Due to the limited supply of magic stones, they can only prioritize protecting those key areas.

For example, a granary, an armory, or an alchemy research institute.

After Dennis' explanation, Lin En had no choice but to give up this wonderful idea and continued to ask with regret, "Then there has been no unusual movement among the believers in the capital and the nobles under house arrest recently, right?"

Compared with external threats, he was more worried about chaos within the royal capital. If the capital was caught in a dilemma both internally and externally, it would be really troublesome.

"We have been sending people to monitor those nobles. The people in the capital are also relatively well behaved. Apart from the training team catching a few poor people who gathered to pray, the rest of the people have not made any unusual moves."

The one who answered was Redel, who was currently in charge of patrolling and defending the royal capital.

However, this task is not easy, because they have only recently occupied the capital, and some believers are still very resistant.

Since the royal family is still in existence, they cannot gain the recognition of the poor by distributing land or hanging evil nobles.

The only thing to be thankful for was that when they captured the royal capital, the cardinal had helped them capture the fanatics, and now they were all taken to the mines for transformation.

The rest are ordinary believers. Although they believe in the false god [Ella], they are not fanatical enough to sacrifice their lives for it.

"Concepts cannot be changed in a short period of time." Lin En nodded. He had a rough estimate of the situation inside the royal capital. After thinking for a while, he made a suggestion.

"You can try to start with the errors and omissions in the Bible, pick out some that are easy to disprove, and do some novel experiments. The more eye-catching the better. You can also give this knowledge to children first, as they are always more receptive and can slowly influence adults."

Hearing this, Redleton's eyes lit up and he immediately ran to make arrangements.

Lin En didn't care about Redel's impetuous temper. He took the map beside him and wondered if there were any omissions in the defense of the royal capital.

"I think your arrangement is perfect!" Raphael shook his head helplessly. In his opinion, Lin En was a little too cautious.

He had also seen the defense map of the royal capital. There was a guard post every five steps and a sentry post every ten steps. Many emergency measures were also arranged to ensure that if any chaos broke out in any area, more than a thousand musketeers and at least fifty wizards would arrive at the scene within a minute to suppress the rebellion.

"It's enough to deal with the riots of those believers, but what if the Vatican's punitive army suddenly appears in the city? These forces alone are far from enough, and the losses will be unpredictable." Lin En said worriedly.

"But didn't you ask King Hattar before? The king did not leave any secret passages when designing and repairing the city." Raphael said hesitantly.

"What if they dig a tunnel directly here?" Lin En asked.

How is this possible? Raphael rolled his eyes. The Vatican's punitive army's base was at least ten kilometers away from here! Even if they dug at all costs, it would take ten days or half a month. By then, their new weapons would have been developed and they could launch a counterattack.

Lin En didn't think so. He had seen the time and space gate in the magic stone mine. Maybe those priests also mastered similar magic.

Lin En touched his chin. It was a pity that these griffins had a very sensitive sense of smell and the production of the laser launcher had not been completed yet. Otherwise, he could send airships to cut off the opponent's food supply.

No matter how powerful a person is, he still needs to eat. Even great wizards like them are no exception. Maybe they can survive by going hungry for three to five days, but there will always be some impact over time.

Well... maybe that false god [Ella] is an exception.

When Lin En was wondering whether the god needed to eat, an apprentice knocked on the door and walked in, saying respectfully, "Master Dean... Master Anthony is looking for you, as well as several alchemy masters from the research institute."

"What a coincidence! It looks like our new weapon has been completed!" Lin En's frown finally relaxed.

"I've been annoyed with the Vatican's punitive army for a long time!" Raphael said happily. They had been hiding in the city and passively taking beatings these days, and the depression in their hearts was about to explode.

…

A day passed in a flash, and the poor people in the capital had gradually adapted to the wartime life. When they looked up, they could still see large groups of griffin knights flying through the sky.

The shadow brought by the rain of fire that fell from the sky five days ago still looms over everyone's heart, but life goes on anyway, and they cannot stop their work even in the war.

Griphook was an ordinary poor man in the royal capital. Before those damned wizards occupied the royal capital, he would go to the church at this time every week to listen to the priests' teachings, confess his sins, and put all his meager savings except for his livelihood into the church's donation box.

According to the priests, the sound you hear when you put copper coins into the box is the sound of your soul being purified!

Griphook agreed with this deeply, because he was too poor, without a wife or children, and his only hope was to ascend to the kingdom of God after his death and enjoy endless joy and happiness.

There are endless steaks to eat and endless wine to drink, and beautiful elves as servants to serve his daily life...

The kingdom of God has everything he longs for! Griphook has always believed that his faith is extremely firm, until two months ago, when the group of evil god believers invaded the capital to create killing and chaos, the Lord's call suddenly sounded in his mind.

But Griphook was afraid and hesitated, and did not obey the first call, because there were vicious wizard minions outside. If he dared to go out, he would definitely be captured and sacrificed to the evil god, and his soul would fall into the endless abyss.

Later, he heard that the Lord's incarnation had descended to the capital, but was dispersed by several streams of light! Griphook was both bewildered and terrified. God was great, eternal, omniscient and omnipotent. Even if only an incarnation descended, it would be impossible for him to be defeated by a group of evil god's followers.

This must be fake, it must be an illusion created by those weird wizards, a blasphemy against God! Just when Griphook was wavering, a cardinal suddenly appeared in his home, responding to the confusion and puzzlement in his mind.

Everything he experienced was a test from God. It was because the nobles and subjects of the Kingdom of Hadratha had wavered in their faith in the Lord that such a disaster had occurred...

(End of this chapter)