In Dorothy's eyes, what she saw was a huge unreal dream world floating above the real city. The endless fog that only existed in the maze was tilting down, sinking as a whole like a huge waterfall before, pouring towards Tivian.
"Those guys... actually used the Pupa Ritual to anchor the dream-present coordinates of Tivian and the Maze, blurring the boundaries between the dream world and the present world. Are they trying to bring the Maze to Tivian?!"
Seeing this sudden scene, the black cat floating beside the dragon couldn't help but speak in surprise. Dorothy was stunned after seeing this scene, and her heart was full of doubts for a moment.
'Blurring reality and fantasy, bringing the maze to Tivian? Could this be the purpose of the grand ceremony that Black Dream prepared? Do they really have a backup plan?
"But... what is their purpose in doing this? What is their intention in confusing Tivian's dream with reality and making Tivian's maze? What is the purpose of these guys doing this?"
Dorothy was confused and thinking in her heart. At this moment, she suddenly recalled the scenes that Jingyue had revealed to her not long ago, and also thought of what Vanya had told her about the recent situation of Saint Lin Mountain. Then she couldn't help but come to a terrible conclusion in her heart.
'Could it be that... those guys want to...
'No, now we have to inform Vanya immediately!'
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Above Tivian's sky, in the extremely large magic circle, the illusory forest of dreams gradually appeared, like a huge mirage suspended above the city. Along with the appearance of the forest, there was a thick white fog pouring down from the sky. The fog of confusion originated from the dream world and at this moment it actually invaded the real world directly!
As the fog of confusion continued to invade, the entire huge city of Tivian was shrouded in a white mist almost in an instant. As more and more white fog poured down, the fog concentration in the entire city of Tivian was also rising rapidly.
Now that the barriers between realms have become blurred, the boundary between Tivian and the dream world has begun to become blurred. Because of the influence of the fog of confusion, Tivian has begun to become a maze.
This major change affected the entire Tivian and naturally affected the church district in the north city. Archbishop Samuel of Pritt also noticed the abnormality at the first time, but at this moment he had no energy to take care of other things. Unexpectedly, at this moment, his suppression of Guskina had reached the limit. He looked at Guskina with solemnity and concentration in his eyes.
"Heh... the ritual over there has finally started. Give up, you charlatan. Your persistence now will only accumulate my anger and make your life even worse than death!" Facing Samuel in front of her, Guskina spoke with a horrifying face and a strange echoing voice. Facing Guskina's words, Samuel was silent.
At this moment, Guskina, who was bound by the rank, raised one hand high to resist the restraint. On that hand, a bright red blood blade condensed. A hint of cruelty was revealed on Guskina's terrifying face.
"I said that everyone in this city would feel pain! Now is the time!"
Gelsina said this loudly, and then Samuel, who noticed the abnormal concentration of divine power on the other party's blood blade, immediately knew what Gelsina wanted to do? Because of the incident that happened to his predecessor, he had already studied the nature of the Spider Queen's divinity. In his judgment, Gelsina wanted to directly attack the rank bondage and transmit the extreme pain to himself and the millions of glow believers in this city through the link of faith!
Although all the citizens of Tivian are now basically asleep, they still have faith in their dreams. However, if the spiritual body is destroyed by pain, then the foundation of faith will be completely cut off! Gesijina wants to consume the minds of millions of people in one breath, making them instantly tortured into madness by pain!
Faced with such a situation, Samuel immediately removed the shackles of rank that shrouded Guskina, but he did not remove the constraints of Na's majestic power of faith. Instead, he used the power of the entire Cathedral of the Holy Song to gather it in another form.
After completely getting rid of the shackles of rank, the almost completely transformed Guskina immediately broke free from the restraints imposed by the Twilight Shadow, and in an instant she broke free from the long sword stuck in her body, and then prepared to attack Samuel.
However, at this moment, Guskina discovered that Samuel had also undergone a huge change. At this moment, his whole body was burning with blazing flames, and he had completely transformed into a flaming fireman. At this moment, between Samuel's hands, a "fireball" was gathering, a fireball that was so dazzling that it was difficult to look at, extremely hot, and beyond the dazzling "fireball" created by nature!
This is the fiery product created after Samuel used Tivian's power of faith directly to strengthen himself. Unlike being able to rely on the entire cathedral and preparatory rituals to cast the rank bond, this kind of manipulation is equivalent to using oneself alone as a container to carry such a powerful force. This is not only extremely unstable, but will also have a serious impact on Samuel's own foundation as a Beyonder.
