Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded-Chapter 504 - 249: The Scorching Sun Siege Battle, Sun Priest
But at such a critical moment, the cultists of the Fiery Sun Divine Sect began to urge the deserters and permanent residents outside the city to launch an attack on the warship in the urban area.
They released the energy of the Scorching Sun Curse, burning themselves as a price, just to delay the advance of the Holy City.
In reality, this action was meaningless because the Holy City could not be successfully blocked by the flesh and blood of these lower-level people.
The predetermined migration process would definitely start and advance at high speed on time.
The significance of the Fiery Sun Divine Sect’s actions was naturally not to intercept the major Holy Cities, but to use the Church’s advance to kill as many lives as possible.
Especially those like humans, a species with very tenacious life force and Spirit.
It’s simply the best nourishment.
Large-scale death, coupled with the proximity of the Scorching Sun Forbidden Area, was enough to attract the attention of Yang Nie in the Restricted Area, thereby threatening the safety of the Global Migration route.
In addition, the mass spontaneous combustion and the spread of Scorching Sun Curse energy, besides collecting a large amount of ash to delay the explosion of curses within the cultists themselves, could also enhance their understanding and accommodation of curse energy, thereby releasing stronger curse powers.
At the same time, the death of a large number of lower-level people could destabilize the foundation of the Holy City’s rule and undermine the Church’s credibility and authority...
After this change, the major Holy Cities sustained different degrees of damage, and among them, three Holy Cities were severely injured in terms of primordial energy, losing millions of people.
And now, the Storm Holy City, to which Oasis Town belongs, was one of them.
Back then, because Storm Holy City was small in size, the number of Tier Three Bishops and Temple Knights it could support was far less than other large Holy Cities with a long history...
Therefore, under the impact of the cultists, it suffered heavy losses, once needing to bring in foreign aid, such as the Hunting Wilderness Guild, Life Farm, and other loose organizational forces, to quickly restore to the level before the heavy blow.
This also led to a gradual decline in the Church’s control over the Storm Holy City for a period of time thereafter.
And after this battle, the prestige of the Holy Spring Sect on the Wilderness was even more diminished, with many regional powers, especially town-level forces under the Church’s control, and small and medium-sized settlements, erupting into rebellion, with the lower-level people rising in revolt.
To remedy the precarious situation, and more so to re-establish strong governance capabilities, three of the most severely damaged Holy Cities took the lead, and other Holy Cities also dispatched multiple Holy Temple Knight Squads to assist...
Forming a knight legion with more than a thousand members!
Commanded by three Tier Three Lord Bishops and ten Grand Knights of the Temple, they launched an expedition against the Fiery Sun Divine Sect, intending to annihilate it in one fell swoop.
Even if it could not be completely eradicated, at least the foundation of this large force must be destroyed so that it would be difficult to recover in the next thousand years.
Thus, the ten-year long Siege of the Blazing Sun commenced.
At that time, the Knight Commander was just stepping into the mid-Tier Two as an Official Knight, serving as the leader in a squad composed of four early Tier Two knights.
Responsible for leading the main force to the frontier.
And some of the stronger Level 26 Knight Commanders and Late Tier Two Elite Temple Knights formed a Vanguard Squad, responsible for searching for the headquarters of the Fiery Sun Divine Sect in the Wasteland.
After a search lasting half a year, they successfully found the Divine Altar where the Fiery Sun Divine Sect gathered in a deserted desert area.
Located between the Holy Spring Sect and the Southern King’s Alliance, near latitude 30 degrees north.
The to-be-sieged Great Sun Priest overseeing the Knight Commander and others had long stepped into this level, becoming one of the strongest below the Tier Three King.
Moreover, at the prime of life, he led his followers to achieve the feat of attacking various Holy Cities under the Holy Spring Sect, and had great hopes of advancing to become a powerful Blazing Sun Divine Envoy in the future.
This term within the Fiery Sun Divine Sect referred to the Tier Three Bishop, meaning such an entity had already touched the essence of the God of the Scorching Sun...
It was already able to fully fuse with the energy of the Scorching Sun, without the worry of spontaneous combustion curse due to the explosive divine power, while its strength multiplied.
Most importantly, the Tier Three Blazing Sun Divine Envoy, like the naturally manifested Tier Three Yang Nie in the Scorching Sun Forbidden Area, could freely walk in the Scorching Sun Forbidden Area.
Equivalent to a living Yang Nie. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂
Everywhere it went, countless creatures would become nourishment for the Scorching Sun, turning into wisps of white smoke and vapor.
Back then, the Great Priest was at the zenith, only a step away from advancing to a Tier Three Divine Envoy.
Unfortunately, he encountered revenge from the Holy Spring Sect. At the moment of his impending advancement at the headquarters, he was caught up in the Siege of the Blazing Sun...
Nearing a thousand Temple Knights, and three Tier Three Lord Bishops launched a raid and general attack on the headquarters which only had one Tier Three Divine Envoy!
The final result was that not only was the Great Priest’s precious advancement and transformation interrupted, but he could only escape seriously injured.
Even more tragic was that in the subsequent nine years, the Church continued to hunt down remnants of the Fiery Sun Divine Sect, repeatedly dispatching Holy Temple Knight Squads and issuing related bounty tasks.
