Chapter 497 Cleaning
Along with thunder and long whistles in the sky, heavy shells fired from afar poured into the palace from the ceiling. Lightning cleared a path for them, and they fell through the holes in the shattered ceiling into the hall where a large number of Saviorists had gathered. Before anyone inside could react, the shells hit the ground and exploded.
Roaring and blazing, the powerful destructive force swept the entire hall in a matter of seconds. The bodies of those affected by the destruction were torn apart, the debris was burned, and the walls were damaged. Ordinary mortal bodies could not withstand this destructive force at all. Countless people suddenly regained consciousness and stepped into death silently. Only Mukhtar, who could withstand such power, did not regain consciousness completely at the first time. He opened his mouth and felt the double collapse of his body and soul in an extremely painful posture. The impact and flames spread to the entire hall, and every place turned into hell. Only the inside of the solid shield covered by countless metals and ice, created by extraordinary abilities, could barely escape.
After the huge roar, the heat wave and impact faded away, the dust and smoke gradually subsided, and the originally luxurious and solemn palace hall disappeared after the roar, leaving only a ruin of broken walls and broken walls. In the ruins was a huge crater, around the crater were many rubbles and debris, and further away was a pile of broken metal scattered on the ground. Not long ago, these metals had formed a huge metal cover that the Savior’s armed men could hardly open together, but now, this metal cover had been destroyed by the explosion of the shells and turned into this pile of broken metal.
A short while after the explosion, a pile of metal debris began to move. After a slight shake, the pile of debris was pushed away by a force from the bottom to the top. Then a figure covered in dust slowly stood up from the pile of debris.
Under Dorothy's control, Vanya pushed away the metal fragments pressing on her body and stood up from the ruins. After patting the dust off her body, she glanced at the whole place and finally shifted her gaze to the huge crater in the hall. Looking at the crater, Dorothy in the hidden space of the temple couldn't help but sigh and think.
"It hit the target with one shot. That's pretty accurate... As expected of Farajo's new cannon, it's very accurate. Although Baruch's purchase of these weapons didn't prevent his own demise, it did help me a lot...
"To deal with a discipline that is triggered by subjective hostility, all you need to do is attack without hostility. Large-scale, non-hostile bombardment is the solution..."
Looking at the messy scene in front of her, Dorothy thought about it. After learning about Mukhtar's new rules, she soon found a suitable way to crack it, which is a non-hostile range attack. As long as she can find someone who doesn't know Mukhtar and who knows nothing about it, she can cover Mukhtar's coordinates with firepower beyond visual range, then she can hurt him without triggering Mukhtar's rules.
Just like what happened now, Nephnesse was completely confused and fired artillery shells at Mukhtar's coordinates without knowing Mukhtar's situation, thus killing him and his men. Since she didn't know who she was hitting, what was the point of firing the artillery shells? Therefore, Nephnesse successfully bypassed Mukhtar's commandments unconsciously and launched the attack.
Of course, although this plan can allow Nefernis to circumvent the influence of the commandments unconsciously, Dorothy, who instructs Nefernis to do so, is at risk of triggering the commandments, because her plan is aimed at Mukhtar and carries obvious hostility and malice.
In order to mitigate and avoid malicious intent, Dorothy broke the plan down into several steps. When it came to the most critical step of giving Nephthys the firing elements to fire the shells, Dorothy took advantage of the fact that the firing elements needed to be calculated and made the entire calculation process extremely complicated. She filled her brain with a huge amount of calculations, focusing all her experience on the problem-solving process, confusing and deviating from her original purpose.
This practice of using small goals to offset big goals can be seen in many real-life examples. For example, when Dorothy was a student in her previous life, she took a math test. Halfway through the test, a very difficult question suddenly appeared, which took a long time to solve. However, the math test only lasted for more than an hour, so it was necessary to plan the test time reasonably. Rationally speaking, if you try to solve this difficult question and find that you can't solve it for a while, you should put it aside and come back to it after solving other unsolved questions.
