In Type-Moon, it all starts with adopting Sakura.

So……

"—[With this hand as flame, its form as a sword, its purpose is to judge crimes!]!

As the incantation was uttered rapidly, several crimson runes rose from his fingertips and began to dance quickly in mid-air.

At the same time, a red flaming sword appeared in Luo Wei's right hand, illuminating the surrounding darkness and causing the scorching heat to make the surrounding air buzz.

—Bear bear bear bear!!

As runes and modern Western-style runes appeared between his fingers, a huge flaming sword radiating red light appeared in Luo Wei's palm, illuminating the surrounding darkness.

"hiss……"

Having witnessed the crimson fire elemental magic sword firsthand, and feeling the ever-increasing heat around him, even Hansa couldn't help but marvel at the sight.

"Although it is indeed runes, why do I sense a Puritan influence in it?"

However, before he could ask anything further, Luo Wei, who was determined to finish the matter quickly, had already made his next move.

As magic power continued to flow into it, the already circulating scarlet flames danced even more joyfully. Then, a dazzling red light, like a miniature sun, rose directly from the dark sea, dispelling the darkness of the night and illuminating the faces of the three people.

"Hey, Father—we're going in!!"

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renew!!

Chapter 141 Hunting the King of Witches!

raging--!!

The constantly burning and boiling flaming sword pulsed and crackled in mid-air, while also emitting strange, continuous burning sounds.

Then, Luo Wei flipped his palm and swung his right hand, which produced a red flame sword. He swung the sword horizontally at the thorn tsunami that was coming towards him, completely disregarding the safety of the surrounding environment.

"Um?!"

Sensing Luo Wei's sudden attack, Hansa immediately sprang into action. In the instant he hastily ducked to dodge the flaming sword, the raging flames clinging to the tip of the sword clashed violently with the thorns in the darkness.

In an instant, the blinding white light emitted by the collision of two different types of magic in the darkness was reflected in the pupils of the group.

Then, the flaming sword, which had been swung out, lost its shape in mid-air before exploding outwards. The targeted burst of flames avoided Hansa below and slashed horizontally at Rita, who was at the edge of her field of vision. Under the intense heat, even the steel beneath her feet was scorched and began to deform.

"Oh my? Such a grand magic trick right from the start? That's quite something, Mr. Lowe. But it's really easy to accidentally injure friendly forces..."

Struggling to maintain his balance, Hansa seized an opportunity to joke with Rowe, then bent down to dodge the flaming sword that brushed past the ends of his long hair before continuing to charge forward.

Then a flaming sword disappeared from his hand, and Luo Wei uttered a new incantation, once again conjuring a new flaming sword between his fingers.

Rita fiddled with her fingers, her bewitching eyes, adorned with rose patterns like flowers of the age of gods, gleaming with an eerie light in the night sky.

The fierce conflict between the three parties thus officially began.

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The current time is 5:50 PM Scandinavian Time.

There were still ten minutes until the auction was scheduled to begin, but given the current situation, regardless of the outcome of the battle, the auction was effectively over. One wonders what the monarchs would feel when they activated their projection communications and their familiars as planned, and saw the train that had been battered from front to back by these monsters and was almost completely dismantled.

However, at this moment, Rita had no time to consider the feelings of those humans, or the train beneath her feet.

A genuine sense of crisis suddenly rose in her heart.

As the progenitor of the Dead Apostles who has lived in this world for hundreds of years, she has witnessed the revival and progress of humanity.

She knew that this race was relentlessly conquering the planet in its own way.

The invention of the train greatly shortened travel time between two places, enabling them to conquer the land. The invention of the airplane gave them the power to soar through the sky, allowing them to conquer the skies. The emergence of the ship allowed them to dominate the seas, not to mention the rockets that later ventured into space.

Even she had to admit that the human race does possess creativity and potential that the Dead Apostles lack; they are the true protagonists of this world.

Furthermore, the advent of electric lights forced the Dead Men, who used to revel in the darkness, to live in shady corners, greatly reducing their living space.

