Volume 3 Chapter 195

Volume 3 + Chapter 195: The Judgment Descends

The Knight Princess thrust the banner that symbolized her order into the ground, embedding it deep into the earth.

At the same time, she gripped a long spear in her hand. On her gauntlet, the engraving of the Holy Spear appeared, and she chanted softly.

“Holy Spear—release.”

Upon hearing the Knight Princess’s words, Xia Yi was extremely surprised.

The Knight Princess… could it be… she had achieved the liberation of the Holy Spear?

In the past, the Human Sword Saint, Wright Schubert, had once been hailed as the Sword Saint with the highest potential in history. Becoming the Human Sword Saint and receiving the recognition of the Holy Sword at an age younger than any Sword Saint before him, his potential was considered unparalleled, destined to accomplish great feats in the future.

However, at that time, Wright had not yet reached the ultimate domain of the Holy Sword Wielder—

The liberation of a legendary holy weapon.

Legendary holy weapons harbored countless secrets still unexplored.

For example, liberating a legendary holy weapon could grant it power far greater than in its normal state.

Once, in a past generation, a Holy Sword Wielder burned away their very life to its last ember in order to fully liberate the Holy Sword, thereby stopping the King of Storms from invading the human world.

Though part of that might have been due to the Holy Sword’s inherent suppression of the undead race, the fact that a Holy Sword Wielder, with the body of a human, could withstand the King of a higher race was proof enough of the Holy Sword’s overwhelming potential.

Wright Schubert had never fully mastered the domain of legendary holy weapon liberation before heading to the Dragon’s Domain to challenge the Silver Dragon Queen.

The Knight Princess, as a Holy Spear Wielder and a genius equal to Wright, had also not attained this realm at that time.

Xia Yi never imagined that after six years had passed, the Knight Princess had already mastered the liberation of the Holy Spear.

“Everyone, fall back behind me!!” the Knight Princess shouted loudly to everyone.

Her voice brimmed with a resolve to protect everything.

All the people immediately sprang into action, obeying the Knight Princess’s command and gathering behind her.

Golden radiance flowed along the Holy Spear, transforming its form. The light clung to the spear as if materialized, spreading outward. With the Holy Spear as its core, a more oppressive holy phantom emerged.

“That Holy Spear…?” Xia Yi was puzzled.

No, something was wrong.

This Holy Spear was not the same as what Xia Yi had seen recorded in the mythic histories within Laurel Tree.

That the Human King possessed both the Holy Sword and the Holy Spear was beyond question. These two legendary holy weapons of humanity had existed since the mythic era and persisted to this day.

The Holy Sword Gram that Xia Yi now wielded was the Holy Sword once held by the Human King.

But the Holy Spear the Knight Princess now held was not the same Holy Spear of the Human King—there was a discrepancy.

Why…

Was this the case?

This felt eerily similar to how the False Sword Saint wielded the Holy Sword Balmung.

Though still a sacred legendary holy weapon, it was not one that the Human King had once borne.

“Over there—that monster looks strange! It’s about to launch an attack!!”

At this moment, someone finally noticed the monster—the Flesh-Mountain Calamity Beast had become grotesquely distorted.

That hideous mountain of flesh, pieced together from countless horrors, now had scarlet light gleaming from the eyes of every monstrous head, as though it was storing power, reaching its absolute limit.

“ROOOAARRR!!”

The next second, the Flesh-Mountain Calamity Beast unleashed a dreadful aura through all those countless heads, firing it outward. Countless crimson beams intertwined, forming a terrifying crimson wave, its calamity aura compressed into a highly destructive force and released in a devastating surge, expanding in every direction.

Everything touched by the crimson light wave was utterly obliterated.

“Descend, holy judgment—Gae Bolg!!”

Once the liberation of the Holy Spear was complete, the Knight Princess hurled the Holy Spear forward. The massive spear of light pierced into the crimson wave of annihilation, colliding head-on.

BOOM!!!

Sacred gold and annihilating crimson devoured one another, triggering an enormous shockwave.