"Clean!"
Chanting, Samuel shot the dazzling fireball in his hand towards Guskina, who had just broken free from the sword. Seeing this, Guskina dodged easily, but the fireball exploded not far from her side.
"boom!!!"
Glare, roar, flames, impact...an incomparably powerful destructive force erupted from the basketball-sized fireball and spread out in all directions at a rapid speed. The dazzling light began to expand rapidly from the fireball, constantly engulfing everything around it, and instantly engulfed Geskina, who was closest, and Samuel, who was a little further away.
Amid the tremors of the earth, the flames of destruction quickly expanded and engulfed everything. A violent explosion exploded from the church square. The shock wave of destruction accompanied by high-temperature flames swept around, sweeping the church area of the Chant Cathedral and then rushed to the surrounding streets, spreading the destruction outward rapidly. The loud noise and vibration almost spread throughout Tivian. A mushroom cloud slowly rose from the location of the church area. The fog of confusion pouring down from the dream world was still relatively strong, and it was disturbed quite violently for a while.
After the shocking and violent explosion, the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity and the entire vast church district were completely destroyed one after another. Large areas of streets around the church district were also razed to the ground due to the impact. Under the rising dust, the vast church district in the old village had completely disappeared at this moment. The only thing left at the location of the church district was an extremely huge deep pit. On the edge of the pit, buildings within a range of nearly a kilometer were almost knocked down, and buildings within a range of several thousand meters suffered varying degrees of damage.
Although all members of the Tivian Church had long since foreseen the possibility of a large-scale destructive extraordinary station, and had evacuated the church area, and had used various means to forcibly evacuate the surrounding people at high speed before the war began, innocent people were bound to be affected by the explosion just now. Fortunately, the gradually sinking fog of confusion absorbed part of the damage from the explosion and made them lost, otherwise the impact would have been even greater.
After the explosion, in the dust-filled pit, at this moment, Samuel, who had already retreated from the darkness, was lying on the ground in tattered clothes, extremely weak, covered in dust, with a distracted look and looking like he was dying.
Using himself as a carrier to contain the vast power of faith, this caused great damage to Samuel's body. In the fierce explosion just now, although Samuel was able to avoid the influence of high temperature and high pressure after the elemental shock, he could not be completely immune to the oppression of the shock wave. Therefore, after he could no longer maintain it and was forced to release the elemental shock, Samuel collapsed to the ground. Now he can't move at all and has almost completely lost his combat effectiveness.
Given Samuel's own condition, he could only create a single strong explosion like the one just now, and his body could not bear so much faith to launch a series of attacks against Guskina. Therefore, Samuel could only hope that the attack just now could destroy the divine monster. Now he had completely no room for resistance.
However, facts have proved that Samuel's idea is completely unrealistic...
"Hmph, a last-ditch effort? You still have some ambition..."
Amidst a cold snort, a dull sound of footsteps rang out in the space, and then a huge shadow appeared in the dust in front of Samuel, and slowly approached him as the footsteps continued to ring.
Finally, Guskina's three-meter-tall, eight-limbed, eight-eye, already inhuman body appeared in front of Samuel. Countless blood mists were surrounding her body, and these blood mists rushed to the horrible and hideous wounds on Guskina's body, making them recover quickly, and even the broken limbs were regenerating quickly in the condensation of blood mist.
Seeing that Guskina had not died in the explosion and was even regenerating her body at a high speed, Samuel, who was lying on the ground, could not help but widen his eyes, his whole body trembling slightly. He wanted to say something but could not utter it at all. When he opened his mouth, he only spat out a mouthful of blood.
Facing Samuel in front of her, Guskina did not say any unnecessary words, but walked over silently, raised a bloody sword in the air, ready to give Samuel the final blow.
Although Gerskina wanted to keep the archbishop in front of her and torture him slowly, the situation was tense now and she had other things to do, so she didn't have time to dawdle here for too long. While the concentration of the fog of confusion covering Tivian was not high, she could move freely with the help of her allies and do some other things.
Just when Guskina was about to thoroughly understand Samuel, the surrounding environment suddenly changed again. A shining beam of light bounced out from the dust behind Guskina and shot towards her. Guskina quickly noticed it and slightly turned her body to avoid the beam of light. However, what she didn't expect was that when the beam of light passed by her, there was a strange movement in the shadow cast by the light.
