“Bright Light Saintess, Yuna Summerfield…”

With a cautious attitude completely different from her demeanor towards Amy, the succubus girl named Chloe slowly tightened her grip on the short dagger, her expression growing increasingly serious.

“This is impossible. You just left Bright Light City and went to the west not long ago. How could you suddenly reappear here?”

In response to Chloe’s question, Yuna merely smiled.

“If not, how could you have infiltrated my castle alone, attempting to steal the 【Bewitching Orb】?”

“I see… The Spirit Veil Chamber, was it the Spirit Veil Chamber’s doing? Are you all conspiring against me?”

“As the Goddess herself would say, this is merely using their own methods to deal with them. Don’t you succubi often scheme against others yourself~”

“Stop chatting already, let’s quickly beat her up!”

Miss Amy impatiently urged, as if breaking the brief stalemate. The next moment, Chloe’s wings tensed instantly, and she shot up into the sky with a speed several times faster than before!

Although the hall in the castle, used for the sale event, was spacious enough to accommodate thousands of people, it was still only about several dozen meters high.

At the full speed of a legendary-level expert, the succubus girl was almost at the ceiling in the blink of an eye, resembling a pink shooting star, seemingly intending to crash through the roof to escape!

“What was that?!”

Seemingly startled by the sudden burst of speed from the opponent, Amy was about to quickly give chase when an ancient wooden abacus swiftly spun and flew ahead, rapidly enlarging in mid-air. By the time it reached above the succubus girl’s head, it had transformed into a massive object, looming down from above.

There was no doubt that it was the Spirit Veil Chamber’s president, the diviner, making his move.

*Boom!*

A colossal collision sound, shaking the entire sales venue, followed immediately. The huge abacus remained suspended in mid-air, motionless, while the pink shooting star—the succubus girl—plummeted downwards at a speed even faster than her ascent.

Miss Amy, seizing this opportunity to beat a fallen foe, wasted no time. Ignoring any notions of chivalry, she swung her sword down fiercely towards the unbalanced Chloe.

“Enchanting Eyes!”

At a crucial moment, the succubus girl’s eerie purple eyes flashed with a pink light, locking directly with Amy’s gaze. This caused Amy’s posture to momentarily stiffen and her previously unrelenting force to weaken slightly, though she still managed to strike Chloe’s upper arm.

However, the exposed white skin of Chloe seemed far tougher than it appeared. The pink light glow, mixed with a light purple blood, sprayed out as the legendary-level Lightborn Tribe’s full-powered strike failed to sever her slender arm. The blade penetrated only as deep as half a pinky’s length before it could go no further.

“Huh? What the heck is this thing, so tough?!”

Quickly dodging Chloe’s retaliatory thrust with the short dagger, Amy floated in mid-air, staring in disbelief at her long sword, which had even slightly dulled at the edge.

She couldn’t believe that her reasonably good magical weapon, though not a Divine Artifact, had been damaged just from striking the slender and delicate body of this girl.

Her original goal was to sever the arm holding the 【Bewitching Orb】, reclaim the stolen treasure, and weaken the opponent’s combat ability. Despite their formidable mental prowess, succubi should be physically frail.

Undoubtedly, the sudden burst of pink light when she struck had caused the damage.

“Tsk, damn Lightborn Tribe… I’ll remember this grudge! Just you wait!”

While Amy was internally frustrated, Chloe, the succubus, appeared even more dismayed, her anger almost palpable. Moreover, the observant White Fox noticed that when Chloe received the strike, a momentary purple magical rune appeared on her forehead, even releasing a hint of what seemed like a SP ability she shouldn’t possess.

Clearly, taking a legendary-level full-powered strike had its costs.

“Do you think you can escape today?”

The Diviner’s aged and indifferent voice suddenly rang in Chloe’s ears as the massive abacus approached. Having just suffered a serious injury and using her other hand to weakly cover the wound, Chloe could only flap her wings in a frantic attempt to dodge sideways and cast a pitiful look toward the crowd below for help.

“Waaah~ These bad guys are bullying me. Is there any kind-hearted big brother who can help me?”

The seductive power surged downward, causing more than a dozen powerful individuals already affected by the orb to be further enchanted. They roared loudly and charged straight at Mr. Diviner’s second-floor platform.

Evidently, this succubus intended to use the same trick again, employing these expendable minions to temporarily distract the Diviner, who was controlling the strange artifact and posing a significant threat to her. If she could delay him just for a while, Chloe would find a chance to escape.

Unfortunately, this plan was destined to fail.

“In the name of light, lost souls, awaken.”

The girl with flowing, crystal-clear hair raised her hand, and a pure golden orb like the sun slowly ascended. Countless warm points of light fell from the sky, illuminating nearly every guest, staff member, and member of the guard in the venue.

This light did not heal their physical wounds, but it immediately rejuvenated their spirits. Those who had been incited into chaos by the enchantment gradually stopped their actions under the light, their eyes cleared of the pink glow and returning to clarity.

They looked bewildered and then shocked, as if they finally realized how foolish their previous actions had been.

“Faith-based magic…”

Miss White Fox, still high on the platform and observing the scene, muttered to herself in a voice only she could hear.

This holy light magic, which Violet can roughly recognize as a sixth-tier skill from the faith-based magic category called 【Purification Prayer】, is typically activated through a lengthy incantation.

However, Yuna managed to invoke its full effects just by raising her hand and speaking a single phrase, purifying at least a thousand people in the vast venue all at once.

Indeed, as the foremost of the Three Saintesses, the Bright Light Saintess is impressive. Moreover, it seems she did not use the power of the holy artifact 【Crownless Crown】 just now. If we consider her inherent strength alone, she has likely reached the pinnacle of the transcendent level.

In the current world, besides beings like Minchen, Tiyelu, or Estila who wields fragments of the Goddess of Earth’s divinity, the only other person who has truly reached this level by their own abilities is the vampire princess Lucine Constantius, whom Violet had a brief encounter with at the vampire manor in the Human United Kingdom. Even the Feathered Emperor Estini falls short of this level.

Furthermore, if Violet remembers correctly, that little princess Lucine also possesses a vampire heirloom, said to be on par with the Three Holy Artifacts of the Holy Empire. What was it called again? Oh, right, a spear or something like that. [1]

Hmm… it’s unclear which of these two, Lucine or the Bright Light Saintess, is stronger. But then again, they’re unlikely to cross paths. I doubt they’ll ever meet on the battlefield.

TL Note:

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The Godslayer Spear, Longinus!