Ethereal Ascendance: A Journey of Transformation (Volume 6)

Vol 6/ Chapter 9: The Dwindling Trump Cards

The Lumina Sanctum Royal Guards were known as one of the strongest religious military forces on the continent. Only after facing them directly did Nicola truly understand just how powerful this army was!

No wonder the Ancient God Religion had been winning battles everywhere these past decades. Just looking at a small team of less than ten people - every soldier was already at fifth rank or close to it! In other countries' armies, someone at this level would be leading troops. But in the Lumina Sanctum Royal Guards, they were just the lowest-ranked soldiers.

As for their squad leader fighting at the front, his power was even more amazing - at least fifth rank or maybe even sixth rank! Just in terms of power, he was already stronger than some ordinary priests. Luckily, they didn't have those special abilities that Nicola met before.

Looking at Nicola now - even though she used to have eight wings and was even the reincarnated Wind Element Angel with some Time Authority, after losing her wings she just didn't have enough magic power to use these abilities!

If just talking about physical strength, she wasn't much different from a normal angel who lost their wings. Right now, being at fourth rank was already giving her face, not to mention she was injured!

Of course, the reason she dared to join the fight was because she still had some trump cards left.

Too bad she really didn't want to use them in normal situations...

"Damn it, you small soldier, why come after me! Did you spot that I'm the most unlucky one now, so you're doing this on purpose?"

These religious enemies usually became super crazy during fights. Seeing a church guard muttering words she couldn't understand while charging at her through an opening, swinging his blade without mercy, Nicola felt huge pressure and quickly raised the sword she had borrowed to block...

"Crack!"

But the next second, the weapon in her hand just broke cleanly in two. This scared Nicola so much she cursed at the poor quality product. In panic, she rolled backwards before barely dodging the remaining force of the enemy's attack.

"Damn it, if I had my Condensation Sword, how could you act so proud!"

After all, she had survived countless battles. Even if her speed and strength weren't keeping up now, she still had her reactions and battle experience.

After that she very messily dodged around. Though she barely avoided the enemy's attacks, she had no way to fight back effectively, plus the difference in powers, she felt more frustrated than ever.

But even so, she still didn't want to easily use her trump cards. This made the situation become more and more dangerous.

No way? Was she really going to die in this place? Maybe she shouldn't have insisted on staying behind earlier...

Soon she paid the price for being careless. Seeing herself cornered with the enemy's killing blow about to hit her, she almost fell into despair. But suddenly an arrow shot in from the side, nailing straight into the opponent's head and carrying the whole body several meters away before exploding.

"That arrow's attack... could it be?"

Just when Nicola got blown to the ground by the strong explosion wave, She saw a hand suddenly appear in front of her - it really was Adrian!

"Are you okay? Quick, get up! Everyone else has already gone into the underground tunnel safely. We need to retreat right away!"

So in just those few minutes of fighting, they had successfully blocked the Ancient God Religion's pursuit forces several dozen meters away from the underground entrance. With their side being weaker overall, continuing to fight definitely wasn't what Adrian wanted to see.