My Goddess is Good at Pretending

Chapter 278: The Man-Made Archangel

"Damn, what actually happened!?" The chief scientist wiped his sweat. He didn’t know what happened, but the situation outside sounded terrible.

All surveillance cameras did not respond, only showing black and white images of static lines. A jamming signal was emitted from somewhere, destroying the system network in the entire lab.

Not to mention, the high priest suddenly gave an emergency warning about the enemy invasion.

Even though he didn’t know what was happening, he had no choice but to obey the higher-ups’ orders.

"Sir, are we really going to release the unstable Angels?"

"Two out of three chances are they will die in one day, but the Archangel... We still can’t control her. She will become the Angel of Destruction, a mindless machine of mass destruction."

The other two scientists asked in doubt, but they could feel the approaching danger and tension rising from somewhere.

"Damn! Then let them run amok. As for the Archangel, the high priest will be responsible for that. The enemy has infiltrated our secret lab. As long as we survive, we can always create the Archangel with our advanced new formula. Holy Church’s Angelic Light Faction will be done for." The chief scientist sent a final command to his super artifact and pressed a button on the primary magic device.

After that, he grabbed his key and suitcase. He ran away from the lab via a secret emergency escape route. His fellow scientists immediately followed him without saying much because they had to escape quickly.

*Beep* *Beep* *Beep*

Xentia flew as fast as lightning, breaking through all the steel gates with super-high penetration force.

However, the alarm suddenly rang, and all the lights turned red. At the same time, an earthquake occurred.

*Bam!*

Xentia destroyed the primary secret lab hall door, but no one was there.

"They escaped. Follow them to their secret base and catch them." Xentia could feel several people were running away.

The distance was already far, but they had to be caught as they were the valuable keys to the Archangel Project.

The mech and doll squad rushed after the fleeing scientists, leaving Xentia behind.

*Psshhhh!* *Clack* *Clack* *Creak*

Strange noises could be heard from the next room behind the thick, frosted glass wall.

Xentia activated her divine mecha suit and transformed. Her entire body was covered with another layer of advanced mecha suit, and her mask transformed into a mech helmet. Her eyes glowed with fiery gold light, ready for battle.

Xentia summoned her lightsaber and stared at the room behind the thick glass.

Thick fog and steam enveloped the experiment room, and a shadow was present in the center of the room, chewing something.

[10th Rank | Danger: Level 5]

"..." Xentia was silent momentarily with a sad gaze behind her mecha helmet. Regardless of any flaws, this artificial angel was already at Deity level.

She could detect a lot of remains from failed experimental subjects and sacrifices in the disposal room on the way here.

The inhumane experimentation took place for years, and the death toll was no longer countable.

This Archangel Project gave birth to three monsters but only left one survivor, as Elysia and Fortuna had predicted.

There would only be one enemy, the man-made Archangel, also known as the Angel of Destruction. This Archangel ate the other two Angels alive shortly after being released from the capsule seal.

For some reason, Xentia felt she was looking at her past self before her master saved her.

This Archangel’s eyes were pure gold, but no soul, spirit, or life radiated from them. This Archangel was a destructive machine that knew nothing but to destroy and kill everything.

Different from her case. She had an incomplete soul and spirit at that time. And because of that, she could be saved as an independent living entity. However, this Archangel was merely an undead puppet in the form of an angel.

"May the Supreme Goddess bless you." Xentia strengthened her resolve. If she couldn’t save this Archangel, she had to stop the other party for good.

"Hm?" The Archangel turned her head to the side, noticing the presence of a powerful entity nearby. "Kill."

*Shatter*

The thick glass wall shattered like thin floating glass. The Archangel waited no more and unleashed her high-level flashbang-like light magic flare to stun her next prey.

The room was enveloped in a blinding bright white light. However, her prey disappeared!

"Stay grounded." Xentia shot down from the ceiling, pressing the Archangel to the ground with heavy gravity force.

"Aaahh!!!" The Archangel screamed like a banshee. The surrounding concrete walls, steel gates, and magic devices began to crack due to the destructive sound waves.

"Shut up!" Xentia stuffed the Archangel’s mouth with a piece of heat-resistant rubber.

"Hngh!" The Archangel kept struggling. Her eyes glowed, and she burst like a supersonic bomb, sending her enemy away.

The Archangel spat out the rubber from her mouth. She stood up and intently stared at the attractive six-winged before her. "Eradicate all enemies. Target locked on."

She bent slightly, and twelve angelic wings emerged on her back.

Those ’wings’ also emerged to cover her entire body like full-body armor, mimicking her target’s appearance, but all in white.

