Upon discovering that the Holy Stone was destroyed, Li Wei had no desire to continue fighting with the group of Fallen Witches before him.
He realized he had been duped, the attack on the Pope and the previous explosions were all feints designed to draw the main force of the Sacred Order of Knights away from The Great Tower.
The orchestrator behind all this had only one target from beginning to end, and that was—the Holy Stone.
The vice-captain of the Sacred Order of Knights had figured everything out in a flash, yet still couldn't bring himself to believe what was unfolding before his eyes.
From his understanding of the Witch Alliance, those Fallen Witches wandering in the wilderness were almost no different from savages, unable to establish a stable settlement, unable to manufacture weapons or equipment, not to mention being unable to produce even basic necessities on their own.
