"You know, if the staff is to be used, at least half of the cardinals in the Council of Cardinals or the Provisional Council of Cardinals must agree to choose a cardinal to hold the staff. But here, there are only two cardinals, me and the Cardinal Inquisitor. According to the canons set by the Holy See, we cannot make a decision by using the staff..."
With the same serious look, Amanda slowly said to Vanya in front of her. While listening to Amanda's words, Vanya felt more and more lost in her heart, and then she couldn't help but blurt out " " again.
"But, Lady Amanda... given the current situation, I must use the Holy Staff..."
"According to the regulations, you cannot use the holy staff no matter what...Sister Vanya..." Facing Vanya's plea, Amanda continued to speak with a serious look. Facing Amanda's refusal, Vanya couldn't help but show a trace of despair in her eyes, while on the other side, Kramar's eyes revealed Anran's arrogance, and the whole person relaxed.
Kramer said this when relaxing.
"Hmph... You can see the big picture clearly. I'm glad you don't always favor this heretic nun. Now, capture Vanya for me... Ugh!!"
Just as Kramar saw Amanda's statement and was about to order Vanya to be arrested with peace of mind, suddenly a rapid afterimage flashed before his eyes. Caught off guard, Kramar saw Amanda, who was originally standing in the distance, suddenly rushed in front of him quickly, staring at him with a hint of coldness in her eyes.
"Bang!"
Just as Kramar was about to say something in astonishment, he suddenly felt a violent impact on his right cheek. Before Kramar could react, Amanda had already raised her leg and kicked Kramar in the face with a high side kick, which caused Kramar's face to deform extremely exaggeratedly. He was thrown out by the huge force.
"boom!"
With a loud roar, Kramar's flying body smashed the heavy door of the cathedral and flew out of the cathedral, flying to an unknown distance. Amanda stayed where she was, standing there calmly and dignifiedly, silently looking in the direction Kramar flew, as if nothing had happened before.
"Forehead……"
Looking at the sudden thing in front of her, Vanya froze in place with her eyes wide open, not knowing for a moment how to react to what had just happened. She had never expected that Amanda, who was always calm and dignified, would accept such a sudden attack, and the target of the attack was another cardinal.
Is this... so cruel?
Vanya stared at the scene in front of her in astonishment, and at this time Amanda turned around and spoke to Vanya in her usual calm tone.
"According to the rules, as long as Kramar is here, you are absolutely not allowed to use the holy staff, so I will deal with him..." After saying this, Amanda stepped out and rushed out of the chapel in an instant, rushing towards the direction where Kramar was knocked away just now. For a moment, Vanya was the only one left in the entire chapel.
Amanda knew that the revelations Vanya received were all given by those followers who seemed to be the "inspiration" of the Celestial Judges. Since the other party had already given a warning, but the Cardinal Council did not listen, resulting in the current extremely bad situation of Pritt, this has greatly proved the value of the information given by the other party. Now that the other party has given a second message, Amanda also feels that it is necessary to listen once in such a bad situation, even if it means using some coercive measures that will lead to serious consequences.
Seeing Amanda leave, Vanya, who was originally in a daze, suddenly came to her senses. She couldn't help but murmured softly in the direction Amanda left.
"Thank you, Your Excellency..."
After expressing her thanks quietly, Vanya immediately stood up and ran to the center of the chapel, where the holy relic of the Church of Light, originally the divine treasure belonging to the Pope, the Staff of the Holy Decree, was slowly floating in the air.
After looking at the scepter in front of her for a while, Vanya took a deep breath, then reached out and held the scepter in her hand.
Then, a strong glow shone from the scepter, and at the same time, an inexplicable airflow blew up over the entire chapel, making Vanya's nun robe rustle.
At this moment, Vanya, holding the holy staff, fell into a wonderful feeling. She felt that her vision was infinitely expanded, and she could see through the barriers of a world and look at the other side of the world. At this moment, Vanya could feel that she could easily see any point in the entire main continent... or even half of the world. She could see the Adria boatman thousands of miles away rowing a boat in the intricate waterways of the city, and she could also see the gamblers in the casino of Mon Carlo betting crazily, and she could also see the scene of the Tivian crisis. If Vanya's rank was higher, perhaps she could see the situation in any corner of the world.
What was even more amazing was that Vanya could see the endless torrent of faith rushing towards Mount Saint from all over the world. After these torrents of faith, like mighty rivers, gathered at Mount Saint from all directions, they rushed towards the sky along the mountain that was like a pillar of heaven, rushing towards the incomprehensible and invisible heights in the sky.
In addition to her perception, at this moment Vanya also discovered that she seemed to have established some kind of wonderful connection with the most dazzling celestial body in the sky. Following this connection, Vanya could feel an extremely far away but extremely magnificent supreme power, which was... the sun!
After feeling the power of the sun, Vanya felt extremely frightened for a moment. Even the slightest feeling transmitted through the connection seemed to scare Vanya so much that she almost let go of the scepter.
The essence of the power of this holy staff is to control the light of the sun in this world to a certain extent. The pure light that dispelled Tivian's fog of confusion was also emitted by the sun.
