Xueyuedai and Ten-Step Hall were also arranged to stay inside a Small Chapel.
“Why stop? If we defeat Baicheng, we should be able to find out Feini’s location.” Ten-Step Hall began to mope alone as soon as she sat down.
“There is no need to rush. We must do things step by step,” Xueyuedai said.
“Was what you said earlier about taking Feini back to have children true? I haven’t heard of such a plan,” Ten-Step Hall asked.
“How could that be? I was just fooling Baicheng,” Xueyuedai replied.
“Why? That will only make them more hostile toward us,” Ten-Step Hall said.
“A person without a reasonable motive will not be trusted. Whether it is with the Witches or on Feini’s side, we must hide our true goal,” Xueyuedai explained with a feigned air of profoundness.
“Our true goal is?” Ten-Step Hall asked.
“To bring Feini back to the Demonkind, of course,” Xueyuedai said firmly.
……
At the same time, White Feather Dove also returned to her own Small Chapel. In fact, her home was only a street away from those two.
“I need to send the news back to Evil Father and Mother as soon as possible,” White Feather Dove muttered to herself while sitting on the bed.
She immediately stood up, intending to sneak out of the Small Chapel and return to the Holy Knight Order to tip them off.
However, White Feather Dove peered out the window and noticed strange things flying around her chapel. They were crystal-clear Ice Birds.
One look and she knew it was Xueyuedai’s Monitoring Technique. Arranging such things to monitor her was definitely intended to prevent her from sending a message.
But White Feather Dove thought about it carefully; something felt wrong.
If they really wanted to find Mother, they should have stayed still and let her go back, then followed her to naturally find Feini.
She felt that the purpose of Xueyuedai and Ten-Step Hall coming here was definitely not as simple as her mother.
After all, as Demonic Beast girls acting as Undercover agents infiltrating the Human Race, they were surely here to cause destruction.
Actually, that didn’t matter; White Feather Dove didn’t care much about whether the Human Race lived or died.
No, that wasn’t right either. The Black Saintess and the old priests had taken good care of her.
Since she came to the Magic Department alone, they had been kind to her.
She couldn’t stand by and watch those two Fake Humans harm the Magic Department.
While they were monitoring her, she was also effectively restricting their movements.
According to White Feather Dove’s analysis, they must be seeking the position of Sacred Maiden.
This position was extremely important among the Human Race.
Once someone became the Sacred Maiden, they could perfectly infiltrate the Church, and the internal affairs of the United Kingdom would become very dangerous.
Therefore, the important thing was this Sacred Maiden position. She had to seize it for herself.
White Feather Dove gradually understood everything and made a secret resolution to stop the conspiracy of Xueyuedai and Ten-Step Hall, drive them out of the Church, and send them back to the Demon Domain.
Although Baicheng’s understanding was completely wrong—as Xueyuedai and Ten-Step Hall didn’t care about what happened to the Church, didn’t plan on staying with the Human Race for long, and had no intention of causing destruction—their common goal was to snatch Feini away.
However, Xueyuedai’s plan had already reached the fifth level.
Her previous words were meant to make White Feather Dove mistakenly believe she wanted to take Feini back as a captive bride, but then she stayed still, causing Baicheng to become suspicious and think she wasn’t so simple.
But in reality, she was just that simple.
Why make it so complicated?
Because Xueyuedai and Ten-Step Hall were not of one mind either. When she said she was using Ten-Step Hall before, she was truly using her; it was no joke.
Ten-Step Hall was the reason the Witch allowed them to infiltrate the Human Race.
After all, her true form was not simple; she was practically a nuke that could explode within the Human Race at any time.
Regardless of what happened, it would be entertaining to watch.
Ten-Step Hall was also her enemy. She was the greatest obstacle in front of achieving her final goal.
And as for herself, she was just a little fox spirit without much power. If she wanted to achieve her goals, she had to use her brain.
She would first borrow a knife to kill and then wait to see how things changed.
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Unfortunately, on the other side with the Holy Knight Order on the outskirts, Qingshamu had long since anticipated the arrival of Ten-Step Hall and Xueyuedai.
Because her good teammate Camilla had tipped her off, saying she had brought two Magicians from noble families with fire and ice attributes, it immediately aroused her suspicion.
Now that Feini had awakened, she could let Blackie take care of her.
Anyway, Heiqi Long pushed Feini’s wheelchair around for high-speed drifting every day.
Aside from being paralyzed, the person was in high spirits, so there was no need to worry.
Thus, Qingshamu was free to assist her daughter. She couldn’t let her face that monster alone.
She now knew Ten-Step Hall’s true identity as well.
She was the Northern Demon King, whose true form was a Red Dragon—a Warrior among the Ancient Dragons, and a mutant at that, who had awakened Dragon Breath and could use Magic.
Today, Qingshamu arrived before the gates of the Magic Department.
“Buzz, buzz…” Moonlight Mana expanded from her body. Sensing the sacred Magic, the giant stone doors actually opened on their own.
