There are currently 36 demigods in the empire, but they are mostly inactive except for special needs, but are divided into two groups, taking turns to enter the state of 'light sleep' and 'deep sleep'.

In the state of light sleep, it is like normal sleep, but it lasts for a long time, longer than the hibernation period of animals, and the brains of demigods in this state still maintain their thinking and consciousness, and even some secret techniques can communicate with the outside world in the sleep state, and they can be awakened at any time.

In the deep sleep state, it is equivalent to a state of suspended animation, and the body functions are basically in a state of stagnation, and other magic instruments and holy relics need to be used to keep the seal.

Demigods in this state need a very complex process to wake up, and they are usually unable to communicate with the outside world, and only when they encounter a more unexpected situation, will they wake up these demigods.

Demigods in deep sleep are basically left in the Tower of Truth in the Imperial Capital, while those in light sleep are sent to other important cities or border fortresses, and there are generally only five who remain in the Imperial Capital.

According to the estimation of the Scholars Association, the five demigods can basically deal with all situations, even if it is the most dangerous evil god advent event in the legend, or the hostile forces using level 0 holy relics, relying on the strength of the five demigods, at least they can delay until they awaken more demigods.

As a reward for defending their homeland, the families and clans of these demigods enjoyed extremely luxurious aristocratic treatment, were supported by the empire, and even had certain privileges, belonging to the top classes of society.

As for the demigods themselves, in addition to having to sleep, they should enjoy no less welfare benefits and various resources, and they have extremely high prestige and various rights.

For them, sleep is not a restriction and imprisonment, but a kind of protection, so that they can avoid the invasion of chaos and maintain their self-awareness.

So no matter how you look at it, the sudden betrayal of the demigod Higra and the demigod Yusak is incomprehensible.

And the reasons and explanations they give are also strange:

"It's all about taking that last half step."

"At the same time, this is also to better protect the world......"

"There are some things that you can't understand......"

"Eighteen years ago, we met that scene......"

"Only when that day comes, will you understand that we have made the right choice."

The two demigods sang and spoke in harmony, whitewashing their betrayal in a high-sounding manner.

Their doppelganger appearance is not the usual armor appearance, but maintains an ordinary human form, one looks like an old woman dressed as a noblewoman, and the other is an old man dressed as a gentleman.

Just looking at the appearance, he really looks like that kind of respected old-timer.

Honorary witnesses, of course, refuse to accept such reasons.

But it was inevitable that I thought about it a little.

He couldn't recall what had happened eighteen years ago.

It seems that it was only the poor countryside of Kodo Province that was attacked by monsters and suffered some losses, but after the strong repression and disaster relief reconstruction that followed by the Empire, it has long since been relieved.

From the perspective of the national level, this is just a small thing that is not too big, and it is not uncommon for monsters to attack on a larger scale and with more heavy losses in history, and the living environment of human beings has always been so hard.

And since then, the whole world has ushered in the safest and most peaceful eighteen years, the empire has grown rapidly, and the people have lived and worked in peace and contentment.

It wasn't until this year that there was the attack on Newlin, the 12th case in the Fertile Valley, and the 13th case in the Serpentine Ridge Mountains, and then today's tragedy.

Does the good days seem to be coming to an end?

Although there was a little hesitation in his heart, he definitely wouldn't really believe the other party's nonsense, could it be that the series of events that happened this year were all planned and directed by the Apostle Organization?

He was still fighting against the two veteran demigods, or rather, he was breathing.

The streets, buildings, and even spaces near his clone have been distorted in various ways, and although they don't seem to be destroyed, if they get closer, anything will disappear in an instant under the distorted force.

The other Sages didn't even dare to get close, not to mention helping, and the long-range attacks they launched couldn't get past them at all.

The demigod Higra is a twisted demigod like him, and the two most aggressive twisted demigods are fighting, and no one else can interfere.

That's why he was able to hold on for so long with one against two, because the demigod Yusak was also not very convenient to help.

But this is also equivalent to Yusak being able to free up his hands to deal with those ant-like ninth-order saints.

He happens to be the embodiment of bullying miscellaneous fish with one enemy and more.

With a single thought, he summoned a massive monster that looked like a mammoth and had scythe-like forelimbs, the height of a three-story building.

The physical illusion appeared directly in front of the Metal Sage, pressing down on him like a small mountain.

This is a chaotic monster that is only produced in the Chaos Domain, a thunder beast, and even if it does not have the ability of spiritual pollution, it is a terrifying monster with an eighth-level danger.

Just such a physical illusion was enough to suppress a ninth-order sage.

Yusak then turned his gaze to see the fiery red figure on the battlefield.

"Drink!"

Oriona let out a soft snort, and a layer of real fire ignited on the surface of the fiery red transformer armor, which also caused her huge two-handed sword to burn.

Her spirit clone also morphed into the shape of a pair of wings, attached to her back, making her look like a flamboyant angel of flames.

With the help of her wings, Oriana soared into the air, turning her whole body into a dazzling meteorite and smashing it into the ground.

There were many Imperial Transcendents with dull expressions and numb expressions below, and they all launched their own defensive holy relics, raising transparent barriers to try to defend against this falling meteorite.

But that didn't stop the Flame Sage, she easily pierced through those fragile protections, and slammed into the ground, and a circular wave of fire suddenly spread out around her, causing a series of dense explosions, as well as a large terrifying shockwave.

Under this blow, those trash fish transcendents who were controlled by the dream realm were instantly cleaned up.

Oriana didn't stop, she was at the center of the explosion, surrounded by rising smoke and dust, the two-handed sword in her hand quickly changed into a staff shape, and the wings behind her returned to half-human form.

