in the name of the queen

Chapter 334 Thank you, Christine
It is easy to destroy but difficult to build.

With the technology and industrial capabilities of the Vladimir Empire, it is impossible to build a giant airship, but as long as Sophia gets close to the airship, she can easily destroy it.

She used the recoil of the three shells to leap high into the air and approach the airship.

Christine and Sophia were less than ten meters apart, and they could clearly see each other's facial expressions, every detail.

At this death distance, no one can help Christine except herself.
And the blessing of the goddess.

The ancient milky white holy grail came into her hands. Christine's whole body was filled with a holy aura, her eyes flashed with a captivating cold light, and she stared at Sophia intently.

A rich milky white liquid flowed out of the holy grail, and the white mist turned into a shield to protect Christine.

The Goddess of Light is a goddess who is very good at defense, healing, and exorcism. The power she bestows can certainly provide protection for believers.

If the opponent was not Sophia, Christine would not need to panic at all, and would not even need to waste the power bestowed by the goddess.

This power is pure and rich, and can be used for both offense and defense. Under the pressure of survival, she chose to use this precious power to save her life.

If Sophia is prevented from boarding the airship, she will soon fall off.

With her strength, she wouldn't die from the fall, but it would be difficult for her to get up again.

"Heretics, accept judgment!"

Christine's clear voice was full of holiness, and it gradually calmed down the chaotic entourage on the airship.

The saint blessed by the goddess is here, does Sophia still want to kill everyone with one sword?
The white mist quickly spread to the back of the airship, blocking the azure cold air outside.

The azure sky also had a little more white because of this confrontation, like white clouds floating in the blue sky.

The invasion of cold air was prevented.

A dozen soldiers accompanying the airship also reacted. They raised their rifles and, under the command of their adjutant, fired a volley at Sophia floating in the air.

In this era where the accuracy of a rifle depends entirely on faith, a muzzle-loading rifle cannot cause substantial damage to a Level 7 Transcendent.

The soldiers' volleys were more of a warning and a way to drive them away.

Bullets whizzed past, the nearest one even brushed Sophia's nose, lifted her soft blue hair and passed in front of her.

Sophia never looked at these soldiers from beginning to end, as if they were just ants.

She stared at Christine silently, and the sword that had just swung out the azure sword energy returned to the scabbard.

The corners of her lips were slightly raised, and her charming smile seemed to be an approval of Christine, but her deep eyes did not show any smile at all, and there seemed to be glaciers exploding deep in her pupils.

If Angelina were here, she would definitely understand that this was a sign that Sophia had murderous intentions.

The Queen smiles, life and death are unpredictable.

Although Christine didn't know Sophia very well, she could feel the murderous intent coming from her.

Cold sweat rolled down her cheeks, and Christine clearly felt the breath of death.

In order to struggle out of this desperate and endless suffocation, she scolded softly and launched a verbal offensive against Sophia.

"Sophia, you froze the Holy Spring of Light. This is a blatant blasphemy. Aren't you really afraid that the goddess will destroy you personally when she comes to the world? Confess to the goddess now, and..."

Christine was interrupted halfway through her speech.

Sophia frowned slightly, and the cold voice penetrated the eardrums and struck the soul.

"Long-winded!"

For some reason, Sophia felt disgusted by the title of Goddess of Light.

It was as if the disgust engraved deep in her soul made her hate everyone and everything related to the Goddess of Light equally.

She didn't even understand the source of this hatred.

Over the years, she has been hiding under the Arctic glacier, absorbing the purest cold energy. Her control over the cold has repeatedly broken through the shackles and has reached the point where she can do whatever she wants.

And in the process of absorbing energy, there was always a pure negative emotion trying to influence her.

It was pure bloodlust and the most extreme hatred.

The being that provided her with energy seemed to want her to accept this hatred.

The objects of their hatred were the three goddesses who had successfully ascended to deity during the Age of the Gods.

