After Locke killed Witch Brittany, above Lilith's Cottage, among the many Black Wizards standing before the Dark Gate atop blood stakes, one of the eighteen Black Wizards from the Specter Holy Church, a torchbearer responsible for preserving the Soul Torches, suddenly spoke. "Brittany is dead."
"Church Master, Infant Spirit Witch Brittany is dead. The soul flame she left in the torch has vanished. She must have been struck by an overwhelmingly powerful force and killed in an instant."
The torchbearer calculated silently. "Logically speaking, the other party would need Magic Pressure above 6,000 to accomplish that. In other words, they would have to be a wizard whose Mental Power has reached Liquefaction."
"And that is only one possibility. The Specter Holy Church's wizards possess extremely powerful survival abilities. Under normal circumstances, they cannot be killed at all. Yet this time, Witch Brittany failed to escape."
Church Master Stefania's expression darkened. Brittany might have only been an ordinary Formal Wizard of the Specter Holy Church, but she had still been an old member. Yet she had died here.
This was no small blow to the Specter Holy Church.
Infant Spirit Witch and Ice Soul Witch, the sister-witch duo, were rather well-known within the Specter Holy Church.
Now that the pair had been broken apart, Church Master Stefania felt that the Specter Holy Church had suffered considerable losses this time.
And so far, they had gained very little.
Church Master Stefania's face looked grim. "Who killed her?"
The torchbearer softly recited a spell. A torch-shaped magic weapon appeared in his hand. A First-Ring Magic Item could be called a magic weapon, and the Soul Torch was such an item.
He lightly tapped the flame burning atop the torch. A pale white soul flame appeared at his fingertip, and within that flame emerged