Abel left the city in disappointment. He had not found any clerics there, nor had he found any Holy Knights following behind them.
He sat in the control room of the War Fortress and ordered the Druidic sub-soul and the World Stone Fragment to search for the clerics' positions again. This time, they would continue searching and automatically update Huoya Spirit with the location information at regular intervals.
There were already sixty Books of Inheritance in the "Crystal Angel Statue." This was the result of his fastest, nonstop raids.
Ever since he learned that the Holy Light Empire had prepared a response to his attacks, he had encountered the encirclement of hundreds of Holy Knights. On one occasion, he had even faced a battle formation of a thousand Holy Knights.
To avoid wasting time, he simply snapped his fingers to deal with them. After killing the clerics and obtaining the Books of Inheritance, he rushed toward his next target.
But after the Holy Light Empire discovered that the attackers could not be stopped, Abel had already come up empty-handed three times in a row. Only then did he realize that the previous locations of the clerics were no longer valid.
Holy Light City was a massive city. It was the center of the Holy Light Empire, the symbol of the powerful empire, and the location of its capital.
At the center of Holy Light City stood a magnificent Imperial Palace. It was practically a small city in itself. Around the palace, a crystal-like barrier was clearly visible to the naked eye, protecting the entire Imperial Palace.
In the main hall of the Imperial Palace, the forty clerics no longer possessed the high spirits they had once had. At the height of their confidence, they had been forcibly summoned back, only