Chapter 789 - 534: The Weaknesses of the Three Dragon Battle Angels and the Angel of Death
Chapter 789: Chapter 534: The Weaknesses of the Three Dragon Battle Angels and the Angel of Death
"I’ll leave this to you,"
Raylo said calmly.
"Count the prisoners."
His gaze swept over the prisoners slumped on the ground, their faces ashen.
In the face of absolute power, their faith and fanaticism had become a joke.
Now, their faces held only the dazed look of survivors and a bone-deep terror.
God had not saved them.
Instead, the Lord they saw as a Demon and his Giant Dragon had destroyed the Angel who came to "save" them.
The shock was immense, even shattering the faith of some.
Raylo paused, his voice growing colder.
"Tell them their god has abandoned them."
"If they want to live, they will go to the Black Stone Mountain Range and obediently become miners."
"This is their only chance to atone."
A chill went down Ed’s spine, and he nodded gravely.
"Yes, Lord!"
’The best place for these prisoners of war was in the sunless mines, where every last bit of their value could be wrung from them.’
"Handle this quickly and send them over."
This was Raylo’s final order.
He didn’t want to linger here.
He’d had some new realizations and ideas during the battle.
He needed to get back as soon as possible to discuss them with Mage Delin.
Having given his orders, Raylo departed.
He headed for the Mobile Alchemy Workshop in the main square of Black Stone City.
At the workshop’s entrance, the two Knights on guard duty saw Raylo and immediately straightened their backs, giving him a standard knightly salute.
"Lord!"
Raylo gave a slight nod and pushed the door open.
Inside, Mage Delin sat behind a desk. Several thick Magic Scriptures floated before him, their pages turning automatically under the influence of Magic Power.
As if sensing Raylo’s arrival, Mage Delin looked up.
"Young Raylo, that was quite a commotion outside. It seems you ran into some interesting trouble."
"More than trouble."
Raylo walked to the desk, pulled out a chair, and sat down.
Without beating around the bush, he concisely recounted everything that had happened at the prisoner camp.
He described Gabriel’s transformation into the Six-Winged Angel of Death and how he had ultimately used a Soul Shock to sever its connection.
Mage Delin listened quietly the entire time.
His expression remained unchanged, faltering only slightly when he heard the term "Angel of Death."
Master Barnaby, who was nearby, was also drawn in by the conversation.
He set aside the experiment in his hands and shuffled closer, a sprig from some unknown green plant stuck in his messy hair.
"The Angel of Death?"
Master Barnaby’s face was a mask of wonder and fervor.
"One of the Light Deity’s most powerful legendary War Weapons? The kind made by using a pious believer’s body and soul as a vessel, then summoning Divine Power to descend and transform them?"
"Lord, did you capture a live one? Let me study it! I promise, I only need a tiny little tissue sample..."
"It’s already dead, but there are some remains. If you’re interested, you can go find Ed. He’s cleaning up the mess at the prisoner camp."
"Oh..."
Upon hearing this, Master Barnaby gave a perfunctory reply and rushed out of the workshop to find Ed.
Mage Delin turned to Raylo and began to speak slowly.
"Raylo, your assessment was correct."
"The Angel of Death is indeed a cruel and domineering divine creation—or, to put it another way, a ’Divine-made Weapon’."
"The Light Deity’s goal is to create a killing machine that is absolutely obedient, tireless, and exists only to execute Divine Punishment."
Mage Delin spoke at a measured pace.
"To achieve this, the most critical step is to weaken, or even completely erase, the soul and autonomous will of the powerful human serving as the ’husk’."
"A weapon with a will of its own is defective."
"It might hesitate, it might feel fear, it might even betray you."
"Only by completely erasing its ’humanity’ and leaving only pure ’divinity’ can it become a perfect tool."
Mage Delin’s words confirmed Raylo’s suspicions.
The Light Deity wasn’t bestowing a blessing at all.
It was a cold, ruthless reformatting that came at the cost of a soul.
"So, I did the right thing by using a Soul Shock to sever its connection to the Divine Spirit?"
Raylo asked.
"Absolutely."
Mage Delin nodded in approval.
"You essentially severed the connection between the weapon and the Divine Spirit performing the transformation while the process was still underway."
"Without the remote control of the Divine Kingdom’s will or the supply of Divine Power, it was nothing more than an empty shell, easily shattered, even if it possessed the body of a Half-Step Celestial Calamity."
Raylo grew thoughtful.
’It seems that a direct attack on the soul is far more effective against this kind of divine creation than a physical one.’
He thought for a moment, then slowly raised his right hand.
In his palm, the strange and powerful Demon Serpent’s Eye quietly materialized.
Its dark, slitted pupil seemed to hold a disquieting Magic Power.
"This is what I used."
Raylo handed the Demon Serpent’s Eye to him.
Mage Delin’s gaze was instantly drawn to the eyeball.
Mage Delin scrutinized the serpent’s eye.
"The Demon Serpent’s Eye..."
He looked at Raylo and said in an unhurried tone.
"Speaking of which, this is quite a coincidence."
With that, he reached into the sleeve of his Mage Robe as Raylo watched.
Then, to Raylo’s slight surprise,
he pulled something out.
An eye... identical to the one in Raylo’s palm...
Another Demon Serpent’s Eye!
The two eyeballs lay quietly on the desk, exuding a dark aura that came from a single source.
"This..."
’So, the Hydra’s other eye was in Mage Delin’s possession.’
"The Demon Serpent’s Eye can greatly enhance one’s soul and Spiritual Power," Mage Delin said. "It is indeed a rare Treasure."
He picked up the two serpent eyes and placed them side by side.
VMMMM...
The moment the two eyes drew near, they began to tremble in unison. A dark halo bloomed on their surfaces, as if they were calling to one another.
Mage Delin’s smile widened as he watched.
"They belong together."
Mage Delin looked at the two resonating Demon Serpent’s Eyes.
"With its own eyes helping us pinpoint its coordinates, our journey into the Barbaric World won’t take much time."
"The Sages will be returning from Beyond the Heavens over the next month, so we don’t have much time to waste in the Barbaric World."
"The Sages are coming back?"
Raylo raised an eyebrow.
"Yes. A final decision on how to counter the Light Deity’s encroachment on our world can only be made after the Sages return,"
Mage Delin said.
"As far as I know, several Emperors who are at odds with the Light Holy See have also accepted an invitation. They will soon arrive in Mage City to discuss the matter."
"We must find it and kill it before the Sages get back!"
Raylo didn’t hesitate.
"When do we leave?"
"In one week."
Mage Delin gave a precise time.
"A week?"
Raylo was surprised.
"Won’t that be too long?"
"No, it’s the perfect amount of time."
Mage Delin smiled.
"Morpheus will be going with us. We gained a lot from the last battle, and with these spoils, Morpheus can finally complete his Divine Artifact, the ’Space Magic Ball’."
"Wendel is in Mage City helping him now. In about a week, Morpheus’s ’Space Magic Ball’ should be complete."
Raylo nodded. He held Mage Morpheus in high regard.
"With Mage Morpheus along, the Hydra will have nowhere to run,"
Mage Delin said.
"Wendel will be coming too. The three of us old-timers will accompany you."
Hearing this lineup, Raylo was completely at ease.
Mage Delin, Mage Wendel, and the top-tier Space Mage, Morpheus.
This was practically the "royal flush" of the Mage Realm.
This showed both the gravity of the situation and their determination to see it through.
"Good."
Raylo gave a firm nod.
"In one week, we set out."