Time flies!

February 30th of the 6th year of the Magic Calendar.

The past month or so has been a month out of darkness for the Western Emperor Monarch's camp.

After the Redstone Emperor left the continent of Eminole for the frozen fortress, the influence of the Amy Empire on the continent suddenly decreased, and more and more minor nobles in the marginal areas chose to surrender or abandon their fiefdoms and flee. In the occupied territories, under the sincere persuasion of the Holy See priests, more and more people have chosen to cooperate with the Holy See.

Viscount Fan, the general of the war zone who used to be the biggest headache in the western theater (oh, now he is an earl, or a hereditary replacement), although he successfully sealed the dragon, he was taken to the frozen continent by the Red Stone Emperor, which is great news for the Burmese Empire and the Fanos Western Theater - although the Northern Federation of the Holy See will continue to have a headache, but ...... After all, it's a distant thing.

The Chi Aotian Legion, which once made His Majesty the Pope restless with pain, has disappeared from the territory of the Holy See -- the first battle of the ox, the two dragon knights of the sweaty and bloody iron horseman's raid in the middle of the night, at least nearly 10,000 executioners with blood on their hands buried in the turbulent river, and after the war alone, more than 6,000 corpses of soldiers were found in the lower reaches of the Sicilian River. Monton recruited ferries from downstream and pursued them across the river the day after the Battle of Oxwaist, but the regiment of Chi Aotian, who had already crossed the river, disappeared out of thin air - perhaps the word is inaccurate.

Not far from the north bank of the Sicilian River is already hilly and mountainous, this piece of mountains is the natural boundary of the Great Desert of the Flower Language Plain, if there is no mountain range, the Flower Language Plain may have been swallowed by the desert. Successive rulers have known the importance of this mountain range, where the felling of trees is strictly forbidden and has been protected for thousands of years by the densest primeval forests in the pancontinent. What is certain is that Chi Aotian's army must have taken refuge in this mountainous area.

Shuda led the three dragon knights for four days, and almost every part of the mountain range was checked by the treetops, but the expeditionary force was not found.

Subsequently, with the consent of His Majesty the Pope, Monton sent 20,000 people with more than 5,000 fire points to set fire to all the forests that had not been disturbed for thousands of years! The fire burned continuously for more than 20 days before it was extinguished! Both Monton and the Pope were convinced that no life could survive the 20-day fire! The Holy See's henchmen were no more!

On the front line in the northwest, the war is also quite easy!

Amy and Daqingshan may have the potential to become the best generals of the generation, but now there is no need to worry too much. Marshal Dahaino promised to put an end to the war once and for all before the first snow of the year in the mountains of Messis!

The combined power of the three magisters has indeed turned the impossible into a miracle! The huge Ice and Snow Flying City smashes thousands of ice blocks from the sky into Hamburg City every day! At this time, the first city wall has been completely destroyed! The entire city of Hamburg is covered with ice that is more than one meter thick! Of course, because it is also full of ice, the Phanos army did not occupy the first city wall. In fact, there is no need for this anymore.

In the first few days, there were still dragon knights in Hamburg City who took to the air to harass Floating City, but as more and more dragon knights and pseudo-dragon knights were transferred from southern Xinjiang to Hamburg City, Fanos had a holy dragon knight and six dragon knights and more than two hundred pseudo-dragon knights in the heyday outside Hamburg City, which made the dragon knights of Hamburg City unable to cope with it at all. Later, Hamburg City simply did not send any dragon knights to fight! Of course, to the surprise of the senior officers, Da Qingshan, the first dragon knight of the ages, had never summoned the green dragon envoy.

In the current city of Hamburg, all the catapults were smashed except for some catapults on the cliff behind the city.

Dahaino is demolishing the second city wall, but unfortunately, the Magus's long-lasting control over large magic is still not comparable to that of the dragon, and after each floating city lifts off, it can only fight for four ~ five hours at most, and after each battle, it must rest for a day before fighting again. Otherwise...... The city of Hamburg has long since been razed to the ground!

Now, it's only a matter of time - Dahaino has sealed off the mines under Hamburg, and His Excellency the Marshal has even placed troops in the valleys on both sides of Hamburg, so that all enemies must be annihilated!

