Chapter 456: Sophie Sophie Liya's Conflict

Another two and a half months later, Shining Church Holy City.

At this time, the lively celebration in the city was still continuing. Countless believers held high their sect badges and paraded in the city. Pilgrims from all over the world also joined in. They knelt every three steps and kowtowed every nine steps, kissing the floor of this place of divine descent, seemingly wanting to use this to better feel that divine grace.

Fanatical faith spread in the city, and the faith power like a tide eventually returned to the sea, all being absorbed by the central Shining Sanctuary.

And at this time, on the top floor of this majestic building, which only the Pope was qualified to enter to serve the divine messenger among mortals, two beautiful angels were playing chess.

Among them, the one on the left had white hair and six wings, a beautiful appearance, and a smile on her face, but in her bones, she carried a coldness that kept strangers away.

She was noble and majestic.

The one on the right had golden hair and a flowing appearance, handsome but androgynous. He also had a smile on his face, but his eyes carried undisguised arrogance.

He was elegant and noble.

"Lord Sophie Sophie Liya, the day of the agreement will be here soon. Are you not worried about your classmates at all?"

The golden-haired angel asked this while playing chess.

"Witches are not as easy to deal with as you expect, Michael. Instead of worrying about the enemy, you'd better think more about whether your own work is all completed."

The pure white angel dropped her piece without hesitation, then raised her head and lightly swept a glance at this companion.

"Anything you do, either don't do it, or do it to the best of your ability. Just like this chess..."

Her words weren't finished, but Michael looked at the chess game in front of her where the situation was gradually becoming clear, and sweat beads couldn't help but emerge on her forehead.

As a noble Seraph, she shouldn't have been so uncomposed, but there was no way. When you face an opponent who seems to be able to see through all your thoughts, it's hard not to be nervous.

It's like this chess game. A novice can only see the current situation on the board, thinking step by step. But a master often plans before moving, and before each move, they have already thought about the next step, or even the step after, or three steps later.

The chess game is like a battlefield. As a Seraph born with the divine power of war and proficient in military strategy, Michael is also a chess master. Among mortals, those who can predict three or four steps ahead are already masters, but she can easily predict more than ten steps ahead.

Don't look at this gap as not very big, but in fact, it's not. Because every additional step predicted, the required computing power might grow exponentially. The difference between three or four steps and more than ten steps looks like a three or four-fold gap, but in fact, the difference in computing power between the two sides can be said to be a world of difference.

Moreover, she was still young and growing at high speed. This computing power now was far from her limit. Maybe she would eventually be able to easily predict twenty or thirty steps ahead.

However, even if Michael was so confident, at this moment, facing this pure white girl opposite her, she couldn't help but feel despair, feeling a bit powerless all over. Because from the very beginning of this chess game, she was calculated to death by the other party, as if she were a puppet being played in the palm of the other party's hand from beginning to end.

It was as if this Lord Sophie Sophie Liya had seen the outcome of this chess game the moment it started.

Such a thing could no longer be explained clearly by any computing power. This could only be the effect of the supreme power in the universe—the power of fate.

Should one say it's worthy of being the daughter of the Shining Lord? This power favored by fate is exactly the same as that of the strongest Angel King.

Playing against her, the feeling given to people isn't like fighting a person, but fighting this heaven, this fate. How despairing is that?

Even though Michael had struggled as much as she could, she had performed exceptionally well in this game, and a few moves were even worthy of being called "God's moves" under the burst of inspiration. However, the endgame now explained everything.

Her so-called inspiration, her so-called "God's moves," had long been calculated by the other party. It couldn't even be ruled out that those bursts of inspiration were possibilities deliberately guided by the other party.

Michael had always been confident in her talent, but this chess game made her mentality almost collapse.

"It is worthy of being Lord Fate Apocalypse. Thank you for your guidance."