Like a dark body of water, Gusjina's shadow suddenly rippled and then suddenly exploded. Then a petite figure quickly rushed out from it, and shot towards Gusjina as a high-speed afterimage. Gusjina realized something was wrong, and immediately waved her six arms, waving the bright red weapon to slash at the attacking shadow.
However, the ghostly movement of the shadow surprised Gesijiana a little. After dodging Gesijiana's fierce attack, it passed by her, inflicting several huge wounds and cutting off one of Gesijiana's arms.
After realizing that something was wrong, Gesijiana widened the eight huge eyes on her face and stared at the direction where the shadow fell. Then she saw a petite girl with a cloak, short black hair, holding a long sword, and slowly stood up from the ground. She stared at Gesijiana like a monster with a silent look. After seeing the girl's appearance, Gesijiana gritted her teeth and said.
"Supervisory Hub... Atcherie..."
Saint Atcherie, one of the seven saints of Mount Saint, and the cardinal of the Court of Supervisors, was trapped in the dream world by Gumian. When Black Dream used a ritual to blur the boundary between the dream world and the real world, allowing the dream and Tivian's reality to penetrate each other, and letting the fog of confusion cover Tivian, the area where Atcherie was located also had greater contact with the real world.
The huge explosion created by Samuel's final gathering of tremendous faith failed to destroy Guskina, but the massive burst of "light" power still succeeded in shaking the fog of confusion. This powerful "light" formed a short-lived "lighthouse" in the vast maze, allowing those who were shallowly lost in the maze to briefly sense the correct direction.
Gumian only had two pieces of the lunar corona fragments in his hand, so the trap he set for Atcheri could not have been in the deeper maze closer to the Holy Cocoon. After sensing the explosion of the "light" created by Samuel, Atcheri immediately took advantage of this short-lived "lighthouse" to guide her away from her mother's location, and used the inner realm movement to almost instantly arrive at the battlefield where the "light" exploded, and launched an attack on Guskina.
"In the name of the Saint, don't even think about continuing to be a lowly servant... a lackey of the evil god!"
Raising the sword in her hand, Atcheri pointed the tip of the sword at the monster-like Gaskina not far away, and whispered silently.
And within the entire Tivian, the fog of confusion that was spreading around was becoming thicker and thicker.
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While the capital of Plit, Tivian, is facing an unprecedented crisis and disaster, a serious meeting is taking place on Mount Saint in the south-central part of the main continent, far away from Plit.
After receiving the emergency contact from the Cathedral of the Holy Chant, all the cardinals who remained in Mount Saint-Premier held an emergency meeting, with Hilbert, the Holy War Cardinal, as the convener, and discussed countermeasures together.
In the magnificent and sacred chapel of the Cathedral of the Holy Advent, four of the six chairs belonging to the cardinals were occupied at this moment. Saint Cardinal of the Holy War Hilbert, Saint Cardinal of the Judges Crama, Saint Cardinal of the Disciplines Marco, and Saint Cardinal of the Savior Amanda were all in their seats. Among the six cardinals, except for Saint Cardinal of the Guardian Atticelli who was out personally supervising a major case, and Saint Cardinal of the Foundation Alberto who was in the south preparing for the upcoming great holy war, all were present.
"According to the urgent news from the Cathedral of the Holy Chant, the substitute of the evil goddess Lady of Pain, Gerskina, has appeared in Tivian. Now Samuel Logus is suppressing her with Tivian's faith, but it won't last long. He is now applying for support from the Council of Cardinals."
Standing in front of his seat, Hilbert spoke to his colleagues with a serious look, and after listening to his words, the skinny Marco frowned slightly before speaking.
"Geskina, the eight-pointed spider head? One of the few God-chosen representatives among the existing gold? Why did she suddenly appear in Tivian? Isn't there an International Expo going on there now? If I remember correctly, the Supervisory Center should also be investigating the case there, why didn't she make the contact, but the Archbishop?"
"I don't know the specific situation. The situation on Samuel's side is very urgent. The urgent letter he sent was very brief, and I can't get more useful information from it. But I can confirm that something big is happening in Tivian. I have obtained evidence from many other channels."
Hilbert continued to respond to his colleague. After hearing what he said, Kramar at the side couldn't help but speak.
"We haven't dealt with Yunina yet, and now another one has popped up, Geskina. What happened to these descendants of the evil gods? Recently, they have popped up one after another and challenged the majesty of the Holy Church. They will be severely punished!"
Kramar said this coldly, and Amanda on the other side responded with a solemn expression.
