The Threatened Saint

Looking at the purple witch still standing on the high platform, the civilians on the scene no longer had their initial ease.

The Church’s knights could not give them the slightest sense of security.

Their legs trembled non-stop.

As they trembled, they retreated, afraid that any large movement would anger the purple witch on the stage.

“Alright, let’s return to our original topic. Since the Holy Maiden would rather die than submit, what about this?”

After a small interlude, Su Ran could only resort to a more aggressive method to complete the mission.

If he really dragged this out and a few more knights popped out from who knows where, Su Ran didn’t have a second sum of money to continue maintaining his Sequence Six power.

From Yuffie’s perspective, before the purple witch in front of her could put away her flintlock, a fair, lotus-root-like arm extended from the mist and snapped its fingers.

Above every still-unconscious knight below the high platform, a spear of ice emitting white smoke hovered in the air.

In an instant, the temperature in the square also dropped somewhat with the appearance of the ice spears.

“The Holy Maiden does not fear death. I imagine these knights who follow you should have the same resolve as Your Highness the Holy Maiden.”

This blatant threat from the purple witch made Yuffie’s eyes widen with fury.

She could disregard her own life and death, but she could not arbitrarily decide the fate of the knights.

Each ice spear that appeared out of thin air emitted a white mist near the knights’ throats.

With just a command from the witch, all the knights would be pierced through, and the ground would be washed with blood.

“Lady… Holy… Maiden, do not yield to the witch!”

Kold, enduring the torrential rush of the purple witch’s massive magic essence, spoke with difficulty, word by word.

Facing the witch, Kold still maintained his posture of kneeling on one knee, his eyes revealing a resolute will.

However, as he spoke, the ice spear at his throat moved a little closer.

Su Ran used his practical actions to signal him to shut up immediately.

Looking at Kold, Yuffie suddenly realized that the witch before her held the life and death of everyone on the scene in her hands.

If she wished, even Laita City could be turned into ruins in an instant.

Not only the knights who remained on the scene, but even the civilians who had fled, had all become the purple witch’s hostages.

“Witch, if you have the guts, come at me!”

At this thought, Yuffie, who had been sitting paralyzed on the ground, found strength from somewhere, shot up from the ground, and lunged towards Su Ran.

However, she could not grasp the witch’s physical body and could only pass through the purple light.

Her pure white nun’s habit was stained with dust from her tumble, and her brilliant golden hair also became dull.

Yuffie had made herself look utterly wretched in front of the purple witch.

“I will count to ten. If you do not release the chains, then the knights on the scene will all lose their lives because of your decision.”

Ignoring Yuffie’s murderous gaze, Su Ran controlled the ice spears to lower slightly.

The ice spear on Kold’s body had already pierced the skin of his throat.

To be honest, Su Ran did not want to kill these people who had no power to resist.

He believed he had already given Yuffie enough time to think.

But if the other party remained stubborn, then Su Ran would have no choice but to pay another five thousand yuan, devour the Holy Stone chains on her, and forcibly take the witch away.

“Ten, nine…”

In Yuffie’s ears, the originally ethereal and pleasant voice had now become a life-reaping note, reminding her that the knights’ lives were in her hands.

“You are not a witch, you are a devil!”

“Six, five…”

Turning a deaf ear to Yuffie’s curses, Su Ran continued to count down the time on his own.

‘Cursing? Sorry, cursing counts as time too!’

As his countdown ended, the condensed ice spears also drew closer and closer to the knights.

The faith she had always maintained and the lives of the knights waged a fierce battle in Yuffie’s heart.

“No! I beg you!”

“Four, three…”

Even though tears shimmered in Yuffie’s eyes, Su Ran remained iron-hearted.

Because he still hadn’t heard the reply he wanted.

What he wanted to hear most was not the helpless plea of a Holy Maiden.

At the last moment, the scales in Yuffie’s heart finally tilted towards the lives of the knights.

Yuffie let go of her dignity as a Holy Maiden.

Looking at the purple witch before her, her heart filled with a despair that was beyond words, she said with difficulty, “I promise you, I will release the witch!”

After speaking, Yuffie seemed to have lost all her strength.

“Lady Holy Maiden, you can’t!”

Su Ran waved his hand, and the ice spears in the sky instantly dissipated into nothingness.

It was as if nothing had ever happened.

Only the lowered temperature in the air still reminded Yuffie that she had just been coerced.

He casually sealed the mouth of the noisiest knight with magic essence, saving him the trouble of continuing to shout.

Possessing overwhelming power, even the Holy Stone magic array could not affect her.

Yuffie had no way to deal with the purple witch.

She saw Kold’s voice disappear and looked nervously in his direction, afraid the witch would go back on her word and kill him.

When she saw that he was still alive and well, Yuffie also breathed a sigh of relief.

“Hurry up. You don’t want these knights to lose their lives, do you?”

Hearing the witch’s threat from behind, Yuffie’s heart was filled with the bitter taste of being forced.

But to protect these knights, she could only let the captured witch go.

If time could turn back to that night, Yuffie might have reminded herself to quickly take the witch back to the Holy City, instead of trying to lure more witches here.

After Yuffie recited the incantation, the Holy Stone chains binding the witch’s body quietly loosened their restrictions.

Su Ran directly got up and picked up the witch, who had already fallen into a coma.

[Mission Complete. Reward: One bottle of Witch’s Restoration Potion!]

Hearing the familiar system notification, Su Ran’s heart grew fervent.

This bottle of witch’s potion, according to the system’s prompt, could solve a part of his superhuman talent problem, which meant giving him the possibility of cultivating again.

Ever since he learned that he had no superhuman talent, it would be a lie to say Su Ran didn’t feel regret.

To be reborn, and in a world of superhumans at that, only to find himself unable to set foot on that path… it would be a considerable blow to anyone.

Now, there was a light at the end of the tunnel.

The system had given him this possibility again.

Even Su Ran couldn’t help but feel excited.

Suppressing the urge to drink the potion immediately, Su Ran still needed to perform the final cleanup.

He carried the unconscious witch and Isa, who was watching him from the side, and flew together towards Noda Forest.

Even though Isa had not appeared during this attack, due to the appearance of the witch, Laita City would remain under martial law for a period of time.

This clearly ruined Isa’s original plans.

Moreover, she couldn’t run around with an unconscious witch.

For now, they could only temporarily return to the house in Noda Forest and stay there for a while.