[Hadrata] On a street in the royal capital, Apu, who had escaped, stopped in a dark alley, covering the wound on his left shoulder. Blood was dripping from the wound, staining the dark leather armor red.
Apu frowned and cast a healing spell to heal the wound, but he could feel that the shattered bullet fragments still remained in his body.
"This body is too weak..." Apu muttered to himself with a frown. As an extremely powerful six-ring priest, he never thought that one day he would fall to such a state.
If it weren't for the power of the holy emblem, he would probably be dead by now.
This holy emblem was made from the finger bones of the first saint and was placed in the church to accumulate the power of faith of the believers so that it could be used to assist in the performance of more powerful divine arts.
This was also the reason why he had the confidence to face the two great wizards. However, what Anluk had not expected was that Cody, whose memory he had searched, had used unknown means to evade the detection of divine arts and led them into a trap...
The power of magic came so fast that he had no time to react. His whole body was paralyzed and he lost consciousness. Anluk had no choice but to put his remaining consciousness into the holy emblem. Then his whole body was completely destroyed in the thunder and explosion.
He now has to decide whether to stay and deal with the two devil's followers, or pass the news here back to the Sekas Empire.
"Great Lord, please save your most devout believer..." "Please punish those evildoers!" "Your most devout believer is willing to offer everything here..."
Faintly, shouts could be heard from the holy emblem. It turned out that the people of the royal capital were hiding in their homes in fear, praying to the great Lord.
Anluik immediately realized that this was an opportunity, an opportunity to counterattack. The prayers of tens of thousands of people were enough for him to perform the art of divine descent in his current state and allow a trace of the incarnation of the great Lord to descend.
"Come here, the most devout believers of the Lord!" Anluk conveyed his consciousness to every believer through the holy emblem, over and over again.
In various parts of the royal capital, the people who were praying devoutly heard the call in their minds at the same time.
"This is God's will!" "Lord, you have not abandoned your believers..."
The believers shouted excitedly, not caring about the ongoing fighting in various parts of the capital. They resolutely opened the door and walked out, gathering from all the streets at the central square of the capital.
"What's going on? Are these people crazy?" Redel, who led his men to occupy the three gates of the royal capital and was about to capture the eldest prince Harold, saw such a strange scene.
Many people who had been hiding at home took to the streets, shouting that this was the Lord's will. The scene was dark and dense, like a wave.
The musketeers who were responsible for maintaining order were also frightened. Even though they kept firing warning shots, they were unable to stop the situation.
"What should we do now? Should we kill these people?" a musketeer teammate said helplessly.
Redel was struggling. Although these subjects did not attack them, anyone with a discerning eye could see that something was wrong with them.
But shooting and killing defenseless civilians goes against their original intention.
The sound of prayers in the center of the square became louder and louder. The faith of tens of thousands of people became a key and a drawing point. Anluk saw that the time was ripe, so he took off the holy emblem on his head and threw it into the air.
“Hail—the Kingdom of Heaven is Coming!”
In an instant, a beam of white light from the holy emblem shot straight into the sky, illuminating the entire royal capital. It seemed as if stars were shaking and falling in the night sky. The pure white light gradually transformed into the shadow of a holy and noble goddess, who looked down at all living beings, emitting endless majesty and sacred aura.
Melodious hymns echoed in the sky, an indescribable majesty spread across the horizon, and all the believers knelt on the ground, praising the Lord's mercy and greatness in the most humble manner.
Raeder and a group of musketeers were also stunned. Looking at the phantom of the goddess in the sky, cold sweat ran down their foreheads and their legs couldn't help but go weak.
Believers like Ham, who had already given up their faith, knelt on the ground uncontrollably and confessed their sins loudly.
"I didn't expect Anruk still has such power." Lin En, who was in the royal capital, was also watching this scene. He had received a report from the Musketeers and naturally knew what happened in Hattar's mansion.
The Apu who suddenly behaved strangely, injured his colleagues and then disappeared inexplicably was most likely controlled. The only one who could do this was Cardinal Anluk.
The other party cunningly mixed in with tens of thousands of people, using these poor people as shields. Lin En was not willing to carry out a massacre unless it was absolutely necessary, which would not be conducive to their long-term rule.
"Do you have any way to solve this problem, Anthony?" Lynn asked curiously.
"You're joking. Although this is just a projection of her slight power, it is already on another level." Anthony's expression was extremely solemn. It was not until then that he realized that he had seriously underestimated the power of the cardinal.
Even though he had become a six-ring wizard, the power of a school alone was far from enough to build a magic kingdom.
"With your current strength, can you cast a second legendary spell?" Anthony asked tentatively. "I just sensed a strong divine power. The support for this incarnation should be the center of her forehead."
"Of course not!" Lynn shook his head.
He is just a three-ring wizard and doesn't have this ability.
The magician Lin En had spent several days preparing for, relying on both celestial phenomena and alchemical formations to achieve such a good effect.
"Then we have no choice but to evacuate now!" Anthony sighed. He didn't expect that they had done so much and seized control of the entire capital, but in the end they could only flee in panic.
The most anxious one was Hattar. He had finally ascended the throne, but now he had to evacuate and hand over the capital to his brother. This was something Hattar could never tolerate.
"Where are the musketeers in the royal capital? Aren't the long sticks in their hands that can spit fire very powerful? I also have three thousand crossbowmen. With several thousand people added together, we can always shoot her down!" Hattar said with a grim face.
Anthony glanced at him and was about to mock Hattar's unrealistic idea, but then he heard Lynn speak.
"There's no need to evacuate. It just so happens that I have prepared some things to deal with this emergency, which I thought I wouldn't need." Lin En suddenly said, pulling everyone back to their senses.
(End of this chapter)