As a last resort, they chose to knock out the captives' teeth and tongues. But even so, the bodies of these uninvited guests would always recover at the moment before death...
"What kind of power do these guys have?! And then again...isn't there any way for us to dispel the magic that resides in their bodies?"
An elven wizard howled and physically broke the mouth of one of the naked men with the stick in his hand. He finally found a strange purple mark on the man's neck.
"And what is this?! It's not... Why do I feel like I've seen it somewhere?"
"Isn't this the mark of the Great Rift commonly seen on high-level demons and Titan demons?! Why do these guys have these marks?! Are they high-level demons in disguise?"
“That’s not right?!”
Directly physically dig into the skin where the purple mark was, and then hit the uninvited guest's head hard.
As the blood splattered like pig liver on the stone ground around it, the naked corpse twitched and sprayed out all the dark red blood. The bloodless corpse gradually turned pale.
He was completely dead - as long as the traces of the large rift were dug out directly and then a fatal attack was carried out, these uninvited guests would truly die.
The elven wizards and guards dealt with the remaining uninvited guests in the same way. Many of them seemed to want to explain something, but under the effect of unknown magic, the words they blurted out were all disgusting rumors that the God of Light used the corpses of his ancestors.
The knife came down, and pieces of neck flesh were cut off, and pools of brain matter splattered on the ground.
The uninvited guests were dead, and the guards and mages obtained more than 6 complete human skin crack specimens for research on the demon, but they were not happy anyway.
Because these uninvited guests spread the rumor that the God of Light had desecrated corpses to every corner.
These rumors penetrated into the hearts of every Bayerjans, making the Bayerjans, who were originally in a state of doubt, confused and uneasy, and also aroused the anger of some people.
Most civilians did not notice that these men might be demons, and even if they did, their attention was focused on the parish's God of Light.
No matter what the devil's goal was, his conspiracy had succeeded!
He looked at the civilians who were already huddled together anxiously and talking fiercely about something, and then at the various blocks where the noise was gradually becoming more uniform.
The guards knew they had done all they could.
As for the rest, we can only wait for the three majesties to make the decision.
…
At the same time, at midnight on May 19th, there were only a few minutes left until the 20th.
Yang Hao and others sat solemnly at the conference table. Everyone was present, and the most important reason for their emergency meeting was the current riots in Constantinople.
"It seems that the rumors spread faster than we thought... What is certain is that if the guards' findings are correct, then the one who led this public opinion attack should be the devil lurking in the capital."
“The demon’s purpose seems to be not only to stir up internal chaos among us… it is deliberately turning the anger of our people in the direction of the diocese…
In other words, the devil's main idea is to let us be held back by the parish's development, or to drive us to the tiger to devour the wolf..."
"But the thing about Wanxing is that... because of our previous efforts, the current public opinion is still within an acceptable range... We still have a chance to deal with the increasingly turbulent public opinion, but before that... we have to clarify one issue first."
When he said this, Yang Hao paused for a moment, and glanced at everyone with a tired look, especially at the cloak in Natalia's hand, which should have been specially made for little Anna and had not been sewn yet.
“Do we really need to completely cut off the surging public opinion?”
Do we really need to make our people completely lose their desire for revenge in order to make the current wave of public opinion subside
Yang Hao thought about it and decided that it was not worth it.
On the one hand, the United Nations has already decided to attack the diocese and kill the God of Light—
Public opinion is fierce now. If he can really bring back the evidence of killing the God of Light, not to mention whether all Bayerjans can be upgraded to a more powerful existence, the increase in people's self-confidence in the government alone will be enough to offset the current problems.
On the other hand... Yang Hao really needed a suitable excuse to launch a crusade against the God of Light.
Although the United Nations is currently a solid shot put, Yang Hao can throw it wherever he wants and there is absolutely no possibility of it slipping out of his hands—
But the reality is that if Yang Hao does not find a reasonable excuse to launch an attack on the diocese, perhaps his own people will have an impulse to "attack anyone we dislike", and even form a regional culture that does more harm than good.
This is not a good thing - just like life needs a sense of ritual, major events need even more of a sense of ritual to highlight majesty and orthodoxy.
A reasonable excuse to declare war on a target can not only allow the country initiating the war to gain public recognition and advantage, but also ensure its diplomatic reputation internationally to the greatest extent possible.
No one likes to fight with a country that starts internal fighting when it is unhappy with its own people. On the other hand, if a country has a reasonable excuse to cover up every time before launching a war, even if there are few people who want to make friends, at least it will not bring too many enemies because of its poor diplomatic reputation.
