Mount Alessandro, located in the arctic mountains in the north, is a famous mountain on the mainland known for its majestic and steep mountains.
But that was more than a thousand years ago, and the real Holy Mountain of Alessandro no longer exists. The largest religious organization on the Blade Tower Continent, the Holy Light Holy See spent thousands of years and countless manpower, material and financial resources to dig out the entire mountain at the cost of countless believers willingly dedicating all their property and even voluntarily serving as slaves for life. The Alessandro Holy Mountain Cathedral built in the sky is the most majestic and solemn building on the entire continent with a height of several thousand meters and countless majestic halls. Even the countries of several major human empires cannot compare with it.
After all, state taxes must be based on the law, and it is impossible to justifiably deprive taxpayers of all their property. However, this is not the case with faith. Even if a devout believer offers everything he owns to the Holy See, he will have no regrets, property, and labor. , even the lives of the whole family are not spared, so from some perspectives, the Holy Light Holy See is no longer a simple religion, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a super empire.
Because of this, even the great empire that listed the Principles of Holy Light as its state religion could not tolerate the powerful presence of the Holy See. After joining forces to expel the Magicians Guild, they began to suppress the development of the Holy See.
Originally, this was by no means an easy task. The Holy See of Holy Light is a behemoth that has existed since the ancient war period, and the empire was only born a thousand or two thousand years ago. If it were not for top monsters like Retusus, The empire had little confidence to threaten the Holy See.
Although the empire has been declining due to the corruption and incompetence of the upper-class nobles in the past hundred years, the Holy See of Holy Light has also been going downhill bit by bit. The greatest misfortune of the Holy See is that there has never been anyone who can directly compete with the Dragon Riders. The absolute power of Retusus, especially the current Pope, is secretly called by countless people as the most stupid and incompetent in history. This puts the Holy See at a disadvantage in the open and covert battles with the Empire.
At this moment, the great pope who was ridiculed as the worst loser in history, St. Andres, was standing on the highest observation deck of the church, overlooking the picturesque mountains and rivers in front of him.
With flawless facial features, blond hair and blue eyes, and a slender figure, he looked like the descending archangel depicted in the holy war album. This is also strong evidence that some people ridiculed that he only ascended to the position of the Great Pope based on his appearance.
From the appearance of Archpope San Andres there is no indication of his age or even his gender.
Calling him a man, San Andres's appearance was too gorgeous, and some even compared him to Baron Amanda, the most beautiful woman in the empire. But if she was a woman, then Pope San Andres' figure was too masculine. How could there be a woman as tall and slender as him. But if we only look at it based on his temperament, the Pope feels closer to a young man. His eyes and smile are all filled with the most flawless innocence.
"Your Majesty the Pope, the new Apocalypse Knight containers are all ready."
An old voice came from behind the Great Pope. From this voice, you can feel the clear and sincere humility, fear and reverence. If you only listen to this voice, who can imagine that this is actually the person who is called the Holy See. The powerful one, Cardinal Saint Julius of the Shadow Pope.
San Andres turned around, and the white-haired red archbishop immediately bowed and took a few steps back. Behind him, there were nearly a hundred young men and women standing neatly. Each of them had outstanding appearance, and what was even more rare was that each of them They all have considerable strength, and the worst one has broken the third-level seal. The two strongest among them suddenly turned out to be two fifth-level war king holy knights. It's just that these young people's eyes were dull, as if they were under some kind of mental control, and they completely lost their sense of autonomy.
"These children are all young elites drawn from the Holy Sword, Holy Shield, Holy Fire, and the four major knights of the Holy Cross and the ruling body. It can be said that they will be the essence of my Holy Light Principle in the next twenty or thirty years. If Lost them..."
Before the red archbishop could finish his words, the pope looked over. In that calm and gentle gaze, the red archbishop was like snow exposed under the July sun. His aura and His courage melted away in an instant, and he fell to his knees with a plop, his face pressed against the floor, and his whole body was trembling.
The pope smiled slightly and no longer paid attention to the red archbishop. Instead, he walked straight to the group of young people. His eyes swept over him, and then he stretched out his flawless white palm. His palm was upward, with red, green, blue and black colors. A ball of colored light emerged out of thin air, spinning on its own above his palm.
Each of these four-color light clusters is only the size of a baby's fist, but if you look carefully, you can see endless disasters, killings, plagues, famine, death, and despair from the light clusters.
