The Weak Defeat the Strong

At this very moment, in the sky above Laita City, a purple mist lingered over everyone’s heads.

The pressure of a Sequence Six surged like a tide, like a great mountain pressing down on the hearts of everyone present.

The Church knights subconsciously drove their magic essence.

They could still use their willpower to delay the speed at which they knelt.

As for the civilians who had initially fled in panic, after feeling the aura emanating from the ball of light, they couldn’t stop their trembling legs and collapsed to the ground, unable to move.

With faces full of terror, they looked at the light above their heads.

They couldn’t understand why they would encounter such a thing when they were just here to watch the excitement.

Looking at the Church knights who were basically using all their strength to resist his pressure…

Su Ran had to admit, this money was well spent.

The only fly in the ointment for him was that the use of Sequence Six power this time was temporary.

To truly become a Sequence Six, he would need to spend two million in the Witch Game.

For the current Su Ran, this was an astronomical figure.

However, he was not disheartened.

Once he completed the fourth mission and obtained the witch’s potion, according to the system’s prompt, he too would gain a superhuman talent.

One day, through his own cultivation, he would also be able to possess such power.

Su Ran silently gave himself a pep talk, then turned his attention back to the trial scene.

The girl hanging on the cross with her eyes closed and head bowed was the witch to be rescued this time.

She was bound by a large number of chains, and the aura coming from them was very familiar to Su Ran; he had seen it when he was healing Isa.

The chains made of Holy Stone were constantly disrupting the balance of magic essence in the witch’s body, making it impossible for her to mobilize a single bit of magic essence or use her abilities.

Near the witch, the knights who were originally guarding her had all been intimidated by his pressure.

The only one on the scene who still remained standing was a golden-haired girl dressed in a white robe with gold trim, her eyes blindfolded.

[Yuffie, Sequence Five Bishop]

For someone to still be standing under his pressure, the cautious Su Ran checked her information.

Seeing that she was only Sequence Five, a whole rank apart, he breathed a sigh of relief.

“Give me the witch behind you.”

As he spoke, the aura emanating from Su Ran intensified.

The nearby knights felt their bodies lighten, because he had locked the target of his aura onto the Sequence Five Yuffie.

‘Her Witch Highness is so strong!’

Isa, watching Her Highness Su Ran from a rooftop in the distance, had hazy eyes, almost drunk with admiration.

She saw Her Highness, all alone, walking calmly in the sky as if on level ground.

She didn’t even lift a hand, yet the knights on the scene bent at the waist like wheat in the wind, prostrating themselves on the ground.

‘Her Highness Su Ran is the very definition of power and elegance!’

The golden-haired girl on the high platform, who had originally been able to stand straight, was now swaying.

Her lips were tightly sealed as if she were enduring immense pressure.

At this moment, she was like a small boat in a vast, stormy sea, in danger of capsizing at any moment.

Standing from a distance, Isa had no chance to know the golden-haired girl’s Sequence.

But from her white robe, which was more magnificent than any clothes she had ever seen, this golden-haired girl’s status in the Church was higher than these knights.

‘Such a high status, then she must have the strength of at least Sequence Four or above.’

No one knew what kind of pressure Yuffie was enduring at this moment.

Under Su Ran’s deliberate control, the Sequence Six aura assaulted her directly, with the purpose of shattering the faith of the knights present.

From the knights’ eyes, one could see they cast looks of reverence towards this golden-haired girl, as if she were the backbone that held them up.

What Su Ran had to do now was to bend this backbone, to extinguish the last hope of the Church.

Only by doing this would they obediently listen to him.

However, things did not go as planned.

Yuffie, pressed down by Su Ran’s aura, did not fall.

A corner of her lips revealed a smile.

The golden-haired girl with her eyes covered by a blindfold spoke with some difficulty, “Witch, we went to all this trouble just to make you show yourself. Did you think we didn’t know your strength?”

After learning of Uriel’s death, Yuffie had estimated the opponent’s strength as high as possible.

Yuffie crushed the magic essence crystal hidden in her hand.

With the shattering of the crystal, complex and profound patterns appeared on the ground of the square, gradually connecting to form a magic array that emitted a dazzling light.

Faced with this sudden change, Su Ran certainly would not choose to sit and wait for death.

A flintlock made of translucent crystal instantly appeared in his hand, and he continuously pulled the trigger at the ground where the magic array was nearby.

Flowing away along with the magic essence in his body was the money in his account.

The grocery money Eve had saved for him was not much, but it was enough for Su Ran to cover the cost of the magic essence bullets.
Several bullets flew out.

Like typhoons, they continuously drew in the surrounding free magic essence.

As the magic essence pull grew stronger, the bullets also continuously expanded into the shape of blades during their flight.

Six wind blades formed in the air, cutting through the air and producing a sharp sonic boom.

Isa, in the distance, unconsciously covered her ears.

The space they passed through became distorted, and even a lingering, scorching heat remained.

The civilians in the square were not harmed, because they had already crawled and rolled away from the scene while Su Ran had focused his pressure on Yuffie.

After the magic array was activated, it locked everything that happened inside, so there was no collapse of buildings.

When the wind blades carrying immense magic essence came into contact with the activated magic array, it was like a stone thrown into the water’s surface.

It only splashed up a small ripple, and then disappeared without a trace.

The disappearance of the wind blades confirmed Su Ran’s guess.

He had detected the aura of Holy Stone on the magic array.

This Holy Stone, which could disrupt magic essence and nullify a witch’s abilities, making the wind blades disappear was not strange.

On Yuffie’s side, however, when she personally witnessed the disappearance of the wind blades, her heart was greatly settled.

Because this also meant she had a chance to capture the witch before her.

Sending a Sequence Six witch to the Holy City would also speed up the Church’s plan considerably.

It had taken the entire ten-year inventory of Laita City and the high-quality Holy Stones she carried on her person to set up this magic array.

Neutralizing magic essence attacks was just a side effect of this array.

Its true purpose was only now being revealed.

Apart from Yuffie, the remaining knights were now standing in their corresponding positions in the magic array.

The pressure that had suppressed them vanished into thin air the moment the array was activated, allowing them to regain the ability to move.

The knights might not be a match for a Sequence Six witch, but the locations they were currently standing on all had Holy Stones buried underneath.

This was the winning weapon that Yuffie relied on to defeat a stronger opponent.