Strength 99999 but the Holy Sister

"vomit……"

The man in white was still vomiting over and over again. Even though he had vomited out everything in his stomach, there was still a steady stream of water flowing into his stomach. He was almost turning his stomach inside out and brushing it with a brush. The internal organs in his chest felt like they were squeezed at the back of his throat and were about to be crushed and squeezed out.

Compared with the physical pain, what really makes him suffer is his current desperate situation.

He thought of the method Elsa used to awaken the knight. Under that level of holy light magic, even if he succeeded in taking the poison, even if he tore his own neck, he probably wouldn't die.

He couldn't even commit suicide.

His strength was not weak - since he dared to attack the Royal Knights and succeeded easily, his strength was naturally above that of the Knights. This kind of strength was the elite among the elites no matter where he was. But even so, he had no means of resistance when facing Tricia's magic. At this moment, he even felt that those legends about sages might be a little too subtle.

Without hiding anything from the Knights, Tricia and Wo Cress asked Aisha for a general overview of the situation.

"Rapp poisoned us? This man wanted to kill Rapp?"

The knights were shocked.

Lap was the knight who poisoned the food. He usually had a good relationship with the people around him, so his betrayal was difficult for the knights to accept for a while.

As the superior, Wo Kress was also very depressed.

Everything that happened before his eyes seemed too coincidental. It was obvious that everything that happened at this time was inseparable from the appearance of the holy relic. Wo Cress guessed that this should be the work of Duke Ryanfort. In fact, only Duke Ryanfort had enough power to place people in the Royal Knights.

But when Wo Cress turned his gaze to the Duke of Lanefort's spy that Tricia mentioned, he found that the latter looked weak and seemed to have been poisoned.

What's going on? The Duke is killing his own people?

Wo Kress noticed something and frowned.

Ryanfort's spy didn't notice Wo Cress's gaze. In fact, he had been looking at Rapp and the man in white with fear. The more he thought about it, the more scared he became. He had also thought about it. After all, the holy relic was right in front of him, and who wouldn't be eager for it? But fortunately, he didn't do it in the end, because the Duke had ordered not to take action against the Holy Nun and the Mystic Sage. Compared with his desire for the holy relic, he was more afraid of the Duke's anger.

Thinking about it now, he was somewhat fortunate, otherwise his fate would probably not be better than that of the man in white and Knight Rapp.

Elsa's gaze turned to the poisoned knight, Rapp.

"Elsa, he doesn't look well."

Tricia walked up to Elsa and said, looking at the knight Lap - Lap had not said a word since being brought back by Elsa, and his face looked even worse at this moment, because the poison in his body had not been removed, and it was still eroding his life, making him dazed.

Seeing this, Elsa cast another healing spell on him, which made him look a little better, but the effect was far less than before. Lapu was still a little confused, and it seemed that the poison had penetrated quite deeply.

Holy light magic is not omnipotent, but has an upper limit. The human body is like a container that can only hold a certain amount of holy light magic at a time. If too much is forced in, it will not only fail to increase the healing power of holy light magic, but will only have a counterproductive effect. Obviously, Elsa has already injected abundant holy light magic into Lapu's body at once, but these holy lights can no longer effectively awaken his body functions.

Of course, Elsa understood what was going on - Lapu's body had been eroded by toxins. As the toxins penetrated deeper into the body, the healing effect of the holy light became weaker.

Rapp's entire body was rapidly failing from the inside out.

The driving force of vitality on the human body has its limits, because the human body has its limits, just like holy light magic cannot regenerate severed limbs, that is because the body itself cannot do it, so no matter how strong the vitality is, it is useless.

At this time, the man in white finally stopped vomiting and collapsed on the ground exhausted. Elsa turned her gaze to him, and Tricia understood and gave him a simple mental hint - considering that mental magic would probably have little effect on a person as powerful as him, and if she forcibly invaded with powerful mental power it would damage his brain, Tricia did not directly use the simplest and crudest hypnosis.

Aisha asked: "Tell me, who are you, and how do you remove the poison from Lapu?"

"I'm……"

He paused here, as if resisting something, shook his head listlessly, then raised his head stubbornly and glared at Elsa, "I... don't have a way to detoxify... This poison is simply impossible to expel! Even for someone as powerful as you... it's the same..."

"It seems that Rapp is doomed to die."

Tricia said calmly.

It is true that the vitality of holy light magic can activate the potential of the human body, but while the vitality is forcibly awakening his body functions, it is also, in a sense, overdrawing his own vitality. Vitality is limited, and overdrawing too much will also lead to death. People who have been injured in battles for many years know that if they do not pay attention to self-cultivation, they are very likely to die prematurely due to the loss of vitality.

What's more, the toxins in Lapu's body are still destroying his body with all their might.

"Will I die?" Rapp suddenly said in a hoarse voice, with fear in his cloudy eyes. "Sir, you are the Saint Sister, please save me... Please..."

