?SWIFTESCAPE growled, "Very well then."


    He tried to evade the annihtor but its targeter made it trail him in the air so he gave up on escaping the missile and dove straight for his prey. The white missile closed in on him only to suddenly go off course when it entered the range of SWIFTESCAPE''s domain. He used his solidified divine sense to p the missile aside as one would swat at a fly.


    The zealots of Order were not discouraged by the oue. They didn''t expect an annihtor to work against a transcendent anyway. It was originally nned for the mana entity. Setting off an annihtor within the tunnels at the bore worm while the nt spirit is preupied with two Behemoths will surely eliminate the bore worm. They just have to y their real cards.


    SWIFTESCAPE didn''t wait for them to do whatever they n to do. He gave them a dragon wee. His eyes lit up with green mes and he opened his mouth wide. His prey could see the green me within his gullet despite the re of light that the annihtor produced after being detonated.


    The annihtor exploded into a giant white dome. It created a lot of shockwaves, light, heat, wind, and sounds. The effect of that explosion hadn''t ended when SWIFTESCAPE finished his present for them. The white mushroom formed by the rising air formed the background as a greennce of fire shot toward the zealots of order.


    The female Behemoth''s eyes turned white and ck as she pulled into the power of the Celestial Supreme. She is also a vessel and the trump card of this expedition. If the nt dragon can use the power of a god, then only someone that can use such a simr power can withstand it.


    "Shield of order."


    She urged the divine power flowing within her to create a giant shield in front of their group. The Celestial Supreme has learned his lesson already and he knows that the hidden god is a Celestial. So this shield can block everything as long as they do not use a Celestial Authority.


    The greennce of me made its way straight to them. The zealots expected a sh of an explosion due to the collision but there was no sh. Thence passed straight through the shield as if it isn''t there and continued on to the zealots. It did not break the shield or prate it. It seems to have phased through it like water slips through the earth and then it struck the zealots.


    None of their defensive divine spells or Stigmata worked to protect them. The green fire phased through it all and sunk into their flesh. They all caught on fire burning with green mes. It was then that they received their second surprise. They were first surprised by the failure of the divine shield but now they are shocked that they do not feel any pain despite being on fire.


    Their surroundings did not catch fire as they did. The mence did not even disturb the soil. It passed through it as it passed through the shield. There was no explosion or destruction. If fleet like they were showered with a cool liquid, and not dragon mes.<novelsnext></novelsnext>


    It is strange and perplexing. They are giant bonfires of green me and yet, they as fuel, do not feel any pain or difort. Their skin and hair are unharmed and seemed no different. It didn''t long before they noticed what the me is doing to them. It started quickly and escted into something else.


    They began to reduce in body mass and their skin began to wrinkle. Their muscles shrunk to the bone. Their skin dried up, lost its sticity, and began to crack. They became lean and their hair began to fall off.


    It was a painless if horrific sight. They fell to the ground unable to stand anymore. Their legs became too thin and weak to support them so they fell. Even then they kept burning. They kept burning until all the life force in their body was fully burned all the while they felt no pain.


    They died when their system finally gave up. By then, they have be dry mummies that crack with a touch. And they did crack when the only survivor tried to help them. The female Behemoth was the only one that survived and the only one that cried in pain as she watched the rest die with bewildered looks on their face.


    She turned to the dragon and roared a promise of vengeance.


    "I will kill you."


    Her loud voice, though impressive, did not faze SWIFTESCAPE. He stood above her andughed in derision. His grating voice bore through her like the worst sound ever. She leaped up with conjured weapons and the two of them shed. The two vessels of two Celestials traded blow after blow in a Deathmatch. Only one of them will walk away from this fight.


    These kinds of fights urred throughout the ne. Priests have special Stigmata that make them stronger when there are a lot of them together. The force domain of the strike team is one of them. There are special stigmata that improve attack power, defensive power or simply heal better the more a type of priest there are in proximity.


    Zealots of order have a particrly nasty one that makes them almost invulnerable to damage if they are inrge enough numbers but they couldn''t take advantage of numbers because they have been separated. They easily fell prey to the nt spirits. Only the vessels could resist the nt spirits but their fates have been sealed.


    The tree father sent out a lot of orders which lead to a lot of events with heavy consequences for the Zargoth ne. Another order he sent out is to his cult. He instructed them toe out into the open and officially transform from a cult into a church. The cult of life with its hidden sanctuaries and priestess came forward boldly to announce the faith of the church of life.