"This is...what a great power...
"I can actually... create such power?"
As she felt the power of the sun, Vanya couldn't help but say so with emotion, and then she focused more on her own energy, using the connection of the holy staff, relying on the majestic faith of the Holy Mountain, and exerting her greatest energy to control a tiny ray of the trillions of rays of light that the sun projects into this world.
"Sunwheel...please listen to what I have to say..."
In the murmur, Vanya manipulated the sunlight shining on Dongplit.
"This seems to be... unexpectedly easy to use..."
…
Above Tivian, a dark red storm has already rolled up, and the entire city is temporarily shrouded in the dark red sky. As the Spider Queen's influence here rapidly increases, Her power is beginning to penetrate more and more directly.
The entire Tivian is now beginning its inner world war. The Spider Queen, who has basically declared victory, has no intention of letting go of those forces in this city that have repeatedly sabotaged her plots, especially Jingyue's chess piece!
Under the dark red sky, all kinds of chaos began to grow, and space itself seemed to become unstable. The Spider Queen now planned to pull the entire city of Tivian and its millions of people into her domain, as a humiliation to the Glory and as a basis for her future reorganization of the Mortal Cult, while also being able to wipe out any forces that resisted her.
A strange wind howled beneath the dark red sky, and hundreds of sleepwalkers praised the evil god's name in their dreams. At this moment, it was like the end of the world for Tivian.
"Haha! You are finished! This city is finished! This country is finished! Praise my great queen, you finally succeeded!"
On the battlefield in the ruins of the cathedral area, the monster-like Guskina was laughing and shouting wildly while waving various weapons on her arms and attacking her enemy Atowri more fiercely. Facing Guskina, whose strength had further increased with the increase of the Spider Queen's influence, Atowri could only hold on with great difficulty.
"Your doom has come. In the final moments, let me enjoy you, you poor creatures being played around by the queen! Hahahaha!!!"
While Guskina was mocking the world with her shrill screams, a bright light flashed in the sky. In the bright and clean beams of light that shone from the sky to the ground, the scarlet storm was instantly dispelled, and the entire Tivian sky suddenly returned to a clear state with the sun shining brightly and the sky blue. The original dark red color disappeared completely.
"Are those Glorious God-men taking action again?
"Humph, but that alone won't be enough to stop the Queen..."
Looking at the changes that appeared in the sky, Gesijina felt a little surprised at first, but then spoke with disdain.
Gesijina was also aware of the general situation of the Glowing Cult. Now that the Pope was away, the power of the Glowing Cult was far from being able to weaken its projection capabilities in time. As long as they did not actively attack the Holy Mountain, there would be no major problems.
Just as Gesijina was thinking this in her heart and was about to continue her offensive, something strange happened in the sky again.
The sun that was shining brightly in the clear, cloudless sky suddenly dimmed under the control of some force. The originally dazzling brilliance quickly weakened visibly to the naked eye, and the whole Tivian began to become dim again.
The brightness of the sun that was dominating the sky was rapidly decreasing, and as the sunlight weakened, certain objects that were originally in the sky also quietly appeared at this moment.
That... was a perfect full moon, a thin and blurry moon that was not very clear in the sky, a full but dim full moon! After seeing the moon, Ge Sijina's expression could not help but show an extremely horrified expression.
"What?! How is it possible! How can there be a moon in the sky right now?!"
Facing the dim moon that appeared in the sky, Gerskina could not help but be extremely surprised, while Dorothy, who was flying at the moment, answered in a deep voice in her heart.
"Because the moon has been there since the beginning, it just hasn't been seen..."
Yes, the moon has been there since the beginning, but no one has been able to discover it.
Today is the daytime of the Dark Moon. Theoretically, it is the weakest moment in the Mirror Moon Goddess's month, because the moon cannot be seen from beginning to end today.
However... the truth is that the moon has never disappeared, it has always been there, it's just that the moon at the moment of the dark moon is in the daytime, hanging high in the sky with the sun, because the sun's brilliance is too dazzling, people can't see the moon, but if the sun's brightness decreases at this time, then the moon will reappear in the sky, and in the form of a full moon...
Now, Vanya, who was far away in the Holy Mountain, was controlling the sunlight projected onto Dongpreet through the staff of the Holy Decree in her hand, refracting it to other places, dimming the sun's light here and making the moon phase of the dark moon, which was supposed to be invisible, appear on the sky.
The Dark Moon... is also one of the phases of the moon. Although it seems to be non-existent, it still exists. When Dorothy was in Gramorn, she went to the Mirror Moon Temple by passing through the Dark Moon Gate, which was only open during the day.
When the dark moon appeared in the sky, Vanya in the Holy Chapel began to manipulate the sunlight in this area again, and began to adjust the refraction angle of the sunlight, so that the sunlight that should have been directed to the ground was reflected back into the space above the sky and hit the moon. Under the shining sunlight, the originally dim moon surface suddenly became brighter at this moment, forming moonlight that was even stronger than that of the full moon.
At this moment, the full moon finally hung high in the sky of Pritt, and the silvery moonlight finally began to spread equally to every corner of this vast city.