However, many candidates, unable to solve the problem, force themselves to solve it, and are aroused by this difficult problem. They will not give up until they solve it, and their main goal will change from completing the test and getting a high score to solving the difficult problem in front of them. As a result, they spend too much time on this problem, leaving them no time to complete the simpler questions later, and eventually they get a low score. Another example is when painting, some people like to focus on details, like to focus on a small detail and ignore the overall picture, which leads to a decline in the quality of the painting...
These are all examples of people forgetting the overall goal due to excessive focus on certain small goals. They are everywhere in life and usually have different effects. However, Dorothy here took advantage of this phenomenon. She deliberately complicated the calculation of the shooting elements and spent a lot of energy on the small goal of calculating the elements, thus neglecting the big goal of attacking Mukhtar. She used this to suppress her malice and circumvent the rules.
Nefernis's bombardment hit the target accurately, causing heavy casualties. Before the explosion, Vanya and Shadi were inside the metal shield. This metal shield gathered more than half of the metal in the entire palace, and was extremely thick. Shadi also sealed the gaps inside with thick ice, which not only further increased the shield's defense, but also prevented the high-temperature airflow generated by the explosion from invading through the gaps. In addition, the impact point set by Dorothy was far away, so the shield was not hit as a whole. Under the protection of this shield, Vanya and the others successfully survived.
Dorothy watched Vanya stroll around the ruins, using her vision to observe the surrounding situation. After strolling for a while, Dorothy found a broken body in a corner of the hall with only half of its body left and one arm missing. The whole body was charred black without a piece of flesh. Unlike other wreckage bodies, this one seemed to be breathing faintly from its wide-open mouth, and the whole body seemed to have very subtle signs of life. It had become like this and had not yet died. There was no one else in the hall except Mukhtar.
Dorothy controlled Vanya and let her stare silently at the dying body in the corner of the ruins. The body was also staring at Vanya with wide eyes. He spoke for the last time in his fading breath.
"Why... can you...?"
Before he could finish his words, Mukhtar had exhausted his last bit of strength and lay motionless on the ground with his lifeless body. The light in his eyes faded, and this heretic of the Church of Light, a senior leader of the Savior's Advent Sect, and the chief priest of the Red Stage died on the spot. After experiencing a series of serious injuries such as lightning strikes and explosions, his soul had reached its limit.
Silently staring at the remains of Mukhtar in front of her, Dorothy used her spiritual thread to determine that the other party was indeed dead, and then she breathed a sigh of relief. Then she asked Vanya to start searching around the remains of Mukhtar, and soon she found what she wanted from the rubble nearby.
This was a plain stone box. Mukhtar had taken out a lot of things from it during the previous battles, and Dorothy could recognize that it was a magic box made by high-level craftsmen from the White Stonemasons Guild. It could store things far beyond its surface capacity, and it was an extremely precious item in the entire secret world. Even Cretaceous-level extraordinary people could hardly possess it. Dorothy was able to have one thanks to Aldridge.
Holding the stone box in her hand, Vanya was about to put it away, and at this moment a somewhat weak male voice came from behind her.
"Hoo...Hoo...Have you already started searching for spoils? You're recovering so quickly... Miss Sister..."
Hearing the voice, Vanya turned her head, and then she saw Shadi, who was standing up with the help of a pillar on the other side of the hall. At this moment, he was looking in Vanya's direction with a strange expression.
"I never thought... we actually had a chance to defeat a naked being... Although I don't know exactly what happened in the end, it's really a miracle... We killed Mukhtar and managed to survive. This is really incredible, don't you think, Sister Vanya...
"Or maybe... the priest of the Heavenly Judge..."
With a subtle expression, Sadie spoke to Vanya in front of him. Dorothy was slightly startled after hearing what Sadie said, and then let Vanya speak to her.
"Oh... have you figured out that I'm not Vanya now?"
"Yes, after all, I am a soul-contracted person. I have worked in the underground of Beiwu for many years. I have seen a lot of the legacy of the First Dynasty. I also have some experience in the soul and the things in the body. It is not too difficult for me to see your current situation. After all, people whose souls are hurt by Mukhtar's commandments will not wake up so easily."
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