Chapter 219: It Is Crying

Realizing Ange had followed, Shamala, who had been mingling with the group of women, quietly fell to the rear of the line. After passing a building, she easily slipped away from the group and moved to meet Ange.

Ange said to Brandt, "You all go away."

Little Brandt exclaimed in surprise, "Go away? That's not good. Our mission is to protect you."

Before he could finish speaking, Brandt grabbed him by the collar and dragged him away, saying, "You talk too much."

They walked until they reached a corner several hundred meters away, stopping only when they could no longer see even a shadow of Ange.

"Fool, does the Lord's strength need your protection? We are just putting on a show to scare people. Know your place. Do exactly what the Lord tells you to do, and ask nothing. If the Lord is secretly meeting a lover and we hear something we shouldn't, we will all die." Brandt scolded him, feeling like he was trying to temper steel that refused to harden.

Shamala, who had been mistaken for Ange's lover, approached with a reluctant expression, asking, "Why are you here?"

Why could she see this guy everywhere! Shamala felt deeply helpless in her heart.

In the Abyss of Rest, she had fled in a hurry because she did not want to see these people again. She had discovered that the longer she stayed with them, the more her inner convictions wavered.

They were clearly a group of heretics, yet their way of interacting and their conduct were purer than those of the most innocent children.

Moreover, Ange possessed the purest Holy Light, which held a fatal attraction for her. Yet, a voice in her heart constantly warned her: Do not move, do not move, or you will die!

So, Shamala left the Abyss of Rest at top speed, hiding far away from these people. She had not expected to run two planes away and still encounter them.

This made her very dissatisfied with that voice in her heart: Why is it forbidden!?

The voice in her heart replied: The error regarding the Gods would be too great.

"Saving people? Why are you here?" This was also a question Ange wanted to ask.

Shamala hesitated before saying, "I sensed Seraphim Luna's aura. The voice in my heart told me I could find answers here."

"Seraphim Luna?" Lord Nai Ge Li Si's voice sounded from within Ange, "Hasn't Seraphim Luna already dissipated?"

Shamala shook her head, "I don't know either. I only know that coming here might lead me to answers."

"Your ability is truly following fate..." Lord Nai Ge Li Si didn't know what to say. Shamala had undoubtedly awakened some kind of perception-based divine skill, giving her extraordinary precognition.

However, what she perceived was too vague; it was almost worse than having no ability at all, because she had no idea how dangerous what she sensed was, yet she would charge straight at it. Still, if used in the right place, this ability was very useful.

"So, where do you want to go now? Into the city? What is your identity now?" Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked.

"Yes, into the city. I am currently pretending to be a laundry worker, but the foreman keeps harassing me." Shamala said angrily.

"How about this?" Lord Nai Ge Li Si proposed, "Use your precognition ability to help us save someone. Once we save them, we will take you into the city."

Shamala looked at Ange hesitantly. Thinking of Ange's pure Holy Light, she realized that slipping into the city would be much easier for him than for her, and she couldn't help but feel tempted.

Mainly because that foreman from the laundry team kept harassing her; it was disgusting.

Having become a Saintess since childhood and being a key target for the Church's cultivation, Shamala had never experienced the ugliness of the Church or the hardships of the world. Facing this situation, aside from disgust, she felt only helplessness. Unless she decided not to infiltrate the city, it seemed there was no other option but to endure.

However, being with Ange, whose pure Holy Light held a fatal attraction for her, she truly feared that one day she might lose control and try to snatch his Holy Light, only to be killed by him.

"Hey, Shamala, why have you stopped? Why aren't you following?" A fat-headed fellow emerged from a distant corner and shouted from afar at Shamala:

"Do you not want to work anymore? It was hard to get this opportunity in the Land of Desolation. If you don't want to work, you can't quit; you have to earn the teleportation fee. I was wondering why such a beautiful Miss would come to the Land of Desolation; it turns out you just want a man. This is a slum; what could there be..."

The fat-headed fellow spoke while walking over, reaching out to grab Shamala.

"I'll go with you to save someone," Shamala said. She turned and punched the foreman's fat face, knocking him to the ground. Then she rushed forward and beat him with fists and kicks. After one round, the foreman was unrecognizable and fainted.

Shamala stood up, feeling refreshed, and said to Ange, "Let's go. Who are we saving?"

"A Dimensional Beast," Lord Nai Ge Li Si said.

"The one beside the teleportation array?" Shamala asked. Having just exited the Transportation Hub, she naturally saw the Dimensional Beast nearby.

Finding Brandt, Ange took out ten Magic Crystals. Lord Nai Ge Li Si said, "Find a place to stay first. I have some matters to attend to; I will find you after I finish."

Brandt immediately bowed and said, "Yes, my lord!" Without saying another word, he turned around and led his son and nephew away.

After walking a certain distance, the three of them quietly exchanged glances, wearing expressions that said, "Just as I thought."

"Did you see that? Did you remember everything I just said? Forget what you saw. Even in your dreams, you are not allowed to slip up and say a single word."

"Yes!"

After sending Brandt and the other two away, Ange led Shamala directly into the mine shaft.