The Pope raised his hand, and four balls of soul fire immediately flew towards everyone, each of their chosen targets sinking into their eyebrows.
People who integrated the soul fire immediately regained their consciousness, but all they could do was hold their heads in their hands and scream miserably. Then the next moment, their whole bodies were blown to pieces. After the slightly stronger soul fire came out, they would directly attack Next target.
Just like that, balls of blood splashed everywhere, bones and flesh flew everywhere, the magnificent, sacred and solemn palace seemed like an abyss of hell, the red archbishop lay on the ground shivering, the smell of blood was pungent, his heart was bleeding, these young people Although people are not very useful now, they are the most talented group of people in this generation. Without them, the Holy See will inevitably have a gap in strength in the next twenty years. However, he did not dare to resist the decision made by the Archpope. He did not even dare to use his private rights to remove his own granddaughter from the death list. He faithfully carried out His Majesty the Pope's "gathering together all the most outstanding people in the church". young people this order."
His Majesty the Pope, on the other hand, was smiling and squinting, as if he was indifferent to what was happening in front of him.
After a while, only four young people, two men and two women, were left standing on the spot. They each covered their heads, their facial features were distorted, and the expressions on their faces were extremely painful.
The red archbishop looked puzzled and looked back secretly. He suddenly found that his favorite granddaughter was one of the four. He felt mixed with joy and sorrow, but immediately became confused again. After hesitating and struggling for a while, he finally plucked up the courage. , asked softly: "Your Majesty the Pope, may I ask why this time's 'infusion' ceremony is...somewhat different from the past?"
The Pope smiled slightly, waved his palm, and saw bits of golden-white light instantly filling the hall. The blood and flesh that had been splashed everywhere evaporated instantly, and the entire hall became holy and pure again.
"I just received an oracle recently..." His Majesty the Pope finally spoke. His voice was clear and pure, like light, the purest and most holy light in the world.
"The end of chaos is coming, and the 'Twilight Day' recorded in the Apocalypse is not far away. Only we who uphold the protection of the sacred light can exist forever and put away those filthy people who want to cause chaos in troubled times. Catch all the demons in one fell swoop. To do this, we need more and stronger power, so I made some changes to the injection ceremony this time, injecting all the power of the Apocalypse Disaster that the church has accumulated into their bodies."
"But, in that case, they, their bodies... their selves..."
The pope smiled faintly and said no more, while the bodies of the four new Knights of the Apocalypse began to undergo drastic changes. The body of the girl who symbolized the red color of war grew rapidly, and after a while, she transformed into a girl with a height of nearly three meters and a body full of muscles. Red-skinned giant.
The handsome young man who symbolized the plague turned into a dark green flesh ball monster, covered with exploding pustules. The death knight turned into a black smoke-filled skeleton. Only the tall beauty who transformed into a gluttonous knight could hardly be seen. There were no changes, but when she looked around and smiled, hundreds of ferocious mouths appeared on her smooth and delicate skin. They were complete with tongues and teeth. She looked like the most terrifying one.
These four people have completely lost their human form, and the endless power of disaster and destruction escapes from their bodies, as if the end of the world has come early. This place is obviously the most sacred and solemn place on the entire continent, but it has given birth to the most evil and dark demons.
Looking at the gluttonous knight, the red archbishop's eyes were sad, but he could only sigh and shake his head.
On the contrary, His Majesty the Pope was very satisfied with the four new Knights of the Apocalypse. He smiled faintly, raised his hand and spread out a ray of light again, condensing into a light mirror in mid-air, and one could see a man wearing a desert robe. A beautiful girl appears in it.
"Now that the new Apocalypse Knights have been born, go and prove your worth and carry out your first mission... Go to the desert and capture for me the little ogre that destroyed the previous generation of Apocalypse Knights... By the way, I also want to thank him very much for giving us the important Son of Light."
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Goron, who was walking in the black sand storm, suddenly felt his heart beating wildly, as if he was being stared at by some extremely dangerous existence. A similar feeling had appeared in the imperial capital of Black Mountain before, but the malice contained in it was far less than this time. Gronn could feel that this was an extremely powerful existence peering at him.
"Is it those strugglers? Or those bastard mages in Crystal Lake who are afraid of the world being in chaos? Or is it the brave man from the North? Forget it... I have too many enemies, so let's finish the things in front of us first. ”