At the same time that the portal opened, the priests in the Papal Palace had discovered the sudden appearance of spatial magical energy on the western outskirts of the Holy City. This magical energy was unusually large, and they did not hesitate to raise the level of the Holy City's defenses, and sent the Holy City garrison to the site of the incident to investigate.

The Knights Templar and the Inquisition were not the only armed forces of the Central Order, but garrisons of varying sizes were maintained in towns and cities throughout the Papal Dominion. It was a spontaneous reserve force, under the direct leadership of the local Church, with soldiers mostly from the local parishioners, responsible for maintaining local law and order and assisting the Templars in securing the town. Because most of the officers of these garrisons were trained in the Paladin training camp on Key Island since childhood, but in the end they failed to enter the Templar Order, the soldiers trained by such officers have self-evident military qualities. As the political center of the entire papal dominion, the "City of Myths" is also the most sacred religious shrine of the Holy Light Cult, and the garrison troops of the Holy City are also known as the Holy City Garrison Troops, and their number is even greater. While the average size of the garrison in other cities was around 200-400 men, the garrison of the Holy City numbered 1,400 men. In order to investigate the source of the unknown magic, 1,000 of them were directly dispatched as the vanguard troops, which shows that the priests in the papal palace are also aware of the severity of the situation.

Although I don't know who ate the leopard's gall and dared to attack the idea of the Holy City, in the face of such a powerful army, those invaders had only two endings: either they were captured, or they were self-defeating. This is exactly what the vast majority of people in the vanguard think. Unlike the garrisons in other cities of the Papal Dominion, the Quds garrison only has a small percentage of locals, and most of the soldiers are elites drawn from all over the world, and the purpose of joining the Quds garrison is not only to defend Santo, but more to use the Quds garrison as a springboard to enter the Knights Templar.

However, what awaits them ahead is not a brilliant feats and a future of ascension, but death!

"When ......"

In the dark night, on the western outskirts of the Holy City, where the source of the magic power was unknown, a crisp bell suddenly sounded. The commander of the vanguard ignored it and quickly whipped his men to speed forward. An ordinary bell could not slow them down.

"When"!

The second bell rang, and the priests in the group sensed something was wrong, but they couldn't tell what was wrong.

Next, the third, fourth, and fifth bells sound one after another with a certain sense of rhythm.

At this time, the priests finally knew what this feeling was wrong, it was the energy fluctuations of the dark magic that was the opposite of the light magic, and the dark magic energy in the air doubled with each bell ringing.

The sixth and seventh bells followed, and the priests, who sensed the situation, immediately informed the commander of their perception of the situation, and advised them to postpone the march until the situation was ascertained. However, their proposal was immediately rejected by the commander, who believed that if the other party really desecrated the Holy City with dark magic, he should speed up and get them out - this is also what most officers think.

"When ......"

"When ......"

As the eighth and ninth bells rang, the priests had sensed that the dark magic in the air had reached an extremely dangerous level, and they could still feel a shuddering suffocation in spite of the light magic, as if their lives would be taken immediately.

In fact, their magical instincts are right. Because what they encountered was not ordinary dark magic, but the most unguardable direct lethal magic in dark magic - "Curse of the Death Knell"!

Before the tenth bell struck, the priest again proposed to the commander to postpone the march, for it now seemed that they were likely to fall into the enemy's trap. At this time, the commander was no longer stubborn, because he also sensed that something was wrong from another aspect: since the party left the city, there had been a few bats hovering over the team, and then every time the bell rang, the number of bats doubled, and now there were tens of thousands of bats flying in the night sky, but the footsteps of the army drowned out the sound of bats flapping their wings, so that most people did not notice.

"Stop!" the commander ordered. Immediately afterwards, the officers at all levels also passed this order down the order with great efficiency, and the troops that were originally rushing westward stopped in place. The priests also cast their light magic one after another, forming enchantments of light one after another, and bringing the nearby soldiers into the protection.

"When ......"

When the eleventh bell rang, the dark magic in the air and the number of bats hovering in the sky increased exponentially again, and everyone felt their hearts suddenly accelerate, and the feeling of depression and suffocation imposed on their heads instantly increased several times, overwhelming them and sweating profusely, even under the protection of the Light Barrier. At this time, the commander and several soldiers who were running at the front had already seen a bronze death knell hovering in the air above the hill from a distance.

"What's that? ...... It's not good! Retreat! Retreat!"

The commander finally made the most correct decision, and at the same time he immediately turned the horse's head from his mount. However, the order was given too late, and the twelfth bell rang as scheduled.

The vast amount of dark magic that filled the air around him turned into a myriad of soul-scaring deaths, harvesting the lives of all living creatures within the sonar range of the bats. The light-based protective magic that was cast in a hurry was as thin as window paper, and it did not play its due role at all, and it collapsed under the oppression of the overwhelming dark magic. Without the protection of the magic of light, the garrison of thousands of people was wiped out in an instant. There was no screaming, almost all the people and the war horses fell to the ground silently, without a single scar on their bodies, but the death was extremely terrifying.

