"That's enough." Yang Hao nodded and held the wrist of the little nun who was looking at the mess in front of her anxiously. While comforting the nun, he signaled to Fen that the mages could start moving.
"They can't escape the fire trap - but our ammunition reserves are almost exhausted... This is a meaningful weapons test, and we can destroy them."
"Do we have to use magic to end it in the end?" Finn looked at the believers who were gradually forced into a state of little living space by the flames, "Why can't we use machine guns to solve it?"
"Because we have to keep some shells for emergencies."
"I see."
Finn and the Archmage chanted something, and magic began to gather in their hands. When facing a group of enemies who were forced to move forward and backward, they didn't even need to consider the possible direction of the enemies, they just had to throw magic at them and that was it.
As for the more than 20,000 promoted believers, they were surrounded by a huge force that was pressing them from all sides. Some of them had already fainted on the ground due to the ubiquitous smoke.
They were suffering in the high temperature and steam, and their last hope was the angels who were fighting the black dragon.
"God! Our God! Please give us the courage to escape from here!" The believers knelt on the ground, praying that the God of Light would show his power for his believers.
"Please let us escape from here, please let us complete the divine revelation! We don't want to die yet, we don't want to die yet!"
Their prayers temporarily drowned out the crackling of the flames.
More and more believers fell unconscious under the scorching flames, and more and more people were forced to retreat and had no choice but to pull out their comrades around them to take their former positions.
The God of Light they prayed to responded to them, but even Yang Hao felt that the response was too outrageous.
I saw countless golden lights radiating from the angels who were fighting with the black dragon.
Just when the believers thought they were saved, the group of angels, rejuvenated and strengthened, fled towards St. Petersburg in front of everyone's eyes.
They ran away?!
The black dragon was stunned, and the army of believers on the ground experienced the despair of falling into hell again after gaining hope.
They originally thought that after the angels obtained the power of the God of Light, they would be able to save them from the water and fire.
They never expected that the first thing the angels did after regaining their power was to run away?!
"Oh God! Why did you deceive us!"
The believers screamed in despair. Their faith collapsed so quickly. Their hysteria was filled with anger towards God and pain for their own faith. Even Yang Hao on the airship felt the same way and could not help but nod his head repeatedly.
"If you, Theresa, had saved me and then sold me, I would probably be the same as them."
His sigh made the pale little nun roll her eyes, and almost made Finn, who was casting a spell, cough.
After all, at that time, Fen really wanted to make a deal with the nun to hand Yang Hao over to Caparia...
Fortunately, Theresa didn't agree at that time. Fortunately, Theresa really didn't agree at that time.
As Fen relaxed, Theresa turned around and grabbed Yang Hao's cheek and said, "Anyone could betray you, but I won't." She looked straight into Yang Hao's eyes, but in the end, she lowered her face shyly.
And it was at this moment that the elves' magic was released.
As the believers continued to curse the God of Light or beg for forgiveness from their enemies and pray for a tiny chance of survival, vines rising from the ground, carrying flames, completely tied them to death in the center of the fire trap.
The burning vines would kill them, and they would die miserably, cursing the God of Light and praying to their own side - but before that, Fin had a question...
"What should we do with those angels?" She pointed at the angels who were avoiding the black dragon's attack.
"After gaining new powers, those angels seem to be planning to escape... No? Aren't they similar to golems? If they escape, does that mean the God of Light wants to escape?"
After gaining new powers, the angels did not choose to help the believers who were doomed to die beneath their feet, but instead began to try to avoid the black dragon's attacks and escape.
It cannot be said whether the angels' efforts were in vain. At least the black dragon seemed to be getting frustrated after each of its attacks were dodged.
The question for Yang Hao and others now is, should they let these angels escape, or find a way to deal with them
Yang Hao’s answer is—
"Maybe? It doesn't matter if we capture them or break their wings. We just need to study the principles of the divine power of these angels."
Capture these angels and find a way to study the power of the God of Light.
With this idea in mind, the airship began to move towards the direction where the angel and the black dragon were fighting.
Theresa stood at the front of Class A, muttering "What a hassle".
This little nun who had done nothing from the beginning finally found her place at this moment.
A silver-white light bloomed in her hands. If nothing unexpected happened, Theresa would be able to use the original and orthodox power of light to eliminate the false power of the God of Light.
In other words, she could destroy the God of Light's control over the angels - or at the very least ensure that the angels were captured.
