Chapter 613 112 Crisis Is Coming!

Chapter 613 -112- Crisis is coming!

Holy Capital, Holy City and Holy Palace.

The magnificent palace is solemn and solemn, as transcendent and sacred as ever.

Although the purge against apostates made the center of the Holy Royal Court quite deserted, the crisis of civil strife or even schism in the church was ultimately successfully prevented.

The main hall of the Holy Palace and the prayer hall.

Amid growing calls, this temple, the largest in the Theocracy, was reopened to the public amidst the calls of believers, accepting worship from devout believers from all over Miriam.

At the entrance of the hall, the church arranged eight full-time guards of the Templar Knights, who were fully armed and whose strength had reached at least the Silver Moon level, to carefully check the documents of every holy believer who came to worship.

The worshipers entered one after another and respectfully handed their admission documents to the knight for inspection.

Everything is in perfect order.

"Be serious! This is a critical moment. Everyone must check every document to prevent anyone with ulterior motives from sneaking into the Holy Palace!"

Enzo, the knight captain who led the eight Templar knights, looked serious.

Handing back the certificate of another worshiper, the knight captain Enzo motioned for the other person to enter.

As if sensing something, he suddenly raised his head.

In the distance, more than a dozen fully armed Templar Knights walked over in neat steps.

They went straight to the door of the prayer hall, and the leading knight captain handed over the certificate in his hand:

"Benito, captain of the eighth detachment of the Knights, was ordered to come and change defense."

"So early?"

Enzo, the knight captain, frowned slightly.

"The time has been changed. In order to strengthen the security, Her Royal Highness the Saint has issued an order to deploy additional manpower and shorten the defense change time."

The new knight captain said solemnly.

"When was the order? Why didn't I know..."

Enzo, the knight captain, muttered, took the certificate and checked it.

The moment he lowered his head to check his ID, the Templar who called himself Benito suddenly drew his sword and penetrated his chest with the sword.

The other guarding Templars were stunned.

But they quickly reacted and exclaimed:

"Enemy attack——!"

Killing the knight captain with one sword, "Benito" raised the bloody sword high and said with a fanatical expression:

"Kill them! Rush in! All for the eternal sun!"

After finishing speaking, the other "Templar Knights" drew their weapons one after another and slashed at the knights guarding the hall. Even the believers gathered outside the prayer hall also took up their weapons and put on robes with the sun symbol on them. Shouting "For the Eternal Sun", they rushed towards the prayer hall.

For a moment, shouts of death were heard everywhere, gunpowder smoke gradually rose throughout the Holy Palace, and the magical shield covering the Holy Palace also spread with cracks, and finally shattered with a soft sound.

The bright red blood soon stained the floor of the main hall of the Holy Palace. "Templar Benito", who put on the robe of the sun god, came to the statue and chopped down the old priest guarding the statue with a sword, and behind him He loudly said with enthusiasm:

"Lord Gregory has successfully lured away the false saint and those lackeys of Harald! According to the plan, quickly activate the artifact and start the summoning ceremony!"

After finishing speaking, the Sun believers who poured into the hall quickly took action.

They set up the base of the magic circle that had been prepared and chanted obscure incantations.

The silver light lit up and quickly spread throughout the hall, like a layer of dreamy mist. Under the divine light, illusory scenes emerged in the prayer hall like a dream.

It was a simple blood-colored hall. Its structure was very similar to that of a prayer hall. It was like a replica of a temple, except that the position of the statue of the god was replaced by two altars.

The two altars are next to each other.

One of them is painted with the devil's eye, the holy symbol of the Blood Demon Archduke. On the altar is an open coffin. The coffin is filled with dark red liquid and lies a judgment knight with his eyes closed.

As for the other altar, it is painted with the sun symbol of the Sun Temple, and a simple statue of the god is enshrined above it.

The statue was very similar to Harald's, except that it wore a sun mask on its face.

The moment the illusory scene appeared, the space in the temple began to distort.

Soon, like a projection, the strange blood-colored hall gradually became clear, faintly overlapping with the prayer hall.

When the chants of the sun believers ended, everything around them had changed.

The solemn temple was completely gone.

Instead, it was like a transformation between reality and reality, turning phantom into reality, a bloody hall enshrining two altars.

Empty... space projection!

It is the "space projection" of Mirik's shrine invading reality!

Mirik's shrine is not somewhere else, but has been hidden in the Holy Palace!

Looking at the bloody hall that invaded reality, the chief priest's eyes widened as he lay in a pool of blood.

"Trap...Holy City...danger...must...go to the Holy Lady Temple..."

He stretched out his hand with difficulty and crawled towards the outside of the hall.

He didn't crawl very far.

The last thing he was aware of was the condescending and cold expression of "Templar Benito" and the chopped long sword in his hand.

