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An hour and a half later, when the sky was already dark, Rhodes had also dealt with the hapless Last Pope of the Holy Radiance Church.

"Sure enough, the whereabouts of the God of Divine Radiance are in the Holy Mountain, but he is unwilling to share the secret for his own benefit, and he really deserves to be transformed into the Pope of the Political Zhì Family."

Enjoying the breakfast that Nilou* Shadow Song had just made tens of thousands of kilometers away, recalling the news about the Holy Mountain that he had just received from the Pope's mind, Rhodes sighed as he swallowed the last bite of the delicious broth.

In the mind of the 22nd Pope, known as Mir St. Testu, the only memory that Rhodes was most concerned about was the top-secret information passed down by the successive popes of the papal family.

After the beginning of the Dawning War, the Church of the Holy Radiance, which was suddenly leaderless, did not give up the search for the disappeared God of the Holy Radiance. However, when the first pope of the Holy Radiance Church found the relevant clues of the Holy Radiance God in the Holy Mountain, he was unable to break through the obstacle and was even seriously injured and returned, and finally hurried back to the original Saidnes, only had time to tell his son some news, and after passing the second pope to his son, the original strong first pope was directly hung up.

What is surprising is that after listening to his father's order, the second generation of the pope originally sent his cronies to protect the holy mountain, waiting for the future when he has enough strength to rescue the god of his faith, the god of the Holy Radiance.

However, the second pope was not very lucky, and then died in the war against the Orc Empire in the latter part of the War of Dawn, and only the third pope learned the true news about the Holy Mountain.

But at that time, the Holy Radiance Empire had already been established, and the third-generation Pope, who had become the first person in the Holy Radiance Empire and controlled the life and death of countless believers, did not have the idea of taking the initiative to find a top boss for himself.

-- This is not a strange thing, after all, normal people do not have the idea of finding a top boss after sitting at the top. And His Excellency the Third Pope, not to mention, with the power in control of the entire Holy Radiance Church and the Holy Radiance Empire, would he still want to find out the legendary gods and make trouble for himself? His Excellency the Third Pope apparently had no such thoughts!

Therefore, when the third pope blocked all information about the Holy Mountain, he only declared that the Holy Mountain was the holy place where the God of Divine Radiance first came. After fooling the others, the third pope began to study how he could reap the benefits of the disappearance of the sacred mountain, where he suspected that his worship of the gods had disappeared.

In this process, the Divine Crystal, which Magnus Claudius transformed into a Knight of Radiance, is one of the gains, and there are several situations that are not inferior to this harvest that allow the Papal Family to enjoy the benefits of more than a thousand years, ruling the Holy Radiance Empire for more than a thousand years!

This time, the current pope brought people to the Holy Mountain with the Guò Mage Tower Teleportation Circle, just to take away the good things in the Holy Mountain and the cronies and subordinates in charge of guarding, but he didn't expect to meet Rhodes, who was waiting for the rabbit.

"Has Magnus already taken Sednes? Looks like it's going to speed up here."

After destroying the breakfast of love prepared by Nilou* Shadowsong, Rhodes got up and looked at Seydnis's situation, muttered a sigh and disappeared in place.

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Holy!

Compared to the giant mountain ranges in this world that are tens of thousands of meters high and stretching for more than a dozen or even hundreds of thousands of kilometers, the highest peak of the holy mountain that stretches for more than 5,000 kilometers is only more than 8,000 meters high, and the most demonic beasts inhabited in it are of the golden rank.

For one of the Papal Family's die-hard Sanctuary Knights, twenty Golden Knights, and five Gold-rank mages stationed in a secret location in the Holy Mountain, they were more of a sigh for their boring life in this valley.

However, today, this valley that has been invaded by outsiders without outsiders having a hidden magic array applied to it is directly invaded.

"Boom—"

With a loud bang on the mountain wall, the golden knight who had just completed the involuntary solo flight collapsed directly into the pit of the mountain wall, and the silent but bloody situation on the ground showed that the heavily armed golden knight had finished playing.

Hundreds of meters away, the other three heavily armed golden knights and a golden mage collapsed to the ground silently, judging from the wounds on the necks and eye sockets of the four guys, they were all fatal with an easy blow!

Rhodes himself looked like a graceful wanderer, carrying a long sword that was still dripping blood, and walked into the garrison valley that had already been explored.

"Kill him!!"

After being awakened by that loud noise, the sixteen golden knights and four golden mages who suddenly rushed out didn't need to say any nonsense after seeing the situation at the scene, and rushed directly towards Rhodes with the roar of one of the golden knights in the lead.

