Chapter 360: Phoenix's Resolve

"You're the one who's a ghost! My business is none of your concern."

Inside the barrier, Phoenix listened to the interrogation from the Grand Inquisitor outside, who wore a ridiculous clown mask. Though she was young, her expression changed instantly. However, she quickly forced herself to maintain her composure, stubbornly refusing to back down.

"Anyway, you can't get in now, so please just go back today."

She was like a frail little kitten baring its fangs at a pack of wolves outside; despite the fierce look in her eyes, she couldn't hide the guilt and cowardice in her heart.

"Damn it, it's all those bastards from the Son of God Faction. Why don't you all just go die?"

At this moment, Phoenix was cursing angrily in her heart.

It all started two days ago. After returning from her fruitless investigation at the Young Lady's place, she grew angrier the more she thought about it. With a suppressed rage in her heart, she became increasingly certain that there was a major problem with the Sky Island attack case. It was possible that someone had truly overstepped their authority, bypassing the monitoring of the God King's Great Barrier to use high-powered magic in a busy district.

After confirming this conclusion, she began to work backward through the process.

First, the God King's Great Barrier certainly couldn't have made a mistake. The power of the God King was invincible; this point was beyond doubt.

Then, if it wasn't a problem with the God King's Great Barrier itself, the issue must lie with the Word of God Department, which maintained and controlled the barrier.

Phoenix smelled the scent of an inside job. In her mind, it must have been someone from the Word of God Department who had been roped in and bought off by that woman Sophie Liya, secretly opening a back door for her in the Great Barrier.

Yes, it must be like that. After all, that vixen Sophie Liya had a knack for seducing people. Not to mention how she had the detestable Young Lady completely infatuated, even within the Angel Witch race, there were quite a few people who had been bewitched by her.

Originally, everyone had been firmly against the Sophie Liya Faction, and it had been agreed that everyone would ostracize her together. But only a few years had passed, and the original anti-Sophie Liya alliance no longer existed. Most of the former opponents had become her "lickspittles," willingly being bossed around by her. Now, the only one left with a firm stance against that bad woman was Phoenix herself.

"Hmph, don't think I don't know your wolfish ambition. I won't let the Angel Witch race fall into the hands of a bad woman like you. Now you even dare to use the Great Barrier to cause destruction; I don't even dare to imagine what you'll do once you actually succeed."

The little angel thought this to herself. Therefore, in order to save the young and old of her race, Phoenix resolutely launched an investigation into the inside job.

Because Sophie Liya usually walked the closest with the guys from the Son of God Faction, the first one she investigated was naturally the Son of God Faction.

However, it was fine not to investigate, but once she did, she really uncovered something.

The good news: the Son of God Faction really did have a problem.

The bad news: they weren't Sophie Liya's inside men, but the Angel race's.

Although Phoenix didn't have much face as a Saintess in her daily life, and she was constantly crushed in various ways by that detestable Sophie Liya, unable to hold her head high, that was only because that bad woman was too much of a freak.

If there were no Sophie Liya for comparison, she was actually quite outstanding among the generations of Saintesses. Even compared to that aunt of hers who went crazy in the previous generation, she wasn't much inferior.

Especially in the application of the Power of Faith, having received the best education since childhood, she was actually a few points better than Sophie Liya, who could only explore and learn on her own.

She hadn't thought in this direction before, so she hadn't paid attention. But once she scrutinized the guys from the Son of God Faction with the eyes of looking for an inside job, she quickly discovered the abnormality of the Power of Faith in them.

And when she personally grabbed a young witch from the Son of God Faction and forcibly invaded the other's spiritual space of faith, she saw the problem with the main deity statue at a glance.

Although the problem with that deity statue was hidden very well, she was, after all, the direct bloodline successor of the God King. She was too familiar with her own ancestor's deity statue, so she discovered the problem at a glance.

That was not the God King's deity statue; something was wearing the God King's outer garment and disguising itself as Him.

And among the Angel Witches, absolutely no one would dare to be so rebellious. Therefore, the faction that could do such a thing and dared to do such a thing was already very obvious.

It was the Angels. This group of guys from the Son of God Faction had defected to the Angels.

After realizing this, Phoenix was stunned. This kind of thing was obviously not something a little witch like her could handle. She immediately wanted to find her two mothers to report it and have them bring people to take down this group of rebels.

But the detestable thing was that her mothers had just happened to go on a business trip and were not in the academy. Even though she had already sent a hundred or so desperate, rapid-fire messages on the Mana Web, it would take them at least a day to return at the earliest.

A day wasn't long, but it wasn't short either. Phoenix had originally wanted to wait with peace of mind. After all, her investigation had been very clean, and those people from the Son of God Faction hadn't discovered anything unusual yet, so waiting a day should be fine.

But seeing that her mothers were about to return today, what arrived before them was a large squad of Inquisitors from the Inquisition.

How could she let people from the Inquisition come in to investigate such a thing? It wasn't that she wanted to shield the rebels of the Son of God Faction, but the Angel Witch race could no longer withstand such a big scandal. The Son of God Faction deserved to die, but the other clansmen could not be implicated further.

The Angel Witches were already gradually declining. If it weren't for the protection of the God King's remaining prestige, their third-place ranking would have long been unstable. If such a big joke were to be made now, I'm afraid their generation would truly be the generation that collapsed.

The Angel Witches mainly cultivated faith, and faith was always a double-edged sword. When you were powerful, that faith was naturally indestructible, but once you collapsed, then the collapse and splitting of the family would happen in an instant.

The current decline of the Angel Witches was actually mainly due to this reason.

Ever since the God King stopped managing affairs, there had been no one among the younger generation of Angel Witches who could absolutely command obedience. Seeing the Dragon Witch race rise under the leadership of the Long Wang, and the Demon Witch race take flight under the leadership of the Demon King, these two latecomers had easily surpassed the Angel Witch race, the former big sister. The Angel Witches saw it in their eyes and were anxious in their hearts.

Even if they didn't say it out loud, the obviously increasingly fragile faith couldn't deceive anyone.

Now the Angel Witch race was still ranked third. They could still comfort themselves by saying that the Dragon Witches and Demon Witches ahead of them were strong because of the Long Wang and Demon King. But once they couldn't even keep the third place, then the fig leaf would be gone, and the collapse of faith at that time would be no laughing matter.

As the Saintess of the God King Sect, Phoenix naturally wouldn't allow such a thing to happen. In her view, this was now the moment of life and death for the God King Sect.

People from the Inquisition never moved easily. They were like sharks in the water; the moment their dorsal fins appeared above the water, it actually signaled that the prey they were eyeing had nowhere to retreat.

Not to mention that so many Inquisitors had come this time. This formation didn't look like they were here to investigate at all; they had clearly already investigated everything and were here to make arrests.

No matter what, she could not let the people from the Inquisition in today. She had to drag it out until her mothers returned. The affairs of the Angel Witch race could only be solved internally by them; absolutely no outsiders could be allowed to intervene.

Therefore, even if her current appearance standing in front of the Inquisition was even more clownish than that clown Grand Inquisitor opposite, and her act of starting the protective barrier of the sect so casually made her look like a prodigal, and she would probably be held accountable by the Inquisition afterward, she would take the blame. Anyway, no one was getting in today.

Phoenix glared fiercely at the Inquisitors outside. She didn't even dare to look away, fearing that if she lost her nerve, she would be overwhelmed by the fear in her heart.

After all, that was the Inquisition.

... Little angel is holding back tears... ===== CHAPTER 361 =====