Main Volume Chapter 115: Holy City Incident
"Ah?"
"Did Edward guess right?"
"Is it possible that there are enemies coming to support us from the desert?"
At this time, a group of Ajid members stood on a hill made of endless yellow sand. They had a wide view and looked into the distance with surprise in their eyes.
In the distance was an army of undead as dense as ants. Although the specific situation could not be seen clearly because it was too far away, it was confirmed that a sudden heavy rain was falling over there, and the army of undead was being slaughtered by unknown creatures.
One of Ajid's followers asked, "Lord Loran, it looks like those undead can't hold out for long. Should we go over to support them?"
The man called Loran shook his head and said, "No need."
Ajid's follower asked in confusion: "But, those undead are quite powerful and will be of great help to us in attacking the Holy City. If we just give up like this..."
Luo Lan said: "It doesn't matter. This undead army is abandoned. It is placed here to delay time. There is no need to waste time to save them."
Akito's follower asked, "So what do we do now?"
Luo Lan said: "You stay here and wait for them to kill all the undead. They will definitely come over. Then find a way to delay them. When there is enough time, you can retreat."
"Of course, if the opponent's strength is average, you can just annihilate him!"
"And I have to go back first and tell the others about this so that we can prepare early, lest this sudden appearance of enemies affect our overall plan."
After hearing this, several of Ajid's followers nodded quickly and answered in unison: "Yes! Lord Roland!"
After Roland finished speaking, he transformed into a monster about four or five meters tall. Two huge beast wings appeared behind him. He flew towards the direction of the holy city and disappeared in the flying yellow sand in just a few seconds.
However, Roland had not flown far when he suddenly stopped and made an emergency landing on the ground nervously.
"who are you?"
“…”
"Come out right now! Stop playing tricks! Do you really think I didn't notice you?"
“…”
"Okay! You're not coming out, right? Then I'll wait for you to come out!"
“…”
Suddenly, a small beetle-like butterfly flew onto Loran's shoulder and attracted its attention.
Roland stretched out the huge claws of the monster's body, trying to catch the butterfly, but he didn't expect the tiny blue butterfly to suddenly explode, making a deafening sound and generating an extremely powerful magical energy, which quickly cooled and froze Roland's body into a huge ice sculpture.
"Ice magic...you..."
Before Luo Lan finished speaking, a blue butterfly and a red butterfly fell from the sky, danced gracefully, and instantly turned into two cute little girls.
They held hands and looked at Roland coldly, then raised their fair and small right and left hands respectively, pointed them at Roland's head, and released two ice and fire magics like long dragons.
"boom!!!"
The magic penetrated Roland's head, which was frozen into ice , and shattered the ice all over his body. At the same time, the blood in his head was instantly drained away, as if it had evaporated.
Then, Roland entered the second stage. The blood bar on his head was refilled, and his originally frozen body was completely freed, eliminating the controlled state.
But before it could act, the Butterfly Twins raised their index fingers and gently hooked them. Suddenly, a large amount of magical elements gathered on the yellow sand ground, transforming into giant pillars of ice and fire, completely engulfing Roland who was in them.
"how come……"
"Why does a mere mortal have such power..."
Roland was totally confused and the Butterfly Twins instantly wiped out all his health in the second stage. He directly entered the extremely weak third stage and turned back into a fragile human.
Then, without giving Roland a chance to sacrifice and summon the BOSS of the ancient battlefield, the Butterfly Twins waved their hands again, and the magic of ice and fire complemented each other, completely blasting the powerful Roland to pieces.
"you……"
“You actually…”
From beginning to end, Roland had no power to resist. He didn't even touch the corner of the Butterfly Twins' clothes before he was completely turned into ashes.
“Eliminated.”
"Um."
Otoha looked at Caiyu and asked, "Caiyu, that person is nearby. My butterfly found him... Should we go find him?"
Caiyu shook her head. "No, sister asked us to eliminate these bad guys and fly out of the desert to find sister Effie. Don't worry about that man. He will go to the Holy City to find sister Kuula anyway. Leave the rest to sister."
"Let's not care."
Yi Yu said, "Okay."
Caiyu looked at Yiyu and said, "Let's go!"
Yi Yu replied: "Okay!"
After a pause, Yi Yu was suddenly stunned, and grabbed Cai Yu's right hand as she was about to leave, and said, "Wait, Cai Yu, my butterfly seems to have seen... Sister Aifei?"
Caiyu asked, "Sister Effie?"
"you sure?"
