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Chapter 85
Ch 85 - Trial of Reputation (5)
When Pelio shouted, his body emanated a yellow light. This yellow was that of a forsythia.
The yellow light shocked everyone.
“No way!”
That color was the color of the Libra, the owner of the balanced sign.
“How could a Virgo disciple let out that color
!”
! The magical energy of the twelve Zodiacs differed in color.
[Cardinal Red—Red Archer]
[Navy Blue—Blue Gemini]
[Violet—Purple Aquarius]
[Gold—Gold Leo]
[Dark Red—Garnet Aries]
That was how it worked. Moreover, whether one had rented skills or not didn’t matter. A disciple had to power their spells with the magical energy of their own Zodiac. Of course, exceptions existed, but the current situation wasn’t one.
‘If he’s a Virgo disciple, he should be letting out silver light!’
Pelio letting out a different-colored magical energy was clear proof of him being a traitor. And as expected, the Belgian prince drew the holy symbol of the Libra and activated his ability.
[Equivalent Exchanged-Changing Space]
The yellow light appeared along the wall and the floor. It was shaped like a hexagon.
“
!”
In a flash, their surroundings changed.
Koo-goo-goong!
Goat and Hugo couldn't believe this sight. The area within the hexagon had changed scenes; they were now within a garden.
[The Virgo Saint’s treasure room has been swapped with a privately-owned Royal estate in Belgium.]
It was a bizarre sight. However, the problem wasn’t the changed surroundings.
Boom boom boom!
To everyone’s surprise, standing in the swapped space were several thousand knights clad in helmets and armor. Armed to the teeth, every one of them was letting off the magical energy of the Libra. It didn’t end there.
‘That’s
!’
Toads were also in that area. These were the toads Lee Gun and the Archer disciples had killed outside the dome. Moreover, that symbol was engraved on their backs too.
This made Goat furrow his brows. ‘Something like this couldn’t be prepared in just one or two days.’
In the first place, the Virgo Saint’s holy ground shouldn’t have been penetrated so easily.
‘Also, he used the Changing Space skill.’
The Libra was considered the number one amongst the twelve Zodiacs, and its Saint was famous for being the .
In other words, the Libra Saint gained something equivalent to what she sacrificed. According to rumors, she could revive a dead person if she sacrificed someone of the same rank.
‘Or she could kill someone with it.’
However, this had to be an equivalent exchange. It was like weighing with a scale. This also applied to spaces. ‘To be able to invade this space, they had to have sacrificed an equivalent cost.’
The problem was that they had been within the Virgo Saint’s holy ground even if it were a small part. Goat couldn’t imagine what had to be sacrificed to do this.
‘At the very least, souls had to have been sacrificed. Tens of thousands of people at the bare minimum!’
On the other hand, the soldiers who had been called forth flinched when they saw Lee Gun’s party.
“Elder! This is different from the plan! The Archer Saint is also here
”
Pelio glared at them for speaking such words. “He’s a good-for-nothing Saint! We’ll just kill all of them!”
“
?!”
Hugo and Goat felt anger surge in their hearts at being treated like trash.
On the other hand, Kevin had witnessed the betrayal with his own eyes. It had shocked him. “What the hell did the Libra offer you
”
Pelio was a prince of Belgium, and the Virgo Saint had been protecting him. The prince had become one of the Virgo Saint’s top three officers and the elder of the Virgo temple.
Therefore, Kevin couldn’t understand how Pelio could betray him so easily.
Hugo and Goat laughed out of spite.
“I guess your high-rank disciples aren’t much. How could you recruit a spy as your disciple?”
“This is why you are always second.”
These words made Kevin angry. “Do you really think I didn’t know about the spies?”
“You didn’t.”
“Our Gun knew about them from the start.”
“
!”
Hugo continued, “It’s fine. Our Gun is the best. All the twelve Zodiac Saints should bow down to him.”
Baffled, the Virgo Saint looked at Hugo. “Did you drink alcohol again, Archer?”
“I didn’t drink any!!”
