Chapter 433: Devils in the Holy City (3)
"Stop right there!" Patrick shouted and immediately gave chase.
"No! A group of men want to arrest an innocent girl for indecent!" Sylvia paid no attention to anything and fled as fast as she could, but without magic. She turned into small alleys to escape the pursuit.
"Yare-yare, this is quite a sudden change of events." Magnus patted his forehead and shook his head. Then, he and the combined squad also immediately gave chase.
The girl who tried her best to escape from a group of holy knights caught the attention of anyone who happened to see them. Mainly because the girl in question kept spouted a lot of nonsense to slander the pursuer.
"Don"t run, little girl. We just want to investigate you!" Patrick was so close to the girl, but he still couldn"t catch her.
"Aah, no! I"m just a lone tourist in this city. You just want to do lewd things to me! Help!" Sylvia exclaimed and turned again down the small alley. She threw several logs, boxes, and even street cats, to serve as obstacles for her pursuers.
Patrick dodged the obstacles that came his way, but he slowed down a bit, especially when the street cats were thrown at him. "Stop slandering us! You are a suspicious suspect and need further investigation. If you don"t stop your escape right now. Then forgive me as I need to take decisive action against you, no matter if you are an innocent citizen or an ordinary tourist."
"Iyaa!" Sylvia was only thinking about how to escape the chase. It was just a suicide if she was caught by that group of holy knights. However, she panicked too much and didn"t think that her voice would only give her exact location to the pursuers.
Patrick lost track of the red-eyed girl, but luckily, the girl was quite noisy. He could easily track the whereabouts of the suspect using his sense of hearing.
While the chase was going on, Elysia"s new group arrived in the sky of Aeddoterra City. They felt a little confused because it seemed the city was in a pretty quiet and tense state?
"What"s going on? Why are all accesses in and out of the city closed and heavily guarded like that? Is what the Fox Empress said really happening here and now?" Nell became anxious over some bad news.
"It won"t do anything if we stay here just to watch. Let"s land and try to get in with a trick." Elysia suggested.
"Yeah, we can"t break in by breaking the city barrier as you did at Brisline Woodland." Nell patted her magic carpet to order it to land near the nearest city gate.
They were still shrouded in Elysia"s invisible magic, and their arrival was unknown to anyone.
"Nell, can you open this emergency gate?" Elysia pointed her finger at a steel gate beside the big city gate.
"It"s effortless. Give me three seconds." Nell gave an ok hand gesture and floated closer to the gate. She put her finger close to the gate"s particular lock slot and did a little magic trick to open the lock.
*Clack* *Creak* *Swoosh*
The thick steel gate opened by itself. Elysia and her entire group rushed into the city like an invisible gust of wind.
"Hey! Didn"t you lock the emergency gate? Why did it open by itself?" One of the guards glanced at the steel door that opened suddenly.
"Oh? This is weird. I"m sure I locked the emergency gate last night. We"re still on guard here, but why did this gate open by itself? Was the lock broken?" Another guard went to the emergency gate to check.
However, he didn"t find anything wrong. Thus, he just re-locked the emergency gate even though there were many unanswered questions in his mind.
"Nee, is this going to be okay? I mean... We entered the city of the humans, but Gio and I can easily be identified as non-humans. Isn"t the strife between races really terrible these days?" Yuuki gently tugged on Elysia"s dress.
Elysia considered it for a moment, then she replied with a rea.s.suring smile. "I"m sure everything will be fine, Yuuki. The Human Race already has truce agreements with other races, except for the Devil Race. You just need to pay attention to your att.i.tude and behavior. Oh, please don"t separate yourself from our group either, okay?"
"At your command, G.o.ddess Elysia." Yuuki gave a chivalrous salute like what she had just seen from the guards. After that, she looked around the somewhat deserted city. "Are we out of invisibility yet?"
"Yup, that was just now, and our voices aren"t blocked by any magic. So, please pay attention to all your actions, including your words." Elysia reminded her group members, especially Yuuki and the beasts.
"Un, un." Yuuki nodded repeatedly, and so did the cats.
Yuuki remembered Elysia"s request, so she should not refer to Elysia as G.o.ddess for the time being.
