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Chapter 1305: Sacred Courtyard

Chapter 1305: Sacred Courtyard



It didn't take long for Elita to gesture towards what she claimed was the headquarters of the Purity.

Few knew where exactly it was despite knowing that it was located in Pelian. The Purity had some competent experts when it came to non-combat abilities. It also helped that they had vast stores of genuine Divine energy, the same which had freed Skullius from his UNCoddled curse months ago, to use for complex arrays.

The mountain ranges close to what was called the Tattered Serpent's Throat - a river feeding in from the sea separating Feinheath and Opungale - acted as perfect cover for the Purity's headquarters.

It was easy to think that the lair of the self-proclaimed emissaries of the Deities was somewhere in the mountains, and a powerful array set around these mountains exploited this. It created suggestions and clues in the mountain tops and modest slopes that led nosy seekers by the nose.

The true Purity headquarters was located at the base of the three mountains closest to the Tattered Serpent's Throat. Seven more arrays hid it from view, but even if they failed to deny intruders access, the enemies would only be able to reach the outer sacred courtyard of the headquarters, which was loaded with security measures of its own.

Skullius had no trouble dismantling the arrays around the Purity headquarters. Soon, the sacred courtyard came into view as he and Elita descended.

What he and Elita saw stunned them.

The sacred courtyard was a simple, yet wide yard of pale bricks, flat and even. It spotted three giant faceless marble statues at one of its ends and behind them all, what looked like a great tower with a three-pointed golden star glowing on its face could be seen.

Over the rest of the courtyard though, mounds of corpses could be seen.

All of them were adorned in the silver suits of armour of the infantry Purity Knights, but they hardly looked glorious and respectable. Blood, guts and limbs were sprayed all over the level ground, painting the pale bricks red.

As Elita and Skullius landed in the courtyard, Elita couldn't help but gape. She looked around in disbelief. So much carnage. What for?

She began analysing the wounds on the corpses and found that most of had been inflicted by a sword. An abundance of decapitated heads and also of bodies with multiple slashes ripping away at their torsos and limbs, told Elita that there had been more than one assailant; one preferred to end the Knights' lives quickly and the other... hadn't been so kind.

"Who could have done this?" Elita murmured. Skullius heard.

"You shall be informed when you are permitted inside, Paladin Champion Elita," the statue said and it started to flex its fingers and take steps towards her. "Patience is a virtue you never managed to learn, is it?"

"What do you know of my virtues?" Elita said coldly right before the statue pounced, Suddenly, an ungodly amount of genuine Divine energy raced through it, and its slender, feminine outline abruptly turned ripped, thick muscles etched in the stone!

In the next instant, however, it was violently severed into thousands of pieces when Elita swung her blade in a net of blurs!

Her Broodweiler was very efficient at cutting down things affiliated with Divinity after all; it was a Realm rank Prime treasure with an Absolute Prime Property that allowed its fangs to reach even the Broader Existences of Divine beings!

The other statues in the courtyard also lunged at Elita.

Her body was suddenly encased in Voided Death Essence and she zoomed towards them before they finished their first stride. She obliterated one with a single punch to the chest and sent the other flying way past the Tattered Serpent's Throat into Emeradis!

Skullius had been watching silently behind her. Only Beyrmir hidden within him could have discerned that Skullius quite enjoyed watching her fight. There was something about her

body...

"Looks like you weren't wrong after all," the Hybrid Warmoth said. "Though I wonder what the nature of the threat we're dealing with actually is."

Elita turned to him.

"Can you sense anything happening deeper inside headquarters?" she asked him.

"I have been searching everywhere within since we got here," Skullius said and he folded a pair of his arms. "Honestly, I'm not sure what I just sensed. There're several people inside. Many are dead, several are alive and one is somewhere in between.

[Author's Note]

It might help if you re-read the last few paragraphs of Chapter 1211, The One Left Standing (25). I'm sure some of the details may have breezed past.