Strength 99999 but the Holy Sister

At that moment, the monster's body suddenly expanded and exploded, revealing a spear slanting into the ground before Mary's eyes. A sharp blast of air followed. Then, the expeditionary force watched as the blonde nun descended from the sky and yanked the embedded spear straight up, gouging a deep dent in the rock.

Elsa casually shot the monster that pounced on her, piercing it through the heart. She turned around and moved the spear from her left hand to her right hand, causing the monster's body to slip from the end of the spear.

The tip of the gun shook, and blood splattered.

The expeditionary force stopped fleeing. Filia stood among them, slightly stunned at the sight of Elsa. Could this person not be the nun with the Gold Medal Adventurer status...? She had seen her from afar before entering the underground palace. What was her name...?

She forgot, but she still remembered this face.

"saved!"

"We are saved! We survived!"

"Fight back! Let these damn monsters see how powerful we are!"

Someone shouted, and the members of the expedition team finally reacted. They roared in joy and rushed forward to fight back. Most of the monsters were buried in the cave entrance by Elsa's punch, and only a few dozen came out. They posed no threat to them at all.

Filia glanced at Elsa silently, pulled out an arrow from the storage ring, inserted it into the quiver, and drew the bow.

She didn't have much magic power left, but she wouldn't be stingy at this time. She stared at the monsters intently, and her magic arrows pierced the monsters' bodies accurately. The magicians' eyes turned red, and they chanted obscure magic intermittently while panting, venting their magic power as if it were free. Vivian maintained the ice shield and raised huge scorching fireballs one after another - this could be said to be a witch's magical masterpiece, and in terms of power, it was no less powerful than the mid-level magic of a skilled wizard.

Suddenly, layers of brilliant magic sparks exploded in the group of monsters, and the knights at the front could not get close to them. Since most of them had good physical fitness, some of them were carrying wounded people on their backs.

Seeing that the situation was under control, Mary immediately retreated and ran towards the knights.

"Be gentle and put the wounded down. Let the seriously injured be treated first!"

After all, Mary was a nun of the church and had been trained. She made a quick judgment and took out her own potion.

At this time, Elsa also destroyed all the monsters.

……

At the same time, deep underground in the central tomb, in the sealed hall—

The massive, pitch-black figure, crucified on the platform, remained motionless in his kneeling position. The dark red tumor on his back slowly and stubbornly squirmed, and the faint traces of heart-wrenching black lines could be seen beneath the tumor's surface. Thump, thump—the tumor emitted a dull, rhythmic sound, pumping blood, and the black lines spread with the heavy heartbeat.

Red and black tentacles extended from the top and bottom of the tumor and swam in the air, but the monsters around it no longer existed. It could not leave the range of the platform and had to return empty-handed.

In front of the platform, Patriculosia en Serilihilda looked up at the huge tumor with indifference. Her face was flushed with blood, but it was obvious that the blood was not her own. Behind her, the ground was filled with the corpses of monsters lying crookedly. Most of the corpses had their heads chopped off, and the cross-sections of their necks were unusually neat and smooth, as if they had been standing neatly together and then chopped off by a sharp long knife.

After arriving here, Serilda quickly cleared out the monsters in several underground caves, including the sealed hall, and then stayed here, observing the changes in the tumor. What surprised her was that the vitality of the tumor seemed to be more tenacious than she had imagined, which made her begin to doubt whether the seal could really hold out for a day.

While she was thinking, she took out a bottle of magic replenishment potion from her space equipment and poured it into her mouth.

Suddenly, she slowly turned her head, her lifeless eyes fixed on a dark hole behind her - her own hearing had long been lost, but magic could show her any subtle sound more delicately.

She clearly heard the sound of fighting, which seemed to come from a nearby cave.

"Someone... is fighting?"

Cerihilda thought for a moment and waved her hand.

The crow on her shoulder screamed towards the sky, flapped its wings and flew up. Then, strings of black arcs of electricity burst out from its body and surrounded it. In the blink of an eye, it had turned into a giant black crow as big as a carriage. When it flapped its wings, it was like a storm. Its sharp beak and sharp claws were chilling. It landed beside Celisilda and lowered its head as if to please her. Celisilda raised her hand and touched its beak.

