The sun was shining, peaceful and calm, and for the civilians of Solan Holy City, it was supposed to be a day that had not changed much from the past. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

No, it would not be accurate to say that there have been no changes, in fact, many civilians have noticed that in the Inquisition of Faith, which is in awe of all the Solan believers, those priests who are usually rare but are said to be as powerful as the Templar Knights suddenly appear on the streets and alleys of the Holy City today, and it is not difficult for the residents who live on the outer walls of the Holy City to notice that the Templar Knights who patrol and guard the outer walls of the Holy City every day seem to be a lot more numerous today, and everyone has a serious expression, obviously guarding against something。

Soon, the news of the attack on Eric's town spread, and through the mouths of the priests patrolling the road, the people learned that it was just last night that some cult cultists who believed in the dark faith in Eric's town launched a riot and used some demonic beasts controlled by them to temporarily occupy Eric's town, and it is precisely for this reason that the holy city suddenly entered a state of defense today.

However, this did not cause the panic of the civilians, the Cult of Solan has a history of nearly a thousand years, from the Holy City was only a barren town in the south a thousand years ago, when several descendants of the Twin Gods of Solan established the first church dedicated to the Twin Gods of Solan here, until now, the Cult of Solan has encountered countless dangers, and even several times on the verge of extinction, but in the end, the Cult of Solan has survived, and under the wise leadership of His Majesty the Pope led by the legendary Pope Hanik, it has stepped forward to the peak of the light faith in the continent。

Many of the inhabitants of the Holy City have lived here for generations, some families have settled in the Holy City as believers since their grandfather's generation, some families whose ancestors were Templars who fought under Pope Harnik hundreds of years ago, and even some whose ancestors have been here since the first church was established in this small village called "Robin Town" a thousand years ago...... For many years, listening to the memories of our ancestors tell the history of the Solan Cult has made the enduring power of the Solan Cult unconsciously become a matter of course in the hearts of the people here.

Unless it is the demons of the ancient times who destroyed half of the continent, unless the two great powers of the Western Plains and the orcs in the west and the Phoenix Kingdom in the east shamelessly unite to attack the Holy Kingdom, the Solan Divine Cult will not decline, and the Holy City of Solan will always be the safest paradise for believers - the inhabitants who think like this occupy 99% of the Holy City

Therefore, for the so-called dark faith villains riot in Eric's Town, these civilians in the Holy City even behaved more calmly than the priests, inquisitors and Templars who patrolled the streets, and in their hearts, even if the dark faith forces that have been beaten into lost dogs by the Solan Cult from generation to generation are now under the city of Solan Holy City, they will still be driven back to their evil and rancid lair by His Majesty the Great Pope and the servants of the God of Light like their predecessors.

Of course, they didn't know that the actual soldiers who were about to descend into the city - no, they would be "parachuted" directly into the Holy City, in fact, it was the first of the two situations they felt was the most terrifying.

The civilians did not know the truth, and those who did not know were careless, so although there was more or less tension in the city, the lives of the majority of the people remained unchanged, and the only obvious difference was that they deliberately lowered their voices when they passed by the priests and inquisitors who were patrolling the streets. However, they didn't know that His Majesty the Pope, who they had high hopes of calling the strongest patron saint of the Solan Divine Cult, was not even as peaceful as those of ordinary sect members like them...... Because he knows so much.

The silence of the civilians in the Holy City was an order from the Pope himself. Even among the Priest Corps and Templar Knights under the Inquisition of Faith, which have all been mobilized to strengthen the garrison of the Holy City, this time the enemy in Eric's Town is actually not the Dark Sect, but the Fallen Demon Beast, and this matter is only known to the upper and middle levels and some trusted low-level non-commissioned officers.