"Whoosh-whoosh-"

"Hum—"

I have to say that the people arranged by the Holy Radiance Church Pope in such an important place are indeed elite enough, sixteen golden knights did not hesitate to swing their fighting spirit in the process of charging, and four gold-rank magicians also threw various restricted types of spells at Rhodes at the same time. And the most commendable thing is that the cooperation between the twenty gold-rank melee professionals and mage professionals is abnormally tacit, and the Douqi Slash and Restriction Spells do not appear to interfere with each other at all, but instead form a net-like shape, directly enveloping Rhodes himself and the surrounding range of tens of meters.

But this tacit cooperation and the strength of the golden rank are completely not enough for the current Rhodes!

Ignoring the restriction spells that were absorbed by his own Dou Qi into his original form as soon as he got close, the translucent Dou Qi on Rhodes' body suddenly exploded, and then the whole person's figure appeared directly in front of the oncoming Golden Knight.

Seeing Rhodes suddenly appear in front of him, the leading few golden knights tacitly understood that there were no words or exchanges, and the three golden knights with shields did not hesitate to stand at the front, and then several golden knights holding two-handed heavy swords or slashing swords directly swung their swords at Rhodes!

"Hey~~~" Looking at the weapons and shields that shone with fighting energy, Rod sighed, then moved his steps directly and handed out the one-handed long sword in his hand.

As if coordinated, Rhodes dodged the weapons or shields that were cut at him in the gaps of those weapons in a posture that was completely impossible under normal circumstances, and then took a few cold rays of light with him like a passer-by, and then "walked" directly behind them from the several golden knights besieging them.

Several of the Golden Knights who took the lead in blocking had lost all their luster in their eyes, and a short scar could be seen on their foreheads and throats, but their entire heads had been shattered or their brains had turned into tofu scum They had lost their lives, and even their bodies had been carried to the ground by the force they had swung with their weapons before.

"Carlo ?!!"

"Bidis ?!!!"

"Be careful, everyone!!"

Seeing this strange situation, people who were close to the dead Golden Knight shouted, but there were also people who understood that they were loudly reminding everyone to pay attention.

It's a pity that they reacted too late!

The speed at which Rhodes walked over seemed to be as slow as a walk, but with a distance of more than ten meters, he walked through the encirclement of the remaining ten golden knights in only three or four steps.

As Rhodes walked through the Golden Knight's interception circle, he raised the one-handed long sword in his hand, and then swept the weapons in their hands with all their strength under the horrified gaze of those Golden Knights, and then directly pierced through the fighting qi protection and some magic protection inspired by his body.

The last thing these golden knights saw was a cold light flashing in front of them, and then they felt a pain in a certain part of their body and fell unconscious!

In the course of less than two seconds, the four golden mages who were preparing spells only saw Rod's figure flash and then walk through the encirclement of the Golden Knights, and the few Golden Knights who were guarding them all fell.

Seeing this sudden change in the situation, the four golden mages who were originally preparing auxiliary spells or powerful attack spells were almost frightened.

As a legal profession, unless it is some special profession, even a Sanctuary mage may be directly killed by a warrior holding a demon-breaking weapon because of an accident-except for a few space mages and legendary mages on the Yaofa Continent, other mages do not have many trigger-type teleportation spells in the DND world!

However, Rod, who had just performed the slaughter of the Golden Knight like mowing grass, suddenly stagnated, and an invisible pressure in the entire sky enveloped him and several panicked golden mages.

"Boy, surrender obediently!"

With a slightly annoyed voice, a strong man with chestnut hair who looked to be forty or fifty years old came out of a house on the edge of the valley and said to Rod with an ugly face.

"Lord Carlos?!" *4

Looking at the strong man dressed in aristocratic clothing, the four gold-rank magicians shouted to Carlos of the Sanctuary rank as if they had seen a savior.

But just when the four golden mages were glad that they were saved, a flickering cold light directly reflected in their eyes, and then the four golden mages watched in disbelief as the talisman magic inspired by their bodies was directly destroyed by the cold light, and then they covered their wounds and fell directly to the ground.

After Rod directly killed the four golden mages, his body jerked back. Subsequently, dozens of earthy yellow fighting qi slashes directly turned the position where Rhodes was standing just now and the corpses of several golden mages into countless fragments.

"Bastard !!"

