The Evil God Summoned by the Saintess

Boom!

The blast wave sent Leica flying.

He clutched his aching chest, stunned by the scene before him.

He saw the Holy Maiden Squad, who had been apprehending ordinary heretics, now somehow formed up in formation, blocking the Tier Four heretic.

If he remembered right, that Ice Ball had come from their direction.

Could it be?

Leica was struck by a terrifying thought—

They can fight against a Tier Four?

And not just him, all the other students, except the four unfortunates, were frozen in shock too.

Leica hadn’t seen it, but they saw it as clear as day.

That Ice Ball was cast by the Mage League MVP, Hilia.

They hadn’t watched the Holy Maiden Squad’s matches live, didn’t know how things really were, and just from recorded projections, they could never feel just how strong these girls were.

Now, a single spell pushed back a Tier Four Mage. The terrifying energy flooding from that spell had them all deeply shaken.

"Is the gap between Tier Three and Tier Three really this huge?"

A student muttered under his breath.

At this point, the Tier Two and Three Mages had mostly been taken care of; only the ordinary heretics who’d been forcibly turned into Tier One Mages remained.

They weren’t afraid to deal with Tier One heretics, so all their attention was now on Hilia’s group.

Right now, Hilia and the others were already blocking the Tier Four Mage, formation set.

Benovia was holding a phantom image of the Alternate Space Warhammer Cannon in her hands.

She let out a low shout, unleashing a torrent of Ice Rain charged with the Fire of the Singularity from the Alternate Space Warhammer Cannon, which shot rapidly at the Tier Four heretic.

The Tier Four heretic raised his hand, Demonic Qi forming a round shield before him, blocking the Ice Rain’s assault.

He gave a weird grin. "You think a bunch of Tier Three Mages, with just numbers, can make up the gap to Tier Four? Dream—"

He didn’t get to finish his sentence; his face suddenly changed.

Ice Rain after ice rain crashed into the shield, filling the air with crisp explosions.

A single drop of Ice Rain only made a shallow scar on the shield.

But this Combination Skill’s Ice Rain was amplified by the Alternate Space Warhammer Cannon, countless in number—dozens, into the hundreds, hammered the shield each second.

Less than two seconds in, the shield that the Tier Four heretic thought could easily tank the combo cracked wide open.

The next moment—

Bang!

The Tier Four heretic’s face changed, and he immediately darted to the side.

Huge amounts of Ice Rain flooded his previous position, shooting towards the stone house behind.

Boom, boom, boom!

The entire stone house quickly crumbled apart.

Benovia locked onto the Tier Four heretic and peppered him with Ice Rain Bullets, destroying everything in their path—buildings, heretics, the ground itself—even...

Stone pillars!

Hilia frowned. "The Tier Four Mage is too fast—if he keeps dodging, we can’t lock on at all. Can’t waste Magic Power like this."

She strode forward. "Benovia, give me the Warhammer Cannon."

Benovia hesitated but passed the Warhammer Cannon to Hilia.

Hilia narrowed her eyes, Mage’s Hand unraveling into countless filaments, linking each Ice Rain from the Warhammer Cannon to her and guiding their trajectories.

If any Ice Rain exploded, the filaments would retract and reconnect to guide more Ice Rain.

Hilia aimed the muzzle at the Tier Four heretic, who was circling around, and called out coldly, "A Tier Four coward who doesn’t dare face a Tier Three head-on? Go die!"

The Tier Four heretic twisted his lips in another weird grin, still dodging in an S-pattern.

But in just a second, his face changed drastically.

The Ice Rain, which had previously only gone straight, suddenly shifted as they brushed past him, curving sharply and slamming full-force into his body, detonating on impact.

This explosion wasn’t just one Ice Rain.

The first drop to hit set off a blast, and the tightly-packed barrage immediately curved and smashed into him, bombarding him over and over—a cluster of marbles raining onto a concrete floor, all at once.

He had barely enough time to condense a Demonic Qi shield across his skin.

That shield lasted just a second before being shattered, the rest of the explosions blasting straight into his flesh.

"Now’s our chance!"

Hilia locked on, and the Ice Rain Ball she’d been preparing flew out, slamming into the heretic.

Boom!

Ice and fire exploded, churning the haze into a swirling blanket that shrouded everything around him.

The area fell silent.

All the students watching felt their nerves twist.

That powerful Tier Four heretic, did the Holy Maiden Squad just... wipe him out that easily?

No!

It wasn’t over!

Within that thick mist, terrifying Magic Power and corruption erupted forth.

All the fog was blown away, revealing the Tier Four heretic, half his body blasted to pieces.

The red in his eyes blazed. He stared at Hilia coldly as corruption pooled over his wounds, knitting his body back together.

"You think you can kill a Tier Four Mage with just that? Naïve!"

The next instant, he charged in like lightning.

With an earth-shattering force!

Feeling the overwhelming pressure, all the students nearby panicked.

A Tier Four Mage... just too terrifying.

Power like this—no Tier Three could possibly withstand.

The Holy Maiden Squad... they’re going to get wiped out...

Even Alina, who was pinned down, tensed up.

She had just relaxed, seeing Hilia and the others pressuring a Tier Four, settling in to wrestle her own Tier Four heretic opponent—who’d have guessed things would take another turn so quickly?

Why is this heretic so damn hard to kill?! Alina screamed inwardly.

Her focus snapped back to what was happening below.

When the second Tier Four heretic showed up, she hadn’t hesitated to crush the Help Emblem.

But getting reinforcements would still take time.

All she could hope for was that Hilia’s group could hold the heretic off for three more minutes.

Just three minutes, and the nearest Tier Four Law Enforcement Knight would arrive for backup.

As for actually defeating him?

She no longer dared to hope for that.

While everyone else was swept up in panic, facing down the phase-two Tier Four heretic, Hilia showed not the slightest sign of fear.

The other Holy Maidens were the same.

Hilia gripped the Alternate Space Warhammer Cannon, staring at the charging heretic, a smirk lifting the corner of her lips.

Heh, just in time.

The final move of this Combination Skill—they’d never used it before.

Let’s see you be the first to take the Alternate Space Warhammer Cannon’s hammer-form ultimate strike!

Hilia locked eyes with him, stopped firing Ice Rain, and lifted the hammer high in both hands.

"Super invincible—"

"I love you!"

The massive hammer came crashing down, loaded with every bit of magic power from the Holy Maiden Squad, smashing full force into the charging Tier Four heretic.

Thud!

The sound of hammer meeting skull.

That Tier Four heretic stood there dumbfounded, making no move to dodge—like he’d deliberately stuck his head under the hammer. He took the full brunt of the blow and was slammed into the ground.

"Again!"

Thud!

"Again!"

Thud!

"Last time..."

Hilia sucked in a breath. On the Alternate Space Warhammer Cannon, Rose’s special Purification Skill flared—this Purification wasn’t seeping into the environment, but all focused, compressed into the Warhammer Cannon itself.

"Confess to God!"

BOOM!