Everyone is sure that as long as Hamburg City is conquered, the war on the entire Eminole continent will come to an end, and all other cities will surrender without a fight, except for Tongyun Pass and Jielin!

On the third day after the Chi Aotian Expeditionary Force left Rhodes City, the construction of the "Temple" began.

This may be a very strange phenomenon, even when the executioner legions were most rampant, in Ulu, in the major cities of southern Xinjiang, except for His Majesty the Pope, all the clergy of the Holy See always believed that the Holy See would defeat the evil enemy and win the final victory, and they were sure that His Majesty the Supreme God of Light would never abandon them, and would definitely show his unparalleled power in Heaven and destroy the enemy in one fell swoop. Although, for the time being, it seems that the enemy is very strong, it is only a small test of the Lord God's own slaves.

During the attack and defense of Rhodes City, the clergy who were purging the enemy and rebelled against the people in southern Xinjiang led the newly formed instructors to reinforce Rhodes City in order to express their pious belief to His Highness the God of Light.

Of course, on the way, due to various reasons, such as heavy rain, dry weather, etc., these troops "treked" 200 miles away from Rhodes City, and it was not until Chi Aotian left Rhodes City that nearly 10,000 soldiers converged under Rhodes City. At this time, His Majesty the Pope decided to build a magnificent church on the site of Rhodes City. When the more than 40,000 soldiers who had arrived heard this order, they all let out a cry of joy - as faithful followers of the Lord God, they would choose one of the two things to chase after the evil heretics and to build an incomparable cathedral with the hands of the Lord God, and all the believers would choose the latter.

Fortunately, the transportation of Rhodes City is developed, and the clergy have drawn a total of 100,000 war horses and 400,000 cattle and sheep from the hinterland of the Huayu Plain to participate in the construction of the temple, and mined large stones from the banks of the Langcang River in southern Xinjiang, and cut down a large amount of timber from the newly pacified original grassland elf settlement, gathering all the manpower and material resources in southern Xinjiang, and the civilians who participated in the construction once reached 250,000 people in the heyday!

In 2 months, in less than 2 months, this world-renowned cathedral was fully completed!

His Holiness the Pope personally invited Reynolds and many of the new crowns to attend the completion and consecration of the Temple, and on February 29, more than 300 of the two cardinal archbishops in charge of the ceremony had their signatures on the sign-books.

Summer, February 30th.

Last night, His Majesty the Pope arranged for six great magicians of the water system to dispel the rain clouds in the sky with powerful magic, and at five o'clock in the morning, for the first time in more than 20 days, the red sun showed a smiling face in the sky.

At this time, outside the original Rhodes City, millions of people had gathered. Nearly 60,000 soldiers were barely maintaining order, and the cardinal archbishops kept sending out the bishops who had a pitiful number of bishops in their hands to stabilize the excitement of the faithful!

At nine o'clock in the morning, at the moment when the two cardinal archbishops were nervous to the point of collapse, in the distant sky, where the fire sun rose, bursts of loud dragon chant came from the heavens and the earth, and the sky on all sides, whether it was white clouds or distant clouds, instantly turned into a red glow.

Red clouds fluttered in the sky, surging rapidly towards the temple from the east and west, gathering and descending over the temple, and finally, the infinite clouds formed a huge cloud curtain at a height of 50 meters in front of the temple!

As the dragon's roar became louder and louder, a huge red dragon suddenly broke through the sky from the clouds overhead, its huge wings remained motionless, and the almost perfect dragon body lightning shot under the red cloud curtain, to the shock of the believers, the dragon descended, the huge body shrank, and at the moment when it was about to land, the dragon actually slowed down into a red-haired young man. The dragon knight on the dragon's body flew to the ground and lifted his knight's helmet, revealing long blond hair and an unusually handsome young face.

"Central King!"

"Your Majesty the Great Burmean!"

Countless believers in front of the temple let out bursts of cheer!

At that moment, a pure white light flew out of the back of the temple like a rainbow, and slowly fell under the cloud curtain.

His Majesty the Pope seems to be stepping on a white carpet falling from the sky!

"Long live His Majesty the Pope!"

"Long live His Highness the God of Light!"

"Praise be to you, great Lord!"

......

Millions of believers were boiling at this moment!

