Chapter 87.3 - Protagonist: This will be great, let’s do it (2/2)

Du Ze had not yet figured out what had happened when he saw the Archon raise his weapons and attack them. Wait – isn’t violence forbidden in the angel trial? The sounds of battle destroyed Du Ze’s beautiful, peaceful fantasy. The angel guards also drew weapons and the people from the Second Layer engaged them in hand-to-hand combat.

The outcome of the battle was clear from the start. The angel soldiers were well equipped while the civilians were nearly exhausted by the lack of light, so even if they had superior numbers, they would surely be slaughtered.

“Stop it!” Seeing that the angel guards ignored him, Eric drew his sword and pointed it at the governor. “Make them stop!”

The angel was quite dismissive of his demand: “You can say those words again when you have more seniority than me.”

Eric stabbed his sword forward by an inch but the sword was like a shadow that simply pass through without penetrating the governor’s body.

Du Ze was shocked at the scene he was watching. They now seemed to be divided into two camps: one side was the side of the angels, while the other side was that of the fallen. Eric’s actions showed that they are still unable to do harm to people from their own side.

The battle soon came to an end. The fallen were slaughtered one after another. Even so, those people did not flinch; they seemed to be close to madness. Like moths to a fire, their longing was such that they desperately rushed towards the light. Their hatred of the angels was extreme, as though they were willing to die just to do a little damage to them, even if all they could do, lacking weapons or strength, was to bite the angels with their teeth.

At the end of the battle, the bodies of the fallen were all on the ground while only one angel was killed. The dark elements clung to the corpses, slowly eating away at their dead flesh that slowly lost their heat. Those who had lived their lives in the darkness were buried in the darkness even after their death.

Eric stared at the pile of corpses and a look of pain flashed through his face.

Du Ze saw Xiu walk to the Archon’s corpse. He examined the broken wing symbol on the Archon’s left hand and raised his left hand in front of the Archon.

The Tower did not give Xiu a broken wing symbol. Xiu did not seem to care; he lowered his hand then rose from the ground to give Du Ze a smile.

“We’ll be out soon.”

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The author has something to say:

Protagonist: Monday: Gnome

Tuesday: Human

Wednesday: Undead

Thursday: Elf

Friday: Beastkin

Saturday: Demon

Sunday: Dragon.

Author: What about the angel?

Protagonist: The angel form will have to be scheduled separately, how delightful it will be!

Reader: What’s so delightful about it!? (╯╢□′)╯︵┻┻

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Translator’s Notes:

I thought that everyone in the angel trial was an angel but today I realized that the word angel was only used for the governor before and now the guards. It seems strange that the ordinary people are humans while the people collecting light elements are angels. Then I remembered that in the Chaos Continent the human race’s primary religion centers on the god of light.

I still don’t have an editor so if you spot any errors, please let me know by leaving a comment below.