Spread the dark magic into the air, and then enter the human body through the skin and respiratory tract, seize the dominance of various organs in the body, and then stop the heart and lung function of the human body within the time limit set by the caster, so that the victim dies of myocardial infarction - this is the principle of the curse dark magic "Death Knell Curse", and using the sonar of a large group of blood night bats to greatly increase the magic power and influence range of the "Death Knell Curse", it is the strongest curse of the vampire Prince Dekra "For whom the Death Knell Tolls"!

It was not only this hapless vanguard that died of "For Whom the Bell Tolls", because the sonar coverage of the bat swarm was too large, and the two villages on the western outskirts of the Holy City were unfortunately located in them, and more than 300 people from the two villages and all the livestock and domestic animals in the village were also buried with the soldiers of the garrison.

On the other side of the hill, there was a division within the invaders.

"You...... What have you done?" said Sophia, looking at the Vampire Prince, trembling with rage.

Not only Sophia, O, and Cassius were also shocked by the scene in front of them. A month ago, if this magic had been successfully launched in Hansha City, it would have been unthinkable.

"Because the entire city of the 'City of Myths' is protected by a permanent magical barrier of light, it will be useless to attack the enemies in the city directly, and it will waste the magic of the death knell, so it is necessary to lure their main forces out of the city and destroy them. "And the Blood Clan who participated in the battle has not yet fully crossed over, and no enemy can be allowed to get even half a step close to the portal, and the most effective way is that move." With that, the prince pointed to the giant portal behind him, and one after another vampires passed through the portal to the battlefield where they were.

"That's not what I'm talking about!" Sophia knew that the prince was deliberately playing dumb, which is why she was so angry, "You killed those soldiers because they were 'enemies', but what about the villagers? How can you kill innocents indiscriminately?"

"Huh!innocence?" the prince scoffed at Sophia's ignorance, "and if the ruler creates strife, there will be no innocent people under his rule." Do you think that it really doesn't matter if the common people are not soldiers? Are you wrong? When they pay taxes to the rulers, they use their own money to train soldiers and build armies for the rulers, which is itself participating in the war. Sober up, little girl, this is the essence of war. ”

"Crooked reasoning! False reasoning! False reasoning is simply false reasoning! Is this the justice that you have declared war on the Central Church? Indiscriminate killing of innocent people is not justice at all!" Cassius could not accept the prince's theory.

"Did I say it's 'justice'? It's just a view imposed on yourselves. This war between our blood clan and the Central Curia is not only for revenge, but also the beginning of a revolution. Speaking of this, the prince's expression became solemn, "The world is not something to be played with by the Central Church. The decaying old era will inevitably end, and a new era will surely come. Only a thorough revolution can awaken the human beings who have been dominated by the Central Church for thousands of years and rise up and smash the shackles that have been placed on their minds for thousands of years! And what about us, as the outpost of the revolution, who bear the infamy of 'indiscriminately killing innocents', anyway, we are already dead people, and even our lives have been sacrificed, so what is the value of our reputation?"

"Your Royal Highness, you mean that in order for the revolution to succeed, you must first go through the pain of the revolution. You let us witness tonight's battle so that we can help you spread the seeds of revolution. In the end, Ou understood the prince's intentions.

"But I still can't accept it. Sophia said angrily, "Whatever the reason, attacking an unarmed populace is an inexcusable act. Can't you evacuate the villagers before you attack?"

Without waiting for the prince to answer, You Shi took over: "The master can't do this. We all know the Central Church. Because if you let that group of hypocrites know that we care about the lives and deaths of the masses, they will use this as a means against us. ”

"Say whatever you want. Since you refuse to evacuate the people, then I will do it!" As soon as the words fell, Sophia had already walked dozens of meters in the direction of the Holy City, and before her figure disappeared from everyone's field of vision, the last sentence floated into the ears of the Vampire Prince, "No matter what happens, please don't use the second liberation of the blood clan's power, this is my final bottom line." ”

"Even if you don't say it, I won't use it, because they don't deserve it. The prince sneered.

In this revolution, there will always be people who sing red faces and people who sing white faces, and the prince understands that he is not qualified to be the one who sings red faces.

Looking at the direction where Sophia had gone, Ou said to Cassius: "Although with Sophia's current strength, few people in the Central Church can threaten her, but it is easy to block with open guns and difficult to defend against hidden arrows. I don't know what happened to Sophia after her identity was revealed, so I had to go and support her. ”

Cassius said, "Wait a minute, Ou, I'm going too." ”

"No, you have to stay. O's refusal of Cassius' request, "Someone has to be in charge of monitoring the vampires' movements." If anything unusual happens, please notify me immediately with magic. ”

The fat man thought about it and agreed. There's nothing more reassuring than handing it over to O.

How human beings act as witnesses and instigate this "revolution" The prince made an orderly battle deployment: Leon stayed where he was, keeping the space portal open, ensuring that the 1,000 vampires who were still left in the Blood Mountains crossed over, Yushi was responsible for protecting Leon and the portal, Sparrow and 10 lieutenants under Eurome led the 2,000 people who had crossed over to occupy the main road to intercept enemy reinforcements from the west, and the vampire prince himself took Melissa and Ionic, as well as the remaining 1,000 people, to attack the Holy City directly.

Looking at the solemn and sacred gate of the Holy City from afar, the blood-sucking Prince Dekra, the signature smile of Prince Edward, the "God of War" thousands of years ago, reappeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Let this revolution get off to a bang!".

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