His Majesty the Pope, dressed in white robes, stood in the air five meters above the ground: "Faithful believers of the Lord God, ......" His Majesty the Pope's kind and charismatic voice resounded in the sky: "Let us praise the Lord! It is the Lord who gives us confidence in victory when the evil executioner wreaks havoc on our beautiful homeland! The Lord said, as long as you truly believe in me, I will give you the final victory!" The Lord said, "The present enemy is only a passing cloud, guarding the spiritual light in the hearts of each of you, and you will surely reach the beautiful paradise that I have built for you." Ask with all your heart, and you will receive!"

With every word His Holiness said, a holy white light rose a meter into the sky, and finally, an infinite white light enveloped the entire temple from all directions.

"O believers of the Lord God, we must know that the sunshine and rain we receive every day are the Lord's selfless reward, and as the fortunate people who are greatly concerned by the Lord, what do we need to do for the Lord?" His Majesty the Pope paused for a moment: "Yes, I have heard the answer from each and every one of you that the Lord does not need us to do anything for Him, He only wants us to believe in Him sincerely!

"As servants of the Lord God, we have built this incomparably grand church, and we hope that His Highness the Lord God of Light and his dear friend, His Highness the God of War, will make this place for them to manifest their holy powers. A white light emanated from His Majesty's hand, and Reynolds slowly rose in the white holy light: "His Royal Highness the Central Saint King Reynolds is a descendant of His Highness the God of War, and he has the most noble bloodline in the God Realm. Today, we are here to witness the completion of the temples of the two highnesses, the God of Light and the God of War, and it will be the greatest glory of your lives, people of God!"

At this time, the plain of flower language was completely boiling, the excited crowd threw all their hats into the sky, countless tears flashed in the bright sun, and one by one the believers fell to their knees reverently, with their hearts close to the ground, kissing this holy ground with their lips!

His Majesty the Pope and His Majesty Reynolds smiled and gestured to each other, and then, the Pope's right hand waved slightly, and the holy white light in front of him dispersed to both sides, revealing 39 steps, and the two emperors landed at the same time, followed the steps, and walked to the front desk of the main hall one by one.

Immediately, His Majesty the Pope waved his hand again in succession, and the white mist of light in five places on the bluestone platform flashed away, revealing five double-sided drums with a diameter of one meter!

The five-sided drum is mounted on a drum stand carved by five hands - five pairs of skull hands, stout and slender or slender, all different but beautifully realistic!

On either side of each drum rack, a pair of drumsticks are hung.

Surprisingly, the drumstick looked like the leg bones of some kind of animal!

That's right, that's right! This is the leg bone of the animal, not only the drumstick is the leg bone, but even the vivid drum frame is made of animal hand bones, and even the different colors of the drum surface are also made of animal skin.

And this so-called animal - the infidels of the world who dare to rebel against the Holy See!

No one should be surprised, the most cruel thing in the world is the religious war launched by the Holy See, in the history of the pan-continent, for tens of thousands of years, there have been countless religions, each religion finally reached the peak, is hundreds of small churches suffered by the catastrophe as a step. No war of the Human Empire or war between different races is more brutal and devastating than a religious war! Even a war that has lasted for 10,000 years like the Demon War cannot be compared with the War of Religion, and in the end, as a non-magical alliance, at least it has left a vein for the Magic Empire. Such a thing is simply not seen in the Wars of Religion!

For the infidels (what a broad and most condemnable term), any papacy will surely be cut to the roots, and the infidels who are still in their cradles will be thrown into the fire and burned to death; in religious wars, wherever the infidels flee, even to the ends of the earth or even overseas islands, devout believers will inevitably pursue them to the end! In wars between human empires, destruction is seldom the aim, but in religious wars, not only the destruction of the body, but all books, all thoughts, All pagan buildings that can be seen are listed as destroyed!

On February 30, the summer of the 6th year of the magic calendar, the five drums on the front desk of the temple are based on the five races on the continent that are still rebelling against the grace of the Holy See!

On the central side, after the bloody night of the imperial capital, the son of the royal family who fell to Scambray is also the Prince of Blue River, the brother of the Red Stone Emperor. In order to cover his family and several other royal children, he retreated into the tunnel leading to the outside of the city from the prince's mansion, and resisted nearly 100 Xuanqing Dragon mercenaries in the tunnel with his bare hands, and was captured with all his strength.

