The moment the "Mother Goddess" dropped to her knees and raised her hands, the atmosphere in the ancient castle became somewhat awkward.
The mood had been built up to this point; a great battle was on the verge of erupting.
There had been swarms of bats and a blood moon, such a huge spectacle that they had thought some Blood Clan demon god had descended into the world.
Yet she knelt with astonishingly silky smoothness.
The Radiant Knight was a principled god. She did not strike down enemies who surrendered.
Her brilliant Holy Light sword had already swung out, but she forcibly turned its edge aside just before it hit.
The sword of condensed light brushed past the other woman's hair and cleaved apart the Main Castle behind her.
The ancient castle, which had been barely clinging on for who knew how many years, was completely taken offline at that moment. Wherever the slash passed, stone walls crumbled as easily as blocks of tofu. The upper half of the castle slid down along the smooth, diagonal cut and collapsed.
The broken castle that had once been barely livable was now an open-air model.
Like the castle that had been barely clinging on, the High Priestess who had stubbornly refused to die was also taken offline by that slash.
She had not actually been struck.
The High Priestess had merely seen the "Mother Goddess" she had imagined would punish her enemy Jia Xiu choose to surrender without even fighting. Her final hope was utterly shattered, and the last pillar holding up her spirit vanished.
She no longer even had the strength to make those whimpering noises. She died as well.
The Radiant Knight sheathed her sword with flair, not forgetting to turn back and remind Jia Xiu, "Remember to spread the