Heroes Return

With the sound of a longsword piercing skin, the new archbishop collapsed to the ground. Unfortunately, the blow hadn't struck a vital spot, and in that critical moment, a special force allowed the new archbishop to escape unscathed.

"You! You! You're dismissed!! You bastard! How dare you treat me like this!!" Feeling a sharp pain in his shoulder, the new archbishop roared angrily at the person who had attacked him. The pain contorted his expression, and the agony of the weapon piercing his flesh made him howl incessantly: "Arrest the guy who attacked me! I will judge this damned bastard in my capacity as archbishop!!"

Seeing the new archbishop's furious expression, all the priests present hesitated.

As the time approached the moment Alice had predicted, the priest who had just attacked the new archbishop suddenly spoke up: "In the name of holiness, we must abandon this new archbishop. Moreover, his character and greed are not befitting of an archbishop of God walking in this world. He is already deeply sinful, so there is no need for you to hesitate."

"What did you say! You bastard! You imposter in the name of God, how dare you say such a thing!!" Upon hearing the other party's words, the new archbishop once again showed an angry expression. However, he couldn't continue speaking the next second.

Right before everyone's eyes, the priest underwent a transformation. With the appearance of light, a pair of wings sprouted from his back. Along with the wings, an increasingly intense aura of holiness emanated from him. His previously somewhat颓废 (颓废 is a difficult word to translate directly, but it implies a state of listlessness, dispirit, and apathy) appearance was restored to its former glory.

"Kuhoo, he's such a handsome young man! Is this an angel? He's finally come out!" Alice showed no surprise at the sight before her.

The figure before them was no longer a priest; now stood an angel radiating divine aura, enveloping everything in a holy light. In that instant, a miraculous holy light enveloped the entire holy city: "In the name of God, no one will die today! Attack! This sinner deserves judgment!"

Upon hearing the angel's words, all the priests turned their gaze to Alice once again.

Before the newly appointed archbishop, whose face had changed again with fear, could say anything, the relentless attacks from the priests erupted. Almost instantly, this powerful new archbishop, who had only been in office for four hours, died within the confines of his term.

With the death of the Archbishop of Trust, all the bombs in the Holy City emitted a moment of darkness. However, it was merely a puff of black smoke; there was no actual explosion. Clearly, Alice had not deceived them; the death of the new Archbishop had indeed stopped all the bombs from functioning.

However, it was precisely because of this that Alice's face showed a look of disappointment.

"Kuhu, what a disappointment! In the end, an angel had to come out to give the order. I thought you devout believers, Ivan, would decisively abandon this poor archbishop at a time like this! But it seems you're not as devout and compassionate as your propaganda claims! You still react this way to your superiors. How boring! It seems you're just ordinary people after all!" Alice sighed as she spoke, then turned to the little girl behind her and said, "Alright, that hedgehog-like guy's fate is what bad guys get! He got stabbed to death by his own subordinates!"

"..." Hearing Alice's words, the little girl didn't speak. At this moment, she was constantly fiddling with various flower pots in her hands. However, these flower pots didn't look very big.

"Alice Elaine! As the heir who carries the sacred blood of the Elaine family, you shouldn't have committed such an Ivan-like crime! Even if Ivan manipulated your memories, you should have realized this long ago!" Looking at Alice, the angel suddenly spoke, "You should have known these things long ago. You are not Ivan after all, and you are ultimately different from Ivan!"

“Kuhuhu, I know! I’m not Ivan after all.” Alice said with a smile, “Because we have different verbal tic! But so what? I just think this behavior is more suitable.”

"Alas..." Hearing Alice's words, the angel could only sigh helplessly: "I have great pity for you, pity for your plight and the suffering you have endured. Alice, you and your sisters still have a chance for redemption. So, please give up, no matter what plans you have. In God's eyes, you have nowhere to hide."

“We sisters don’t need any so-called divine salvation!” Alice said with a faint smile. “Do you think we are the kind of naive girls who can be easily deceived? Well, at least I’m not.”

As Alice spoke, she glanced at Alice and the girl beside her.

"Since you refuse our mercy, then prepare to face our judgment." Hearing Alice's words, the angel's face remained expressionless. He simply held a spear in his hand, and in that instant, all the priests launched their attack on Alice and her companions.

