I Have a Dice Left by a God

Chapter 689 - 281: Battle Nun

"My affairs have been rather chaotic lately. Dragon Capital is going through a turbulent season. The Grand Governor candidate Hong Yan was assassinated, multiple Singers of Song of Hell have arrived, and this very likely has to do with Song of Hell’s Slave Master and that Nun." Li Xin said."Mr. Gemini should be extra careful. Song of Hell is the most powerful Travel Group, on par with some of the ancient Churches." Cantona said.

"Don’t exaggerate. A Travel Group is just a Travel Group, and there are a few others at about this level. In terms of heritage they can’t compare to the Church. You people don’t know the truth of the Church and the terrifying power behind it. This is not something a group cobbled together from a few Angels can compare to." Christian immediately refuted Taurus’s statement. "But you, how did you get involved in this again? Wouldn’t it be better to just focus on cultivation?"

"To be frank with you, Mr. Cancer, I have a personal grudge with that Nun. She was involved in a massacre in Celestial Capital. Now we’ve learned that she is a Nun from Withered Wood Monastery who later betrayed the Monastery and joined Song of Hell." Li Xin said.

At the mention of Withered Wood Monastery, everyone froze for a moment. Mr. Gemini either doesn’t mention things at all, or when he does it’s that kind of place.

"Then you really need to be careful. The power of the direct disciples of the Five Great Sanctuaries is terrifying. Below Angel it’s still possible to target them, but once they reach Angel, they’re not something ordinary Angels can handle. What Level has this Nun reached?" Christian asked.

"Not sure. I only know she walks the road of the seductive woman. She made the Chief Bishop of Celestial Capital willingly sink into depravity, and after reaching Dragon Capital she quickly made the Grand Governor candidate Hong Yan, who was known to be indifferent to women, obsessed with her."

"You’d best pray she doesn’t set her sights on you. Withered Wood Monastery is the most merciful place, and it directly led to the collapse of the Fifth Epoch. The disciples who go out into the world carry immense Wish Power on them. Once they choose the seductive woman path, the might of it is impossible to fathom. If she’s already reached Angel, she’s very likely a rare Divine Angel. There’s not a man in this world who can kill her." Christian said.

Sister Kathy had said the same, but Li Xin didn’t really believe it. He believed he could kill a Divine Angel; facing a Nun, he definitely had a chance. But now that Mr. Cancer was saying this as well, he had to reconsider the possibilities.

"Mr. Cancer, not even a Deity can do it?" Cantona asked.

"I said ’man’, not ’god’. A Deity of course could do it, but could you get one to act?" Christian said calmly. "Even a Great Angel one Level higher than her in suppression cannot lay a hand on her. That’s not to say she can defeat a Great Angel, but that she is ’un­killable’. This is a Hidden Power that emerges once the seductive woman path is cultivated to a certain extent. You’ve all been cultivating for some time; you should understand that each path has its own traits. Knights are the most balanced, and they possess the most direct combat and defensive strength, but they’re better suited for duels and battlefields. Other paths each have their own domain. If you want to defeat an opponent, you have to figure out under what circumstances they will fall into a passive position."

"So it sounds like Mr. Cancer knows the weakness of the seductive woman?" Cantona asked.

This time Christian didn’t keep them guessing. "Generally, what seductive women fear most is falling in love. Once they fall in love with someone, it means death. All the Wish Power they’ve accumulated will transfer to that person. However, seductive women excel at flirting and are ruthless; making them fall in their area of greatest expertise—just imagine how hard that is. And a seductive woman who comes from Withered Wood Monastery has witnessed the most desolate places of the soul, and yet must then plunge into the most desirous domains of human nature. I fear there’s nothing left that can shake her. That’s why I say this is the kind of enemy with no weakness."

"Doesn’t what you’re saying, Mr. Cancer, basically mean this Nun is already invincible?" Simmons asked curiously. "Doesn’t that make the seductive woman path the strongest path?"

"I’m talking about seductive women from Withered Wood Monastery. Ordinary seductive women have low combat power; they need to cling to powerful factions and be squeezed dry. In the past, that path meant a fate worse than death, a lowly cultivation road. Things got a bit better in the Sixth Epoch, but it didn’t change much. There’s nothing praiseworthy about this road. If they had any choice, what normal woman would choose the seductive woman path?" Christian said indifferently.

"Mr. Cancer, that Nun killed a lot of people in Celestial Capital. Since she’s in Dragon Capital, I don’t want to miss this opportunity. Others may have no way, but you definitely do. I don’t believe a mere seductive woman could stump you." Li Xin said. From Christian’s smooth, confident tone he heard genuine confidence.

A proud arc lifted the corner of Christian’s mouth. This Gemini kid did understand him; his long build-up hadn’t been in vain.

"There is indeed one way, and that’s to kill her without ever meeting her. I mean under the condition that you’ve never seen her at all. Once you’ve seen her even once, you won’t be able to kill her." Christian said.

"Mr. Cancer means having someone else confirm her location, then killing her by indirect methods?" Simmons said.

Christian didn’t respond. That was only a general possibility, not something guaranteed.

"That method is very difficult." Estella, who had been silent, spoke. "If I’m not mistaken, this Nun was once the final personal disciple of the abbot of Withered Wood Monastery. In Withered Wood Monastery, ’Nun’ is not a title, but a type of Hidden path."

This should be the senior sister that Master had mentioned—the one who betrayed Withered Wood Monastery after entering the world.

"Miss Aries knows about Withered Wood Monastery?" Christian was a bit surprised. He knew Miss Aries had good conditions, but in terms of hidden lore she seemed to have a shortcoming; her understanding of esoteric knowledge was shallow and fragmented.

Estella nodded. "Mr. Gemini, Nun Eliza was once the most outstanding Nun of Withered Wood Monastery. Her purpose in leaving the Monastery was to cultivate in the world, so now she must already be an Angel. And the Nun path is a transitional path between epochs, compatible with the powers of Law Enforcer, Knight, Divine Favored, and Preacher. You could call it a Battle Nun."

For a moment the entire Round Table Conference fell silent. Simmons felt a tremor in his heart. He believed Miss Aries one hundred percent—or rather, Princess Estella. She was the abbot’s disciple of Withered Wood Monastery; no one knew Withered Wood Monastery better than she did.

Divine blessing, sword and shield in hand, Holy Word on the lips, and law kept in practice—that is the Battle Nun of the Fifth Epoch.

Killing her without meeting her was no different from dreaming.

Li Xin had also underestimated Eliza’s strength. All along, the impression seductive women gave was that they manipulated human nature, not that they fought. Now it seemed Song of Hell wasn’t the sort that simply relied on Brute Force, but the type that leveraged and pried.

Pried?

Li Xin suddenly felt he had grasped something.

That string of explanations made even Christian look at Miss Aries in a new light. "Miss Aries has made great progress. Gemini, you’d better pray you don’t run into her."

The others had nothing more to share, and they moved into the trading phase.

Mr. Taurus needed to trade with Mr. Libra, and the others gave them space.