The Knight Princess swiftly seized the banner from the ground and raised it high.

Behind her, a massive protective barrier formed. Every shockwave infused with annihilating energy was single-handedly blocked by the Knight Princess. Not a single human behind her was harmed.

The howling winds blinded vision, and the cacophony of explosions filled the air without end.

Yet even so, everyone could still see that figure clad in golden armor—the Knight Princess—standing as their shield, protecting them all.

Before long, the clash between the Holy Spear and the Flesh-Mountain Calamity Beast reached its conclusion. The aura of annihilation was gradually overwhelmed by the sacred aura. After an exhausting struggle, the massive holy phantom of the Holy Spear finally dissipated.

But the Holy Spear named Gae Bolg did not stop. It tore through the crimson light wave and pierced the Flesh-Mountain Calamity Beast.

The Holy Spear ripped open a gaping hole in the Flesh-Mountain Calamity Beast’s body, striking at its core—the Witch Saphia.

“Impossible… How could I… be defeated by humans?”

Witch Saphia’s face twisted in shock. Half of her body had been obliterated by the Knight Princess’s strike.

As the core of the calamity beast, the witch suffered grievous injuries. The Flesh-Mountain Calamity Beast collapsed onto the ground and began to disintegrate.

They had won.

The Knight Princess had triumphed—she had defeated calamity!

“Ugh…”

The Knight Princess dropped to one knee.

“Lady Knight Princess, are you all right?!” someone nearby asked in concern.

It seemed the battle had taken quite a toll on her.

Fortunately, the calamity was defeated.

“…I’m fine. We need to deal with the calamity immediately.”

The Knight Princess shook her head slightly, then rose to her feet once more. She raised her hand to summon.

“Return to me, Holy Spear.”

The engraving of the Holy Spear flared with light, and the spear that had been hurled away was recalled into her grasp. Then, she walked toward the collapsing Flesh-Mountain Calamity Beast and planted the spear into the ground.

A massive Holy Spear Formation lit up, enveloping the Flesh-Mountain Calamity Beast like a sealing array forged by the Holy Spear itself.

“Holy Baptism!”

The Knight Princess poured vast amounts of holy power into the Holy Spear, spreading it throughout the sealing formation, suppressing the Flesh-Mountain Calamity Beast while beginning to purify it—focusing particularly on one part within.

“Witch, this is your end,” the Knight Princess said.

“Damnable humans—you dare defy the Great Will!!”

The remaining half of Witch Saphia’s body was vanishing bit by bit. Her gaze toward the Knight Princess burned with fury.

“You’re finished! Prepare to die!! Witch, this is your own doing!!”

“From the moment you betrayed humanity, this outcome was inevitable!!”

“This is the victory of our kind!!”

People shouted at the witch.

“All you can do now is let yourselves purge me away. But this cannot truly kill me. I have long transcended your inferior lives,” the witch’s voice dripped with venom, “A century from now, I will return to this world to exact vengeance upon humanity—to slaughter everything…!”

The Knight Princess did not bother to argue.

A being like this, one who had risen to become an Apostle of Calamity, was an extremely unique existence. Even if slain, it would one day revive after an exceedingly long time. Like calamity itself, it could not be completely eradicated.

Suddenly, the witch seemed to recall something and turned her gaze upon Xia Yi.

“Xia Yi, stop their purification. Take me away.”

“What did you say?”

Xia Yi frowned, utterly baffled by the witch’s words.

“You’re my kind. You should help me.”

“I am NOT your kind!”

“You’re not?” The witch sneered. “Do you mean to tell me… you consider yourself kin to those humans over there?”

Xia Yi felt a jolt of unease.

The witch’s words sounded as though she had seen through Xia Yi’s true identity.

Could it be… she sensed that Xia Yi had fought in her original dragon form against the trio of calamity beasts?

The little princess began to feel nervous, cold sweat forming in her palms.

“Do you really think humanity survived this just on their own strength?” The witch sneered. “Stop pretending, Xia Yi. You are nothing like the rest of them. The truth is—you are actually—”