Chapter 411: A Sad Curtain Call (Part II)

[The fourth watch, originally untenable. I found that the monthly pass was more than a dozen votes longer...... It turns out that this thing is really like doping.]

The City of Radiance finally organized a decent attack, and the remaining few Assassins were surrounded by the Radiant Knights, and except for Byrne, the rest of the Assassins had already retreated with the believers.

Byrne counted with his heart, five Assassins were still alive, one of them was seriously injured, and the four Assassins who were not injured wanted to end their lives with short swords, but were stopped by the magician, and the white light shrouded the Assassins' bodies, and everyone stopped moving, as if their souls had been drained away.

The altar collapsed, and the priest who presided over the ceremony was assassinated, something that had never happened since the establishment of the Shining City.

The cardinal in charge of the City of Radiance had a splitting headache, and he personally went to the scene to take a look at the collapsed altar, and then gave the order: "The square is blocked, no one is allowed to enter." Knights of Radiance, all on alert. Bring back the two knights outside!"

"Yes, Lord Bishop, but ......," the cardinals agreed, not understanding why the whole square had been cordoned off. The square is thousands of years old and attracts many worshippers on pilgrimage. If it is blocked, it will be even more detrimental to the City of Radiance.

"Do it!" the cardinal scolded, grim face.

The crumbling altar was surrounded, and the cardinal had the Radiant Knight seal it off completely, before he walked to the edge and looked into the center of the altar.

There, there is a bottomless black hole. The perception of the ninth-level magician still can't be found to the end.

With a history of more than 2,000 years, the City of Radiance is one of the few religious cities that appeared during the Fourth Dynasty. This is where the Holy See began, and if the cardinals had not followed the cardinal to the edge of the altar, they would not have been able to see the big hole in the ruins.

A thought crossed the minds of all the cardinals - developed!

They had spent their entire lives in the city and had never known such a place. The city is so ancient, and the magicians of the Fourth Dynasty were far more powerful than they are now.

Miracles!

The cardinal had a thousand thoughts in his heart, and finally said: "Arrange for people to go down, and do not use slaves, so as not to ......"

The cardinal did not continue, he hoped that there was a miracle below, and that it would be blasphemous to send slaves to investigate. If it is really a miracle, then the opportunity for the Cardinal to turn over has arrived.

"Lord Bishop, what about these assassins?"

"Trial. Initiating the atonement process, I'm going to make these people regret coming here. "The cardinal was not in any way grateful to the Assassins for having obtained a mysterious cave, and the cardinal who was killed by the Assassins was his student. The anger in the cardinal's heart is well hidden, for decades he has not lost his temper in front of outsiders.

It is ridiculous and pathetic for a person who has lost his power to lose his temper.

The atonement process was one of the harsher of the trial, but the five Assassins did not change their faces. When they entered the City of Radiance, they knew that there was only one percent chance of escaping.

There are too many professionals among the believers, and it is impossible for them to evacuate all the people, and now less than a third of them have been sacrificed, and the rest have been hidden among the believers, including Byrne.

Night fell, and judgment took place at the Cathedral of Atlantus, south of the Shining City, where five stone pillars were improvised and erected.

The five Assassins were stripped naked, chained through their hands and feet, and tied to stone pillars. There is also a square in front of the Cathedral of Atlantus, which now gathers more than 2,000 worshippers of the City of Radiance. These believers, see for themselves how these five hateful fellows are judged.

The cardinal was in a trance, and before the trial began, he stood in front of the stone pillar and looked at the five bloody assassins. The Assassins' hands and feet were pierced by chains, and then they were healed by the magicians with powerful magic techniques, and the chains grew in flesh and blood, and if they tried to escape, they would have to endure great pain again.

For the Assassins, this pain may be nothing, but the pointless escape can lead to despair.

The cardinal was eager to ask these five men what they were for. Knowing that he would die, he came to the Radiant City to assassinate him. They should have a purpose, but it seemed that these five people and their accomplices were like crazy people.

Can a person without faith give his life like this?

In the crowd awaiting trial, Byrne was there. Not only him, but all the Assassins who escaped the pursuit were there. Although the Holy See had many ways to search the city and continue to find the Assassin's accomplices, the black hole that appeared under the altar made the cardinal a little numb, or slack. And the City of Radiance, this kind of thing has not happened in two thousand years, and the measures to deal with it cannot be compared with the Holy City at all.

The cardinals also put their minds completely on the bottomless black hole, and without these powerhouses who were over level seven to screen one by one, the assassins easily deceived the low-level magicians.