"Wait here for me, and don't let anyone near the seal."

ga-

The crow straightened its neck as if to say, "Yes, sir!"

Seeing this, Serilihilda slowly floated up and quickly flew towards the dark cave entrance.

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55. The attacker who appeared in the underground palace [Fourth update]

The short battle soon came to an end.

At this point, all the monsters were destroyed, but unfortunately some members of the expedition team still died - including their priest.

Those who died had already been seriously injured in previous battles with monsters and in the escape attempts. Excessive bleeding or worsening of injuries while being carried by their teammates led to their deaths. Several of the injured breathed their last on the way. Beyond the seriously injured, the overall situation of the expedition remained grim. The priest was gone, and the rest of them were all suffering from injuries ranging from minor to serious, without sufficient potions.

Without time to mourn the dead, Mary immediately gave up her own potion to the seriously injured, and at the same time arranged for the members of the expedition team to gather together for treatment.

"I have some potions here too."

Aisha said, taking out the allocated potion from the space ring and handing it to Mary, and Vivian also took out some.

"Thank you."

Now was not the time for politeness. Mary nodded and accepted it, but she only took a portion, not all of it. After all, the medicine was precious. If Elsa and Vivian took it all, they would have no use for it. As for the injured on the expeditionary force, it would be enough to rescue the seriously injured and restore their mobility. The rest of the work could be handed over to the priests stationed at the camp.

But even so, there were still not enough medicines, so in the end they were only distributed first to the team members with more serious injuries, while the others received simple treatment and bandaging.

Elsa didn't say much.

After the medicine was distributed, the seriously injured people gradually recovered. Mary and the captain of the expeditionary force wrapped the dead with cloth, and the members of the expeditionary force gathered together in silence.

Elsa looked at the white cloths silently, lowered her eyelashes, and prayed silently while holding the cross.

This isn't the first time I've seen a corpse.

After doing all this, Elsa and Vivian bandaged and treated the injuries of the female members of the expedition team. After all, the injured parts sometimes required them to take off their clothes before they could be operated on.

"Thank you... Sister..."

Elsa had heard such thanks more than once, including when she was in Weilin Town.

On the contrary, Vivian seemed a little restrained and kept standing behind Elsa - after all, Vivian was very shy.

"The goddess will bless you. Take a good rest. We will get out of here later."

Elsa gave him a gentle smile and continued with her work.

Vivian wasn't very good at this, so she followed Elsa with the medicine bottle and gauze. Watching Elsa bandage someone skillfully, she felt that the gauze became pleasing to the eye. Suddenly, she had a very strange thought: if she were injured, would Elsa also take off her clothes and carefully brush her skin like this...

Such an idea seems a bit too strange.

"There's one more."

Elsa said, interrupting Vivian's daydreaming. She looked in the direction of Elsa's gaze and saw the figure of a girl in a white robe.

Vivian recognized her immediately; it was the gold medal adventurer Elsa had mentioned—Filia.

Elsa squatted in front of Filia, while Vivian stood behind her, observing the girl wrapped in a white robe. Filia was still dressed as she had been in the Adventurer's Guild, the white robe covering half of her face, but now it was stained with large patches of blood, leaving only her emerald green eyes remarkably clear.

She was leaning against the rock wall alone, seemingly trying to stay away from others, so Elsa came and found her alone.

"Filia, can I still call you that?"

Filia slowly raised her eyes.

"Sorry, I forgot how to address you."

"My name is Aisha Faris."

"Hello, Sister Faris."

Filia was polite, but her politeness was tinged with a sense of distance. Unlike Vivian's introverted and socially anxious personality, Filia seemed more unwilling and hopeless to interact with others, deliberately keeping away from them.

"You look injured, let me help you."

Aisha said.

Filia raised her emerald eyes, stared at Elsa for a while, then shook her head.

"Thank you, but that's not necessary. Please let me handle this kind of thing myself."

In this case, Elsa didn't say much. She thought about it, took the gauze and medicine bottle from Vivian, handed them to Filia, and left.

