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However, after seeing the holy emblem flag fluttering in the distance, Ivana's heart was immediately at ease.
The ones galloping over were none other than the Holy See’s Divine Punishment Legion.
Ivana immediately mounted her horse and led her men to meet them, and reported exactly what had happened in the village.
"You did a great job, Ivana. You were able to kill the great wizard. It seems that your strength has increased a lot." Gustav, the commander of the God's Punishment Army, looked at the eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl in front of him and praised her without reservation.
Ivana is probably the person who has most perfectly integrated the power of the Divine Grace Potion in the past few hundred years, and her physical fitness is much stronger than that of ordinary Divine Punishment Knights.
The only flaw is that his talent for divine arts is mediocre.
Gustav took out the Bible from his waist, revised the chapter about the body snatcher in the sinner chapter, added the words "executed" at the end, and raised the other party's reward to 40,000!
There was a hint of joy on Ivana's face.
She herself doesn't care about the amount of money. After all, the salary she receives on a daily basis is enough for her daily expenses.
However, the increase in bounty means that the families of the dead Divine Punishment Knights will be able to receive more compensation.
"It's time for us to go back, back to the holy city!" Gustav put the Bible in his arms and looked towards the direction of the holy city.
"But, sir, according to our investigation, the frequent activities of wizards in the northern part of the empire are very likely related to an evil god..." Ivana said hesitantly.
During the time she joined the witch hunting team, Ivana had fought against the evil god more than once. She knew very well how much harm this thing could cause. If it was not eliminated in time, there would be tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of casualties!
"I understand your concerns, Ivana, but we have more important things to do now!" Gustav's expression was very solemn. "Not long ago, I received news that a tragedy occurred in the empire..."
"That group of wizards who had been hiding overseas raided the Kingdom of Hadrata in the west of the empire. They used the fight for the crown prince as a bargaining chip to instigate the second prince, Hattar, to commit patricide and then supported him to become a puppet king."
"So now the entire kingdom has fallen. I'm afraid it has become a paradise for wizards and demons..." Gustav said with a sigh.
Ivana's face was full of astonishment, and a chill rose in her heart.
She couldn't imagine how terrible a country ruled by wizards would be, and how many bloody tragedies would happen!
Ivana once participated in solving a disaster caused by an evil god. Several crazy followers of the evil god took control of a fortified city in the north, where they carried out large-scale blood sacrifices. Tens of thousands of poor people were slaughtered and turned into food for the evil god to grow its power.
The horrifying scene still lingers in Ivina's mind.
"Commander, are we going back this time just to defeat those wizards?" a Divine Punishment Knight asked hurriedly.
Ivana tightened the thin blade in her hand. This shows that the crisis facing the empire now is indeed more serious than that in the north.
Gustav shook his head. "No, in fact, the church has sent two expeditions, and the results were..."
"As a result, Saint Lucia was killed in the battle, the Chief Judge was captured alive, and all the expeditionary forces were completely destroyed!"
Gustav's voice was very soft, but it exploded in everyone's ears like thunder.
The eyes of the Divine Punishment Knights present widened, they simply could not believe what they heard!
Ivana was no exception, with a look of disbelief in her eyes.
In the past, no matter what kind of enemy they faced, as long as the church was determined to eliminate it, they would surely win.
However, this time the expeditionary army suffered such a disastrous defeat...
She didn't know how powerful Her Majesty the Saint and the Chief Judge were, but she had seen with her own eyes how Gustav, the commander of the God's Punishment Army, took action.
That terrifying evil god who absorbed the flesh and blood of tens of thousands of people could be easily killed by Gustav who possessed divine power!
"According to the oracle, doomsday... has come!" Gustav said with a serious expression.
"Doomsday?!" Ivana murmured in a low voice.
"That's right!" Gustav nodded, and then explained. "As the Bible says, the sins and endless desires in the hearts of the people will eventually lead to disasters. The witchcraft mastered by those wizards is becoming more and more powerful, which is a sign of the end of the world!"
Doomsday?
After the initial shock and panic, Ivana and the other Divine Punishment Knights gradually calmed down, their eyes filled with determination.
They have long disregarded life and death, and are determined to kill those wizards who spread chaos and prevent the end of the world!
"Your Holiness has a very important task for you!" Gustav looked at Ivina and suddenly spoke.
"Please give your orders, Commander!" Ivana responded respectfully.
"You have been stranded in the North and have only taken the divine potion. You have not yet been baptized by the divine ritual. Those wizards should not be able to confirm your identity, so you are the most suitable candidate." Gustav said slowly.
"Soon, we will create an opportunity for you to enter the Kingdom of Hadrata as a wizard..."
"The kingdom ruled by those wizards!"
Chapter 439 The greatest discovery in the history of magic—the magic conversion equation!
"Lord Gustav, why don't you let me go instead?" A Divine Punishment Knight suggested, not wanting to let such a young Ivina carry out such a dangerous mission.
He didn't know what kind of mess those wizards had made of the kingdom, but just thinking about it, he knew that it was probably difficult to describe it with the word "sinister"!
Among the grassroots Divine Punishment Knights, there are also many who have not been able to undergo Divine Magic baptism because they lack the talent for Divine Magic and there is no need for training. He is one of them!
