bookbashuk Chapter 613 112 Crisis is coming!
Chapter 613 112 Crisis is coming!
Chapter 613-112- Crisis is coming!
Holy capital, holy city and holy palace.
The magnificent palace is solemn and majestic, as transcendent and sacred as ever.
Although the purge against apostates made the center of the Holy Royal Court quite deserted, the crisis of internal strife and even division in the church was ultimately successfully prevented.
The main hall of the Holy Palace, the prayer hall.
With the calls growing louder and louder, the largest temple in the theocracy was reopened to the public, accepting worship from devout believers from all over Miriam.
At the entrance of the hall, the church arranged eight fully armed Templar Knights whose strength reached at least the Silver Moon rank to serve as full-time guards, carefully checking the credentials of every holy believer who came to worship.
The worshippers came in one after another and respectfully handed their admission certificates to the knights for inspection.
Everything is in order.
"Everyone, be serious! This is a critical moment. Everyone must check every document carefully to prevent those with ulterior motives from sneaking into the Holy Palace!"
Enzo, the knight captain who led the eight Templar Knights, said seriously.
After handing back the credentials of another worshipper, Knight Captain Enzo motioned for the other party to enter.
As if sensing something, he suddenly raised his head.
In the distance, more than a dozen fully armed Knights Templar walked towards them in orderly steps.
They came straight to the door of the prayer hall, and the leading knight captain handed over the documents in his hand:
"Benito, captain of the eighth squad of the Knights, has been ordered to come and relieve the guard."
"So early?"
Knight Captain Enzo frowned slightly.
"The time has been changed. In order to strengthen the vigilance, Her Highness the Saint has issued an order to increase the number of personnel and shorten the rotation time."
The new knight captain said in a deep voice.
"When did you give the order? How come I don't know..."
Knight Captain Enzo muttered something and took the document to examine it.
Just as he lowered his head to check his ID, the Templar who called himself Benito suddenly drew his sword and pierced his chest.
The other Templars on guard were stunned.
But they reacted quickly and exclaimed:
"Enemy attack——!"
The knight captain was killed with one sword. "Benito" raised his bloody sword high and said fanatically:
"Kill them! Charge in! All for the eternal sun!"
After he finished speaking, other "Knights Templar" drew their weapons and slashed at the knights guarding the hall. Even the believers gathered outside the prayer hall took up their weapons, put on robes with the sun symbol painted on them, and rushed towards the prayer hall while shouting "For the Eternal Sun".
Suddenly, shouts and cries of killing were heard everywhere, smoke gradually rose in all parts of the Holy Palace, and cracks began to appear on the divine shield covering the Holy Palace, and finally shattered with a slight sound.
The bright red blood soon dyed the floor of the main hall of the Holy Palace red. The "Templar Benito" wearing the robe of the sun god came to the statue and chopped down the old priest who was guarding the statue with a sword, and then shouted fanatically:
"Lord Gregory has successfully led away the false saint and those lackeys of Harald! According to the plan, quickly activate the artifact and start the summoning ceremony!"
After he finished speaking, the sun believers who poured into the hall quickly took action.
They set up the magic array that had been prepared long ago and chanted obscure spells with ups and downs.
The silver light lit up and quickly spread throughout the hall, like a layer of dreamy mist. Under the cover of divine light, illusory scenes emerged in the prayer hall like a dream.
It was an ancient blood-red hall, its structure very similar to that of a prayer hall, like a replica of a temple, except that the place where the statue of the god was enshrined was replaced by two altars.
The two altars are next to each other.
One of them was painted with the holy emblem of the Blood Demon Grand Duke, the Demon's Eye. On the altar was an open coffin filled with dark red liquid, and inside the coffin lay a Judgement Knight with his eyes closed.
As for the other altar, it is painted with the sun symbol of the Temple of the Sun, and an ancient statue of the god is enshrined above it.
The statue was very similar to Harald's attire, except that it wore a sun mask on its face.
The moment the illusory scene appeared, the space in the temple began to distort.
Soon, like a projection, the strange blood-red hall gradually became clear, faintly overlapping with the prayer hall.
And when the sun believers finished their chanting, everything around them had changed.
The solemn and dignified temple has completely disappeared.
Instead, there is a blood-red hall housing two altars, which transforms illusion into reality like the transition between reality and illusion.
Empty...space projection!
It is the "spatial projection" of the Mirick Shrine invading reality!
The shrine of Mirik is not somewhere else, it has been hidden in the Holy Palace all along!
Looking at the bloody hall that invaded reality, the high priest lying in a pool of blood widened his eyes.
"Trap... Holy City... Dangerous... Must... Head to the Holy Maiden Palace..."
He stretched out his hand with difficulty and crawled out of the hall.
He didn't get very far.
The last thing he was aware of was the cold and condescending expression of "Templar Benito" and the long sword in his hand.
