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On July 3, 4900, sailors from Lyon, one of the most prosperous cities and ports in northern France, busily carried supplies such as food onto military ships. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Each ship has two flags hunting in the sea breeze, one with a brilliant sun, the symbol of the Church of the Dawn, and the other with a circle of redbuds surrounding a golden crown, the symbol of the Kingdom of France.
It was summer in July, and the weather was hot, and the sailors seemed to be sweating not themselves, repeating the monotonous work of the machinery over and over again, even a little harder than usual. The mission from the Church of the Dawn probably played half of its role, the other half was due to the fact that the fleet was about to go to sea, destined for Celtic.
This is a fleet jointly sent by the Church of Dawn and the Kingdom of France, with only one purpose, to destroy the Holy Griffin Kingdom and kill Adam!
In the distance, a neat line of soldiers boarded the ship under the command of the commander, they were elite soldiers from all over France, and they generally possessed the strength of the first level of black iron. One of the teams stood out, each wearing silver armor with a sunrise pattern. These are members of the Radiant Knights of the Church of the Dawn, and the lowest strength is the bronze rank.
The Lord of Dawn willing, hoping that the fleet will be able to destroy the Griffon Kingdom and Adam the Blasphemer. As the sailors labored, they prayed to the Lord of the Dawn in their hearts, and if it weren't for the lack of strength, these devout believers in the Lord of the Dawn would have been able to board the ship and go to Celts to fight for the gods in person.
With the expectant gazes and whispered prayers of the sailors, Lyon's fleet set off.
Malok is the former head of the Glorious Knights of the Church of Dawn, who stepped down from his position after being promoted to the rank of Legend and practiced at the Church of Dawn headquarters. For one hundred and fifty years of his life, he had always thought that the three major churches (the Harvest Church, the Sky Church, and the Earth Church) were the worst enemies of the Dawn Church. However, a meeting seven days ago completely changed his mind.
As a legend, he had rarely had the opportunity to do it himself, and spent more time cultivating the young Golden Juggernaut, so when he received an invitation from the Pope of the Grand Temple of Limbel, he knew something tricky was coming.
As he expected, the council chamber of the Great Temple of Limbel gathered the most elite forces of the Church of the Dawn, and everyone who could appear in the council hall was at least the golden rank, the archbishop of the Cardinal Order, the golden swordmasters of the Radiant Knights, and the inspector of the Faith Council.
"The faith of our Lord is being seriously challenged!" The first words of the pope, who had always been calm, made the entire council chamber indignant.
"Gordon, Gwenda, Cornwall, Gavin......" came out of the mouth of the pope, each famous in the Church of the Dawn, some of them were respected cardinal archbishops, some of them were famous deputy heads of the Order, but now they all died because of the same man - Satan Adam.
The ten-member College of Cardinals lost four members, the Radiant Knights lost two vice-presidents, the Faith Council lost an inspector, and in less than a year, the Church of the Dawn lost seven Golden Ranks!
Even the strong will of the legendary rank of Maroch could not suppress the anger that accompanied the absurdity, and the Church of the Dawn had never suffered such heavy losses in the battle with the three major churches, but now it was facing the greatest challenge in thousands of years because of a blasphemer.
"Gavin used the Divine Descent on Celt and received a response from my Lord." The Pope's words calmed down the indignant Golden Professionals and Marlock in the council chamber, and even Gavin, who had reached the peak of his legendary strength with his divine descent, could not defeat Adam?
"Your Majesty, may I ask if Gavin will eventually return to the Kingdom of God because the time limit has come or ......" Mallock asked.
If it is the former, it can only prove that the opponent has the ability to defend and dodge in the face of the attack of a legendary peak master, and if it is the latter, then it will be a big trouble. The only ones who can kill the legendary pinnacle are the legendary pinnacle of the same rank and strength, or several legendary high-level people with extremely strong strength to join forces to besiege it. But no matter which result it is, it shows that Celtic's strength has skyrocketed in a short period of time, beyond all of their imagination.
"The time limit has not yet arrived." Although Gavin's time was indeed short, he completely disappeared from this world ten seconds before the end of the Divine Descent.
