Chapter 486 — Encirclement
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Amber handed these rune boards out to her subordinates: "Take them, one each. Keep them close on your person."
One team member could not suppress his curiosity: "Boss... what are these things?"
"Something good from above—holy light resonance nodes, part of the White Knight's equipment, but specially designed so they can be removed from the White Knight armor and run on their own," Amber said as she stuffed her own board into her belt pouch. "With these on you, you won't have to worry about the so-called 'Heretic Inquisition.'"
The team member clicked his tongue in wonder: "That impressive?"
"Of course it's impressive. In fact, it can even make you appear like a saint of utterly devout faith when you're affected by 'judgment spells' like the 'Great Divine Word'—well, maybe not that exaggerated, but it will absolutely fool that Farran? Belland," Amber said, a look of disdain coming over her face. "That fellow calls himself a bishop, but he's just a half-baked fill-in hastily chosen after Lemont and a whole slew of high-tier transcendents died. I doubt he could even sustain a single Great Divine Word in full."
Having said that, a rather sly smile suddenly appeared on the half-elf's face: "And... these resonance nodes have a few little extra functions. When the time comes, they're bound to give those preaching frauds a real shock."
Seeing the curious and expectant looks on her subordinates' faces one after another, Amber's smug mood was immensely satisfied: now she could finally begin to understand what Gao Yang felt like when he routinely produced a brilliant idea and reaped a circle of admiring gazes.
But she did not linger long in that feeling, nor did she keep her team members in suspense any further—operatives had to know exactly what function the items they were equipped with served; this was the key to ensuring a mission's success. So after a brief moment of smugness, she began earnestly explaining the effects of those holy light resonance nodes...
At that same moment, on a high ground outside Mingyuan City, Philip, charged with monitoring the situation in Shuangque City and carrying out the blockade mission, received Byron Knight, who had arrived bringing support supplies.
"Those preaching frauds in Shuangque City should be about ready to scram," Byron, who had quite the soldier-rogue temperament, said to Philip brashly the moment they met. "I've brought weapons specially made to strike them."
"Weapons?" Philip, carrying out the blockade mission, looked with some curiosity at the supply wagons his old partner had brought. "Didn't they say we wouldn't attack Shuangque City directly?"
"Of course we won't attack." Byron grinned, as if trying to produce a mysterious smile, but in truth he looked like an ape that had successfully stolen a banana. The moment he saw that smile on his partner's face, Philip knew that one of the lord's assignments had dovetailed perfectly with the wicked schemes brewing in this old hand's belly.
He did not press further, because he knew the old hand before him would never be able to hold it in.
"We've brought a hundred thousand leaflets," Byron indeed volunteered after barely a few seconds, "stuffed inside artillery shells."