Fortunately, the Seraph girl quickly adjusted her mentality. Just like she didn't have a mentality explosion after losing to the "Guiguzi Guiguzi Zhuge" big shot of the Inquisition before, losing to this "Fate Apocalypse" big shot who was on par with her idol now was nothing to be ashamed of.

Although this "Fate Apocalypse" big shot was younger than she imagined, and was actually just a student at the Witch Academy, having never been to a real battlefield, and wasn't the veteran general everyone guessed, this made people feel even more tired.

After all, a group of professional military strategists actually lost to an amateur student. Was there anything more heartbreaking than this?

And, this guidance is a hammer. Before, in the war chess duel with the "Guiguzi Guiguzi Zhuge" big shot, although she was crushed, she still had some small gains after summarizing. But fighting against this "Fate Apocalypse" big shot, she didn't even understand how she lost. Besides despair, it was still despair. What kind of gain is this?

Probably this is the disparity in talent.

Her divine power of war could only be considered as barely touching the edge of the power of fate, but the other party's divine power was probably fate itself.

And regarding Michael mentioning her magic network game account, Sophie Sophie Liya's face was also slightly unnatural. She herself hadn't paid much attention to that account. After all, to her, that was just practice software used when learning strategy courses, equivalent to a primary school student's workbook.

Who would care where their primary school workbook is now?

However, she also didn't expect to meet a fan of her own game account. This was inexplicably a bit shameful.

The reason why she didn't go find the Eldest Miss early before, but waited for two months, was because it took some time to subdue this group of angels sent by Heaven.

After all, although the Shining Lord was her mother, and she was directly designated by Mother to be the leader of the angel side, Mother had been sealed for too long, so her words really weren't very easy to use for these young people. Although no one would be stupid enough to openly question the decision of an Angel King, they still had the guts to engage in small actions behind her back.

It's just that these little willful acts of the young angels didn't count for much in Sophie Sophie Liya's view. Although these young angels were indeed quite talented, this was compared to others.

And if compared to herself, it wasn't that she looked down on people, but this group of young angels really were quite average in her view. Only this Seraph Michael could be considered worth looking at.

Really just a little bit, considered to be at the level of a monkey king who is smarter among monkeys.

Initially, a group of monkeys clustered around this monkey king and wanted to cause trouble under her, the air-dropped monkey garden manager. Sophie Sophie Liya naturally wouldn't indulge this group of monkeys.

After all, she grew up following her teacher, so her personality was inevitably influenced by the teacher, becoming a bit strong and domineering, accustomed to saying one thing and not another. She didn't want to see a second voice among her subordinates.

Therefore, she went to talk to those young angels one by one in a very friendly manner. Everyone was still quite easy to communicate with. After a friendly and friendly discussion, the angels became very sensible.

It's just that this group of monkey angels actually kept thinking about their monkey king who hadn't descended yet.

And when Michael was finally summoned down recently, faced with her friendly visit, the other party proposed to play a war chess game. Sophie Sophie Liya gladly agreed, and then spent ten minutes pushing all the way to the other party's home, making the confused Michael directly surrender in ten minutes.

Then, this Seraph lady suddenly shouted out her "Fate Apocalypse" game alt account.

But there was nothing strange about this. After all, her personal style was too obvious, and during the period when Mother was sealed, her style could be considered unique. Even if others wanted to imitate it, they couldn't, so it was indeed quite easy to be recognized.

It's just that what Sophie Sophie Liya really cared about wasn't that her identity was exposed. After all, such an exposure was a good thing for her. At least the monkey king had become her fan, so the other monkeys naturally couldn't stir up any trouble. She could be considered to have completely subdued this group of young angels. At least during the Witch's Night, this group of angels would obediently listen to her.

However, what really surprised the pure white girl was what Michael said later. This Seraph lady who suddenly entered fan mode curiously asked if she knew "Guiguzi Guiguzi Zhuge."

Sophie Sophie Liya was naturally unfamiliar with this name. After all, she hadn't logged into the military strategy forum much after finishing the strategy course, and didn't know much about this rising star who emerged after her, the second-generation God of War.

