Chapter 442: Blind Love is Truly Scary
Chapter 442: Blind Love is Truly Scary
"Are you aware that you will only mess things up there, Ella? Tell me, what are you going to do there? The Goddess of Blessings has stepped in, is your faith just like that?" Elysia looked forward with a calm and composed attitude.
"I-I..." Ella couldn't answer anything. There was no reason whatsoever that could justify whatever she was about to do.
"Mm, do you understand? Remember what you promised earlier? Please listen to what I have to say." Elysia gave a reminder. She didn't want her friend to be hurt for doing something stupid. It would only make things harder for Nell and Pope.
"Sorry, please forgive me. I didn't mean to yell at you, Ely. Please forgive me, sob, sob..." Ella sobbed a little as she realized her mistake. She also didn't want to be treated with the cold shoulder.
"That's fine, Ella. I'm glad if you understand. Please don't cry. You are a ninth generation angel candidate, right? Let's leave this matter to the Goddess of Blessings. Her divinity will take care of all this mess in no time." Elysia smiled a little and stroked Ella's head gently.
"En." Ella nodded and clasped her hands in prayer.
Rhea just glanced at Ella briefly, then she looked back at the front. Or rather, she stared at the black-red aura devil.
'Master Elysia, I feel that Emperor-level devils are fake. I can feel something strange going on in his body.' Rhea told the result of her observation via telepathy.
'Hmm? Fake devils? What do you mean, Rhea?' Elysia blinked in surprise. She no longer stroked Ella's head and also focused on the black-red aura devil.
'What I mean, that devil's power is fake. It was only temporary due to help from outside factors. That girl used a high-risk method to push her power up to Emperor-level.' Rhea narrowed her eyes and tried to look deeper using her magic vision.
At that moment, she discovered another oddity. However, she didn't have time to say anything yet, and a gigantic golden magic circle immediately enveloped the sky of the Holy Cathedral.
"The chaos you created will end here, devils. Sword of light, seal all the movements of sinners!" Nell swung her hand down. Thousands of swords of light rained down to stab the devils down.
"Guh!"
"Urgh!"
"Gha!"
The elite devils could only helplessly scream against the divine magic. Dozens of swords of light nailed them to the ground without giving them any chance to escape.
"Kuh, keke, this is pathetic. I've come this far, and so close to killing that hypocritical Pope. But why, but why did you have to come back at this moment you Puny Goddess!?" The Emperor-level devil shouted into the sky as she tried to pull out the swords of light that had nailed her to the ground.
As she just pulled out one, several other swords of light rained down on her again to seal her movement completely.
"Watch your mouth, puny devil. I'll release you if you answer all my questions. Look me in the eyes." Nell gave absolute command with golden shining eyes. She used hypnotic magic explicitly aimed at the enemy leader.
"Tricks like that won't work on me!" A surge of dark energy from the Emperor-level devil suddenly surged up. "Ha!"
The devil's scream echoed like a terrible rage full of hatred. The swords of light slowly began to fall apart and turned into black ashes. The Emperor-level devil was freed from the shackles and returned to her feet.
Nell frowned at the change in the Emperor-level devil's eyes. The sclera turned blood red, and the iris turned dark purple. In addition, the black tattoo spread from the heart and the rest of the body like living and throbbing nerves.
"Something is wrong with you. Is that girl's body just a vessel for you? You are a devil in the form of an evil spirit. Release that innocent girl now!" Nell narrowed her eyes as she finally understood the oddness she felt earlier.
"Keke, why should I obey you?" The Emperor-level devil didn't linger to say anything else. She just darted toward Alexander as she was determined to take him to hell with her. "Die!"
"You think I'd allow that? Holy Prison!" Nell waved her hand up. Dozens of golden iron spiked up from the ground and formed like a birdcage to imprison the berserk devil.
*Bang* *Bang*
The Emperor-level devil tried to break through the golden prison, but it didn't even bend in the slightest.
"It's useless. No matter how strong you are, a mortal is still a mortal. Know your position." Nell glared at the devil as she floated down.