The next second, everyone froze completely.

"Kuhuhu, you know what? It wasn't easy to force you to show yourself! After all, you've been trying to hide in the crowd the whole time," Alice said, shrugging. "But now that you've shown yourself, my goal is achieved!"

As Alice spoke, her gaze fell upon the third girl beside her, who finally revealed her true identity. Almost everyone in the world recognized her! She had once been the No. 1 hero in the Hero Association.

"Time and Space, the task of capturing the angel is now in your hands!" Alice said to Time and Space with a smile, and then she walked outside.

Her sole purpose in coming here was to force the angels in the Holy City to appear and capture them.

The reason for choosing this approach is simple: it conceals her true purpose while simultaneously lowering the guard of the angels. After all, if the angels knew she had powerful allies, they might simply abandon the Holy City and flee. The Holy City is just a name; wherever they are, that's the Holy City.

At the same time, the entire city instantly froze.

"Alright, now all we need to do is tie up this winged one, right?" Thinking of this, Shi Kong looked at the priests around him: "By the way, making him a little older might make things easier."

As she spoke, Time and Space gently waved her hand, and time around her began to accelerate. In the blink of an eye, a pile of white bones appeared before the girl.

"Ah! I accidentally accelerated too much!" Seeing the priests turn into skeletons, Time and Space couldn't help but show a puzzled expression: "But why didn't he change?"

Right before Time and Space, the angel remained unchanged, still gazing at Time and Space with a holy light on its face.

"Because the time of Heaven is unaffected by time." The angel's calm voice rang out once more, and almost simultaneously, spacetime was pierced by a lightsaber. But in the next instant, another spacetime appeared before the angel once more.

"Is that so? It's not affected by time." Hearing the other party's words, Time and Space tilted his head and thought for a moment: "Then let's break your legs and take you back."

"Do you really think you can capture me?" The angel spoke calmly, and a spear once again appeared in his hand, thrusting it into spacetime. Almost simultaneously, light descended from the sky once more, and the people who had turned into skeletons were restored to their original forms. However, unfortunately, they still did not move. Because they remained trapped in the frozen spacetime.

But as the light descended, surprisingly, angels flew out of the holy city. These angels were both male and female, but they all had one thing in common: near-perfect figures and beautiful faces.

"So many at once?" Looking at the scene before him, a smile suddenly appeared on Time and Space's lips. Almost simultaneously, an angel's body exploded violently, nearly half of its body being destroyed. Blood-red rain began to fall from the sky. Almost at the same time, Time and Space appeared before the angel whose body had been blown off, grabbing it and instantly embedding its body into a distant pillar, making it appear as if it had merged with the pillar.

Before the other angels could unleash their holy light once more, the half-angel embedded in the pillar exploded again, blasting the angel to pieces.

"Sister Alice said we only need to leave one alive, so let's kill the rest." The girl's voice sounded very innocent and cute, but to the other angels, it was a completely different story. To them, it sounded like a voice from hell.

Of course, it's not over yet.

Several small black spheres had appeared in Time and Space's hands at some point. Just as the angels unleashed their full power on Time and Space, he reappeared in another location: "It seems the influence of space still exists!"

As the words of time and space faded, the small ball in her hand disappeared once again.

The instant the small sphere disappeared, all the angels moved at high speed. Almost simultaneously, a massive explosion occurred at their original location.

One of the angels was a little slow and had his arm blown off.

"These black spheres! Why do explosions of mortals always harm us?"

"These black spheres? A sister named Solomon said she cast some spells on them for me." Without any attempt to hide anything, Shikong directly stated the reason why these explosives could harm the other party.

Chapter 32

Just outside the Holy City, the Alice sisters suddenly reappeared in the same spot. Due to their ability to manipulate time and space, the two girls were directly teleported out of the Holy City.

"You know what? I actually quite like the Holy Capital. After all, it's very clean and tidy. Although it was massacred once, I really dislike it here now! The people here are so boring. I originally thought this place would be something special, but now I realize it's not like that at all! This is just the human world, and the people here are just ordinary mortals." Alice said to Delis with a smile, "Kuhu, but it seems not so bad!"

“They’re not all mortals, there are angels too.” After hearing Alice’s words, Delis thought for a moment and then said.