"I see, Your Majesty." Mallock got up from his seat and glanced around, "My lord's faith is being challenged like never before, as a servant of God, I am willing to lead the Knights of Radiance to level the Celts, bloodied Griffons, and wash away the disgrace of the church with the blood of the Weaving family and the head of Adam." ”
"Two thousand members of the Knights of Radiance, five hundred priests, they will all be under your command." Two thousand members of the Knights of Radiance means two hundred knights of silver strength.
"Quentin, Berg......" The Pope named two more cardinal archbishops, two deputy heads of the Knights of Radiance, and two inspectors of the Council of Faith, a total of six golden professionals to accompany the legendary master Marlock.
"I've sent for Affleck, and he'll go with you to Celtic, Marlock."
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"The Pope is old, and he no longer has the sharpness of his youth, and just a little Celtic makes him anxious. If Bart was seated on the papal throne, he would have sent the inspectors of the Faith Council to hunt down as early as when Satan Leaf set foot on Uppler. Beside Maloke, a priest dressed in coarse linen and ascetic, spoke sharply at the Pope's incompetence.
"It is urgent to remove the effects of that problem, the Pope's decision is not wrong, Affleck, even Gordon has fallen under the terrible problem." Mallock looked into the eyes of the priest beside him, where a whirlpool of madness was brewing.
Affleck, the legendary master of the Church of the Dawn, is a contemporary of the current Pope. It is worth mentioning that he and the Bart he spoke of just now are fanatics, and no one can convince them completely except the Lord of the Dawn himself, let alone the current Pope.
Although not a priest who derives power from faith, when Mallock first heard about Satan's evil, seductive question, the contradiction between the logical conflict and the contradiction of the beliefs that had been ingrained for years made the legendary master shudder.
In order to minimize the potential for disaster, the pope had to focus more on eliminating the effects of the problem, revising the scriptures, the way the doctrine was expounded, and dealing with doubts and reproaches from the fanatic Affleck. Even if he puts himself in the role of Pope now, to be honest, Mallock doesn't think he can do better, but Affleck is clearly not one of them.
"The Church does not need incompetent priests who are not firm in their faith." Affleck sneered, not seeing any sympathy for the fallen priest on his face, "And don't you think the practice of blacklisting people is no longer a deterrent?" ”
At that meeting seven days ago, the Pope put Adam thirteenth on the blacklist, Satan Adam, blasphemous!
"The true meaning of blacklist deterrence is killing and death, and the Pope always puts his hope in the power of my lord, how cowardly and ridiculous." Affleck waved his hands and laughed maniacally, "A mortal who tried to steal the glory of my lord went around in a circle in Yuple, and as a result he sent only a depraved priest to hunt him down, Marlock, you tell me what else can I say but ridiculous?" ”
Now Marlock hated Adam even more, not only because of the heavy losses he had caused the Church of Dawn and the worst provocation in a hundred years, but also because of Affleck's insanely sharp questions.
"Listen, Affleck, he was just a bronze-level mage at the time."
"Yes, little mage, he|damn|Satan Ye is already a gold-rank archmage, and there are legendary masters under his command!" Enraged, Affleck yells at Mallock at the Pope's incompetence, saying that if Bart had been to the Pope, this terrible situation would not have happened now.
In the face of Affleck's crazy words and questions, Mallock's head widened, and he didn't want to comment on the papal battle a hundred years ago.
A hundred years ago, there were two strong contenders for the papal throne of the Church of the Dawn, one was Clermont and the other was Barth. Both of them are outstanding Legendary Rank masters of the Church of the Dawn, the difference is that the former is an orthodox believer and the latter is a fanatic. In the end, Clermont won and was crowned Pope, now Clermont II.
This result is not difficult to predict, and the extreme and crazy personality of a fanatical believer is not enough to lead the entire Dawn Church and handle the affairs of the church, but Bart cannot accept this fact. On the day of Clermont's coronation, Bart did something that shocked the entire Church of the Dawn.
He assassinated the Pope and tried to replace him.
In the end, Bart was imprisoned in the Aurora Prison on charges of "blasphemy" and "disrespect", where he remains to this day.
And Affleck was a strong supporter of Barthes back then, which was one of the reasons why he was extremely dissatisfied with what the current pope did.
"I will return to the Great Temple of Limbel with the head of Satan Leaf, and make Clermont ashamed." (To be continued.) )