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The heavy stone door made a screeching sound. There was no mechanism installed on the door, and there was no magic trap, so it was pushed open by an external force.

The first thing that catches your eye is the back of the white robe.

"Don't you continue to run? Edward mercilessly ridiculed the Pope, who had the supremacy of the Cult of Light.

"Escape?......" the Pope laughed dryly, "I said that this is the territory of the gods of light, how could I escape?"

"So, you still have a way to save your life. I'd like to see what other tricks you have besides soldiers, enchantments, and Aegis. Huh--" Edward noted his surroundings, "I seem to be in a graveyard. ”

I saw that in this mysterious large stone room, the four walls and the top of the dome were lit with many magic crystals as energy lanterns, and on the wide stone room floor, there was a wide corridor between Edward and the Pope, and dozens of crystal coffins were neatly placed on both sides. All of these bodies have been embalmed, and although they have been dehydrated and turned into dried corpses, none of them have decomposed. It can be concluded that the owners of these bodies had a very high status during their lifetimes, because their funerary goods were extremely luxurious, the bodies were dressed in robes sewn with gold wire, two pieces of crystal clear mutton fat jade were attached to their eyes, they wore a crown inlaid with precious stones, they held a cross and a chalice made of gold or high-purity magic crystals in their hands, and on their chests were placed the "Holy Book" made of precious materials that were extremely difficult to corrode, and the cover of the book and the text inside were all sewn with gold thread.

Every piece of funerary goods is priceless, and if any tomb robber sees such a scene, he will probably die suddenly with excitement.

"Graveyard, watch your words. The Pope immediately corrected Edward's irreverence, saying, "This place is called the Holy Coffin, and it is the place where the popes of the past have slept. However, the first generations of popes were not here. ”

"You say all the people lying in these coffins are popes? No wonder the people on the three continents of Olopa are so poor, it turns out that their people are all here. Edward sneered.

He was extremely unhappy when he saw these funeral goods, even if it was the Shumiro Empire that once dominated Olopa, it was impossible for the royal family to have so many and such luxurious funeral goods after the death of the royal family, otherwise after 3 or 4 generations, the entire treasury would be empty.

"I can't imagine that the blood-sucking prince, who treats human life like a mustard, will care about those ordinary people. ”

"I admit that I am not a good person, yes, my hands are covered in blood, but I dare to do it, and I will never be like your Central Church, which speaks beautiful words of mercy and hypocrisy, but in your hands you do a thousand times more severe killing. ”

"All those who have been condemned by the Holy See are deserved. ”

"Forget it, don't play around in front of me. You didn't bring me here just to be quick talking. ”

"Yes, I have something for you to understand. ”

"What's the, it's that in a few minutes, you'll be one of the bodies buried here. ”

"Burial? As the spokesman of God in the light on earth, the Pope has never died and will never do. They are only sleeping for a while. ”

For Edward, a vampire, he can sleep for hundreds or thousands of years, and only if his body has become an undead body that is detached from the concept of life and death, he is quite sensitive to the word "sleep". So, is it true that the popes of the past have also existed in the state of the dead? Obviously not. Edward had used his magic to detect that the corpses did not have any magical energy fluctuations inside, and were just dried corpses of Pu Neng, but Edward sensed a faint and familiar aura from the mouths of the corpses. That is the taste of the soul! Every pope's body has a pearl-like bead in its mouth, and it contains a flowing breath.

"I'm sure you've noticed. Those beads are called 'Soul Beads', and the souls of the previous popes are sleeping peacefully in these 'Soul Beads'. ”

"Sleepy? Hmph, the Central Church also plays this hand. Edward sneered, "Don't you light believers always think that after death, people's souls should rest in peace and must return to the gods of light?

"You're wrong. The Pope finally turned around, "The reason why the previous popes chose to keep their souls in this world was also to get closer to the God of Light. It is true that when ordinary people die, their souls return to the God of Light, but after being cleansed of the sins committed in the earthly world, the souls return to this filthy world and are reincarnated as humans. And the popes are not really dead, we are just waiting for the day when all the popes who have been consecrated to God will be resurrected at the same time, receive true eternal life, ascend to become the apostles of the gods, angels, and stay with God in the light forever. ”

"I see. This is the mysterious plan that the Central Church has been plotting for thousands of years?" Rao is well-informed Edward was also a little surprised, the Central Church did so many hurtful things, but it was just to enter the kingdom of heaven and become an angel? If it weren't for the words of the contemporary pope himself, probably no one would believe it.

"That's right. This decaying world has been corrupted by too much sin and has long been incurable, and will inevitably be destroyed under the divine punishment called 'Apocalypse'. And we, the Apostles of Light, will lead the people who survive the catastrophe to recreate a new world in the ruins after the destruction of Miè. As he spoke, the Pope raised his hands upward, "A perfect and clean paradise without sin and without strife! ”

"You want to destroy the world? Hmph, it seems that you are the ones who really have no cure. Hearing that arrogant declaration, Edward couldn't help but sigh, "The world is not something you play with at will, no matter what era it is, there will always be people who stand up to stop you." ”

"Prince of the Vampires, I originally thought you were a wise man with a thousand years of wisdom, but I didn't expect it to be anything more than that. The Pope's voice sounded particularly strange, and the silver mask trembled slightly, as if the face behind the mask was smiling.