And the Knight Commander also achieved a feat during the subsequent hunting operations:
That was the killing of the successor being groomed by the Great Priest, a Mid-Tier Two Sun Priest.
In that battle, led by three Late Tier Two Elite Knights, they jointly restrained the Great Priest, looking for opportunities for other subordinate companions.
At that time, the Great Priest, severely injured during the general attack and harmed at the source, could only suppress the turbulent Scorching Sun Curse energy within himself, making it impossible to advance to Tier Three Divine Envoy in this life.
So he turned to cultivating a successor.
After searching for many years in various settlements, he finally found a being with a high affinity for Fiery Sun Energy, pouring all his resources into raising it to Mid-Tier Two.
In less than a hundred years, this successor would, like the Great Priest once did, charge towards the realm of Tier Three Divine Envoy.
Yet just at this critical moment...
The Great Knight acted decisively, ending the life of this successor, detonating the Scorching Sun Curse within her, making the Great Priest watch as his successor burned alive.
In this battle, the Great Priest exhausted all his strength, overdrawn his heart blood and life force, eventually escaping with his life.
But from then on, he vanished without a trace.
The Church thought that he was gravely injured, likely killed by the curse within him.
But unexpectedly, the talented Great Priest not only did not die, but after painstaking recovery, he healed and surivived to this day.
Moreover, he remarkably led his cult followers to suddenly besiege the Knight Squad, nearing the completion of his revenge.
Currently, at the underground ruins above Ancient Zhengzhou City, the Fiery Sun Divine Sect followers, dressed in yellow gray robes, were scattered around, searching for any subterranean movements.
The Great Sun Priest besieging the Knight Commander and others, who had long since entered this realm during their prime and had led their followers in the remarkable feat of attacking major Holy Cities of the Holy Spring Sect, stood a good chance of advancing to a mighty Scorching Sun Divine Envoy in the future.
As a Tier Two Evolver with a Level 29 Evolution Level, the Great Priest could live for about a thousand more years; his age was still far from his expected lifespan, with nearly a century left to live...
Yet at this moment, still in his prime, he instinctively locked onto the target’s direction.
Other early and mid-Tier Two Sun Priests could not feel it, but the priest could inherently sense the life force and primordial energy pulsing within the knights, like an oasis in the desolate wasteland to a dying man, incredibly enticing.
"These Holy Temple Knights may have already escaped into the depths of the underground shelter ruins, which are dark all year round. If we collapse its structure while fighting, we will be at a disadvantage."
Under the Great Priest’s hood was an exceedingly aged face, not only white-haired but with limbs equally gaunt, yet his presence was so formidable that the present cultists treated him with utmost reverence, and the members of the Holy Temple Knight Order were highly vigilant.
The Great Priest, as a Tier Three Divine Envoy with an Evolution Level of 29, was one of the strongest beings below the Tier Three Kings.
He was already able to fully merge with Fiery Sun Energy, without worrying about spontaneous combustion curse from divine power overload, while his strength increased manifold.
Most importantly, the Tier Three Blazing Sun Divine Envoy, like the naturally formed Tier Three Yang Nie in the Scorching Sun Forbidden Area, could move freely within the Scorching Sun Forbidden Area.
Equivalent to a living Yang Nie.
In places he visited, countless lives would become nourishment for the Scorching Sun, evaporating into wisps of white steam.
And in those days, the Great Priest was in his prime, only a step away from ascending to a Tier Three Divine Envoy.
Unfortunately, he encountered the Holy Spring Sect’s retaliation prematurely, and while he was about to ascend to the ranking of a Tier Three King at the headquarters, he met the Siege of the Blazing Sun battle...
During the subsequent nine years, the Church had consistently besieged the group’s remnants, frequently dispatching Holy Temple Knight Squads to hunt them down and issuing related bounty tasks.
Even the Knight Commander had stepped into action, commanding a small team composed of four early Tier Two Knights.
Meanwhile, the stronger twenty-sixth level Knight Commander and Late Tier Two Elite Holy Temple Knights formed a Vanguard Squad, tasked with searching the Wasteland for the Fiery Sun Divine Sect headquarters.
After a search that lasted half a year, they successfully discovered the Fiery Sun Divine Sect’s gathering place in a remote desert area.
Located between Holy Spring Sect and the Southern King’s Alliance, near 30 degrees north latitude.
Today, the Blazing Sun Great Priest and his cultists surrounded the Knight Squad, ready to complete their revenge.
In the ruins above Ancient Zhengzhou City, the followers of the Fiery Sun Divine Sect, clad in yellow-gray robes, searched the surrounding corners for signs of movement underground.
As a Tier Two Evolver with a Level 29 evolution level, the Great Priest could live for about a century more if he hadn’t been so gravely injured as believed.
Yet at this moment, his eyes burned with a blazing flame.
Despite other Early and Mid-stage Sun Priests present being unable to sense the life force pulsing within the barren wasteland like an oasis, ready to die, he instinctively knew the direction and locked onto the target.
"Blast the structure around the shelter deep underground!"
The Great Priest pointed towards a section of ruins and spoke hoarsely.