In fact, the Pope had already prepared for the worst, and when necessary, he would reveal all the truths about the demonic body in Eric's Town, except for the prophecy of the imminent destruction of the Holy City, and then mobilize the most hardcore believers who had lived in the Holy City for generations to do their part for the upcoming demonic siege, but on the day after the ambush in Eric's Town, he received some news that made him dispel this idea.

The Fallen Demonic Beasts in Eric Town still look lawless, but in front of the Captain Red and the Cult Army dominated by the Templar Knights and Saint Magicians, the Fallen Demonic Beasts in Eric Town have no possibility of attacking the Holy City at all, if it weren't for the fact that the two seventh-order magicians who besieged Ella who appeared that night before have not shown up but are fearful, Captain Red may have led his troops to recapture Eric Town.

In addition, Zarko, who was patrolling the vicinity of the Holy City, also reported that except for Eric Town, there had never been any signs of a fallen demonic beast or a suspected existence in other surrounding towns. And what surprised the Pope even more was that the six-star space magician Archbishop Kate, who he trusted the most and had the oldest seniority in the Divine Sect, personally led a team to conduct a major inspection in the Holy City, and then told him with certainty that at least there was no spatial teleportation array that he could survey inside the Holy City.

Either the other party invited a seventh-order sage who was proficient in illusion and space to secretly infiltrate the Holy City and set up a spatial teleportation array that was enough to hide from Archbishop Kate, or the other party did not take the risk of setting up a teleportation array in the Holy City at all, but set the exit in a hidden location outside the city that was very close to the Holy City like Eric Town...... The Pope was inclined to the second guess, because there were only a handful of law-level magicians on the continent who met the requirements of the first guess, and those who met the requirements had never had anything to do with the Solan Divine Cult, let alone a grudge, and according to normal logic, they would not do such a thing.

If it is set up outside the Holy City, although the setting of the space array does not have to be in the town or in any inconspicuous wilderness, which makes it impossible to find a job, but at the same time, it is much easier to guard against an attack outside the city than to directly let the opponent appear in the city and cause a big disturbance. Therefore, Pope Solan did not rush to make the matter public, making such a big fuss...... Although it may be considered rotten or stupid to say this, since it has achieved the seat of the first light faith sect for hundreds of years, the so-called face has become a "necessity" even if it is no longer of practical use, yes, a "necessity" that cannot be discarded when it is not necessary.

From the shock and panic I fell into when I learned about the incident in Eric's town last night, to the emergency orders that I forced myself to calm down and arrange one after another, and now I can finally breathe a sigh of relief after getting much better return information than I expected...... At this moment, standing on the corridor on the side of the main hall of the Solan Temple, overlooking the holy city, the pope couldn't help but pull the corners of his mouth a little self-deprecatingly, the kind of sadness and joyless temperament that he cultivated in order to maintain his majesty after becoming a pope is just an illusion to fool others and fool himself, and the pope, after all, is not a god who can transcend things, but just a mortal who can't get rid of joy, anger, sorrow, and joy.

I don't know how long I stood in the empty cloister, when suddenly, from the other side of the cloister came the sound of apparently deliberately lightened footsteps, and the Pope turned his head to see Archbishop Kate walking solemnly towards him from the exit of the main hall to the cloister.

"May the light bless you, Archbishop Kate," seeing this old friend who became an archbishop almost at the same time as his successor to the Pope, and who has been serving as his subordinate for so many years, Pope Solan couldn't help but smile on his face, "Come to me at this point in time, is there anything wrong?"

Kate, who came to the Pope's side, was still that strict and respectful, and she did not relax in the slightest because of His Majesty's kindness.

"Yes, His Majesty the Pope, there is something you asked me to investigate. ”

"Oh, so soon?"

His Majesty the Pope was in a very happy mood, and among the archbishops, he trusted this Archbishop Kate the most, and he rarely let himself down, although he was not the most capable, but he was the most vigorous and able to carry out his orders as a pope.

