Chapter 157 The Shattered Holy Hammer

In Lily's limited understanding of the world, she couldn't explain what was happening to her, but that didn't affect her assessment of the current situation: without a doubt, the light emanating from her was a good thing, and with it, perhaps the upcoming voyage would really be okay.

So she immediately interpreted the light on her body as a powerful skill unique to the head wolf, and ordered all airships that could still be contacted to move closer to the main airship, striving to have everyone protected by the light without colliding.

Next was to accelerate towards the distant continent.

Lily wasn't a proper pope who had read textbooks like Hao Ren, so she couldn't control the Light of Order as freely as Hao Ren. She had only acquired her current physique after eating various divine realm foods, which caused her to radiate light like a passive radiation source once she entered the chaotic domain. In uncontrolled situations, this light could spread to a considerable distance, even far enough to reach the holy hammer magic warship, *Sheng Guang Zhi Chui Hao*, high in the sky.

At this time, the *Sheng Guang Zhi Chui Hao* was not having an easy time. Although this powerful warship was known as the pride of the Holy Domain, it was still just a creation of mortals. When facing the most fundamental power of "Kolo," it would falter like a small boat. Since the guiding magic plates on both sides of the ship had been blown off, the ship was now relying entirely on its stock of magic crystals to provide power. Although this increased the ship's speed and stability, it also caused some of the warship's protective arrays to operate at less than full power—and with reduced protection, chaos could take advantage of the weakness.

After struggling for more than ten minutes, a gap finally appeared in the lower protective array of the *Sheng Guang Zhi Chui Hao*. The gap might have been a hidden wound left over from a previous ship landing, or it might have been a malfunction due to insufficient energy supply, but either way, a wisp of black smoke seeped into the warship through the gap and subsequently triggered terrible consequences.

Monsters launched an attack from inside the warship.

The servants of chaos seemed to emerge from the air out of nowhere, suddenly filling the cabins of ordinary crew members. They attacked precisely the weakest area of the magic warship's defenses: the lower-level crew were basically all maintenance personnel without any combat power. Faced with the attacks of chaos monsters, these untrained people couldn't even manage to warn the upper decks.

In just a few minutes, the lower section was completely lost. The warehouse area was filled with monsters, and the corridors were flowing with the blood of crew members. By the time the apprentice mages of the magic furnace finally noticed the movement below, the situation was out of control.

Monsters were infiltrating the upper levels along the gaps and passages of the magic warship. Although the aura of chaos was suppressed by the Furnace Tower and the Goddess Statue, preventing it from advancing further, it was only a matter of time before the defense was breached as the monsters continued to bombard the barrier.

After hearing the attendants report the tragedy in the lower area, Kalasias did not react for a moment, not because he was indifferent to the casualties of the crew, but because something even more shocking appeared in his sight:

The clouds below the magic warship were breaking apart, and a ray of holy white light burst from the clouds, like the light of dawn, but the core of the holy light was some blue balloons, the balloons he thought had disintegrated in the storm.

Lily looked up at the magic warship in the sky. She could see clearly from below that a large area of sparks had suddenly burst out from the bottom of the ship, and then black smoke drilled into the blown-open cracks. A few minutes later, she saw red liquid dripping down the seams of the ship. The flying machine, which looked so beautiful and sturdy, was so useless. Before long, it began to sway as if it were drunk.

The creaking sound could even be heard here.

The husky girl's ears twitched, and her golden eyes reflected the terrifying scene above. After careful consideration, she said to the old demon ape beside her, "If that thing explodes, will the falling parts hit us?"

The old demon ape thought for a while: "It seems so."

"Then shall we fly above it?"

"The head wolf decides."

"Go and tell the fire foxes to make the fire a little stronger!"

The disaster of the *Sheng Guang Zhi Chui Hao* continued. As more and more damage occurred, the warship's energy supply finally had problems. The radiation range of the small furnace device suddenly shrank to only cover half of the ship, and the Goddess Statue at the stern was only used to protect the engine. In other words, half of the ship's area had become the territory of chaos.

