In the end, everyone decided to dock at the floating city and begin the search.

The main reason is that, after all, we know very little about the Devouring Snakes. Killing them with a missile is convenient, but we cannot know their full picture. So it is best to capture a few executors or apostles. According to Xiao Hei, the three guys who tried to invade the castle before are probably half-dead or half-crippled.

Although the remaining Steel Girl finally summoned a strange Gundam to break through her inherent barrier and take the remaining two people away, Xiao Hei was not a pushover. After reacting, he immediately shot a "pseudo spiral sword" at it. This was the truth of the air explosion that Estelle and the others saw at the city gate.

According to Xiao Hei, she was so angry that she directly activated a "Fantasy Collapse". If these guys were caught in such an explosion, even if they didn't die, they would have lost half their lives. At that time, the Liberl Kingdom army searched the surroundings, but did not find any bodies or injured people, which means that they had a high probability of running back to the floating city.

If we can control these three people and interrogate them, we might be able to get a lot of clues.

Finally, Kolos and the others decided to launch a landing operation, while Xiao Hei, Illya, Tio and Ling stayed on the battleship, ready to respond at any time - after all, they also had to prevent the other party from making a desperate attempt to seize the battleship. Now that the association's Ark was destroyed, the other party probably wouldn't be able to have a second Ark in a short time. If they managed to seize the Blizzard, they would lose both the wife and the army.

"Don't we need help?"

Watching Kolos and his group leave the spaceship, Illya asked anxiously, while Xiao Hei took out a comic book and began to read it.

"Don't worry about them. They are all adults and know what they should do. Besides, the eldest brother said he will come too, so just leave it to him and we can just sit here and watch the show."

As Xiao Hei spoke, he changed his posture comfortably.

"It has nothing to do with us anyway. Look, those two are playing Popo-Pop."

"Well……"

Illya glanced at Tio and Ling who had turned on the computer and started to indulge in fighting games, and her face froze, but she also knew that this was normal. MASTER was the god of games, and there were many people who liked to play games in Tiandao Palace, so it was normal for the girls here to like playing games.

So she thought about it and took out a book.

"Hey, why are you looking at that? The master is not here now, why are you pretending to be a good boy?"

However, just as Illya let go of the book, it was snatched away by Xiao Hei.

"Come, look at this!"

"What's this……"

Looking at the book that Xiao Hei had forced upon her, Illya asked doubtfully, then let it go out of curiosity. The next moment, a blush suddenly appeared on the girl's fair cheeks.

“Xiao Hei, you——!!”

“Shhh!!”

However, before Illya could scream, Xiao Hei covered her mouth.

"Keep your voice down, there are kids here! This is Eriri's new doujinshi!"

"Why are you showing me this? It's so... obscene..."

"Don't care whether it's vulgar or classy, ​​just watch and learn!"

"study?"

"Of course."

Seeing Illya's puzzled expression, Xiao Hei smiled and winked at her.

"I know what you and big brother did, but with your current progress, it's not easy to win big brother's favor! So you have to master some more skills!"

"Skills...techniques..."

Hearing this, Illya's ears turned red and she lowered her head like an ostrich.

"Look at this. We have many more weapons we can use. Look here, and here. Do you see it? Not only can we use our hands, but we can also use our feet. And we can also do this. Look, it's like a sandwich. Isn't it inspiring?"

“Woo… woo…”

While listening to Xiao Hei's words and looking at the scene in front of her, Illya's face turned red. In the end, she snatched the book.

"I'll go back to my room and check it out!!"

After saying this, Illya turned and rushed out of the bridge, while Xiao Hei giggled, stretched, and looked at the sky outside the window.

Judging from the time, the elder brother should be here soon. He told himself that he didn't have time to waste on these sewer rats.

These idiots are screwed.

At the same time, in the core area of ​​the floating city, Estel and his group were confronting a man in a white robe standing on a high platform, the white-faced "Wiseman" of the third pillar of the Serpent Apostle. He was the "professor" Estel mentioned before, and the culprit who forced Joshua to leave Estel, and the real culprit behind the previous coup in the Kingdom of Liberl.

