"Light Blood Road was the path Mother of Light had walked in the distant past, and at its end lay the Life Passage."
"One extremely fatal point was that the Life Passage was both the entrance to the Motherland of Light and the entrance to the Dark Universe."
Stana held the baby girl Sister Teresa had regressed into, her figure streaking across the Light Blood Road like a beam of racing holy light.
Far behind her, Tristan Sophia, who had been delayed for quite some time by the Pumpkin Bombs, was giving chase.
If the two fought alone under fair conditions, Stana was actually only slightly weaker than Tristan. After all, she was the disciple of the current Sister Teresa. In terms of background and resources, she would not lose to the future Knight King.
But unfortunately, Tristan had the support of the Angel Legion.
They were not true angels, of course, but projections of heroic spirits that could continuously supply Tristan with vast amounts of pure holy light.
The distance between them was rapidly shrinking.
Yet there was nothing more Stana could do. Her progress had already been astonishing; she was undoubtedly a genius-level supernatural being.
Still, she could not bridge the gap between herself and someone of Tristan's caliber, especially after Stana had already endured multiple pursuit battles.
And she was carrying a burden as well.
All Stana could do was flee.
"Faster. Just a little faster. If I can enter the Motherland of Light first, my teacher will be saved, the evil god will fall, and all the truth will be revealed."
"Hmm?"
As Stana focused on fleeing, the trail of holy light behind her suddenly curved sharply.
The reason for her abrupt turn was a corpse that had suddenly appeared ahead on the blood road.
It