Reincarnated as a Holy Nun, I Refuse to Lose! v3c42

Chapter 42: The Breaking Point

Half of the 12 bishops were already gone. Ailani looked at the communication magic, seeing the continuous disconnection statuses, and even she, along with the other two fighting the All-Knowing Witch, was confused.

“What’s going on? From Lika to Duo Mama, they’re all out of contact. They shouldn’t have any high-Order opponents…”

“What’s wrong? You seem a bit slow…”

The All-Knowing Witch felt the comfort she had been experiencing fade, her power returning. She looked at the three who were struggling to hold her back and her eyes turned cold.

“I don’t have a habit of playing with my food. Your lives will end in the next few minutes…”

Ailani, ignoring the disconnected bishops, looked at the cracking chains on the All-Knowing Witch and felt the pressure increase.

“Is she a monster?! Three First Orders and a reinforcement can’t even hold her!!”

Meredith, the Seat of Hope, looked at the All-Knowing Witch, who showed no signs of fatigue even after their relentless attacks. She felt a sense of despair, their attacks barely scratching her. Aesf, the Seat of Generosity, sighed.

“Are gods truly invincible…?”

[Unique Magic: Precognition]
[Domain Expansion: Omniscience]

The All-Knowing Witch clasped her hands, and the chains binding her shattered. A giant book appeared above them, so massive that even Meredith’s Pandora’s Box seemed tiny. The book’s shadow seemed to cover the entire world. The All-Knowing Witch smiled, her power now absolute.

“No one in this world can stop me now. I just need to get the Divine Key and open the gate to the divine realm…”

As the giant book flipped its pages, all the knowledge, problems, and solutions in the world appeared in the All-Knowing Witch’s mind. With her domain expanded, she knew the outcome of this battle.

[Unique Magic: Decipher]

“Now it’s time to end this boring farce…”

With a single spell, the seals on her body, created by the sacrifice of a First Order, turned into a string of text, the complex energy transformed into visible words. The All-Knowing Witch read them and, with a slight modification, the seals that had been troubling her were broken.

“Not good! Don’t let her break the seals!”

[Divine Art: Holy Spirit Altar]
[Domain Expansion: Different Plane of Light]

Ailani looked at the giant book, each page turn re-structuring the All-Knowing Witch’s knowledge, every three pages dispelling all magic. As Ailani’s domain expanded, the All-Knowing Witch broke three of the ten chains. As the seventh chain began to crack, Aesf also increased her power output.

“An ant trying to shake a tree, how presumptuous…”

A blade of light pierced the All-Knowing Witch, but Ailani’s expression didn’t relax.

[Unique Magic: Decipher]

The All-Knowing Witch didn’t even turn around. The light sword piercing her body, with a turn of the giant book’s page, dissolved into particles of light.

“Tsk, direct damage doesn’t work either?”

[Divine Art: Dice of Fate]

Seeing her attack fail, Ailani quickly retreated into the holy light. Meredith tried to debuff the witch again, but this time, she rolled three sixes. The All-Knowing Witch looked at Pandora’s Box, and the giant book flipped three pages, shattering the domain.

[Unique Magic: Decipher]

In the All-Knowing Witch’s domain, all divine arts were rendered useless, turned into problems that were solved by the third page turn of the book.

“Wh-What’s going on? Did she suddenly get stronger?”

Meredith looked at the dice above their heads, all shattering at the same time. She tried to cast another divine art, but with a single glance from the All-Knowing Witch, the giant book flipped three pages, and the spell was deciphered.

“Cough…”

Meredith felt a surge of heat in her throat, swallowing the blood that rose. She looked at the shattered Pandora’s Box. The feeling of her domain being forcibly dispelled was like having her blood flow stop and then reverse. Blood trickled from her lips. Aesf, seeing this, quickly sent her power to stabilize Meredith’s injuries.

“It seems we’re really going to die here…”

“Don’t think you can die so easily. You still have a report to write when you get back.”

Ailani stood before them, her holy armor glowing, but even she seemed powerless. The All-Knowing Witch looked at the three of them, as if they were already dead.

“You should be grateful you’ve lived this long…”

[Decipher]

The seven chains shattered. Ailani prepared to sacrifice herself to create an opening.

“I didn’t expect to use the move I had prepared for the Time Witch now…”

Ailani gathered her power, ready to seal the All-Knowing Witch in an endless void, but the witch, as if reading her mind, simply raised her hand.

“Put away your little tricks. The opportunity you create with your life will only be a moment’s pause for me…”

Ailani didn’t seem angry, knowing that this sealing divine art, a gift from the Goddess, was most effective against equals. Against a demigod, it might not even work, it might even seal her instead.

“It’s a desperate situation, I have nothing to lose…”

“You still want to use your skill on me? Then save it for me…”

[Unique Magic: Time Stop]
[Domain Expansion: Eternal World]

Just as Ailani was about to make her move, a familiar yet strange voice echoed behind her. Her vision blurred, and a familiar silver-haired figure appeared before her, standing between them.

“Lady Pure White…”

Meredith and Aesf were also stunned, speechless, until Meredith finally uttered the name that was taboo in the Church.

“The Pure White Saintess? A familiar yet strange name. The last time someone called me that was a hundred years ago…”

In the gray world, the white figure at the center was like a beacon of light. The All-Knowing Witch looked at the unexpected visitor, her expression unchanged.

“A First Order with authority? That’s useless…”

The All-Knowing Witch used her Decipher ability again, and the time-stopped space began to flow.

“What are you doing here?! We don’t need your help!!”

Ailani, seeing the Time Witch, was not happy, her disgust evident. The Time Witch looked at her. A memory surfaced, of a small, cute girl following her around, calling her “sister,” her image now overlapping with the armored Ailani.

“I came because I came. I don’t need your permission or denial…”

“Heh, to come and die with me? Even if you die here, it won’t erase the fact that you killed our teacher…”

“I’ll give you a chance for revenge, but you have to survive first…”

The Time Witch walked forward, and as the All-Knowing Witch’s book turned another page, the Time Stop was completely deciphered.

[Unique Magic: Decipher]

“Everything you have is meaningless before me…”

The All-Knowing Witch looked at the Time Witch, her entire life story written on the pages of the giant book.

“A tragic and regrettable life. From the highest Saintess to a fallen witch? A cruel joke from the Goddess’s script~”

“Say what you will, but now I’m going to beat you…”

The Time Witch felt the divine power within her surge. Ailani looked at her pure white witch’s robes, remembering the time when she was a Saintess, a powerful being who had single-handedly defeated the seven First Order witches of the Witch Kingdom, her pure white robes like moonlight.

[Domain Expansion: Pure White World]
[Domain Expansion: Eternal World]

The Time Witch expanded two domains at once, the two domains clashing, repelling each other, then merging. The All-Knowing Witch’s book turned another page.

“Are you planning to suffer the backlash of two domains…?”

“Who knows…?”