The gun went off, ordinary ****, ordinary bullet.

But the moment the gunman pulled the trigger, the gun, the bullet, had become extraordinary.

Because the emperor of the empire, Wittstock V, died under this shot.

The fire around the main hall grew stronger and stronger, and the flames ruthlessly destroyed the magnificent temple, and the smoke began to affect people's vision and breathing.

Krauser stood dumbfounded, looking at the king on the throne whose temple had been pierced by bullets, and he could not believe that it was all true.

At this time, behind the long purple gold sè curtain that hung down to the ground, a man in a black sè casual suit walked out, he walked to the throne with a brisk step and a nonchalant look, raised the gun again, and fired five more shots at the emperor's chest who had lost his breath, and ran out of the shuttle bullet.

Tianyi put away his gun and looked at the empty hall burning, and the fire had gradually surrounded the place. Only a blue-haired young man was still standing at the foot of the stairs, with a look of astonishment on his face.

"What are you doing standing stupidly?" Tianyi asked, "Do you want to perish with this city?"

............

This scene has no beginning and no end, and I'm afraid it will take a while for rì to happen, but it's good as a roundabout......

Without further ado, let's take a look back a little and see what happened in the Samarvo Desert.

As the members of the Cross battled Cesare Bamond, the military powerhouses who had entered the Hanging Gardens and the captives of the Iron Commandment returned to Earth without any problems, but before they could take a few breaths of the air of this world. Tang Xian and Yan Kong, who were incarnated by Mo and Horus, fled, and never returned.

The identities of these two "people" have become a mystery, Paper Hero, Luca, and Changying can basically be sure that the Director Tang they met is a fake, and that Yan Kong naturally has a problem. However, after leaving the Hanging Garden, before he could make any contact with them, he lost his target, and the Imperial intelligence network was never able to find out about the two men again. Therefore, whether the real Tang Xian and Yan Kong were dead or alive, and whether they escaped from that space, have also become mysteries.

Thankfully, the two imposters did not break their promise. They did help the desperate people get out of that strange space, and in fact, Mo and Horus saved their lives.

In fact, the thoughts of these two Second Kingdom creatures are by no means to do more good deeds. Nor is it a plan to lurk in this group of people for long. They just don't know the situation on that side of the earth, and they are afraid that if they go out directly, they will be caught in the human city-state and be found and hunted down. According to what they had heard from the cherubim, humans were unreasonable and brutal creatures who, when they found something different, would commit atrocities that disregarded the basic human rights of the other party. Imposing the collective will on the individual.

The best way to hide a tree is not to shade it, but to plant it in a forest. So Mo and Horus's plan was ...... Mix in with that large group of people for the time being, and wait until you get through the portal to see what happens. It would be safer than stepping into a strange kingdom on their own.

When they came to this side of the earth, they saw a desert before their eyes. The portal is not a one-way trip. Therefore, the position of everyone after returning to the earth is far away from the wreckage of the ark, even from the range where the emperor ** is located.

Thereupon. Before Mo and Horus were interrogated by others, they wisely escaped into the yellow sand and disappeared without a trace. Of course, they didn't know it at the time, but the Earth was dangerous, and a week later, they would die at the hands of the legendary "Forbidden One".

What happened after that was that the capable ones met with the emperor's large army, imprisoned the surrendered members of the Iron Commandment separately, and began the interrogation work.

In the desert, the portal opened by the Sky Codex was closed by Tianyi from the other side, and the Codex as the "key" was also reduced to dust. And the people of the anti-cross had successfully returned to the submarine long before that.

Since the cherubim are dead, the rest of the creatures in the Hanging Gardens do not have the ability to create "keys", let alone give their technology to humans from the outside world, so when Tianyi destroys the portal, the two-way passage is equivalent to permanent destruction, and the remaining intelligent beings in the Second Kingdom have no possibility of leaving the Hanging Gardens, and Tianyi has not found them one by one and killed them all.