"A mortal can never win against a divine, huh? Hahaha! This is really funny. You are so lucky old geezer! If I can't kill you, then I will curse you and your entire family! Dark Cur- mhpff!" Just as the Emperor-level devil was about to send her curse, a rubber ball flew out of nowhere and stuffed her mouth.
"You're quite noisy. Why not save your energy for my interrogation? If I'm satisfied, I'll guarantee your freedom." Nell codes Alexander to leave from there to take care of the others.
Alexander just nodded and immediately rushed away from there, taking the holy knight general with him. He could use that time to save anyone who could still be saved.
"Tell me why your hatred is so deep for the Pope Alexander." Nell used her magic to pull the rubber ball from the devil's mouth.
"Ptui, the freedom you promised is nothing but death. That hypocritical Pope deserves to die after what he did to me and my wife!" The Emperor-level devil spat then kicked the golden prison only to produce a loud sound.
"You think you are the embodiment of virtue and goodness? Pope exterminating devils is a natural thing. Your minions have been subdued and slaughtered one by one by the holy knights. Now you are the only one." Nell folded her arms arrogantly.
"A fairy as a Human Goddess. You think I'm afraid to die?" The Emperor-level devil smirked. She looked at the Pope's back then laughed in a hoarse voice.
"Look into my eyes, Holy Hypnotic." Nell used hypnosis again but with a higher intensity.
The Emperor-level devil suddenly became calm and expressionless. Seeing her magic work perfectly, Nell started to ask the devil a few questions about the truth behind this attack.
It didn't take more than two minutes. Nell revoked her hypnotic magic and brought the devil back to consciousness.
"Huh?" The Emperor-level devil was momentarily dazed by what had just happened.
"Your power is nothing more than a temporary borrowed power. You only have a minute left before you are burned down from within. But, to my surprise, you are an evil spirit who used to have a body. Why did you marry a human priest?
You already know the risks, and you know what awaits you. Your actions are nothing more than deceiving the innocent priest, and you are the one who killed your own family. Holy Cathedral rules are absolute.
Pope Alexander was only applying his wisdom to free the innocent priest from her suffering. And you, what are you?
The embodiment of the vile evil? You didn't even let your daughter live in peace. Aren't you aware? The body you are now in is your daughter, the daughter of that innocent priest named Anya. She gave birth to a daughter before she asked for forgiveness and release.
However, this innocent girl can no longer come back to life even though you no longer possess her body. The backlash from your actions has also killed your own daughter." Nell delivered a series of long speeches about what she got and what she could observe.
The Emperor-level devil's eyes widened in shock. Her strength slowly weakened until the red aura from her body gradually changed color to a level below it and continued to decline.
"How did you know that!" The EMperor-level devil exclaimed as if he was trying not to believe it.
"Don't you know that yourself? What made you so compatible with that girl for over eight years? Yes, it's because the blood that flows through her body is a part of you. She is a half-demon who lives unnoticed by anyone." Nell took a deep breath. This whole dramatic cause made her heart a bit heavy.
"My-my daughter? No-no, she couldn't survive even though I died and left her body?" The Emperor-level devil stammered, her hands shaking to look at her own hands. It actually belonged to her daughter!
"You know, her name is Lucie Sutton, a ninth-grader at the Deterry Academy of Magic. At least you've spent over eight years with your daughter, Rees, the devil spirit of darkness.
The soul of that innocent girl may have been in the realm of death, to a new life, but that's not for you. You need to bear all your sins and all their consequences in hell. Divine Light, Heavenly Flame." Nell snapped her fingers. Golden flames blazed from beneath the golden prison to burn the devil.
"I see... I'm a terrible father, huh... So, was I wrong all this time? I just don't understand anything about humans. Anya, so that's really what happened? You asked to kill yourself in front of Pope ? Because of me? Why? You're already happily living with me, right? And our daughter..." Rees got a big shock and tremor. He looked at his hands, his daughter's hands, and could only regret everything.
At that moment, he did not once doubt the Goddess of Blessings because it made a lot of sense and because he was on the verge of death.
"Blind love is truly scary." After Rees was entirely devoured by the golden flames, Nell muttered softly and turned around to fly toward Elysia's group.