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Several high-ranking officials of the Vatican present were all shocked, but they soon realized that this was indeed a way to "appease" the believers.
The saint turned her gaze towards the open Bible and gently stroked the pages.
The information about Lynn recorded above was written by Edwell several months ago and is already out of date!
With the emergence of divine light, new information quickly appeared on the paper!
【Name: Lin En
Extremely Dangerous (Doomsday)
Crime: Triggering the doomsday disaster, destroying the Vatican's expeditionary army, and causing the fall of the kingdom!
Reward: Secas gold coins... 100 million! 】
Chapter 433: Breaking the myth of the Vatican’s invincibility!
Three days passed in a flash, and the news about the Vatican's expeditionary army's disastrous defeat, the disappearance of the Chief Inquisitor, and the death of the former Saint Lucia quickly spread to most of the empire.
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, God's messengers 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 Holy See all fueled 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!
When these words were spoken, both the nobles and the subjects of the empire were shocked and fell into great panic!
Everyone knows what the Last Judgment means...
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 one hundred airships responsible for luring away the main force of the Holy See were destroyed, and there were more than two thousand casualties!
Almost all of the top combatants in the parliament were injured!
Harof was hit hard by Lucia's full force, and Vittorio was blinded by the nuclear explosion. Both of them are 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 due to Lin En's proper strategy, which meant that they did not need to engage in direct combat with the Holy See. The powerful Saint Lucia and tens of thousands of the Holy See's expeditionary forces were destroyed in the nuclear explosion. Otherwise, the casualties would have been even more tragic!
So after winning, the parliament did not rush to press on, but instead rested for a while.
Several battles in a row within a year and a large number of casualties have exhausted the Parliament’s stockpile of magic potions, not to mention that there is also a very critical radiation problem that needs to be solved!
The closest point of Kerosene City to the nuclear explosion zone is less than seven kilometers!
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 or drinking!
In recent days, many wizards have suggested abandoning this city or even destroying it!
But Lynn rejected it!
Because the population of this kerosene city is large and the townspeople are resistant, 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.
In addition to various tactics, resource mobilization, and the ability to engage in frontal combat, intelligence gathering is also crucial in determining the outcome of a battle. Naturally, the parliament attaches great importance to this, so it made some arrangements early on.
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 legal 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 others were stunned for a moment. What does this have to do with the end of the world?
Del hurriedly repeated what he had heard from the church bishops and priests 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 rounded back too!
"They are really good at compiling stories!" Vittorio sneered and shook his head, as if he had seen 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!
Therefore, no matter how those priests and bishops tried to explain themselves, they could not change the ironclad fact that the expeditionary army suffered successive defeats in the kingdom!
They broke the myth of the Vatican's invincibility!
Chapter 434: The key to becoming a legend is - I am not a human being!
The power of the Holy See has been rooted in this continent for a long time, and it is not easy to completely eliminate it.
Now that the opponent's power accumulated over the years has been broken, it is undoubtedly a good start!
Lin En believed that there were no small number of people in the empire who were dissatisfied with the church's rule. Not to mention, there were tens of thousands of wizards alone!
After they seized the kingdom, many wizards came to join them one after another, but more people were still waiting to see whether they would be crushed by the Church or continue to advance!
As the news spreads, more and more wizards will inevitably go to the kingdom to seek a way out.
Although most of these people have not received a complete magic education and their levels of magic vary greatly, they are already considered high-quality talents in this alien world!
While Lin En was thinking, the members of the conference room had already discussed whether to launch further counterattacks against the Empire and the Vatican.
There are far more supporters than opponents. After witnessing the power of the nuclear explosion, many wizards have fallen into nuclear frenzy!
After all, the power to destroy a city with one blow is truly fascinating.
There are even wizards who believe that under such great power, the so-called false god Ella is nothing more than that, and they clamor to teach the church a lesson, such as blowing up the face of the Vatican - the Holy City!
Some people even suggested bombarding all the cities in the empire, pursuing the victory and completely destroying the Church in one fell swoop!
However, the speakers were very calm, because they knew that there was only enough uranium 235 extracted from the Demon Stone to perform a nuclear explosion once, and it should not be used lightly!
As for uranium ore, they are already digging it, but due to the need for strict confidentiality, the progress has been very slow.
It is said that the Alchemy Research Institute is working on an alchemical machine specifically for mining. Before this thing is completed, they can only use this terrifying new magic as their last trump card!
Naturally, all the discussions finally focused on Lin En, the magic star.
Lin En raised his hand to suppress the noisy discussions in the meeting room. He did not rush to make a conclusion, but looked at Del and asked, "Apart from this doomsday theory, are there any other changes in the Holy City?"
The incarnation of the false god died, and according to his speculation, the high-ranking officials of the Holy See should have been affected as well.
Del hesitated for a moment and replied, "I heard that the church recently selected a new saint!"
"A new saint? So soon?" Harof was somewhat surprised. After looking at the other speakers, he saw the solemnity in each other's eyes.
"What we killed was just an incarnation, and the impact on the real body of that false god is limited." Aurora sighed softly. It seems that the action against the Holy See needs to be postponed.
"Chairman Vittorio, where is the chief judge of the Holy See?" Lin En suddenly asked.
This legendary priest is undoubtedly their greatest achievement this time!
It is not easy to capture a legend alive, this time it was pure luck!
"I imprisoned him in a secret place, but this guy is very stubborn and my psychic magic can't break through his mental defense..." Vittorio said with a headache.
After his eyesight was restored three days ago, Vittorio began to interrogate Joshua.
As a high-ranking official of the Vatican, he must know many secrets about that false god.
However, the process did not go smoothly. The opponent's soul was very strong and his will was extremely firm. No matter how harsh the punishment was, it was not enough to shake his faith.
Of course, after a few days of hard work, he did not gain nothing. Vittorio was very interested in the immortality of these legendary priests, so he cut off part of their body tissue for research.
The result shocked him!
After using the Great Disintegration Technique to analyze a mass of flesh and blood, Vittorio thought he would get a bunch of basic elements that make up human tissue, but the result was... nothing!
This mass of flesh and blood seemed fake, and he could only feel the fluctuations of divine energy!
"Are you saying that the judge's body is made up of divine energy?" Harof frowned deeply and asked in an almost questioning tone.
It is a fact known to all wizards that magic can mimic elements.
This mimic element possesses almost all the properties of matter, but it still cannot change its essence, which is magic...
"Or is he just a soul now?" Aurora said hypothetically.