Oh, by the way, since he had to stay and close the portal, Tianyi himself left that space by suicide......

After that day, the spies of all forces were active, surrounding the truth of the incident...... Or rather, around the "truth" that can be asked from the mouths of the survivors, a dark war is fought on the intelligence battlefield. Fueled by the anti-cross, the news spread, but of course, people didn't pay much attention to the myths, and everyone focused on the same explosion - Cesare Barmond died.

If this news is not strong enough, then the information such as "the Ark has been shot down", "The Iron Commandment High Order has been captured en masse", "The Priest Manzaric Dino, the Legion Commander Jacob, and the Knight Chief Lawrence have all been killed" and so on are enough to change the situation of the war dramatically.

By February 20, 2102, a month had passed since the events of the Samavo Desert, and in this short month, the whole world had changed drastically.

The Empire honored the EAS organization as the greatest contributor to this operation, and of course behind this is the covert operation of His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince. However, the public did not know what the EAS Superpower Supervision Bureau was, so the name "Hero Joseph Nolan" was pushed out, not only in the army, but also among the people.

The "official" media hyped up the affair so much that it was a front-page headline in print, telecommunications, the Internet, and television, and no one had ever received such treatment except for major events related to members of the royal family.

This is also a special phenomenon in extraordinary times.

Shi Shi himself could only laugh at this kind of propaganda trick, and he did almost nothing. If you want to say what you did, it was controlled by Tianyi in that space, and turned against Changying.

When he woke up, he was still handcuffed. Imprisoned in a net alloy cell. After various examinations and interrogations, Changying and Luca finally nodded together, and he was "basically confirmed" that he had regained his self-consciousness.

I really didn't expect that all kinds of unwarranted honors would follow......

In the eyes of the global public, this guy named Nolan is terrible, leading the troops to wipe out the strongest armed forces of the Iron Commandment, and almost all the high-level including the Grand Master were killed, this is the trend of the world. I'm afraid I'm going to fall to the Empire again.

Each force has its own intelligence analysts, and they are not as easily fooled by false "directing" information as the public, but what they do know is that whatever the truth behind it is. Even if a thunderbolt knocks down the ark and kills the strongest masters of the Iron Commandment, what happens is happening, and it can't be changed. Leaving no other losses to mention, let's just say that Bamond died. The Iron Ring is a severed dragon.

Maybe...... This is not a bad thing, but rather an opportunity......

The first to open champagne on the front line of Zì Yóu celebrated, and the guys in the leadership celebrated with a crown, eager to have a party. Barmond's self-righteous tyrant with no one in his sights. Let you rely on your powerful ability to swagger through the market! Dare to rush the Middle East defense line that the emperor has focused on deploying? This time you have taken off the game? You deserve it! Your religious group should have been finished a long time ago!

On the other hand, the Yanwu alliance is in close contact with the Reverse Cross, and the most asked and core question is one: the fat piece of Europe. Can we move?

In fact, Yanwu united the five bigwigs, in a sense. It's Tianyi's puppet. A "game" they played a few years ago made them very jealous of Tianyi from then on. And the root of their rise in recent years is the scientific and technological support provided by Tianyi, and even the reason why they will become "joint" is also Tianyi's arrangement. Therefore, this anti-cross boss is like their godfather.

Within half a day, the five people got a response, "maintain the status quo and wait for instructions". After a lot of consideration, after a few days and nights of n meetings, these guys still decided to follow Tianyi's orders, because they also knew very well that Bamond was definitely not killed by Emperor **, so ...... It's basically the group of crazy people who went back to the cross...... If you provoke the boss of the sky, then you will have to fight the steel precepts of the north, the imperial army in the east, and beware of the unpredictable threat of the reverse cross behind you, so forget it......

Looking back at the Iron Ring itself, to compare it, it is the same situation as the sky has fallen.

