March 12, 1688.

The chaos in the world of Olopa has come to an end. In the early morning of this day, the silent holy city of "City of Myths" was once again plunged into war. When all the churches in the city rang the morning bell as usual, it was a conspiracy to signal action, and the rebels lurking in various parts of the Holy City suddenly appeared from the ground, quickly spread all over the city, and then quickly rallied and stormed all the strongholds and prisons of the "purifiers" with lightning speed.

Although in the past few months, the rebellion has been repeated throughout the Papal Dominion, but in the most important holy city, the "City of Myths", it is relatively calm, the Cardinal Council and the "Purifiers" have a firm grip on everything, and anyone who is even the slightest suspicion of resistance, let alone entering the Holy City, has been intercepted as early as the outskirts of the city, 5 kilometers outside the city;

But when the high-ranking members of these "purifiers" came to the front line, they were surprised to see that many of the rebels attacking on the opposite side were familiar faces belonging to their own subordinates, and these high-ranking people instantly understood what was going on.

It turns out that at the very beginning of the establishment of the "Purifiers" this institution, countless rebels were involved, and the so-called rebellion was actually premeditated before the "tyranny" took place, and it was not a rebellion that was forced to occur after the "holy terror" had caused panic in the people.

Of course, the authorities are not without countermeasures, and the calm of the Holy City for several months has not paralyzed the Cardinals, and they know very well that the current calm is only the eve of the storm, and that the rebellion is like a "plague" that will sooner or later spread to the Holy City. In anticipation, the College of Cardinals recruited a large number of armed men who they considered "absolutely credible" and "absolutely pure" to form a force completely independent of the "purifiers" and under the direct command of only the three cardinals, also known as the "loyal forces". In peacetime, it was not necessary to raise troops, but once a large-scale riot broke out in the Holy City, the Cardinal Council decisively dispatched "loyal troops" to rush out of the Papal Palace to reinforce the "purifiers" to suppress the rebellion.

However, although the "Purifiers" received reinforcements, the only military force that the Cardinal Council could rely on could no longer continue to protect the safety of the three cardinals.

The first to attack were the two new priests. "Rebellion in the Holy City" Later, in order to consolidate their power and firmly control the Sensibility in their own hands, the three cardinals fabricated various charges in the name of investigating the spies of the Truth Society, and eliminated a large number of old priests with deep qualifications and roots from the Cardinals.

This approach facilitates the rapid seizure of power in a very short period of time;

The two priests who were the first to rebel, no matter how humble and respectful they were to the three cardinals, once their disguises were torn off, they frantically bit at their immediate superiors like wolves entering a flock. Immediately afterwards, more renegades joined the rebellion, and the Cardinal Council was in chaos. The rebels first captured the bell tower used to issue the command, so that the news of the civil unrest in the Court of Cardinals could not reach the "loyal army" sent out in the first place, so as to maximize the damage caused by the civil unrest.

With their strong strength as cardinals, although the three cardinals defeated most of the renegades in the cardinals, they also became very weak because of the large consumption of mana, so in the next second wave of attacks, the three cardinals seemed to be a little powerless.

This so-called "second wave of attacks" did not come from a rebellion within the Council of Cardinals, or even in the Papal Palace.

In the buildings outside the Pope's Palace, a large number of skilled archers were hidden at some point, and from a great distance, they used their longbows to shoot extremely sharp arrows at the location of the three cardinals in the Pope's Palace. Although the three cardinals themselves were not directly injured by the rounds of shooting for the time being, they knocked down the few remaining followers around them one by one, and the three cardinals' protective rings were stripped away layer by layer. At such a distance, even the cardinal, who was an eighth-level powerhouse, could not make an effective counterattack, although he reluctantly summoned angels to attack the location of the attackers, but also because of the lengthening of the psychic distance, the summoned angels could not exert their full strength, and those attackers with extremely high bow skills were very cunning to escape from the original hiding place before the angels attacked.

One Angel of Power and two Angels of Wisdom pursued and killed only five attackers, and then returned to their original world because the summoner's magic power was exhausted.

......

"Do you see that?

"Of course, I can see clearly, although the bow skills of this group of people are not as good as me and Teacher Tismu, but they can have such an outstanding degree, if they are not the elven race, they must only be the cloud-piercing longbowmen of the Sealand Kingdom. ”

"Sure enough, it was him, and Julian finally came. ”

In another inconspicuous corner outside the Papal Palace, two young men who had just escaped from prison were carefully observing the battle outside.

"Well, it's time to meet him for a while. ”

With that, Jojka jumped out of hiding and quickly disappeared into the alley, but Owen didn't do anything, he stayed in the hiding place and continued to observe. The cooperation between the two of them is not once or twice, some are in the light and some are in the dark, so that they can better cooperate with each other. However, this time, Owen did not show up immediately, not only because of the problem of mutual cooperation, but also because of Julian's defection, Owen still had deep doubts in his heart.

......

On Christmas Eve last year, during the "Assassination of the King" in the city of Hansha, the capital of the King of Pole, Julian escaped under the siege of Owen, Joika, Cassius, and Lyle, but his escape was not all smooth sailing, as Owen and Joyka followed in his footsteps.

But neither of them expected reinforcements from Julian. Just as Owen and Joyka were about to catch Julian, more than a dozen sharp arrows suddenly shot at the two of them from all directions, and the arrows were so fast that even if the frightened two of them were able to successfully dodge, they were still very embarrassed, and by the time they recovered their strength, Julian had long since disappeared. Joyka and Owen then retaliated against the shooters who had covered Julian's escape, killing one of the shooters each and the rest of the enemy fleeing without a trace.

An inquest of the bodies of two enemies confirmed that both men were from the Kingdom of Sealand, an elite archery unit - the Cloudpiercing Longbowmen.

Since it is related to the Kingdom of Sealand, combined with the palace coup d'état that took place in the Kingdom of Sealand not long ago, the former king was killed, and the crown prince Prince Harun ascended the throne, which is full of Julian's methods. Therefore, Owen can basically confirm that the reason why Julian joined the Truth Society must be related to Prince Harlan, the "Riversider", the current King Harun.

Because of this, as soon as he received the news from Queen Catherine's secret envoy, Owen accepted the task without hesitation. Owen never believed that the rebellions against the Cardinals and the "Purifiers" were spontaneous, and that there must be a black hand of the Society of Truth behind them, and that if they followed this line, they would definitely be able to catch Julian.

However, the biggest problem facing Owen now is not Julian himself, nor the "little fox" that Catherine's secret envoy asked them to track, but the forces of the Kingdom of Zealand that are hiding in the shadows - to be precise, Prince Harun, who fought side by side with him a few months ago.