He slowly extended his glistening jade-like palm. Black condensed flames appeared on his palm as it transformed into a black spear.
“Go!” Meng Lei shouted with a swoosh of his sleeve. The black spear then turned into a bolt of black lightning and shot toward the Holy Maiden.
“Black flames? It’s the Netherworld Divine Fire!”
The Holy Maiden’s expression changed drastically.
She would never have expected that Meng Lei could actually use the Netherworld Divine Fire. Those were flames exclusive to the Divine Netherworld Phoenix!
Facing the Netherworld Divine Fire, the Holy Maiden of Light did not dare let her guard down. She quickly activated her power of divinity, injected it into her sword, and swung it in the air.
“Holy Light Judgment!”
The dazzling aura formed a 40-meter long blade, like a rainbow across the sky, slicing open a pitch-black crevice in the air in an instant.
“Such a scary Holy Light Judgment!”
At the sight of this sword, Archbishop Chicas and the Knights exclaimed.
As people from the Church, almost all of them had learned this ability, but they could never use it to such a terrifying level as Her Eminence.
Clang!
The black spear clashed with the golden blade as if two hammers rammed onto each other, setting off bright sparks. Then a shocking scene occurred—the sharp golden blade blasted into pieces, turning into countless golden glow shooting outward in all directions!
The Holy Maiden Knights were implicated as golden beams of light went through their brains and shot through their chests overwhelmingly, turning them into swiss cheese.
A golden beam shot even Archbishop Chicas’s head. He became the largest fish of the lot to be implicated.
“How?”
Archbishop Chicas’ expression was full of disbelief. He was the Red-Cloaked Archbishop of the Light Church, and his status was only below the Pope and the Holy Maiden of Light—one of the highest standing in the Light Continent.
Yet, he was about to die. With both divine incarnations dead, he was thoroughly dead!
Thud!
Thud!
Thud!
Archbishop Chicas fell facing the ground. The unlucky ones among the Holy Maiden Knights also dropped on the ground motionless.
For a while, the initially intimidating and mighty men of the Light Church suffered heavy casualties, as over a third of the troops were lost.
The Holy Maiden of Light could not spare any concern for these people because that black spear was undamaged and shot toward her nevertheless!
By now, it was too late to dodge it. In this situation, the Holy Maiden of Light rushed to use her power of divinity to cast a divine power shield.
Whoosh!
Just at the moment when the shield was up, the black spear struck the shield. A crisp snap rang out, and the divine power shield was penetrated as if it was made of paper.
Splurt!
The black spear pierced right through the Holy Maiden’s neck and continued its trajectory.
“Wah!!”
The Holy Maiden’s face turned pale instantly as blood shot out of her throat like a fountain uncontrollably.
“You... are not a true god. You’re a less... lesser de... deity!” the Holy Maiden of Light stared at Meng Lei and uttered slowly before her head drooped and her body fell straight backward.
“Your Eminence!!”
The remaining knights were terribly aghast. Some threw themselves toward the Holy Maiden of Light, while the others went for Meng Lei, their eyes bloodshot.
“You damned heretic! How dare you to hurt Her Eminence!”
“Death upon anyone who harms Her Eminence!”
“Kill!”
These knights lost no time to initiate their attacks.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Torrents of attacks fell upon.
“Annoying!”
Meng Lei frowned slightly and waved his arms. Then, densely packed golden wind blades swept toward the Holy Maiden Knights.
“Ahhh!”
Screams rang out everywhere.
As the wind blades swept by, almost all these knights were killed, with only a few lucky survivors barely standing.
Although they were alive, each of them was extremely petrified, as if they were looking at an extremely vicious demon.
“Devil! You’re a devil!”
The knights screamed in horror.
“Go back and tell your Pope, I’m giving him three days to prepare for our meeting, be it recruiting experts or calling in reinforcements! Three days later, I’ll arrive at the Holy Mountain of Light. I hope he doesn’t disappoint me! Now scram!” Meng Lei waved them off.
Although the remaining half-deities and knights could not bear to accept this result, they could only stay away from the dominant Meng Lei.
“Let’s go.”
Everyone from the Light Church fled within ten seconds, bringing every dead body with them, including the Holy Maiden of Light.
Suddenly, only Ol’ Amos and Meng Lei were left hovering in the sky.
Ol’ Amos had a complicated look on his face. “The Holy Maiden of Light was a pinnacle-level true god! You can even kill a pinnacle true god instantly! Meng Lei, how powerful are you exactly?”
Meng Lei laughed and said, “Ol’ Amos, to be honest with you, in this existential plane, no one can defeat me.”
“So this means that... you’re a lesser deity!?” Ol’ Amos asked in disbelief.
Chapter 289: The Astounded Ol’ Amos, Five Divine Cores
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
In front of the Goddess of Light statue at the Shrine of Light...
“I’ve disappointed you, sir.”
The Holy Maiden of Light hung her head with a look of shame on her face. Behind her also stood four half-deities and three Red-Cloaked Archbishops, who all also looked worse for the wear.
A slightly frowning Pope Hayes gazed at them and said, “Has that Heaven’s Vault Continent deity killed your divine incarnation, too?”
“Yes, he has, sir.”
Altacia felt unbearably ashamed of herself. She had made confident promises to the pope at the point of deployment, yet she had returned after a crushing defeat. She had practically embarrassed herself thoroughly.
“Tell me about the battles,”