Hearing those words, the flustered Goat quickly gave Hugo some medicine to make him sober up faster.
Then, Kevin glared at the soldiers. “I would’ve known if there was a problem with the faith of my disciples!”
Hugo accepted his words. ‘While he’s a high-rank battle Saint, he’s also the Contract Saint.’
The Virgo Saint was the . He used his abilities through strict contracts and restrictions. Amongst the twelve Zodiac Saints, his power had the most restrictions. Yet, his abilities were strong.
As expected of a temple under the Contract Saint, to join the Virgo temple, a disciple had to accept a strict contract. If the disciple’s faith underwent changes, they would suffer immediate punishment.
That was why a spy could never pass the entrance test of the Virgo Saint. Therefore, Kevin muttered, “How were they able to falsify their faith?”
Hugo feigned a smile in response. “Either you’re an idiot, or this is a plan to deceive us.”
“What?”
“You killed Gun and deceived the world. A deception of this caliber is probably nothing to you”
Realizing the implication of Hugo’s words, Kevin unsheathed his sword in anger. “It wasn’t me!”
“What do you mean it wasn’t you? We saw it in the memory analysis, and your warehouse was full of swords similar to the one that stabbed Gun!”
“I don’t know what you guys saw, but it wasn’t me! In fact, I was the one who investigated Lee Gun’s death!” Kevin tried to explain himself.
“What?”
“I found those blades while investigating the suspect!”
The expression on Hugo’s face was a sight to behold. He had truly become sober.
Kevin ground his teeth. The fact that Lee Gun hadn’t been able to exit the tower had been eating at him for the past twenty years. “He died before I could kill him. Do you know how much that burned me up? I even thought about dragging the Aquarius Saint by her hair into the tower!”
Hugo didn’t know what wrong the Aquarius Saint had committed, but it didn’t matter. “You really
.”
“If my Zodiac hadn’t forbidden me from doing it, I would’ve gone into the tower. Lee Gun is someone I recognize as a man. There’s no way he would’ve died so easily. At the very least, I wanted to be first to find Lee Gun’s corpse!”
The revelation left Hugo more and more dumbfounded. ‘It doesn’t seem as if he’s lying.’
However, there was a dubious point to Kevin’s story. ‘Didn’t the appraiser read the memory from the blade? He said the Virgo Saint had stabbed Lee Gun in the back.’
Therefore, Hugo decided not to believe Kevin. In the first place, only a swordmaster of Kevin’s caliber could stab Lee Gun in the back. The Archer Saint asked, “If not you, then who dropped Gun into the trap?”
“That’s
!”
At that moment

Cheng!
The soldiers raised their spears, trying to activate their skill.
Lee Gun furrowed his brows as he saw a familiar magic formation. Until now, he had been on the sidelines, having a ball watching the Virgo Saint suffer like an idiot, but now

‘That is a forbidden technique.’ This spell could destroy a holy ground.
A holy ground was a space created using the power of a Zodiac. If the holy ground got damaged or destroyed, the Zodiac would be directly harmed as well. And if the Zodiac suffered damage, its Saint suffered catastrophic damage.
In other words, dealing with the holy ground was the only way the disciples could neutralize a Saint, who had absolute defense!
“This holy ground has eight barrier cores! We just need to destroy them!” Since Pelio had been a Virgo disciple, he knew how the inner barrier was constructed.
Hugo glared at the Virgo Saint when the latter held up his Winter Frost. “You—”
“Shut up! I don’t have time to converse with you right now!” Kevin immediately disappeared.
“!”
He reappeared in front of the soldiers! “You dare attack a Saint in his holy ground. It seems you guys also think I’m soft.”
Inside their holy ground, a Saint could receive 100% of their Zodiac’s power. As for a high-rank disciple, they would receive the highest of buffs.
Kevin let out an ugly laugh. The murderous intent he radiated now was completely different from the one he had when he tried to fight Lee Gun. His mouth twisted upward, and his piercing gaze looked almost possessed by spirits.
[Carry Debt to the Grave]
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