Chapter 707 (1/2)

Chapter 707: The Queen Of Starfall City’s Path

Translator: TransN Editor: TransN

“It sounded just like she had explained,” Roland thought. Ashes once said that the difference between the God’s Punishment Army and the Extraordinary was not their strength nor reaction, but their wisdom. If a God’s Punishment Warrior had a witch’s mind and were immortal, her combat experience which was accumulated over centuries would reach a horrifying level. Such fighters would be even stronger than the Extraordinary.

If he were fighting against the full version of God’s Punishment Army in Coldwind Ridge, the result would most probably be reversed. The church only needed to split the whole corps into many squads to infiltrate the base of Kingdom of Graycastle. These squads could start battles through widespread harassment and he would not be able to guard against them.

So it seemed that the long adaption was not the main issue. As long as the soul could continue to transfer, it would be natural to keep the powerful veteran warriors.

Only one question remained. How many God’s Punishment Warriors did Alice save before the Bloody Moon? The powerful shells also had a higher tolerance than normal people. They would enter the old age when they were about 100 years old. If one were involved in the incarnation ceremony at the age of 20, it could be used for seven or eight decades. Even without calculating the failure rate of the transformation and soul transfer, a witch could only create two shells. This directly restricted the number of the corps. If one wanted to create an army of thousands of God’s Punishment corps, the number of witches consumed in the succession of 400 years would be terrible.

When he asked this question, Phyllis bit her lip and replied, “All.”

Roland was startled, and suspected he had heard wrongly, “What?”

“Other than the Transcendents, she planned to transform all the witches into the God’s Punishment Army, to withstand the final doomsday.” She repeated.

“Wait a minute, how could this be done? If you wanted to overpower the Senior Demons, one had to be a very well-trained God’s Punishment Warrior. But to get such warriors, wouldn’t many shells needed to be reserved to transfer the souls?”

“That’s right, but there was another way to preserve the soul, and that was to move it into other vessels first.”

“Other… vessels?”

“We call it hibernation.” Phyllis’s words caused Roland to shiver. “During this period, the person hibernating did not need to consume anything, and felt nothing, until it would be awakened again. How else do you think we could survive that difficult period of the early days? After the fallout with Starfall City, we did not have any usable shells of the God’s Punishment Army, so we survived purely on hibernation. Of course, with the exception of some witches… such as Lady Pasha.”

“What about her?”

“When you see her, you will understand.” Phyllis did not elaborate. “In short, Lady Alice intended to train and form sophisticated God’s Punishment Warriors in a century, and then let the souls hibernate in order to cut down on the consumption of the shells. As a result, Starfall City would be able to continually transform the God’s Punishment Army. When the Bloody Moon arrived, all the souls would be awakened, and the number of the God’s Punishment Warriors would far exceed the limits that the witch community could bear.”

This meant that every witch alive on the eve of the battle would be transformed.

Wendy, Sylvie, and Leaf lost the color from their faces. Although he could not see the expression on Nightingale’s face, Roland knew she would certainly look gloomy as well.

“And Alice herself… Was she also going to participate in the transfer of souls?”