Byrne looked at the five men on the stone pillar with some heartache. This is just the beginning, and the next thing is the most tragic.

"You will not die, and I will not ask you to confess any sins. The cardinal couldn't help but speak, and he said slowly to the five assassins on the stone pillar: "The atonement procedure, to put it simply, is to purify you, and from now on become believers in the gods, and every day of your life in the future, you will repent of what you have done in the past. Of course, it will be painful, because your souls will not approve of such a thing. ”

The five Assassins sneered at the cardinal's words, they had not thought of leaving alive, and they had not even thought of ending it.

"I have seen many of the most recalcitrant people, the most fortunate of whom have gone to the Inquisition, and the most unfortunate of whom have become the red guards of His Majesty the Pope. They obviously hate it so much, but they want to use their bodies to atone for their sins and protect them. The soul of man. It can be cut into many parts, between each other, it can be completely opposed, conflicting, this kind of pain, have you ever thought about it?"

One of the Assassins finally couldn't help but speak, "I have a piece of advice. ”

"Speak. ”

"Your head shape is really bad, like corn that's too old. Usually, we in the countryside, we will feed pigs with this corn. See you. I think of pig food, it's rotten, it smells. That stink, a lot like your perfume. So you go and change the head shape, change the perfume, and your words are more convincing. ”

The cardinal smiled and said, "As an assassin, you are not vicious enough to disappoint me. ”

The assassin deliberately made a sinister smile and said, "I won't let you down. ”

"Ignorance, nothing is unchangeable in the light of God, and when the judgment is over, you will know what I mean when you obediently go to me to find the way. The cardinal felt much better, stopped talking nonsense with the Assassins, and returned to the judgment seat.

Byrne's face changed, he clearly heard the conversation between the cardinal and his men, he had just wanted to give his men a ride, but now he had to change his attention.

The plan still has to go on.

In the small square in front of the Cathedral of Atlantus, more than a hundred pillars of light shot out into the sky from the divine rune array on the ground, forming a dome in the sky. The entire square was shrouded in the light of divine magic.

Only the five pillars are dark, as if devouring the light. The assassin on the stone pillar prayed silently in his heart. They also had faith, the faith of the Assassins, which was to fulfill their mission.

If they hadn't become Assassins, their lives would have been mediocre, their children would not have been raised by the royal family, and they would not have had the opportunity to enter aristocratic high society.

Everything changed because of a quote from Chanak the Great, their mission to give their children unlimited opportunities. Even after Chanak the Great died, these orders were still being carried out. These children never knew they had a father, and they entrusted their lives to the Grükos family.

A fair and cruel deal, these assassins have not regretted it to this day.

On the judgment bench. The cardinal is flanked by cardinals, who are in charge of the trial, but a priest of the first rank. The first-class priest walked to the opposite side of the stone pillar, and he was about to speak, when he suddenly found that the five assassins on the stone pillar, each with a distorted face, from the head and face to the neck, to the chest, lower abdomen, thighs, all the bare skin, purple blood vessels protruded.

The ears of the five Assassins swelled, as if they had been stretched and thinned to the core. In their eyes, the brown-black pupils spun rapidly, and the bones crackled as if a magic potion was burning and exploding inside.

Before the collapse of the Fourth Dynasty, the career system on the continent of Myers was very complex, and at its peak, there were almost more than 20,000 professions. With the weakening of human power, the professional becomes a strong person who is different from the ordinary person. Learning swordsmanship, even with the slightest sword qi, can also be called a junior swordsman.

Now these professions have largely disappeared, as human power has declined, and only a few skills are still circulated in ancient books, studied and explored by magicians.

These five assassins used an ancient skill - summoning possession.

Summoning powerful beings from the Alien Plane and fusing them into their own bodies, the key to activating this skill lies in Byrne, who has a mysterious connection to the souls of these assassins. As long as Byrne allows, they can cast their skills.

The skills offered by the royal family of Grykos, short, powerful, bloody, terrifying.

The pupils of the five assassins rotated rapidly, and when the white-robed magician sensed the danger, the pupils of the five assassins were shattered at the same time, and their bodies were split from the middle.

With a click, the chain that had passed through the arm of the first assassin was torn off, his body had turned dark green, his skin was torn apart and fell to the ground, and his muscles had swelled to a terrible degree. He turned around, hugged the stone pillar, shook it hard, and the stone pillar with a diameter of one meter made a clatter, and was held in his arms like this.

Byrne's heart sighed deeply, and the five subordinates finally completed their mission, the last assassination, a sad curtain call.