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Lin En couldn't help but guess that the higher the level of the clergy, the closer the connection with [Ella]. Once this false god falls, the top leaders of the church will most likely be severely damaged or even die!

Joshua's expression had returned to calm. His eagle-like sharp eyes stared at the two people in front of him, and he spoke in a hoarse and mocking tone.

"Your resistance is meaningless, wizard! It won't be long before the Lord's Kingdom descends from heaven and covers the entire earth!"

"At that time, the glory of God will surely drive away all evil!"

Joshua's tone was pious and firm, as if he was reciting some kind of oath.

"Oh, evil?" Vittorio sneered as if he was listening to an absurd joke. "The Lord you are talking about was once a wizard, and the most evil psychic who uses souls as nutrients to grow himself. He is the evil god that you hate the most."

"To put it bluntly, she is just an executioner and a lucky person who won the war of faith by relying on her strength, and then she openly denounced her former 'compatriots' as evil and slaughtered them all..."

Vittorio's tone became increasingly sharp as he continued to expose Ella's past, but he wanted to pierce the judge's faith in one breath.

Any believer of a god would be shocked when they found out that the object of their faith was actually a rumored evil wizard, or even the evil god himself. They would either eagerly refute it or denounce their nonsense for tarnishing the great Moon Goddess... or their faith would completely collapse!

However, nothing Vittorio expected happened, Joshua just spoke indifferently.

"The greatness of the Lord is beyond your comprehension!"

"Great? Did she really create this world as the Bible says?" Lin En said sarcastically.

Stop joking, just Ella, a false god trapped on a small planet?

If he can't even leave the galaxy he is in, creating the world is even more ridiculous. How can he be called great?

However, Joshua's indifference also surprised Lynn.

It seems that the top leaders of the Vatican are different from ordinary bishops and priests, and they are not really ignorant about the God they believe in.

In other words, if one wants to become a high-ranking official in the Church and a legendary clergyman, one of the conditions is to maintain the most devout faith even after knowing the truth...

Lin En couldn't help but gasp. How devout a person must be to remain unshaken in his faith after learning that the Lord of faith was no different from the wizard who was promoted as the embodiment of evil...

[Ella] The brainwashing ability is a little too terrifying!

Facing the mocking words of Lin En and others, Joshua did not listen, did not hear, did not speak, and did not say a word... His entire body returned to the state he was in before they came in, as if he was dead.

Even though Vittorio intentionally insulted Ella, Joshua did not react at all. He could only turn around and look at Lynn.

See, this guy is so difficult to deal with...

Lin En also shook his head helplessly. He originally wanted to dig up some dirt on that false god and start from that aspect to defeat the other party's faith. Once the mental defense line collapsed, it would naturally be possible to search the memory.

He had even thought about what kind of words he would use to convince the other party, but unfortunately Joshua's attitude was beyond his expectations. He was very receptive to the fact that Ella was a wizard before.

This means that all previous plans have come to nothing.

【Space Vibration Wave】

Lin En suddenly raised his hand, and an invisible ripple swept across and cut directly on Joshua's right arm. The forearm with the sleeve attached was cut off at the elbow, and red blood spurted out. The forearm floated up before it hit the ground and fell into Lin En's hand.

"It can bleed as well, this is really magical." Lin En exclaimed in admiration, somewhat doubting whether the other party had really completed the transformation of energy and matter.

Then, wisps of flames ignited from the air, using the high temperature to stop the bleeding of the presiding judge to prevent him from actually bleeding to death.

As for this forearm, it is of course intended for research...

Seeing that Joshua was unwilling to cooperate, Lynn did not waste his efforts. The samples in his hands also contained theories about mass-energy conversion. He believed that it would not take long before he could restore the path to becoming a legend.

Chapter 437: Divine Punishment Knight Ivina!

In a remote village in the northern part of the empire, the townspeople numbly pushed their twisted bodies forward and began their day's work as usual.

Working hard in the fields, feeding livestock, carrying goods...

The village was an extremely busy scene, but everyone's movements seemed a little stiff.

A middle-aged man who looked like a blacksmith woodenly swung the hammer in his hand, hitting the red-hot sword again and again.

The body leaning forward suddenly shook, and it turned out that the round head broke off and fell onto the hot sword. However, the blacksmith did not notice it at all, and continued to hammer it, hammering the flesh and brain matter into the red iron sword.

It was not until noon that a group of uninvited guests arrived in this quiet village.

Ivana led a team of God's Punishment Knights into the village, but the moment they entered, the girl already sensed something was wrong.

The village looked desolate and dilapidated, many houses had collapsed, and the roads were muddy. There were many signs that this place had been devastated by war not long ago.

But the townspeople of this village did not repair these dilapidated places. When they saw them coming, they did not avoid them like ordinary poor people, but continued to work on their own.

A knight of the God's Punishment Army suddenly grabbed a man who was passing by. When he saw the man's wooden expression, lifeless eyes, and the obvious marks of being pierced by a sharp blade on his chest, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

"They have been dead for at least five days!" said the Divine Punishment Knight with a serious look.

"It's half a month!" Ivina corrected. She judged based on the traces of war.

As she spoke, Ivana took out the magic sensing instrument with a serious look on her face. The pointer spun a circle and finally pointed to a house in the village.

The twenty or so knights who entered the village drew their swords.

"Another lackey of the church? They are haunting us!"

Cold curses soon rang out from the mansion, the words full of disdain.

Then, an old and haggard face appeared in everyone's sight. The old man in a black robe had gray hair and skin as dry as tree bark. He looked like a skeleton.

