Chapter 11

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Before this, the people in the Skadi fortress were in total despair when they saw the terrifying power of the Divine Sword of Light shattering the fortress barrier easily. They closed their eyes and waited for the final moments.

“After trying for so long, it didn’t work at all. The opponent was too strong.” Klent looked at the Divine Sword of Light that shattered the void and felt weak. “So much for overrating our own strength.”

The late king had died young. He remembered the king’s final entrustment and he had assisted the young Celia to painstakingly build the Skadi kingdom for so many years. He did not expect that they wouldn’t be able to escape destruction ultimately. He had failed the late king’s trust. Even Celia, the only bloodline of the late king, could not be saved.

At this moment, Klent’s ramrod-straight posture seemed a lot more stooped. He was filled with a sense of powerlessness. There was no way around the situation now. The destruction of the Skadi kingdom was almost a foregone conclusion. Only a Supreme Archmage could bring a gleam of hope for survival, but such an Archmage was nowhere to be found inside the fortress. The young Celia began to weep in despair.

“Father King, I have failed you,” Celia sobbed. “I am not capable of protecting the kingdom you have worked so hard to build.”

The earnest hopes that her parents had placed on her before they died were still etched in Celia’s mind. Since then, as the only bloodline of the late king, the burden of running the entire kingdom had been placed on Celia, who was only a few years old at that time. She had worked hard to learn from Klent, hoping only to be qualified to inherit the kingdom left behind by her parents and to run it with the greatest effort.

Unexpectedly, the Perus Empire led several kingdoms that believed in the Temple of Light in a joint attack against the Skadi Kingdom in the year she turned sixteen and was about to succeed to the throne. No matter how hard she tried, it was useless against a powerful enemy like the Temple of Light.

Celia was still a young girl, after all. How could she face such a desperate situation? She could only close her eyes, kneel on the ground and cry in despair. However, the expected suffering did not come. The dazzling golden light that had covered the entire fortress suddenly disappeared, and the fluorescence in the void caused by the violent magical fluctuations was also gone.

“What’s going on?”

Celia cried for a long time but the sword did not come down. She could not help but look up.

“Has the attack of the compound forbidden spell actually stopped?”

At the same time, Klent and the others in the fortress, sensing that something was amiss, looked up and gaped. They looked with stunned disbelief at the irresistible Divine Sword of Light in the sky, stuck above the fortress like an ordinary iron sword!

An almost transparent barrier covered the entire fortress of the Skadi Kingdom, easily shielding it from the Divine Sword of Light, which was previously shining with golden light. All the magical fluctuations of the Divine Sword of Light had disappeared, and the shattered space that stretched for a thousand meters was restored. The immense pressure was lifted. The gray sky was clear, and even the magical patterns surrounding the Divine Sword of Light were gone.

There wasn’t even a single ripple on the barrier that suddenly appeared to resist the Divine Sword of Light. Instead, the Divine Sword of Light seemed to have been stripped of all its powers and turned into an ordinary iron sword that hung in the void. If someone who didn’t know better saw this, he wouldn’t believe that this was actually a light-type compound forbidden spell. Who would believe that the Divine Light Sword could be blocked by a barrier and even turn into an ordinary iron sword? One would be treated as a lunatic for saying this and the Temple of Light would definitely have one roasted on a pillar of fire!

“The Divine Sword of Light was really suppressed!” Someone finally recovered from his deep shock and exclaimed loudly. His voice was filled with the joy of surviving a calamity.

“This is wonderful! My Skadi kingdom finally has a chance to fight back!”

“The gods are watching over us! The Temple of Light has angered the gods!”

The Skadi survivors felt a mixture of fear and joy. Their intense excitement prevented them from thinking about who had cast this barrier spell with its awesome defensive power. Their first reaction was to think that the gods were protecting them, that the Temple of Light had gone against the will of the gods. It wasn’t accurate, but in a way, it was.

Earlier, they were gripped by fear of the Temple of Light’s compound forbidden spell. In the final moments before the divine sword descended on them, many people could no longer sense their heartbeats. Now, looking at the Divine Sword of Light that the Temple of Light had called Armageddon, it felt like the nightmare was over. For the first time, the people in the fortress of the Skadi Kingdom experienced a rebirth. Everything that had happened seemed like a terrifying nightmare, but now they finally returned to reality.

“Are the gods really watching over us?” Celia’s shining eyes were now filled with sparkling tears, but this time they were tears of joy.

“This is wonderful.” Celia stroked her chest and breathed deeply.

However, Celia quickly regained her composure. The attack of the Temple of Light’s compound forbidden spell had been blocked by the mysterious barrier, but it could not have appeared out of thin air. But even Klent, the strongest in the fortress, had never had such a powerful defensive spell. He did not have the magic to cast it. At this thought, Celia looked incredulously at Mo Fan, who was now leisurely watching the enemy troops by the city wall.

Could he have… Celia was shaken now.

Celia was very familiar with everyone in the Skadi fortress. She thought that no one among them could release such a terrifying and powerful defensive spell. If she had a mage with her who had such powerful strength, how would the Temple of Light dare to besiege Skadi? But a variable had appeared in their midst. It was Mo Fan.

Celia also realized that Mo Fan had never revealed a trace of nervousness from the beginning. He even seemed to be having fun, as if everything was under his control. A defensive spell that could resist a compound forbidden spell surpassed Celia’s understanding. She did not dare to imagine what extraordinary strength the mage who cast such a terrifying defensive spell had. Then she looked in another direction not far away and saw that Klent was staring at Mo Fan intently. His lips were pursed, and his eyes were filled with disbelief. His body was trembling slightly.

After taking another look at Mo Fan, who seemed to be taking in the sight of a new wonder, Celia quickly walked over to Klent and whispered curiously, “Teacher, what exactly was that barrier that appeared just now?”