August 17, 1688, the Age of Light, is a day that history will always remember.

After two days and one night of fierce naval and air battles, the Knights Templar lost both sea and air supremacy, and the northern and southern crusading armies approached the city. After a short break of several hours, at 5:15 a.m., the siege battle began on time!

This is the third siege of the Holy City in two years. The first attackers were the Bloodlines, who wanted to launch a revolution against the Central Church, and the second was a rebel army led by the retired Archinist, Sixtus, in order to overthrow the tyrannical rule of the Cardinals and the Purifiers. The first two routes of attack were very traditional, starting with a foothold on land, attacking the Holy City, and then launching a general assault on the isolated Papal Palace after controlling most of the Holy City.

However, this third campaign is very different from the previous two. Instead of taking the traditional route of landing at the sea stalls on the outskirts of the Holy City and then attacking the Holy City by land, the crusading army abandoned the Holy City and attacked the Papal Palace directly from the sea!

Although this abrupt change rendered the Templars' defenses in the Holy City and along the coast useless, the attack was far more difficult than the previous two sieges.

Although the Papal Palace hangs lonely on the seashore, it is built on a steep cliff, and there is no foothold to land when attacking from the sea, and attacking from the air will encounter a powerful holy thunder defensive barrier, which may be completely wiped out at any time.

Therefore, in the eyes of both the senior generals of the Templar Order and the top of the Order of Truth, the crusading army's direct attack from the sea from the east was undoubtedly suicidal!

In the open sea to the east of the Holy City, hundreds of warships surrounded the towering Papal Palace, and the heavy ballistas and catapults on the warships fired volleys in turn, smashing countless flaming giant crossbow arrows and boulders into the Pope's Palace on the cliff. Among these fierce attacking warships were the ships of the "Sea of Miracles" legion that had defected in previous naval battles. However, although the attack of the battleship was fierce, because of the range and height, most of the attacks fell on the smooth and hard cliff wall of the cliff by the sea, and a few attacks could fall to the pedestal of the Papal Palace, but they did not have a good effect on the impregnable defense, but left hundreds of black marks on the outer wall of the pedestal.

The situation in the sky is similar, because of the existence of the Holy Thunder Enchantment, the air power of the crusading army is as dare not get too close as the navy. The mages aboard the 5 flying ships bombarded the Papal Palace beyond the barrier with a variety of brilliant destruction spells, while the Pegasus Knight and two dragons escorted them. The power of the destructive magic increased exponentially by relying on the linkage circle on the airship, and even if it was partially weakened when passing through the barrier, it still caused extremely considerable damage. Hundreds of black marks were blasted out of the exterior wall of the Papal Palace, although it did not directly damage the exterior wall itself, but the strong vibration produced caused the rooms, corridors and other indoor places close to the exterior wall to vibrate, and from time to time sand and stone fell from the ceiling. And the open-air garden platform that Christina ordered was also smashed into rubble in the air raid.

Seeing her favorite open-air garden platform destroyed, Christina stared at the floating ship in the distant sky, frowned, and said, "After the grand ceremony passes, I must destroy the Snowy Federation." She wasn't just talking, Christina had already felt deeply that the Snowy Federation's magical mechanical technology would pose a serious threat to her and her truth.

At this time, the remaining Knights Templar troops were no longer hiding, and hundreds of griffin air cavalry troops rose from the Papal Palace, the Holy City district, neighboring towns, and military camps, besieging the crusading army's air forces from the west, north, and south.

If they are capable of fighting alone, the human griffin riders are certainly not as good as the elite Pegasus knights of the elves, let alone the dragons, but they have an absolute numerical superiority and a determination to defend their territory. Yes, in previous naval battles, the "Sea of Miracles", also from the Knights Templar, behaved passively and betrayed, but that did not touch the Templars' bottom line. However, once the enemy directly attacked the Papal Palace, it would be a desecration of the most important holy place in their faith, and no matter what the enemy attacked, it would never be allowed! The griffin knights took to the air to intercept it, not only Christina's orders, but also the ultimate defense of their inner beliefs by these air knights.

Therefore, the battlefield in the air is more tragic than at sea. The griffons rushed out of the protective range of the Holy Thunder Barrier, and frantically pounced on the 5 airships in the air, colliding fiercely with the Pegasus knights and dragons who were escorting the perimeter, and they had to knock down the 5 airships at any cost. Although the number of air forces of the crusading force was small, they resisted under the cover of the fire of the warships at sea, and they had to keep the five airships no matter what.

Under the mandatory order of the "Pope", the last battleships of the ballasted bilge of the "Sea of Miracles" forced out of the harbor and rushed head-on towards the fleet of the crusading army.

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The situation is now very serious, and the advantages that had been built up in the previous naval and air battles in the open sea are rapidly being lost under this unreasonable frontal onslaught. In any case, storming the Papal Palace from the sea was a foolish decision, but the commander who made it did not think so.

Whether it was Sophia, Owen, Cassius, Joika, Tismu, or others, most of them had experienced the last vampire siege battle, how could they not understand the power of the battle?

In the few hours since they rested, Sophia, Owen, and Tismu had already joined forces. They had already discussed countermeasures, and although it was dangerous to storm the Papal Palace head-on by sea, it was also a necessary feint to cover the infiltration of the core marines into the Holy City.

The Holy City is protected by an enchantment, which warns of an alien intruder approaching, and the enchantment also blocks the magic of space teleportation, and after learning the lesson of the last vampire attack, the enchantment is protected along with the sewers. Therefore, it was almost impossible for the defenders to secretly infiltrate the interior of the Holy City.

However, nothing in this world is absolute.

"A large number of unidentified armed elements have been found near the Vickers Great Chapel!"

"On Holy Medicine Street, Holy Medicine Street, we were attacked by a sneak attack, and we suffered heavy casualties! The enemy has at least 20 people, no, 40 people!"

"There are a large number of enemy marines massing at the Temple Pass! Please reinforce, we can't resist......"

"Hell, where did these guys come from? Uhhh......h

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Exclamations and screams of "incredible" and "unbelievable" filled the communication crystals of the Holy City Guards, and they could not imagine how so many enemies had infiltrated the Holy City without even noticing. Obviously, the city walls have not been breached, and no enemies have been found approaching the enchantments on the surface and sewers, and no signs of spatial teleportation magic have been detected. Could it be that these guys are the spies that the enemy had planted in the Holy City beforehand? But there are too many of them!

Since Sophia and her allies dared to make such an unreasonable arrangement as storming the Papal Palace from the sea, they naturally had a strong foundation.

That's Sophia's secret weapon: the Tower of Babel!