"If it is confirmed that Gerskina has appeared in Tivian and has shown a hostile attitude, then we must immediately send in support. There is no time to lose. Holy War Hub, your ship, the 'Purifying Flame', is the only holy steel ship that can be quickly deployed to Tivian. We can arrange for one person to arrive in Tivian to see if we can contact the Monitoring Hub and work with her to solve the problem in Tivian. If not, we will send more forces in addition."
Amanda said that according to the rules set by the Pope, there must always be at least three cardinals on duty at the Holy See. Even if there is an extremely critical situation and more cardinals need to be sent abroad, at least two cardinals will remain at the Holy See to prevent any accidents.
Listening to Amanda's words, Hilbert nodded slightly, and then continued to speak.
"Before the meeting, I had already arranged for the Purifier to prepare for a space jump, but the problem now is that the coordinates of Tivian and the surrounding areas are completely uncertain. All the parameters related to Tivian are in a state of chaos. We can't lock on to where Tivian jumped at all."
"Unable to lock? Chaos? What's going on?" Amanda asked Hilbert with a serious look, and Hilbert spoke immediately.
"The specific situation is not clear. The Holy War Court has used all long-range detection methods to conduct reconnaissance on Tivian, but nothing has been found. All the detection methods have revealed unprecedented, bizarre and chaotic scenes. Even the most powerful Far-shine Mirror cannot see clearly what is happening over there. The connection between us and the Cathedral of the Holy Chant was completely cut off not long ago. Now we are trying to restore the connection, but there is no result."
Hilbert answered with a serious look, while Marco spoke after thinking deeply.
"To be able to block so many detection methods of the Holy War Court, the substitute of the Lady of Pain must have deployed some powerful 'shadow' barrier in Tivian, or perhaps it involves divinity..."
"Xiu Jie Shu has the same idea as me. Those evil believers must have used some means to block our exploration of Tivian and prevent us from supporting Tivian. Now if we want to effectively project power to Tivian, the barrier over there must be broken!"
Hilbert said this, and then he glanced at his colleagues in front of him and spoke again calmly.
"Everyone, the powerful 'shadow' power that is now covering Tivian may involve divinity. Anything divinity can only be broken by divinity. Now if we want to break through that barrier, we can only use the 'Staff of the Lord's Word' left by the Holy See to turn the glory of the sun into pure light and cleanse all the dark obstacles in Pritt...
"This is one of the reasons why I am anxious for you all to come. The decision to use the Holy Staff is not something I can make alone. I need you all to vote as soon as possible."
Hilbert spoke seriously to the other three cardinals, and they soon gave their answers.
"I certainly have no objection to judging those evil pagans."
"Now is the critical moment to activate the Holy Staff. Even if the Holy See were here, he would make the same decision."
"Tivian's condition is very critical now. We must check the situation on the other side. I hope everything is still in time and it will not turn into a large-scale casualty incident."
Faced with Hilbert's extremely reasonable proposal, Kramar, Marco, and Amanda agreed without any hesitation. Seeing the three people in front of them express their opinions, Hilbert nodded and spoke.
"Then... let's start calling down the holy staff..."
Following Hilbert's words, the four cardinals stood up together and began a brief prayer ceremony. As the ceremony began, a pure light shone from the clouds on the ceiling of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity just like the sky, and then a slender object slowly fell from it.
At this moment, there was a noisy sound outside the door of the Holy Cathedral. After several cardinals looked at it curiously, the tightly closed door suddenly opened, and a petite figure stood in front of the magnificent door in the posture of pushing the door.
"Who is it! How dare you trespass here!" Looking at the scene in front of him, Kramar couldn't help but shout loudly and sternly, and after seeing the figure clearly, Amanda couldn't help but blurt out with her eyes wide open.
"Vanya..."
Standing under the magnificent gate of the Holy Visitation Chapel that seemed to be prepared for giants, Vanya, dressed in a white nun's uniform, could not help but gasp for breath as she tried to push the door open.
Behind Vanya, on the wide and long staircase leading to the chapel, there was a long row of armored guards lying in a disorderly manner. These dozens of guards, who were at least at the Cretaceous level, were now lying on the ground completely unconscious. They were knocked down instantly after the battle had started, and very few of them had the strength to fight back.
Facing the apparently stunned cardinals in the chapel, Vanya heaved a long sigh of relief, then walked inside the chapel. When she had taken two steps and a cardinal was about to take action, Vanya suddenly leaned down, knelt in ceremonial obeisance, and spoke to the people in front of her.
"Your Excellency Cardinals, please do not use the Holy Staff now!"
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