"【Corpse Snatcher】Wally!" Ivana's mind raced and she quickly recognized him, because his information was on the bounty list in the Sinners chapter of the Bible!

The bounty is fifteen thousand imperial gold coins!

"I hate the name of body snatcher!" The black-robed wizard frowned in dissatisfaction.

These corpses are the products of war. Without him, they would just be abandoned in the wilderness, eaten by wild beasts, and nothing would be left. What a waste!

But it’s different in their own hands, they can create greater value!

Thinking of this, the wizard named Wally opened his arms, his face showing excitement and enthusiasm.

"Look at how great the new type of ghouls I developed are! In the past half month, they have produced so much food and made so many tools. They don't need to eat or rest, and they only know how to obey orders..."

"Perfect... This is simply the most perfect existence!" The corpse snatcher said in a high voice. "Let the dead do the work and the living enjoy themselves. Is there a better world than this?"

The black-robed wizard finally found a few people to talk to, and he talked endlessly about his great research. He spent several years and conducted countless experiments before he finally awakened the memories of these corpses, allowing them to spontaneously start farming and smelting iron...

Next he will teach these zombies more things and let them do more work!

Ivana and the others looked at the rotting, festering, and foul-smelling corpses in the village, becoming increasingly angry. They clenched their swords and interrupted the corpse snatchers.

"Stop your nonsense and accept your judgment, sinner!"

Hearing the name of sinner, [Corpse Snatcher] Wally's expression became very bored. "It seems that you all cannot understand how great my research is!"

"In that case, then you guys stay and do your part for my new business!" The corpse snatcher said with a sneer, and then groups of black mist emerged from his body.

"Realm of the Dead!"

After coming into contact with the black fog, the eyes of the corpses with wooden faces and sluggish movements suddenly turned red, and their bodies twisted and swelled, turning into corpses with hideous muscles.

"Field? Is it a great wizard?!" The faces of the Divine Punishment Knights present suddenly changed and they shouted in panic. This was completely inconsistent with the three-ring wizard described in the intelligence!

Although the difference between the third ring and the fourth ring seems to be only one ring, the combat power is vastly different!

"Fight!" There was no fear on Ivana's face. She took the lead and rushed forward. The sword in her hand slashed out horizontally, and in an instant she cut a charging corpse into two pieces.

"Corpse Explosion!" The black-robed wizard smiled grimly, stretched out his hand and pointed, and the separated body of the corpse ghost suddenly exploded. The blood mist was filled with corpse poison and plague, and even the Divine Punishment Knight who had taken the [Divine Grace Potion] could not withstand it.

However, Ivana had already disappeared under the blood mist with her extraordinary speed.

……

After half an hour of fierce fighting, more than half of the thirty Divine Punishment Knights were killed, and Ivana's body also had several scars with black mist.

The head of the corpse snatcher [Wally] had been nailed to the slender blade.

With the death of the caster, all the zombies in the village lost their support and fell to the ground. The exhausted Ivana breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thanks to you this time, Ivina!" A Divine Punishment Knight showed a look of fear. If it weren't for the girl's desperate fighting style that threw the corpse stealers into disarray and gave them the opportunity to attack in close combat, all of them would have died here and turned into corpses.

"What a pity, they still..." Elena looked at the bodies of her colleagues around her and sighed.

"When dealing with these wizards, casualties are always inevitable!" said the Divine Punishment Knight angrily and helplessly.

In fact, it was extremely lucky to be able to kill a great wizard with less than twenty casualties of the Divine Punishment Knights.

At least they protected more citizens of the empire from being harmed by the other side!

Elena nodded, and forced herself to work with the rest of her colleagues to gather the bodies together and burn them to prevent the possible spread of the plague.

Melodious hymns soon rang out in the village.

"May your souls escape from purgatory and ascend to heaven to enjoy eternal bliss..."

Ivana prayed softly, looking at the rising flames, and couldn't help but recall the past.

More than two years ago, in Harbor Town, it was this fire that made her wake up, break away from her family, and see a wider world.

As someone said, the world is big, so big that it is unimaginable, and a small baronship is nothing.

The high and lofty title, like a dome, had once obscured all her vision, but now she only needed one sentence to decide the life or death of a baron...

The original vision, obsession and hatred seem extremely ridiculous at this moment.

But...why did you become a wizard?

Chapter 438 Ivana: I can’t imagine how terrible a country controlled by wizards would be!

During the time she was away from Harbor Town, Ivana experienced confusion and helplessness, and also encountered many dangers.

Fortunately, her swordsmanship was strong enough to deal with most threats, so she was able to survive. She then went to the Holy City, worked hard to pass the selection of the God's Punishment Army, and got the opportunity to be reborn and drink the God's grace potion!

During these two years, in order to obtain information about Lot, Ivana joined the most dangerous witch-hunting team in the God's Punishment Army, and witnessed the evil, madness and hysteria of the wizards with her own eyes!

They master powerful and strange witchcraft, conduct unknown research in secret, spread the plague, and are the source of pain...

All these experiences gave Ivina a deeper understanding of the descriptions of wizards in the Bible, and also gave her a new belief, which is to eliminate the minions of these evil gods and save more people!

Complex thoughts flashed through Ivana's mind, but were soon interrupted by the vibration coming from the ground...

This felt like a large army was being dispatched. Ivina immediately became alert. The northern border of the empire was often harassed by barbarians, and the village in front of her was most likely massacred by the barbarians.