103, Illuminati (1)
Evil God!
Talos gasped, it could be them!
As a standard theocratic world, heresy against the gods and the church is the least tolerated in the Sainz world.
Blasphemy and insult to the gods will be hunted down and judged by the church.
Even the most basic of unbelief is nailed to the wall of the unbeliever by death after death, and it is burned by the flames day and night until the soul source is burned out and returns to nothingness.
And among all the heresies, if you divide them according to the degree of vileness, the first place is not the necromancer who is notorious and desecrates the soul and caused the disintegration of the ancient arcane empire, but the Illuminati.
That's an extremist organization that worships evil gods!
The Illuminati have always proclaimed that the truth will save the world, and that it will shine on the world with the light of truth, which sounds very righteous and awe-inspiring, especially the latter sentence is very similar to the teachings of the ancient sun god (the fallen) who held the priesthood of "the sun" and "salvation".
Obviously, though, purpose doesn't fully guide behavior, but anyone with even a modicum of knowledge of the Illumination knows that their actions can be many times more bloody and evil than necromancers.
Generally speaking, the appearance of the Illuminati is often accompanied by a ceremony called "Truth Enlightenment", and those who successfully pass the ceremony, regardless of gender, age, status, strength, or race, will be accepted by the Illuminati and become a member of it.
As for those that could not be passed, they did not need to think too much about it, because those people were already dead during the ritual.
The most outrageous aspect of this ritual is that it has an incredibly high mortality rate, often reaching 99.99%, and a city with a population of hundreds of thousands may not be able to accept a single person from them.
Therefore, no matter who anyone, even the royal family, is sure to have anything to do with the Illuminati or even the evil gods, they will be sent to the gallows in the shortest possible time, and there will be no second ending.
It stands to reason that such an extremist group must have been exterminated by the Church of the Gods shortly after its birth, but in fact it did not.
Like necromancers, they have been broken several times throughout history, only to resurge after a period of silence.
One of the reasons is that the Church of the Gods cannot concentrate its efforts due to their different beliefs and interests, but the most fundamental reason is that the Illuminati has the support of a group of evil gods behind it.
According to the strength level of Sainz's class system, it is divided into the seventh order of black iron and the fifth order of bronze, and when the fifth order of bronze reaches the limit that the main material plane can accommodate, legendary mages, epic knights, destiny warlocks, cardinals, priests of gods, magic archdukes, and sword saints are all located at this level.
Above the fifth order, it belongs to the realm of the gods, and the evil gods are a group of powerful beings who can compete with the gods.
The existence of evil gods is very ancient, and no one knows where they come from, where they are hiding, and whether they are located in the outer planes.
It is said that in the ancient period when the gods were not born and the six primordial gods occupied the dominant position of faith, there were traces of the activities of their messengers on the main material plane.
The ancient Arcane Empire had conducted some research on evil gods, but valuable research materials were lost with the dissolution of the Empire.
Since then, records of evil gods have been scarce, and most of them have been preserved in some of the most powerful churches in the world today.
Now, the City of Fortune is under attack from the Illuminati!
Who would have thought that just yesterday, the Fortune Church also held a celebration of the official launch of Golden Harbor, where celebrities, magnates, and wealthy people from all over the world gathered, and just one day later, the Illuminati set its sights on Sainz's wealthiest city.
Guests can quickly take the space teleportation array to leave before the attack of the Illuminati arrives, but the Church of Fortune will not evacuate, and it is impossible to evacuate, that is where the Golden Grand Temple of the Church headquarters is located!
If the pastors of the Church of Fortune flinch in the face of the Illuminati, it will not only damage the image and reputation of the Church on the physical plane, but the majesty and glory of the Goddess of Wealth.
It is the vocation of the clergy to defend the glory of God.
What's more, as the headquarters of the city, the residents of the city of wealth are mostly merchants and wealthy people, and it is the most important belief group of the goddess of wealth.
In every sense of the word, this is an inevitable war!
Talos realized the seriousness of the matter and hurriedly replied, "How many fifth-order powerhouses have been dispatched by the other party?"
The Church of Fortune currently has Pope Buffett III and Cardinal Gates two fifth-order masters in charge, and the idle enemy can't have the idea of invading the City of Fortune at all.
Those who can fight against the fifth order are often only the fifth order.
Considering that Bill had just described the invasion from the Illuminati as "the worst ever", the only thing Talos knew for sure was that the situation must be dire at this time.
After a while, Bill's reply was displayed on the interface: "There are currently three legendary mages that the church has learned!"
Three Legendary Mages!
Despite not being in the City of Wealth, Talos felt an invisible pressure enveloping him, and he could fully imagine how fear could creep through the City of Wealth.
You must know that in the ocean, there are only three fifth-order people in the Naga Kingdom.
Talos hadn't seen a fifth-order master fight—their strength was too strong to be easily attacked on the main material plane—but that didn't affect his ability to roughly judge a fifth-order master based on what he heard and knowledge......
"Listen, Talos, don't return to the City of Wealth, even Birlingham is ten times safer than the City of Wealth. His Holiness the Pope has decreed that the Church of Fortune is in a state of emergency, and today is a sacred moment to fight for the faith and glory of the Goddess!"
This concludes the message of the Bishop of Humanity.
Boom Boom –
No sooner had Talos withdrawn his consciousness from the Ring of the Magic Web when he heard a roar in the distant sky.
Naga looked up and saw a huge lead-gray meteorite wrapped in raging flames, dragging a long tail of flame down from the sky, the sound was extremely huge, and the thunderous roar he had just heard was the huge roar of the meteorite falling against the air.
"Oh my God—"
If there is no problem with Talos's knowledge reserves, and all the information he receives in his eyes is true, then this meteorite is the legendary spell of the Earth Elemental faction, Meteorite.
And, where it fell, it was the City of Fortune!
Talos looked in the direction of the meteorite's fall without blinking, but he didn't wait for the result, because the earthly python in the watch world was almost unable to trap the high-level construct-body iron knight.