Main Hall, Light Church.
At that moment, a three-meter tall humanoid monster with a rat head came out of the spiral staircase and completely tore down the broken metal gate.
"SQUEAL!" After glancing around the surroundings, it uttered a high-pitch cry and ran towards the nearby Holy Knights.
"W-What the hell is this?!" "MONSTER!" "RUN!!"
Panic appeared in the church.
At the same time, multiple low-tier Holy Knights ran in different directions and caused more chaos.
"Don't panic! I will take care of this monster." Before the panic could surge further, a seventy-year-old man in his gray robe walked toward the rat monster and started chanting an incantation. He had downturned silver eyes, diagonal eyebrows, a flat nose, and russet brown skin. His thin white hair made him look more aged, and if not for his muscular figure, one might think of him as a dying old man.
Meanwhile, all the high-ranked knights in the church hall moved closer to him and guarded him against attacks.
Before the tall rat humanoid monster could get closer to the old man, he gathered countless light elemental particles in his palm and created a light spear.
"Holy spear!"
A beam of scorching light came out of the old man's hand and pierced into the rat monster's head in a blink.
Bang!
Black blood splattered in every direction, and soon the rat monster fell.
Thud!
"As I thought, it's an evil being of Chaos." Everyone became startled by the old man's sudden words and took a step back in terror.
"What do you mean by that? What is this evil being of Chaos, Father Henriot?" A slim holy knight who stood near the high priest asked in puzzlement.
"Well, it's a bit complicated, but I will explain it in detail. In this universe, two factions have been battling against each other for countless millennia. They are Lawful affiliation and Chaos affiliation." Confusion appeared on everyone's faces. As Henriot noticed their puzzlement, he sighed heavily and continued.
"We are the Lawful good faction members while this mindless creation belongs to the other. Unlike us, they invade foreign territories and try to corrupt everything in their path. To stop them, many Lawful Gods united together and made a faction long ago. God Welos is one of them. We, his followers, are born to purify the Chaos evil faction members. Meanwhile, these evil beasts are only born to corrupt our world. No…They are errors of creation. I once read in a book that many chaotic beings were sealed inside this island's forbidden underground dungeon, but I didn't expect that to be true. This creature must be one of those chaotic creatures." As he explained, holy knights and the nearby priests started to sweat.
"Don't worry. Our great lord is the mightiest of all of the other Gods. One day, we will kill all these evil beings from our world and make this place a utopia." Henriot said with a chuckle and shifted his gaze towards the spiral staircase a few meters away.
Rumble! Rumble! Clatter!...
"Get ready! More monsters are coming from the dungeon. Oger, inform the Diocese of Orchard that we are facing enemies. Tell them Devil island dungeon is breached." Henriot glanced at a lean priest who stood nearby and spoke solemnly.
At the same time, he touched his spatial ring and took out a few scrolls.
Roar! Shieerkkk! GRRRRRRR!...
Countless monsters' cries came from the underground staircase, sending shivers to everyone's spines.
A few moments later, another monster with a human's head and a crab's body came out of the stairs. Then, two Hybrid Minotaurs, Skeletons, Orc shamans, and Humanoid Sea Monsters with three eyes began to come out of the dungeon.
Once they saw the Holy Knights, all those monsters let out roars and sprinted towards them madly.
All those monsters' strengths were so strong, which caused the holy knights' formation to break in a few seconds.
Henriot was the one who wasn't fazed by the might of those monsters' powers. He took out the spell scrolls and tore them while adding magic stones to the rune circles one by one.
Multiple rays of lights and holy arrows came out from those scrolls and flew towards those monsters like rain.
Swoosh! Puch! Swoosh!
In a blink, all those holy arrows, spears, and rays poured onto them and started killing those creatures.
But some monsters avoided the attacks and started killing the holy knights while snatching their weapons.
"Heh~ there is a strong one hiding here." A childish singsong voice came from the depths of the stairs, causing others to tremble uncontrollably. A few seconds later, a small girl child in a luxurious crystals-embedded tunic reached her ankles, walking out of the spiral staircase. She looked around 130 cm high and appeared less than ten years old. But her physical appearance caused everyone to become more alert.
Before anyone could utter a single word, a wave of black miasma spread from her body and affected everyone inside the Light church. Then, the Syreni child snapped her fingers and smiled playfully. The next instant, a horrifying thing happened.
The sinister monsters with different appearances shivered in fear and fell. After that, their bodies began to bulge like balloons.
BAM! BAM! BAM!...
The monsters' bodies started to explode while letting out a series of explosive sounds behind. All those ugly monsters died within three seconds, leaving a bloody mess behind. Organs, flesh, brain matters, red and black blood splattered everywhere and painted the church hall in scarlet color.