She has witnessed the changes and progress over the past few hundred years firsthand.

Unlike the other Dead Apostles who rejected and despised humanity, Rita liked humans very much and was naturally interested in the interesting things humans created.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have chosen a train, a revolutionary vehicle that carries humanity toward the future, as the medium to create this Magic Eye Train.

Having lived for a long time and been personally involved in it, she is extremely familiar with the modern Western magic system and knows its drawbacks and advantages, which is why she can face Luo Wei so naturally.

Because she knew that in terms of magical talent, she was a genius who was no less than any other genius, and she had studied for a longer time than Luo Wei. If it was just alchemy and modern Western magic, he would definitely not be her match.

However, the flaming sword of the fire giant, comparable to that in Norse mythology, shattered her original confidence and added many variables to the outcome of the battle.

Rita originally thought that the fire used by Lovi was just ordinary elemental fire. Such flames would be a joke to her magic power, which was almost at the level of the Age of Gods, her Thorn Magic, and her Rose Eyes, and would hardly have any effect.

However, this move, the Primordial Rune, really startled her, after all, it was a true divine magic, and it completely countered her fire element in terms of attributes.

Click, click...

Like the crackling sound of wood burning in a fireplace, the thorns that should have been as hard as steel before her eyes continuously dissipated under the scorching of the flaming sword, burning into ashes that drifted on the ocean. At this moment, her defenses, which had filled her with confidence, were also pierced by Luo Wei's flaming sword.

Hansa seized the opportunity, closing in on her body and unleashing a powerful punch to complete the objective he had failed to achieve during his previous sneak attack. He aimed a heavy blow at her abdomen, intending to pierce it.

--boom!

A muffled explosion, like a rumble of thunder, rang in my ears.

Dressed in priest's robes, Hansa had already approached the area in front of Rita with his terrifying speed that was completely beyond human capabilities, and then unleashed a powerful punch with the force of thunder.

The next moment, the atmosphere and the dissipated magic were shattered by a punch. The punch, which was written as a fist but read as a cannonball, accurately struck Rita's frail body, punching a huge hole in her chest. Her internal organs were also flying around in mid-air.

"It was... that easy?"

Seeing that the attack had succeeded, Hansa's expression did not show joy. Instead, it became somewhat strange, and his eyes revealed more disbelief.

The next moment, things unfolded exactly as he had predicted.

Rita, whose chest he had just punched through, showed no sign of pain. Instead, she gave him a strange smile. In that brief moment, the gaping hole in his flesh transformed into a thicket of dark, twisted thorns that tightly bound his arm, attempting to take root within it. Then, vibrant roses, imbued with immense magical power, began to bloom upon it.

"This is……?"

Hansa quickly realized something was wrong and immediately tried to pull his arm back. However, the thorny vines that grew from Rita's flesh were as tough as steel, firmly rooted in his arm, making it impossible for him to break free for a moment. Moreover, the flowers on them bloomed into bewitching blossoms in a short instant.

—Boom!!

It was another deafening roar that shook the entire night sky. The dazzling rose flames erupted once again on the train, but this time the result was the same as before.

Just as the rosebuds were about to explode, Lovi's flaming sword slammed down through the gap between Hansa and the rose bushes, easily severing his connection to the thicket and preventing Hansa from taking the explosion head-on and suffering severe injuries.

"Huff...huff, that's really exaggerated...even with that kind of opportunity, I couldn't seize it, and I almost got checkmated instead..."

Hansa, who had managed to escape in the final moments of the explosion, retreated back to Rowe's side. Recalling the scene where he had almost brushed with death, he clutched his chest, gasped for breath, and his previous playful smile was gone, replaced by lingering fear.

Then, Hansa raised his head and looked at Rita, who had just completed the coordinate transfer again by relying on her shadow, and gained a new understanding of the so-called Twenty-Seven Dead Apostles.

No wonder they say only burial agencies can deal with this kind of monster.