After a thousand years of mining, the ore veins had long been exhausted, leaving only an abandoned mine. Some poor people who didn't even have houses hid here. As soon as they saw Ange approaching, they either scattered like birds and beasts or lay motionless like corpses.

Inside the mine tunnels, there were no people at all. The poor did not venture deep into the tunnels because the tunnels were extensive and interconnected, dark and slippery. Without even torches for light, going too deep made it easy to lose one's direction and starve to death in the tunnels.

Entering the deserted mine tunnel, Ange immediately took out the Brass Dragon, the Little Zombie, the Little Angel, Luther, and Selena, who had been suffocating inside.

"Haa... haa..." As soon as he came out, Luther gasped desperately for air, saying, "My lord, the air here makes it impossible to breathe."

"Me too, I can't breathe," Selena added.

"Living people are such a trouble. Forget it, don't come out. Put them back in," Lord Nai Ge Li Si said helplessly.

Luther quickly waved his hands, "We'll stay outside. Don't make me go back in; it's boring to death inside."

The Palace of Rest was too boring. Last time, when killing Nikola, Luther had been locked inside for more than half a month; he really didn't want to stay there again.

The entire area was only a few dozen square kilometers, mostly consisting of the eerie Rest Soil and palaces. Standing in such a place for too long made one feel as if their body was dehydrating.

Only near the farm, because of the barrier, was it suitable for a living person like him to stay. But the farm was only three thousand mu in area; one could see the end at a glance. What fun could there be?

Just then, Shamala summoned a ball of black Holy Flame and slapped it onto Selena's back.

"Sss—" Selena took a deep breath and said in shock, "Eh, I can breathe now!"

Lord Nai Ge Li Si then realized, "Oh right, you are also a living person. How can you breathe?"

"Just a small blessing," Shamala said dismissively. She summoned another ball of Holy Flame and slapped it onto Luther.

Luther immediately breathed easily and gave Shamala a thumbs-up.

"Alright, now tell me your plan. How do we save that Dimensional Beast? Hurry up and finish so you can take me into the city. I feel that something is about to happen in the city," Shamala said with a frown.

"We originally didn't know what to do; the guards there were too strict. But now that you are here, we can try approaching it through the underground mine tunnels," Lord Nai Ge Li Si said.

"Me? I've never been here before. How would I know which mine tunnel leads closer?" Shamala asked in surprise.

Lord Nai Ge Li Si laughed, "Of course, we rely on your precognition ability. Come, come. Do you think this mine tunnel can get us close to the Dimensional Beast seal on the surface?"

Shamala's legs went weak, and she gasped, "You don't mean you want me to try them one by one, do you?"

Nai Ge Li Si nodded, as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

Shamala, forced into action like a duck being shoved onto a perch, had no choice but to try each mining tunnel one by one. Every time they reached a new tunnel, Nai Ge Li Si would ask her the same question: "Can this tunnel get us close to the dimensional beast seal on the surface?"

She would either shake her head or nod. The last time she nodded, they walked into a dead end.

"Huh? No way forward?" Nai Ge Li Si said, surprised.

Shamala's face went pale. She pointed upward. Precognition was a divine skill, but every use drained her enormously, and by this point she was utterly exhausted.

Seeing Ange pressed her hands on Shamala's shoulders and released Holy Light.

The sacred power poured into her body, jolting her spirit awake; a fervent gleam flashed through her eyes.

But very quickly, she gritted her teeth and shut her eyes, refusing to look, refusing to think, forcibly wrenching her attention away, because that voice inside her was madly warning her again.

After topping up her strength a little, Seeing Ange flew up and pressed both hands against the rock above.

Nai Ge Li Si said: "It's up to you now, Seeing Ange. Your Earth Splitting Art — using it to loosen soil is really beneath it. Its most suitable application is digging tunnels. Use your exquisite control to confine the range of the split within a circle, and dig straight up."

Seeing Ange sensed the earth elements within the rock, stirred them up, then gave a sudden wrench. Crack! The rock overhead silently fractured and came tumbling down in a pattering shower.

Once the rubble had all fallen away, a circular hole large enough for a person to pass through was revealed. Inside the circle it was clean; outside the circle, not a hair was harmed.

Shamala and Selena started in shock. They immediately understood what Nai Ge Li Si meant by "exquisite control."

Seeing Ange crawled into the hole, reached up to grip the ceiling, released Earth Splitting Art, and the rock came crashing down in a clatter.

Advancing little by little like this, after several thousand casts of Earth Splitting Art, Seeing Ange's hand touched an artificial foundation.

Probably no one had ever managed to cast Earth Splitting Art thousands of times in a row, so no one would ever imagine an enemy could dig in from underground. This was a mining district — the ground beneath was solid rock through and through; even if one tried to dig, it would be impossible to do so silently, without a single sound.

After touching the stone, Seeing Ange dropped down along the tunnel.

"How is it? Did you dig through?" Nai Ge Li Si asked.

Seeing Ange nodded, then said: "It's crying."

PS: I want to cry too — ate the wrong thing, red-oil boneless chicken feet and mao xue wang — almost had to make up for it at night.