Chapter 619 (1/2)

Chapter 619: An Unstoppable Path (Part Ⅰ)

Translator: TransN Editor: TransN

The red bricks and gray tiles of the cathedral gradually came into Isabella’s sight, as her ship was slowly approaching the old Holy City.

It looked fairly prosaic. Unlike the new cathedral on the plateau, it did not have a magnificent chapel or a lofty building similar to the Tower of Babel. It might even be smaller than the churches located in the capitals of the Four Kingdoms. Despite that, in the heart of most believers, this old cathedral together with the cloisters, the Hall of Military Affairs and the Hall of Arbitration formed the palace of deities on the ground.

They considered this old cathedral the source of the church and the beginning of everything.

Isabella, however, rejected this saying.

She knew that the real place of origin for the church located inside the high mountains behind the old cathedral and that the truth was always kept as a secret from the believers.

As for the old Holy City?

It was just built to cover the secret.

After the sailing ship was anchored off by the dock, Isabella walked down the trestle bridge alone with light bags. Seeing this, the guard who came from Pivotal Secret Area to fetch her was taken by surprise and asked, “My Lady, where are the other pure witches?”

“They’ll come one or two days later. I know His Holiness is rushing for us to return, but they still need some time to make some arrangements,” she shrugged and replied.

“But Lady Zero said…”

“She wanted to see everyone.” Isabella interrupted the guard. “I knew, but she didn’t say that she wanted to see all of us at the same time.”

She was puzzled by the recall order. Requiring all the pure witches to come back to Holy City would apparently ruin the plan to control Kingdom of Dawn. Without the medicine, the king would die in endless sleep. She could not think of a reason for Zero’s abrupt change of plan, nor did she receive any explanation in the order.

“She’s getting more and more like a real pope,” Isabella thought, feeling a little unhappy.

Nevertheless, she had to still hit the road as soon as she had received the command. It had taken her a whole week to rush back to Hermes.

She turned around to ask the guard while boarding the cart, “By the way, do you know what happened in Holy City?”

“The advance force of the church fought a battle against the army of Kingdom of Graycastle at the foot of Coldwind Ridge,” the guard hesitated for a while and answered, “and I think you’d better ask Lady Zero for the details.”

“Did… the advance force lose?”

The guard slightly nodded to her without saying anything. He quickly left to mount a war-horse and then shouted to the coachman, “Let’s go!”

Inside the carriage, Isabella let the curtains down and she was lost in her thought.

There were certainly many God’s Punishment Warriors in the advance force, as top leaders of the church only reacted when there’s a heavy loss to God’s Punishment Army.

God’s Punishment Warriors aren’t immortals. They’ll also suffer from heavy casualties, facing the harms more than they can bear. Since the church launched the attack at Kingdom of Everwinter, Holy City has already lost nearly 100 of them. I thought Zero had already got used to this situation, but maybe I was wrong. What a heavy loss could it be in this battle, which led to Zero’s decision to recall all the pure witches.