Fortunately, there are still people who can turn the tide.

At such a moment, combat strength does not solve any problems, and leadership can save the situation. Lodovico was the first person to be hit after the sky fell, but fortunately, his shoulders could barely bear it.

As the Inspector General of the Holy Land, he had become the highest-ranking person in the organization at this time, because the Iron Commandment, except for the Grand Master Bamond, who was suspended in the air, was basically ruled by civil law.

Generally speaking, the relationship between superiors and subordinates on the two lines of civil and military affairs is somewhat vague, but in the case of the same level, it is necessary to divide the upper and lower levels, so ...... The Priest Commander can command the Legion Commander, and the Holy Land Inspector can command the Knight Chief.

Moreover, now on the line of military generals, everyone is dead, and there is no one who can stand up and take the lead. There is only one person left who is relatively strong - Camo Botrini, the Inspector General of the Holy City, this guy is being beaten up in Double Eagle County, and it is impossible for him to come back to talk about it. As for why his situation has become like this, I will mention it later, but let's talk about the core power of the Iron Commandment first, Europe.

When Lodovico saw the death of the Grand Master, his political sense was very keen, and the old man made a quick decision, and the first thing he did was to change the nature of the organization. The Iron Commandment discarded many of the rules and regulations that had been observed for many years, and became a rebellious rebellion without any religious sè. The cult of personality of Cesare Barmond was a year of complete confinement.

It's ironic and unfortunate, but it effectively controls the situation, or at least prevents the self-disintegration of the organization. So...... Religion is definitely a dangerous thing, because when believers see the person on the altar fall or die, the game of faith cannot be played.

That being said, the loss of personnel in the Iron Ring is also significant. Many people simply switched to other rebel groups, some took advantage of the situation, and there were even fanatics who "I believe in the Grand Master from the bottom of my heart" burned themselves to pay tribute to his old man.

However, the overall situation is far from getting out of control, and the Iron Ring can still hold Europe in place. The public order and economy in the cities are still relatively stable. In terms of their hard military strength, they only lost the Noah-class mothership Ark.

It's a pity that today's steel precept wants to talk about the word "expansion" again, I'm afraid it's a fool's dream, and it is not easy for Lodovico to hold on to the current situation.

Now let's talk about Bottrini's paper-thin guy......

The Iron Order's withdrawal from the Dragon County marched north to the Twin Eagles and marched on the last large county the Empire held in Eurasia.

The difference in the strength of the two sides was not large, and the Iron Ring still had a slight advantage. As a result, Tianwei was transferred, and four came at a time. Originally, the troops of the Iron Commandment were probably pushed outside the border line like this, but a dangerous man surnamed Kou came up with a plan...... Since there are Tianwei to help, it is better to pretend to be defeated first. Let them come, and then let's make dumplings for the New Year.

Botrini was thus hit, and he and a dozen other armored divisions marched side by side on multiple fronts, and smoothly entered the territory of Twin Eagle County, attacking the city. It's overwhelming. The towns along the way were almost as if they were undefended, symbolizing that they would be occupied at once resistant, and it felt like sending a mayor and a bunch of civil servants to sit in the office buildings of the empire and change the flag.

At that time, this goods thought that their team was the king's master. The people's will is wanted, so the emperor will collapse at the first touch. Unexpectedly, he quickly advanced more than ten days later. The supply line was abruptly cut off, and it was immediately under siege.

If the Iron Commandment marches slowly. Maybe there is a way out, tell the comrades of Xingtian, although they will not return the territory of Longjun to you, but Cao Da is also very righteous, at least he will let a way out for you to retreat.

But now the army is surrounded and impassable, the troops that have been divided to occupy the city have been broken one by one, and more than a dozen divisions have been roughly divided into three teams, and the three armies have been surrounded separately. In the ice and snow, the soldiers hid in the mecha, watching the energy and supplies consumed one by one, but they were unable to break through, and the contrast with the previous soaring was really huge, and the morale of the team fell to the bottom.