“Well, that’s true.” Alice said with a smile after hearing what Delilah said.

Just as he was speaking, the figure of Time and Space reappeared in front of Alice, holding an angel in her hand, an angel that looked very damaged.

"He actually managed to handle an angel! It seems Solomon's spells are quite effective!" Alice looked at the time and space and said with a smile, "It seems Solomon can make up for some of your shortcomings! Should we consider inviting him to our girls' gathering?"

"She is dangerous."

“I know! And she seems to be hiding a lot of secrets.” Alice said, glancing into the distance. Just a few days ago, she met Solomon and made a devilish deal.

Solomon can give them the power to fight the angels, but in return, Alice must help him deal with the impending arrival of the gods.

After the deal was struck, Solomon added special effects to all the bombs in the timeline.

These additional special effects allow the time-space bombs to easily destroy the angels' bodies.

“Alright, now that we’ve caught him, it’s time I took him out to ask some people for information.” Alice said, and a remote-controlled hovercar appeared around them, and the angel was taken aboard the hovercar.

"Do you think you can get information from a devout angel in the sky?" the angel, who had been tied to the car, said coldly to Alice.

"A devout believer? But thinking about it, it seems quite a few angels in Heaven have fallen!" Alice smiled at the angel before her. However, in the angel's eyes, Alice's smile was terrifying.

"It'll be soon. I think it's time for me to settle things with Ivan! Kuhuhu."

With these words in mind, Alice's face contorted slightly.

……

Suddenly, Thirteen appeared at the entrance to a secret realm, with a thin, bubble-like membrane right in front of him. Looking at this membrane, Thirteen's face showed a puzzled expression: "This should be the place, but why is no one coming to deal with me? As the guardian, Solomon's men should be stopping me, shouldn't they?"

Muttering to himself, Thirteen entered the space: "Wait, I know, Solomon seems to want me to talk to her. Huh? I can even know this kind of thing just by thinking about it? What kind of power and authority have I obtained?"

Shaking his head helplessly, Thirteen stepped into the space, but the first thing he saw was thirteen collapsed pillars. Looking at these pillars, Thirteen's gaze involuntarily turned to the sky: "Just a little thought, and you know what you want to know! It's so convenient. So Solomon injected all the demons from the pillars into the bodies of his contracted witches. Now that you mention it, the seventy-two pillar demons seem to have turned into seventy-two magical girls. It's actually quite exciting."

Thirteen was only excited for a moment, but his expression calmed down again the next second. Feeling this, Thirteen couldn't help but scoff: "They even know this kind of thing? Just by thinking about it, they know everything about the seventy-two girls. This is so boring! It's really not so easy to maintain the original state after all."

"Why don't you come in and have a meal?" Just as Thirteen was talking to himself, a girl's voice suddenly rang out: "Hehe, you finally remembered? Thirteen?"

"I really didn't want to remember!" Thirteen sighed helplessly. "But now that I have, I have to make peace with the past. You should know why I'm here, right?"

"Of course I know! I know why you're here. But I'm sorry, I can't allow you to do that!" As Solomon spoke, a large number of cute girls appeared around him and surrounded Thirteen.

"I'm sorry, but for humanity, to protect people's lives, I have to do these things!" Thirteen said to Solomon with a serious expression, "Are you really going to ignore all of this, you crazy woman? You must hate God, right? Why are you still protecting that being? Now I remember everything. You probably don't like gods, right? Why are you still protecting this god?"

"What makes you have the illusion that I am protecting this God?" Solomon sighed helplessly. "To be honest, I'd rather call you Judas. Indeed, you are doing the same thing you did in the past."

“Yes, I am doing the same thing as before,” Thirteen said helplessly. “But this time I will definitely succeed! Solomon, tell your men to get out of my way. You should know that you can’t block my path in your current state!”

"As expected, you're a fool!" Solomon sighed helplessly upon hearing Thirteen's words. "Do you really think you can kill him? Not only can you not kill him, but you'll also free him from his bonds. Think about your position! It was only after Judas betrayed the Son of God that the story of the Son's suffering and eventual resurrection came about. But God knew all this, yet He still allowed the Son of God to suffer, ultimately resulting in the sacred cross. So what was Judas in all of this? Wasn't Judas's betrayal of the Son of God a benefit to God? To create the legend of the Son of God and ultimately allow His own church to flourish. And Judas was actually the biggest catalyst for all of this. To put it bluntly, Judas, this sinner, was nothing more than a pawn used to take the blame."