After hearing this, Yi Yu closed her eyes and completely shifted her vision to the reconnaissance spirit butterfly she had arranged. She confirmed again and found that the woman sitting on the back of the spirit crane was 100% her sister Effie.
Returning to the perspective, Yi Yu nodded and said, "It's her! Sister Aifei! She's with that guy!"
Iroha: “(．．)…”
She tilted her head and asked in confusion, "But didn't Sister Kuula say that Sister Effie went to the Kingdom of Alberia? Why is she in the desert?"
Yi Yu shook his head and said, "I don't know..."
After a pause, Yi Yu looked into Cai Yu's eyes and asked, "What should we do then? Go find Sister Ai Fei? Or go back to the Holy City first?"
Caiyu hesitated, "I don't know... Kuula-nee-san didn't tell me...what to do in this situation..."
Otoha imitated Iroha's expression.
“(．．)…”
Iroha gave her the same look back.
“(．．)…”
Although the two little girls are inheritors and their fighting power is stronger than the phantom of the ancient evil god, and they can kill a complete Ajid in three moves, they are only twelve years old after all, and they are naturally a little overwhelmed when faced with such an emergency.
After a moment of hesitation, Caiyu, who was a little older, was smarter and came up with a solution. She said, "Sister Kuula said that we can't contact that person, but she also asked us to find Sister Effie and protect her closely."
Yi Yu: “Hmm?”
Cai Yu continued, "Then we will follow them, but don't show up. If we protect Sister Effie in secret, won't that help us complete Sister Kuula's mission?"
Otoha suddenly realized, "Ah, that's right, Caiyu, you are so smart!"
Caiyu smiled sweetly, stretched out her right hand, touched Yiyu's little head, and said, "When you grow up a little more, Yiyu, you will be as smart as me."
Yi Yu nodded: "Yeah."
Then, the Butterfly Twins who had figured out a solution transformed themselves into butterflies again, flew lightly into the sky, and disappeared in the flying yellow sand, which was exactly the direction where Zhang Yun and the army of undead were.
…
Back to a few days ago, Edward and others started the action in the Holy City. They first knocked Pope John unconscious, used special drugs to make him sleep continuously, and then put him under house arrest, lying to the outside world that the Pope was seriously ill and unable to do any work.
The Butterfly Twins also returned to the Holy City at this time and met the Holy Knight Kuula, Edward's adopted daughter.
Then, the Butterfly Twins followed Kuula's advice and left the Holy City to find Effie. Kuula and Edward met and discussed in detail what the Butterfly Twins had discovered during the test, especially the various abilities of Zhang Yun...
Immediately afterwards, Edward, as the second-in-command of the Holy City, directly replaced John as the acting Pope, began to mobilize all the troops of the Holy City, and made a series of arrangements.
However, he did not follow the previously formulated plan—he directly tampered with all the defensive formations of the Holy City and transferred away the Holy Knights who were guarding the Holy City, leaving the overall defense of the Holy City empty.
Instead, he released his trusted aides and a member of the Ajid organization out of the city, and ordered them to deliver a letter to the Ajid organization that was summoning the undead to massacre the city.
The intelligence sent out included two types.
First, the Holy City cannot be attacked for the time being. First, transfer the troops to the nearby area. When it is ready to attack, I will send out a signal, and you can then send the undead army to attack the Holy City.
Second, there is a group of enemies coming to support you outside the desert. Their exact location is unclear, so you must send out some undead and main forces to hinder them. Because the range is relatively large, you need to deploy more than a dozen troops to investigate the enemy's position from all directions.
Because of these two orders, Ajid was forced to change the timing of his action and postponed it for several days.
However, the city on Carl's side happened to be far away, and he needed to wait for it to bring the summoned undead army over, so it didn't matter if it took a few more days.
After all, although Ajid can rely on the "Sea of the Dead" spell to remotely summon the army of the undead to the vicinity of the Holy City, it takes a certain amount of time - Carl himself must come to the vicinity of the Holy City to use the Sea of the Dead to summon the undead controlled by Carl. The longer he spends on the journey, the longer it will take for the army of the undead to reach the Holy City.
The specific method is a bit like Zhang Yun making equipment, and then retrieving the white pigeon and old man Haha, and teleporting directly over remotely, but Ajid must rely on the power of the magic circle, and the process is troublesome and time- .
Afterwards, Zhang Yun and Lucina eliminated Carl and cleared out the undead army, and they flew to the holy city on spirit cranes.
At the same time, based on the information provided by Edward, Ajid placed some soldiers from the undead army in various places in the desert, waiting for Zhang Yun and his group of "unknown enemies" to come and attack him.