Goddess of light, abundance and nature.

They represent order, justice and kindness. In people's simple cognition, those who are enemies of the three goddesses are devils, visitors from the abyss and foreign demons.

In short, the three goddesses represent absolute correctness.

Sophia instinctively believed that this consciousness came from some fallen evil being.

She only wanted to accept power and not these evil thoughts.

But as the mysterious consciousness revealed more and more secrets, she gradually realized that under the glamorous appearance of the three goddesses, they were actually no different from mortals.

They seek power and seek ways to become stronger.

There is no difference between them and her, the only difference is that they started earlier and further on the road to becoming strong.

The mysterious consciousness fell into a deep sleep as the day of return approached, leaving Sophia with a final warning.

"Anyone can die on the Day of Return."

"The three goddesses are not perfect divine bodies, and their soul realms are not stable enough. They must return to the material plane before they ascended to godhood to make up for their shortcomings."

"The gods cannot descend to the material plane, but the gods who ascended from the material plane can return to the place of ascension at a specific time."

"On the final day of return, the old gods fell and new gods were born, but the old gods also had the opportunity to break through the shackles and become new gods."

"we are the same."

Sophia closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, there was no trace of human emotion in them.

Her eyes were as cold as the Arctic glaciers, but deep in them, there was a flash of something that frightened Christine.

Christine's body was trembling, just like the trembling she felt when she first met the goddess in her dream.

She opened her lips, but no sound came out.

She was sweating profusely and gasping for breath, like a fish jumping out of an oxygen-deficient pond. She struggled desperately but fate was strangling her and she was unable to breathe.

Christine's eyes were blank, but her soul was screaming loudly.

It's impossible! How could there be divine light in the eyes of a heretic?

Christine's mind went blank as she stared at Sophia desperately, struggling to see through more.

A chilly azure air enveloped the entire airship.

When Sophia opened her eyes again, the fate of the airship was already sealed.

The cold air condensed into ice and blew across the airship. Anyone it touched died instantly, their flesh and blood turned into ice and shattered into pieces on the ground.

The huge airship also began to crack in the cold and was on the verge of collapse.

Christine finally understood what kind of terrifying existence she was facing. She didn't want to become Sophia's trophy, so she gathered her last bit of strength and jumped out of the airship platform and into the air.

The power of light prevented her from being frozen on the spot, and she still had the strength to struggle.

She opened her arms and fell to the ground, and the stigmata on her face seemed to have a more holy look.

The short life is finished like a slide show.

Christine closed her eyes. She never regretted a choice in her life, and this time was no exception.

She would die, but sooner or later Sophia would be buried with her.

In the pure white, she seemed to see Sophia's final tragic ending. With the blessing of the three goddesses, her body was imprisoned but immortal, and her soul was burned and unable to struggle.

Endure soul-destroying suffering throughout eternity, until the end of the world.

This is what happens when you blaspheme.

She only temporarily lost her life and entered reincarnation, but Sophia had to suffer divine punishment. It was obvious that Sophia suffered more pain.

The moment Christine closed her eyes, the cold air broke through the milky white shield and froze her flawless body in an ice sculpture.

The ice sculpture fell down in a rotation. Sophia wanted to take the trophy, but she felt dizzy and blood kept oozing from the corners of her lips.

Freezing the saint blessed by the gods is a far greater blasphemy than freezing the holy spring.

After all, the freezing of the Holy Spring is only temporary and it will recover in a few days, but the Holy Maiden will die if she is frozen.

Since she had chosen to blaspheme, Sophia didn't bother to care about the level of blasphemy. She would not regret attacking the Holy Spring and the Saint twice.

The only regret is that her power was restricted by the Day of Return and she cannot fully exert it.

We were about to go to Baishan, so there was no need to waste energy on the dead. Sophia summoned broken ice cubes, tapped the ice cubes with her toes, and continued to land.

