Dear, Time to Take Your Medicine!

Poor Pope Augustus still had no idea that, out of the blue, he had already been saddled with a massive black pot.

Augustus rose and walked over to Angelica. Angelica hurriedly stood as well, her little face flushed with excitement.

This restraint had bound her for years.

Now, she was finally about to be free. Aside from serving her master, she would finally be able to help her master in other ways.

Augustus's withered fingers reached toward the black collar.

Boom... rumble...

At that moment, a quake-like roar suddenly came from the entrance of the Holy Church.

Even inside the church, they could feel the violent trembling beneath their feet.

At the same time, scorching energy swept across the entire area like a tsunami. Amid the crackling sounds from the walls, fissures rapidly appeared one after another.

The Scarlet Valkyrie had come!

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This sword pierces the stars!

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After waiting so long, Ekaterina had finally appeared.

It had to be said, the Scarlet Valkyrie's combat power was truly outrageous.

Outside the Holy Church's Orville headquarters stood a powerful protective barrier. Ekaterina should have been attacking that barrier right now, yet her power still seeped through and swept over everything like a tsunami. Even the church walls were covered in cracks.

This was the Scarlet Valkyrie's strength. With Qin Chu's current capabilities, it really would be difficult for him to contend with her.

The smile at Qin Chu's lips swiftly vanished. He looked around. "What was that?"

"Could Demonic Beasts have entered the city?"

Augustus's face was equally grim.

Demonic Beasts could not possibly invade the Imperial City so easily. That was a human.

But someone had actually dared to brazenly attack the Holy Church's church. That was tantamount to slapping him, the Pope, across the face. How could he endure it?

Rosweisse was also stunned. As a member of the Hero's Party, she sensed before Augustus did that this was Ekaterina's power.

She could not understand which nerve in Sister Ekaterina had gone wrong. How could she dare directly attack the Holy Church?

Had she gone mad?

Ekaterina, clad in armor and holding the Flamebreaker Greatsword, was like a rigid puppet.

From the guards at the entrance to the palace, she had learned where Qin Chu had gone.

That man had taken Nicholas and a large number of soldiers to the Holy Church.

Heh heh...

He truly was a cunning fellow.

That bastard must have guessed she would seek revenge, so he had taken people to the Holy Church to beg Augustus for protection, right?

It was not a bad strategy.

A Hero's Party member, the Scarlet Valkyrie... the title sounded impressive, and her strength was formidable, but compared to a colossal entity like the Holy Church, she, Ekaterina, was ultimately nothing more than a tiny worm.

But if Qin Chu thought that would let him survive, then he was gravely mistaken.

Ignoring the strange looks from everyone around her, Ekaterina merely dragged the Flamebreaker Greatsword as she walked step by step toward the Holy Church. Along the way, the smooth streets were neatly split in two by Ekaterina.

The patrolling soldiers on the street had wanted to stop her, but the moment they saw Ekaterina's dim eyes, goosebumps rose all over their bodies. They did not dare utter a single unnecessary word.

When she arrived before the Holy Church and looked at the enormous barrier enveloping the entire Orville headquarters, only a cold smile appeared on Ekaterina's face.

The next second, she raised the greatsword in her hand for the first time.

Under the bewildered and shocked gazes of the many Holy Knights nearby, crimson flames wrapped around Ekaterina's entire body!

She was like a Witch reborn from flames, radiating searing heat. The terrifying temperature even melted the stone slabs beneath Ekaterina's feet, while layers of distorted haze spread through the air.

Her crimson hair billowed behind her beneath the surging firewaves, scarlet flames swiftly spreading to its tips.

Ekaterina had clearly thrown all caution to the wind. The Battle Qi within her was being driven madly. She did not care whether it would run dry, nor did she care what destruction this sword would cause. Scarlet energy flowed from her hands like two enormous pythons, coiling around the Flamebreaker Greatsword.

Driven by Battle Qi, the Flamebreaker Greatsword seemed to be continuously expanding.

A translucent sword phantom had already extended dozens of meters, becoming a colossal monstrosity.

"Ekaterina, what are you trying to do..." A captain of the Holy Knights Order trembled from head to toe as he shouted sharply.

He was afraid.

Once the Scarlet Valkyrie's power fully erupted, it was simply too terrifying. The dreadful pressure nearly made him unable to breathe. He had never imagined someone would truly dare to come here and court death.

"This is the Holy Church's Orville headquarters, not a place for you to run wild. If you know what's good for you, withdraw at once. His benevolent Holiness the Pope may still pardon your sin of grave disrespect."

He hoped to use the names of the Holy Church and the Pope to make Ekaterina afraid.

But his plan had gone bankrupt.

The expression on Ekaterina's face did not change in the slightest. Only a cold and crazed smile curled at her lips. The next instant, Ekaterina's hands abruptly pressed downward.

"Star Shatter!"

Bzzzz!

The forty-meter sword phantom instantly tore through the air.

The entire world visible before them was split in two in that instant.

"Fuck..."

A group of Holy Knights forgot the morals binding them and began cursing.

Not a single one dared face the might of Star Shatter head-on. They all rushed to dodge to either side at their fastest speed.

The next instant, the sword phantom cleaved into the barrier.

