Chapter 418 - Capturing the Church

Chapter 418: Chapter 172: Capturing the ChurchThose monsters were not very easy to kill, at least that was the case for the dark guards.

Lu Hong swung a sword and knocked one over, and the dark guards tried to mimic him, only to break their swords without knocking down the monsters in front of them.

Quite a few dark guards turned to magic for their attack, but those monsters seemed to have a special devouring function for magic power, rendering all magical attacks ineffective and making the monsters that absorbed magic power even more frenzied.

In the short time it took for Lu Hong to challenge the church’s main doors, the dark guards had lost over a hundred of their best.

"Do not use spells, attack with close combat only," commanded Questasa, recognizing the monsters’ ability to absorb magic, "Mage professions, withdraw! Send in the close combatants!"

Lu Hong stood in front of the church doors, as a blood orb slowly rose above his head.

With the fluctuation produced by the blood orb, the monsters besieging the dark guards turned as if they had seen delicious food, turning their heads and pouncing fiercely toward Lu Hong.

That was the effect he wanted. Lu Hong immediately made a decision and retracted the gathered blood orb.

Now, the monsters were even more frenzied.

So much magic power had been withdrawn on a whim; even the monsters were deceived, surely not a good thing.

Enraged at being toyed with, the monsters swore to tear Lu Hong into pieces and drain the magic power from his body.

In a matter of seconds, the monsters had Lu Hong surrounded and launched a frenzied attack.

It’s hard to fend off multiple assailants with just one pair of fists, let alone so many man-eating monsters.

Fortunately, Lu Hong still had an ace up his sleeve. The ghosts before had feared divine light, the Third Transition powerhouses of the Disaster Church had also feared divine light, so would these monsters also fear divine light?

Heavenly God descends!

Even in the space rift, the supreme divine light was still precisely cast down, marking Lu Hong’s surroundings.

As expected, the monsters let out a piercing scream the instant they touched the divine light, emitting large amounts of smoke and ultimately burning to ashes.

With a method to restrain the monsters, solving the problem became much easier.

After the monsters had been cleared, a group of people gathered in front of the damaged main doors of the space church.

"Someone break down the door!" Questasa called out in a low voice, commanding the dark guards to bring a magic power bomb the size of a durian.

Despite its average size, the magic power contained within was terrifying, more astonishing than the magic power spheres released by siege engines, making it the best tool for demolishing defense structures. However, it needed to be handled with extreme care due to the risk of detonation, which is why it was unpopular in the military and usually entrusted to the dark guards for precise deployment.

After setting up the magic power bomb, everyone backed a hundred yards, detonating the magic power amidst the trembling expressions of the disaster church followers inside.

Accompanied by a thunderous noise, the gray church shook again, though less violently than Lu Hong’s Heaven Slaying spell.

The door still did not blow open, and Questasa’s face grew somber; this was the most powerful weapon he could produce.

"Keep bombing!" he ordered.

Lu Hong had no more opportunities to release the Heaven Slaying spell today; the only hope of breaching the church’s main door lay with the magic power bombs.

"I say, this thing is quite powerful. Why didn’t I see you dark guards use it in the last battle on the island?" Lu Hong asked.

"This thing is too much trouble to transport. Without a stable and safe route, these bombs cannot be deployed, as slight carelessness can cause injury to our own people. It’s not worth the risk," Questasa explained while two more magic power bombs exploded with a roar.

Unfortunately, the damage to the church’s main door did not increase and remained as it was after being struck by Heaven Slaying.

Seeing that the enemy could not break through the church’s main door, the Disaster Church followers finally eased their anxiety.

"Ha ha, you’re out of options, aren’t you? This is a super Divine Artifact brought here at great expense by the headquarters. Stop deluding yourselves; you won’t be able to break it. Just wait another half an hour and we’ll be able to activate it, leaving the Yuanyuan Plane. So... you’ve only got half an hour left!"

Faced with the taunts of the Disaster Church followers, Questasa went pale, and Lu Hong’s expression turned dark. Surely the hundred thousand civilians must be detained inside this church, and although the church did not appear large, it must have space-enlarging magic at work.

"Go on, show us that strike from earlier!" a Third Transition Peak follower of the Disaster Church, having gauged the situation, kept provoking Lu Hong.

"Are you sure?" Lu Hong called a halt to the dark guards and took a few steps forward, "Everyone, step back."

"Step back," Questasa didn’t know what Lu Hong was planning to do, but at least he seemed to have a method.

Drawing forth the War Holy Sword, Lu Hong’s posture gradually lowered.

With every fraction lower, the aura within the War Holy Sword intensified.

The charge up this time was longer than ever before, even the Heaven Slaying couldn’t forcibly break through the gate, its defensive strength must be extremely strong.

Half an hour to escape, is it?

Then I’ll charge up for ten minutes! Fifteen minutes!

As time passed, the waves emitted by the War Holy Sword manifested as a tangible halo, and the less powerful among the dark knights could no longer bear the pressure, collapsing to the ground.

Questasa, with the help of magic artifacts, could barely stand for a while, but if this continued, collapsing was just a matter of time.

The expressions of the Disaster Church members inside the cathedral also gradually changed, swallowing saliva involuntarily; the main gate couldn’t really be breached, could it?

"Extreme—"

"One Flash!"

Accompanied by a loud shout, the War Holy Sword unleashed a silver-gray Sword Qi.

The world seemed to narrow to a line, space fissures cried out in shattering dismay, and the main gate of the cathedral, which Lu Hong was concentrating on, finally could no longer hold up and exploded into fragments.

"Kill!" Questasa immediately gave the order, and the dark knights, holding back their strength, rushed in furiously.

Lu Hong followed close behind.

In a very short time, the remaining members of the Disaster Church were killed.

It wasn’t that the dark knights didn’t want to take prisoners; the Third Transition members of the Disaster Church had forced the others to drink poison before the gate broke.

The cathedral seemed small from the outside, but as they had guessed, once inside, the sense of space expanded severalfold. After searching, they finally found the civilians imprisoned in the dungeons.

"Quickly release them and bring them back to be comforted," Questasa arranged the evacuation methodically.

Meanwhile, Lu Hong had found the main control room of the cathedral, a vast virtual star map appeared before him.

And there was a location near Umbra marked with a highlight.

After a brief understanding of the various mechanisms in the control room, Lu Hong stopped the teleportation that was about to commence.

At this moment, Dada also came through the teleportation gate and found the main control room.

Seeing Lu Hong fiddling around, he hurried over to stop him, "If you don’t know how to handle it, don’t mess with it; this is precious research material. If you break it, are you going to take responsibility?!"

"And there are three more cathedrals like this one, aren’t you interested?" Lu Hong took a step back and asked with a smile.

"Three more?" Dada’s eyes sparkled.

"Yes, I’m not lying to you. However... you know."

Dada hesitated, remembering the painful experience of having his Divine Soul drained, and quickly shook his head, "No way, don’t even think about it."

"Ah! Then it’s a pity about the other three cathedrals, they might have different functions."

Different functions? A strange light flickered in Dada’s eyes, but then he became conflicted...

What to do?

After some mental struggle: "Do it! If it’s not as you said, I’ll make sure you pay."

Heh! Lu Hong chuckled softly, turning to leave.