This level of strangeness is something that ordinary agents simply cannot contend with.

Putting everything else aside, just that one blow alone, if it weren't for Luo Wei's timely help, he would be lying on the ground unconscious, even if he wasn't dead.

In just one exchange, even though he had the upper hand, he was almost instantly killed by his opponent, which clearly shows the difference in strength between them.

Similarly, Hansa wasn't the only one in a bad mood at the moment. Seeing that her plan to eliminate one person was ruined by Lovi's flaming sword, her eyes grew increasingly disgusted with the primordial fire from the runes.

It is important to know that there is compatibility among magicians.

If Lo Wei only knew modern Western-based magic, then she could easily overwhelm him in terms of compatibility, thanks to her own mystique and expertise in Western magic.

However, when faced with that flaming sword that incorporated runes from the Age of Gods and seemed to have the aura of the Puritan Church, she, as a Dead Apostle, was instead restrained by it.

When the sword struck her, the injury was not only the burning damage from the primordial fire, but also the purifying damage from the same source as the Holy Church.

What a troublesome kid...

Just when Rita and Hansa were both particularly wary of the people on both sides.

—Bang!

Quite abruptly, a strange sound rang in their ears.

It sounds like something smashed through steel and climbed up from below, just like what the Hanseatic League did before.

Rowe and Hansa turned their heads to look, and saw that a huge hole had suddenly been torn open in the sheet metal under the carriage, and a broad hand emerged from it. The hand looked extremely old, but it was also very large. The marks left on it were very similar to Hansa's, clearly indicating that it had been through countless trials.

At this moment, the other party is also proving this to them through their actions.

The power emanating from his palm was so immense that the veins on it bulged out continuously. His fingers and nails involuntarily reminded people of some ancient, sharp claw-like weapon. He easily tore through another layer of the train's roof, allowing the figure to emerge from below and enter the battlefield above.

"Finally found this place? You're really slow... Servitor."

Rita Roggean glanced at the suddenly appearing giant, a strange smile playing on her lips.

Then, as if in response to her words, the massive figure who had torn through the roof and leaped up from below exerted tremendous force with his legs, leaving two huge footprints on the sheet metal beneath his feet. His body then soared high into the air, crashing down like a meteor into the center of the three-person battle. While the sequence of movements was impressive, it was still remarkably fluid and graceful; even professionally trained stunt performers would find it difficult to execute with such perfection.

If this were a circus performance, his brilliant act would surely have garnered applause from the audience, but here, it would only send chills down Hansa's spine.

"High-ranking Death Apostle..."

Since the pretense of civility had been broken, the guard who had been following Rita since she got into the car no longer needed to conceal his presence from them.

"And this is not necessarily an ordinary high-level Death Apostle."

Sensing the terrifying aura emanating from the other's body—an aura powerful enough to tear a tiger apart with bare hands—even the optimistic Hansa was momentarily overwhelmed.

One is a highly skilled Dead Apostle with specialized physical abilities, and the other is Rita, the progenitor of Dead Apostles who possesses a gem-level Mystic Eye and is proficient in countless types of magic.

This combination is just too powerful.

It's not that Hansa is deliberately being pessimistic or underestimating his predecessor; he genuinely feels that even if Senior Hier arrived here with the Holy Scripture Armor, facing this duo, he would likely suffer a great loss, let alone eliminate them.

The combined fighting power of these two guys is definitely not as simple as one plus one.

"Ah, it seems we're really in big trouble now. We have to deal with two high-ranking Dead Apostles at the same time, and one of them is even one of the Twenty-Seven Ancestors. Seriously, I was just rated as an outstanding agent by the bishop and assigned to the [Buried Mechanism] assistance team, and the difficulty of the mission has skyrocketed to this level. I must ask the bishop for leave when I get back."

Hansa scratched his head, looking troubled.

He even misses Narubalek, the madwoman from the burial agency, a little now.

After all, in this situation, she is probably the only one who can easily handle it.