Chapter 685 The Background of the Blood Clan's Ultimate Love 18

As the pope raised his scepter and chanted the spell in a special divine language, the Rhine Duke and other vampires who were temporarily forced back by the holy light that suddenly became dazzling after the pope cast it again reacted immediately: This is the spell of the divine descent!

Regarding the divine descent, it is not only the people in the church who have a deep memory of it, but also the vampires. In the past hundreds of years of confrontation between the church and the vampires, the vampires have suffered a lot at the hands of the church, and most of these losses were caused by the divine descent that would destroy both sides, so the vampires are also very reluctant to see this divine art.

The so-called divine descent is actually the pope praying for the god he believes in to descend the grace of the gods and attach the will of the gods to him. During the period of performing the divine descent, the pope uses his mortal body to carry the power of the gods, and the pope who performs the divine descent will become extremely powerful, because he is equivalent to the incarnation of the gods and has the consciousness and power of the gods.

However, it is not so simple to perform the art of divine descent. Not to mention how harsh the prerequisites are, the consequences alone are difficult for the church to accept, and the art of divine descent will not be used easily. This powerful divine art, which can almost change the situation in an instant, will cost the Pope's life and soul every time it is performed.

To put it simply, when performing the art of divine descent, the Pope becomes a burning torch. As the burning flame becomes stronger, the more divine power belonging to the gods he can use, the stronger his strength will be. So, what is the fuel for this burning torch? Naturally, it is the Pope who performed the art of divine descent.

His soul and life, his strength and flesh and blood are the fuel for the burning of the torch. These essential powers belonging to the Pope are all burning, supporting the Pope to control four-fifths of the power of the gods in a short period of time. However, the gods are high above, and there is a world of difference between them and ordinary people. When the Pope performs the art of divine descent and begins to use himself as fuel to ignite the power of the gods, then this burning process will continue.

Once the God's Descent is performed, it will not stop until the Pope's soul and power are burned out. In other words, every time the God's Descent is performed, it will end with the Pope's death. As for how long the God's Descent can last, it depends on the strength of the Pope who performs this divine art.

In short, once the God's Descent is performed, the Pope seems to have turned into a giant firework. He uses his soul and power as fuel, constantly burning everything he has, carrying the consciousness and strength of the gods, and using such a powerful strength to deal with the enemy. When everything is burned out, the Pope will fall under the holy light like a firework.

"It's the God's Descent." Seeing the holy and clear brilliance blooming on the Pope, the shadowy feeling of some supreme existence descending on the Pope, causing the Pope's strength to increase exponentially in a short period of time, the Duke of Rhine, who turned into a blood jade bat, said in a deep voice with a headache.

The power of the vampires far exceeds that of ordinary humans, and their life span is so long that it is almost immortal. Relatively speaking, it is very difficult for the church to cultivate powerful people who can rival the vampire dukes. Moreover, the life span of humans is really short compared to that of the vampires. A powerful knight or priest who can stand shoulder to shoulder with the duke-level vampires may die in a few years.

But in such a situation, the church and the vampires have been in a state of stalemate and confrontation. Although there are small-scale conflicts, from the perspective of the overall situation, it can really be said that they coexist peacefully. Is this the case because the vampires advocate peace and do not want to fight too much with the church?

Obviously, that is impossible.

Even if the vampires are really kind and advocate peace, if the vampires respond to the idea of ​​peaceful coexistence with the food of their tribe - humans, then should the entire vampire tribe continue to develop and exist? It is better to starve to death. Not to mention that the blood clan can't really be said to be pure in nature. As the sons of music lurking in the dark night, most of the blood clan's personalities have been slightly distorted under the torture of long years.

The reason why the blood clan has always maintained a general balance with the church is because every pope of the church has mastered the terrible divine art - the art of divine descent. Although the price of performing the art of divine descent is the death of the pope, once the pope is determined to fight to the death, then with the power of the art of divine descent, it is entirely possible to kill one or two dukes before the pope burns out and dies.

