All kinds of rumors were spreading wildly in the Holy City. The devout believers of the Lord could not believe that the news was true. The powerful and noble Saint and the Chief Judge, the messengers of God on earth, had actually died at the hands of those evil minions! Those wizards and nobles hiding in the dark and dissatisfied with the rule of the Church were all fueling the spread of rumors, so that in just a few days, everyone in the Holy City knew about it.

On the morning of the third day, Pope Alvis read out the oracle, announcing a sad news to all the Lord's believers throughout the empire - the Last Judgment is coming!

As soon as these words came out, both the nobles and the people of the empire were shocked and fell into great panic! Everyone knew the meaning of the Last Judgment...

It is recorded in the Doomsday chapter at the end of the Bible that the greed and sin in people's hearts will attract the attention of evil spirits, bringing famine, disease and plague!

If these growing sins exceed a certain threshold, the demons imprisoned in the abyss will reach the human world. At that time, the whole world will usher in a great cleansing, and all people's souls will be dragged into hell to receive the final judgment!

Now, only the Lord himself coming to the world can stop the doomsday catastrophe!

"Let us offer our most devout faith to the greatest, holy, just and merciful Lord!" Pope Alvis's loud voice resounded throughout the holy city.

Hundreds of thousands of the Lord's believers knelt on the ground, some chanting hymns loudly, some crying and repenting of their sins, praying to the great Lord to bring down salvation and save them from falling into the abyss!

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While the Vatican was making up excuses for the defeat of the expeditionary army, in the City of Fire Oil, the Wizard Council, which had won the war, was also having a headache over various tedious matters.

Because they did not suffer no losses in this battle. More than half of the more than 100 airships responsible for diverting the main force of the Holy See were destroyed, and more than 2,000 people were killed and wounded! Almost all the top combatants of the parliament were injured! Harov was hit by Lucia's full force, and Vittorio was blinded by the nuclear explosion and was recuperating.

As for Lin En, after breaking through the Five-Ring Great Wizard, although he no longer has the risk of falling into brain death by mobilizing the power of the magic network, it will still cause considerable mental damage over time.

Several great wizards who attacked the Fire Oil City were beaten to pieces by Chief Judge Joshua, and two of them even died on the spot.

This was also due to Lin En's proper strategy, so they did not need to fight the Holy See head-on. The powerful Saint Lucia and tens of thousands of Holy See's crusade troops were destroyed in the nuclear explosion, otherwise the casualties would have been even more tragic! So after the victory, the parliament did not rush to pursue the victory, but recuperated for a while.

Several battles in a year and a large number of casualties have also exhausted the potions in the parliament's stockpile, not to mention that there is a very critical radiation problem that needs to be solved! The closest place to the nuclear explosion area is less than seven kilometers away from the city of kerosene! Such a close distance means that they will inevitably be affected by radiation, and the nearby river water can no longer be used for irrigation and drinking! In recent days, many wizards have proposed to abandon the city directly or even destroy it!

However, Lin En rejected it! Because the population of this kerosene city is large, the townspeople have strong resistance, and large-scale migration is impractical.

The most important thing is that it has a good geographical location and is not far from the oil site, so it is worth preserving.

In view of this, Lin En and a group of alchemists racked their brains and, based on the characteristics of radiation, built a magic barrier covering the entire city that could block out those dangerous rays.

A few days later, the personnel sent out to investigate the news returned one after another, and the Wizarding Council once again convened its members to hold a meeting.

The shaping wizard Del gave a brief report on the intelligence he had collected in recent days.

The shaping wizards who are proficient in magical transformation undoubtedly have a unique advantage in collecting intelligence.

In addition to being able to transform into specific creatures, it can also modify its own appearance to a certain extent.

If they could find a person with a similar body shape and appearance, they could cooperate with the psychic wizard's memory search to directly replace the other person and operate secretly under a legitimate identity.

Of course, this disguise is not unbreakable. Facing powerful clergymen, the magic power in their bodies is likely to be detected, so Del and others did not dare to get too close to the holy city. They could only inquire about the news through some passing caravans.

When they heard that the news of the expeditionary army's defeat had spread to most of the empire through caravans from all over the place, Lin En and others were quite surprised.

"So fast? Didn't the Holy See try to stop the spread of this news?" Harov frowned and asked in confusion.

"According to our understanding, no." Del hesitated. "On the contrary, those priests and bishops are fanning the flames and using this to promote the Last Judgment in the Bible."

"Judgment Day?"

Harov and the others were stunned for a moment. What did this have to do with the end of the world? Del hurriedly repeated what he had heard from the bishops and priests of the church about the coming of the end of the world.

After hearing this, everyone present was speechless. It had to be said that the church’s ability to deceive believers had simply reached its limit!

This can be covered up! "They are really good at making up stories!" Vittorio sneered and shook his head, and he saw through the other party's plan.

Rather than waiting for the news to arrive, causing chaos within the empire and shaking the faith of believers, it is better to make up a suitable excuse to fool people.

"It seems that your plan is going to fail!" Aurora looked at Lin En and said with a smile.

"It doesn't matter. This news is not just for those fanatics!" Lin En shrugged and didn't care too much.

The entire empire is not a monolithic entity, and the conflicts among theocracy, the nobility, and the people are not just a problem for the kingdom.

It’s just that the power of the Holy See was at its peak in the past and it suppressed all resistance, so it didn’t seem so obvious. But once it shows signs of weakening, these problems will break out again!

So no matter how the priests and bishops tried to explain themselves, they could not change the ironclad fact that the expeditionary army was defeated in succession in the kingdom! They broke the myth of the invincibility of the Church!

(End of this chapter)