As soon as the news came out, the imperial government and the opposition were shaken. It was no longer a question of mob rebellion, and Chancellor Müller spoke indignantly at a cabinet meeting, openly denouncing Münzell as an agent fostered by hostile forces abroad.

This put the Holy See in a very awkward position, because Priest Mintzel did not lose his charisma after becoming the leader of the rebel party, and was still a high-ranking priest of Perot, and on more than one occasion he openly used divine magic to heal the injured mob. It can be seen from this that even if Perot does not sympathize with the mob led by Priest Mintzel, at least he does not mean to condemn it, it is inconvenient for the Holy See to echo the government's argument and openly accuse Priest Minzel of being a foreign spy or a heretic.

Palatina, a high-ranking priest of the Holy See, was ambivalent about Priest Minzel, angry at his open rebellion and secretly admiring him for his courage to lead the mob. Her attitude didn't matter if she was an outsider, but unfortunately fate was unpredictable, and an order in June sent her and her "First Brigade of the Knights of Discipline" to the Magic Mountain Province to quell the Minzel rebellion.

Palatine reluctantly took on the chore. If there was anything more disgusting to her than the suppression of the peasant uprising, it was perhaps the addition of another elite unit to accompany the military operation, the Second Brigade of the Knights of the Breaking Order, commanded by Baron Bazel.

The "Knights of Punishment" and the "Knights of Breaking the Law" are the most prestigious trump card troops in the Yashan Empire and even the entire Varess world, and two brigades with a total of 6,000 elite knights, plus the cooperation of artillery and air force, all the way into the Magic Mountain Province to crush the rebel forces, no matter whether the other party really receives foreign aid or not, it cannot change the reality of the huge disparity in power, and the result is self-evident.

On July 8, 1624, Imperial Major General Palatina led his troops to besiege the capital of the province of Magic Mountain, and sent messengers to order the mob occupying the ancient city to lay down their arms and surrender outside the city.

Unsurprisingly, her attempts to persuade her to surrender were rejected, and Palatina had no choice but to order a siege. The capital of the Magic Mountain Province is protected by a Mystery Lock, but it is particularly vulnerable to the "Knight Princess" with her legendary spell-casting ability.

Palatina blessed with various protective magic techniques and flew into the air, braving the rain of arrows from the city to approach the Misty Lock Enchantment, calmly performing the "Ultimate Dispersal Technique"!

The force field cage protecting the city was bombarded by legendary magic, and after a violent tremor, it quietly disintegrated.

Knowing that the "Ultimate Dispersal Technique" could not completely destroy the Lost Lock, Palatina could only suppress it temporarily for a period of time, so she immediately ordered the artillery to open fire and bombard the rebel lines, and the airships hovering over the city also dropped bundles of cluster blasting barrels to cooperate with the artillery to suppress the rebels.

These seemingly fierce bombardments mainly served as a deterrent and cover, and Palatina herself was directly teleported to the city's municipal building under the cover of artillery fire, and the center of the puzzle was set up on the roof of the building.

Palatina's purpose was simple—to take advantage of the city's brief gap in the loss of its protective shield to seize control of the Lost Lock. The rebels were apparently aware of the importance of the Lost Lock, and Priest Mintzel himself and his loyal followers were stationed on the roof of the building, trying to stop Palatina.

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Until much later, Palatina still did not want to remember the battle in which she was forced to kill the killer, and she did not even dare to recall the rebuke that the bloodied Priest Mintzel had given her when she was dying:

"Thou art a knight of my lord, but thou hast killed innocents for tyrants! Your faith has gone astray! ”

An emotion bordering on exasperation prompted Palatina to lose her mind. When she is upset and can't find a way out, her powerlessness will uncontrollably turn into rage, and she will do acts that even she is afraid of.

"Shut up! You don't want to disturb my state of mind! ”

The weather in July is changing, and suddenly the sky is overcast, and a muffled thunder explodes, and a downpour of rain pours down.

Palatine stood in the rain with her sword, and the rain flowed through the Holy Punisher with her fingertips, taking away the remaining traces of blood from the blade and pooling into a pool of crimson water beneath her feet.

After a long time in the rain, Palatina finally came to her senses. Looking around, the mutilated corpses were lying on the ground, and Priest Mintzel and his followers were all victims of her "impotent rage". Killing can temporarily calm her emotions, but it cannot untie the knot in her heart: is it really a righteous act to torture these clergy who stand up for the poor, these brothers and sisters who belong to the same country, the same nation, and the same sect?

Palatine didn't dare to think deeply, and the more she thought about it, the more painful it became.

The rain drenched her face, which wasn't a bad thing, at least it would hide the tears from her eyes.

Palatina did not forget her responsibility and succeeded in seizing control of the Lost Lock and removing the defensive barrier before the Ultimate Dispel failed.

A cavalry was the first to rush into the city gates, led by officers dressed in pure gold armor, whistling and wielding barbed chains to whip the rebel soldiers on both sides of the street who were armed with rudimentary weapons trying to resist.

Bazel's personal guards were also violent maniacs, wielding chains or giant battle axes to mercilessly kill anyone who was armed with a weapon or just couldn't dodge, and they didn't care if they would hurt the innocent, believing that in this city under the control of the rebels, anyone who dared to show their faces in public was suspected of being a thief, and it was not unjust to kill them.

Palatina did not want to see such a one-sided slaughter again, and summoned Bazel with a spell, asking him to restrain his men and try to avoid killing.

Bazel readily accepted her advice, but immediately wrote back to invite Palatina to the ball to be held tonight to celebrate her victory.

"I'm not interested in dancing with pools of bones and blood."

Palatina coldly rejected Bazel's invitation, and in addition to being in a bad mood, there was a small personal reason.

Putting order in order in the city, it was already evening. Perhaps after seeing too much blood, Palatine had no appetite for it, and went straight back to her headquarters, closed the door, turned on the magic radio, and listened to the soothing piano music in a daze.

It is not difficult for her to anticipate that today's battle will arouse heated discussions among foreign followers, sensational headlines such as the "July 8 Massacre" will make headlines in newspapers around the world, and treacherous Far Easterners will even produce a radio program on the subject, criticizing her as a "female butcher with bloody hands."

These fantasies made Palatine look at her hands and sniff them, and though she couldn't smell any blood, she couldn't help but wash and wash, as if not washing her hands, but trying to wash away the haunting self-loathing.

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