In other words, the "justification for war" proposed by Yang Hao will be the top priority for the spiritual and cultural construction of the United Nations in the future...
It’s just that the current “normalization” is actually more like a trap from the devil, a trap that the United Nations has to step into.
"So... we can now take advantage of the "justification for war" given to us by the devil and the current "public opinion" to legally declare war on the diocese...
Although I know that this may seem like an unnecessary chore, believe me, it will affect the future of our country's spirit -
So I don't think we need to immediately ask people to forget what just happened. We can turn a bad thing into a good thing.
Of course, I also know that if public opinion is not controlled, it will become a beast that kills us... But can everyone think of a better way now?"
Yang Hao ruffled his hair and sighed as he saw all the girls except Lady Lalumia, who was frowning, shaking their heads in denial.
It was at this moment that the guards outside the meeting room rushed in and said that there were spontaneous demonstrations led by civilians taking place in various parts of Constantinople. What should we do
"Read out the core demands of their march."
Although he probably knew what the Bayerjans most wanted to achieve, in order to make everyone aware of the seriousness of the problem, Yang Hao still ordered the guards to convey the demands of the civilian groups that were beginning to gather on the streets to march.
The demands of civilians can be roughly divided into two categories.
One - to take back the remains of the ancestors so that their souls can rest in peace.
The second one is to kill the God of Light. The literal meaning is that even if it is a god, as long as it touches the reverse scale of the Bayerjans, then even a god will have to taste how hard the iron fist of Bayerjans is.
In a sense, these two demands are actually one demand. And it just fits in with Yang Hao's plan. But in the end, the people of Constantinople are still too excited...
The guards said that many people have chosen to disguise themselves, and those civilians who are not strictly considered warriors are so angry that they even want to go to the parish right now to fight a decisive battle with the Church of Light - this is not good news.
Yang Hao doesn't need hot-blooded civilians to cause trouble to his army and plans on the battlefield.
There is no need for the enraged people to leave their posts... His own plan only requires an army, and at most the black dragon lady from Ishugard.
He really didn't want ordinary civilians to rely on their indignation on the battlefield to make the already poor country even worse.
But how do we calm them down a little
Yang Hao smiled bitterly, and just when Theresa took a deep breath and stood up to cover the entire Constantinople with her divine magic "Tranquility", Lady Lalumia stood up and said that she would take care of it.
"Little Theresa's ability is not enough to influence the entire Constantinople." Lalumia sighed, and a stronger silver light began to emanate from her body.
"But I can. Um... I will let everyone calm down for a while - but I can't guarantee how long it will last."
"It would be a big help if it could calm people down... Thank you, Lalumia."
"I should do it."
Under the grateful or expectant gaze of the crowd, the god gently threw out the silvery-white light from the window.
The light instantly spread across the sky above Constantinople. Under the illumination of the silver-white light, the civilians who had been shouting slogans of "Hang the God of Light!" in anger all calmed down.
This is the simplest magic in the Lalumia magic system - the magic of tranquility.
But under God's personal control, the magic that could only turn a hot-tempered man into a cold-blooded guy has become a magic skill that can cover the entire city and suppress the emotions of everyone in the city almost indiscriminately.
If used on the battlefield, it can directly make the enemy's originally high morale plummet to freezing point as if being poured with a basin of cold water.
On the other hand, if your army is about to collapse, Lalumia's tranquility spell can also restore the morale of the army.
Although this is not the first time I have said this.
But this time Yang Hao still has to stand up and say - it’s really great to have Lalumia here!
He and everyone else breathed a sigh of relief because the people were calm. Then, Yang Hao immediately took out the draft he had prepared earlier. Theresa and Fen took a look and found that the draft was a speech.
"I originally thought it would be useful tomorrow." The man with dark circles under his eyes smiled bitterly and was gently held in Theresa's arms.
“Now it’s time to use it… and if nothing unexpected happens, I’ll have to give the speech myself. So I need your help.”
"Just say it." Theresa curled her lips, "We all support you."
"I know... So let me assign some tasks. This is the first real foreign war speech since the founding of our country...
We must not only make the people have greater confidence in us, but more importantly, we must make the demon feel uneasy... let it lose its composure and taste the taste of what we just experienced. "
"So what exactly should we do?" Finn shrugged. "If you don't tell us, none of us will know what to do."
Although the couple and their two children were in sync with each other and Lalumia also knew Yang Hao's thoughts, whether others were clear was another matter.
