NOVPUBGabriella, the first seat of the Apostle, was once the corrupted creature before Sacred Sakura Holy Priestess saved her from the demon possession. She started as a humble acolyte in the Sacred Sakura Shrine, serving her new master, the Sacred Sakura Holy Priestess. She was known for her unwavering faith and boundless curiosity.
Her bright golden blonde hair and piercing blue eyes made her stand out. Still, it was her determination and pure heart that caught the attention of her master.
At her earliest encounter, she knew her master was a formidable figure with a greater noble goal. Nevertheless, later she discovered the profound revelation about her master’s origin as the avatar of the Supreme Goddess.
She trained tirelessly, mastering the arts of combat and magic under her master’s guidance. Her early days were marked by a mixture of rigorous training and deep spiritual growth, shaping her into a formidable yet compassionate warrior as a role model for her juniors.
Gabriella’s journey wasn’t solitary. She was one of ten core disciples chosen by the sacred priestess, each with unique strengths and personalities. Her master and martial siblings became her family. Their bond was forged through countless trials and shared hardships, eradicating the great evil.
There was the stoic and wise Rafaela, the mischievous and agile Remiel, and the strong yet gentle Michael, among others. Gabriella often found herself acting as the mediator and leader because her empathy and understanding helped to resolve conflicts and strengthen their unity.
Today, their major task was to eradicate an army of corrupted sea monsters spawned by the Polluted Sea God, assisting the World Alliance’s combined force in the world boss raid with the elders by their side and their master guarding their back.
Gabriella with her natural leadership skills led her team on the battlefield. The battle was fierce, with the corrupted sea monsters displaying terrifying strength and dark magic. Gabriella’s strategic mind and her ability to inspire her comrades were crucial. She used her holy magic to protect her martial siblings, and she fought alongside her team at the forefront.
"Evil suppression formation, commence!" Gabriella activated the combined techniques of ten disciples and their super-tier holy weapons.
A large golden magic circle with abundant holy energy manifested beneath the stray God-tier water demon avatar’s feet, trapping the target and the surrounding unlucky corrupted sea monsters.
"Unleash!" The ten Apostles spoke in unison, unleashing their holy weapons’ combined might to punish the evil.
"Argh! What kind of power is this?!" The water demon avatar screamed her lungs out. The shackle and holy attribute weren’t enough to kill her, but the pain inflicted was tremendous and almost unbearable.
"..." Gabriella looked at her juniors and nodded, channeling more force.
Speaking of which, it would be their first experience to suppress the God-tier evil creatures by themselves.
*Crack*
The magic circle began to crack as the oppressed monster struggled violently, trying to break free.
"Disciples, let us help you out. Lucia, please assist me." Ella flew down from the sky with Lucia by her side. They raised their magic staffs, chanting their high-level holy magic spells.
"Divine Radiance of Elysium."
"Divinara’s Radiant Embrace."
Ella cast a bomb-like holy magic, and Lucia manifested a sealed space within a dome embrace, sealing the holy light’s destructive force within the disciples’ magic circle.
The space became a vacuum inside the holy light dome, and the blinding light with corrosive effect began to slowly crush the suppressed water demon avatar.
The sealed water demon avatar experienced unimaginable hellish torture, killing her slowly with extreme pain from the true damage amplified by the buffs and the opposing magical attribute.
She screamed like a banshee, ear-splitting. Unfortunately, there was no air inside the magical dome, and she slowly melted, leaving her divine core fragments behind.
"Quick, we need to seal it." Ella urged everyone to help her to seal the divine core fragment.
Based on the recent discovery, nobody had yet to succeed in slaying the God-tier water demon avatar. Even though the enemies were reduced to ashes with only their core remaining, these God-tier monsters could still revive and regenerate endlessly.
The dry kill and crack the core method was ineffective for some unknown reason. They could only temporarily kill the enemy in a dry state, and seal the indestructible divine core fragment under holy light seal suppression to prevent their revival and instant regeneration. Because of this, everyone’s water demon avatar kill rate was still zero.
"Phew... thank you for your assistance, Elder Ella." Gabriella clasped her hand to pay her respect.
"It’s not a big deal. We need to take down the world boss first, but she keeps spawning monsters and trying to escape." Ella sighed as she stared at the world boss raid in the distance.
The Polluted Sea God was still trying to escape, and the Emperor-level powerhouses of the World Alliance attacked the world boss from all directions, deploying their skills effectively. Unfortunately, they also didn’t dare to go all-out because of the violent corrupted energy.