"Yes, except for Master Duran, who is uncertain, the rest of the space magic masters who have the ability to hide from me have not left their respective academies and countries in recent years, and as for Master Duran, although I don't know where he is now, it is said that he has been traveling around the Northland in the past few years and has not been to the southern tip of the continent. ”

These are some of the most powerful space magic masters on the mainland, and the Pope asked Kate to go to the Intelligence Department to collect and sort out some of their recent whereabouts, naturally in order to rule out that some of them came to oppose the Solan Cult for some unknown reason. Aside from them, the Pope believed that no one could hide the fluctuations of the spatial magic array set up by Kate, a six-star space arcane mage.

"I know, so to speak, sure enough, there really isn't a spatial teleportation array set up by the other party inside our Holy City?"

"If the other party really only uses the Fallen Demonic Beast in Eric Town as a bait as we think, and actually has a backhand, then at least from the current investigation, the other party's backhand is not directly teleporting the Fallen Demonic Beast to the Holy City...... Of course, it is not excluded that the other party hides a magician who is not famous on the continent but is extremely strong or has some special talents, in order to be on the safe side, I plan to go to the Sage Paul and ask him to help him go to a few suspicious places to re-investigate, after all, although I can find the spatial teleportation array by detecting the flow of spatial magic, it is not excluded that there may be some special illusions or law abilities that can play a role in covering the magic energy sensing ability. ”

The Pope nodded, smiling with satisfaction.

"I see, Kate, I'll leave this matter to you, I trust you. ”

"Yes, His Majesty the Pope. ”

Archbishop Kate bowed his head in agreement, then looked up, and just when the Pope thought that the archbishop, who usually did not smile and did not talk much, was about to leave, suddenly Kate spoke again.

"Also, Your Majesty, there is one more thing. ”

"Oh?"

"Yesterday afternoon, we received a diplomatic contact from the Kingdom of Loris...... Have you heard about it?"

"No," the Pope was a little surprised, he remembered that since the last Elemental Sacrifice, neither the Solan Divine Cult nor the Holy Kingdom had any communication with the Loris Kingdom in the Western Plains, "Is there anything going on in the Loris Kingdom?"

For a moment, Pope Solan looked at Kate, who had been inexplicably silent for a few seconds in front of him, and suddenly had an illusion, he felt that Kate seemed to be looking at himself with a look that he had never seen before as if he wanted to delve into something, yes, not the usual respectful look, but "looking".

However, in the blink of an eye, His Majesty the Pope found that Kate was still the archbishop who was full of respect for himself, Pope Solan, from beginning to end, and his best right-hand man.

"Your Majesty, what the Loris Kingdom has notified us has nothing to do with the moment, but it is indeed bad news, during this time, there are some problems with the supply of magic crystals in the Loris Kingdom, so the delivery date of the magic crystal cannon we purchased from the Loris Kingdom will be postponed, and the delay time will be at least about two months...... In other words, in the late autumn of this year, the defenders of our border will probably have to continue to rely on a small number of old magic crystal cannons for at least the first month to resist the orcs' customary looting and harassment. ”

Bad news indeed, the Pope was a little troubled by the thought that in a few days, the western frontier of the Holy State would once again be harassed by the shameless orcs who were nominally not under the control of the Lothar Alliance, but who in fact had the shadow of the Lothar Alliance army behind them.

But soon the Pope put this matter on the back burner, and the current events in Eric's town and the prophecy were what they should be worried about, compared to something that would happen in a little more than a month, shouldn't they?

"I see, Kate, you go and reply to the Kingdom of Loris and ask them to try to ensure the production of the magic crystal cannons we have purchased, and if necessary, we can increase the price by another twenty percent. Oh, when you and Paul went on our rounds, we stopped by the Fire Temple and invited the two elders, Liald and Rameau...... If Elder Rameau is unwilling, you can say that this is an official edict from my Pope Solan, and I know that Elder Rameau has always been a little prejudiced against our Light Faith, but we need the power of those two now. (To be continued.) )