As time passed, the casualties of the Resistance Army became even greater, Mia also had to distract herself from protecting the other members while fighting the two Luminary classes, Mia's white light wings fluttered slightly, fine beads of sweat seeped out from her forehead, her exertion so far in the battle was close to the limit. The surrounding resistance members had tired faces, deep despair in everyone's eyes, yet they still stood firm, no one was willing to give up of their own accord.
Mia gathered with the senior officers and the other members involved in the battle, looking at the Storm Council Exalts that surrounded them.
"Mia, you really are too stubborn," Billy's tone was tinged with disdain, "Your pride and stupidity are burying the lives of these people behind you."
Mia clenched her teeth and gazed at Billy with an icy gaze as she spoke slowly, "I'd rather die standing than live on my knees. At least I can maintain my dignity, while you, are just a lackey of the upper world."
Billy froze slightly, then sneered sinisterly, "Dignity? In front of absolute strength, the dignity in your mouth is worthless. I'll give you one last chance to join the Storm Council, and you and these unlucky people behind you can all survive."
"From the day I chose to embark on a path of resistance against the powers that be, I have never thought of turning back, so it's a waste of time for you to say this to me. "In such a crisis situation, Mia remained firm.
"That's too bad, you didn't grasp the last chance either, you guys will only die! " An extremely strong black energy fluctuation suddenly erupted from Billy's body, and the entire space seemed to tremble slightly.
Billy suddenly raised his arm, and a huge ball of black energy gathered in the center of his palm, the fluctuations emitted by the ball of energy made all the people around him fearful: "Battle Technique - Darkness Annihilation!"
The black energy poured down like a torrent, directly attacking Mia and the other Resistance high command. "Watch out!" Mia fiercely stretched out her arms, her six light wings suddenly expanding to the limit: "Battle Skill - Angel Guardian!" A radiant white barrier opened up in front of the crowd, hardening against Billy's attack. The crowd behind him was firmly protected.
However, such a large defense range made Mia's energy rapidly depleted, and she was already consumed heavily from the battle just now, the barrier soon cracked, and Mia's body trembled violently, with blood spilling out of her mouth. Roy looked at Mia's appearance and said worriedly, "Mia, don't worry about us, just go, if you want to go, the two of them can't stop you, as long as you're alive, there's hope."
Mia gritted her teeth and said, "I'm not leaving, if you all die here, even if I escape, what's the point, my ideal is that we all work together to build a world without power and oppression!"
The crowd was speechless, because all of them knew Mia too well, she would never leave her comrades behind and escape alone, Mia looked at Ian, "Ian, you didn't expect it to come to this, I'm asking you to do me a favor, I'll unleash the last strike of my life, you seize the opportunity and try to lead the others to escape, I believe in your strength."
"Don't be silly," Ian said blandly, "I won't abandon any of my teammates, including you." Billy laughed out loud, "What a touching scene, but unfortunately, none of you will escape today."
Finally, Mia's energy reached its limit and was no longer able to maintain a large barrier, Mia sat paralyzed on the ground, the members next to her quickly went up to support her, luckily, managed to counteract Billy's strongest attack without causing a large number of casualties, and Billy was surprised, "You're really surprising, you're actually able to block my attack in such a state. "
Mia tried to stabilize her body, feeling the only energy left in her body, it was as if she had made some sort of determination, "Even if I die, I will drag you two along with me!" Mia was ready to burn her life and deliver her final blow.
At that moment, a hand pressed on Mia's shoulder, stopping Mia's life-sacrificing strike, "Don't be impulsive, none of us will die. "Ian leaned close to Mia's ear and whispered, "Things have come to this, I expected it."
Mia looked at Ian in shock.
Ian had already walked in front of Mia, shielding Mia behind him, and said to Billy, "The situation now is that we are bound to die, but I don't want to die for no reason, I want to know, how did you guys know that we were going to come to an ambush, and you also know exactly where it was going to take place? "
"You're the kid who repelled me with a sneak attack, your strength is strong but your brain is not so good, of course it's because the information was leaked out by us on purpose and someone inside you told me the location of the ambush."
Roy looked at Jack angrily, "Jack, so you're a traitor too! The intelligence was provided by you, and the location of the ambush was clear to you."
"I really don't know what's going on, there was no problem with the intelligence in the first place!" Jack hurriedly defended.
Billy quietly watched as the rebels began to second-guess each other, revealing a mocking expression as if he was laughing at the stupidity of the crowd.
Ian spoke up at this moment, "All calm down, he's right, someone among us did sell the information to the Storm Council, however, it wasn't Jack, and Jack was only deceived, the real traitor, is you!"