The former Hero entered the Magic Department easily and activated a stealth mode. With her Magic hidden, no one could sense her presence.
She could explore the Magic Department freely, and those old priests wouldn’t dream of catching her.
Furthermore, Qingshamu could directly sense her daughter’s presence.
Unlike certain dragons or certain Hei who had no blood connection, Qingshamu and White Feather shared a very powerful soul connection.
Though from a scientific perspective, this soul connection had nothing to do with bloodline; the important thing was the Magic.
However, that fellow Blackie was a peculiar existence without a single drop of Magic, so Ten-Step Hall had no idea she was her daughter.
Among the two pairs of fathers and daughters, it seemed the one with the real problem was Blackie.
But Qingshamu also quickly discovered many strange Magic fluctuations around the house where White Feather Dove lived.
Observing secretly, she found they were small frost birds monitoring every move of her daughter’s home.
It was basically confirmed now. The two Saint Candidates sent by the Central Church were Ten-Step Hall and Xueyuedai.
However, they had already started monitoring her daughter. If she appeared now, it would only alert the enemy. They didn’t seem to have made a move against her daughter yet.
Since that was the case, she couldn’t act recklessly. She had to first figure out their goals and secretly establish contact with her daughter.
Otherwise, if the Northern Demon King went on a rampage here, the entire Saint Lisha Academy would be destroyed, and many innocent people would perish under the Dragon Breath.
She couldn’t take such a risk. Consequently, she found an empty Storeroom nearby, slipped inside, and began her double-monitoring.
And so…
The former Hero secretly monitored the two Central Saint Candidates, while the two Central Saint Candidates monitored the local Saint Candidate.
The atmosphere in this area also became very strange, with Magic creations flying back and forth in the sky every day.
The Apprentices didn’t dare to approach this place easily and would walk around it.
This situation would continue until the actual Saintess Selection Ceremony day.
But there was no need for more foreshadowing. Everyone had arrived, and there was nothing else to do. The next second, the day had arrived.
On this day, all Apprentices of the Magic Department had to gather. They couldn’t slack off in the Dormitory; everyone had to come and bear witness.
The place of witnessing was the core building of Saint Lisha Academy.
It was a super-giant church hidden within a rock wall, named the Saint Lisa Holy See.
Upon entering, there was a subtle sense of familiarity because every tile here was coated with an anti-magic white coating, making it no different from the Tea Party Gymnasium where they had previously fought their group Decisive Battle.
The old priests and the Purple Bishops were also present in a group.
Even the uncooperative Black Saintess had come; today was the day of her retirement and handover.
There were three people selected as Saint Candidates. Although they were both familiar and strange to the Apprentices because they hadn’t been there for long, their fame had already reached everyone’s ears.
Ten-Step Hall stood to one side listlessly. Xueyuedai was smiling with narrowed eyes, making it impossible to know what she was thinking.
White Feather Dove stood on the other side with an extremely serious expression, full of battle intent and ready to fight at any moment.
At the same time, Qingshamu had disguised herself as an Apprentice and sneaked in. It seemed conflict was unavoidable; she was ready to assist White Feather Dove at any time.
Based on the intelligence she had gathered, she speculated that these two enemies had come to seize the position of Sacred Maiden to control the Church.
Even if they lost the race for Sacred Maiden, it had been mentioned before that a Saint Candidate was essentially a reserve for the Church’s management, with the highest potential rank being Cardinal Archbishop.
If one became the Sacred Maiden and the other became a Cardinal Archbishop, then the Human Race’s largest demon-hunting organization would suddenly fall into the hands of the Demonkind.
She would never allow such a thing to happen!
Well, it seemed Qingshamu’s logic and thought process were exactly the same as her daughter’s; she couldn’t see through the fifth level of Xueyuedai’s plan.
As for how the Sacred Maiden was chosen? It was simple: through combat, of course.
Once the old priests finished their long, tedious Great Prayer, they could finally enter the practical combat phase.
All the Apprentices retreated to the walls, secretly circulating their Magic to construct Magic shields for themselves.
Suddenly, multicolored Magic lights lit up the surroundings. This was to let them protect themselves, but it was also a form of ritual.
Only the three Saint Candidates remained on the platform. The last one standing would become the new Sacred Maiden.
This rule was very, very unfair to White Feather Dove. It was obvious the other two were allies and would surely team up to take her out first.
But the laws of the ancestors cannot be changed; the Saintess Selection Ceremony had been this kind of battle royale mode for thousands of years.
Even though there were only three of them, it was still a battle royale.
In the past, the Saintess Selection Ceremony involved more than just three people; a large group of Saint Candidates would slaughter each other in what was a very cruel secret Church ritual.
“……”
Qingshamu remained hidden. She could even disguise her Magic shield as another color.
If they dared to team up and bully her daughter, she would have no choice but to act.
“Baicheng, we didn’t reach a Victory or Defeat last time. Let’s finish the second half this time.”
However, Xueyuedai sincerely invited White Feather Dove to a one-on-one duel, having no intention of bullying her with numbers.