Her landing posture was very graceful, not like a queen skydiving without a parachute, but more like a goddess descending.

Feeling a little dizzy, Sophia quickly returned to the main camp. Seeing the worried Angelina, she finally felt relieved.

"I must fall asleep immediately. Fortunately, we won this battle. I'll leave the rest to you. I'll wake up before the day of return."

Sophia's face turned pale, and she didn't even bother to hide it in front of Angelina. She directly summoned ice to seal herself up.

Others would die if frozen in the ice, but she would just take a nap and then wake up exhausted.

Angelina felt a little flustered. Looking at the queen in the ice sculpture, her heart almost jumped out of her chest.

She quickly took a blanket and covered the ice sculpture, fearing that this scene would be seen by others and affect morale.

The Queen is right, the outcome of this battle has been decided.

Christine fell from a great height. Even if she didn't freeze to death, she would have died. In short, she was dead for sure.

Without unified command, the Allied forces would completely lose morale and would no longer pose a threat.

Next is the time to test her micro-control ability.

Angelina smiled slightly.

She has always been looked down upon, but now she finally has a stage to showcase her abilities.

In the following pursuit, she will not give the enemy any chance. She wants to seize the city of Val and the Holy Spring as a gift for the Queen's awakening.

Angelina strode out of the main camp, she was going to immediately order the entire army to counterattack.

Just as she walked out of the tent, she ran into the intelligence officer who was rushing over.

She wouldn't be knocked down by anyone, but the reckless intelligence officer was thrown several meters away and was seriously injured.

Angelina frowned, resisted the urge to curse, and said coldly: "Angui, you are an intelligence officer, how can you be so reckless? Tell me, tell me where the sky is falling."

She was mocking Angui for being reckless, but the intelligence officer stood up and yelled angrily:

"Commander, our wild cavalry"

"What happened to the Berserker?" Angelina's eyelids were twitching, and she felt something was wrong.

"The Berserkers completely lost their combat effectiveness and were defeated by the enemy's special forces before they even reached the end of their rampage."

Angelina: “.”

She grabbed the intelligence officer by the collar and asked coldly, "You can't even handle nearly 30,000 Berserkers?"

"Yes, it is."

Angelina's heart and lungs stopped beating instantly at the intelligence officer's words.

She couldn't believe her ears.

What on earth was the enemy thinking? Shouldn’t they be defeated when their coach got into trouble?

Without time to think, she ordered the allied forces to keep their distance and take turns to cover their retreat.

The Berserkers have fallen, and the other elite troops are probably not much better off.

She had to retreat, the queen was still sleeping in the ice sculpture.

No matter how great the army’s losses are, they can be compensated, but if something happens to the Queen, it will be the end of us.

Angelina's decisive retreat order confused the two allies. They sent liaison officers to communicate with her. She was too lazy to explain and only said, "I will lead the retreat."

Mounting on a warhorse, Angelina arranged for her confidants to drag the ice sculpture of the queen onto a carriage and began their frustrating retreat.

Before retreating, she looked back, but still couldn't figure out what went wrong. Why did the enemy's offensive become more powerful and even their morale higher after Christine's accident?

Of course she didn't understand that Christine only had prestige but no popularity in the army.

Christine doesn't care what her subordinates think, as long as they follow orders.

She was frozen into an ice sculpture, and although the generals of the Alliance Army were a little sad, they were also relieved.

Although the commander-in-chief is "dead", her orders are not dead.

After learning the news that Christine had frozen to death, the generals on the front line made the same decision without informing each other.

Attack, attack, and keep attacking until all enemies are destroyed!
The Knights of the White Rose, led by Jace, rushed into the Berserker camp first and began killing.

Although the combat effectiveness of the temporarily berserker cavalry is greatly increased, its defense ability is also reduced as it goes berserk.

The Knights of the White Rose do not have ordinary knights. Their tactics are flexible and they are unscrupulous.

