Chapter 1134: Methods to Sabotage the Staff of World Destruction Plan
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 1134: Methods to Sabotage the Staff of World Destruction Plan
On the outskirts of Holy Angel Academy.
"Assemble! Break through the Holy Light Barrier!"
As the command reached the ears of every member of the combat sequences, countless figures soared into the sky.
The brilliance of innumerable spells collided with the Holy Light Barrier in a magnificent display of violence.
However, the Holy Light Barrier was different from the curtain walls used by the Witch Academy to isolate material space. This barrier was specialized for defense; it would not be easily shattered by brute force alone.
After the first volley of spells, figures emerged from within Holy Angel Academy to meet them.
They bore wings upon their backs. In the past, the witch students would have certainly greeted them with a derisive "birdmen," but seeing them actively undoing the barrier... the witches couldn't help but admit that these were the most pleasant-looking Holy Angels they had ever seen.
"You... you! What are you doing?!"
The dissipation of the Holy Light Barrier was a sudden upheaval that naturally drew immense attention.
"You dare collude with the Witch Academy to attack Holy Angel Academy?! Have you lost your minds?!"
"Foolish! It is precisely because we want to live that we must do this! You understand nothing!"
"It is you who understand nothing! Have you still not realized that witches are not to be trusted?!"
"We have no choice..."
That single phrase—we have no choice—brought an absolute end to the ideological clash between them.
"You won't succeed! The Mentors... yes! The Mentors!"
In this moment, the loyalist Holy Angel students no longer cared for the so-called "Transcendent Non-Interference" principle.
To them, that was merely a rule to restrain minor transcendent academies. Now that the fire was at their own doorstep, why bother with such formalities?
Ultimately, these Holy Angel students were completely subdued. Most were knocked unconscious; those who left no other option were killed.
With the Main World facing a world-ending crisis, individual lives had become worthless beneath the crushing weight of the grand tide.
"I finally see you... Calamity Witch, Yang Yuehan."
The Holy Angel responsible for the rendezvous felt a surge of hope upon seeing me. In their eyes, she was the only one below the Transcendent level capable of destroying the World-Destroying Sword of Faith.
The Calamity Witch.
This title and rank were now recognized by all. A little witch who could manifest a world-ending disaster with a mere flick of her wrist truly lived up to the name!
"Heretic witches! Who gave you the audacity to wage an Academy War against Holy Angel Academy?!"
The voice arrived before the figure.
Then, a silhouette wrapped in the power of Holy Light descended!
"You dare violate the Transcendent Non-Interference principle? Do you wish to taste what it feels like to have your wings snapped by a Transcendent Witch?!"
Facing this Holy Angel, who had clearly constructed a Saint Realm Domain order, I shot back a retort without a hint of fear.
In the next instant, another figure intercepted the Holy Angel mid-air.
"Damn it... why is it you?! Do you have any idea what you're doing?!"
At the moment their lights converged, the two domains forged of Holy Light clashed violently.
"No more words are needed."
The Holy Angel who had arrived to assist held the upper hand. She spoke little, focusing entirely on releasing her Saint Realm power to suppress the opponent's pressure.
"Are you intending to betray the Holy Angel race? The Holy Light Dean is merely adjusting within the Divine Kingdom domain. Are you not afraid of the Dean's reckoning once he emerges?"
"Reckoning?" The defecting Holy Angel chuckled softly. She said nothing more, but within the blooming radiance of her Holy Light, a trace of... mana flickered!
"It's not too late to turn ba—Mana? Damn it! You've actually fallen to the seduction of the heretic witches!"
"Talk is useless! It is you who doesn't understand... You are the one... who has been abandoned."
As the Holy Angel who had embraced the witch race continued, her voice grew faint, almost imperceptible.
Meanwhile, the gathered witches and Holy Angel students felt a sense of relief.
I was the only one who felt no surprise at any of this.
Under their guidance, the path ahead was unobstructed. When we reached the innermost core of Holy Angel Academy, the Sword of Faith that pierced the heavens finally appeared before everyone.
It was a giant sword of indescribable proportions.
