I, the Holy Maiden of Light, tear apart the Outer Gods.

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"No, let's go to the Church of Light in the fortress and ask first. We really can't believe those crazy rumors." The woman in white sighed, and soon arrived at the Church of Light.

To her surprise, she hadn't seen a single person after wandering around the church for half a day.

Just as the woman was wondering if the Church of Light had been demolished and moved, a nun finally came into view.

"Miss, is there anything I can help you with?" The nun looked the woman up and down with curiosity. After being stunned by the woman's stunning beauty for a moment, she quickly said, "The priest and the others have gone to the front lines to provide support. If you need anything, you can wait here for a moment. They will help you when they return."

The woman waved her hand. "No, I'm not looking for your priest. I just wanted to ask, did you erect that... Tomb of the Holy Maiden of Light at the city gate?"

The nun blinked. "Oh, right."

The woman froze, her eyes instantly reddening, her voice trembling slightly, "Then...then...my daughter...Saintess Ange really..."

Before the woman could finish speaking, the nun smiled gently, "Ah, that was a misunderstanding. We also thought Saintess Ange had an accident, but actually, the Saintess is perfectly fine. Oh, the Saintess is currently helping out at the front lines."

"...ha?"

The woman froze again, forcing back the tears that had just flowed.

My daughter died, and then came back to life?

"Is Saintess Ange on the front lines?"

"right."

"...Okay, I'll go take a look."

The woman took a deep breath, ignoring the nun's questioning gaze behind her, and turned to leave quickly.

If you think about it, it's been over ten years since I last saw my daughter...

Ange will definitely forget about me...

I... I'm probably not a good mother...

Castael sighed softly, stepped out of the church, and was greeted by sunlight that shone on her long golden hair.

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Roar roar roar————

A deafening roar erupted from the herd of beasts, followed by countless angry howls that rose and fell, transforming into a visible wave of sound that crashed heavily against the city walls of the border fortress.

The roar was like a spark that instantly ignited the powder keg of war, and the beasts roared as they charged toward the city walls.

Snow beasts are magical creatures, always surrounded by a ring of drifting snowflakes. If there's only one, from a distance it looks like a fairy dancing in the snow.

But as tens of thousands of beasts charged in, the ice crystals and snowflakes around them began to gather, eventually turning into a blizzard that blotted out the sky and swept towards the fortress as they charged.

The archers expertly drew back their bowstrings, and the magicians raised their wands high.

In that instant, a hail of arrows mixed with all sorts of magic rained down on the beast horde.

Ange witnessed an arrow pierce the snow beast's eye, instantly burning its brain to ashes along with the curse on the arrow. The beast's body had barely fallen when it was trampled into dust by the following pack of beasts.

The priest had clearly witnessed such a scene before, and the horrific sight before him did not stir any emotion in him.

However, he still looked at Ange with a worried gaze, "Your Majesty, perhaps you should go down?"

He was somewhat worried that the saintess, who had been pampered in the capital since childhood, might not be able to bear the sight before her.

Ange gently shook her head, but before she could say anything, Noah suddenly took over the conversation.

He smiled at the priest, "Your saintess is much stronger than you think. Instead of worrying about Ange, you should take good care of yourselves. If you get hurt, that would be the real thing that would upset Ange."

The priest was taken aback.

Ange also looked at Noah with surprise.

She had barely met this prince, so how could he know her so well?

For the first time, doubt arose in Anjie's heart.

Noah didn't offer any explanation, but instead drew his longsword from his waist and turned to walk towards his own camp.

His command is still needed at the front.

Chapter 10, Section 113: Follow me to behead them!

Ange smiled slightly at the priest, "Don't worry about me. After all, you are a priest stationed at the border, and you know the situation on the battlefield much better than I do. So your role here is much more important than mine as a saint."

"What are you saying! Your Excellency, are you...?"

"Alright. Go ahead, they've been waiting for you for a long time."

Ange pointed to the church believers who were already stationed on the city wall.

The priest hesitated for a moment, but finally succumbed to Ange's urging gaze.

At this moment, the snow beasts below launched a second attack.

The human soldiers' offensive did not frighten the snow beasts; on the contrary, it further fueled their fighting spirit.

Two snow beasts, whose size was clearly different from the others, rushed out of the beast tide. To the other snow beasts, the fist of these two mutated snow beasts was equivalent to that of a normal adult snow beast.

Its towering body stands a full thirty meters tall, and the snow and wind it carries are several times more turbulent than those of a normal snow beast.