If the wild cavalry wanted to fight to the death, they would throw a large number of smoke bombs to hinder the enemy cavalry from gathering and fighting.

After keeping some distance, the White Rose Knights raised their specially made lances and began to fire wildly outside the smoke.

They were given priority to be equipped with advanced weapons obtained from previous archaeological excavations, and their combat effectiveness far exceeded that of other troops.

Although the Wild Riders are powerful, they are ultimately an old-style army, and their organizational ability and combat effectiveness are slightly inferior to those of the Knights of the White Rose.

After losing the initiative, they could no longer regain it and could only retreat step by step.

When Jace launched a desperate attack, the Iron Wall Army led by Tom and Jerry also joined the battle.

As more and more fresh troops joined, the Allied forces' attacks became more and more wild.

Is it really a bad thing that the commander is gone?

Many Union soldiers and even officers did not think so.

They had been quite dissatisfied with Christine's command style, but now that Christine was lying down, they could finally fight according to their own ideas.

They turned their "grief" into motivation and began to act according to Christine's final deployment.

In short, just attack!

As for the ice sculpture of the saint that fell from the sky and luckily fell into the water, they didn't care.

They don't care, but the Temple Warriors must.

The temple warriors fished the unfortunate Christine out of the Rodinia River. Looking at the Holy Maiden of Light frozen inside, they tried many methods, but none of them worked.

Finally, someone came to their senses and remembered another person who had made great contributions to the revival of the Holy Spring.

"Quick, let's go to Baishan and ask the Knight of Light to save the Saint!"

Just like that, the ice sculpture of Christine was carried up the White Mountain and appeared in front of Roland, along with the latest battle report from the front line.

Is the counterattack going smoothly? The enemy has lost its foothold and is retreating?
It was all good news, but Roland no longer had time to pay attention.

Christine is dead? He couldn't believe it.

She was the one chosen and blessed by the goddess, how could she die so easily?

"She's not dead." Just when Roland couldn't tell whether Christine was alive or dead through the ice sculpture, Sif's voice sounded from behind.

"I just used Insight to observe. Although I can't see it completely, I can observe it. Insight only works on living people, so she is not dead."

"It's good that you're not dead." Roland breathed a sigh of relief.

However, his sigh of relief was quickly cut off by Alina's voice, "Roland, the best formation for soul-blood connection is the pentagram formation. You will be the core of the formation, and we will stand around you to double our combat power."

Roland's eyes lit up, but he still shook his head, "No, even if we ignore Christine's thoughts, the final position is still water attribute, and she is the darling of light."

The core of the hybrid pentagram formation is the attribute of nothingness, and the members of the four basic attributes of wind, earth, water and fire are connected with the formation eye as the core.

The closer the attributes of the members are, the more powerful they can be.

Spring Elf Sylph, Earth Traveler Alina, and Flame Phoenix Lisa, their attributes are very clear and can be fully utilized, but Christine has nothing to do with the water attribute. Forcing her to take a position with the wrong attributes will have a very poor effect or even a counterproductive effect.

Before Roland could explain, Alina pointed at the ice sculpture of Christine and said, "Ice is sleeping water, so she is also of water attribute now."

Alina's words sounded a bit hellish, and they were actually hellish.

However, ice was indeed water, and Roland could not find any fault with it.

At least it's worth a try.

He slowly walked in front of Christine and said softly, "Christine, the complete Soul Blood Link requires a complex and lengthy ceremony, and also requires your full consent, so it cannot be set up. But there is also a simplified Soul Blood Pentagram Formation, which can be activated as long as you don't object. This formation is a one-time formation and will be automatically released after defeating Sophia."

Of course, if we fail, we can all go on the road together and there will be no need to cancel it.

Roland looked at the ice sculpture for a few seconds and raised his eyebrows.

"Since you're silent, I'll take that as your agreement. Thank you, Christine."

(End of this chapter)