"The time has come, let's start the ceremony!"

Throwing away the knight's sword in his hand, "Benito" said coldly.

After finishing speaking, he took the lead in coming to the altar with the sun symbol and knelt down on one knee.

He took out a dagger with a sun symbol from his arms and stabbed it into his chest without hesitation. At the same time, with a fanatical look on his face, he shouted at the top of his lungs:

"Everything...for the eternal sun!"

Other sun worshipers followed suit.

They took a step forward, knelt in front of the altar as well, pulled out the dagger with the sun emblem on it, and pierced their chests without any hesitation:

"All for the eternal sun!"

Soaked in blood, the sun badge on the dagger suddenly lit up, bursting out with white-gold sacred light, and all the sun believers seemed to have been drained of life, and in an instant they turned into dry corpses.

Their corpses weathered quickly and dissipated like smoke, leaving only the blood fused with the sacred light, showing a strange golden red color.

The golden-red blood gathered under the sun altar and quickly lit up the statue on the altar.

A vast sacred power slowly emerged above the altar, bursting out with brilliant brilliance, and the statue gradually changed and turned into a gorgeous scepter.

The scepter is exactly the same as the "Holy Hand", an artifact of the Holy Royal Court that has amplification and control effects, but it looks even more illusory. As for the original ring-cross holy emblem on the scepter, they all turned into the sun emblem.

Immediately afterwards, the "Holy Hand" painted with the sun symbol flew up on its own and sank into the coffin on another bloody altar painted with the devil's eye.

The scepter was submerged, and the dark red liquid in the coffin immediately boiled.

The next moment, the entire altar glowed with dazzling red light, dark red liquid continued to swim, and a complex and mysterious giant magic circle appeared on its own with the coffin as the center.

Crimson radiance bloomed in the magic circle, a black-red light pillar rose into the sky, and the Judgment Knight in the coffin suddenly opened his eyes.

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The outer city of the Holy Capital.

With the "Great Cleansing" of the top brass of the Holy Royal Court, the entire Holy City has been shrouded in a solemn atmosphere these days, and the streets of the outer city are much deserted than before.

In the church in District 9, Priest Susan, who was lying in the treatment room, slowly opened her eyes.

Her injuries have been healed by the priest, and her originally pale face has returned to color, but she still looks a little weak.

"Sister Susan, you wake up!"

The children from Gray Swan Orphanage, who had been guarding him, immediately gathered around him excitedly.

"here it is……"

Susan looked around, a little confused.

"This is the church! It was Her Royal Highness the Saint who saved you. Her Highness the Saint prevented the trial and rectified the name of our orphanage!"

the children said excitedly.

"Your Highness the Saint...saved me?"

Susan muttered.

But soon, she felt a dull pain in her heart.

Following some kind of induction, she subconsciously looked out the window. In the sky, the setting sun was like blood, and the tall holy palace was shrouded in shadow.

"Sister Susan, what's wrong with you? Are you still feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"

the children asked worriedly.

Susan looked in the direction of the Holy Palace and felt her heartbeat getting stronger and stronger.

She opened her mouth and said hesitantly:

"I...I seem to feel my brother's breath..."

After saying that, she forced herself to sit up and tried to get out of bed, but the next moment, the whole room suddenly shook.

Caught off guard, Susan almost fell, and when the shock disappeared, the light in the entire room suddenly turned dark red.

Susan looked out the window in confusion, and saw that the sky outside the window was shrouded in boundless blood at some point, and countless bats were flying from all directions, flying in the direction of the Holy Palace.

Suddenly, a black-red light pillar shot into the sky from the direction of the Holy Palace, piercing the entire sky.

Dark clouds rolled and the void tore apart. Thousands of black dots flew out from the broken void, falling towards the Holy Capital like raindrops.

The sharp and violent screams came from far away, and the black spots continued to enlarge, turning out to be ferocious demons!

Along with a roar that seemed to come from eternity, a terrifying crack spread in the bloody sky.

A huge crack ripped open in the sky, and a devil's hand burning with blazing flames stretched out from the crack!

Mottled flames continued to fall, igniting the buildings on the ground.

The next moment, a nearly 300-meter-tall Balrog broke through the limitations of space, and descended into the Holy Capital surrounded by many demons.

Its body was divided into two distinct parts. One half was covered in pitch black armor and burned with raging hellfire, while the other half was not armored, and its flame-burning skin was as tender as a new spring bud.

At the junction of the two parts of the body, there is still a sword mark, emitting a little crimson light.

Feeling the terrifying aura that was far beyond ordinary legends, and looking at the iconic sheep head and half-moon eye, the church priest's eyes widened and he spat out a name in horror:

"The Balrog...Warraroca!"