But before that, she had to get close enough... without being attacked by the angels.
"But I can ignore attacks from divine arts." The little nun muttered, "The divine arts of the God of Light are just like gifts to me. I will definitely accept them and turn them into our original strength - but for physical attacks, I can only rely on you."
Finn, who was standing by, sighed and said that if Theresa was so worried about physical attacks, she should stay somewhere safer.
In the face of Fen's helplessness, Theresa just grabbed Yang Hao's sleeve and said, if she chose to stay in the rear when she needed her most, then who would be willing to continue walking side by side with her
This is Teresa's philosophy of life - don't be a person who needs charity. Support each other and keep going. This is her stage.
So Theresa would never give up her duties for the sake of safety. And just in time, the battle between the black dragon and the angels was coming to an end...
Faced with the black dragon's thick skin and immunity to magic, no matter how powerful the angels obtained, they still could not use the weapons and magic in their hands to break through the black dragon's defense.
In addition, as more and more believers whose faith collapsed died on earth, the angels were able to obtain less and less divine power. In the end, they had almost no divine spells left to release except the lowest-level ones.
The Black Dragon noticed the movement of the airship and naturally began to drive the angels towards where Yang Hao and others were. Facing the oncoming angels, Yang Hao and others simply asked Theresa to be prepared and then watched Theresa perform her performance with peace of mind.
And she lived up to everyone's expectations. While murmuring the words of the Holy Book of Light, Theresa stretched out her right hand towards the angel flying in front of her.
There was a silver-white light flashing in her hands, and accompanied by the roar of the black dragon in the distance, she sprayed the silver-white light in the form of bubbles onto the path of the angels.
"Although it was originally a magic used to make Anna happy, it should be enough to use it on these angels, right?"
Theresa whispered.
After the angels collided with the bubbles created by the power of light, they fell powerlessly to the ground amid bursts of silver-white flashes.
Some of them fell on the airship, and the other part fell on the ground. Yang Hao and the others, together with the guards, controlled the angels that fell on the ship. As for those that fell on the ground
Seeing the black dragon swooping down in frustration, wishing to tear them into pieces, Yang Hao tentatively judged that he should not care about it.
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Afternoon of April 17th.
When the fire of the fire trap finally burned out, only charred ashes and the blackened ground were left on the hillside in front of the sanctuary church... The United Nations' army was counting its own losses and the enemy's casualties.
First, there were the losses on their side. Apart from the heavy machine gun ammunition in the machine gun position being completely consumed, and the machine guns in the airship consuming almost all of the ammunition, the only loss was that the airship was hit by the fallen angels and had several grooves on its deck, which would make it troublesome to repair.
The enemy's losses were incalculable - the soldiers of the United Nations were still unable to step onto the scorched earth to count the bodies. It would be better to say that those charred bodies had long been trampled upon by each other or become indistinguishable from the vines, making it impossible to identify them.
The soldiers could only infer that, except for a very small number of sober people who immediately fled when they saw the situation was not good, the tens of thousands of believers should have all died in the fire trap.
It was hard to say whether their bodies, which had been burned to charcoal, were worth counting. Even if they wanted to count the bodies of high-value targets, it was impossible for the soldiers to enter the scorched earth area, which was as hot as an oven, for a long time without protection...
"So, that's all we have to report..."
"Well, you've worked hard. Move the machine gun back and prepare to evacuate."
After landing on the ground again, Yang Hao took the report from the ground commander and encouraged the commander for his hard work. Then he took Finn and Theresa to the familiar interior of the church, and under Theresa's guidance, they came to a secret cave underground.
Theresa explained that there would be a long waiting period before she could push the button to command the shrine to rise, and if anyone was worried that seeing the "light" would make them pee their pants, it would be best to take this opportunity to solve the problem quickly.
"Why don't you take advantage of this time to do it once and calm your nervous heart like a sage?" The little elf rolled his eyes, then took the opportunity to lean on Yang Hao's waist.
"So hurry up and get the shrine up - but then again... What are you going to do when the time comes, Theresa?"
"What should I do?"
"What I mean is, when the Light appears, everyone's faith will definitely flow from you to the Light... Is that okay?"
The elf asked sharply as always, causing the little nun's lips to crack into a smile.
