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At the same time, Saint Lucia, who had returned to the Sky Tower, suddenly turned her head, as if she wanted to look through the thick wall in front of her and somewhere in the holy city.

"What's wrong, Her Majesty Lucia?" A cardinal in red beside her asked in confusion.

"Someone received divine revelation, but unfortunately fell short of becoming a saint." Lucia shook her head and said regretfully.

"I wonder which bishop it is?" The cardinal in red said enviously. He believed that his piety to God was no worse than anyone else's, but he had not received divine revelation, been recognized as a saint, and become a true high-ranking official of the Vatican.

"No, he's probably just a poor man." Lucia said as she casually picked up the dragon fruit placed on the table as an offering to the Moon Goddess and took a bite.

Lucia's offensive behavior made the cardinal's forehead throb. He didn't even bother to ask which poor person was so lucky. He sternly reprimanded her. "Ms. Lucia, these precious dragon fruits are tributes to the Lord. No one is allowed to use them. I will report your rudeness to the Pope later!"

Although the saint is very honorable within the Vatican, she is rotated every few years. In the eyes of the cardinal, she is just a servant selected by the Vatican to serve the Lord. If she does not perform well, she can be replaced at any time.

The mere fact of disrespecting God is enough to have the other party's status revoked!

Lucia munched on the sweet dragon fruit and spoke vaguely, "This is why you haven't received divine revelation, Raven."

Cardinal Raven was furious when he saw that Lucia refused to repent and even tried to tarnish the divine revelation. But before he could reprimand her more harshly, the door of the Sky Tower was opened.

It was the Pope and Chief Judge Joshua who walked in...

"Your Holiness, Lord Joshua, Lucia just stole the tribute from the table, and she has no intention of repenting..." Raven stepped forward quickly and reported to the two of them.

The status of this saint lady is higher than his, and there is nothing he can do except reprimand her. Only the Pope has the right to punish her.

"I will take care of this matter, you go down first!" The Pope nodded, then waved away Raven who was about to continue speaking.

Lucia watched the cardinal leave angrily and said with regret, "He is very pious, but unfortunately he is not very flexible and his brain is not very useful. He is not qualified."

Chapter 388: It’s okay, I will personally take action to wipe out the enemies of the Holy See!

"I'm sorry to disappoint you this time, Her Majesty Lucia... I will look for other candidates." The Pope shook his head and sighed. It was not so easy to find this candidate. Faith and talent were the key, but not all.

In the past ten years, the only qualified person has been Edwell.

Unfortunately……

As the Pope was thinking, the Chief Judge Joshua stepped forward, looked at the Holy Lady of the Holy See, and saluted respectfully. "Your Highness Lucia!"

Saint Lucia put the dragon fruit she had taken a few bites of back on the altar and whispered that they should try a different tribute next time. Then she looked at Joshua and said nonchalantly, "It seems that even you have failed."

Joshua seemed to have not noticed the saint's offensive act of putting the dragon fruit back on the altar. He knelt on one knee and repeated the results of the war like a monotonous machine. "The Imperial Fleet lost a total of 143 warships and did not achieve any substantial results..."

Listening to Joshua's report, Lucia's beautiful green eyes narrowed, and her tone became extremely cold. "Tell me, what exactly is going on... As far as I know, most of the powerful wizards have already gone to the kingdom, and now the defense of the wizard land should be unprecedentedly empty..."

The entire First Fleet of the Empire has more than 300 warships, all of which are the latest sailing ships. They are equipped with more than 80,000 elite troops of the Empire and a corps of nearly 1,000 priests. It should not be difficult to raz the unprotected wizard land!

And what does it mean to have no results?

So many people died and half of the imperial fleet was destroyed. It's impossible that the enemy is still safe and sound, right?

Even if you use a stupid camel as commander, you can't achieve such a result!

Joshua began to recount his experience at sea. "In fact, we encountered a barrier on the foggy sea before we even reached the wizard's land. Those wizards developed a new type of steel warship, which is conservatively estimated to weigh at least a thousand tons and can sail at sea more than three times faster than a sailing warship..."

"Wait... a steel warship weighing thousands of tons is floating on the sea? It can also run very fast. Are you sure you are not seeing things? Isn't that some kind of visual illusion?" The Pope frowned and could not help but interrupt Joshua's words. He couldn't help but wonder if the other party was telling an absurd story.

How could a ship made of steel float on the sea and run several times faster than a sailing warship? This does not conform to the laws of the world!

