343 – Re-starting Time.

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– “Master, the city wall has been breached, I’m afraid the army coalition won’t last long! We have to get going!”

She was able to hear the sound of the battle taking place outside, and by taking a look outside the window of the high tower, she only saw the dark clouds in the sky, revealing a red gloomy glow, as if they were wrapped in sticky blood.

– “But my younger sister has not come back.”

The tone of Kraft was getting more and more anxious.

– “She is a soldier of the garrison, it is impossible for her to leave her post and abandon the defense line arbitrarily, if you die here, she would feel like her job was in vain!”

With a half hesitant voice, she finally agreed with a nod.

– “I know.”

The streets were full of escaping people, the guards maintaining the order among this chaos were doing a poor job, the streams of people all converged into a big mass, involuntarily throwing her with the rest towards the South Gate, Kraft was following close by her side, warding her from the panicked crowd with his sturdy body.

It was a total disaster.

Is this the result of our efforts?

She looked behind her at the Tower of Babel, the highest point in the city, and the central point of the Federation.

Flying Devils carried wild demonic beasts to the top, in an attempt to capture the Tower, occasionally a flash of lightning could be seen, taking down an enemy.

But it was not enough to help keeping the enemies at bay since there just were too many.

After several hundreds of years of construction and development, this city had become the most flourishing of the fertile plains, the Holy City.

Today, however, it was being destroyed in an instant, regardless of the effort several generations were making, as if it was just a sand castle built by children in an afternoon, and after only a blink, everything had turned into chaos and disorder.

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Across the South Gate, the Devils suddenly arrived blocking the people running away, those who could fight immediately went to the front, and joined with the guards to fight.

But the other side not only had demonic beasts, but also Dreadheart Demons and Lords of Hell, the strength gap from one side to the other was just too big.

After the first wave of spears was thrown, dozens of people lied down in pool of their own blood, some had its abdomen pierced by the iron spears, holding their hot intestines from spilling out into the cold snowy ground, some had their hands or feel cut off, holding the wounded area, wailing in pain.

Kraft grabbed her.

– “Master, where are you going?”

She gasped for air as she responded.

– “I can also fight, let me go!”

– “I can’t do that, you are far more important than them, are you not?”

– “Let go!”

Her magic power gushed out, the cold air started to overflow, she turned her shaking hand around and opened it, then, without looking back, she started to stride forward.

When she saw the hundreds of enemies wearing a fierce armor, dripping with blood, she felt her heart tightening.

But even so, she was not willing to stay hidden behind the crowd, she was a Witch of the Holy City, if she were to finally die, she should die in the battlefield!

– “Step aside!”

At this moment, on the side of the battlefield a clear roar resounded, a person fell from the sky, as if a god had descended.

She stood up, and raised the huge sword on her back on one hand. Her red-brownish hair, fluttering like a flame, instantly ignited the hope in the heart of all the people.

– “The Holy Warriors of the Federation!”

– “She is… a Transcendent!”

Among the sound of people’s astonishment, light began to flow into the sword blade, soon, the body of the sword was shining golden like a dazzling new sun, sprinkling the earth with its glorified rays, even the red dark clouds dared not to undermine its glow, and those clouds reflected countless golden tassels.

As the light rose up to its climax, the witch leaped forward, waving her sword against the incoming Devil.

There was silence.

In that moment, time seemed to have stopped, as if being absorbed by all that bright incandescence, the opposite figured disappeared, like the darkness being wiped out by the break of dawn.

Same with the other Demons, the Lords of Hell, they all collapsed in this avalanche of light.

When she opened her eyes, the snowy ground had turned into scorched earth, and the sight of enemies vanished as if they never existed.

As the other Devils watched the scene, they started to retreat, more Holy Warriors arrived and joined in, chasing the fleeing enemy, breaking the encirclement.

– “You guys go now!”

The witch holding the sword said as she knelt down on one knee and gasped for air, as if she had exhausted all her strength.

– “Take advantage of now and hurry out of here!”

In response, some people in the crowd asked.

– “But… where do we go, My Lady?”

Yes, where do we go?