As Elysia"s group continued their way towards the downtown area, a noise was heard from the other side of the street. There, it can be seen that a girl in a white dress was running away from the pursuit of dozens of fully armed holy knights.
"Oh my... Ely, your devil friend, is in trouble apparently." Elena covered her mouth in surprise.
Elysia was unable to respond to Elena. Her eyes widened slightly, and she subconsciously stopped in her tracks. A Devil Princess in the human"s holy city?
What Luna said yesterday flashed back in Elysia"s mind. However, she couldn"t think of anything for too long because the Devil princess in question was running closer and closer.
"I"m not a criminal! You"re hunting a dangerous criminal group, right? Why are you wasting your time chasing me! Are you out of work or something!?" Sylvia kept running while dodging whatever was thrown at her.
"You have big is a devil. Stop right now!"
"O-yeah, you"re like an ordinary girl, but you run really fast, hmm? You"re also too agile and slippery to catch. Are you an ordinary girl?"
The two great generals tried to catch the girl in the white dress but with no effort to hurt her.
Several holy knights formed a formation, cast some magic. They even threw themselves to catch the girl who was running so fast toward the city gate.
Unfortunately, the girl in question avoided it all as if she already knew what was coming.
"I"m not a devil! And again, I"m not slippery because I"ve showered and smell good!" Sylvia turned right, left, jumped, and even ducked to dodge.
However, she did not slow down her escape at all. She was lucky that she didn"t need to use any magic, and those holy knights didn"t seem willing to hurt her either.
On that occasion, Sylvia accidentally caught a glimpse of a group of humans about two hundred meters ahead. She became scared and worried because she thought another group of holy knights were there, ready to capture her.
The panicked Devil Princess considered taking another route. But, she immediately canceled it because she saw a girl with black hair and purplish-blue eyes. That black-haired girl looked so familiar in her eyes.
"Ais! Please help me! These holy knights want to capture me for no reason." Sylvia waved her hand high. She was so close to a savior with a high probability of helping her out of trouble.
"Ha, caught you!" Patrick managed to catch the girl"s hand.
"Let go of me! You hurt me. I didn"t do anything to deserve this kind of treatment! Grr." Sylvia bit the holy knight"s hand without caring about anything.
"Guh." Patrick loosened his hand slightly in surprise at a jolt striking straight into his bloodstream.
Seizing the opportunity, Sylvia immediately freed herself and ran over to her friend. She took cover behind her friend"s back. "Ais, huff- found you. Please help me. Those people want to arrest me for no reason."
"..." Elysia glanced at the girl who was holding her arm tightly. Sylvia was sweating profusely and seemed to be in a lot of trouble.
Suppose the Devil Princess was in such a predicament. Did she simply mistake that this holy city was in a precarious state? Elysia asked in wonder.
"Hmm? So, you filthy sinners have revealed yourselves, huh! So you really are one of the devils that infiltrated this city, little girl? Everyone set up a defensive formation. No one can escape! Holy Light, Holy Chain!" Patrick immediately cast high-level magic to catch everyone in front of him.
*Swoosh*
Dozens of gold chains shot out of Patrick"s hands toward the group of non-humans. He quickly a.s.sumed that the group of dangerous criminals was the group in front of him.
"Hmm!?" Gio moved instantly and stood in front of her divine master. He raised his leg high and dropped it to the ground with a violent force.
*Bam!*
An earthquake shock occurred, and all the golden chains shattered into pieces. Then, the ground spiked up to counterattack the attacker.
"Holy Light, Holy Barrier!" Patrick erected a golden barrier as fast as he could with the help of a spell.
*Bam!*
Patrick and the dozen holy knights were pushed back a few meters. The others immediately got into position to attack.
On the other hand, Gio just put the white cat down from his shoulder. Then, he stood up straight to face those golden armored humans.
"This is quite surprising. Our arrival is greeted by a warm attack, huh? Your holy light is the magic of my teaching, and you dare attack my group? Don"t you dare cite your holy magic to us. I was there when it was written and glorified." Nell pursed her lips in discontent. She emitted her golden energy aura and floated above Gio to get everyone"s attention.