Filia looked at Aisha's back for a while, picked up the gauze and medicine, turned around and dealt with it herself.

……

The recovered expedition team climbed up to the "first floor" along the rope left by Mary. Compared with the cave on the "second floor", the number and strength of the monsters on the "first floor" were nothing to the expedition team.

This place is not far from the central tomb. After learning from the previous lesson, they are more careful and attentive, so it is not difficult to return to the tomb.

The captain of the expedition team was a sturdy knight. He came to Elsa and the others to express his gratitude. After seeing Elsa's strength, he had naturally regarded Elsa as the boss among the three.

His voice was very heavy, as if he was speaking through a wooden board:

"Thank you so much... You saved us..."

Although they lost several teammates, it was a miracle that they survived a monster tide of that scale. This was not only because they were elite and extremely powerful, but the most important reason was the assistance given by Elsa.

Without Elsa, they would not have survived.

"But... may I ask if you are all combat personnel specially assigned by the Sage?"

he asked.

The "second underground palace" that appeared due to the "collapse" was designated as a place for the Sage to handle personally. Other people's mission targets will not appear in the cave because it is very dangerous. It is not uncommon to find one or two hundred or even four or five hundred monsters in a cave.

This is no small amount.

"No, we are responsible for cleaning the first floor. We came down to check the situation after we found this place."

Aisha explained.

"To see...the situation?"

The knight was stunned for a moment, and then Mary quickly took over the conversation.

"How did you get here? With your strength, it's impossible for you to 'accidentally fall', right?"

"This... I'm really ashamed to say. We were ambushed while fighting an evolved monster... and it happened to cause a 'collapse'. We couldn't dodge in time, so we fell to the 'second floor'..." The knight looked angry and helpless, especially when talking about the ambush. "We almost died there. Luckily, we noticed the sounds of fighting coming from your side, so we took a chance and escaped. Fortunately, we met you... Thank you so much."

The knight bowed immediately after he finished speaking.

"Were attacked by surprise? Why would someone attack you?"

Elsa frowned slightly at the knight's words.

"Could it be that the remnants of the Demon King's army have appeared? How many of them are there? Did you see them clearly?"

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56. Filia's Revenge [Fifth Update]

"I'm sorry... I didn't see anything clearly..."

The knight sighed with hatred and helplessness.

"The situation was so chaotic. I noticed someone was attacking us, but we were also battling the evolving monsters at the same time. Then there was a 'collapse'. I didn't even get a good look at the other person before I fell. Our priest was injured and lost his ability to move."

Later, the pastor died during the transfer and breakout process.

Speaking of this, the knight felt a little sad and a little relieved.

"Could it really be the remnants of the Demon King's army..."

Elsa was puzzled. But logically, why would the remnants of the Demon King's army attack a punitive expedition? Don't they have anything else to do?

At this moment, Filia, who had been standing alone, suddenly spoke up. "There were at least two attackers, both wearing black robes and masks. They seemed familiar with the terrain here, and their methods didn't seem like those of a demon. I saw the skin on one of them's wrists, and it looked more like human skin."

As soon as Filia finished speaking, she immediately attracted everyone's attention.

The knight was also filled with surprise. In fact, he still didn't know the girl's name. He only knew that she was his teammate, a skilled archer. But she was aloof and taciturn from beginning to end. He had never imagined that she was such a hidden master.

After all, it is not easy to grasp the characteristics of the attacker in such a chaotic situation.

Elsa also looked over.

Filia still had half of her face covered. She folded her arms and leaned against the rock wall. When her eyes met Aisha's, she turned her face away.

"Don't get me wrong, I'm just sharing the information I know—and this is also to get some revenge."

"Thank you for the information."

Elsa smiled.

Filia said nothing, lowered her brows and remained silent, her hood covering her cheeks. She didn't seem to intend to talk much, but the people around her still looked at her curiously.

Aisha coughed lightly, drawing everyone's attention back.

"In short, the attackers – they wore masks deliberately, and it seems they didn't want others to know their identities, and because of this they were likely easily identified."

Aisha analyzed.