She hummed a few times and cut her thumb on the control panel left by the Bayerzas Empire. After letting the blood slide down the control panel and emitting a faint luster, she chuckled and said:
"Do you think I'm an ungrateful Roman? Even though I speak ill of Him every day... I actually respect Him as my "elder".
I remember that after my parents died, He used His feeble power to take care of me just like my mother did... This actually belongs to Him, why should I keep it?"
But in this case, after losing your power, can you really continue to help Yang Hao by his side
Finn was originally going to ask this question directly - but after thinking carefully about Theresa's identity, she felt relieved.
Teresa is now not only the only nun and saint of light, but also the spokesperson of light.
In this situation, even if Theresa returned all her power to the light, as a saint, she could still call on the faith of the believers, and then use the traditional clergy system to provide combat assistance to Yang Hao.
To use a simple and easy-to-understand example, before transferring the power, Theresa can use powerful divine arts anytime and anywhere—
After handing over the power, she can still use divine magic anytime and anywhere, but she needs believers to follow her.
Of course, if "Light" really loved Theresa, He probably wouldn't ask Theresa to return the power to Him...
By then, Theresa will still be the familiar Theresa. She will have suffered almost no losses, so naturally she doesn't have to worry about not being able to keep up with Yang Hao due to lack of strength.
Not to mention that Theresa is now also the Bayer Zansbasic Lisa position -
Putting aside Yang Hao's doting on her, even if Yang Hao doesn't love her now, she still has the ability and necessity to stay with Yang Hao...
…
So, am I just rusty-headed for worrying about her
For the first time, the little elf felt a headache because of his sentimentality... Listening to the sound of gears shaking under his feet, Finn sighed again.
She moved a little so that Theresa could have a comfortable place to lean on their man. Then she looked up at Yang Hao and said, what should they do with the furious Black Dragon
"Do we need to explain to her the existence of Light? It's a god, right?"
"I think it's okay to explain, right? After all, Nia seems damn rational. It's impossible for her to do anything to the Light just to offend us, right?" Theresa rolled her eyes.
"Besides, if Ishugard realizes that we can even save God, and the next thing we do is kill God, I guess they will think more highly of us, right?"
"It could be worse - you know it after all. Haha. Mortals will be very afraid of a powerful country that attacks God, right?"
"I don't think our country is strong. The current gender ratio is terrible. At least we can wait until our population reaches 10 million before we can say we are strong."
"That depends on how hard our Mr. Yang Hao works."
Yang Hao rolled his eyes, thinking that they were definitely not talking about political efforts, but efforts in other areas...
But after thinking about it, forget it. Although he really wanted to say that he really couldn't contribute much. But now, if he first took having a child as his goal, it would be normal...
…
I hope that "light" can solve the trouble that Theresa and I have of not having children... I hope so.
Yang Hao was praying devoutly in his heart, and at this moment, the sound of the gears stopped.
At the end of the cave passage, there was a staircase leading down. They looked at each other and then walked down under Theresa's guidance.
Down below, they came to the interior of the shrine, and after passing through the dusty but obviously active corridors, they came to the hall, where a nun knelt on a cushion and seemed to be speaking something convincingly.
It seems that in the eyes of believers, the image of "light" is a nun—
Before everyone could recover from this fact, the nun stood up and turned around, which almost made them pop their eyes out.
No other…
"You're welcome, kids—it's best if you're not hurt."
Because the image of the gentle and considerate "light" in front of him is a black-eyed version of Theresa with a bigger chest.
Chapter 5: The Embrace of Mother Light and the Next Goal-8K
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Late night on April 17th.
When Yang Hao and his party finally returned to the Purple Palace in Constantinople with the books and the most important "light" stored in the basement of the Sanctuary Church, Black Dragonia was in a state of shock and confusion.
At first, she thought that her hard work this time was just to establish a strategic point for the United Nations, to annihilate the enemy's manpower, and to inflict a certain blow to the enemy's religious groups, that was all.
Although it was a bit uncomfortable to fight with those "angels".
But in the final analysis, Nia still believed that what she had done was just a trivial task... Wasn't it just killing tens of thousands of rioters
Wasn't it just that while grilling tens of thousands of people, he also beat up a few angels and captured these guys who were basically zombies
After all, isn't this just an ordinary military operation
Nia did think so at the time. Even when the battle was over and His Majesty Yang Hao and his two wives entered the church, she was still thinking so as she lay on the fence of the airship and watched Naruga studying the structure of the angel with great interest.