Time is pushed forward.

Redstone City.

A large number of civilians dragged their families with them, and under the protection of the soldiers, they poured out of the wide open city gates.

"Mom, where are we going? Won't Father go with us? ”

On the humble cart, the immature boy asks his mother.

"Nick, Mommy's baby! …… Your father will defend the city...... Don't come with us. ”

Holding back the tears that overflowed from her eyes, a woman dressed in coarse civilian cloth suppressed the desire to look back at the city, forcing herself to become a pillar for the children.

On this escape, she took only one of her most trusted maids and three retainers.

They are the most loyal to their husbands and can use their lives to protect their mother and child in times of danger.

The youngest daughter, who was less than four years old, was weeping in the arms of the maid, but no one noticed it, because among the civilians who had been forced to leave their homes, there were everywhere weeping and sobbing people.

"Behold, mother, a meteor is coming!"

Not far away, a child screamed innocently.

Meteor!

The civilians looked up in horror.

After experiencing the catastrophe of the giant meteor hitting the ground and almost turning the Red River Plateau into a basin, everyone changed color when they heard the meteor.

Sure enough, three or four flying objects with tail flames were flying in this direction.

"Oh my God!"

"Run!"

The ranks of the refugees were so disorganized that even the army could not maintain order, and terrified civilians broke through the ranks.

Even the soldiers panicked.

The wooden cart is like a small sampan in the flow of people, and the force from all directions makes the wooden board shake endlessly, and the figures around it are longing, and the children let out sharp screams.

"Don't panic! Hide! Hide! ”

The woman was pulled under the cart by the retainers, hugged her children tightly, and ran against the board.

The meteor has finally fallen.

There were four meteors in total, two of which flew over their heads and flew a mile or two away before landing.

The other two landed right among the refugees who were running around, and one of them flew right towards them.

"Be careful, ma'am!"

As soon as the fighting spirit shone brightly, a retainer struggled to lift the plank, trying to block the meteor.

Unexpectedly, seeing that the "meteor" was about to collide with the plank, the "meteor" drew an arc-shaped trajectory, but it happened to fall on the side of the retainer holding the child.

The scene was so chaotic that no one could see this scene clearly, only the lady who was most concerned about the safety of her children exclaimed.

But the expected impact did not occur.

That meteor was like an illusion of people, nothing happened.

No, it should be said that it still happened.

The retainer's body stiffened in place, and the boy who was held in the retainer's arms suddenly fell down, and the boy began to cry.

The retainer's body seemed to burst into flames, from the inside out, and in a few moments, a man of more than two hundred pounds turned into a humanoid torch.

In terror, the lady dragged her son out of the danger zone and ran out of the house.

The vicinity of the humanoid torch was full of hot air, and when she ran seven or eight feet away, most of the beautiful long hair that the aristocratic woman was proud of was scorched, and the clothes on her body became pitted and ragged.

“…… It's okay! It's okay! My poor Nick, it's all right! ”

After checking that there were no injuries on the child's body, the lady's tears could not stop flowing.

She didn't notice that the eyes of her son, who was held tightly in her arms, slowly turned crimson.

“…… Mom. ”

Before the maids and retainers gathered, the crimson of the boy's eyes quickly disappeared, and the child, who was unconscious, was attached to his mother's bosom, and the lingering palpitations were undecided.

……

Feiyi's Divine Crystal is like putting a group of demon archmages and golden sword saints on the Muse Continent.

An imperial capital city like Dandong is fine, but if it is a poor and remote area, there is no place where half a master-level powerhouse cannot be found within a radius of thousands of miles, and the local residents will be unlucky.

Merlin was not the hardest hit area, and the Saxons only had to issue the order to search;

It doesn't matter if you fly into the ocean, because there are always a few sea monsters that can climb ashore;

The cups are the Pere Empire and the Holy Empire.

There were not three or two hundred divine crystals that fell on their territory, but more than a hundred, even if it was only according to half the chance, it was equivalent to fifty or sixty wanton slaughterers in the territory.

Fortunately, although the Divine Crystal is strong, it is a kind of energy in the end, and there will always be a time when it will run out.

In particular, forcibly endowing inanimate objects with spirituality often consumes more than ninety percent of the energy, and the remaining divine power is mainly used to maintain the spirituality of the transformed object, and those transformed monsters cannot survive for a long time.

Fortunately, those transformed monsters generally have low IQs and only know how to kill, and Master Rice and others have summed up some methods for targeting the Divine Crystal monsters in response to this weakness.

Emperor Jupiter, who had already realized the danger of the Divine Crystal Monster, immediately compiled it into a book, promulgated it to the locality, and generously rewarded Master Rice.

