Chapter 876 - 575: Luring the Tiger Out of the Mountain, Austin Sage Descends Upon the Holy City
Chapter 876: Chapter 575: Luring the Tiger Out of the Mountain, Austin Sage Descends Upon the Holy City
"Let’s go."
He turned around and glanced at Raylo.
The next moment, Austin Sage extended a finger and tapped lightly into the empty void in front of him.
There was no chanting, nor was there any array.
Yet, the surrounding space rippled outward like a disturbed water surface, forming invisible waves.
A profound and hidden energy instantly expanded, enveloping Raylo, Austin, and the several "cats" perched on their shoulders.
"Void Walking."
As those words fell, Raylo felt his body seemingly melt into the air. It was as if his very presence had been completely erased in that instant, turning him into a phantom suspended between reality and illusion.
He looked down at his hand, which remained clearly visible. But in his perception, the spot where he stood was completely empty.
Austin Sage’s figure had also disappeared.
"Let’s go."
The Sage’s voice echoed in his mind.
Subsequently, a gentle power wrapped around Raylo. It guided him as he turned into an undetectable phantom, brazenly flying toward the heavily fortified Holy City.
The closer they got, the more Raylo could feel the Power of Faith shrouding the sky above the Holy City, so dense it felt almost tangible.
Layer upon layer, stream upon stream.
There was the constantly patrolling Four-winged Angel Team, the Detection Divine Skill Arrays scattered across every corner of the city, and the Holy Light Sky Curtain floating high above, formed by the convergence of countless prayers.
Any unauthorized evil or heretical energy that dared approach would be instantly purified and met with a devastating thunderbolt strike.
However, against Austin Sage’s Void Walking, all these defenses were completely useless.
Like a wisp of a breeze, they silently passed through the city walls and the Holy Light Sky Curtain, hovering directly above the Holy City.
Below them lay a city so magnificent it was breathtaking.
Countless pure white buildings stretched out endlessly. On the wide streets, clerics donning various Priest Robes bustled about alongside devout believers.
The voices of countless prayers converged, forming a visible, holy halo that enveloped the entire city.
In the center of the city, the Cathedral of Light pierced the clouds, towering even more majestically than a mountain.
In front of the cathedral stood a colossal Divine Statue reaching a thousand meters high.
The statue depicted a majestic deity with a blurred face, holding a scepter. Overlooking the entire city, the soft radiance emanating from it brought an inner peace and tranquility to anyone bathing in its light.
"What dense Power of Faith," Raylo thought in astonishment.
Raylo’s gaze swept downward. He saw countless believers kneeling before the Divine Statue, their faces full of compassion and piety as they prayed for Chenxi City, which was currently suffering under the Demon King’s attack in the distance.
He suddenly felt a deep sense of irony.
To lure away the Holy City’s World Destruction Level powerhouses, they had brought a catastrophe upon Chenxi City.
They were using one evil to combat a far greater evil.
Just as Raylo was deep in thought, Austin Sage’s voice echoed in his mind.
"Our target is over there..."
Raylo snapped back to reality and followed Austin Sage’s gaze.
They were currently hovering directly above the massive Cathedral of Light.
"Right beneath our feet, there are the auras of at least a dozen Giant Dragons."
With so many Giant Dragons gathered, this was undoubtedly the place where the Dragon Plague Potion was being researched. It was just unexpected that the Light Holy See would build their laboratory underground, right beneath the cathedral of their Holy City.
Raylo’s eyes fell on the massive plaza below.
Countless believers prostrated on the ground, facing the thousand-meter-tall Light Divine Statue. With expressions of pity and devotion, they muttered ceaselessly, praying for Chenxi City, which was currently being ravaged by the Demon King far away.
The holy Power of Faith converged into visible, milky-white halos that surged into the statue like a tidal wave.
Above ground were believers praying for the masses; below ground was a secret laboratory conducting genocidal research.
How utterly ironic.
"They pray for the deity to save the world..." Austin Sage’s indifferent voice echoed in Raylo’s mind, carrying an unconcealed trace of mockery. "...yet they don’t realize that the greatest calamity stems from the very deity they worship."
Raylo withdrew his gaze.
"Are we heading directly underground?" Raylo asked.
"There’s no rush," Austin’s voice revealed neither joy nor anger. "We need to flip the table first and throw this city into chaos."
His gaze—or rather, his will—locked onto the towering Light Divine Statue in the center of the plaza.
"The Holy See’s foundation of power relies on two things: the deity, and the believers. The deity is far away in the heavens, while the believers are right before our eyes. What connects these two is faith.
"This statue is their largest collector for the Power of Faith on the Prime Material Plane. Destroying it is equivalent to temporarily severing the connection between the Pope and the entity behind him.
"Taking away the Power of the World accumulated inside will also force certain rats hiding in the dark to crawl out," Austin Sage said.
Raylo’s heart skipped a beat.
Beside him, Catastrophe Level Energy Avatars continuously stepped out from Austin Sage’s body.
Immediately after, those avatars continued to split, transforming into dozens, then hundreds...
Finally, these Energy Avatars hid themselves in the air and silently drifted away.
About ten seconds later.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
In the East District of the Holy City, a Prayer Tower responsible for supplying Divine Energy to the city was suddenly sliced in half by a spatial rift that appeared completely out of thin air, without any warning!