Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded-Chapter 514 - 253: A Life for a Life, The Dying, and Turmoil
Aside from the seven bishops holding the reins of power, only the head of the Divine Hall Knight Order’s Storm Sub-Hall, a late Tier Two elite knight, holds more strength and status than a knight commander.
Those ranked among the top ten figures in Storm Holy City, only on a minor apprentice novice mission, unexpectedly fell halfway...
This will clearly become a major event, and this news might even sweep through Storm Holy City, causing turmoil.
The participating members, aside from being held accountable, will have the details of the tragedy and defeat intensely scrutinized by the authorities.
Especially since the forces involved in the ambush and assault are the Fiery Sun Cultists, whom the Holy See deeply despises.
It’s known that after the scorched sun extermination battle years ago, the Church’s pursuit of the Fiery Sun Divine Sect persisted for over a hundred years.
Almost grinding these cultists to dust, eradicating them completely.
The entire upper echelon of the Divine Teachings nearly vanished, while the middle level was completely apprehended and put to death.
It’s said that the foundation and legacy of the Fiery Sun Divine Sect were severed entirely.
In the future, even if there were followers of the Fiery Sun, they would have to explore on their own without any inheritance, but what they lack the most is time and trial-and-error opportunities.
Even if a group of hundreds could be gathered, it would be difficult to form an organized force capable of causing a catastrophe like before.
Yet now, the appearance of the Grand Priest indicates that during the earlier exterminations, some high-level figures of the Fiery Sun Divine Sect managed to escape, otherwise they wouldn’t have secretly nurtured so many Tier Two Sun Priests and Tier One Sun Servants.
More important than the knight commander’s death and the sacrifices of the others is conveying the message of the Fiery Sun Divine Sect’s resurrection.
And related intelligence must be substantiated with physical evidence.
The best evidence right now is the already burnt-to-a-crisp Tier Two body of the knight commander.
It not only contains the energy of the Scorching Sun Curse but also the Undying Holy Armor worn by the knight commander, with its built-in control system that completely recorded this battle.
Not only does it preserve the changes in the knight commander’s physical condition, but it also has the enemy’s attack methods and internal energy waves fully documented through sensor devices.
As long as the remains of the knight commander are taken away, it can serve as solid proof of the events that occurred here and alert Storm Holy City to the severity of the situation.
Thinking of this, the three apprentice knights looked at each other and quickly determined their battle strategy.
Due to the knight commander’s death, the Grand Priest immediately withdrew the alloy long spear piercing through his chest, preparing to recover from his injuries.
At this moment, he was already at his last gasp, and even if he mended the severe injury to his chest, he would at best hang on by a thread for a few more months before reaching the end of his life.
Yet even in death, the mighty tiger’s presence lingered.
Even a Grand Priest at death’s door could easily slay an early Tier Two apprentice knight.
Crossing a difference of more than six levels in evolution level, even a Temple Knight refined by countless trials could hardly bridge the vast chasm of life at different tiers.
So, even if these three apprentice knights wanted to complete the unfinished task of the knight commander, it would be a monumental feat.
In contrast, taking the knight commander’s corpse and leaving this place was the most advantageous decision.
After all, the Grand Priest’s condition and injuries were so severe; not only did he lose an entire left arm, but there was also a gaping wound in his chest the size of a fist.
In a few days, he would perish from the severe injuries, exhausting his last life force.
The three apprentice knights, already at death’s door, quickly sprang into action.
They wielded their long spears, ignoring the Tier Two middle and early stages priests pursuing them from behind and the sides, and charged at the Grand Priest sitting on the ground.
They showed clear intent to kill.
They wanted to kill the already dying Grand Priest, achieving a decapitation strike.
Sitting in the ruins, leaning on a rock wall, the Grand Priest’s eyes slightly narrowed, a glimmer of gold flashing through them.
Just three apprentice knights thinking they could kill him was clearly overestimating themselves.
Although his injuries were severe, at Level 29 evolution, the surface bleeding of his wounds was already healing and scabbing.
His heart was gradually healing itself, though due to previous battle exhaustion, the proliferation and division rate of his evolutionary cells slowed down.
But this didn’t mean the Grand Priest was immobile.
He only needed to raise his hand and unleash the Fiery Sun Divine Palm to easily kill an early Tier Two Temple Knight, especially since the opponent was already battered and bruised.
However, in this situation, continuing to deplete his life force to kill these small fry would worsen the Grand Priest’s condition, reducing his originally few-months-long life expectancy to less than a month.
Thus, to minimize the use of Fiery Sun Divine Power, he decisively picked up the nearby alloy long spear, intending to cooperate with his subordinates in dealing with the reckless remnant knights.
In the blink of an eye, the three early-stage apprentice knights burst into an extreme state, charging at the Grand Priest at speeds exceeding one hundred meters per second.
But they did not attack simultaneously; they suddenly dispersed, with one confronting the Grand Priest head-on while another turned back to counterattack, blocking the Tier Two middle and early stages priests chasing them from behind.
The last, the knight in the best condition, directly picked up the remains of the knight commander from the ground with his spear.
After cradling it in his arms, he swiftly broke through and escaped.
Because of the three’s previous feigned attack, the encirclement arranged by the other middle and early stages priests was disrupted, and they, anxious to aid the Grand Priest and stop the three’s assault, simultaneously gathered and rushed toward the Grand Priest.
