Book 3: Chapter 26: Thea’s Judgement (2)

Book 3: Chapter 26: Thea’s Judgement (2)

In the isolated space, the dimly glowing white feathers scattered in the breeze that came from nowhere and drifted into the distance.

Thea was floating at the center of the columns. Her unfolded wings looked more like a phantom image than real, causing her to appear even more sacred.

Thea’s face gradually blurred as her expression seemed to be hidden behind a thin veil.

“Be careful, Lady Lilith. Thea is probably using the Goddess Descent skill,” Sae’s voice suddenly rang in Lilith’s ear.

“Goddess Descent skill?”

“It’s a skill in which the goddess will directly channel a part of her power to the user. For the believers of the goddess, this is a divine skill that can be perceived as a gift that the goddess bestows upon her believers. This is also one of the reasons that allow religion to very easily expand.” Speaking up to this point, Sae’s voice turned unusually grave. “Although I’ve known that this child is a vessel of the Goddess, I didn’t expect such... outrageous synchronization.”

Even without Sae’s reminder, Lilith was well aware of how dangerous Thea was right now. After all, her heart had been sending warning signals to her. Her heartbeat rate had long exceeded the limit of biology.

Her body wasn’t preparing itself to stay and fight, but to flee.

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Before, she only looked like a lonely kitten to Lilith, but now she was like a tiger lurking in the jungle.

“Sae, will you be able to conceal this?”

“Eh? Art thou challenging her for real?” Sae’s tone was filled with disbelief.

Lilith knew that her action was completely foolish.

She knew that it was very easy for her to leave, too.

However, she just couldn’t shake off the feeling that she would regret it if she chose to escape.

It wasn’t the shame of running away. After all, she had cast her shame away along with her morals when she was three years old. The thing that bound her now was something much more elusive.

“If I may ask, Thea, why are you so persistent about me? If you’re really upset because I destroyed the Radiant Goddess’ statue, wouldn’t it be easier to just bring someone to catch me? Why do you have to come alone? You should be aware that you won’t be able to stop me from easily escaping this situation.”

Thea didn’t reply, but Lilith could feel the cold and merciless gaze fixated on her.

Two different auras rose to the sky.

One was sacred and inviolable, while the other was brutal and forceful. Yet no one in the entire city of Aeria noticed anything.

The Pope only frowned in the direction, before turning his head and reprimanded Alucard for losing the saintess.

“Sorry, Sae. I’ll make it up to you next time.”

“Oh my, I’m glad you offered, Lady Lilith.”

Sae’s physical body burned even more intensely in preparation to withstand an impending collision.

Thea watched everything in silence, but seemed to have no intention to attack first. By the time the space they were in was completely isolated, a staff that was slightly taller than her appeared in her hand.

Light elements began to gather at the top of the staff. In just a flash, they condensed into something akin to a miniature sun.

“Hey, getting hit by this won’t be fun.”

Lilith’s body tensed up as she guarded against the little sun that was going to fly at her at any moment.

Even so, Lilith wasn’t too nervous because she had a lot of confidence in her speed. After all, it would be very difficult to hit her with such a powerful but non-directional spell over this distance.

“Come on, show me how great is your so-called Goddess Channeling tech...”

Before she even finished speaking, her pupils constricted and her hair suddenly stood up on its end.

Thea... had vanished from her sight.

She then reappeared just less than a meter away from Lilith before the latter could even react.

The staff in her hand with that little sun hanging from it came flying down toward Lilith’s head like a meteor hammer!

Lilith quickly backed away and evaded it while cursing in her heart.

That damn Thea... turned out to be a melee master!!