The Sword and The Shadow

Chapter 613

Battle of the Fort (3)

The battle at Fort Kesta lasted over four days. Nidhoggʼs screen of light didnʼt show the whole battle chronologically. He controlled it so that only the highlights were featured, such as the attack of the corpses, Alissandaʼs defeat of a gigantic mutant, the magi joining in and so on.

In the screen, they all saw Angelista, Innilis and the others. There were even multiple angles and scenes, some showing other priests of Pyro supporting Eirinn in a divine formation. She was in the center of the formation and praying nonstop with her hands together and eyes closed. Thanks to her, the formation let out a strong sacred power nonstop. If not for the formation, the battle wouldʼve ended in two days.

Seeing Eirinn and Innilis, Annelotte felt her heart tighten. It wasnʼt that she was worried about their safety; she had pestered Angelista many times about it before. While the dark elf was a little odd, to say the least, Annelotte did trust her for serious matters. Instead, she was worried about Leguna, who was in hiding. She could be certain that he saw the screen and worried that he would charge in recklessly.

Fortunately, his self-control had gotten much better lately. Even after the screen showed quite a number of scenes of Innilis fighting, Annelotte didnʼt feel anything in the house change. That meant Leguna and the others were still holding themselves back and didnʼt turn reckless because of the screen.

She calmed down and continued watching. The screen now showed Angelista and Alissanda taking on the bone dragon. When Angelista was struck by the dragonʼs breath, Annelotte felt a little worried, not just for Innilisʼs safety but for the dark elfʼs as well. She only breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Angelista recover and stand back up energetically once she was recovered.

The screen turned back to Alissanda fighting the bone dragon. Lisana felt tense the whole time. After that, they saw him in his pure light form. Even though it was all within the screen, they could feel the power that surged through him. They knew that Alissanda had broken through at the crucial moment into the saint realm.

”Congratulations to him and you,” Annelotte said to Lisana.

However, the latter didnʼt seem the slightest bit relieved. She shook her head and whispered, ”I donʼt care if heʼs a saint or not, so long as heʼs alive.”

Annelotte held her hand and said, ”Itʼll be fine.”

”The little bastard of the eagle family,” Nidhogg muttered as he cut his steak, ”I had wanted to kill him with the bone dragon. Too bad.”

Lisana turned to glare at him but didnʼt say much. After she calmed down, she knew how large the gap between his and her power was. Rather than arguing or getting into a fight, it would be better to just calm down and finish watching the battle. And based on his tone, Alissanda did seem to have survived.

They saw from the screen how Alissanda slowly gained more ground after his breakthrough. They didnʼt know whether it was a new power he got, but they saw him use his own power to open a dimensional doorway to an upper plane and summoning five angels to fight for him. Perhaps the beings from the higher plane hated the undead far too much; they didnʼt need Alissanda to order them to start fighting the bone dragon off.

The angels were not to be underestimated. Not only were they all as capable as high-order warriors in close combat, they could also use powerful divine miracles and could even fly. With their help, Alissanda and Angelista quickly exterminated the bone dragon. However, just as Angelista was about to claim the remains, she got into conflict with one of the angels.

The angel believed that bone dragons were evil and dangerous existences and it was plain to see why a high-order magus would want its remains. It didnʼt help that she was an evil dark elf, so the angel got into a fight immediately without even saying a word. Angelista didnʼt hold back against the one that tried to stop her from claiming her spoils either. Her silver eyes flashed and she launched a mental shock against the angel. She then immediately dictated Deathʼs Finger to kill the poor angel.

Seeing her go so wild over the remains of a bone dragon, the rest broke out in cold sweat. Fortunately, it was rather chaotic during the battle and she used the swiftest methods to dispatch that angel, so she didnʼt draw the attention of the other four.