"Very good. I didn't expect you to come here and break my absolute hint..."

Looking at Estell and her group below, Wiseman was pale and extremely angry.

These guys were able to break through the series of obstacles he had set up. Coming here already made Wiseman very angry, but what made him even angrier was that Joshua, the chess piece that Wiseman had originally planted among them, also had an accident. Originally, Wiseman had implanted a mark of absolute domination in Joshua's spiritual world to manipulate him, but this was not known to Estelle and the others.

In this situation, Wiseman originally wanted to activate the suggestion rooted in Joshua's spiritual world and make him kill Estelle in public.

What Wiseman didn't expect was that his suggestion actually... failed? !

"Don't you dare control me again, Hakumian!"

Joshua, holding a double blade in his hand and blocking Estelle, stared coldly at Wiseman in front of him.

"Now you have nowhere to escape, surrender!!"

"It's really shocking. I didn't expect you bastards to get so entangled with me."

Looking at Estell, Joshua and the others in front of him, Wiseman seemed a little surprised, but still calm.

"Huhu, the professor who is always polite and courteous has also started to swear."

Hearing what Wiseman said, Estell also chuckled, while Chlos next to her shook her head slightly.

"He's already furious."

However, at this moment, in front of everyone, Wiseman flashed and returned to the center of the platform.

"Hehehe, how pathetic! He didn't even know he had stepped into the gates of hell."

As he spoke, Wiseman raised the staff in his hand.

"I originally wanted to present it to the leader, but now... I will let you rats truly experience how great your opponent is!!"

As he spoke, Wiseman floated into the air, and then a dazzling golden light emerged and engulfed him.

"What's this?"

"not good!!"

Seeing this, Rufina, who was dressed as a nun, suddenly changed her expression.

"He's about to merge with Tamaki, stop him now!!"

As Rufina spoke, everyone clenched their weapons and rushed towards Wiseman. Soon, powerful attacks burst out and hit the golden light, but there was no effect at all. Not only that, accompanied by a sudden burst of strong spiritual pressure, the people besieging Wiseman were blown away and fell heavily to the ground.

But when they looked up again, they were completely stunned.

As the golden light faded, Wiseman appeared in front of them again, but now Wiseman had completely lost his original appearance. He turned into a huge and strange white monster, floating in the air.

“Hehehe… This feeling is better than I imagined…”

Wiseman's voice rang out again, but this time his voice did not appear in everyone's ears, but echoed directly into their minds.

"Let me show you the power of the angels who are guiding mankind into a new era!"

"Get out of here now!!"

Rufina managed to stand up, holding the weapon tightly in her hand.

"He is no longer someone that mortals can deal with. Come on, I will hold him back. Take this opportunity to return to the Blizzard!"

As she spoke, Rufina held her weapon tightly against her chest.

"Goddess of grace, please grant me the power to punish the evil minions!!"

As Rufina prayed, a golden spear soon emerged from behind her. Then Rufina jumped up, holding the golden spear that was even bigger than her, and rushed towards Wiseman who had turned into a white monster in front of her!

"boom!!!"

The golden giant spear hit Wiseman's body, but did not cause any damage. Instead, Rufina screamed and was knocked away.

"ah--!!"

"Ms. Rufina!!"

Seeing Rufina being knocked away, Clos screamed immediately, and at this moment, Wiseman's sneer rang out again.

“Hehehe, you lackeys of the church, you also want to destroy me? I am the angel who guides mankind, and you are just a bunch of lackeys!!! This is the real power!!”

"The attack was completely useless? Why is this happening!?"

At this time, Estell looked at Wiseman in front of her in surprise, unable to believe her eyes, while Joshua gritted his teeth and slowly stood up.

"There is a strong barrier around him...our attacks have no effect at all."

"Ha ha ha ha."

Looking at the people in front of him, Wiseman laughed again.