Yang Hao knew what Fen meant, so after coughing twice, he glanced at Miss Elena, who seemed to be getting more and more restless for some reason, and then spread the draft on the conference table and said:
"This requires the assistance of Theresa and Lalumia's divine arts and the magic of the elves. In this way, when I give a speech, I will have the power to mobilize the emotions of the people more easily without letting their emotions get too out of control.
Afterwards, I need Natalia to publicly judge the crimes of the God of Light in the Grand Court—
No matter what you say, just sentence the God of Light to his most heinous crime. It would be best if the fact that he stole divine power in the past was also made public through trial.
Naruga's golems will also come in handy. But this time we're going to use special golems...
Let them go to the Roman Empire and pretend that we are going to invade the heartland of the Roman Empire's central region. But don't really invade too deep, just pretend.
This should make the God of Light in the parish and the demons in the central district feel uneasy...
But in order to make the devil who screwed us shit in his pants... I need Elena's help. This is the most important thing."
Hearing the word "most important", the synthetic doll that originally looked depressed immediately perked up. Facing the gazes of the crowd, she asked in a calm but strange way as always:
"Ken, sure: Please ask me... Please ask what Eden needs to do?"
Looking at the sparkling eyes of the synthetic doll, Theresa and Fen subconsciously hugged Yang Hao's head or arms tightly, until Lalumia came over and kindly pulled their hands apart, they were forced to acknowledge a fact that might happen in the future.
In response to Elena's question, Yang Hao just smiled and replied: Modify Eden's current reconnaissance magic machinery so that they have the ability to record and speak.
"When the time comes, spread my speech in batches. Then focus on editing the part where I want to retaliate against the Roman Empire in advance, making it look like an inadvertent declaration of war, and making others mistakenly believe that our main force will attack the Roman capital.
That demon servant probably doesn't have the ability to observe the situation on the scene from a distance. He will definitely become nervous because of the rumor that we are about to attack the capital, and will keep muttering about guarding against an attack that will not come in the near future.
Of course, this is just to make the demon servant lose his composure. In fact, our support is still maintained in Kagad and Skull for construction, and the other part will be sent to the parish through teleportation magic immediately after our speech to prepare for battle... But by then, those modified magic guide machines will be useless. "
"Confused: Why?"
"Because the fanatics in the parish will only believe what they want to believe." Yang Hao sighed. If they were not far away, he would have wanted to secretly hide Elena's little head.
"In other words, all propaganda is worthless to stubborn fanatics - but it is enough to cause confusion to King Roman..."
“Confused: But this doesn’t seem to be the “most important” part? ”
“Because this is very important for our future planning, so in a sense it is also the “most important” part here.”
"understand?"
The synthetic doll tilted its head. And just at this moment, Lalumia said that it was about time.
If this continues, the people calmed down by the tranquilization technique will start to become restless again. So is it really okay for Yang Hao not to seize the time
"Let's get started now."
Knowing that time waits for no one, even though he had not had a good rest for the whole day, Yang Hao finally fastened his collar and left the meeting room accompanied by his two wives.
They went to their own battlefields to prepare, and the other girls who were assigned to work were naturally not idle either.
They left one after another, and the one who stayed at last was Lady Lalumia with a puffy face and an unhappy look.
Lalumia was unhappy because she had "nothing to do".
Even after she realized that Yang Hao really couldn't find a suitable job for her, this "unhappiness" somehow began to be directed at Yang Hao.
"Stupid child! Even if you let me fetch water, it would be fine. Now I really have nothing to do. What should I do?"
Sulking Lalumia felt the divine power accumulating in her body, and sat on Yang Hao's chair, complaining angrily.
Feeling the residual warmth coming from behind him, and realizing that he really had nothing to do this night, the gentle god could only sigh and say, "When the child grows up, he will no longer need his mother."
She was just talking, but an indescribable loneliness still filled her heart... However, she was not a fragile god.
She quickly found a job for herself—she could follow the path of divine power transmission to observe the current situation of the parish.
Although this process may not seem too clear, it should at least let her understand the current situation of the parish.
As long as I can collect enough intelligence, the next plan will proceed more smoothly... By then, I will be the one who has made a great contribution, right
So after dealing with the God of Light, let him listen to one of his requests.
Lalumia's puffed up face gradually calmed down.
And in the parish…
The Protestant and Catholic armies confronted each other, and neither dared to touch the other.
Chapter 13 5/5: Final Battle - 8K