"Huh... It seems that for the church, clearing out the cultists here is the top priority, and the safety of the hostages is another matter... With what he did, Vanya is in danger..."

Dorothy murmured, and then she also began to remind Vanya.

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Somewhere in the villa, Vanya, who was resting and praying anxiously, suddenly felt the ground of the whole house shake and there was a loud noise outside. Vanya, who was praying, was startled and stood up directly, looking around in panic.

"What, what happened? What happened!?"

Vanya looked around in confusion, and at this moment, she felt a slight pain above her chest. The puppet mark hidden under her clothes reacted at this time. After receiving this reaction, Vanya frowned slightly.

"This is Miss Dorothea's tip!"

Vanya thought so in her heart. According to the previous agreement, this kind of prompt represented a signal for action. After Vanya received the prompt, she could start thinking of ways to escape from here.

"From the noise just now, it seems that the Church and the Hunters have begun their attack... If I want to escape, I have to do it now!"

Vanya thought so, and then she immediately set off, walked quickly to the door of the room and opened it. She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the guard at the door seemed to have been attracted by the noise just now.

Just as Vanya was about to leave, there was a sudden loud noise on the corridor on her side. Vanya turned her head and looked over, then saw that several monsters with black hair, hideous faces, sharp teeth and claws, and the shape of apes suddenly emerged from the end of the corridor. Vanya recognized these creatures. They were the monsters controlled by Steve, and it was they who abducted her here, and now they were obviously not here with good intentions.

"roar!!"

Howling, three orcs rushed towards Vanya frantically along the corridor. Vanya was frightened and ran quickly to the right.

"Ahh! These guys are coming for me! What kind of monsters are they!"

Vanya ran as fast as she could along the corridor, trying to escape from the orcs, while the three orcs were chasing her closely from behind, staring at Vanya with eyes full of appetite. Their order was to eat this nun.

The orcs possessed the physical abilities of black-level beast forms, that is, first-level "cup" and first-level "shadow", while Vanya, a healing priest, was first-level "lamp" and first-level "cup". There was an absolute gap in physical abilities between them, and it was impossible for them to shake off the other. As the orcs ran wildly, they were already approaching Vanya from behind at a very fast speed.

This time, these beastmen had some characteristics of wild beasts. They had a certain "shadow" nature and could sense the fear of their prey. They could smell the panic on Vanya, and based on this smell, they thought Vanya was a prey to be slaughtered and posed no threat at all. After approaching Vanya, one of them leaped up with all their might and pounced on her from behind. Vanya's heart immediately rose to her throat.

"Oh... help me!"

At this moment, an eagle's cry sounded above the corridor. An eagle came from nowhere and flew over from the front of the corridor. In its sharp claws, it was holding a slender sword blade. At the tip of the sharp blade, there was a huge ruby ​​inlaid.

The eagle flew in front of Vanya and dropped the sword it was holding. Seeing the eagle holding the sword she threw, Vanya's eyes widened and she almost instinctively stretched out her hand to catch it in mid-air. The moment she grasped the hilt of the sword, the panic on her face instantly disappeared, and her expression became indifferent. The beasts could feel that Vanya's aura suddenly changed at this moment. The panic before was gone, replaced by a dangerous aura and a fierce killing intent.

In indifference, Vanya closed her eyes, then saw clearly what was around her, what was behind her, and then... she gripped the blade tightly, turned around and pulled out a flash of cold light, the sword tip cut through the flesh, and the black beast that pounced on her was beheaded directly by this unexpected blow, and fell to the ground with its eyes wide open.

In a horrified counterattack, Vanya holding the sword took advantage of the beasts behind her being paralyzed and careless, and killed one of them directly. The other two beastmen stopped immediately after seeing this. They took a vigilant posture facing Vanya holding the sword, baring their teeth and full of hostility.

The first orc was easily killed by a counterattack because he underestimated the enemy. The remaining two orcs who witnessed this scene changed their attitude after seeing the death of their companion and tried their best to deal with Vanya. They got on all fours, gulping and drooling as they pounced on Vanya. Vanya held her sword and attacked them head-on.

For a moment, sharp claws and sword lights intertwined, roars and strikes were a symphony, and after not underestimating the enemy, the two orcs were obviously much more difficult to deal with. They were extremely strong and agile, and under their back and forth attacks, Vanya relied on her mind to dodge.

Although the orc's physical fitness is higher than Vanya's, his attacks are based on instinct and he has no skills at all. In Vanya's eyes, any attack of the orc is invisible, and in the gaps between dodging, Vanya can still find room to counterattack.

But unfortunately, Vanya's movements were too restricted because she was trapped in the two corners. Each of her counterattacks could not hit the orcs' vital points, and all of them left various large and small wounds and scratches on their bodies. Although these wounds made the orcs bleed all over, they were not fatal. For the extraordinary creation of "Cup", this degree of injury was nothing, and it was far from being able to stop it from moving.

The battle continued. Although Vanya relied on her mind and superb swordsmanship to leave countless wounds on the two beastmen, the powerful vitality of the "cup" meant that these tiny wounds could not hinder the beastmen's actions. As long as Vanya could not kill the two beastmen with one blow, the battle would become a competition of endurance and physical strength between the two sides, which was absolutely disadvantageous to Vanya who was only assisting the "cup".

In fact, this is mainly a problem of the healing priest profession itself. The extraordinary ability to help others and himself recover from injuries is almost useless in such a fierce one-on-one confrontation without teammates!

In this kind of fierce close combat, the Sunlight Spear with a long swing is useless, so if Vanya wants to win, she must find another way, and Vanya does have this method...

"Oh... enlighten me..."

With her eyes closed, she muttered devoutly. During the battle, Vanya's left hand, which was not holding the sword, suddenly emitted an orange-yellow halo. That was the light that only appeared when a healing priest was performing treatment. That light could heal the wounds of the wounded and relieve their pain.

Vanya activated the healing priest's ability, but she was not injured at this time. This ability was not used on herself, but on her enemies.

Taking advantage of an opportunity, Vanya stroked the orc's arm with her left hand, which was glowing with healing light. Suddenly, many small wounds on the orc's hand healed.

The wounds where Vanya had touched closed and the bleeding stopped. After the beastman whose wounds had been healed saw this scene, even though he was a beast, he felt surprised. He did not expect that the human in front of him would heal him.

Is this something I ate wrong?

However, this surprise did not last long, and the orc being treated immediately felt something was wrong.

The wound that was supposed to heal actually felt a sharp pain at this moment, which was much more intense than the pain when it was torn apart before! And the wound began to swell for unknown reasons, and the pain under the skin was spreading rapidly. The "healed" beastman couldn't help but howl in pain, with bloodshot eyes.

Seeing this scene, Vanya breathed a sigh of relief.

"Huh... it works. It seems that the theory that Dorothea-san talked about before is the same. The healing technique revealed by Aka can be used like this...

'It is possible... to use the wrong treatment...'

Vanya was thinking in her heart that she had just used her ability to give the wrong treatment to the orc's injuries. When healing the wound, she deliberately ruptured the tissues and misconnected all the blood vessels, causing large-scale thrombosis and even blood convection, resulting in large-scale subcutaneous internal bleeding, turning the external injuries into internal injuries, which continued to worsen!

This is a practical application of the healing priest's abilities!