Let's get to the point. Zhang Yun and others who were on their way encountered several groups of undead armies. He took this opportunity to quickly kill monsters and level up, and the butterfly twins who flew out of the holy city also followed Kuula's orders to eliminate those lone undead troops.
The two sides fought all the way, and suddenly met today, and then the scene above happened. The Butterfly Twins found that Ai Fei was actually with Zhang Yun...
This is not the key point. The key lies in Edward in the Holy City. When he learned about Zhang Yun’s "test" results from Kuula, he also said the same thing as Kuula, "Akid is not our hope."
Then he completely changed his original plan...
Of course, what was said before was just an appetizer. Edward's truly astonishing move was that after he let go of the Ajid messenger and his own confidants, he immediately organized the paladins in the Holy City who were loyal to Edward and captured all the Ajid members lurking in the Holy City.
In order to ensure success, all the Paladins participating in the capture operation are high-level professionals and are commanded by the Holy Knight Kuura. Each of them carries the "Savilia Steel" that can restrain Ajid, ensuring that they can be killed instantly before Ajid can react, without giving them the opportunity to transform into monsters and summon the Ancient Evil God.
Soon, relying on Edward's command, the list of Ajid members he had prepared long ago, and Ajid's various fatal weaknesses, all of Ajid's hidden members were found out, secretly executed, and no news was leaked out.
Immediately afterwards, Edward stopped commanding the Holy City and took over the command of Kuula, the strongest Holy Knight in the Holy City.
She changed her previous practice of secretly executing Ajide and directly disclosed the fact that Pope John was knocked unconscious. She also disclosed secret events such as the existence of the Ajide organization, the infiltration of Ajide members, and the existence of traitors in the Holy City.
Then Kuula issued a strict order to completely close the holy city, not allowing anyone to enter or leave. Violators would be executed on the street. He then took all the paladin troops to arrest people throughout the city.
Suddenly, the holy city became a place of unrest. Countless people were singled out and executed in public, including many high-ranking clergymen in the holy city, who were also accused of being "assistants of the Aqide Organization" and then punished by burning at the stake.
There were no wrong people among them. All of them had contact with Ajid members, some were managers who helped them enter the holy city, some were ordinary believers who had transactions with them, and some were weak-willed people who had been assimilated into Ajid followers.
Edward has the names and details of all the traitors in the Holy City. As long as the Paladin wants to catch someone, he will never catch the wrong person and will never let any participant escape.
After all those involved in the Ajid incident were caught or executed, the Paladins set their sights on Edward himself. Under Kuula's orders, the Paladins secretly arrested Edward and then threw him deep into the most secure prison in the Holy City.
At this time, John was fed an antidote to relieve his coma by someone arranged by Edward. He stood up again to take charge of the situation and pointed out Edward's actions to attack him.
However, he only told the information of identification to all the high-ranking officials in the Holy City, and did not tell the believers below that Edward was a traitor, mainly because he was afraid of causing panic and unrest.
In this way, Edward, who completed all the arrangements in secret, became the "manipulator behind the Ajid incident."
Most of the people who were directly involved in the "Ajd Incident", including the paladins who followed Edward to knock out the Pope, were also imprisoned with Edward.
There are no more "traitors" in the holy city who can help Ajid.
Edward's adopted daughter "Kuula" became the hero who saved the holy city.
Because it was she who discovered the conspiracy between Edward and Ajith, and then conducted an investigation, figured out the ins and outs of the "Ajith Incident", and pulled out all the traitors.
In this regard, some high-ranking members of the Divine Life Cult expressed doubts, wondering if Kuura was a chess piece secretly arranged by Edward. After all, she was Edward's adopted daughter. Even the highly respected Edward would betray God and his faith, so would a mere Holy Heavenly Knight follow suit?
However, they interrogated countless participants and found that no one had identified Kuula, and many people hated Kuula extremely, scolding her for being so heartless as to capture the adoptive father who raised them.
Kuula also ruthlessly killed many "traitors", including her childhood friends, subordinates among the paladins, the new paladins she taught personally, and even her adoptive father Edward, who was also suggested by Kuula to be burned at the stake as the price for his betrayal of faith.
Seeing such a cold attitude, the leaders of the Godly Life Cult no longer doubted it. They just felt that Kuula was indeed a Holy Knight who could gain the favor of the gods. He had such a loyal belief and almost completely devoted his body and mind to the gods...
However, only Kuura knows that she is also a traitor, and all this is for the sake of the world...