"What’s that?" Xentia muttered softly. These wings were the sharp bones that resembled angel wings. The Archangel also copied her divine mecha suit’s appearance!

*Swoosh!* *Boom!*

The Archangel shot at the speed of sound, hitting her target with devastating momentum. She also utilized her twelve wings to shred her target.

"Not so easy." Xentia’s force field was slightly cracked, but she was still unscratched. She wielded her lightsaber over her opponent’s heart.

"Kill!" The Archangel manifested a golden light sword, parrying the enemy’s weapon.

The destructive, corrosive lightsaber corroded the golden light sword’s magical energy and crumbled two seconds later.

"!!!" The Archangel grabbed the lightsaber with her bare hand, ignoring the corrosive and the superheat effects as if she couldn’t feel any pain.

She opened her eyes wide, releasing a devastating eye beam towards her target’s head.

*Swoosh* *Boom!*

Xentia’s force field melted and cracked. The eye beam grazed Xentia’s helmet slightly, almost evaporating her head. A powerful explosion then engulfed them.

"..." Xentia activated her spherical force field to protect her from the explosion.

However, a foot suddenly appeared amidst the flames, kicking her away with a powerful stomp.

*Boom!*

Xentia was blown out of the lab like a cannonball, crashing into several walls. The Archangel shot out of the explosion, suffering from 2nd degree burns. However, all her wounds gradually disappeared due to her super self-healing.

"It’s too narrow here. This underground facility will collapse." Xentia looked up and sped away from the underground area.

She taunted the Archangel provocatively and showed some fake openings to ensure the Archangel would hunt her out.

"No escape." The Archangel chased her target like crazy.

*Boom!*

Xentia flew through the secret tunnel and flew into the sky swiftly. She immediately turned around, aiming her disintegrator gun at the Archangel’s vital organs.

*Pew* *Pew* *Pew*

Three shots were fired at an invisible speed, but the Archangel managed to evade them by a hair.

*Bam!*

The Archangel struck Xentia with an explosive blow, and other peak-level clashes between 10th Rank Angels ensued in the night sky.

The fierce collisions between the Great Ascension Realm experts caused the world’s atmosphere to change. The dark, starry night sky turned into a golden sky like at dawn.

The clashes of gold and white light exploded in the sky, causing dazzling and deadly fireworks.

However, no one below the 9th Rank could see the battle movements in the sky. Everything was too fast for the eye to follow.

"Wahahaha! That is our Archangel’s true power. The 10th Rank Late Stage twelve-winged Angel, humanity’s peak masterpiece creation that can kill even God!" The chief scientist laughed loudly like someone crazy.

Other scientists also feel proud because their years of efforts finally bore the ultimate kind of fruit.

Unfortunately, they had been tied up like prisoners. They fled to their distant base camp but were still caught by many advanced metal puppets and female experts.

"It’s just a 10th Rank puppet with great flaws. Our Deity can manufacture such a thing whenever she wants. Our Goddess can even create the God-tier puppet with a flick of her fingers." One of the puppets from the doll squad was displeased by the scientist’s claim.

"Huh!? What do you know about angels, wench? You women know nothing about forbidden knowledge and profound secrets of life puppet." The chief scientist snapped in annoyance.

"Did you just assume our gender and look down on us? We’re our Lady Deity creation. Once I hear your offensive remark again, I’ll rip your mouth apart and sew it up." The nearby 9th Rank puppet responded with a stern warning.

"!?" Scientists were shocked when they realized it was not just the advanced metal puppets, but these fine ladies weren’t fully humans... the puppets!

They were the wizards above the 4th Rank with sage-like knowledge and decades of magic research experience. Still, they had never encountered such life-like puppets, with personalities at that!

The scientists looked at each other. They had no idea what kind of person was hidden behind those metal full-body armor. Regardless, these ladies were advanced human puppets with perfect spiritual roots!

They couldn’t discover the truth until just now, or rather, these ladies deliberately let them detect their disguised aura... they were talking to the real flawless puppet masterpiece!

The one who created these puppets was clearly super extraordinary, and they craved this kind of knowledge.

"Can you, can you please share your profound knowledge about angel puppet manufacturing-"

The chief scientist wanted to ask something with great enthusiasm.

However, the nearby mech electrocuted him unconscious. He also electrocuted all the other scientists, leaving no one conscious.

"We should conduct a soul search and extract all the information from them." The 9th Rank mech suggested an idea.

"It will ruin their souls. We need to wait for our lady to return. Our Goddess Master and her group observed our lady’s battle from afar." The doll squad’s leader stared in a particular direction in the southeast sky.