She bitterly thought, even the last Holy City was under attack by the Devil, tens of thousands of people had died, and after exhausting all methods, they could never recover from such a defeat.

The red-haired witch said with a firm tone.

– “Do not give up, we still have hope! Over the mountains and across the river, onto the wild lands.”

– “But… there are only a few uncivilized people living over there.”

– “We can recast the order, as long as we survive, this will be our victory!”

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– “Master, why didn’t you go together with them?”

She took a few people out of the crowd and hurried towards the west.

Apart from Kraft and the family bodyguards, the rest were basically non-fighters, they were her retinue of the tower and her servants.

– “I left some important documents and magic stones in the experimental building of the Concealing Forest, since they are important if we want to rebuild our old order, I need to bring them over to the other side of the mountains.”

Someone then yelled.

– “The Devils are coming!”

Kraft gave an order.

– “Hammer Stone, you go and block them.”

– “Yes!”

She gritted her teeth, lowering her head as she kept advancing. These mortals can only slow down the Devil, there is no way they can defeat such an opponent.

If this goes on, I’m afraid I’ll be the only one left.

But she had to leave them, and get to the destination as soon as possible.

Somehow, there were black and white patches in the sky… the sight was becoming blurry.

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She was panting following after Kraft, even if she was as strong as he, it had been three days since they started crossing rivers and mountains, making her feel weary.

She gazed behind, from the team of more than 30 people, only six remained left.

Some people fled halfway, but other were heavily injured and separated from the team on their own accord, if they were to suffer another attack by the Devil…

Kraft had totally seen through her thoughts as he said.

– “Rest assured, Master, I’m here. I will try my best to stall them.”

– “Why?”

Kraft was a little stunned by her question.

She was puzzled as she continued.

– “Why do you insist on helping me finish my mission? If you escape now, I’m sure you can somehow survive. I’m a witch, a higher existence, but you are just an ordinary person, under normal circumstances, you should not be thinking of accompanying me to die.”

– “But you have never been harsh on us, even though we have no magic, but it also is clear that protecting you is my duty.”

There was a commotion in the back, and everyone knew that the last stand had come.

– “Master, go now, and don’t look back.”

The black and white spots were getting more and more numerous.

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She stumbled into the basement, and started to tidy up the documents and magic stones over the table.

Kraft’s words made her feel a bit confused.

For a long time, it was common belief in the Holy City, that witches are people chosen by the gods, and those who have no power to manipulate magic are both ignorant and incompetent, and are nothing more than tool to cultivate their fields.

But in the family’s steward, she saw courage and tenacity, so it was not true that all the common people were incompetent. In fact, even if he didn’t have a witch to guard his side, he worked together with the rest of them, to at least give her a change to get inside this Stone Tower.

That being the case, why did the civilization completely collapsed more than 400 years ago?

The roar of the Devil suddenly resounded outside the door.

Damn, they came faster than expected.

Her vision was cloudy, and countless spots fluttered in the air in front of her, almost filling up her field of view.

She can’t die here, she must take her research results with her, since they are important if they were to rebuild their old order, she needs to bring them over to the other side of the mountains, into the savage lands!

She grabbed an Echo magic stone, and after injecting some magic into it, recorded a few words, asking for help.

The wooden door broke asunder with a loud noise, the Devil had broken in.

Hoping that someone would hear her plea for help and come rescue her, she started circulating magic power through her whole body, the sudden changes made a burst of cold frost pour out.

The Devil raised its spear, his arm suddenly swelled up. In the next moment, the sharp spear-shaped weapon flew in the air towards her.

She couldn’t help but to close her eyes, the black and white spots covered everything, after her sight turned to darkness, the sound also disappeared.

Her body no longer felt cold, as if wrapped in soft velvet, almost like if her body was no longer in that dark, cold basement, but instead lying over the warm grass, the pain of her body being pierced never came.

Did I die?

After a long time, the curtain of darkness started to rise, her sight started to get more and more bright, as she tried to open her eyes, what welcomed her was a hazy grey ceiling being reflected on her eyes.

She heard someone say:

– “Your Highness, she has awaken.”

 

 

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