"The time has come... the ceremony begins..."
On the Kingdom Square of Eastdivian, inside the Crystal Palace, under the vast and exquisite dome, in front of the complex magic circle, at this moment, Princess Isabel of the Plit Kingdom was standing there, looking at the moon reflected from the glass dome with a focused look, muttering something, and her words seemed to be mixed with the accents of countless people.
Then, Isabel, who was possessed by countless former kings, withdrew her gaze, and then slowly and respectfully saluted towards the other side of the magic circle. Opposite Isabel, on the other side of the magic circle, there was an exquisite chair, and on the chair sat a petite girl with long silver hair, white skin, and as delicate as a doll. At this moment, she seemed to be in a peaceful sleep, with her eyes closed and motionless.
After saluting the girl, Isabel silently walked to the center of the magic circle, drew out the sword in her hand and stabbed it, then knelt on one knee and silently lowered her head towards the girl in front of her.
Then, in Isabel's body, the previous Plit kings and the previous secret-keeping kings, together with Isabel, began to chant and recite the ritual prayers they had passed down together.
"A collector of secrets... a girl of mystery... the Queen of the Night Sky... we, Lord Briton... are here as promised... to pray to you..."
The secret-keeping ritual inherited by the Plitt Secret-Keeping King is divided into two parts. The first part is to amplify the influence of the Mirror Moon Goddess and guide the power of the Mirror Moon Goddess to descend here. The second part is to use this power to maintain the secret itself and guard the secret.
Although the secret of the secret-guarding ritual has now been known by the Spider Queen, it does not mean that the entire ritual is completely useless. At least... the first part of guiding the power can still be used.
Under the joint leadership of successive Plit kings, the ceremony in the Crystal Palace was finally restarted, and the time of the ceremony was absolutely correct! And they also had an idol that was more useful than a mirror moon statue as an object of worship!
The impact of such a ritual is enormous. When the ritual just began, the Spider Queen, who was concentrating on destroying the Wind King's legacy and absorbing the Dream Lord's divinity, immediately sensed that something was wrong. Then she used her greatest existing influence to directly interfere with the real world.
Suddenly, in the sky above the Crystal Palace, the originally calm space suddenly shattered and exploded. Then, in this shattered space, several huge scarlet spikes hundreds of meters long pierced out one after another and stabbed towards the direction of the Crystal Palace at high speed, trying to smash it completely.
At this time, a roar was heard, and a giant dragon flew over the Crystal Palace, blocking the huge spikes.
However, even though the dragon was huge, it still looked very small compared to the giant spike that was hundreds of meters long. This giant spike that carried divinity was something that even a dragon could never contend with.
Fortunately, the dragon doesn't need to fight back.
Facing the sharp spikes, the dragon opened its mouth and roared out in a distant sound.
"—TIID—"
The roar of the dragon came from the dragon's mouth, and the original runes shook the space. The dragon used the ancient voice to order the surrounding torrent of time to temporarily slow down its endless collapse.
Therefore, at this moment, the time in front of the dragon slowed down, and as a result, the speed of the giant spike that stabbed down also slowed down, and it was unable to destroy the Crystal Palace within the time it should have arrived.
In the Crystal Palace, successive secret-keeping kings have completed the necessary parts of the ceremony by chanting in unison. The huge magic circle beneath them has begun to emit a soft fluorescent light, resonating with the shining dark moon in the sky.
Finally, under the resonance of the Moon Crowning Ceremony and the Secret Keeping Ceremony on the Twilight Shadow, under the support of the full moon, under the support of the previous Prit Secret Keeping Kings, and under the witness of the most suitable idol, the Moon God power from a distant region was finally guided to the Wind Stone Kingdom.
The divinity of the night sky began to illuminate the city like moonlight.
Just as the huge scarlet spike broke through the slowing technique and continued to stab towards the Crystal Palace, it was about to pierce the giant dragon blocking its way.
From the full dark moon, a thick, bright silver light shone down in the quiet sky, slowly shining on the giant dragon's body. For a moment, the entire body of the giant dragon was shrouded in the silver light of the moon god.
Bathed in the silver light, the dragon's figure began to change dramatically. The scales on her body, which were as rough as hard stone, began to become as glittering and dense as crystals. The color also changed to shimmering silver white, emitting a metallic luster. The dragon's body began to grow rapidly, and the original 70-meter-long body quickly grew to a super-giant length of more than 300 meters.
The dragon's originally powerful, solid and sturdy body began to become slender, its original wings turned into full wings, a pair of real dragon claws began to grow, and it changed from a two-legged form to a four-legged form. The terrifying spikes on its back turned into crystals, its tail became longer, the dragon horns on its head spread more exaggeratedly like growing branches, and the rough dragon head became soft and beautiful.
During this series of changes, the whole body becomes more feminine and female. The original wild and barbaric aura fades away, and is replaced by an elegant and soft feeling.
Finally, behind the giant silver dragon, a circular halo that symbolized divinity and emitted moonlight suddenly appeared out of thin air and hovered behind the dragon.
Thus, the Dragon God of the night sky finally descended under the dark moon.
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