The battle monks and mages had once again adjusted their defenses. They blocked the entrances of several main corridors, using their flesh and blood to resist the invasion of chaos monsters. However, their blood was finite after all, while the monsters that could emerge from the air were endless.

Kalasias could hear the cracking sound of the middle of the ship gradually being corroded by chaos. The fingers holding the mithril scepter turned white from exertion. A vast amount of holy power gushed out from his body, protecting most of the bow area, but that was all he could do.

The power decreased, and the warship's flying speed became slower and slower, finally slowing down to about the same speed as the hot air balloons. At this moment, Kalasias suddenly saw the shadow of the blue hot air balloon again out of the corner of his eye.

He widened his eyes in surprise, watching two huge, oval air bladders sewn from blue magic whale leather slowly rise up. Between the air bladders were a pile of crisscrossing ropes and wooden sticks, and beneath this clumsy and rough structure were some simple hanging boxes assembled from rattan, thick ropes, and wooden boards.

He would never forget what he saw next in his life:

A girl wearing wolf skin stood valiantly on top of the hanging box. The cold wind rolled up the cloak behind her, revealing a strand of silver hair flying in the wind, and the powerful Light of Order stretched out wantonly behind the girl. Many lines faintly emerged in the light, like wings.

She was the core of all the light, like an envoy sent to the mortal world by the creation goddess in ancient prophecies.

In fact, Lily herself also thought she was quite cool now, a husky with dazzling special effects and wings, at least a level nine VIP in any web game…

"The power of chaos is receding!" A cry brought Kalasias back to his senses. He saw his attendant stumbling up from the deck exit, "Your Excellency, the power of chaos has suddenly been dispelled! Unidentified Light of Order is injected into our furnace..."

The attendant's words stopped abruptly. He stared blankly at the scene outside the ship, face to face with the wild girl in wolf skin, surrounded by holy light.

Lily scratched her hair (in fact, she scratched the wolf head hood on her head). When she saw an old man with gray hair standing on the white warship, she wanted to say hello, and then she saw a young man covered in blood climbing out, so she suddenly had an idea.

"Do you want a ride?!" She waved her arms vigorously and shouted, "Your ship seems to be about to explode! I still have seats here, big seats! The tickets are very cheap!"

The husky girl's thinking was simple and easy to understand:

She was going to the human kingdom on the continent to find her landlord, and she definitely needed money to operate in the human kingdom. This ship looked very high-end, so the people on it must have money.

She thought she was so smart.

Kalasias: "..."

He felt that the creation goddess's test had finally come, and the first test seemed to be about faith…

However, he had to consider the words of this mysterious girl, because as the other party said: Although the *Sheng Guang Zhi Chui Hao* had escaped the chaos monsters' raid, the ship's damage was too serious, and it was really about to explode…

While Lily was busy being an old driver, a fierce battle on the western border of the kingdom had just ended.

The battle lasted a full day and night. After leaving behind ashes and wreckage scattered everywhere with the wind, the chaos monsters finally retreated. On the scarred battlefield, huge explosion pits and glass-like cracks corroded by magic could be seen everywhere. Broken arrows and weapon fragments were scattered all over the ground, and every detail showed how fierce the battle that had just ended was.

But in any case, mankind had won. The majestic Western Border Fortress still stood tall among the mountains, and countless glorious scars had been added to the towering white city wall, but it still stood.

Veronica led the exhausted knights, who were almost about to collapse, into the fortress. With her were also hundreds of kingdom soldiers who had come out of the fortress to support the Knights. Hao Ren followed at the end of the team, observing the magnificent building curiously as he walked.

The towering city wall extended all the way down from the mountainside along the mountain's momentum. The thickness of this wall alone reached tens of meters. After passing through the city gate, which was like a tunnel at the foot of the city wall, what he saw was a fully armed giant stone fortress. The buildings of the fortress were built layer by layer among the mountains, as if another high mountain had been piled up in the mountains by manpower. On top of those huge rock buildings, a white tower with gold trim could be seen. Layers of magical runes floated around the tower, and bright beams of light spewed out from the top of the tower.

That should be the "Furnace" of the Western Border Fortress, the giant magic device called the "Firewood Tower."