With the help of the view of the smoke and dust, she and her doppelganger began to prepare the secret arts, conjuring several shackles of flames on the ground, and burrowing into the ground like earthworms, as if looking for something.

Three seconds later, an angry roar could be heard from underground, and a series of metal grinding sounds, as if something was hiding underground and entangled in the chains released by Oriana.

Immediately after, a giant centipede-like monster burst out of the ground, and Oriana's flame chains broke inch by inch from its body, turning into tiny sparks that could not hurt its stone-like shell.

The monstrous monster unfolded its large, spiral-like jaw like a pencil sharpener, and bit Orianna, swallowing her in one gulp, before retracting into the hole that had been drilled back into it.

This is also the Chaos Monster that Yusak has embodied, the Abyss Mouth with a danger of 8.

As a veteran demigod of the Empire, Yusak has seen many terrible things, and as the most flexible embodiment of the demigod system, he can make these juniors in front of him feel their despair and fear at that time.

"Hehe, the young people nowadays have been raised by the Scholars Association, and they can't even deal with a danger of 8."

Yusak shook his head slightly disappointed, turned his gaze back to the Witness of Honor, who was still struggling to breathe, and then spread his right hand and activated his manifestation ability again.

A light gray dagger appeared in his palm, engraved with dense arcane patterns.

It is a very dangerous Tier 1 holy artifact called the Heartpiercer, which has a sharp enough to threaten the demigods.

It has the terrifying ability to bypass all limitations of space and distance, and penetrate the enemy's vital points.

It's just as costly, and users need to endure the same attack once.

However, for the nimble embodiment demigod, he always has many ways to circumvent the dagger's backlash.

And the enemy who suddenly suffered a heavy blow was not so lucky.

Yusak had been assassinated by this dagger back then, so he could clearly understand its power and characteristics, and then use his ability to manifest it.

His doppelganger hung in mid-air, quietly circling into the blind spot of the Honor Witness's field of vision, and then reached out and flicked it lightly on the surface of the dagger.

The arcane patterns on the blade of the dagger lit up one after another, dangling from his palm, quietly aiming at the back of the head of the Witness of Honor.

But just as he was ready to withstand the backlash and was about to launch the dagger, an angry roar suddenly came from behind him.

The huge centipede-like monster that had obviously swallowed its prey and retracted into the ground came out again.

Its massive body, several stories high, twisted violently in the air, and a piece of carapace in its abdomen could be clearly seen turning red and melting.

The reddened carapace exploded violently, spurting out a large stream of dark green blood, and Orianna, who was covered in flames, rushed out of it with a two-handed greatsword.

Then she twisted her body in mid-air, her feet as if she had stepped on air, and she twisted her body in the air in a very unrealistic way, adjusted her direction, and pounced back on the centipede.

She plunged the burning two-handed sword in her hand into the scar that had just been broken, and then turned her clone back into a flame wing, and then the whole person flew into the sky like a cannonball, and the two-handed sword inserted into the wound also opened a narrow wound in the centipede's abdomen.

It's a pity that her sword isn't long enough, otherwise it would have split the monster in two.

But even then, the damage caused by the blow was enough to send the monster to a heavy fall, crushing a large area of surrounding buildings.

It's certainly not dead, but it won't be able to move for a while.

Instead of mending the sword, Oriona flapped her wings behind her and flew in the direction of the Tower of Truth.

"What a barbaric method......"

The demigod Yusack shook his head, a look of disgust.

"But the young people now are a little stronger than I expected."

"It's a pity that you shouldn't have thought about waking up the others, or I can at least give you a decent death."

He saw through Oriana's intentions at a glance, which was to awaken the other demigods in the Tower of Truth who were in a deep sleep, and then everyone would work together to deal with the two traitors.

The demigod Yusak turned the dagger in his hand in one direction and aimed at Oriana's back in the distance.

For this holy relic, it doesn't make sense to fly far and fast, and there is no need to dodge, and there is no way to dodge.

But just as Yusak was about to launch a dagger attack, he suddenly felt a strange twitch in his heart.

It's not a doppelganger, it's an ontology.

He felt a sense of crisis.

It seems that as long as he launches the dagger, it is likely to lead to some terrible end.

It's an instinct he's honed over the years, and it's very sharp and accurate.

"Is there some undiscovered shelter in her?"

"Forget it, it doesn't matter."

Yusak retracted his gaze and did not force himself to challenge his instincts.

Anyway, Oriana's actions were destined to be meaningless.

He and the demigod Higra have been in the imperial capital for a full eighteen years, just for today, how could they leave such obvious flaws?

Oriana saw only the corpse of the apostle and felt the deepest despair.

Then, he was dealt with by the Ninth Apostle, who was waiting there to wait for the rabbit.

The Apostolic Organization has basically made all preparations for today, leaving no flaws, and ensuring that there will be no accidents.

For this reason, they did not hesitate to let the honorary witnesses linger for a while.

It was not convenient to attack Oriana, so Yusak had to change the target of the dagger for the third time, aiming at the metal sage who was fighting the thunderbeast.

This time he no longer hesitated, and no one bothered, the dagger disappeared out of thin air in the palm of his hand, and instantly appeared behind the metal sage, piercing his vest.

Then the dagger disappeared again, and reappeared behind Yusak, stabbing into his vest.

However, Yusak had already dismantled the dagger just right, and before it could succeed, it disappeared completely, without making him pay any price.

This is where the manifestation of the powerful and the scoundrel comes in.

But Yusak found a situation that made him quite embarrassed.

The metal sage who had been pierced through his vest was still like a person who was fine, with a big hole in his chest, and continued to fight with the thunder beast.

even had the strength to scold:

"Yusak, you old yin B, your whole family can't die well!"

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