"The time has come, let's begin the ceremony!"
Throwing away the knight's sword in his hand, "Benito" said coldly.
After he finished speaking, he first came to the altar with a sun symbol painted on it and knelt on one knee.
He took out a dagger with a sun symbol from his bosom and stabbed it into his chest without hesitation. At the same time, he shouted at the top of his lungs with a fanatical look on his face:
"Everything... for the eternal sun!"
Other sun believers followed suit.
They took a step forward, knelt in front of the altar, drew out the daggers with the sun emblem painted on them, and stabbed them into their chests without any hesitation:
"Everything for the eternal sun!"
Soaked in blood, the sun emblem on the dagger suddenly lit up, emitting a platinum-colored sacred light, and all the sun believers seemed to have been drained of their vitality, and in the blink of an eye they turned into dried corpses.
Their bodies quickly weathered and dissipated like smoke, leaving only their blood that had merged with the holy light and took on a strange golden-red color.
The golden-red blood gathered under the sun altar and soon lit up the statue on the altar.
A vast divine power slowly emerged above the altar, emitting brilliant light, while the statue gradually changed and turned into a gorgeous scepter.
The scepter was exactly the same as the "Holy Hand", a divine artifact of the Holy Court that had amplification and control effects, but it looked more illusory. As for the holy cross emblem on the original scepter, they all turned into sun emblems.
And then, the "Holy Hand" with the sun symbol painted on it flew up on its own and sank into the coffin on another blood-red altar with the devil's eye painted on it.
The scepter sank into the coffin, and the dark red liquid in the coffin suddenly boiled.
The next moment, the entire altar burst into a dazzling red light, dark red liquid kept flowing, and a complex and mysterious giant magic circle appeared with the coffin as the center.
A crimson glow bloomed in the magic circle, a black-red beam of light shot up into the sky, and the Knight of Judgment in the coffin suddenly opened his eyes.
……
The outer city of the holy city.
Following the "great purge" of the Holy Royal Court's high-level officials, the entire Holy City has been shrouded in a solemn atmosphere these days, and the streets of the outer city are much quieter than before.
In the church of the Ninth District, priest Susan, who was lying in the treatment room, slowly opened her eyes.
The injuries on her body had been healed by the priest, and her originally pale face had regained its color, but she still looked a little weak.
"Sister Susan, you're awake!"
The children from the Gray Swan Orphanage who had been guarding nearby immediately gathered around excitedly.
"here it is……"
Susan looked around, somewhat bewildered.
"This is the church! It was Her Highness the Saint who saved you. Her Highness the Saint stopped the trial and cleared the name of our orphanage!"
The children said excitedly.
"Your Highness the Saint... saved me?"
Susan muttered.
But soon, she felt a dull pain in her heart.
Following some mysterious feeling, she subconsciously looked out the window, only to see the setting sun in the sky was as red as blood, and the tall Holy Palace was shrouded in shadow.
"Sister Susan, what's wrong with you? Are you still feeling uncomfortable?"
the children asked worriedly.
Susan looked in the direction of the Holy Palace and felt her heartbeat getting stronger and stronger.
She opened her mouth and said hesitantly:
"I...I seem to feel my brother's aura..."
After saying that, she forced herself to sit up and tried to get out of bed, but the next moment, the whole room suddenly shook.
Susan was caught off guard and almost fell down. When the vibration disappeared, the light in the whole room suddenly turned dark red.
Susan looked out the window in a daze, only to see that the sky outside the window had been covered in endless blood-red since she hadn't seen it before, and countless bats were flying from all directions towards the Holy Palace.
Suddenly, a black and red beam of light shot up from the direction of the Holy Palace and cut through the entire sky.
The dark clouds rolled and the void was torn apart. Thousands of black spots flew out from the broken void and fell towards the holy city like raindrops.
The sharp and violent screams came from far away and the black spots continued to grow larger. They turned out to be a group of ferocious demons!
Accompanied by a roar that seemed to come from eternity, a terrifying crack spread across the blood-red sky.
A huge crack appeared in the sky, and a demon's hand burning with blazing flames stretched out from the crack!
Mottled flames continued to fall, setting the buildings on the ground on fire.
The next moment, a nearly three-hundred-meter-tall fire demon broke through the limitations of space and descended into the holy city surrounded by many demons.
Its body is divided into two distinct parts. One half is covered with pitch-black armor and burning with blazing hellfire, while the other half is not armored, and its skin burning with flames is as tender as a newly born spring bud.
At the junction of the two parts of the body, there was still a sword mark, emitting a little crimson light.
Feeling the terrifying aura that far exceeded that of an ordinary legend, looking at the iconic goat head and half-moon eye, the priest of the church widened his eyes and uttered a name in horror:
“炎魔… … Let’s do it!”