quicksilver blood

Chapter 423 The Meaningless Sacrifice

A dazzling light flickered in the sky not far away.

The waves of gray-white flames roared, and the deadly struggle between the flame giants and the pure white giant trees rolled up monstrous waves with a height of [-] meters, making a deafening sound like a tsunami.

Roland was still five to six thousand meters away from the City of Fortune, and he already felt the hot and humid air hit his face.Lilia on the side already showed an uncomfortable expression, but Gaharad was indifferent.

The scene in front of him was really not surprising in the era he lived in.

Divine spell professionals with enough willpower can summon a huge human form behind them, which is a proof of the purity of their beliefs to the limit.Just as warriors with excellent swordsmanship can easily cut scars that far exceed the length of their weapons, it is not impossible to even cut through mountains with one sword.

That is origin, the power to cause miracles in a mortal body.

In the era when Gaharad was active, wars were at their peak.Wars between mortals and mortals, monsters slaughtering mortals, mortals resisting monsters—these things happen every day.

Although human desires were misinterpreted, wills were distorted, and beliefs were stolen, those were indeed the years when the human spirit was at its most radiant.

It is a war between fanatics of the gods and followers of the truth, a war of swords between loyal defenders of the kingdom and fighters who pursue freedom.The conflict between faith and belief is like two gears of different sizes rotating and colliding at high speed, blooming beautiful and gorgeous sparks.

But now, I am afraid that such a scene is hard to see.

Peace breeds weakness.This principle will not change no matter where it is.

Just 80 years without a large-scale war, the new generation of people has forgotten the appearance of war.Today, some fanatical young people are so eager for its arrival, and foolish poets sing loudly about the great achievements of the executioner, but they don't know what the war represents, and what they should praise.

That's hell.A soul that has not experienced hell is always just a cowardly mortal.

Gahalad looked sideways and glanced at Lilia who was beside him.

There seemed to be a gleam in her eyes.There seems to be something to expect in the pupils that have now been dyed silver.

...Does even such a gentle and innocent little girl expect power?
But then, Gahalad realized something was wrong.

It was not the gaze of a longing for something, nor the gaze of a mortal in fear of a monster.If you want to describe it, it is closer to the kind of concentration that is unique to researchers.

Gahalad looked into her eyes, and suddenly felt uncomfortable for no reason.It took a long time for Gaharad to suppress this discomfort.

That look is palpitating.The disgusting gaze of someone who sees through everything.

"Brother Roland, who is he?"

Suddenly, Lilia stopped her pace and gently pulled La Roland's sleeve.

The person she was looking at was a gigantic human figure that was burning with flames all over its body.

"He..."

Roland paused for a moment and didn't even look back, but as if he knew who Lilia was referring to, he replied softly: "His name is Joseph, he is the teacher's pastor. He is a devout believer.

"Is he very religious, Brother Roland?"

"Very pious."

Roland still didn't look back: "In today's era, he can be considered a saint."

"If... I mean if," Lilia hesitated, "if he was deceived and launched a rebellion..."

"Lilia, and Gaharad," Roland interrupted her words, "Joseph may have many shortcomings... But, he is a very pious person. His piety is worthy of respect."

Before Roland finished speaking, the increasingly intense silver-white light began to flicker in the huge flame figure, becoming stronger and brighter.Its movements also become slower.

The suffocating horror almost made Roland and others suffocate.

"careful!"

Lilia suddenly screamed. She suddenly grabbed the corner of Roland's clothes and pulled him forcefully behind her.

Roland didn't resist, but followed Lilia's movements and slowly stepped back.

Gahalad finally seemed to have some recognition.He stepped forward without hesitation, and the small round shield on his left arm suddenly shone with dazzling light.An arc-shaped light shield emerged from above, quickly growing in size, with its tip diagonally inserted into the ground. Roland and Lilia were covered by the canopy-like arc above.

Without warning, an extremely dazzling blazing white brilliance suddenly shot out from Joseph's body—no, it would be too frivolous to describe it as dazzling.At that moment, it seemed that a new world was born.

The whole world was instantly flooded with light piercing Joseph's body.The whole world lost its voice.

The last thing Roland could do was to cover the three of them with the field of silent prayer.

In the silent, pure white world, the huge flame figure began to collapse inward.The gray-white human figure first turned into silver-white, and then was soaked by an even more blazing white light.An orange, magma-like texture is then revealed at the point of collapse to reveal the internal tissue.Those off-white and golden liquids were submerged in blazing white in an instant, and the whole city instantly turned pure white.

The next moment, all the blazing white color exploded at the same time.The stopped time started running again, and the unimaginable roar rolled and drowned everything.

The shock wave visible to the naked eye exploded centered on Joseph.The ground exploded layer by layer, the water surface completely disappeared, and parts of the ground flew outward layer by layer, turning into powder in the storm.

What followed was a terrible storm.The storm that had already been dyed white covered and shredded everything in the world, and the flying debris turned into shells that could easily crush people into sieves under the huge momentum.Then it hit Gaharad's light shield with a bang.

At the same time, a huge mushroom cloud rose slowly from Joseph's original position.Thick gray-black smoke rolled, and something silver-gray like lava flickered inside, spreading at an extremely slow speed high in the sky.

The devastating explosion made Lilia's face turn pale.Roland had no choice but to add a layer of frost-covered ice wall outside the Silent Prayer, so that the three of them would not be covered with blood from behind by the returning gravel without the light shield.

Roland didn't look up until the power of the explosion subsided slightly.At this time, the city of wealth has been completely wiped out.

It was much more serious than the one in Roland - this time everything on the ground was completely annihilated, even the sewers were blown up, and the City of Fortune turned into a terrible pit within 300 meters around it.

This is definitely not the power that a silver-ranked martyr can display.The top of the golden class is about the same.

Joseph must have died.So... the tree of suffering...

But when Roland looked towards the center, he almost felt suffocated.

I saw gray-white ash-like substances emerging from the whole body of the Tree of Suffering, blocking the power of the explosion.Although one-third of the side close to the moonlight has been burned and the roots are exposed, the Tree of Suffering is still two-thirds intact.

That was shelter from the Higgs.

——Something different from what Joseph imagined.

The gorgeous explosion he bought with his life was worthless in the end.

Even for Joseph... this was a little too much.

Roland was silent for a long time, then circled out from under the protection of Gaharad's light shield, and stepped forward facing the scorching destructive aura.

(End of this chapter)