Devil's Bible

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Al's combat strength is actually not that strong. The awakening of his elven bloodline only gave him a chance to catch up with his peers.

However, this did not allow him to accumulate the same level of experience as others in just six months.

Therefore, facing Phos, who is on the verge of being a match for the Ironborn, he has almost no chance of winning.

But the flying steel ball did not take Al's life.

It wasn't that Phos had any feelings for Al that led him to choose to hold back.

Instead, Al's other teammates arrived at that moment.

The slightly pulsating mental energy formed a protective barrier, blocking the steel balls.

“Isabella…” The first person Fas looked at was the one who attracted the most attention in the crowd, and that was Isabella.

At this moment, Isabella's mental fluctuations far exceeded the extreme value of the Black Stone type. It was clear that after a period of consolidation, Isabella had successfully advanced to the Steel type.

Furthermore, Isabella is not an ordinary person; she possesses a special bloodline.

When such a special individual successfully completes a life advancement, there is a very high probability that the bloodline within their body will be activated.

Not only can it gain special properties, but it can also achieve a leap in value.

Therefore, Isabella's current stats are not just in the teens of the Steel type, but have already surpassed the basic stage and reached the twenties.

Furthermore, it can be discovered that Isabella still has a lot of potential; perhaps a single meditation session could improve her stats.

A single insight gained during battle, a fluctuation of the spirit, can unlock potential and improve stats.

However, Phos's gaze then fell on another person—Gabriel.

"Where is my daughter?!" It wasn't Isabella who spoke first, but rather Lina, the priest from the investigation team.

She joined the investigation team because her daughter rebelled, ran away from home, and then joined the fictitious agreement.

However, despite various searches over this period of time, no trace of her daughter has been found.

Only the three of them entered the clock tower this time.

"Who knows?" Phos's eyes flickered slightly, but he didn't seem to care about any of this.

They then launched the first attack.

A large number of steel balls fluctuated, and then suddenly a shock wave was emitted.

It spread rapidly outwards from the center of Fass.

Some wooden furniture was instantly reduced to sawdust by the impact.

Other things were also twisted and destroyed in an instant.

"Not good!" Isabella immediately realized the problem and quickly mobilized her mental energy to cast a spell.

They wanted to use magic to stabilize the surrounding environment.

However, they were still a step too late.

The shock seemed to have triggered some kind of pre-existing mechanism.

The originally spacious interior of the tower began to collapse rapidly.

As a result of this collapse, other things inside the tower were also quickly torn apart or crushed.

The special space constructed using alchemy collapsed like dominoes, starting with the one that Phos pushed down.

"Get out of here quickly!" Upon realizing this, Isabella swiftly completed her spell.

A terrifying white flame surged forth, forming a pillar of fire that hurtled towards one side of the tower.

Instantly, a large hole was burned out.

However, the next moment, the large hole twisted and turned into an irregular gap.

The changes in space were too rapid, too fast for them to react. However, Isabella did not feel despair, but quickly looked to observe the reactions in the two locations.

The first one is naturally Phos.

Phos was definitely not someone who sought his own death. Since he did this, he must have had his own plans and a way to survive.

Sure enough, the next moment Phos made another move. He looked at the collapsing clock tower, then suddenly leaped up. The buoyancy formed by the steel balls lifted him up and flew to the center of the clock tower. His body then became blurry, as if separated by a layer of spatial fluctuations.

Meanwhile, another location was the breach created by Isabella's Holy Fire attack.

She sensed the fluctuations of magic through that twisted hole, which calmed her slightly.

Isabella had investigated the spatial issues of the clock tower from the beginning and was naturally aware of the potential dangers involved.

The reason she arrived a step later than Al was that she had made prior arrangements in case of unexpected changes in the clock tower space.

There are currently two ways to escape the clock tower: one is to follow Phos into the center of the clock tower, and the other is to make your own arrangements.

The next moment, Isabella made a decisive decision, activating her mental power and casting a divine spell.

Meanwhile, outside the clock tower, another priest, Hak, who had remained outside, quickly cast the discipline spells he had prepared beforehand.

Discipline spell - Limited Slow!
It can slow down anything that is exposed to the spell.

This sluggishness is not only reflected in speed.

For example, if this spell is applied to conditions such as poisoning or bleeding, the onset of the poison will be delayed.

The instant the spell was cast, Hak felt his spell being 'hijacked'.

Isabella learned spellcasting techniques from the old priest, including spell hijacking.

He then combined the hijacked discipline spells with his own divine spell, Divine Interference.

Also combined with this was the sealing technique that Isabella had mastered during this period.

A huge magic circle appeared between Isabella and Hack.

The power of divine intervention counteracts the distortion of space, and in conjunction with the slowing effect of Discipline spells, it slows down the changes in space by delaying the collapse of surrounding things.

At this moment, a passage appeared.

The passage was crooked and twisted, and there were many glowing things on it—characteristics of divine intervention and the confrontation of spatial forces.

This light essentially marks out the dangerous areas on the road.

"Get out of here!" Isabella calmly gave the order.

This combined spell is not specifically designed for space, and its duration will not be long.

Gabriel scooped up Lina in his arms, while Isabella used her mental power to propel herself rapidly toward the exit.

Al alone, however, still kept his gaze on Phos.

"You guys go first!" After shouting, Al suddenly jumped out and leaped towards the center of the clock tower.

Seeing this, Isabella couldn't help but feel a headache coming on.

This isn't the first or second time that Al has disobeyed orders and acted without authorization.

Isabella felt that this situation was entirely expected.

Isabella decisively abandoned Al and escaped the clock tower through the passage with Gabriel and Lina.

In the final moment before leaving, Isabella glanced at Al and Phos, both of whom disappeared as the spatial changes progressed.

Meanwhile, on the outskirts of Baiwei Town.

Two figures appeared as the space shifted.

(End of this chapter)