Watching Rod kill his few remaining subordinates right under his nose, Carlos, who was only thinking of capturing Rhodes alive and interrogating him properly, became angry. After unleashing dozens of fighting qi slashes without leaving his hands, Carlos roared angrily as he swung his two-handed heavy sword that had just been drawn from his spatial dimension bag, directly aimed at Rhodes, who was dodging, and slashed wildly.

How powerful is a Sanctuary professional in a rage? Looking at Carlos, who is now rampaging in the valley like a wild beast, he understands the general idea!

The thick earthy yellow fighting spirit condensed into a semi-substantial armor attached to Carlos's body, like a small giant more than three meters tall galloping on the ground, the size and speed of which it was difficult for those who did not know to understand why a burly man could be so agile in a wild run, almost chasing after Rhodes and slashing wildly.

The translucent fighting aura on Rhodes' body has now turned cyan, and his whole person is like catkins floating in the wind to dodge Carlos, who is working part-time as a demolition worker and bulldozer, although it seems to be dangerous, but strangely he was not hit by any attack.

After almost five minutes of slashing wildly after Carlos, who had chased Rhodes all the way out of the valley, the anger of the Sanctuary powerhouse, who had just become angry, was blown by the mountain wind, and his anger was lowered, and he began to realize that the situation was obviously not right.

Why did the guy on the other side suddenly find this valley hidden by the magic array? What about the guards at the bottom of the mountain? And this enemy just showed that his strength was obviously not inferior to his own, why did he lure him out of the valley without fighting back now? And so on, leading out of the valley

Thinking of this, Carlos, who was originally chasing, suddenly felt a pang in his heart, and then stopped his steps and began to observe the surroundings and Rhodes who was dangling hundreds of meters in front of him.

"Found it? So, let's end there!"

Seeing that the Sanctuary powerhouse named Carlos realized that something was wrong and began to try to retreat, Rod, who was originally in front of him as if he was fleeing, muttered quietly, and then suddenly turned around and killed Carlos.

Rod's body instantly turned into a phantom, and then appeared directly in front of Carlos and swung out a one-handed long sword with a striking cyan fighting aura in his hand.

"It's not !! good"

Carlos, who was originally ready to retreat and contact the others, faced this sharp and fast attack of Rhodes, but he only had time to catch up with the weapon in his hand and burst out with all his fighting strength.

With Carlos's desperate behavior, his body directly exuded the same earthy yellow fighting aura luster from top to bottom, and the two-handed heavy sword of the holy weapon rank was even more stimulated with the special power it possessed, and the gravity suddenly doubled within a radius of 100 meters centered on the two-handed heavy sword, and only Carlos himself who was holding a two-handed heavy sword was not affected!

It stands to reason that this is a very important hole card, and the two-handed heavy sword of the holy weapon rank and Carlos, who is himself an earth holy realm rank, is already a very powerful combination, even in the face of a strong person of the same level, he may accidentally be hit. And Carlos also decided that Rhodes belonged to that kind of wind type of Sacred Domain powerhouse, and if he went head-to-head with an Earth Sacred Domain powerhouse like himself who was good at defensive warfare and endurance warfare, it would definitely not be him who would suffer!

However, when the two-handed heavy sword in Carlos's hand came into contact with the one-handed longsword in Rhodes's hand, the incomparable power transmitted from the opponent's long sword directly blasted Carlos, who was originally full of confidence, into the air!

"Ahem!! How can it be? It's obviously the wind system" When Carlos, who had involuntarily flown for dozens of meters, stopped, he spit out a mouthful of blood and looked at Rod who came over in disbelief and shouted. However, after seeing the changes in Rod, Carlos swallowed back the second half of his words.

Because in Rod's body, the cyan wind fighting qi that was originally not inferior to the rank of the Holy Domain had turned into a thick earthy yellow earth fighting qi like a mountain, which Carlos, who belonged to the Earth Sacred Domain, could clearly feel.

"Two lines of vindictiveness? How is this possible?? And is that power really something that humans can have?"

Looking at Rhodes, who was bursting with a fighting spirit, Carlos really wanted to pull out his eyes and wipe them and press them back to see if he was hallucinating. However, with the injuries on his hands and the shaking injuries he had just shaken, the situation he had just been injured was absolutely real, and the unbelievable situation in front of him was probably also true.

"Cut!" Looking at the disbelieving gaze of the Sanctuary powerhouse on the opposite side, Rhodes was very proud to "cut", but he was not stupid enough to say his unpretentious fighting spirit and the hole cards in the back hand to the enemy who had not yet been defeated.