Owooooooo!
A second later, a wolf howling sound came from the depth of the underground passage and made the Holy Knights and Priests step back in fear. After a while, a silver wolf around two-meter tall came out o the prison dungeon entrance and stood beside the Syreni child.
"You are late, Wolfie." The Syreni child said and clicked her tongue.
Upon sensing the master's mood, the Silver Wolf bowed its large head towards the small girl to appease her and started wagging its tail like a dog.
"Okay, okay. Now, where did the lizard go?" Without minding the High-Priest Henriot's or other Holy Knights' nervous gazes, the Syreni child muttered loudly.
"Who are you?" High-Priest Henriot regained his strength, gripped the wooden staff in his hand, and asked. There was a hint of nervousness in his tone. But he still stood there, blocking the Syreni child's path while glaring at her.
'This child is a pure evil being. O great lord, I must eliminate this evil threat here and now. Otherwise, it will bring a great catastrophe to our land.' Henriot's palm began to sweat as he stood there, blocking Syreni's path.
"Move!" Like a lord who commands nature, Syreni Child turned her face serious and spoke in a chilling tone. Simultaneously, the black miasmas gathered around her body and started corrupting the nearby areas.
The only one who managed to resist the miasma was High Priest Henriot and a few priests. Even High-Priest Henriot barely stood against the Syreni child and showed a nervous expression on his face.
"You wasted my time." Syreni child said while looking at Henriot with an amusing expression on her face.
Soon, she frowned and noticed that Henriot was still chanting with a pale face.
"I pray to my lord to guide me to kill this demon,
I pray to my lord to protect my soul from being corrupted,
I pray to my lord to purify this fiendish creature from our world,
I pray to my lord to..."
With a grim expression, Henriot continued to chant in a runic language but suddenly froze.
At that moment, Henriot noticed that the Holy Knights and Priests who stood beside him started to fall with thudding sounds.
The next instant, all their bodies started to bulge like those monsters. They screamed in misery and cried for help.
Alas, Henriot didn't stop his chant at all.
"Stop your chant." A chilling voice from the Syreni child's mouth. She stared into Henriot's eyes and waited for his reply.
"I pray to my Lord-" As Henriot was about to continue the chanting, she snapped her finger.
Bam! Bam! Bam!...
A second later, all the hundreds of Holy Knights' and Priests' balloon-like bodies started to explode like crackers and caused blood mist to appear in the church hall. Except for Henriot, not a single human survived. Watching the gruesome scene, he stood with a frightened face and trembled.
For the first time in Henriot's life, he was terrified of a small child standing before him.
"So much pure blood!" Syreni said with an excited tone. In the next instant, all the humans' blood started to float in the air, forming a large scarlet ball. Then, it moved towards Syneri, shrunk into a pebble-sized crystal, and landed on her tiny hand.
Holy knights' and priests' withered bodies were the only things left in the church hall.
Meanwhile, a pale-faced old man stood at the church hall center and appeared frozen in fear.
"Tell your Pope. Blood Child is coming for his head." Syreni child said coldly and quietly walked out of the church hall. Meanwhile, the Silver Fox wagged its silvery tail and followed after her silently.
...
Devil prison Island, Northern side.
"Do you know how to escape from this island? Like using teleportation type spells?" Aliza asked while walking hastily towards the beach.
"No, there is very little miasma in this world. So, it's tough for me to recover my energy." Ulzez muttered and glanced at the surroundings to see if they could use the boats for escape.
Meanwhile, Aliza quietly observed the dragonkin and asked.
"So, which faction are you from?" She knew that this dragonkin was a Chaos being and became more curious about his identity.
"Don't worry. I'm from the Lawful Faction." His reply made her breathe out a sigh of relief.
'Well, he seems to have no ill intention against me.' She suddenly heard a creaking noise from behind, turned around, and soon noticed that the whole church building started to go down.
'What the hell happened?' A startled expression appeared on her face.
"What are we going to do now?" She wondered why this mighty dragonkin ran away from the small child like a coward. As if he had already seen through her thoughts, Ulzez replied with a heavy sigh.
"Don't look at me like that, girl. I am not a coward. I'm currently exhausted due to the blood loss and nullification rods and can't fight properly. Also, I don't want to face that Blood child in this condition and place." Upon hearing his reply, a frown appeared on Aliza's face.
"Blood Child? What does that mean?" She knitted her eyebrows and asked in puzzlement.
"She is the daughter of Anangu, the Evil Goddess of Blood. To be more precise, she was a former demigod."