Saint Amanda School was donated by a saint of the Shining Light Church, so a Church facility was naturally standard.
The school's Church was located on a lawn slightly further away from the main school building. The overall structure was not small, and students would come here to pray on weekdays. Sometimes, theology teachers would also teach theology classes to the students here.
At this moment, this place of prayer had already transformed into a battlefield, and the center of the battlefield was Dorothy, who stood before the altar. At this time, she wore an expensive dress, leaned on a staff, wore a hat, and a golden silk masquerade mask on her face. Her long white hair was tied into a single ponytail behind her, making it impossible to determine her hair color from the front. Her eyes, through the mask, silently overlooked the battlefield before her.
Geffrey, who had just entered the Church, continuously slashed at Dorothy with his bone blades, but they were blocked one by one by Vanya, who was guarding Dorothy and also wearing a mask, with the sword in her hand. At this time, Dorothy also controlled several Corpse Puppets hidden around the Church to ambush and shoot at the attackers. Oswan, as usual, controlled the bone shield for defense.
Gunshots echoed continuously in the bright Church. Dorothy and Vanya, Geffrey and Oswan, both sides had one person mainly attacking and one person mainly defending, gradually forming a situation of intertwined offense and defense. The scene seemed to have fallen into a stalemate again, and this stalemate made Oswan feel impatient. He questioned his companion beside him.
"Haven't you finished yet? It's just a kid!"
"It's not that easy! That Sister's swordsmanship is ridiculously good, it's hard to break through!" Geffrey said, trying to attack Dorothy from various directions with his bone blades, but they were all blocked by the sword-wielding Sister with a clanging sound. Even the bone blades he deliberately maneuvered to the side and back could not escape Vanya's sharp eyes and were all blocked by Vanya.
Vanya, holding the sharp sword, had now become Dorothy's most solid guard. Not a single bone blade could break through her sword defense.
The "Cup" Spirituality obtained through the "Lamb Song" still had 1 point left, which was just enough for Vanya to use another Raw Consumption Symbol to enhance her physical ability.
Just as the scene was in a stalemate, Dorothy was observing her surroundings. When she saw that the enemies had all entered the Church, she knew the opportunity had come.
Immediately, Dorothy controlled a Corpse Puppet hidden by the Church door. This Corpse Puppet stood up and pulled a mechanism next to it. Immediately, the thick Church door suddenly closed, trapping everyone inside.
"What..."
Hearing the sound of the door suddenly closing behind them, Geffrey and Oswan both felt something was wrong for a moment. Just then, Dorothy took out a small item from a small bag beside her, an unremarkable candle.
Dorothy put the candle to her mouth, and then the candle automatically ignited with black fire. She slightly pulled down her mask, and then blew out the fire on the candle.
Then, along with the extinguished fire, all the lights in the entire Church were also extinguished.
This was the Black Candle of Light Extinguishment, which Dorothy had obtained from Luer earlier. Dorothy injected 1 point of "Shadow" into it, extinguishing all the lights in the Church. Immediately, the entire Church space was plunged into darkness without a trace of Light.
The spacious area fell into complete darkness, not even a ray of moonlight, because Dorothy had sealed all the windows in this Church before this!
Darkness descended, and Geffrey and Oswan, who had lost their vision, could not see anything for a moment. All attacks were stopped out of helplessness.
"It's a 'Shadow' item, they want to block our vision! This is a trap!"
Upon seeing this, Geffrey immediately took out something from his pocket. It was a Symbol, a crumpled Symbol. In the center of that Symbol, a golden coin was wrapped. It was a "Light" storage.
"Illuminate for me!"
Saying that, Geffrey threw the Symbol wrapped with the gold coin into the air. The Symbol burned in the air and then turned into an orange-yellow ball of Light, re-illuminating the surroundings.
This was the Light Illuminating Symbol, which they had prepared to deal with such emergency situations.
Seeing the rising ball of Light, Dorothy was startled, and then once again injected a point of "Shadow" into the candle in her hand. The flame on the candle ignited again. After Dorothy blew it out, the floating ball of Light immediately extinguished, and the surrounding space returned to darkness.
Seeing this situation, Geffrey was stunned for a moment. The entire Light Illuminating Symbol was for their emergency use. Since the Spirituality storage and Symbols were not cheap, they did not prepare too many.