"Even among the seven treasures, the Ring of Radiance is the only one that specializes in controlling space. The absolute barrier it creates is totally incomparable to that of guide magic. Now you can no longer compete with me! Get ready to die...!!"

"boom!!!"

However, before Wiseman could finish his words, the entire floating city suddenly trembled.

The next moment, the ceiling above their heads suddenly shattered, and then a black shadow fell from the sky and directly hit Wiseman, who had turned into a huge monster. However, this time, Wiseman's so-called "absolute barrier" did not work at all. He screamed and was directly blasted to the ground by the black shadow.

At this time, everyone saw the true face of the black shadow and were shocked.

"Mr. Fang Zheng?"

That's right, it was Fang Zheng who appeared here. He was wearing clothes that were exactly the same as usual. He just stepped on Wiseman who had turned into a monster. At this moment, Fang Zheng also had a cold expression on his face. He raised his fist towards Wiseman in front of him, and then swung it down heavily.

"A society, huh?"

"Bang!"

"Apostle, huh?"

"Bang!"

"The greatest treasure, huh?"

"Bang!"

"Angel, huh?"

"Bang!"

"I make millions every minute, you idiots are trying to make trouble for me, right?"

"Bang!"

"You think I have no temper, right?"

"Bang!"

Seeing Fang Zheng cursing while beating Wiseman in front of him like his grandson, everyone else was speechless. They certainly knew how powerful Wiseman was - in fact, even before he merged with the Ring of Glory, it would not be easy to defeat him even with the combined strength of everyone present.

But now, Wiseman, who had clearly merged with the Ring of Glory, was stepped on by Fang Zheng, who punched him left and right like a grandson.

"You, you actually dare..."

"Shut up, did I ask you to talk?"

"Bang!!"

As Fang Zheng threw another punch, Wiseman let out a wail. The next moment, the huge white monster gradually decomposed and dissipated. Then, Wiseman in his original human form appeared in front of everyone again.

But now he can no longer be described as gentle and refined, and can even be said to be no longer in human form - just from his face that is as swollen as a pig's head, it can be seen that Wiseman is now completely finished.

"Damn it, do you really think I'm easy to bully?"

Fang Zheng kicked Wiseman away, and was about to punch him again to kill him, but at this moment, Chlos screamed in fear.

"Teacher, don't kill him!!"

It was obvious that Chlos was getting anxious at the moment, and even called out the nickname used in Johnny's Academy.

"Not killing him? This guy has caused so much trouble, are we going to keep him alive for the New Year if we don't kill him?"

"No, he is the Apostle of the Snake. I think we can get some information from him."

"Don't forget, his specialty is memory manipulation, and there's a victim standing next to you."

Fang Zheng curled his lips at Joshua.

"And if I'm not mistaken, it was he who instigated Richard to stage a coup. How do you want to interrogate such a man who can manipulate people's minds? If he whispers a few words in your ear, you might forget everything."

"I agree with Mr. Fang Zheng, Your Highness Clotia."

Joshua was not angry, but nodded in agreement.

"Hakumian's power is extremely terrifying. If he wants to seduce you, it would be difficult for you to tell."

"this……"

Hearing this, Chlos also fell into hesitation, and at this moment, another voice sounded.

"In that case, why not hand him over to our church?"

"Why?"

Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw Rufina standing up with the help of Estel and looking at Fang Zheng.

"In fact, I came here this time because I was ordered by the church to deal with him. Perhaps you don't know that Wiseman was a clergyman of the church a long time ago, but he was later expelled from the church because of his corruption. But we didn't expect that he would do so many evil things..."

"……All right."

Fang Zheng thought for a moment, nodded, then kicked Wiseman, who had turned into a pig's head, over and handed him to Rufina.

"He's yours now."

However, at this moment, suddenly, the floating city began to tremble again.

"What's wrong with that?"

“This place is about to collapse.”

Fang Zheng glanced at Wiseman.

"I don't know how this guy absorbed the entire airship's guiding energy. Now the guiding energy has completely dissipated. This city can't hold out for much longer. Let's retreat."

No one objected to Fang Zheng's proposal.