In that instant, a thunderous sound exploded between heaven and earth. Nearly everyone in the entire Imperial City could hear that earth-shaking roar.

Flames spread across the barrier, dyeing the entire barrier scarlet.

Energy spread along the ground and transformed into a terrifying impact. The Holy Knights who had avoided Star Shatter's direct strike were swept into the shockwave, their bodies instantly blasted away. They tumbled continuously through the air before crashing into the ground who knew how long later.

A vast number of buildings near the barrier instantly collapsed. The paving stones beneath the sword phantom could not withstand that power either. Between Ekaterina and the Holy Church appeared a huge depression more than ten meters wide and several meters deep. On both sides of the depression, the paving stones were flung up in perfect rows, while savage cracks spread like spiderwebs.

The might of a single sword was terrifying to such an extent.

Was this the strength of a Goddess of War?

If not for the barrier blocking it, this sword could likely have pierced straight through the entire Holy Church headquarters.

Even the towering city walls would have collapsed beneath this sword, cleaved in half.

Then they looked at the barrier. Amid violent trembling, fine cracks appeared across it... A few seconds later, the cracks gradually healed. It truly was the Holy Church's strongest defensive measure—absurdly powerful indeed.

Ekaterina bared her teeth in a faint smile. This result was not surprising. She had never expected to shatter the barrier in one move.

But she was the Scarlet Valkyrie.

If once was not enough, then ten times. A hundred times. A thousand times. Sooner or later, she would break it.

Scarlet light appeared once more upon the Flamebreaker Greatsword.

At that moment, a group of figures emerged from within the Holy Church. The person at their head was none other than the Holy Church's Pope, Augustus.

But at that moment, Ekaterina did not care about Augustus at all.

Her gaze was fixed solely upon the man behind Augustus—Qin Chu... In that instant, Ekaterina's heart gave a violent thump, and she actually felt a trace of joy.

Was she happy because she could finally kill him?

After all, it was this bastard who had personally pushed her into the Abyss!

Augustus had left the barrier, and even Qin Chu had stepped out from within it.

All her rage, all her hatred, all her despair transformed into blazing flames at that moment. Scorching firelight danced within her pupils.

Rosweisse seemed to be shouting at her?

Augustus seemed to have said something...

But Ekaterina had already ignored everyone else.

At that moment, Qin Chu was the only one in her eyes.

Every last scrap of strength in every corner of her body was drawn forth by Ekaterina at that moment. Nothing remained; all of it was poured into the Flamebreaker Greatsword.

Even Flame Severance seemed unable to bear it. The blade trembled violently, humming without end.

At the sword tip, sharp edge-light made continuous hissing sounds, slicing the air into tiny fragments.

The next instant, Ekaterina forcefully swung her right arm.

With a hiss, the Flamebreaker Greatsword instantly left her hand. Ekaterina hurled it straight at Qin Chu like a meteor.

This sword pierced the stars!

The instant the greatsword was thrown, an inexplicable pang of reluctance surged within Ekaterina's heart!

It stabbed like her body had been pierced through. Intense regret welled up from the depths of her heart, and she even wanted to retrieve the greatsword she had thrown...

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The effects of the magic potion

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Ekaterina herself did not know what was wrong with her. When the greatsword was thrown, an inexplicable pang of reluctance rose in her heart.

She clearly hated Qin Chu to death, wishing she could hack him into eight pieces and grind his bones to ashes.

It was this damned bastard who had personally pushed her into the Abyss.

But why did she feel reluctant?

Ekaterina even suspected she was mentally ill.

Fortunately, that reluctance lasted only a brief instant before Ekaterina suppressed it. Besides, the greatsword she had thrown could no longer be recalled.

Before Ekaterina's eyes, and beneath everyone else's gaze, Flame Severance cut straight through dozens of meters of space like a meteor.

This was Ekaterina's all-out strike, without even the slightest reservation.

Wherever the greatsword passed, a gigantic void seemed to appear in midair. Everyone even felt a suffocating agony, as though all the air had been drained away.

The already devastated ground collapsed in neat rows the instant the greatsword swept past. Everything was reduced to fine powder.

The naked eye could no longer track the greatsword's trace.

Even in the eyes of someone as powerful as Qin Chu, the Flamebreaker Greatsword advanced in leaps that were almost like Instant Teleportation.

That speed was simply too fast, too fierce.

Although the scene did not look as exaggerated as the earlier Star Shatter, its actual destructive power was likely far greater.

In the blink of an eye, the Flamebreaker Greatsword had arrived before Qin Chu.

Qin Chu, meanwhile, appeared to be standing there without moving at all.

In truth, at the greatsword's speed, almost no one had time to react.

Angelica widened her eyes in terror. She raised her right hand, seemingly wanting to push Qin Chu away.

But beneath the greatsword's speed, everyone's reactions were as sluggish as slow motion. In an instant, Flame Severance was already before Qin Chu. Just as Qin Chu was about to be killed, a withered arm suddenly reached out from the side.

With a puff, it seized the greatsword's blade.

The Flamebreaker Greatsword, which had originally shone like a meteor, instantly stopped in midair.

The inertia brought by its extreme speed, along with all of Ekaterina's Battle Qi contained within the blade, was forced to erupt prematurely at that instant.