Chapter 542 The World's No. 1 Support

Aiwass's group consisted of more than a dozen people and they went all the way down to the fifth ring without encountering any obstacles.

This made Sherlock frown slightly, feeling a little strange.

"Your Highness...how did you discover the location of that curse master?"

He confirmed.

The Saint, her eyes covered with a white silk ribbon, lowered her head slightly and explained to him, "Curse Counter-Tracking—using the curse you've dispelled to reversely locate the opponent's approximate location. This is a common technique among the priests of the Theocracy, and can be learned and mastered by reaching the third level of the Path of Devotion."

"When you priests of Avalon reach the rank of bishop, you will all come to the Theocracy for further training. Only then will you learn some of the mysterious skills that can only be learned from the Theocracy... and Aiwass will be able to learn them later."

"In other words, any bishop can master this skill?"

Sherlock demanded.

Hearing this, Aiwass reacted: "Are you trying to say, could this be a trap?"

“…It’s not impossible.”

Chunbai frowned slightly and paused.

She tilted her head back, as if closing her eyes and listening to the whistling sound of the wind.

Then Pure White opened his eyes and looked at Aiwass and Sherlock, his expression becoming slightly serious: "That curse master has not changed his position since he completed the curse."

"Sounds more like a trap," Sherlock commented.

He looked at the Pope's guards and said politely, "Do we need to bring more people?"

Hearing this, the young male elf leading the group laughed out loud: "No need."

"Indeed, it's not necessary."

Aiwass nodded. "It's more important to prevent them from escaping. If there's a trap, just go for it."

Sherlock had not participated in the promotion ceremony that he and Isabel had just participated in, and had no idea about the combat effectiveness of the Pope's Guards - the Pope's Guards, combined in pairs, could easily fight against a fifth-level extraordinary person... After all, the ability to manipulate time is not simple.

Not to mention, as immortals, they can easily accumulate a lot of combat experience, which is totally incomparable to the Avalon Arbitration Hall's fast-growing fourth-level transcendents whose average age is less than forty years old.

They were able to roughly determine the enemy's identity.

[Mr. Red Wine] Bram Stoker—it's possible he could be at the fifth level, but the likelihood isn't very high. Even if he were, he couldn't possibly defeat so many of them. Even if he wanted to target Aiwass, there was no reason for him to provoke Her Majesty the Saint... Cursing "Zumaidi" in front of the Saint was already an insult and provocation.

There are actually only two possibilities.

The first possibility is that Mr. Red Wine was unaware that Aiwass would lead the trolls to Cardinal Loki, thereby coincidentally encountering Her Highness the Saint, who was seeking to trouble Cardinal Loki. He chose to curse the troll ritual mage named Zumaidi for other purposes, such as silencing, misleading, and locating him.

This possibility is actually very high.

After all, those three foolish trolls had spent the entire day yesterday wandering around the First Circle's harbor. Three trolls of different colors walking together, making them much more recognizable than Aiwass. It was only natural that someone had spread the news about them, and that Mr. Red Wine had discovered them.

——But why did the curser choose to curse only one person?

After the curse was lifted, he didn't flee, nor did he attempt to continue cursing Zumaidi or change his target. Furthermore, the person cursed happened to be the lowest-ranking curser in troll society.

Another possibility is...

Another possibility emerged in Aiwass's mind.

This is the possibility that only Aiwass could think of first:

Just like he chose to kill "Sherlock" during the promotion ceremony to inform Isabel -

"But it's better to be cautious. So, just in case..."

Pure White said in a low voice with a serious expression.

She stopped immediately, put her hands together, clasped her fingers together, closed her eyes and prayed.

Aiwass felt as if something was watching him at that moment.

Even Aiwass's system panel reacted:

You feel the gaze of devotion.

You feel the gaze of 'dusk'

You feel the gaze of love.

[You have obtained a temporary feature: light has three states]

[Devotion/Dusk/Love-Light has three states: When you use a "holy" type spell to deal damage or resist, you gain +1 advantage (blessing); your "holy" type shields, resistances, and statuses gain dispel resistance, and you gain +1 advantage (blessing) when resisting dispel; your attacks ignore the resistance bonus of the "unholy" type. This feature lasts until the next midnight.]

The next moment, the light behind Chunbai suddenly expanded and roared.

Invisible wings of pure white light gathered and spread out behind her, enveloping everyone, before shattering and dissipating like glass.

[You have obtained a temporary buff: Wings of the Saint]

[Wings of the Saint: You gain a strong body/heroic spirit/magic power, lasting for one hour]

A radiance bloomed from everyone's body, condensing into a layer of light shield on their body surface. Then, the light shield disappeared back into the skin.

[You get a temporary buff: Radiant Shield]

[Glow Shield: Gain moderate light/dark attribute damage reduction; gain slash/slash/pierce resistance; gain curse/instant death/plague protection, lasting 15 minutes]

The next moment, a gentle white light emerged from everyone's body.

They condensed into a ball of light, floating up from above his head, and blossomed into a green light, sprinkling down on his body like rain.

[You have obtained a temporary benefit: Saint's Protection]

[Saint's Protection: You gain a false life - the third energy level; when you are about to suffer a fatal injury, you will immediately receive a powerful healing. This effect can be used three times and lasts for 30 minutes.]

"...That should be fine."

Pure White released his hands and said calmly, "I've slightly inflicted a protective state on you, and also added some nice buffs. This should be fine."

She looked in very good condition and did not look tired at all.

Ai Hua's eyes suddenly widened.

It was then that Aiwass suddenly realized one thing: although he had now reached the fourth energy level... it seemed that he didn't need to add BUFF himself now.

Because their temporary team has someone who stands at the top of the fifth energy level - undoubtedly the best support in the world.

Aiwas's vision was so broad that he only remembered that Pure White did not complete the succession in the end... because the Pope of this term finally woke up.

According to the original history, Pure White would not succeed the Eternal Pope until the Theocracy summoned Zhu Tiansi, but this event was not within the player's field of vision, so Aiwass did not have any real sense of it.

And now think about it... if she didn't have Ningpo, Chunbai would be the next Eternal Pope next month.

——With such assistance, there is nothing to be afraid of!

Aiwass's courage suddenly grew.

He remembered Pure White's words: "I will not let anyone suffer in front of me."

With both Gloria and Mercedes dead, this statement seems somewhat ironic. To exaggerate a bit, it could be made into an emoticon, used to express "I can't do anything."

But now, Aiwass truly realized the value of this sentence - if Chunbai doesn't want you to die, it will be very difficult to die in front of her.

...And it was precisely because of this intensity of power that she was unable to save her two friends.

Thinking about it the other way around, Aiwass suddenly understood why pure white would turn into amber.

She possessed the power to save everyone, yet was powerless against Amber Disease... He allowed Gloria to survive in agony, but at best, he could only prevent her from dying. The most she could do was to "maintain the status quo" and hope her condition didn't worsen.

——From this perspective, it’s not just Mercedes and Pure White who are torturing Gloria.

Gloria's existence itself is a torture to Mercedes and Pure White——

For a mortal, caring for a bedridden patient would be exhausting after just a few years. Amber, for an elf, is a dreaded disease, like cancer... While Pure White's powerful rescue extended Gloria's life by two hundred years, it also meant two hundred years of torment for Pure White.

...Could it be that what Gloria and Mercedes did was actually to free Pure White?

If they discovered the pure white amber... if they thought it was all their fault...

——At that moment, Aiwass thought of another person.

"'Premature death' is just a necessary evil..."

Aiwass murmured.

...Speaking of which.

That man is now in the Theocracy.

(End of this chapter)