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As everything happened, my thoughts flashed at high speed. From what I’ve heard, this guy’s name was Elderlight, and judging by his clothes, he was most likely a Priest from the Gods Church.
But what is the God’s Church? From what I had investigated, it was the biggest church there is. It has a big influence on most of the Kingdoms around the entire Continent of Midgard. However, it is not really a cliché church that does bad things all the time. It is mostly a neutral force. However, due to how I’ve involved myself in the death of important figures such as two aristocrats and a Duke, the entire Kingdom ended up employing the forces of the church to deal with me.
Additionally, they’re obviously adept at holy light magic and are pretty good at employing the power of the God of Light, the Goddess of Life, and other Gods with “good-alignment” to fend off all sorts of fiends, undead, and so on… They’re like special forces in a way, which only use their power when supernatural forces that people cannot properly handle, emerge.
Judging from what he said, they had the power to investigate things using evidence alone. Of course, how couldn’t I tell? In a world of magic, they should have ways to investigate even the slightest things left for them to see who did it or at least gain clues. If there are specialized artifacts, there might be ways for them to see who did certain crimes based on just leftover mana or something like that… Damn it.
However, I don’t see any more troops than this Priest… Well, they most likely thought that I could target another Duke if I had already killed one cold-bloodedly. Still, they didn’t bet on it a whole lot, so they probably only left a single priest of powerful holy magic with this Duke, knowing that the leftover mana or essence I left might be of an Undead or at least a Dark and Death-attribute magician. And, of course, I was obviously weak against Light Attribute users.
Using my fast speed of thought processing, which was enhanced by using Mana, I began to inspect the walls right after fending off the initial attack, finding out they were infused with powerful Light Runes that constantly released holy light. The floor and ceiling were the same, and the “core” of this entire rune formation was the priest standing in front of me.
Below him, a large rune let him infuse his mana into the entire room. He had prepared very well, but I couldn’t see these runes beforehand, meaning that he had a way to immediately set them off the moment I reached this place instead of preparing them beforehand.
If that had been the case, I would have been able to easily predict what he was going to do and would’ve noticed that he was waiting for me to get closer… but, now, I have to deal with this and quickly. If not, I’ll risk getting killed.
The first thing I considered was the help of Emeraldine and Partner. But Partner doesn’t have defensive methods, and she’s also weak to holy light. She would get burned to death instantly.
Meanwhile, Emeraldine is a way better pick. Her power is the same as him, plus she has spirits and nature magic. However, I cannot let her risk her life so easily, especially in such a closed room where she could get killed very quickly.
This guy’s strength… was also formidable. Based on his stats alone, he was around B Rank in power… Also, he seemed to be boosting his power continuously. His skills were similar to Emeraldine minus her nature magic.
He only specialized in light and had a big arsenal of abilities and spells with this element. Amongst them, there were things such as Light Barrier, Light Beam, Light Runes, and the deadly Exorcism, which he used to deal extra damage against Undead.
He was defending the Duke with a powerful Light Barrier, which didn’t let me kill him. Plus, I wasn’t able to escape either because everything was infused with runes and slipping through them meant receiving gigantic amounts of damage and probably dying in the process!
Due to this, I cannot really take it easy and find a way out of this. I have to go all out from the beginning; if not, I’ll regret it and die.
My plan was simple. I was just going to blast off his ass with my Undead Detonation and also make this entire place explode into pieces, escape, and see if he follows me. If he does follow me, we’ll do everything we can to deal with him in the forest, a more open space where we can strategize a bit more… I have to do it now before the barrier I have dies out, and I am bathed in light and purified completely!
I decided to bluff my way through as I confused Elderlight for a split second, provoking him to look at me with a strange expression. And, this little second was enough for me to utilize Summon and bring forth a dozen of Undead I was saving up inside my Shadow Storage.
The man didn’t seem to have a way to defend against my Mana Siphon, so ever since the moment I met him, I’ve been draining his mana as well!
Using his vast pool of mana as my own, I summoned my beast coated in shadows so they could resist the light a few seconds, enough for them to rush forward towards him, startling the priest!
“Y-You’re a necromancer as well?! Coating them in shadows will only make the inevitable take longer!” He shouted as he waved his golden staff, and a blast of light was unleashed, resembling a powerful and bright yellow-gold shockwave!
TRUUUMMM!!!
However, the space in here was very small, and my Undead didn’t even need to target him anyway. My plan was to escape after all!
Before the light could completely consume them, I used my newly acquired technique, Undead Detonation!
FLASH!
All the Undead suddenly flashed with bright dark light, as Elderlight was left shocked!
“W-What the?!”
BOOOOOMMM!!!
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