Edward didn't reply, he could hear the Pope's voice.

"The Holy Coffin is a sacred place where no evil is allowed to desecrate, why do you think I would allow you to step on this holy place with your filthy feet?" the Pope stretched out his hand and slowly pressed it on a crystal coffin next to him, "It is precisely because there are so many people who do not know what to do in the way that we have to find a way to eliminate them one by one. For you, the Vampire Prince, this place will be your last stop in the tainted world. ”

It's finally time for war. Edward laughed, "Good! You told me all these things, and it seems that you are quite confident. Let's do it, let me see if you Central Church is bragging, or if you have real skills. ”

The angels flying over the Holy City have disappeared one by one, and because the summoner has been killed or the magic power has been depleted, these angels have returned to their original world, but the battle has turned in favor of the Holy Army. Because the garrisons of the surrounding cities poured in from the south and north of the city, they injected new blood into the defenders of the holy city. Although the Knights Templar's Legion of Bright Dignity was still blocked in the western suburbs, the Templars were regaining the initiative from a mere 1,000 Blood siege troops.

In Xicheng District, the battle for the city gate has passed the bloodiest and most brutal stage.

The 400 Bloods led by the "Eight Sages" Uonik still occupied the city gates, although they suffered heavy losses, and the Inquisition Einsatzgruppen cavalry led by the Chief Inquisitor suffered even more severe losses and was almost completely wiped out, but they were replenished by a steady stream of reinforcements, and even the secret execution force stationed on an unnamed island in the southeast of the Holy City arrived to reinforce them, and finally dragged Uonik and his men across.

In order to avoid the dispersion of the forces caused by the elongation of the battle line, the remnants of the Blood Clan, less than a hundred men, gathered around Uonik, and prepared for a final battle in the face of the thousands of holy armies that had surrounded them from three sides. For these vampires who have already died once, fear does not exist at all, and they can keep their promise to the vampire prince, even if they are in ashes.

Scarred, Uonik had lost an arm, hand and an eye, and had no other treatment than "blood cavity", and he had already faced his second death. A few hundred years of life is enough for him, there is nothing to complain about, but he is a little unwilling now. If it weren't for the use of the "Fist of the Collapse of the City", with only 30% of his strength left, he would have destroyed the presiding judge of the Inquisition, who had carried away.

At this time, Sixtus finally had a smile on his face, although his magic power was all exhausted, and his family was almost exhausted, but the army had the upper hand, and with a general attack order, all these vampires who had run out of oil and lamps could be cleaned up.

But his wishful thinking was still too early.

"Ahh......h The crossbowman's melee weapon is only a dagger, and against the most vicious vampires, this is not combat at all, but a one-sided slaughter.

The attack on the crossbowmen disrupted the deployment of Sixtus, and he hurriedly ordered the troops surrounding Ionix to withdraw part of their forces to support the crossbowmen, but as soon as the troops turned around, several screams came from outside the city. Looking through the telescope, Sixtus saw thousands of vampires outside the city slaughtering the city gates.

Could it be that they had wiped out all the Templar troops?, Saxtus was horrified by his suspicions, but when he came back to his senses, he found that the vampires outside the city had no signs of battle, indicating that they must have just entered the battlefield. This is something worse than the annihilation of the Knights Templar, and who knows how many reserves the vampires will have left?

"Retreat! Enter the city!" Sixtus gritted his teeth and gave the order, which would leave a shadow over his political future. Although he was very unwilling, even when he was full of magic power, he had to invest nearly 7 times the number of troops to barely gain an advantage, how did he expect that as soon as the vampire reinforcements arrived, the number advantage of the holy army was gone, and his own magic power was also emptied, and he lost the capital to continue to seize the city gate, if he continued to entangle with the vampire reinforcements, he was afraid that even he himself would be fierce. Although Sixtus often executed deserters with harsh punishment, he made the same choice as the deserters he executed when faced with a life-and-death situation.

The Holy Army retreated into the city in waves, and the plight of Uonik and his men was finally lifted. At this time, Yu Shi, who led a thousand blood clan reinforcements into the city, also came to Uonik's side.

"You're really pinching. Uao said to Youshi.

"I hope it didn't upset you, Mr. Butler. Yushi smiled at Uonik, and then raised her hand, and a red pill appeared in her palm, "For this, maybe you will be interested. ”

"What is this?" Uonik looked at the pill suspiciously.

"The concentrated essence of the 'blood chamber' made by Eurome. ”

"Good, thank you. Uonik unceremoniously took the pill, and the remaining intact eyes stared in the direction of Sixtus' escape, "Some accounts are going to be settled, the Inquisition. ”

At the same time, in the depths of the papal hall, the Holy Coffin.

The current Pope Frio I pushed open the lid of the crystal coffin next to him and took out a long object wrapped in a thick cloth of gold silk from the papal body lying inside. Although tightly wrapped in a thick cloth, judging by its appearance, the elongated object should be a long sword.

"Come, Prince of Blood, let me bury your sins myself. ”