"Stop dreaming; there won’t be any rescue."
One of the priests shook his head mockingly.
"No, before we set out, the Archbishop secretly summoned us and said that regardless of success or failure, our safety is the most important. Don’t you rember?" Another priest argued.
But his companion obviously disagreed, pointing at the middle-aged man with hands clasped like a statue: "The instructor had already sent out a distress signal, but now we’ve reached the point where we have to use our lives to drive the Sunrise Holy Stele... Tell , even if rescue arrives now, what’s the point?"
"And Ah Ming and the others also..."
As he spoke, he couldn’t continue, clearly utterly breaking down from the death of teammates and the instructor.
Obviously, the other person had also fallen silent, unable to speak.
After all, what the other said was true.
If the Church Court had responded imdiately when the instructor sent the distress signal, the rescue should have arrived over ten days ago.
Their teammates and the instructor shouldn’t have sacrificed themselves for nothing like this.
But due to the lack of tily rescue, they ended up losing three lives.
As for the remaining two priests, if it weren’t for their instructor choosing to use himself as fuel, igniting the Holy Fla at the last mont, they would likely be dead too.
But even so, they are destined to die here.
Because the Holy Fla ignited by the instructor, although it possesses the full power of the Holy Fla, can’t burn eternally like the real Holy Fla.
Once this fla extinguishes, their livable space will rapidly shrink to less than three ters around the Sunrise Holy Stele.
Though miasma can’t invade this three-ter area, at such a distance, the demons outside are already able to easily attack them.
They are surely dood.
Just what disheartens them is that till now, the rescue team has not appeared.
"We’ve been abandoned."
One of the priests sat on the ground, speaking miserably.
Completely unable to understand why the Church Court would ignore their pleas for help.
His hollow gaze looked towards the miasma, thwarted by the strength of the Holy Fla, revealing a bitter smile.
It’s truly disheartening to just die like this.
Yet, at this mont, his eyebrows suddenly rose, his hollow eyes seeming to focus instantly.
"Did you... hear that?" He reached out and shook his companion urgently.
"Hear what? In this damned place, besides the wails of undead creatures, what else is there?" His companion replied dissatisfied.
"No, no, listen carefully!" He said excitedly, "It’s getting closer, I heard it! Soone’s using the Healing Technique!"
"What, you’re hearing things?" His companion doubted but started listening attentively.
Amidst the slightly eerie and horrifying roars, there ca a ’whoosh’ sound.
His pupils almost instantly contracted!
As a Healer, he was incredibly familiar with this sound.
When Holy Light descends, there’s always such a sound, and everyone using Holy Light Skills makes similar noises.
It’s related to individual casting techniques, intensity, and so forth.
So professionals familiar with a particular healer can even recognize their teammates by the ’sound’.
The sound now is clearly coming from at least a hundred ters away, though faint, capable of reaching such a distance, showing the caster’s strength!
"Is the rescue team here?"
"It must be! The Church Court hasn’t abandoned us!"
"Maybe sothing delayed them until now?"
"Absolutely!"
The two priests were sowhat excited, their previous despair instantly swept away.
Though still lanting their teammates and instructor’s sacrifices, the arrival of rescue proved the Church Court hadn’t given up on them.
And that was enough to prove their faith and efforts were worthwhile.
...
"Did soone die?"
Lin Ye noticed a corpse by the roadside, a female wearing the Church Court’s priest robe. Being eaten by Walking Dead and decayed beyond recognition, she seed to be around twenty-seven or eight.
"Forget it."
Lin Ye paused, shook his head, and walked forward.
The Holy Healing Technique can be used as a Resurrection Technique within Alternate Space and Secret Realms, as long as soone dies in these places, it provides a revival chance.
If Lin Ye wanted, he could revive her.
But Lin Ye had no interest in reviving soone likely to be an obstacle.
His goal here is to take the Church Court’s Holy Artifact, the Sunrise Holy Stele, so why revive Church Court personnel to hinder himself?
Lin Ye wouldn’t do sothing detrintal to himself.
"Right past the street ahead is where the Sunrise Holy Stele is located." Lin Ye looked toward the intersection.
In this town, the number of Walking Dead, undead, and poisonous creatures had reached an appalling level.
Upon entering the town, Lin Ye cast Holy Light Feather, harvesting attribute values equal to ten days of previous gains.
It was truly astonishing, showing the town’s terrifying number of demons.
Clearly, the Church Court’s dispatched team was very top-tier; otherwise, even with the Sunrise Holy Stele, they couldn’t have co this far.
From Lin Ye’s understanding, this team was definitely not mbers of the Twelve Noble Families, nor from wealthy high-ranking backgrounds.
The Church Court isn’t all useless; so have to work. Otherwise, it would’ve collapsed ages ago.
Each year, the Church Court selects elite recruits from common backgrounds, entering its ranks as the new force.
The Church Court’s top power is certainly in the Twelve Noble Families’ hands, but its backbone lies in these ordinary clergy.
In a past life, Lin Ye was one of them.
Now this dispatched team is pretty much confird to be recruited by the Church Court from civilians.
Only these people would be willing to take on such extrely dangerous, unbeneficial tasks.
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