If you want to talk about Kou Linzai, it is really two times, and if you change someone else, it is likely that you will try to drive the troops of the Iron Commandment to one place to surround it, so that the battle situation is easier to control. However, Lord Kou deliberately divided the other party into three forces, and after the encirclement was established, he came to persuade each to surrender...... He also flickered on the phone with the opposing commander, suggesting that the other two teams had already intended to surrender.

The troops of the Iron Ring are divided into three groups, although the communication between them has not been interrupted, but after all, they are not in one place, not to mention the strength of more than a dozen divisions, and there are many commanders, after Kou Linzai's instigation, who does not mutter?

Zhuge Zhai, who was watching this situation in Longjun, had already asserted that within half a month, the troops that entered Shuangying County by the Iron Commandment would definitely be wiped out, and more than seventy percent of the troops would be disarmed and surrendered. Kou Linzai's trick is beautiful to play without a fight, it seems that this drunken lord is not easy to deal with, if the army is not superior, it is better to encounter less.

Finally, this is going back to Xingtian, Tianyi once said that the biggest mistake Zhuge Zhai has made in his life is to follow the wrong person, Cao Shuo is a domineering talent, but he does the rule of the royal road, no matter how clever the strategist follows him, it will be useless, and there will eventually be a rì, Zhuge Zhai will have a huge disagreement with Cao Shuo, leading to a tragic end.

Although this has not yet become a reality, an opportunity has quietly formed.

During this period when the situation in Shuangying County was changing and the steel precept was gradually declining, Zhuge Zhai proposed a bold plan - to attack Tiandu.

Xingtian Xingtian, the name of its organization should be in response to this battle.

Of course, Zhuge Zhai did not make a strategic deployment based on word games, he saw that the overall situation of East Asia had been decided, and he had basically been firmly seated in Xingtian. The war between the Middle East and Shuangying County has not been extinguished, and the emperor has no spare strength and does not dare to attack Xingtian easily. At this time, you must not only calculate your own accounts, but also calculate the accounts of others.

The troops on the Zì Yóu front line are not fuel-efficient lamps, their scientific and technological strength is closest to the strength of the empire, and in terms of ability, they have supplemented a large number of masters who escaped from the Cháo Xi Prison, and now the Iron Commandment has collapsed, and the balance between the resistance organizations has changed, and the two major organizations can still contain each other before, but now if the Zì Yóu front line is the strongest resistance organization in terms of comprehensive strength, then the second place should be Xingtian, the gap between the two is the same as the Iron Commandment and Zì back then The gap on the Yóu front is incomparable.

Now the Zì Yóu front line has won successive battles on the American continent, as if it is about to fight to Australia, if they are allowed to take the first step and take the heavenly capital. This means that after the destruction of the empire, nearly half of the world has been taken into their hands, and they occupy all continents that are geographically opposite to the sea, and there are no other powers bordering them, and their strategic value is self-evident.

You must know that Tiandu is not only a symbol, but also has an extremely important practical strategic significance, the headquarters of the Royal Academy, the headquarters of HL, unpredictable data intelligence, a lot of wealth...... Even if in the end, the emperor jumped over the wall in a hurry and ordered all of them to be destroyed. Tiandu itself, for example, is also a huge fortress of great value.

According to Zhuge Zhai's analysis, at this stage, Tiandu's defense is unprecedentedly weak, and there are only two people left in the Ten Heavenly Guards, and their attention and prevention focus are also on the Zì Yóu front. And there was no war during this period of Xingtian, the strength was full, and things like the neutralizer that could restrain the Doushen Wine had not yet been developed, and this period could be described as a godsend, and there was no reason to miss this great opportunity.

So, Cao Shuo almost did not hesitate, under the instigation of Zhuge Zhai, he launched an action......