148. The Roaring Fire p2
“You have no other choice!”
The Pope was like a lion.
Just then, Reina, sitting in her wheelchair, clearly felt Pesa’s hands trembling.
“I can’t accept this.”
“Before I set out, you’ve already started to kill the innocent. You’re a scoundrel.”
“I shouldn’t have trusted you, trusted humanity. According to your character, you would never give me the seed. You just want to take everything for yourself!”
The Dark Elf Mura didn’t even give the Pope time to prepare.
She bypassed Pesa in a single bound, her long brown hair whipping up in an instant.
Basically, the next instant, she was in front of the Pope.
Then…
“[Ice Burst]!”
However, before that.
Short Wind threw three daggers. Although they didn’t hit the nimble Mura, they still delayed her for 0.3 seconds.
Paris blocked her path, holding a light-attribute sword in a defensive stance. But Mura threw two ice crystals in an instant, and Paris, forced to protect her eyes, missed the opportunity and was knocked back by Mura.
One of her hands threw a few ice flowers, sealing the Pope’s retreat. Her other hand was ready, a dagger, already secretly gathering power, thrust towards the Pope’s heart!
More skilled than when she had assassinated Reina, this was almost Mura’s full strength.
But the moment she got close to the Pope…
“Clang—!”
The dagger stopped at the Pope’s neck, unable to advance further.
Her abdomen was pressed by the Pope’s aged hand, and a strong light erupted from his palm, like a small volcanic eruption in the next second.
“Ugh…”
A “hole” that one could see through appeared in Mura’s abdomen.
Her small body rolled on the rough ground. She wanted to get up and continue to counter-attack, but the waiting White Cone pierced her heart with his long sword, passing through her back and embedding into the ground.
“Splurt…”
Mura spat out a mouthful of blood, reached out her hand, but touched nothing.
Her eyes gradually dimmed, and finally, her body went completely limp, collapsing in a pool of blood.
“The consequence of resistance is death,” the Pope’s voice was like a knife piercing Mura’s throat.
Pesa released the wheelchair and squatted on the ground, retching.
The Pope just glanced at Pesa, as if he didn’t know what to explain, and could only sigh, turning to leave.
Paris looked deeply at Reina and Pesa, and also followed.
Short Wind’s face was pale. He rarely killed people, and seeing the cruel scene almost made him vomit.
White Cone shook his head and sighed.
“Sigh…”
Then he also followed the Pope and left.
For a moment, only Pesa and Reina were left in the entire space.
As the light source disappeared, Pesa’s retching sound also gradually faded.
She wanted to stand up and follow the Pope, but her legs went weak, and she knelt on the ground, gasping for breath.
She had witnessed everything.
The Pope’s cruelty, and the demons’ devotion to their companions.
And as a hero, she had done nothing.
“Ah, haa…”
“Ah…”
Reina summoned a sphere of light, dispelling the darkness.
Pesa, feeling the goddess beside her, finally opened her eyes wide, straightened her back, patted her face, and stood up again.
She walked tremblingly to Mura’s side.
And then, unable to control her inner despair, she knelt on the ground again.
“Goddess… Goddess…”
“I…”
“I pray to you…”
She clasped her hands together and lowered her head, praying devoutly.
But her trembling intensified.
“I…”
“I pray to you, save… her…”
“Why…”
“As a hero, I… I can’t do anything.”
“As a human… I want to save a… demon…”
“But…”
But what Pesa didn’t expect was that Reina actually came to her side.
The cross at the bottom of her eyes shimmered with a faint golden fluorescence in the dim environment.
“Go… Goddess?”
Hope was rekindled in Pesa’s eyes.
Reina squatted down and extended her hand towards the almost-dead Mura.
Hmm…
Indeed, almost dead.
With the current medical and magical or potions in this world, it was unlikely to save her.
Her heart was pierced, and her stomach was also opened.
What a pitiful person.
Reina’s hand began to emit an azure magic power.
The azure magic power, like a living mist, seeped into Mura’s wound.
Everything before her was beyond Pesa’s understanding. She was still praying, and had even closed her eyes.
“Splurt…”
“Gurgle…”
Suddenly, Mura twitched.
She miraculously came back to life, staring at Reina with eyes that had regained some of their color, in disbelief.
“If you want to live, don’t move. I know you have a lot to say.”
Reina tried her best to be gentle.
Mura seemed to have understood. She stopped struggling and let that power repair her body.
Her beautiful skin was stained with blood, and her dress was also filled with the pungent smell of blood.
Five minutes later, Mura finally opened her mouth, staring at Reina, wanting to say something, but could only let out a hoarse sound.
“You can’t eat hot tofu in a hurry.”
Reina touched the sword inserted in her heart.
Mura seemed to have understood something and calmed down again.
Then, Reina, with her hand enveloped in azure power, pulled out the sword with lightning speed.
“Splurt—”
Mura spat out another mouthful of blood.
Reina originally had a gentler way.
But in front of someone who had tried to kill her, it was indeed hard to be gentle.
So, she was a little rough.
After pulling out the sword, the azure magic power surged into the wound.
As time passed, about another five minutes, the wound miraculously healed!
“You’re quite capable. You attacked me last time, and this time you attacked the Pope.”
“You… goddess… why did you save me?” Although her voice was a little hoarse, her face pale, and her whole body weak, Mura still said.
“Be careful, or I’ll kill you again,” Reina said half-jokingly.
“Goddess… pant… thank you, Goddess.” Pesa breathed a sigh of relief. She could also see that Mura was no longer in mortal danger.
Reina secretly glanced at Pesa.
The healing was complete. Mura slowly got up from the ground and leaned against the wall.
As if even she herself was a little surprised that she hadn’t died.
Remembering her heart being pierced, she felt a chill…
She clutched her chest, and after confirming that her heart was still beating, she finally relaxed.
Her clothes were tattered, her black dress like a torn stocking, revealing her fair skin, her entire lower abdomen exposed to the air.
“Is it really okay not to go after them?”
Mura panted heavily.
“Wasting so much time on me?”
“I have no need to go after them.”
Reina shook her head.
Pesa was also a little strange, but she didn’t dare to speak. As long as Mura survived, she was already very relieved.
