Chapter 600

Next to the Purple Light Holy Son, the Imperial Tutor thought.

"Holy Son, disaster! The enemy has suddenly appeared outside the Imperial City!"

At that moment, a man ran over in a panic.

"What? The enemy is outside the Imperial City? How is that possible, Archbishop Terri? Didn't you say they were still in Dayan Province?"

The Purple Light Holy Son's voice carried a hint of shock!

He couldn't help but be astonished.

One moment the enemy was in Dayan Province, the next they had appeared directly outside the Imperial City!

No matter how you looked at it, it was unreal!

Even by airship, it would take over ten hours to travel from Dayan Province to the Imperial City!

Right—the airships!

The Purple Light Holy Son quickly asked: "How many of them came?"

The messenger replied: "M-much too many, densely packed, at least several hundred thousand!"

Several hundred thousand!

The Purple Light Holy Son was instantly baffled.

Their airships were numerous; last time, each carried several thousand elves.

But how could there be several hundred thousand?

He was about to fly up and assess the situation when suddenly he felt violent magical fluctuations.

"No!"

The Purple Light Holy Son looked up and saw vast sheets of red clouds forming over the Imperial City, within which destructive energy churned relentlessly.

This scene was eerily similar to the one months ago!

That wizard had used this tactic against them again!

Did he truly think a legendary being like him was easy to provoke?

The Purple Light Holy Son shot straight into the sky and saw, ten li beyond the Imperial City, countless warriors arranged in formation, above which numerous magical arrays hovered.

Magical arrays function similarly to barriers, but barriers are generally immobile and, once established, can last a long time using magic stones or similar sources.

Many magical arrays, however, are mobile; their energy can come from magic stones or from the combined efforts of many mages, granting them strong area-wide defensive effects.

It truly was several hundred thousand!

The Purple Light Holy Son had never imagined that one day the Imperial City of the Purple Gold Empire would be besieged in such a manner!

But he now had no time to ponder how they had appeared.

The destructive energy above was about to fall.

There were only two solutions.

One was to kill the caster, but if the caster was killed after casting succeeded, the large-scale spell would still descend.

The second solution was to counter magic with magic.

Killing the caster was already too late.

Then counter magic with magic!

The Purple Light Holy Son muttered a command, and a magic staff appeared in his hand; immediately, intense magical fluctuations surged around him.

He chanted incantations, and a legendary-tier forbidden spell emerged from his hands.

"I am blessed by the gods—my casting speed far exceeds that of ordinary legends. Let's see who's faster!"

The Purple Light Holy Son thought.

Yet the instant his thought ended, a pillar of flame shot down from the red clouds above.

"So fast?!"

The Purple Light Holy Son was stunned.

Even for him, casting a legendary-tier forbidden spell took at least ten seconds.

But the opponent was clearly far faster!

He had no time to react; in desperation, he hastily cast a common forbidden spell for defense!

The two powerful magics collided in the sky, producing a terrifying shockwave.

The flame pillar shattered the Purple Light Holy Son's forbidden spell in an instant and surged downward toward the cathedral.

The Purple Light Holy Son grunted and struck again—this time, he used divine magic!

With time so short, this divine spell was not at full power, but its strength already surpassed that of an ordinary forbidden spell.

Yet even divine magic could not stop the flame pillar!

The flame pillar still tore through the Purple Light Holy Son's divine magic and raced toward the cathedral below!

That was also the Church's headquarters!

"No!"

The Purple Light Holy Son turned pale.

As the flame pillar neared the cathedral, a colossal hand erupted from within the cathedral, shooting skyward and clenching tightly!

The flame pillar, capable of destroying half the city, was crushed into nothingness by that single hand!

Immediately after, a figure radiating holy light ascended into the sky, radiating unmatched majesty.

His body brimmed with divine aura; any ordinary person who looked upon him would instantly become his most loyal believer, willing to offer their life on the spot!

He was the battle avatar of the Purple Gold Empire's deity!

In the brief moment since his descent, he had already risen to the peak of the Saint Realm's First Stage—a terrifying existence!

"As expected."

Seeing this battle avatar brimming with divinity from head to toe, Meng Ying murmured to herself.

From this battle avatar, Meng Ying sensed a power far surpassing her own.

"This avatar is far stronger than the one from the Horton Kingdom."

Meng Ying whispered.

The divine battle avatar's face was utterly expressionless.

This was also the difference between him and an ordinary divine avatar: an ordinary divine avatar carries the consciousness of the deity within it, and is not truly without emotion—it is simply accustomed to looking down from on high, cold and heartless.

A battle avatar, however, truly has no emotions.

It was nothing more than a cold, mechanical war machine.

After the battle avatar flew into the sky, without a word, it launched an attack straight at Meng Ying.

It turned out to be a close-combat avatar, employing no magic whatsoever. It merely charged forward and vanished into the sky, and when it reappeared, it was already less than a hundred meters in front of Meng Ying!

"What terrifying spatial rules!"

At a flick of Meng Ying's finger, a legendary-tier magic was cast.

Her instant-cast magic was truly fearsome—even legendary-tier spells she could summon with effortless ease.

"Boom!"

The legendary-tier magic, powerful enough to obliterate a city, slammed toward the divine battle avatar. The divine battle avatar thrust both hands sharply forward, and a transparent great disc materialized before its hands, blocking Meng Ying's legendary-tier magic.

Meng Ying kept retreating, bombarding the divine battle avatar with legendary-tier magic one after another.

"Instant-cast magic!"

The divine battle avatar uttered a cold voice.

Although it possessed no emotions whatsoever, that did not mean it could not speak.

Meng Ying continued to retreat, using legendary-tier magic to keep the battle avatar from effectively pursuing her.

Finally, she seized the right moment and unleashed the power belonging to the Holy Domain!

Bolstered by the rule of flame, her Holy Domain-tier magical attack instantly landed right before the divine battle avatar.

The divine battle avatar blocked again with both hands.

"Boom!"

This time, the great disc the divine battle avatar pushed out was directly blasted into fragments, and then Meng Ying's magic struck its body.

Seeing that the magical attack had taken effect, Meng Ying's expression changed, and she abruptly retreated.

At the spot where she had just been standing, the divine battle avatar burst forth bathed in flames; its body bore quite a few wounds, yet those wounds actually healed at once!

This was a battle avatar with terrifyingly formidable defense and self-healing!

A battle avatar like this, whose speed had reached the extreme and which also possessed fearsome spatial rules, was simply a mage's nightmare!

Seeing Meng Ying dodge, the divine battle avatar's expression did not change in the slightest. The displacement brought about by its spatial rules did not appear to be usable consecutively, yet its own speed was also a great deal faster than Meng Ying's.