"If the poison isn't removed, even I can't save you," Aisha said, glancing at Lapu. "You're seriously injured. You've lost too much blood, and your internal organs are in disarray. The poison has already invaded every part of your body. Your body is already riddled with holes. Even if you were given all the vitality you need, it wouldn't be enough to save you."

Elsa could hear Lapu's heart and pulse, which were getting weaker and weaker. Lapu's life was slipping away bit by bit.

"You and that guy know each other, right?"

Aisha asked, "Can the poison you gave me be cured?"

Rapp shook his head.

"Fortunately, the knights weren't seriously poisoned. Even if there's no antidote, it won't be a serious problem. Although it might be uncomfortable for a while, it will pass."

Tricia said, and Aisha stopped asking questions.

"Then you will die."

"Huh? I...I..."

Rapp's face was filled with fear. He was a knight of the Royal Knights, so how could he not understand what Elsa said? He knew the limitations of Holy Light Magic, but he didn't want to die. He quickly crawled to Tricia's feet and begged, "Sage, please save me... I don't want to die..."

"You should tell everyone in the Knights this—you were the one who poisoned the soup, right? Why did you do this?"

Tricia did not respond to his request.

In fact, neither Tricia nor Aisha are really helpless.

For example, a possible solution would be to give Rapp a blood transfusion of suitable, healthy, and vital fresh blood to replace a small portion of his toxin-filled, life-depleted blood.

Or, use Elsa's blood. Elsa's blood is extraordinary. Since dragon blood can make the user reborn and drive out poisons and filth, then Elsa's blood can definitely do it. It is a forced improvement of the life level, and naturally it can repair Lapu's vitality that has long been exhausted.

Otherwise, use the treasures in Tricia's space equipment - Tricia has more than just the black heavy sword snatched from the war demon general. She has been to many places when she was young, and her footprints are all over the East and West Continents. She explored in little-known ruins all over the world and obtained countless treasures from various races in the form of rewards. Even though she lost a lot during the Demon King War, it was still more than enough to save Lapu's life.

Besides, Tricia also masters several kinds of magic that can transfer the vitality of the human body. Some are curses, and some are elven secrets, all of which require a certain price.

But Elsa didn't seem to have any plans to save Lap for the time being, so Tricia naturally wouldn't help.

Elsa didn't think she was a kind and pure person. If Lap couldn't provide any valuable intelligence, Elsa would rather let him fend for himself. Anyway, Lap's actions had already doomed him to death. Wo Kress would not let a traitor go - and, Lap had attacked Tricia, which was what Elsa cared about most.

"I……"

Lapu looked at the man in white in a trance, hesitating. He couldn't figure out what was going on in front of him, and why his lord would send people to kill him, but he knew that he had been abandoned and he was about to die.

The surrounding knights gathered around angrily.

"Damn it! Rapp, you shameless traitor!"

"It's a shame for me to be so close to you. You disappoint me, Rapp. I don't understand why you do this."

"You'll reap what you sow, asshole!"

At this moment, no one felt any pity for him. The Knights were a united group, and they were all comrades. No one wanted to see a comrade they had lived with day and night, a comrade they had trusted with their lives, become a pawn of the enemy and betray them. Only the spy planted by Duke Ryanfort looked at the fallen Rapp with a certain sense of regret, wondering if he would one day suffer the same fate as Rapp.

Wo Cress stepped forward and asked, "Did the Duke of Laneford send you?"

As soon as Wo Kress finished speaking, the man in white who was lying beside him suddenly trembled his shoulders and broke through the mental suggestion set by Tricia.

"Be careful."

Tricia immediately warned, and the man in white suddenly bent his fingers into hooks. He was lying on the ground the previous second, but bounced up like a cannonball the next moment - but his sneak attack was not aimed at any of the knights present or Tricia and Aisha, but directly at Lapu's throat.

"Why don't you die, you bastard!"

He screamed hoarsely, but Elsa's sword was faster than him. With a clang, a sword light with a spark of fire slashed out, and the silver light was like a crescent moon, passing in front of the man in white. He felt his face getting hot, and blood red stained his vision. The next moment, he felt his whole body sink, and he was blown away like a kite with a broken string.

puff--

He crashed into the collapsed tower and cried out in pain as he lay in the rubble. An arm fell not far in front of him, and the gushing blood dyed the snow red.

Immediately, a knight rushed over and pinned him down, but he still raised his head with all his strength, staring at Rapp with his bloodshot eyes fiercely, and uttered a hoarse voice that sounded like a curse: "Don't say what you shouldn't say! If I were you, I would rather die!"

"shut your mouth."

Aisha glanced at him, and inexplicably, his eyes slowly widened and he really became quiet.

Tricia suddenly felt something was wrong. She subconsciously looked at Elsa, and in a trance she seemed to see a cross-shaped burn mark slowly disappearing under Elsa's golden pupils.

"Elsa? What happened to your eyes?"