In order to control the danger of the Divine Crystal Monster within a certain range as soon as possible, Emperor Jupiter adopted the advice of a courtier, and despite the obstruction of the ministers, he insisted on issuing a knighthood decree.

The knighthood is very long, but there is only one main center:

Any group or individual who makes a contribution to stopping monsters will be rewarded handsomely, up to the title of hereditary baron by the royal family.

In the era when the title of the Pere Empire was basically saturated, the emperor took out three pieces of land from the imperial family at one time as a preparatory reward, such a generous reward for non-war exploits is rare in a hundred years.

Of course, judging by the difficulty of killing monsters equivalent to master-level powerhouses, such rewards are not much, or even less.

However, it is not easy for commoners to be knighted, and in the previous wars against the Holy Empire, most of the people who were able to obtain knighthoods were nobles.

Even if these three plots of land were just barren wasteland on the border, and they couldn't even grow food, the title of hereditary baron alone was enough to make countless commoners succeed each other.

The civil power of the mercenary empire should not be underestimated, and millions of mercenary groups have gathered to obtain the land and titles rewarded by the royal family, and they have marched to the place where the "meteor" landing.

Even many nobles were moved and secretly encouraged the mercenary groups they supported to participate in it.

The flamboyant monster killing campaign began.

……

Compared to the Pere Empire, the Holy Empire, especially the Holy Noche Kingdom, was far less lucky.

The number of Divine Crystals falling within the Holy Empire was the largest, no less than two hundred.

Most of these divine crystals have been transformed into monsters, and the appearance of a large number of divine crystal monsters has ruined the order that was already tending to be unstable in people's hearts.

"Monsters!"

"Monsters are attacking!"

"Run!"

After the war retreated, the people were greeted with a terrible plague of demons, which was expelled by the priests of the Holy See, and then the plague struck!

In such a world, it is simply impossible to live!

If the belief in the gods is deep-rooted, and the canons of the Holy See explicitly prohibit suicide, and define suicide as a sin second only to blasphemy, and inform believers that those who commit suicide will lose their qualifications to be introduced into the kingdom of heaven and be sent to hell and eternal souls, then there has already been a "wave of suicide" in the Holy Empire.

……

The Holy Mountain of Olympus.

"Report to His Majesty, the Imperial Capital, Cologne City, White Dragon Fort...... Monsters attacked the city in many places, and the temples of the cities sent a request for help to the Holy Land! ”

An archbishop dressed in red robe hurried in, bowed deeply, and bowed to the new Pope Cleveland III in the middle of the hall.

The new Pope, Cleveland III, looks like he is in his sixties, but in fact he is less than sixty this year.

Unlike his predecessor, Pope Angus II, the new pope's robes were very austere, without any patterns.

Many now know that the new Pope Cleveland III did not like anything extravagant and ornamental except for formal occasions, and that he usually wore only a white cloth burqa when he prayed, and did everything himself, never being served.

Therefore, this Cleveland III was not selected from among the cardinals in the normal way, he studied under a friar of the penance, and if Angus II had not fallen unexpectedly, according to normal circumstances, he would probably have entered the penance directly and became one of the high-ranking deterrents of the Holy See.

But the ascetic, which Angus II had appointed him as his successor before his death and had never intervened in the change of the papacy, suddenly expressed its support, and the lack of a popular candidate among the cardinal archbishops, eventually made the obscure ascetic the new pope.

The old man, who was kneeling in the main hall, said without looking back:

"Call the three Grand Knights."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

The red-robed archbishop cautiously retreated, and the hall was quiet again.

It didn't take more than a quarter of an hour for the three Grand Knight Captains to hurry up.

They walked quickly and unhurriedly, showing the demeanor of nobility in their gestures, but their eyes revealed the rigor of knights, and the Grand Knight Captain of the Knights Templar, Eugene, led the other two to kneel.

"May the light of our Lord shine forever on the path you have traveled!"

Kissing the ground in front of Cleveland III with his lips on the ground, Grand Knight Eugene asked in a deep voice:

"Your Majesty, my lord's knight reports to you."

"Eugene, Helm, Yvely."

Cleveland III summoned the names of the three Grand Knight Captains, without any twists, and he said calmly:

"The Lamb of our Lord is in calamity, and they are in desperate need of the glorious salvation of our Lord, and I think you should be ready."

"Yes, we will spread the light for our lord!"

The three great knights said in unison.

The Pope bowed: "The Knights of God and the White Cross are on their way, the Knights Templar are guarding the Holy Land, and this time the Penance will be accompanied by three monks to spread the glory of our Lord." ”

The three Grand Knight Captains were not surprised, the main duty of the Knights Templar was to protect the clergy and the Temple, otherwise they would not be the head of the three major knights.

They should have said yes in their voices.

"Helm and Evely went to prepare, and Eugene stayed."

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