Pope Sixtus has been deposed, and the news is like dropping a giant bomb on the battlefield!

The head of the Papal Guard, Filizak, had great authority in the guards of the Holy City, and his decisions and orders were soon spread to all the soldiers inside and outside the Holy City through special communication magic. The Knights Templar and the defenders, who were already suspicious of their superiors, were finally relieved. Countless soldiers defected one after another, no longer being the enemy of the crusading army, and although a small number of diehards continued to resist, they were basically quickly controlled by the mutinous soldiers.

Although Felizak disbanded his army in order to respect the free choice of his subordinates, the vast majority of the Papal Guard chose to continue to follow his leader, standing with Sophia, William, and the other crusaders who had parachuted into the city and stormed the Papal Palace on the Holy Mountain.

And the defenders in the Holy City area no longer continued to chase down the lone and lost crusading soldiers, because Joyka and Yundi, who had infiltrated the Holy City for a long time, finally made a move, they penetrated into the defenders of these cities, "convinced" their commanders, and then, with the end of their multi-day investigation, led these defenders to quickly find and capture several secret places located in various parts of the Holy City, and rescued all the Templar high-ranking people who were under house arrest inside.

The defenders at the gates opened the gates and welcomed the besieging troops from the kingdom of Pole outside the city into the city. A few minutes ago they were mortal enemies, but now they are comrades-in-arms.

The griffons above the sea broke away from contact with the crusading air force, which consisted mainly of Pegasus Knights, Green Dragon Contractors, and Floating Ships, and flocked back to the Holy City like a hundred birds returning to their nests. Because the identification mark of friend or foe on their bodies was still there, these griffon riders were not worried about being accidentally injured by the Holy Thunder Enchantment, and they were relieved to dive down to the Papal Palace from above.

Eventually, even the Inquisition's armed arrest squads mutinied, and although the Inquisition remained loyal to Sixtus, there was a limit to their loyalty, and when Sixtus fell from the Pope's peak, the loyal subordinates no longer had a reason to remain loyal.

Although the main forces of the crusading army at sea were still unable to land because of the existence of the Holy Thunder Enchantment, with the defective defenders in the city and the crusading army airborne troops that broke into the city, it was only an easy matter to completely wipe out the evil cultists of the Truth Society who occupied the Pope's Palace.

However, are things really that simple?

On the papal palace, on the side facing the Holy City area and the Holy Mountain Pass, a beautiful woman with the figure of Ana was standing on a relatively secret tower, watching coldly the Knights Templar and other defenders of the Holy City who were turning against each other, and the beautiful eyes were full of disdain.

"Hmph! It's all a bunch of rubbish. The corners of Christina's mouth curled, and a sneer swept over her.

The twelve Truth Leaders had already taken Julian to the Pope's Chambers to receive a temporary oracle contract, and Christina had no subordinates by her side. The plan could not be carried out until a new pope was elected, so there was no point in Christina remaining in the Saints' Gallery, and she went to the tower alone to watch the situation outside.

What Christina didn't expect was that the Pope's deposition not only hindered the ceremony, but also had a chain reaction that caused the Knights Templar and the defenders of the Holy City to defect en masse, which had been in her hands. Although from the beginning, she had no hope that the peripheral forces she regarded as cannon fodder would be able to resist Sophia's crusading army, it was indeed unexpected that the defenses would collapse so quickly.

There is still some time before the eclipse occurs, and Christina is fully sure that Julian will be able to obtain papal authority and finally complete her Truth Society ceremony before the eclipse is over, but there will be a relatively long defensive vacuum in between. Christina will never let the slightest trouble get in the way of the "grand ceremony", and for this, she has to play some hole cards in advance!

"Buzz ......"

Christina raised her hands high, and a dark red wave of magical light formed in the palms of her hands, and then soared into the air, rising about 100 meters above the top of the Pope's Palace, and suddenly exploded, bursting into a huge brilliant firework, which was actually a special magic flare.

Just when the defected Knights Templar and the Guards of the Holy City, as well as the crusaders who entered the city, thought that they could easily sweep away the remnants of the Truth Order that occupied the Papal Palace, the situation suddenly took a turn for the worse!

The crusaders and the soldiers of the Pope's personal guard, who were storming the Papal Palace, were rushing back on the narrow mountain road when they suddenly saw a dozen warriors wearing full armor and holding heavy weapons in front of them, blocking the way for the soldiers to march.

"Kill!"

"Crush them!"

The commanders of the two Allied armies, William and Filizak, gave the order to attack one after another. The soldiers who rushed to the front formed an offensive and defensive battle formation with spears and tower shields, and marched neatly towards the armored warriors, and sharp arrows whistled over the heads of the soldiers in the front row, covering the dozen or so enemy armored warriors like locusts. In the eyes of the two commanders and their subordinates, a dozen people blocking thousands of people was simply a mantis arm blocking the car. Even if the dozen or so men hadn't been turned into hedgehogs by the locust's arrows, the troops of thousands would have trampled them to pulp.

However, when Sophia, who was walking in the second echelon, saw clearly those weak enemies blocking the way, her face suddenly changed drastically, and she shouted loudly to the troops in front: "Retreat! Don't go up!"

But Sophia found out too late, the soldiers ahead rushed too fast, and her warning came too late.

I only heard a series of heart-rending screams from the front of the battle, and then I could see countless severed arms and stumps, as well as broken human bodies flying around, and the stinking blood drifted into the air, mixed with a large amount of minced flesh and debris, and a small "rain of flesh and blood" fell in the sky above the army.

William and Filizak were both stunned! They didn't fail to hear Sophia's warning, but neither of them thought that a dozen or so people on the other side would be able to stop the march of thousands of troops until the tragedy happened......

Arrows and spears didn't pierce the armor of a dozen or so enemies, but the enemy's heavy weapons easily shattered the soldiers' iron shields and their fragile bodies, sending them flying in pieces. It was a one-sided massacre, just a face, and the more than 100 soldiers who came into contact with the front line were all killed, with no bones left, and no survivors, and their enemies, the dozen or so armored warriors who stood in the way, were unharmed, except that their armor and heavy weapons were covered in blood.

"So, those...... What kind of monster?" Filizak asked Sophia, stammering a little.

As soon as they realized that something was wrong just now, Felizak and William immediately rushed forward to save as many soldiers as possible, but they were still one step too late, with the strength of the two of them cardinals and paladins, not only could not save a single soldier, if the two of them evacuated a second later, the lives of the two strong men might have to be confessed there.

"They are called 'Divine Warriors', monsters created by the Truth Society using the resources of the Central Church. Sophia's face became solemn, "This is a group of flesh killing machines that have no self-awareness, don't know pain, are extremely destructive, and are difficult to kill. ”