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Chapter 292: Blood-stained Crown
Inside the palace hall, a scene of a father and son killing each other was taking place.
As Basel's body fell heavily to the ground, a golden crown fell from his head and rolled all the way to Hattar's feet.
He finally got what he had always wanted, but Hattar did not feel the slightest joy in his heart, because Basel's words kept echoing in his mind like a spell.
Lynn's gaze lingered on King Hadrata for a while.
Whether it was his courage to use wizards to fight against the Church and try to find a balance between the two, or his calm acceptance of death and using death to teach his son the last lesson, he felt the ability and magnanimity of this "lion" king.
But he was too old, and in comparison, his two sons were far inferior. Perhaps this was the reason why Bazel had not decided on the throne for a long time.
Lin En waited for a long time, and seeing that Hattar had not come back to his senses, he could not help but remind him. "Congratulations on winning the throne, Your Highness Hattar, no, I should call you His Majesty!"
"The situation in the capital is still very complicated. We need to mobilize more manpower to suppress the resistance. More importantly, we haven't caught your brother Harold yet. This is a big threat..."
Hattar picked up the bloodstained crown on the ground, then looked at the servants who were shivering in the corner, and said coldly, "Kill them, Master Anthony..."
These people saw Basel die in their own hands, they must not let them live!
Anthony did not act immediately. Instead, he glanced at Lynn first. Seeing that Lynn did not refute him, he stretched out his hand, and the blue-purple electric current immediately enveloped the entire venue.
In an instant, these palace servants lost their lives in convulsions and wailing.
Hattar noticed Anthony's hesitation, but did not say anything. He just called the guards stationed outside the door and issued an order to hunt Harold throughout the city.
"Just charge him with being dissatisfied with his father's imprisonment and colluding with Cardinal Anruk to assassinate the king. Spread the news throughout the capital as quickly as possible!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!" The guard answered without hesitation, and then hurried out to pass on the message.
At this moment, a strong wave of divine power suddenly came from a distance. Anthony immediately noticed something was wrong and looked outside the hall with a frown.
Now that Anruk is dead, who else can wield such powerful magic?
Lynn didn't notice anything, but he also noticed Anthony's actions. When he was about to ask, he saw a red beam of light flying into the sky and then exploded.
"It's a firework shell!"
……
Outside Hattar's mansion, the musketeers stationed here were bored and imagining what kind of rewards they would get after contributing to the royal capital.
"This capital of Hadratta is a mess everywhere, not even as beautiful as Yieta." Old York curled his lips in disdain. He had heard that they were attacking the capital of a kingdom and was very excited, but after coming in, he found that it was nothing great.
"Didn't the wizards say it? The people outside the wizarding land are all barbaric and stupid. They can't even tell whether we are standing on a continent or a sphere." A musketeer named Apu responded with a sneer, then shook his body and muttered.
"Just keep an eye on it here, I'm going to go relieve myself..."
Apu, who was born in the land of wizards, had no fear for the so-called nobles. He turned his back and faced the pile of ruins on the ground. He took off his pants and urinated in the prince's mansion. He should be the first person to do this, right?
A Pu thought proudly, and a stream of water suddenly gushed out from under him. While he was letting the water out, he also saw a crystal object that seemed to be shining in the ruins...
Could it be the treasure that His Royal Highness the Prince has hidden in his mansion?
Apu immediately came up with an idea. Although the Musketeers had expressly prohibited smuggling and looting, as long as no one else could see it, he would not have violated any rules. He had secretly collected a lot of good things using this extremely fast method on a daily basis.
Thinking of this, Apu quietly squatted down, but unexpectedly, the crystal clear object that reflected light flew directly towards him.
This thing actually came to my door?
This last thought flashed through Apu's mind, and then he was hit on the head by a small badge. He immediately lost consciousness and fell limply to the ground.
"Apu, did you trip over your own urine?" Old York saw Apu lying on the ground, walked over and said jokingly.
Apu stood up shakily, with an exquisite badge embedded on his forehead.
Old York also noticed this after he took a few steps forward. Just as he was about to ask, he saw Apu suddenly raise the musket in his hand!
The black muzzle of the gun was pointed right at his head. Old York's hair stood on end. As the trigger was pulled, the two people present paused.
Because there was no gunshot, Old York realized that the musket in Apu's hand was probably unusable due to moisture from the rain, and the other party would never joke with him with a musket, so he immediately shouted around.
"Be alert! Apu may be controlled by someone, tie him up!"
Several musketeers who heard the shouting immediately surrounded them. Since Apu was their companion, no one used muskets and just wanted to tie him up.
However, Apu, who usually likes to be sneaky and cunning, showed extraordinary strength and fighting skills. He used the musket as a hammer and knocked everyone to the ground in just a few strokes.
Fortunately, more and more people came over soon, and many of them pulled the bolts of their guns and shot towards this side.
Apu's face became extremely solemn. His mouth moved slightly, and then he stretched out an index finger. A dazzling white light immediately dispelled the darkness and blinded the eyes of everyone present.
There were bursts of exclamations. Old York and others, who had become temporarily blind, could only rely on their senses and randomly point their muskets in Apu's direction to shoot, which caused quite a lot of accidental injuries.
When they regained their sight and Ham and his men rushed back, Apu was nowhere to be seen.
"Hurry, use the fireworks to notify Lord Lynn!" Old York shouted loudly.
Ham did not have time to ask for details. He immediately took out the special bullet and stuffed it into the musket. He fired a warning shot into the sky, and a burst of red light exploded in the dark night sky...
Chapter 293: God’s Projection Reappears!
[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!”
Anruk chanted an ancient and obscure spell.
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.
Chapter 294 Lin En: I just want to fuck her now!
"Sir Lin, do you have any way to deal with her?" Hattar asked anxiously. He didn't want to lose his capital on the first night after taking the throne.
Anthony also looked at Lin En in great surprise. Didn’t he say that he could no longer use legendary magic?
Lin En didn't explain, but smiled and said, "They're already here!"
Just as he finished speaking, a dull sound of rolling wheels came from the other side of the street, and Anthony and others turned to look over.