NOVPUB"Did you encounter anyone on your way here?"
Hyperion immediately grabbed the Great Love Poet’s forearm and asked worriedly.
"I successfully reached the entrance teleportation hall, then I saw the warden, but she was badly injured before I ran into her, then I called for medical assistance and sent her back to the base level."
The Great Love Poet explained the ordeal he had encountered when they were dispersed.
"Whew, that’s good, that’s good."
Hyperion breathed a sigh of relief.
Thinking about it carefully, how could a first-order Great Love Poet be capable of injuring the warden of this level? It’s clear that it was a coincidence.
With the arrival of Lanci, the few people in the teleportation hall of the fifth negative level immediately started the real task, focusing on the deep red light on their bracelets, revealing the prisoner information of this level.
In the list, they did not find the name "Pranay", but there was a prisoner named "Sinola", who also carried warnings and marks that were no less significant than those on the list regarding Antanas.
"So the Great Demon Clan of this level is Law Breaker Sinola, so the Truth Pullane must be on the negative sixth level."
After Lanci confirmed this, he said to Antanas.
"I can now understand why the Protoss Empire would imprison Sinola on this level."
Antanas nodded, sighing.
"Do you know much about Law Breaker Sinola?"
Lanci asked.
As an anti-war witch, the Bingxue Witch wasn’t on particularly good terms with Law Breaker Sinola and Truth Pullane and her information was also very limited. Additionally, these two Great Demon Clans weren’t the rescue targets of the Goddess of Destiny Church.
On the contrary, it is Antanas, a member of the conservative demon race, who would be more familiar with these two Great Demon Clans.
"Of course, because Sinola’s innate magic is quite special. She can start to reverse engineer a spell after seeing it once, and once she’s successful, the next time she sees that spell she can dissolve it immediately. Because of this, mages weaker than her almost can’t fight against her; after a round of spells, they’re basically useless. The longer the fight, the more desperate."
Antanas shook her head, and her bitter expression revealed that every time she fought Sinola, she was rendered powerless.
"Aside from epic-level spells, which Sinola can’t easily reverse engineer, and the holy-level spells which are somewhat difficult to crack, the rest of the spells basically can’t threaten her after they’ve been seen once."
She added.
"No wonder the Protoss Empire wants to imprison her in the Hopeless Extinction War."
Lanci had a moment of realization.
Logically speaking, such a powerful and troublesome enemy mage from the Great Demon Clan should be difficult to detain, but ironically, the negative fifth level of the Herram Prison is the natural prison for Sinola.
In this level, the Law Breaker Sinola, is the new generation bully among the demon clan, she can win every one-on-one fight against mages weaker than her. However, she herself is a mage and would be pummeled by the phantom Sinola summoned by the [Hopeless Extinction War] trial of Great Demon Clan, hence she is unable to leave her cell.
If Law Breaker Sinola escapes from her cell, then she will be hunted down by stronger phantoms.
On the contrary, her cell has become her rare safe zone.
Those who can suppress Law Breaker Sinola are pure physical professionals, like Sikder, who is the natural enemy of Sinola.
And the warden of this level, Melisa, being a defensive knight, isn’t really afraid of the Law Breaker Sinola. Or it should be said that if she were to face Sinola in the Hopeless Extinction War, she would only need to keep herself alive and Sinola would soon die.
"Assuming you and Law Breaker Sinola are to work together to tackle an eighth-order mage, would you win?"
Lanci pondered for a moment, then once again turned towards Antanas.
He found it difficult to assess the exact combat power of Law Breaker Sinola, because her combat power varies greatly depending on whether she’s facing a mage or a warrior.
The two priests of Hegemony were touched by the question they were hearing, they knew that Lord Saint was always considering for Mr. Bishop, even if the enemy was the Bishop of Nirvana, Lord Saint held no fear.
"How strong is he, approximately?"
Antanas’ expression became much more serious. She could probably guess that this "Eighth-order Mage" was the formidable opponent she would have to contend with after leaving Herram Prison on behalf of the princess.
After all, the gap between the Eighth-order Mages is huge.
Back when the Demon World still existed, amongst the Great Demon Clan, there were those who were not particularly good at fighting, but there were also those who were incredibly powerful.
"...If he were at his peak, it would be considered a success if Talia could hold on for ten minutes,"
Lanci assessed Asksan’s strength after thoughtful consideration.
Based on the new ranking system from the South Continent, the strength of an Eighth-order Talia might be around 82 to 83, while the Archbishop-level Asksan could be at 87 or even 88.
"..."
Although Antanas wanted to make a comment after hearing this, she thought it over and found that the description was unexpectedly vivid and it helped clarify the strength of her foe.
"So, she still can’t win. He’s too strong."
Antanas shook her head. For such a human, excluding the Ninth-order Mages, only the strongest generals of the demons could probably tackle him.
Among the living, there were Great Demon Clans that tended more towards logistics. Antanas herself was a bit weaker than Talia, while Sinola was about as strong as Talia and had an advantageous trait against mages.
But the clear difference in outright power between them and the enemy mage was too significant.
Antanas wasn’t confident in supporting Sinola against a round of attacks long enough for Sinola to crack a majority of the opponent’s spells.
"What about adding Truth Pullane to the mix?"
"That might be worth trying, if the three of us go together, even Isis, the Grand Sage of the Protoss Empire would have a headache."
As far as Antanas knew, the strongest opponent of the Protoss Empire now was Isis, the holder of the [Original Slabstone Tablet-Light].
"Got it."
Lanci nodded upon hearing this, gaining a rough idea.
He wasn’t sure how much strength Asksan could recover to in three days at the bishop’s vote.
But let’s just assume it is at his peak level.
Lanci would give his opponent the highest level of respect.
"..."
Hyperion was frowning at the side. She had an ominous feeling but didn’t want to ask Lanci anything in front of the two priests of Hegemony.
She felt that Lanci was seriously analyzing combat power. Back at Ichrite Academy, everyone in the Alchemy College liked to analyze combat power.
Also, Lanci proposed a hypothetical enemy for reference.
Hyperion wasn’t sure whether the "Eighth-order Mage" Lanci proposed was a real person.
But soon, Hyperion dismissed her suspicion. As a significant figure in the Protoss Empire and a maintainer of order, Lanci wouldn’t stir up big trouble on the day of bishop voting in Herram, the Imperial capital.
The plan of Lanci and her was to cooperate with the three demons and complete a trade with the Hegemony Branch. After settling the scores, they could return to the Aestheland Kingdom and needn’t get completely involved in the civil war of the Rebirth Church.
After all, Lanci only had some friendship with a woman named Sikder, he wouldn’t risk his life for such a terrifying figure of the Bishop of Hegemony.
