There are four saintesses like Vera who are skilled in healing in the eight-person team.
The other four, like Vivi, each protected one person, and in the end, only they remained.
Only a dozen or so Lionheart Knights remained, and it seemed they could hold out for the last hour without any problem.
But that's impossible.
Because Vivis and Verania had been fighting for so long, they were no longer able to continue fighting, except for those Lionheart Knights.
"ah!"
Verania raised her tired eyes. She had been repeating the same actions as the healing knight all day, but now that she suddenly heard her sister Vivi's painful screams, she made a different move.
Just that one look terrified Verania so much that her hands and feet turned ice-cold and she was unable to move.
Because Vivis was pierced by a demon! And this demon, Verania knew, was a possessed demon. Several of her sister nuns had been possessed after their deaths, becoming neither human nor ghost, and were extremely terrifying.
Vivis, exhausted from the prolonged battle, was dragged into the demon horde by the possessed demon.
Despite the Lionheart Knight's rescue, she was still doomed.
"Sister Vivi! Don't leave me, don't leave me..."
"Kill...kill me...I don't want to...I don't want to become...Pfft!"
Vivis could no longer hold on; her body emanated a demonic aura, the seed left by the possessing demon within her, which was now taking root and sprouting as Vivis's aura rapidly declined.
Verania looked on in despair at the Lionheart Knights falling one by one, and at her sister Vivius standing before her.
Finally, as Vivis's voice grew fainter and fainter as she cried out to kill me, Verania painfully drew her holy dagger and plunged it into Vivis.
puff!
Verania broke down and fell into a coma after being stabbed.
Seeing this scene, Xiao Dai's fists bulged with veins, wishing he could go down and fight alongside these Lionheart Knights, even if they were just historical figures.
Possessed by a demon, Vivis begs Villania to kill her, which is the only option she can make. Villania then takes her best friend and savior's life herself.
This is also why, when he was protecting Vera, he would often hear her confessing that she had killed her senior sister with her own hands.
Daylight... has broken!
Just like in history, the Lionheart Knights fought to the very last moment, battling the nuns to the death and wiping out four-fifths of the demon army, while the kingdom's rescue team was also dispatched.
The demons didn't even have time to finish off the remaining enemies before they had to retreat en masse.
The unconscious Verania became the last survivor of the Saintess Trial and the last Saintess of Light.
However, the title of Saintess weighed heavily on her heart. Whenever she thought of that battle, she couldn't help but burst into tears, feeling ashamed of herself as the Saintess of Light and hoping that a new Saintess of Light would replace her.
But six years have passed, and even though she took the initiative to start the Saintess Trial, and even increased the number of participants from one hundred to three hundred, five hundred, and one thousand!
Ultimately, no one survived that terrible seventh day.
Looking at those fragmented moments in time, Xiao Dai realized that even in the Saintess Trial with a thousand participants, many unexpected events would still occur, such as the confrontations that wouldn't have happened in the previous Saintess Trials.
Ultimately, they too will die among the demon army.
No one can last a day.
Six years later, the old king passed away and a new king succeeded him. However, before taking office, he failed to manage the relationship between his brothers well, which led to a tense and chaotic situation within the country.
This was especially true among the nobility.
The Holy Church was also affected by this chaos.
The twelve cardinals disagreed with the Pope, and signs of another demonic invasion appeared in the Duke's territory.
Within the Holy Church, of the many beautiful saintesses who once flourished, only Villania remains!
In order to escape this vortex of power and politics, Verania took the initiative to come to Captain Mark on behalf of the Holy Church.
Mark, who was once a squad leader in the Knights of the Crusades, has now become the captain of the new Holy Crusade.
Although he was not as powerful as the regimental commander and deputy regimental commander, he was still the third most powerful person under them.
"We have already located the Ghost Knight in that village. His threat has become too great for the Duke to ignore. If it gets in touch with the demon army... the consequences will be unimaginable!"
The strategist beside Captain Mark took out the blueprints and reported.
Over the past six years, the Duke has launched numerous campaigns against the Dark Knights, only to be repelled each time. Now, a new wave of demonic attacks is imminent, and before the arrival of external enemies, internal issues have also come to the forefront.
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