1519 Beginning of Collapse Part 2 (1/2)

Abyrus tailed Fycro and entered Myers Mainland.

Interconnected encampments were everywhere at the frontlines. Encampments in the divine kingdom were built differently from how humans did it. Every single encampment had tall sentry towers with archers in them, which doubled as altars as well.

Fycro zipped through the encampment. The place was filled with a massive amount of divine army units. He was frustrated, wondering how he caught the attention of the seraph.

Stealing power of faith was considered a severe crime in planes where the believers originated. Yet in divine kingdoms, it was something that gods easily overlooked.

All power of faith would eventually be returned to the gods unless the one stealing it was not a believer.

If it had not been for the fact that he was no longer able to keep himself in the divine kingdom he was staying hidden in, there was no way he would even have thought of infiltrating the divine kingdom the Lord of Glory was based in. Abyrus ditched the legions of angels behind him, and that frightened them considerably.

The angels all barged through the encampments in a hurry, no longer caring about rules or anything.

The scene, however, alerted mages who had been on the lookout for enemy movements, who then reported what they saw immediately.

The Baldur's Gate, which was on standby not far away, revealed itself. Nailisi and the Winged Skull led the demons charging outside, and several legions of Bug Angel Warriors followed right behind the demons. The Bug Angel Armors were crafted specifically for human soldiers. Saleen had no use for them and gifted them to the Cloudflow people instead.

Nailisi had been waiting for such an opportunity for a long time. The encampment right outside the gates of the divine kingdom was built in such a way that it was impregnable. Nailisi might have been able to slaughter a huge number of enemies due to her level advantage, but doing so would have caused considerable casualties among her subordinates. She no longer dared to go deep behind enemy lines after losing thousands of demons and had taken to setting up Baldur's Gate outside Lion City, waiting for an opportunity to strike.

Nailisi was only doing that because Saleen told her to do so. She was not known for her patience, after all.

The enemy lines looked rather chaotic, and Nailisi took the opportunity to deploy her troops. No other armies would be able to stay on standby throughout the day, except the demons and the Bug Angel Warriors.

Demons did not take off their armor when they slept, while the Bug Angel Warriors simply slept in their armor, as doing so would hasten their recovery of mental powers instead.

Thousands of enchanters cast spiritual magic after detecting movements of their enemies to get everyone on their side into fighting shape. All that was left to do was to get everyone into formation.

He was entirely oblivious to the fact that right after Abyrus barged into the space that he was hiding in, the angel cast a powerful Ice Seal, which was a spell between divine arts and magic and only available to someone who had begun to master the power of rules.

Abyrus intended to keep the place intact so that when the Lord of Glory inquired about it, it would save it a lot of trouble in trying to explain what had happened. Fycro's trap required the environment to be very, very stable if he wanted to activate it because he needed the trap to stay hidden. As such, he was no longer able to depend on chaos breaking out in the divine kingdom to enable him to escape.

Abyrus stayed right behind him, getting ready to kill him after he was far enough away from the divine kingdom that it would not risk setting off the trap, before delivering final judgment on enemy cities.

The seraph had the Sword of Glory, enabling it to cast the most powerful divine spell attack once without consuming its own powers. That was Judgment, a skill reserved only for gods.

The white eagle form that Fycro took zipped past the encampments before landing, and Abyrus landed not far behind him. Fycro was feeling very frustrated, thinking that he would not have been so cornered if he had a godly item with him.

Fycro made a hard decision to run in Lion City's direction. There were human armies in the city capable of withstanding attacks from legions of angels numbering over a million, so there were many powerful professionals.

While Fycro has had his divine fire ignited before, his thought patterns were still very much human.

He never thought of the possibility of running into Saleen.

With Saleen absent, Fycro ran into Nailisi instead.

Despite having changed his appearance, Nailisi was still nonetheless able to recognize him from one look.

Fycro? Nailisi snickered. She was stepping on the Violet Angel at the moment. Saleen had not brought the Violet Angel on the trip to the goddess' temple, and the Violet Angel was put into Nailisi's charge for the moment.

Nailisi told the Violet Angel to land and said to the Winged Skull, ”there is a familiar face down there.”

The Winged Skull nodded and added, ”It's Fycro.”

”Are we going to kill him?”

”Do you have to ask?”

”But there's a weird-looking angel right behind Fycro, and the thing is hot in pursuit.”

”I know that. I can see further than you can after all.” The Winged Skull was the closest to Nailisi, yet they were also the one that exasperated her the most. The way the Winged Skull spoke constantly rendered Nailisi speechless.

”Well, I say no kill then.” Nailisi pouted.

”Sure.” The Winged Skull remained deadpan. She knew that the wretched pile of bones was capable of expressions.

”Alright, we'll kill him.”

”Sure.” The Winged Skull faced south and answered, as he looked at Fycro, who was getting increasingly close.

”Make up your mind already.”