Chapter 222: The Glorious Church's [Atonement]
“Boom!!!”
The violent thunder completely stirred up the surrounding energy. The disordered and chaotic environment caused most of Fairhaven's equipment that relied on magic to stop working. Magic has never been a crude thing. On the contrary, it is very precise. A slight mistake may lead to different consequences.
This chaotic and disorderly impact not only enveloped the battlefield in the sinking area, but also affected Queen Aundair's battlefield for a time.
"Um?!"
Looking towards the dark clouds where thunder was falling, Queen Aundair frowned. Just now, her control over the war fortress beneath her had been reduced by at least ten points.
The impact of the chaos made it impossible for the war fortress to replenish energy from the outside world in a short period of time, and it could only temporarily switch to endogenous energy for control.
The amount of backup energy in a war fortress is often linked to the fullness of the national treasury. Once too much is used, even the ruler of a country will feel distressed for a long time.
But at the same time, Queen Aundair saw two figures rushing into Thunder. Although she didn't know who the dragonborn was, it did not prevent her from knowing the fact that Ichikiel was being beaten.
Nothing could be more pleasing than this, especially when Queen Aundair and Archmage Muzel discovered that Archbishop Alfonso's clone was just used to distract them.
Izekiel's defeat meant that the plan arranged by the Inquisition began to deviate and was even on the road to failure.
The three people fighting all saw the direction of the situation, so they all burst out with stronger power at the same time. This time it was Queen Andel and Archmage Muzel who restrained Archbishop Alfonso's clone.
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On the other side, Ichikiel, who was pushed into the thunder by Mo Cheng, was definitely not optimistic.
There were bombardments of thunder that destroyed everything from above, and a series of powerful punches from below. The holy light that protected Ichkiel was under tremendous test in just a few seconds.
The power contained in the thunder is definitely not in the category of "human". It has a power beyond the limit, making the absolute protection given by the ninth-level extreme strongman seem not so "absolute".
Every time the thunder struck, part of the holy light would be peeled off, and the additional heavy blows from Mo Cheng below caused cracks to appear on the surface of the holy light.
But Mo Cheng still felt that the speed of peeling off Ichikiji's shell was too slow. At this speed, after removing this layer of protection, the [Earth Vibrator] would be activated.
So when the upward trend stopped, Mo Cheng floated in the air with his feet, and then transformed all his strength into thunder element and flew into the dark clouds in the sky.
In an instant, the size of the dark clouds expanded rapidly, visibly to the naked eye, almost covering the entire Fairhaven.
then……
"boom!!!!!"
The sky and the earth lost their color, and everyone lost their sight and hearing at this moment. All they saw was white, and all they could hear was the roar of thunder.
By the time their eyesight and hearing returned to normal, the dark clouds in the sky had disappeared, and only the chaotic energy environment told people that what had just happened was not an illusion.
On the open ground, the impact from the sky blasted out a huge hole. The earth, which should have greatly offset the power of thunder, now seemed like a thunder pool, filled with countless lightning flashes.
After a long time, a staggering figure walked out from the billowing smoke and dust. It was Mo Cheng!
His condition was definitely not good at this time. Even with Ichikiel as a shield and even though the lightning strike was from himself, he still suffered serious injuries.
The thunder of the god Zeus, even if it was only level one, was not something he could take without getting hurt.
It’s a good thing that it’s only level one, otherwise his current condition would definitely not be [injured] but [severely injured and dying].
However, if the level of lightning strike is high, he won't have to drag people to the sky to survive the calamity in his physical body.
After the smoke and dust completely dissipated, Ichikiel was found slumped in the deep pit, his body covered with traces of blackening from lightning strikes, yet emitting a powerful breath of life.
Ichikiel had been severely injured, and he no longer had the ability to stabilize his own vitality and prevent it from overflowing.
The outcome of the battle was obviously Mo Cheng's victory.
But Mo Cheng's eyes, which were devoid of any emotion and only fluctuated slightly when he was killed or victorious, made people understand what price Mo Cheng paid in order to defeat Ichikiel.
At this moment, he no longer had any mercy, no kindness, and even less love. All that was left was the instinctive desire to kill. Only the victory after killing could make him realize the meaning of life.
"You...you can't kill me. The setting of the [Earth Vibrator] is my heartbeat..."
"Hey!"
Mo Cheng sneered. He didn't listen to Ichikiel's words. No matter what happened, it didn't matter anymore. His brain kept telling him one thing: "Kill him. It will give you great pleasure."
Mo Cheng decided to follow his own thoughts and desires. As for the life and death of others?
It doesn't seem so important anymore.
Even though the lightning on the ground still had considerable damage, it could not stop Mo Cheng's steps. He threw the simplest straight line and the most direct punch towards Ichikiel 's chest.
In a ten-thousandth of a second, the fist made contact with the chest, causing the skin and flesh on the chest to burst, followed by the breaking of the bones. The ribs that protected the heart not only failed to perform their protective function, but instead became a deadly weapon.
But before the ribs penetrate the heart, Mo Cheng's fist will explode Ichikiel's heart first.
But this is the moment Izekiel was waiting for, "Atone for your sins!"
Using his last bit of strength and using his own life as bait, Ichikiel placed his right hand on Mo Cheng's forehead before his fist completely blew up his heart.
There was no lethality, he just put his hand on it.
Then, the Atonement began.
Atonement, this spell was only mentioned in a few sentences in the documents of the Church of Light, which only the Pope was qualified to view.
It was a spell developed by the Inquisition before it separated from the Church of Light. It was known only to the director, deputy director and the Pope, a total of less than five people.
The effect of [Atonement] is very simple. It uses the power of holy light to forcibly distort a person's mind. The more one deviates from the light, the more serious the distortion of the mind will be.
For a person who doesn't follow the rules on a daily basis, likes to cut in line and spit everywhere, and is a bit of a thief, the effect of [Atonement] may not be as effective as beating him up.
However, for those who are bloodthirsty and have killed more people than anyone else has ever seen, the more they violate morality, laws, and even the bottom line of humanity, the more [Atonement] can permanently distort such people into saints who dedicate everything to the battle for [truth, goodness, and beauty] in the world.