In the past two years or so, after having the Wuhua Dou Qi that the Gods Game Space had performed according to the relevant inheritances and wisdom halls of those holy realms and legendary ranks, Rod finally met the extremely harsh cultivation conditions of this sect that he called the "Wuhua" Dou Qi inheritance, and successfully cultivated this Wuhua Dou Qi to the peak of the golden rank - that's right, Rod is only the storage of the golden rank if he counts it now!

But now in the face of the veteran Sanctuary Carlos, who has a good heritage, Rhodes can still easily beat the other party to the point of being unbearable, and even completely surpasses the other party in terms of quality, quantity and physical qualities!

As for combat skills and combat awareness? Well, the gap between the two sides will only get bigger, not closer.

"Deal with it early, let's take a look at that place"

Thinking back to his cultivation of Wuhua Douqi, Rhodes shook his head and refocused his attention on Carlos, who was on guard on the other side.

With Rod's charge, an unusually desperate battle for Carlos begins!

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Fifteen minutes later, in the same valley that Rhodes had just broken into.

Compared to the situation when he had just broken in and killed, Rhodes, who had changed his clothes and looked a little wolf, admired the situation in the valley while letting a dozen androids process the corpses and lead the way ahead.

"Tsk, it's really a loss to the popes of the past generations, and the tricks of the cunning rabbit three holes have been played"

Looking at this hidden valley of hundreds of square kilometers, it had just taken a lot of effort to take down a Sacred Domain powerhouse, and Rod couldn't help but sigh as he recalled what he had learned from the Pope's memory.

It should be said that the IQ of the people in the magic world is actually not stupid, and the garrison corps that is clearly stationed on the holy mountain is actually not worth mentioning at all, although it is elite, even the other high-level families of the Holy Radiance Church understand that it is not the main master. And on a central mountain range on the Holy Mountain, which is thousands of kilometers away from this location, the "Temple" guarded by hundreds of the lowest red bronze rank and the highest ten gold rank is the place that the other high-ranking families of the Holy Radiance Church have been paying attention to in the last few hundred years!

But Magnus Claudius, who was baptized in that "temple" and became a knight of radiance, and other high-ranking members of the Holy Radiance Church did not know that the so-called "temple" that was mysterious and secretive and that successive popes would visit every few years when they had nothing to do was actually a disguise, and all kinds of things in it were arranged by the original popes.

The place that was really discovered by the papal family and kept a secret for thousands of years, and even privately called the "Valley of God" by the third pope, was actually in this outer valley less than 200 kilometers in the mountains!

If there was no space for the gods to play, or if they didn't know the real situation in advance, no one would have thought that there was actually a big secret in this ordinary-looking valley!

And in order to keep this secret, the papal family of the Holy Radiance Church not only used the excuse of "Holy Mountain" and other arrangements to attract the attention and gaze of others, but also specially set up a magic array for various hidden purposes in this valley with a small area, and there was a holy domain and at least twenty gold-rank powerhouses to guard it all year round.

"My lord, we found some servants in front and charged them, what should they do?"

Just as Rod sighed, he suddenly heard some noise in front of him, and then an android ran over and respectfully asked his boss for instructions.

-- In the consciousness of these androids, there are clear regulations for the enemy and all kinds of actions, and in this case, if it is not Rhodes who order to keep it secret and the enemy is caught, the androids can at most control the other party and ask Rhodes or the person in charge for their handling opinions, and then attack these captives.

"It doesn't matter, those are ordinary people at most, let's control them first!"

From the Pope's memory, Rhodes also knew that those servants were all slaves specially purchased by the Pope's family, and he had no intention of slaughtering the captives for the time being.

Of course, in the Pope's memory, these slaves were specially prepared for the service of the strong men stationed here, and in the course of rotating the guards every five years, the previous batch of slaves would be disposed of and replaced with new ones. And it was this act of caution and extraordinary cruelty that allowed the Papal family to keep the secrets of this valley for thousands of years!

Rhodes didn't have the time to take care of those slaves, and after making sure that there were no other idlers in the valley, he brought a dozen androids who were absolutely loyal and at least the rank of the Holy Realm to the back of the valley.

"Turn on !!"

Looking at the concealment and protection magic array that definitely belonged to the legendary level, Rhodes directly took out the ring token that had been handed down by the Pope for generations, and then injected the corresponding magic into the game space of the gods.

With a gate that seemed to appear as if it was a void, it appeared silently in front of Rhodes and the others, and the secret of the holy mountain that had been buried for thousands of years was about to be revealed! (To be continued......)