"..." The disciples nodded in agreement.
The number of enemy troops was far greater than the World Alliance’s combined forces, and everyone had to reduce the spawned monsters as quickly as possible. The Emperors would do their part as the main raid team to deal with the Polluted Sea God. The current main raid team consisted of more than twenty Emperors, and they should be enough to force the world boss raid to the third phase.
"Arghh!"
The nearby side raid team got blown away by the enraged colossal sea monster. However, an ice-armored warrior surfing the ice path he created. He came to the rescue while freezing the little monsters that got in his way.
The ice-armored warrior circled and taunted the colossal sea monster as an aggro, giving time for the others to retreat and prepare to retaliate.
He leaped high into the air and threw some ice from his hands, freezing the colossal monster gradually. As a finisher move, he raised his finger upward, summoning many ice pillars from the circular path he walked before. "Ice Prison!"
"???" The colossal sea monster felt confused for a moment. He thought he would freeze like the ice power of a particular snow fox or the ice dragon, but this one was just nothing but a paper-like thin layer of ice that stuck to his skin.
He destroyed the ice prison and went on a rampage again to the retreating troops, hunting down the ice power holder weakling.
"Wkakaka! Your ice did nothing to that big mofo, Ice Prince!" Timus laughed out loud when he saw his friend’s fancy move get destroyed like it had no effect or value.
"Hah?!" Aether got offended. He was newly revived as a youngster. Despite his mastery over the Heavenly Ice, his power was still so mediocre.
With his efforts to stall the time for the other raid teams, his friend got some guts to make fun of him despite doing nothing but watch from the side?! 𝓃𝓸𝓋𝓹𝓾𝓫.𝒸ℴ𝓶
Therefore, the offended Ice God immediately turned around and caught the laughing wild sea dog. He raised Timus high, aiming at the nearby colossal sea monster as if he wished to use his old friend as a meat cannon.
"Eh? What do you want to do? Please don’t be unreasonable!" Timus stopped his laughter.
"Then, use your immunity power and iron body transformation to serve as my tactical missile." Aether threw Timus with all of his might.
"Aaaahhh! Fck you! I was just laughing and you are being so unreasonable! Ironclad Body!" Timus screamed with great grievance. He hardened his body and curled up, shooting towards the enemy like a cannonball.
Unfortunately, the enemy possessed sleek and slimy skin. The cannonball slipped, missed the target, and fell into the nearby ravine.
"What are they doing?" Lucia tilted her head and asked in wonder.
"They still have time to play around... Uh, please don’t mind them. Let’s assist the other raid teams." Ella flew away and Lucia soon followed suit.
"First sister, the water demon avatar is no good. We will run out of spiritual energy just to take down three more. Let’s start returning to the smaller targets, saving people, and harvesting the soul core fragments for greater contribution results." Jophiel wiped her sweat as she couldn’t help but advise her senior sister.
"Yeah, let’s head back to the outer circle." Gabriella nodded in agreement.
She and her juniors looked around once. Dozens of holy light domes were scattered on the battlefield, indicating many water demon avatars had been defeated and sealed.
The world boss raid’s second phase became a bit heated in the distance, and the Polluted Sea God looked a bit desperate, but the Goddesses already retreated to the sky to oversee the entire situation.
"Desperate situations will call for desperate measures. They better be careful." Remiel muttered under her breath before following her seniors to the outer encirclement to hunt the smaller corrupted sea monsters.
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In the midst of the fierce clash between the Emperors and the Polluted Sea God, a spark of rivalry began to ignite. The Polluted Sea God tried to influence everyone’s mind to kill each other, but Dory, Celes, and Hea did their part to keep everyone’s mind clear and sane during the raid.
The invisible clash in a particular sound frequency was so fierce, but nobody could notice it without profound perception.
"Hahaha! Have you become a bit rusty lately due to relying too much on machines and technology, Devil Emperor Dylan? You need to grow some muscles!" Nuraddir couldn’t help but mock his rival due to the pathetic amount of damage caused by the devils.
"Tch." Dylan clicked his tongue, feeling a bit annoyed. However, he had to remain vigilant because they kept driving the Polluted Sea God to the corner.
The Goddesses retreated to guard their backs, but they were still the ones who had to gauge the Polluted Sea God’s bottom line in this world boss raid. Even though it was a rare experience to battle against a God-tier monster, the cornered creature would obviously bite out of desperation. The enemy was the divine corruption power holder, and everyone had to be extra careful.