"I'm sure!" Joshua said firmly, and recounted the entire battle in detail.

Especially the peculiar beyond-visual-range tactics used by the enemy. Relying on a cruising speed more than three times faster than them, they always kept about one kilometer away from them, and then used powerful firepower to continuously suppress them, leaving them no chance to get close or escape.

This is why the fleet suffered heavy losses but gained nothing.

"They are simply a group of cunning hyenas!" the Pope said coldly. However, he tried to put himself in Joshua's situation and could not think of a good way to break the impasse for a while.

Joshua had tried to use powerful legendary magic, but the ships ran away in a flash and he could not hit them at all. Within half an hour, the steel ships would emerge from the fog again and continue to suppress them with artillery fire.

It is not a good idea to let the flying cardinals chase, because they are not as fast as the steel warships, and their divine energy will be consumed by rounds of bombardment.

Of course, the First Fleet would not be suppressed so badly. The barrier of the Sea of ​​Fog was also very important. If there was no fog covering the entire sea area, the situation would have been much better.

"After that, I designed a plan to encircle the wizards' fleet at the cost of thirty ships, but their reinforcements came too fast..." Joshua said with regret. That was his only chance to severely damage the Iron Fleet.

However, after weighing the pros and cons, Joshua had no choice but to retreat. He had seen this kind of alchemical creation suspended in the air in secret reports from the kingdom. Not only did it fly high and fast, it also had the ability to project "hellfire" to the ground. If he insisted on chasing it, everyone except him and several cardinals might die there.

This is undoubtedly a losing business...

"It seems that we have all underestimated these wizards." Lucia snorted.

In her eyes before, the wizards hiding on that broken island were just a minor infestation, a group of rats that had burrowed into a hole. They would not pose a threat to the overall situation. As long as they dared to show up, she could easily wipe them out.

Only those evil gods and demons outside the time and space gate are the real enemies of the Church...

So this time, after learning that those wizards had captured the kingdom, the empire sent out two punitive armies in succession, attacking from two fronts in order to eliminate this threat in one go!

But I didn't expect to suffer such a disastrous defeat...

These novel weapons made Lucia extremely curious. She remembered that when Cosimo reported to her a few years ago, he did not mention this kind of steel warship. The alchemical creation called the airship was said to have a speed of only 20 to 30 kilometers per hour.

Now this number has increased five or six times.

All the new weapons seem to have suddenly appeared recently...

"Now most of the God's Punishment Army is still fighting against those evil demons in foreign lands. Do we need to withdraw them?" The Pope suggested. The threat posed by the wizards has reached the point where they must deal with it with all their strength. They must gather their strength and completely eradicate this threat!

"No!" Lucia shook her head. "Those wizards do have some tricks in group battles. Let's not waste our accumulated elite forces."

"Didn't the Empire discover a tribe of giants during its conquest of the Western Territory two years ago? Since they don't have any talent for divine arts, we can just treat them as consumables in this war." Lucia said after some hesitation.

The giant has thick skin and flesh and is extremely strong. With the blessing of divine power and equipped with special iron armor, he should be able to withstand the attack of artillery fire and smash those iron boxes that can run away.

I just ate too much and the logistical pressure was quite high…

"I'll do it myself this time!" Lucia straightened her face and said solemnly.

“Your Highness Lucia, those wizards may be difficult to deal with, but not to the extent that…” Joshua advised. It was undoubtedly a sign of their incompetence and dereliction of duty to let the Holy Maiden of the Holy See go into battle.

"It doesn't matter. This body has reached its limit. It's a good time to make use of it." Lucia said casually, and a cold light as if seeing prey appeared in her star-like eyes.

Chapter 389: Lin En: Is my unlimited nuclear explosion technique just a dream?

Seeing that Her Majesty the Saint had made a decision, Joshua stopped trying to persuade her, and his worries about those wizards were immediately alleviated.

In this way, regaining the kingdom is only a matter of time!

"Has the candidate for the next Saint been decided?" Lucia asked.

"This is the list of candidates..." The Pope stroked the scepter in his hand, and five human-shaped images appeared in the Sky Tower.

They are all girls between 16 and 18 years old. Their looks, identities, status and talents are impeccable. Four of them are very devout in their faith and have acquired the spiritual power level of a bishop under the careful training of the local church.

The remaining person surprised Lucia a little. She was not a nun but a member of the God's Punishment Army. Logically, she should not be qualified to be selected.

