Chapter Sixty-Four: The Sword in the Cloud Box is Still Cold (Part II)

Since Augsburg has become a GelbHalstch hermit and a member of the European magic world, the next struggle is a matter within the magic world, and even those who are as powerful as the Holy See have to abide by certain conventional rules, and the hat of heresy cannot be buckled. If the Holy See insists on deducting that, then according to his standards, he can wear it if he picks up a European magic force at will, and when the time comes, does it mean that your Holy See will deduct a heretic hat and then launch a secular conquest if he sees someone who is not pleasing to the eye? This is a matter of principle that has a bearing on the safety of the major forces.

The Holy See was originally able to hold the position of the hegemon of the European continent, but that was because there were many contradictions between the other major magic forces and they could not unite to deal with the challenge of the Holy See, and the Holy See also consciously did not do the kind of thing that killed everything, lest dogs jump over the wall in a hurry and rabbits bite people in a hurry.

But this kind of thing has already touched the bottom line of the major magic forces, and once the Holy See is allowed to create the facts, then the Holy See will really be able to engage whoever it wants.

The Holy See is well aware of this. The Holy See knew better that the great powers had so easily accepted the existence of the Gelb Halstch monastery in order to add to the obstacles of the Holy See.

In the face of the pressing of the Gelb Halstch monastery, the Holy See had no choice but to meet the challenge, otherwise it was not certain whether it would be able to gain a foothold in Europe, not to mention that its supremacy would not be guaranteed.

Since Jackbeth II was able to plot such a violent revenge for his son's death, it is clear that his ultimate goal was to destroy the Holy See, which is evident from the fact that he vigorously supported Protestantism.

The Holy See immediately organized a second jihadist army.

This time, a total of 3,000 paladins and 500 priests participated, and instead of the first contempt, not only did they keep the battle plan highly secret, but also sent a large number of spies deep into the area around Augsburg to find out the news.

However, the jihadist army did not set off.

Augsburg never wanted to be beaten passively, and after annihilating the first invading enemy, it immediately launched a counterattack.

This counterattack is three-dimensional and multifaceted.

At the lowest level, it is to sweep the churches of the Holy See everywhere.

Protestants changed their previous restraint in the face of churches because of the fear of God, and began to organize attacks on local churches, expelling priests and building their own churches.

At the intermediate level, bishops were attacked, and mysterious figures emerged in the war between the Protestants and the Holy See, resulting in the assassination of senior military generals on the Catholic side, and the continuous rout of Catholic armies on all fronts.

At the senior level, many of the petty royal families began to take the lead in turning against Protestantism, abandoning Catholicism, and outlawing Catholicism in their own countries, launching a vigorous Protestant rise movement from an official perspective. 、

And this series of counterattacks finally reached a climax in the Great March.

After defeating the Catholic army in front of the Catholic army, the Grand Duke of Verona, who can be regarded as the most staunch supporter of Protestants among the royal nobles, suddenly pointed the finger at the Holy See, claiming that the source of evil is in the Vatican, and that the loyalty and blood of God's devout disciples are wantonly squandered by those careerists who intend to cover up God's true voice for their personal selfish desires, and that both Catholics and Protestants are God's people, and why they would die here with blood is a conspiracy of the Vatican! He also called on all Protestants to march to the Vatican, expel the Holy See where the corpses were fed, and let the glory of God shine unobstructed on the land of Europe again.

The Grand Duke of Verona led his army and the Protestants in his domain, ignoring the Catholic army on his side, resolutely left the territory and marched to the Vatican first.

Protestants from all over the country responded one after another, joining all the way, and finally gathered hundreds of thousands of horses, and the momentum was so great that all countries along the way did not dare to stop them.

The Holy See could not care about dealing with Augsburg, and hurriedly withdrew the paladins from all over the country to defend the Vatican.

If this march can be carried out to the end, it may be possible that history will be rewritten.

With the covert help of the mages of the Gelb Halstch Retreat, even if the Holy See wanted to intercept it halfway, it would not be able to do so.

But at a critical moment, a piece of news reached Augsburg.

It is about the tragic death of Jack II's only son.

The source is the witch at the top of Brocken's mountain.

When the Gelb Halstch Monks fought with the Holy See to the death of the whole continent, they seemed to have forgotten that in addition to the Paladins of the Holy See and the noble boys of Augsburg, there were also two third parties, namely Clara and Elisabeth, the witches from the top of Brocken.

If you are serious, the whole incident was caused by these two witches.

If it weren't for the fact that they suddenly ran to Augsburg and the news leaked to the Holy See beforehand, then there would have been no mess of all these things that followed, maybe the mages of Augsburg continued their secluded lives, maybe there would not have been the Black Death that affected the whole of Europe and caused tens of millions of deaths, and maybe there would not have been the current Protestant-Catholic war that has swept all countries.

But before the news came, it was true that no one cared about these two witches.

Indeed, compared with the Holy See and Augsburg, even the witches on the top of Brockenn Mountain combined, are less than a little finger of these two powers, both the Holy See and Augsburg regard the cause of this incident as an accident, and no one even wants to trouble these two witches, on the one hand, because the witches are secretive in the witch hunt, and on the other hand, Augsburg is preparing to deal with the Holy See with all its might, and the Holy See is focused on presiding over the witch hunt to suppress the rise of Protestantism, No one looked at the two witches for a moment.

But the news from the top of Brockenberg proves that Auggersburg made a serious mistake, at least while they went all out against the Holy See, ignoring the real culprits - the witches at the top of Brocken.

The tragedy that killed tens of millions of people in Europe in the years to come was not an accident, but an elaborate conspiracy!

The masterminds of the conspiracy are Clara, known as the Demon Witch, and Elizabeth, nicknamed Poison.

At that time, during the witch hunt, the living conditions of the witches were getting worse and worse, and Clara and Elizabeth ran for years, but they never succeeded in forming an alliance of wild witches, but they inadvertently discovered a seemingly useless news.

In a valley known as Ishus, near Augsburg, a group of strange mages are mining ore. 、

Clara and Elizabeth initially thought it was some great magic force or some wild witch, so they went to investigate, if it was a big magic force, they would naturally not provoke it, and if it was a wild witch, they might be able to persuade them to join in.

However, after a long period of reconnaissance, the two and their witches revealed many suspicious points, and finally concluded that this group of mages were not members of any of the great magic forces known to the continent, and judging from the spell casting methods they occasionally revealed, they were definitely different from the various schools in Europe, and these mages actually had close ties with Augsburg, and even obeyed Augsburg's orders.