"Huh? What?"

Aisha turned her head, and Tricia looked carefully into her eyes, but saw nothing unusual.

Tricia was stunned. "Did I just...see it wrong?"

No, she believed her magical vision had never been wrong. She had indeed seen the cross-shaped mark in Elsa's eyes. Tricia turned her gaze to the man in white. He was still staring, as if in a trance. His strange appearance made her feel a little scared.

At this moment, Rapp suddenly spoke, interrupting Tricia's thoughts.

"I am... no... I'm not someone sent by the Duke... but... I can't reveal my identity..." Rapp's eyes were dim, and he spoke in a hoarse voice, "I can only tell you that my mission is to cause unrest and cooperate with the lord's people to seize the holy relic..."

"Anyone else?" Vo Kress narrowed his eyes. "Where are the others? And who sent you?"

"I don't know where the others are... but they won't show up now... We have to wait... wait for the Duke's men to arrive here..." Rapp's gaze slowly shifted to the man in white. "We will frame the Duke for the poisoning, and the Duke will be attacked, and we will frame you... Then, when you both suffer heavy losses in the fight... they will appear... but..."

"It seems your lord believes your presence will cause the plan to go awry, so he sent someone to kill you."

Aisha added, glancing at Vo Cress.

"Anyway, as long as there is no evidence, it's fine."

Elsa was the first person to notice the abnormality. By connecting what happened with what Lap confessed, the truth is not difficult to guess.

After all, with Elsa and Tricia here, even if the plan that Rapp mentioned was successfully implemented and both sides successfully blamed each other, a fight might not really break out.

So killing Lap was done for two reasons: one was to eliminate the evidence of the crime, making it difficult for the Duke to prove himself, which would make it easier to intensify the conflict; the other was that if the two sides did not fight and the plan failed, then in order to avoid Lap being caught and then tracking down the mastermind behind it, it would of course be better to just shut Lap's mouth.

Kill two birds with one stone.

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405. The Themia Family

Lapu's eyes dimmed as he nodded slowly, acknowledging Aisha's guess.

"Is it true..."

Wo Kress squatted in front of Rapp, his silver armor clacking. He grabbed Rapp's hair and forced Rapp to look at him.

"If the one who ordered you here wasn't the Duke, then who was it? How could I trust the words of a traitor like you?"

W. Cress demanded.

Although Rapp's poisoning did not escape the Duke's attention, perhaps this was a self-torture tactic? Or perhaps the spies were unaware of each other's identities, which is not entirely impossible.

Lapu was silent for a moment, then said, "I'm already dying, I didn't lie to you... Anyway... even if I didn't tell you, I would have become like him..."

Wo Kress's eyes moved slightly as he looked at the man in white who was still in a trance.

"You know him, don't you? Who is he?"

"I have no idea……"

Rapp lowered his eyes in pain. He seemed to hesitate for a moment. Obviously, he was lying. Vo Kress saw Rapp's expression.

"Then who is the so-called lord you are talking about?"

W. Cress pressed.

If someone else is the troublemaker, then who is that person? If it's not Duke Ryanfort, then it certainly can't be Queen Stikia. Could it be a third force lurking in the empire, independent of the Queen and the Royalists? This is not good news. Hunters lurking in the darkness are extremely dangerous.

"I'm sorry, sir, I can't tell you... I really can't tell you... Please, don't ask me anymore..."

Rapp lowered his chin, unwilling to meet Vo Kress's gaze.

"It's not up to you."

As Tricia finished speaking, Rapp's eyes became empty, and he collapsed as if he had lost his soul.

"I forcibly broke through his mental barrier. Luckily, he didn't seem to go crazy. However, this won't last long, so I'll ask the key questions as soon as possible."

Tricia maintained the spell in her hand and said.

Lapu is, after all, a regular knight of the Royal Knights. His mental strength is simply incomparable to that of ordinary people. Moreover, all members of the Royal Knights have undergone strict mental strengthening training and anti-hypnosis magic training. Even Tricia cannot control him easily. She can either spend a long time to slowly infiltrate him, or use this very rough method to crush Lapu's mental defense with powerful mental power. Naturally, this method has certain risks. At the very least, the person will be in a trance for a period of time, and at worst, the soul will be shattered, turning him into a "dead man" with only the body still alive but no self-awareness.

Wo Kress swallowed and looked at Rapp, whose mental barrier had been broken through by Tricia in an instant. He couldn't help but feel a subtle sense of tension in his heart.

He asked in a deep voice, "Tell me! Who is your 'lord'?"

"Dorian Lewis..."

Rapp mentioned a name that sounded vaguely familiar to Vo Kress.

"Levis?" Tricia noticed something and frowned slightly. "The Kingdom of Levis in the Federation?"

The Federation naturally refers to the Federation of Southwestern Countries - the United Kingdom of Huys-Shutrondha. If Rapp was sent by the Federation, then the meaning would be different.

"Yes……"