Wasteland: My Items Can Be Infinitely Upgraded-Chapter 515 - 253: A Life for a Life, The Dying, and Turmoil

This gave the Apprentice Knight who seized the Knight Commander’s corpse an opportunity.

After fleeing the battlefield, he chose the southwest direction without looking back.

That was the route where the rest of the team was escorting the apprentices to escape, and it was also the only chance for survival at the moment.

Because over there was the Zhuma Divine Hall, the resting place of the Master of the Holy Spring.

All it would take was a hundred kilometers of desperate running to reach the edge of the hall’s protective range and meet with the patrolling Temple Knights nearby for support.

The Temple Knights, outside the hall, had combat power similar to the Holy Hall Knights, but within the Master of the Holy Spring’s aura, they were equivalent to Tier Three beings.

Not to mention the priests of the Fiery Sun Divine Sect, even a Tier Three Divine Envoy would have to retreat.

As the Apprentice Knight escaped with the Knight Commander’s remains, the other Middle and Early-stage Priests detected his intentions and quickly reacted.

Unfortunately, when they were about to pursue, they were intercepted by the turned-back, retaliating Apprentice Knight, who fought desperately to hold them off.

He was swiftly struck down by two Mid-stage Priests and six Early-stage Priests, dying on the spot.

The Apprentice Knight battling the Grand Priest observed this and immediately withdrew, turning back to intercept the Middle and Early-stage Priests, buying more time for his teammates to escape.

Ultimately, he fought to the death, gaining only ten seconds.

But even these ten seconds were enough for the retreating Apprentice Knight to reach a kilometer away, and with that decisive escape, his figure had vanished into the ruins.

Only a faint trail of dust could be seen rising toward the northwest.

After confirming the two bodies on the ground were dead, the two Mid-stage Priests then instructed the remaining Early-stage Apprentice Priests to pursue.

Then they approached the Grand Priest to inquire about the situation:

"Without the aid of power armor, we can’t catch up with these knights over a long distance. Should we still pursue?"

The Grand Priest shook his head and accepted the Tier Two Rock-Horned Horse Essence Reagent handed by another Mid-stage Priest, consuming it: 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

"Forget it, next, try to eliminate the remaining members of the Knight Order as much as possible, especially those Late Tier One apprentices; they are the reserve force of the Knight Order."

"In this way, the strength of Storm Holy City will be greatly diminished, and its control over the peripheral forces will decrease continuously following the disgrace after this disastrous defeat."

"The final payment from the Life Farm should be arriving soon; this batch of high-level Source Material will serve as the foundational resource for the revival of the Divine Teachings, and next, as long as we lay low on the outskirts of the Holy City, we can secretly develop believers."

As the Grand Priest’s close aides, the two Mid-stage Priests nodded and then looked at the injured leader with hesitation:

"Your injuries..."

The Grand Priest smiled with relief:

"Even without this battle, I would not live to see the day the Divine Teachings rise again; the path to the future revival will rely on you all."

"I have nothing more to teach; you are the future of the Divine Teachings."

"Next, you should divide and operate according to the original plan without burdening yourselves with me."

"They seized the Knight Commander’s corpse to target my existence; if I were to go to the Holy City, I might likely be tracked and discovered..."

"Leave me here; the Fiery Sun Divine Domain is about to arrive. I finally can return to the Divine Kingdom and behold the God of the Scorching Sun..."

With that, the Grand Priest glanced towards the southeast, his gaze flickering.

Meanwhile, near Holy Spring Village in Oasis Town.

Liu Qian, imbuing energy into grenades, and Su Yueyue, soaking in the Holy Spring Water, both simultaneously felt a strange agitation in their blood.