In the hidden world, accumulating one's main and auxiliary Spirituality is very time-consuming. Not many people are willing to spend a lot of energy to store other spirits. At most, they just store some storage for driving Symbols and items.
'Damn it, that guy used the 'Shadow' item twice in one go... Isn't he a "Cup" Extraordinary? Where did he get so much 'Shadow'! ' Geffrey thought to himself, feeling both puzzled and somewhat annoyed. Then, relying on his senses, he touched his companion beside him.
"Give me the Earth Hearing Symbol!"
Without hesitation, Oswan handed the Earth Hearing Symbol to Geffrey. Geffrey activated Earth Hearing again, propped his hand on the ground, and began to sense the surroundings using vibrations. Then he controlled the bone blades, flew to the back, and slashed at the door behind them, wanting to cut it open so they could leave this dark Church.
Geffrey only controlled half of the bone blades to dismantle the door, while the other half of the bone blades guarded their sides, strengthening the defense of the bone shield.
In this pitch-black environment where they couldn't see their own fingers, Geffrey and Oswan both understood that the biggest key was to prevent the enemy from using the darkness to launch a sneak attack! As long as they defended against sneak attacks, they could get out of this trap once they finished dismantling the door.
'Heh, they probably want to use the environment here to block our attacks and sneak attack in the dark, but as long as I have Earth Hearing, I will sense anything that approaches.'
Geffrey thought this way. With the Earth Hearing sensing and the defense of the bone blades and bone shield, they were confident that nothing could approach them in the dark. Once the door was dismantled, they could return to the safe area under the moonlight.
'Moreover, in this pitch-blackness, you can't see anything either, right? If you can't determine our positions, I don't see how you can sneak attack.'
Geffrey and the others continued to think. Then, the two of them began to move their positions slightly in the Church with tacit understanding, in case Dorothy launched an attack based on their memorized positions.
In the darkness, Dorothy still stood before the altar. Facing the darkness before her, she moved her finger slightly, and immediately four Corpse Puppets stood up at the edge of the Church space.
Then, under Dorothy's control, one of the Corpse Puppets took out a few items from its body. They were a Symbol and two silver coins.
The Corpse Puppet stacked the two silver coins on the Symbol, and then slapped them on its forehead. As the silver coins lost their color and the straw paper turned to ash, the effect of the Symbol was activated.
The two coins were two "Shadow" Spirituality storages, and that Symbol was the Silence Symbol that Dorothy had found on Bill's body. It could eliminate sound and vibration, and Aldrich had evaluated it as the favorite Symbol of petty thieves.
In the darkness, Dorothy waved her hand, and immediately all the Corpse Puppets she controlled ran towards Geffrey and Oswan. The reason Dorothy could determine their positions in the darkness was because of the Spirituality vision provided by the passive ability of Appraisal.
In Dorothy's Spirituality vision, the bone items attached to the Ghosts emitted a faint, pale light, and these bone items, in order to protect their masters in the dark, were gathered around them.
Therefore, through the positions of the bone items, Dorothy could clearly determine the enemy's positions. The center surrounded by the bone items was where the enemy was. These bone items attached to the Ghosts betrayed the positional information of their masters to Dorothy.
Suddenly, all of Dorothy's Corpse Puppets rushed towards Geffrey and Oswan. Geffrey, who sensed the vibrations, immediately controlled the bone blades and slashed towards the source of the approaching vibrations. After a short while, three out of the four Corpse Puppets were destroyed by the slashes and failed to approach their targets.
However, only one, only the Corpse Puppet that used the Silence Symbol and concealed its own vibrations through the power of "Shadow" directly ran to the target, running to the wall of shields constructed by the four bone shields.
Then, from its clothes, it pulled out a bundle of sticks tied together with a fuse.
These were eight eggs, they were explosives, the explosives that Harold had prepared to black-eat-black and blow up the ship!
Pulling the simple delayed detonator, the Corpse Puppet threw the explosives into the shield wall of bone shields. At the same time, Dorothy also lifted the gas lamp prepared at her feet, turned it on, grabbed Vanya's hand with the Light, and pulled her to hurry behind the altar. There, a tunnel was hidden.
And Geffrey, who had just finished killing the Corpse Puppets and was about to relax, suddenly felt something drop with a plop beside him and Oswan.
'What is this?'
Just as the two of them were wondering, a loud bang shook the sky above Saint Amanda School.
"Boom!!!!"