Think about what you're doing right now. Do you really think you can kill him? At least to me, you're just achieving it ahead of time.

"Do you think I would believe your nonsense?" Thirteen didn't believe Solomon's words. He simply shook his head and said, "In this world, I will never easily believe your nonsense. You are a devil full of lies. I don't think you would give any kind answer."

"...Is this the story of 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf'? If you lie too much, eventually no one will believe you anymore!" Solomon said, her gaze once again falling on Thirteen. "But after hearing my words, you still wavered, didn't you?"

“I did waver, and even doubted myself a little, but one thing I’m sure of. You can’t easily believe what you say, and based on the knowledge and power I’ve recalled, I don’t think I really can’t kill him.” Thirteen said calmly, “If you really only know how to imprison a prisoner, then let me try to see if I can really kill him! For the sake of all mankind, I must try, even if it’s just for the sake of all mankind, I must try.”

“No, I can’t let you try.” Solomon said, his black aura beginning to erupt, and almost simultaneously, powerful magical fluctuations began to appear around him: “You can’t get close to him!”

At that very moment, countless tentacles suddenly appeared on the ground around them, and these tentacles immediately swept towards the girls.

Many young girls among the witches ended up being entangled by tentacles due to momentary mistakes. Because the scenes are somewhat graphic, they will not be described in detail here.

Seeing this scene, Thirteen's eyes involuntarily narrowed.

"I never imagined that I would be able to see such a scene in reality one day. It feels amazing."

Despite saying that, Thirteen's gaze immediately turned to the distance, where a huge ram-headed, human-bodied monster was staring intently at him. Almost instantly, green flames swept towards Thirteen, and ancient curse magic was chanted continuously, attacking him.

Upon seeing this attack, an identical monster appeared directly in front of Thirteen and lunged at the goat-headed demon. Just as everyone else began to deal with the suddenly appearing tentacles, Thirteen's figure vanished from the spot.

However, he returned to his original spot the next second.

"A spatial seal? It seems I can't ignore it with my current power." Reflecting on what he had just experienced, Thirteen sighed helplessly. "But even a fraction of his power has granted me such terrifying strength. Just how powerful is he in his true form?"

While marveling at the immense power he possessed, Thirteen also solidified his resolve to kill that being!

After all, the opponent was simply too powerful, and before being released, this was clearly the only way to kill him. In fact, Thirteen could have easily called Lin Jie to come along, but for some reason, his instincts told him that he couldn't tell Lin Jie, nor could he bring Lin Jie along, otherwise something terrible might happen.

Although he didn't know what would happen, the power Thirteen had gained wouldn't lie to him. Lin Jie couldn't come over at this time. From the moment he regained his memories, Thirteen had firmly known two things, the other being that he should never trust Solomon!

Chapter 33

The powerful black flames almost instantly destroyed everything around them, and right at the center of the flames, Solomon stared coldly at Thirteen, her demonic wings unfurling behind her. Her expression was no longer smiling; instead, it was one of almost utter coldness.

As the black flames erupted, an equally enormous and towering sea of ​​golden fire immediately appeared before Thirteen. With the eruption of the golden fire, the black and golden flames began to erode each other, and for a moment the surrounding space displayed a black and white power.

As black and white encroached upon this land, Thirteen's expression grew increasingly cold. No matter who his opponent was, he could not afford to fail. For the sake of the 99 percent of the world's population that was about to be wiped out, Thirteen had to defeat Solomon here.

But without a doubt, Solomon's power reached a new level.

Although he had gained some kind of godlike power, it was still of no use to Solomon. Solomon's power remained superior to Thirteen's, and despite Thirteen's power, Solomon's black flames gradually enveloped Thirteen's golden flames. It seemed that he would soon be able to completely exhaust Thirteen's golden flames.

But almost at that very moment, the seventy-two pillars that had collapsed on the ground simultaneously rose up. As these seventy-two pillars were erected, almost all of them crashed down on Solomon.

Seeing this, Solomon merely snorted coldly. A purple magic circle instantly enveloped her body, and with its appearance, the pillars began to crumble.