great Sage Bellco.”

“Yes, Saint!”

“Good work, Captain.” She nodded with satisfaction. “Oh yes, I heard that the hunting team at Loran Academy seems to be in the north part of Black Lake Forest?”

“Yes, Saint, the new students in the Department of Magic led by the grand magician Woos is conducting an actual combat drill. Their mission seems to be… hunting Jackalweres!”

“Jackalweres? Hehe, I understand.”

The storm ended once Tennyson died, no one dared to say anything bad. The Saint informed everyone to continue on, preparing to report the situation to the Great Sage Bellco.

Before she left, while looking at the eerie and frightening Black Lake Forest, the Saint whispered something to herself.

“I took a big risk this time.”

“I really hope that the cute little cat will meet you, otherwise, it would have been a waste of effort.”

“Perhaps, this is fate?”

“Please don’t blame me Lin Xiao, this is all for the sake of your dreams!”