The central Holy Light Floating Island served as the sword's core. Atop the island stood a cluster of buildings in the Holy Angel style, the most prominent being the Holy Light Tower at the center.
The Holy Angel student guiding us squeezed every second to explain its divine nature.
The Holy Light Tower atop the floating island was the central hub that controlled it. Beneath the island, an unknown mechanism condensed a massive amount of Faith, which was then projected outward to form an incomparably terrifying blade of Faith.
Even observing it from a distance struck terror into the soul.
Under the Faith system, the students of Holy Angel Academy were fundamentally incapable of destroying it.
This was one of the reasons they were forced to ally with the Witch Academy.
Even the witch students, who were not under the Faith order, felt a crushing pressure beneath the Faith of the Main World.
That Faith aggregated the collective will and prayers of everyone in the Main World. Even getting close was only marginally easier for them than it was for the Holy Angel students.
Only I, having severed the Main World Ley Line Shackles, felt nothing but the pressure of pure power.
"Execute the destruction plan! All combat sequence members, retreat to a safe distance and stand by! Re-activate the Holy Light Barrier to prevent the fallout from affecting areas outside the academy!"
Once I issued the command, my figure blurred, closing in rapidly on the Holy Light Floating Island.
The combat sequence members reacted instantly.
To act immediately upon command—this was the most basic discipline of the combat sequences during a campaign.
As I drew closer, I felt the terrifying power of Faith washing over my body. Wave after wave surged through my flesh and spirit, relentlessly trying to dispel any "heretical" order.
This entire floating island was actually a massive Holy Artifact!
A Holy Artifact that could only be wielded within a Saint Realm Domain!
The power of a Holy Artifact possessed the "Power of Order" fundamental to the Saint Realm. This island, bolstered by an unknowable amount of Faith, had already constructed a Faith Order.
Even without a Saint Realm expert to control it, the mere pressure and power leaking from the Holy Artifact itself were enough to give me a hard time...
But I did not give up. Deep void reflections from void rifts flickered across the surface of my body.
Infinite Mana!
Saint Realm Domain!
Only a Saint Realm Domain could cancel out a Saint Realm Order.
Even though I was not yet a Transcendent Saint, order was still order. Even if this powerful Faith Order suppressed my domain so much that it couldn't spread beyond my immediate vicinity... at least it shielded my form, allowing me to take another step forward.
This time, I wasn't going to release another mana sun.
That method was too inefficient. While the mana bursting from Infinite Mana could indeed bring about terrifying destructive power, the destruction unleashed by controlled infinite power would be far more horrific!
A flicker of fire appeared.
A spark of crimson flame transformed into a fireball before me.
The light of the flames wavered, turning into a cold hue. The shimmering, frigid light made one's entire body go cold just looking at it.
It appeared to be nothing more than a fireball, yet the surge of mana—relying solely on the energy level of the Infinite—shook the Saint Realm Order.
This was Infinite Mana!
Pure power, pure destruction.
With a wave of my hand, the fireball drifted forward at a visible speed toward the floating island, which was hundreds or thousands of times my size.
Finally, it made a light contact, as gentle as a lover's caress.
Everything was like the silence before a storm, until it reached a critical point... and then, it exploded!
The world seemed to fall silent in that instant.
The sky... turned white.
A true sun rose above Holy Angel Academy!
A heatwave carrying pure destruction spread at a terrifying speed, many times faster than the speed of sound.
The horrific power crossed the re-activated Holy Light Barrier, only decaying into a sonic boom at an immense distance, yet the force it carried still shattered the doors and windows of the surrounding residential areas.
At this moment, even the combat sequence members who had retreated to a "safe distance" were struggling to hold their ground behind their protective spells.
"Teaching Assistant Xiao Han's methods... have become even more terrifying..."
Among those who heard this remark from the witch students, the ones who felt it most deeply were the Holy Angel students.
Because some of them had personally experienced their bodies being annihilated within that endless mana.
Only this time, that endless mana had transformed into the most blazing and extreme of flames.
None of the students present knew how much time had passed; they only knew that during those moments where seconds felt like years, every tick of the clock was an ordeal.
Until they instinctively felt the power beginning to recede.
"Did it succeed?"