"This is Ivana Pedro, the second daughter of Viscount Pedro of the Eastern Harbor Town. She passed the selection of the God's Punishment Army two years ago. Although her psychic talent is a little lacking, she possesses extraordinary combat instincts. She was specially recommended to me by the commander of the God's Punishment Army." The Pope explained respectfully.

"The East Border Harbor Town is the place that was almost burned by the hellfire?" Lucia paused and said in surprise.

This incident caused a big stir and naturally reached her ears. She heard that it was related to a great wizard who had been lurking in the empire for a long time. It was only because Edelweir arrived in time that he expelled the wizard from the country. Such a tragedy had not happened under the rule of the Holy See for many years!

"That's right!" The Pope nodded, and then continued, "The eldest son of the Pedro family was killed by a wizard in that catastrophe. Ivana's joining the God's Punishment Army should also be related to this."

"Is this another revenge drama?" Lucia was quite bored. After listening to Ivina's information, she didn't care much.

No matter how powerful your combat talent is, it is only icing on the cake. Only psychic power is the foundation of everything!

Lucia randomly picked a candidate that she liked, then waved her hand and said, "You guys go down. I'm sleepy and need to rest."

The two people present nodded and saluted, then quickly left the Sky Tower.

After walking out of the tower, Chief Judge Joshua sighed and said, "It's a pity that the kingdom fell at this time."

As long as we have another three to five years, the goal of one million devout believers can be achieved.

Those wizards chose this time to create a rebellion in the kingdom, causing tens of thousands of devout believers to die in war and persecution. Their plan may need to be delayed again...

"That's okay. Since Your Majesty is willing to personally take action to eliminate the Wizarding Council, the archenemy of the Holy See, it may not be a bad thing." The Pope said in a calm tone.

After witnessing the might of God, the people of the kingdom will naturally return to the Lord's embrace...

……

In a tightly controlled laboratory in the royal capital of Hadratta, Orlando, Philip and more than thirty other wizards of the Iyeta School were busy drawing a huge alchemical array underground.

While everyone was busy drawing the electromagnetic array, Lin En was not idle either. After preliminary testing, the uranium content of the outer shell of this demon stone was as high as over 95%!

Of course, not all uranium is suitable for use in nuclear weapons.

Natural uranium ore has three isotopes: uranium 234, uranium 235 and uranium 238.

Among them, uranium-238 has the highest content, accounting for more than %. It is a pity that it is not a practical nuclear fuel. This thing has a very long half-life, hundreds of millions of years, and it is not easy to force it to undergo nuclear fission.

Uranium 235 is different. It is the only isotope in nature that can undergo natural fission. Its radioactivity is 238 times that of uranium-6.5 and it is the most important fuel for nuclear weapons!

However, its natural reserves are extremely scarce. For every thousand uranium atoms, there are only seven uranium-235 atoms!

Uranium 234 is even less, only 0.0054%!

In fact, the principle of nuclear weapons is very simple. It is to let a neutron hit a fissionable atom such as uranium 235, forcing it to split into two smaller atoms. During the fission process, several excess neutrons will be produced and shot at other uranium 235, thereby producing a chain reaction and causing all the nuclear fuel to fission in a short period of time.

The mass loss produced in the atomic splitting process will be converted into a large amount of energy and released according to the mass-energy equation. This is the so-called nuclear explosion!

However, although this principle is simple to say, it is not so easy to actually do it.

When testing the uranium content, Lin En discovered a thorny problem, that is, he was unable to use [Advanced Material Deconstruction Technique] to decompose the element uranium!

This discovery made Lin En feel extremely surprised. After becoming a great wizard, he used this technique to analyze the forty-nine known elements in the wizarding land.

Previously, Lin En had thought that with his current strength, no atom would be able to escape his magic infection, but he didn't expect to encounter a tough opponent this time...

However, uranium is indeed somewhat different from the elements discovered by wizards before. First of all, it is a radioactive element with the chemical symbol U and atomic number 92. It belongs to the special actinide series in the periodic table and is also the heaviest element that can be found in nature in the previous life...

Lin En pondered for a while and guessed that it was possible that all the actinide elements, that is, the 89 radioactive elements with atomic numbers 103 to 15 in the periodic table IIIB group, could not be analyzed by the power of the great wizard.

This may be why they have not been discovered yet...

Thinking of this, Lin En felt somewhat helpless. This meant that his previous dream of using magic to mimic uranium 235 and thus release nuclear explosions infinitely was shattered.

Now we can only use its power in a slightly more scientific way...