"This is not compulsory, and you can refuse without any punishment. I will ask the Pope for permission before sending other people." Gustav had no intention of making things difficult for Ivina.
If a chess piece sneaks into the enemy's position unwillingly, it will only cause trouble!
"No, there's no need to trouble anyone else, let me do it!" Ivina said with a firm look.
If the end of the world cannot be stopped, everyone will fall into purgatory. In such a crisis, no one can escape!
Gustav was very satisfied with the girl's realization and said comfortingly, "You don't have to worry too much. I don't think those wizards will make things too difficult for an apprentice."
Having said that, Gustav asked his adjutant to bring a document and hand it to Ivina.
"This is your next identity and the wizards you need to pay special attention to. You'd better make some preparations in the next few days..."
Ivana nodded solemnly, took the document and flipped it open. It recorded the wizards' unique parliamentary system, class differentiation, personnel composition, and the identities of several speakers.
The girl wrote them down one by one, but when she turned to the last page and saw the information on it, she couldn't help but be stunned.
On the page was a portrait drawn by the best artist in the empire. It was a male wizard who was about twenty years old, with brown hair and a very gentle look. He did not have the crazy or dangerous feeling that other wizards had, but his bounty was frighteningly high!
The bounty is a full 100 million imperial gold coins!
And those so-called "legendary" wizards and the leaders of the parliament only have bounties in the tens of millions.
What Ivina was more concerned about was Lynn's experience, which triggered the doomsday disaster, destroyed the Vatican's expeditionary army, caused the fall of the kingdom, and... destroyed half of the harbor town.
"The messenger of doom...Lynn." Ivana murmured in a low voice. The other party's experience vaguely reminded her of her brother Lotte.
Soon, Ivana shook her head secretly.
How can it be?
At most, they are slightly similar in age and hair color.
This wizard named Lynn was so powerful that he killed the Holy Maiden of the Church and wiped out tens of thousands of the Church's expeditionary forces in the blink of an eye.
I thought that maybe my brother was just a pawn or an apprentice under the other party.
"He is the most important target of your mission, Lin En, who is hailed as the Star of Magic by those wizards!" Gustav said solemnly. "If we are not mistaken, he should also be the culprit who destroyed your hometown, Harbor Town!"
When Ivana joined the God's Punishment Army, he had already investigated her identity. Naturally, he also knew that Ivana's brother Lotte died in the riot. It was rumored that Baron Pedro also suffered a great mental blow as a result.
It can be said that a once beautiful noble family was shattered...
"I will do my best to complete the task, Lord Gustav!" Ivina put away the information in her hand, with a complicated look in her eyes.
"Very good. If you succeed, you will be the greatest contributor to saving tens of millions of people in the empire!" said the commander of the God's Punishment Army encouragingly.
"It's a pity that the Pope did not choose you to be the new Saint!" Gustav shook his head with regret. "They underestimated the potential of your body..."
He had never seen anyone with such great fighting talent.
Wizards may possess powerful and evil sorcery, but their attainments in close combat are usually limited. Once they are caught in close combat due to carelessness, even a great wizard may be beheaded.
Although judging from the information collected, the Magic Star is not just an ordinary great wizard, Ivana also has another weapon, which is her beauty!
If used well, it can be more deadly than any poison!
These points combined were the reasons why he recommended to the Pope that Ivina carry out this mission...
……
At the border of the empire, in the city of kerosene, Lin En was unaware that the church had secretly formulated plans against him, and was fully immersed in the study of divine arts and magic.
"Amazing, this is really magical!"
Lynn used the magic of a microscope that could magnify two hundred times to conduct a detailed examination of the forearm of Chief Judge Joshua, and exclaimed in admiration.
After several days of research, he found many interesting things.
Just as he had guessed before, the church must have mastered some method of transforming matter using divine energy as a medium - it can be foreseen that this is the most important method for advancement to legend!
If I were to describe it in one sentence, it would be that the flesh and blood are weak, but the energy is soaring!
In addition, he also discovered that divine energy and magic power are essentially the same thing, but the difference is that there are subtle differences in the magic power of wizards.
Powerful wizards are often able to confirm a person's identity through magic!
That was how easily Hellram saw through his flawless shaping magic.
The divine energy possessed by all priests, bishops and even cardinals is highly similar and cannot be distinguished at all.
Lin En suspected that the essence of divine energy was that it was marked with a personal mark by Ella, or that it was a special magic power that contained her will!
While Lin En was thinking about whether he could use the magic network to do the same thing, he recorded all his thoughts on a piece of parchment.
The title is——【Analysis and research report on divine energy! 】
Lynn is preparing to publish it in Magic Weekly this week to help break the wizards' fear and panic about God.
Next to it was the [Periodic Table of Elements] that had been written not long ago and a large pile of manuscript paper!
The manuscript paper was full of messy formulas, conspicuous scratches and rough lines. If there was a wizard proficient in Mathematical Olympiad, he would definitely be able to tell that this was an unfinished set of equations.
Lynn calls it the magic conversion equation!
If it can be perfected, it will definitely be the greatest discovery in the history of magic so far...
Most importantly, this is a magic theory that is truly original to him!
It is the foundation for revealing the true nature of magic and becoming a legend!