This was the question everyone was desperate to answer.
As long as this Sword of Faith was destroyed, then according to the analysis of the Staff of World Destruction Plan, the world-ending disaster was essentially resolved!
But as the students stood up and flew into the air, their smiles gradually froze into blank stares. A heavy blow dragged them from their beautiful fantasies back to reality.
Such a terrifying strike... why had it not destroyed the floating island?!
Why?!
It was just an island!
They, of course, did not know that this island was essentially a massive Holy Artifact.
They couldn't even comprehend the concept of a Holy Artifact.
Even for me, this was the first time I had witnessed the true might of one.
As several figures fell from the sky, they realized they had been too naive... Could they, as students, truly stand against a Transcendent Academy?
Just as the defecting Holy Angels showed faces of sorrow and despair, the members of the Witch Academy's combat sequences did not follow suit. Their faces merely showed an irrepressible frustration and sigh of realization.
Even Sister Xiao Han couldn't destroy it?
As expected of a method said to be capable of destroying the world...
"Destruction plan failed. Initiate backup plan."
Soon, every combat sequence received this command.
"You... what are you going to do?"
Seeing the Witch Academy's combat sequences reorganizing, the Holy Angel students suppressed their emotions and asked.
They were truly afraid that these witches would retreat now that they had seen the task was impossible.
The Witch Academy had a way out, but what about them?
They had nothing!
"The forced destruction plan failed. We are following Teaching Assistant Yang Yuehan's orders to initiate the backup plan."
"Back... backup plan? What is it?"
"In your terms, we will use the heretical faith of the Main World's people to taint the Sword of Faith. This will buy us time against the World-Destroying plan. During that time, we need to destroy every Holy Light Church in our world."
"Wh... what?!"
Hearing the Witch Academy's backup plan, the Holy Angels were utterly shocked!
Not because of the "heretical faith," but because of... destroying every Holy Light Church in the Main World!
"You should help us. At the very least, we need the intelligence you can provide—the locations of all the Holy Light Churches. Our United Club has locked onto many of them, but since it involves the entire world, we can't guarantee we'll clear them all out."
When the witch student finished speaking, the Holy Angel students stood frozen.
Even if they had betrayed Holy Angel Academy, it didn't mean they had betrayed the Holy Light.
But if, to practice their faith and save the world... they had to personally destroy their own faith...
This was no different from requiring a person to undergo a complete cognitive metamorphosis and reconstruct their entire worldview in a very short time!
Holy Angel Academy could fall, but the faith they held dear was already ingrained in their marrow... their very lives!
"It seems you haven't made that kind of resolve yet. In that case, take your time to think."
"Let me give you a piece of advice: if your faith is so fragile that it shatters along with the falling of a church, then... you are nothing more than this."
"A church is merely a channel to aggregate faith and guide the shaping of the Sword of Faith. Are you sure you want such a thing to taint your faith? Think about it carefully yourselves."
Before leaving, the last witch student staying behind to cover the rear gave them a few words of advice.
Then, without looking back, she caught up with the main force.
"I say... we have no choice, right?"
As this question was asked, the dazed eyes of the Holy Angel students gradually regained focus. They stared at the one who had spoken, seemingly hoping someone could give them an affirmation!
But even the student who had spoken was asking a question; that "right?" betrayed an endless confusion.
Did they not know that the Holy Light Churches were the root of this world-ending disaster?
They knew... but some perceptions are not built on logic, and a few grand principles aren't enough to make them reach a decision.
In the words of that witch student: they lacked "resolve"!
"We have no choice..."
Another student repeated the question, but his raspy voice made the question sound like a statement.
Stating... a fact!
"That's right! We have no choice!"
"We cannot stop here."
"We can contribute our strength as well!"
One by one, through their "encouraging" dialogue, they established a firm goal...
What they were practicing was their own faith!
They should not be bound by the Academy, and they certainly should not be bound by the Holy Light Churches!
The people of this world had the right to know the truth... and those ordinary people who knew the truth would, through their purest actions, guide them to do the right thing!
And they, as Holy Angels and practitioners of the Holy Light faith, should be the ones to provide the most righteous guidance!