But before she could shake her head, Michael excitedly told her almost everything about that Guiguzi Guiguzi Zhuge, especially that she encountered this idol on the way to the Witch Academy, and that the other party was actually a Witch Grand Inquisitor.

Pure white Witch: "..."

At that time, Sophie Sophie Liya fell into silence after hearing it. After all, a Witch Inquisition Grand Inquisitor, encountered on the way to the Witch Academy...

The pure white girl remembered the pile of information about the angel delegation that the Eldest Miss had suddenly given her before. She was able to "persuade" this group of young angels to listen well so easily this time, and that information saved her a lot of effort.

Then the answer was very obvious. That Guiguzi Guiguzi Zhuge was likely another identity of her own Eldest Miss.

Emmm... why did I say "another"?

Tsk, Eldest Miss, just how many strange identities do you have on the magic network?

Sophie Sophie Liya was also drunk. She discovered that her own Eldest Miss was truly a treasure girl. She could discover new secrets about her every once in a while.

She originally thought the identity of the Forest Witch was scary enough, but now it seems that besides magic spell development and that terrifying single-person ship-building ability, the Eldest Miss also seemed to have studied military strategy, and maybe even wasn't below her.

Tsk tsk tsk, it's a pity that this Eldest Miss still shouts every day that she has no interest in fighting, that arming is impossible, that she can't do it in this lifetime, and can only be a civil engineering Witch to barely maintain her life.

But you have no interest in fighting, so why do you study military strategy? And you even achieved the title of God of War. Is this what you call "not arming"?

The pure white girl also believed the Eldest Miss's evil. This bastard Eldest Miss is very bad; there isn't a single true word in her mouth.

Sophie Sophie Liya, who didn't know what purpose her own Eldest Miss had for studying military strategy, thought like this in her heart.

Of course, it was impossible for her to tell Michael and this group of young angels about her mood. Moreover, this could actually be considered good news. After all, the more powerful the Eldest Miss was, the higher the possibility of winning against her. According to the agreement between her and Mother, as long as the Eldest Miss could win against her, then she would be free.

It's just...

Although she said so, Sophie Sophie Liya actually still felt a bit unconvinced. Even if losing this competition was the result she wanted, once she thought the opponent was the Eldest Miss, she inexplicably didn't want to lose easily.

Losing once because of carelessness last time was fine, but this time she was prepared to go all out. If she still lost, wouldn't that prove she really wasn't as good as the Eldest Miss?

Thinking of such a result, the pure white girl couldn't help but clench her fists.

She wanted freedom, but she also wanted to win against the Eldest Miss. This is truly hard to choose.

However, there was actually no need to struggle. After all, her contract with Mother was still there, and she couldn't throw this competition. In short, just go all out.

Now, the five-month agreement was almost up, and she would soon be able to duel with the Eldest Miss again. Thinking of this, even Sophie Sophie Liya felt slightly excited.

It's just...

She raised her head and looked at the Shining Lord statue in the church beside her. Was it an illusion, or did she feel that the absorption speed of faith had slightly decreased?

No, it couldn't be an illusion.

The moment such a thought arose, Sophie Sophie Liya, who had always been cautious, directly denied it. She ignored Michael beside her and stood up directly to carefully examine the statue.

You must know that faith power is the opening energy for the church to continue summoning more angels to descend. Once there is a problem with faith power, the speed of the angels' troop production will be greatly affected.

Now they can summon one angel to descend a month, but maybe by then it will take half a year to summon one.

"It is indeed a bit less. This is not right?"

After an inspection, Sophie Sophie Liya frowned, and her face became serious.

Good heavens, she hadn't even actively attacked yet, but the Eldest Miss had launched a preemptive strike. It is worthy of being you, my Eldest Miss.

The pure white angel closed her eyes, and her consciousness directly followed the connection of faith power. She intended to borrow the eyes of the believers over there to see what exactly happened.

... Sophie Sophie Liya is touching the network cable... ===== CHAPTER 457 =====