Being Tricked

The air entering her lungs rapidly decreased.

Shadow’s face turned red from lack of oxygen.

Faced with Yuffie’s tightening Holy Stone chains, she still did not yield with her words, speaking with difficulty, “Never… thought, the Lady… Holy Maiden… also likes to use this method of interrogation?”

“This is not interrogation. I just hope you can recognize the current situation. You are now a prisoner and have no right to choose here.”

As Yuffie spoke, she tightened the chains a bit more.

If it weren’t for the thought of bringing a living witch back to the Church, Yuffie might have already tightened the Holy Stone chains again, not giving Shadow a chance to breathe.

“Tell me your purpose. Why are you so fixated on the soul vessel?”

Yuffie only knew the origin of the so-called soul vessel through the Pope’s oral account.

The soul vessel the Church was currently escorting was one that had been successfully found by reading through a large number of hidden fragments in the scriptures and combining these records.

Judging from the reaction of the Church’s high-level officials, the soul vessel currently being escorted might even be the only one.

Otherwise, they would not have proposed the plan of using witches as a substitute.

‘Then why would the witch before me also set her sights on the soul vessel?’

‘And where did the missing soul vessel go?’

All sorts of questions troubled Yuffie, leaving her without answers.

She felt as if she were trapped in a vortex, unable to break free.

“These questions…”

Due to the tightening of the chains, Shadow’s voice became weaker and weaker.

Even the latter part of her words, Yuffie could not hear clearly what she was saying.

For this reason, Yuffie moved a few steps closer to Shadow, trying to hear what she was about to say.

“How could I possibly tell you!”

The Shadow, originally bound by the Holy Stone chains, instantly exploded outwards.

The Holy Stone chains used to bind her body could not stop the black shadows at all.

These shadows split into two parts.

One part rushed towards Yuffie, while the other part’s target was precisely the box containing the soul vessel in Yuffie’s hand.

Due to her lack of understanding of shadows, Yuffie did not dare to be arrogant.

She casually generated a magic essence barrier in front of her to block the shadow’s attack.

However, the box she was holding was not so lucky.

Shadow’s initial target was the box containing the soul vessel.

Seeing the target, it was naturally impossible for her to let it go easily.

Almost all her attention was focused on the box.

The separated shadow attack forced Yuffie to make a choice between two options.

Did she want to protect her own hand, or did she want to protect the box in her hand?

In the end, Yuffie’s choice was the same as Shadow had thought: to protect her own hand, and thus lose the box containing the soul vessel.

After getting the box containing the soul vessel, the shadow immediately escaped into the shadows and never appeared again.

“Thank you, Holy Maiden, for being so generous as to take out the soul vessel. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to get it so easily.”

After getting her hands on the soul vessel, Shadow’s speech became significantly more relaxed, and a smile of a successful scheme appeared on her face again.

With her cautious personality, how could she really enter the Church alone?

What appeared before Yuffie now was just a clone.

After getting the soul vessel, Shadow controlled a part of the clone to take the box and immediately set off to return to her main body’s location.

“Why! Why could you still control your witch abilities under the control of the Holy Stone chains?”

After retreating to a safe position, Yuffie couldn’t help but be surprised by Shadow’s actions just now.

One had to know that the purple witch had only made the chains made of Holy Stone disappear and had not dared to come into contact with the chains herself.

Even though the Holy Stone magic array this time did not have the support of the knights and was controlled by Yuffie alone, why did the effect of the Holy Stone factor fail on Shadow?

Yuffie had never encountered a witch who could freely use her abilities while under the control of the Holy Stone factor.

“Guess?”

Shadow didn’t even turn her head.

The clone directly drilled into the shadows and left.

The incredulous Yuffie was left alone, watching the witch who had disappeared without a trace.

She realized that this matter absolutely could not be revealed.

If it were to be revealed, it would mean that the Holy Stone might not be able to restrain witches.

This would shake the foundation of the Church and make the surrounding countries doubt the Church’s scriptures.

Before the matter was thoroughly investigated, Yuffie could only report this matter to the Church’s high-level officials after returning and let them decide.

This contact with the witch was not entirely without gain for Yuffie.

At least, the other party’s source of information was probably not from within the Church.

Otherwise, the other party would not have been targeting the box containing the soul vessel all along.

It was clear that the shadow witch did not know the news that the soul vessel was already missing.

Too many things had happened in the past two days, making Yuffie feel that her brain was a bit insufficient.

However, since the shadow witch had already left, she probably wouldn’t come a second time.

Even if she came a second time, with everyone in the Church having gone to the city wall and no soul vessel, it would be a trip for nothing.

At this moment, the aura of a Sequence Four magical beast had already appeared outside the city.

Yuffie now had more important things to deal with.

The entire Laita City was left with only her, a Sequence Five, to resist the attack of the Sequence Four magical beasts.

She couldn’t stay hidden forever.

This city needed her, the Holy Maiden, to stabilize the fluctuating hearts of the people, to let the citizens know that the Church was always with them.

Now was also the best time to restore the Church’s reputation.

In an empty house in Laita City, Shadow stood by the window with her back to the moonlight.

In a short while, a beautifully packaged box rose from the ground.

Shadow eagerly bent down to open the box, wanting to see what a real soul vessel looked like.

The opened box was empty inside, with no item placed within.

The scene was already telling her that what she had painstakingly snatched back was just an empty box.

Shadow’s face was terrifyingly gloomy.

It had always been her who played others, and no one could play her.

And Yuffie was the first.

No wonder the other party wasn’t anxious at all when the box was snatched.

It was obvious that she was well-prepared, knowing that what she was snatching was just an empty box.

With a thought from Shadow, the clone left outside the city directly controlled the Sequence Four magical beasts to advance towards Laita City.

Since Her Highness the Holy Maiden was unwilling to hand over the soul vessel, then Shadow planned to directly raze the entire Laita City.

At that time, she could slowly search for the soul vessel in the ruins of Laita City.

Even without a Sequence Five magical beast to deal with the Holy Maiden, Shadow still had full confidence in razing Laita City.

The pills she had fed these magical beasts were not for nothing.

They would naturally have their intended effect at the right time.

And now, she would first let these man-made Sequence Four magical beasts collect some interest for her.

Shadow wanted to let Her Highness the Holy Maiden understand that some people were not so easy to trifle with.