"Roar--"

The two mutated snow beasts roared and rammed into the heavy city gate.

With a loud bang, the city gate was smashed open, leaving a gap.

Ange clearly saw the two elemental giants blocking the city gate take two steps back, and the powerful force plowed two furrows into the ground beneath their feet.

The chanting of the Church of Nature grew louder and louder, and the elemental giant burst forth with dazzling elemental light. He pressed his palms against the city gate, forcefully closing the gate that had been smashed open.

During this time, the soldiers' attacks rained down on the two mutated snow beasts, but to them they were like mosquito bites, having no effect whatsoever.

The sharp arrows didn't even pierce the opponent's fur, which seemed to be coated with palm oil, making it shiny and smooth. The arrows were deflected and fell to the ground without even a point of impact.

The two snow beasts roared again, as if mocking the soldiers' weak attack, and then rammed into the city gate together again, creating a deafening sound.

Ange noticed that her priest was sweating on his forehead and his eyes were shining with disbelief.

She quickly stepped forward to inquire about the situation.

The priest didn't hide anything, "This beast tide is a bit strange... Logically speaking, mutated snow beasts like that only appear in the middle or later stages of a beast tide, but for some reason they appeared as soon as the tide arrived."

Anjie frowned slightly. "Is there no way to deal with this?"

“It’s not that we don’t have any…” the priest sighed. “Usually we use the magical cannons made by the goblins to repel them. But… this beast tide came too suddenly, the magical cannons haven’t arrived yet, and even if they do, we’ll need at least an hour to charge them before we can use them.”

"..."

Anjie silently gazed at the battlefield.

The elemental giant's power had begun to dissipate, and the soldiers' originally unified attack was now chaotic, showing signs of panic.

If those two snow beasts are allowed to charge forward, it's questionable whether they can even survive until the magic cannon arrives, let alone until the charging ends.

Just as Ange was pondering, a deep shout came from the city wall—

"Royal guards! Follow me and execute him!"

Noah, clad in armor, raised his longsword high, crimson flames erupting from the hilt and turning the blade a deep red.

With the response of his guards, Noah leaped from the city wall at a snow beast below.

Flames erupted from the longsword, and with the force of its fall, Noah plummeted like a shooting star with a fiery tail, crashing onto the head of the mutated snow beast.

The blade pierced the mutated snow beast's eye precisely, spraying blood that was then burned to nothingness in mid-air by the scorching heat.

"Roar--"

After losing an eye, the snow beast roared in pain and slapped Noah with its paw. However, Noah had anticipated the snow beast's counterattack and calmly drew his longsword to dodge the attack.

The royal guards also fell one after another, their longswords slashing deep, bone-revealing wounds across the snow beasts' bodies.

All of this happened in the blink of an eye. By the time the snow beasts and soldiers reacted, the first snow beast to be ambushed had already collapsed to the ground, its thick blood splattering into the sky, bathing the entire battlefield in a rain of blood.

Noah wiped the blood off her sword, and the blood rained down on the cloak behind her, staining the white rose, the symbol of the Ors Empire, red.

"It's His Highness the Prince!!!"

"We're saved!"

The soldiers shouted in unison, looking at Noah with adoration.

The death of the first snow beast undoubtedly gave hope to the soldiers who were in despair.

Gazing at the prince bathed in blood, Ange's eyes momentarily glazed over.

Whether it was her imagination or not, for a moment Prince Noah's back and the red-haired girl's back overlapped.

"Novia..."

Noah, below, seemed to hear Ange's subconscious call. She turned around and waved at Ange, as if showing off—

See, I don't need your protection anymore.

Anjie's eyes gradually widened.

Noah, however, had already withdrawn his gaze, and his guards, swords drawn and exuding a murderous aura, charged towards the other mutated snow beast.

Those selected as royal guards are all among the top-tier in the empire.

No matter how powerful the mutated snow beast was, it was nothing more than a stronger wild beast to the guards who possessed exquisite swordsmanship. With another howl from the snow beast, the second mutated snow beast also crashed to the ground.

"Yay!!!"

"Go, Your Highness!"

"Go Royal Guards!"

Cheers and shouts of encouragement rose and fell from the city wall.

But before they could rejoice for long, a melodious cry echoed from the snow-covered mountains, where the world was blanketed in white.

With that cry, a deafening roar rose from the horizon, and a blizzard swept in.

A mage who was using his magical eye to survey the battle suddenly collapsed to the ground, his legs giving way beneath him, and cried out in terror: