"Run!" One lowgod who had been lucky enough to escape the attack saw Sean kill three opponents of the same rank with a single move. He watched with his own eyes as two Lowgod Sparks were taken, and was so terrified that he nearly lost his wits.
The other two were just the same. They no longer cared about saving face; they only wanted to escape.
The three fled at great speed. By the time Sean collected the Godheads, they had already escaped a mile away. Even if Sean wanted to pursue them now, it would probably be very difficult to wipe them all out.
However, Sean and the others weren't the only ones there. Besides the Radiant Church's Magic Battle Formation, there were four more lowgods. When they saw Sean display such overwhelming power, they had naturally already begun to surround the fleeing men.
No matter which direction the three fleeing divine-level experts from the Darkness Church ran, they wouldn't get away.
"Stop, boy! I'll kill you one day!" Patrick's threatening voice rang out in Sean's mind.
"That depends on whether you have what it takes." Sean smiled as he replied. Without the slightest hesitation, he continued toward the three men who were nearly surrounded.
"Hmph." Patrick's expression changed, and he suddenly roared at the sky.
A vast amount of Death midgod power spread from his body, covering an area several miles across. In an instant, all ordinary living things turned to ash. Even the six lowgods maintaining the Radiant Magic Battle Formation were severely affected.
"Sean, be careful. This is Patrick's forbidden technique. Once he uses it, his power increases tremendously, but it doesn't last long and severely harms his body. Pali and the others are nearly out of Light Divine Power, so they're about to lose their hold on him." The voice of the expert who cultivated the Destruction Law came to Sean's mind.
"Thank you," Sean said gratefully. But he didn't change his plan. "Let's kill these men first."
Patrick's ultimate move had caused his aura to grow terrifyingly powerful. Under this force, the countless threads of the Light Laws trapping him began to break apart.
"Haha! You can't hold me anymore! I'll make every last person in the Radiant Church lose their souls!" Patrick laughed.
He didn't use divine sense to transmit his voice. Instead, he amplified it with divine power, and the roar carried for a thousand miles.
The divine-level experts were the main combatants in this battle, but vast armies of Saint-level soldiers and those below them were fighting too. The moment the Radiant Church's army heard Patrick's voice, their morale took a severe blow.
"Patrick, we're your enemies!" Suddenly, the six Radiant lowgods were enveloped in bright white light. A soul attack burst from them, converged into one, and shot toward Patrick like lightning.
"Hmph. You think you can match me in soul attacks?" Patrick wasn't afraid in the slightest. He cultivated the Destruction Law, and the soul was his greatest strength.
Although the six men had used a Magic Array to combine their power, they were still lowgods, and their divine power was too weak.
A soul attack shot from Patrick's head, aiming to collide with theirs in midair. Normally, the two attacks would simply cancel each other out. Even if one side was stronger, the force left over would be weak.
The two soul attacks collided. Patrick's was clearly stronger, but the remainder wasn't enough to pose any further threat.
But just as Patrick was getting tired of wasting time on the six men's turtle-shell formation, more than a dozen streams of soul power suddenly burst from the six Radiant Church lowgods. At the same time, golden light poured from their bodies.
"Soul Golden Beads?" Patrick knew what they were, and his expression changed at once. He immediately reached out to the treasure in his sea of consciousness, and golden soul energy radiated from his body as well.
"I never thought the merciful Radiant Church would have so many Soul Golden Beads! Looks like you've killed just as many people as I have." Patrick laughed.
"Hmph. Our Church would never commit such a depraved act. We obtained these in an exchange with another divine-level expert," said the leader of the six-man Radiant Church formation.
"What a joke. You bought them from someone else, but that just means you had another person slaughter living beings on your behalf. What's the difference?" Patrick sneered.
"Hmph." The Radiant Church members didn't reply. They focused on absorbing the Soul Golden Beads to restore their souls, then launched another soul attack in an effort to hold Patrick back.
They knew that Sean was strongest in physical attacks. Even if he was no weakling when it came to souls, he couldn't possibly match a midgod.
If not for the Magic Array passed down from the Radiant Divine Realm, which could bolster their Soul Defense, the six of them would likely have already been killed by Patrick's soul attacks.
All they needed to do now was wear down Patrick's soul power.
On the other side, the three men from the Darkness Church had been trapped. They wouldn't be able to escape for a while, at least. Sean swiftly charged toward one of them. He ignored the man's pleas and killed him with a single sword strike.
"Underground!" The two survivors knew Patrick wouldn't make it in time. Now they could only rely on themselves.
They attacked at lightning speed. Though the Radiant Church experts repelled them, they used the force of the impact to hurtle underground, then quickly disappeared.
"Not good. That's Earth Walk from the Earth Laws," said the leading expert who cultivated the Destruction Law with a frown.
The Radiant Church had maintained some contact with the Radiant Divine Realm for many years, and had a good relationship with the Plane Overseer. As a result, they knew about the Mysteries and manifestations of many Laws, though they didn't know how to cultivate them.
Sean immediately burrowed underground like lightning. He knew the basic Earth Walk spell, but he was certainly slower underground than a divine-level Earth Element expert. Still, he could force his way through the soil with his powerful body and carve out a passage.
"Haha, you can't catch me! The deeper you go, the harder the ground gets. You can't move this fast down here!" Seeing that their speeds were about the same, the Earth Laws lowgod immediately taunted Sean through voice transmission.
The Earth Walk he used fused his body with the soil. At the highest level, he could travel underground as easily as through the air. This was an advantage Earth Element experts possessed; other experts could only dig their way through.
"Is that so? This distance should be enough." Sean replied coolly. At the same time, the Phantom of the God-Eater Rat appeared behind him once more, locking onto the two fleeing men. No one could see it underground, though.
A strange soul fluctuation directly stripped the two fleeing men of their Godheads. Their bodies immediately stopped moving forward, devoid of any soul aura.
After putting away the new Godheads, Sean broke through the earth and emerged again.
By now, Patrick had broken free of the six-man formation. Clearly, he had discovered that all his subordinates and allies were dead. The entire Darkness Church had been reduced to him alone.
"Who are you?" Patrick asked coldly.
Just a few minutes ago, he had been in complete control. Now it was all gone. True, he was still invincible, but as a lone leader, he couldn't possibly control a vast territory. He was about to lose almost all his Power of Faith as a result.
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