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Following Karen’s message, the two Cardinals and several senior knights of the Holy Iron Inquisitors joined Leon’s party in mere minutes. The rest of the order had no choice but to stay behind, still holding back the soldiers possessed by wraiths.
Adela was the first to rush over and call out to Leon.
“Hero! What the hell happened? That ridiculously huge thing, is that really the Emperor himself?!”
Leon calmed the agitated Adela and explained, “Yes. According to Lyon, that’s his face we’re looking at right now.”
“To turn a man who’s neither an Aura Master nor an Archmage into a transcendent… these exogods really are absurd. I think I finally understand why those lunatics in the Evil Order worship them so blindly.”
“He didn’t seem particularly sane. You can talk to him, but communicating is not an option.”
“Of course not. He wouldn’t have fallen for Morse’s blatant sweet talk unless he was missing a few screws in his head.”
Adela muttered a few more insults about Nex while healing the burn scars that marred her body. They were wounds left by exolaw, so they recovered quickly enough, but she had less than half of her strength remaining after having overexerted herself fighting Morse. She had been thrown out of her rhythm.
Still, she couldn’t leave the battlefield here. She wasn’t completely spent like Irexana; her power had only waned a little.
I’ll have to brace myself, she ...
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