Starting with the awakened Poison God: I choose the Master Thief.

"Damn it, it's like gods fighting and mortals suffering the consequences."

Just then, the girl's anxious voice came again.

"You'd better get out of here! Our information is wrong. This guy isn't at the peak of the sixth rank, he's at the eighth rank! We can't give you another chance to get close to the stone pillar."

Chu Ci hesitated for a moment. "And what about you?"

"We...we're probably going to die, but even if we die, we can't let him get away with it!"

"Okay, I was just pretending before, ahhh!!! I'm still so young, I really don't want to die!"

"But I can't cry. Everyone is fighting, and as a saint, I should stand up even more."

Did I overhear her thoughts by accident?

However, now is not the time to worry about such trivial matters, and there's nothing I can do to help anyway, so the only option now is to leave.

Chu Ci took one last look at the battlefield.

The wings of the phantom in the air were riddled with holes, while on the ground, the ancient monsters, along with the fallen followers, continued to devour the Holy See's main force.

Even with the constant blessing of this golden-haired saintess, it was impossible to escape the fate of being gradually devoured.

Unwittingly, he looked at the stone pillar again.

Ok?

I sensed that I could use the "Hand of the Thief" technique on it!

Perhaps inspired by the girl's courage, Chu Ci decided to help her one last time before leaving.

Just as she said, all she did was use up one of her resurrection chances.

The master thief!

[Ding, you have stolen...]

Upper-level battlefield.

boom!

The phantom wings shattered with a crash, and the three holy knights were sent flying backward, coughing up blood.

Even with the three of them working together, and even with the blessing of the saintess, their opponent was simply too strong.

"I told you, Dawn City is mine for the taking. You ants are not worthy to stop me. Now that I've had my fun, go to hell."

With a wave of his hand, Uka sent countless black feathers covering the sky and aimed at the crowd below.

"Your Holiness!"

The blonde girl looked up at the sky shrouded in black feathers and closed her eyes resignedly.

"ah!!!!"

A piercing scream suddenly rang out, and the girl frowned.

A few seconds passed.

"Huh? Why doesn't it hurt at all?"

The girl slowly opened her eyes and saw that the black feathers that had been in the sky had disappeared at some point.

The screams actually came from inside the stone pillar.

At this moment, Uka stood solemnly in front of the stone pillar and questioned him.

"What exactly happened to the King of the Ancient Capital?!"

A human face gradually twisted and appeared on the stone pillar, his expression one of great pain.

"I don't know either. I feel my life force is rapidly declining. If this continues, I'll die soon! This is a critical period for fusion, and there's nothing I can do. Please think of something!"

Uka stared at the stone pillar. In his perception, the life force of the ancient king was rapidly draining away, and he would die completely in less than 40 seconds.

This feeling is like...like being poisoned!

Wait, poisoning?

Uka turned to look at the golden-haired saintess below, and the two met eyes.

Before the girl could react, Uka appeared behind her, grabbed her long golden hair, and flew up onto the platform.

"Let me go!"

"Holy Maiden! Ahem!"

boom!

Uka threw the girl directly in front of the stone pillar.

"Use purification on this pillar."

"I don't!"

Snapped!

The girl was instantly knocked to the ground, and a bright red handprint was left on her face.

A hint of anger flashed in Uka's voice, and his expression was extremely impatient.

"I'm giving you one last chance, or I'll kill you right now!"

The girl smiled dismissively.

"It's not like you'll let me go if I do it. I'm just going to die sooner or later anyway."

The holy followers below were horrified by what they saw.

"Brothers, charge! The Holy Maiden is unyielding to the death; we cannot be cowards who choose to live in dishonor! For the Holy Maiden! For the Holy See! Slaughter these depraved bastards!"

"Charge!!!"

Upon seeing this, Uka's initial desire to kill the girl immediately sank.

He knew very well how high the saint's status was in the hearts of the believers as a symbol of the Church, and that coercion was no longer effective.

At this moment, the face on the stone pillar distorted again.

"Uka, aren't you done yet?! I'm about to collapse!"

"Alright, alright, I'm thinking of something!"

Only his followers and people from the Holy See were present.

But the Holy See would never resort to such underhanded tactics.

In other words, someone else has infiltrated!

Before the King of the Ancient Capital, he was at most a near-fourth-tier combatant. Although he was unable to move during the fusion, he did not have much impact on the battle before the fusion was successful.

So, these guys from the Holy See didn't suddenly rebel, but rather created an opportunity for someone to attract my attention, or rather, to hold me back.

After sorting everything out, Uka looked thoughtfully at the saintess.

If anyone could potentially act as this liaison, it would be this saintess.

"Since you're unwilling to help, wouldn't killing that guy solve the problem?"

The blonde girl paused for a moment, then quickly spoke.

"I don't know what you're talking about."

But it was precisely this moment of hesitation that made Uka even more certain.

"You know what? Many people have tried to lie to me, but without exception, I exposed their lies and killed them."

"I hate people who lie to me the most. Compared to them, your way of lying is really not clever, you could even say it's stupid."

boom!

He closed his eyes, and the wings behind him suddenly spread out, his senses enveloping the entire castle ruins.

He quickly opened his eyes, a cruel smile appearing on his lips.

"Found you, little mouse."

On the other side, Chu Ci, who was in stealth mode, was about to leave the castle area.

Suddenly, alarm bells went off in his head before he could even react.

Yu Guangzhong was surrounded by jet-black feathers.

A large, pale hand grabbed his neck from behind like an iron clamp.

Deathly whispers echoed in his ears.

"Little mouse, where do you think you're going?"

Chu Ci felt a chill in his heart. The next second, the scene before him suddenly changed, and he found himself in front of the stone pillar, with the golden-haired saintess lying to the side, looking at him with guilt.

No, have I been sold out?

Chu Ci tried to struggle, but with his current strength, how could he possibly contend with Uka?

By this time, the faces on the stone pillars had become visibly weak.

"Hurry up, Uka! There's no time!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the pale arm tightened its grip again, and Chu Ci felt like he couldn't breathe.

"If you want to live, cure him of the poison!"

"Ahem, put me down first!"

With a loosening of his fingers, Chu Ci fell from Uka's grasp.

"Cough cough, you idiot! You really think I'd agree to that? You're a liar!"

[Ding, due to the significant difference in strength, you failed to steal any items.]

-50w!

Terrifying damage numbers appeared on Uka's body.