On the first side on the left, is one of the members of the Steppe Elf Elf Elder Order!After the Rhodes City Incident, the Holy See officially declared war on the Steppe Elf Kingdom, and split a part of the army from the Phanos Legion of the former mercenary empire to attack. As a last resort, the steppe elves abandoned the land they had lived on for generations and retreated to the fairy forest. In this process, in order to contain the Holy See's pursuers, the two elders led thousands of clansmen to resist all the way, and in the end, the 12th-ranked Tianxiang Elder was imprisoned.

On the second side on the left, there is Harry, the chief of a small tribe on the border of the Holy Desert Empire, facing the royal decree from Scambrai and Uru, Harry tore up the royal decree three times in a row, loudly reprimanding the Holy See's sinister intentions, and was finally regarded by the Holy See as a thorn in the side of the Holy Desert Empire!

On the first side of the right, there is an unknown mountain dwarven warrior who accompanied the Grand Elder and His Highness Horns to Hamburg to participate in the offensive and defensive battles, and was captured under the city of Hamburg.

On the second side on the right, it is the Druid Elder who went to the mountain dwarven kingdom to participate in the enthronement ceremony of the new king, and after the enthronement of the Furnace Highness, he led the delegation back to the Druid tribe, was detained by the Imperial rebels at the Sangan River, and then handed over to the clergy of the Holy See. If the Holy See obtained a heavy treasure, he used Elder Ligang as a hostage to blackmail the druid tribe to believe in the Holy See, and as a result, he was angrily reprimanded by the Druid patriarch......!

Using human skin as a drum is the intention of His Majesty the Pope -- Chi Aotian went on a northern expedition, and nearly a million people died, and this temple was used to worship these millions of disgruntled souls! Only the big drums made of these heavyweights can calm the hearts of innocent believers! His Majesty the Pope regrets that Chi Aotian was not caught, otherwise, it would ......

Looking at these five-sided drums, Reynold's face flashed a trace of unbearability...... In this world, many things are really strange, for example, once it is contaminated with religious colors, it becomes completely uncontrollable! For His Majesty the Pope's idea, Reynolds, Shuda, etc. directly expressed their opposition, but the fanatical believers, especially the cardinals, showed such piety that the two brave men could not understand, both Shuda and Renaud, they were sure that if this matter could not be carried out because of their opposition, then they would definitely be assassinated by the fanatical papal see! And this so-called fanatical papacy may even be a child who does not seem to understand anything.

Privately, Shuda expressed his dissatisfaction with this: "What kind of pope is this? Does he think he is heaven? Does he think he is the emperor? What is it! His hands are covered with blood, but his face is extremely holy. What a bitch and ......"

Reynolds reluctantly interrupted Shuda's words.

At this time, Reynolds really misses the time when he was still a mercenary, although he did not have such glory, but he would never do so many things against his will.

The Pope coughed lightly, pulling Reynolds' mind back, according to His Majesty's prior arrangement, now, the two of them are going to beat the five-sided human skin drum to appease the innocent undead in the Temple.

The two men glanced at each other as they slowly walked towards the big drum in the middle.

At this moment, a faint black light floated from under the big drum frame that shimmered with holy light in the center, and then a faint black mist floated under the other four drum frames at the same time.

The two emperors were shocked at the same time!

The black smoke drifted upwards softly without wind, and slowly, the black smoke gathered together, and more and more black smoke ...... No...... To be precise, the black light weaves and kneades on the drum in the middle and slowly ...... Slowly...... turned into a black circle with a diameter of five meters...... Unknown forces surged in the black circles, as if they were about to erupt.

In front of the entire temple, all the people were stunned...... No one can understand what the hell is going on......

Suddenly, six blood-red bright spots flashed in the black circle, and each bright spot shot out an equally blood-red light, and the six rays and six bright spots formed a six-pointed star enchantment......

Following the red pillar of light of the enchantment, dark black air jets gushed out, and at this moment, Reynolds seemed to see a small scythe flying out with the black air current......

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February 30, the summer of the 6th year of the magic calendar, this is a node, this day, an unprecedented event broke out, therefore, most later historians regard this day as a watershed in the early and middle stages of the War of the Gods.

End of Volume 4!

Title of this volume: "Life is Like Water"