In the blood clan, the status of the duke is very noble, and the number of blood clan dukes is extremely small, and it is difficult to be born. Even the loss of one is unacceptable. If several generations of blood clans confront the church head-on, the church will suffer losses, but the blood clan will also be seriously injured. The birth rate of newborns in the blood clan is far inferior to that of humans. Once the blood clan loses a duke, it may not be able to give birth to a new duke for hundreds of years.

After all, the blood clan is not a church. They cannot collect children with potential from everywhere to join the church, and then train them to become powerful people of the church.

It is extremely difficult for the blood clan to give birth to a duke. Either the fourth generation of dukes can give birth to the fifth generation of offspring, or the sixth generation of marquis can improve his strength to the duke through continuous training and various adventures. Only in this way can he be conferred. It must be said that this is extremely inefficient and the success rate is not high.

For hundreds of years, Catherine is the only one who was promoted to Duke because of her noble bloodline. This is enough to show how rare Duke-level vampires are. The Pope can kill one or two dukes at his best, and the Pope can train a new one in 30 to 40 years at most. At most, the church can use more people. Anyway, the vampires can't destroy the entire human race - what will the vampires eat and drink if all humans die?

If the vampires have been confronting the church with the protection of the gods, then under the threat of the gods' descent, I am afraid that the vampires will soon have no high-level people left. Therefore, the vampires have always consciously reduced the war with the church to a controllable range, just to avoid the fall of the high-level people who are difficult to train.

Unlike the vampires, the church is rooted in humans, and they train masters like harvesting wheat, one crop after another, generation after generation. In this regard, the vampires are indeed far inferior to the church. They have their shortcomings even when they have a long lifespan.

Every high-level vampire is a very precious existence, and cannot be lost in the hostility with the church. So when the white-haired and white-bearded pope raised his scepter and used the divine descent, Duke Rhine wanted to retreat reflexively. With the pope's strength, he could at least save the life of a duke, not to mention the other vampires of lower levels. Duke Rhine did not want to bury the lives of vampires in vain.

But he also knew in his heart that if he retreated now, the pope might really leave his life here, but dozens of other knights and priests of the church would have to retreat from the vampire territory while someone was behind. Just letting the church people come in and hang out and leave in such a swagger really made Duke Rhine very unwilling, and he was unwilling to let these church people retreat so easily.

Just as Duke Rhine hesitated, he was a little undecided for a while. He now has two choices. One is to sacrifice a few marquis-level blood clans to hold back the pope who cast the divine descent for a moment, and he and the other five dukes will kill the church believers who have turned around and run to the trail as quickly as possible.

The second is to ignore the pope for the time being, retreat directly down the mountain to meet up with the group of blood clan civilians who were notified by him and were cruising on the edge of Catherine's territory, surround this group of believers and then attack.

These two methods have their own advantages and disadvantages. The former is likely to kill and injure a large number of the sixth generation of marquises, and the latter, the pope who casts the divine descent is not something you can avoid if you want to. When the blood clans rush down the mountain to encircle and suppress the church believers, the pope will definitely chase them up, and in the process the pope will definitely keep an eye on the five dukes, and at least one of them will die.

Whether to kill one or two dukes or a large number of marquises is a simple choice for the Rhine Duke, who is gloomy and cold, and not lacking in selfishness. However, now that so many blood clan nobles have been dispatched, isn't it a bad idea for him to push others to the pope's urn of the divine descent?

Just as the Duke of Rhine hesitated, in a short moment, the aura of the pope had risen to the extreme. If he was originally just an old man who was dying, then at this moment he turned into a blazing flame, hot, powerful, and burning, with a huge power that could destroy everything -

It's just that this flame is strong on the outside but weak on the inside. Although it is indeed fierce and terrifying, it may explode like a punctured balloon at any time. Although it is strong on the outside but weak on the inside, killing a few blood clans before the flame burns out is like killing a chicken with a butcher knife, which is very easy.

"Go chase the church believers who have fled into the alley." A deep, magnetic, silky and pleasant voice suddenly sounded in the ears of the Duke of Rhine and the other six. The owner of this voice spoke calmly and indifferently, with the same calm attitude as always, "I will deal with the Pope."

"It is best to capture the church believers who have sneaked into the blood clan's territory alive. If not, kill them on the spot and try not to let any church believers escape. Keep them all!"