[Fourth Update]
Salin's original plan was very good. He could consolidate his power step by step, and when the God of Light came, he would not be able to find a single believer to help him.
When a god descended to a plane without believers, their power would be suppressed by the laws of the plane. This was without a doubt, and the suppression would be especially fierce. When a god had believers in a plane and absorbed the power of faith for a long time, it was equivalent to opening a channel in the plane, and they could obtain the power of all planes with believers at any time.
Salin's idea of making the Myers Continent a desperate situation for the God of Light was not wrong.
But before the resurrection of the goddess, he was at a loss.
Because the development of the church would allow the goddess' power to grow too fast. The goddess was not a new god, but a resurrected god. As long as she had the power to advance, she would be fine. There was no need to learn all kinds of laws from scratch.
In other words, once the goddess obtained the power of faith from believers, her advancement speed would be faster than Jason's, let alone Salin's.
Salin sighed and contacted Metatlin City to communicate directly with his children.
He told Austin not to worry about the divine beasts anymore. The goddess was not a bloodthirsty god and would not do anything to him. Also, the contract between him and the goddess had been completed, and the goddess would reward him.
The problem now was whether Salin should follow the plan or withdraw from this war and let Myers do it herself.
Maybe it was time to go to the Purgatory Desert. In the temple on the Endless Mountain, how was Myers?
Suddenly, Salin remembered that the Oracle left by the goddess had been killed by him, and his soul was taken by the Winged Skeleton. This was not good. Salin hurriedly told the Winged Skeleton to leave the battlefield and return to its Death Plane. If he did not summon it, it must not come back.
Salin losing this helper was not a big deal. Although the Winged Skeleton could take charge now, Salin did not have that many powerful enemies. If it was just the Vatican, the entire Metatlin Kingdom would not be needed. If the goddess knew that the Oracle had died in his hands, it would be terrible.
Even if the goddess did not kill him, she could not let the Winged Skeleton continue to enslave her Oracle.
In the Fallen Purgatory, there was still the goddess's Fallen Shackles. Salin made up his mind and sent Nelis to the Death Plane. Only that plane was safe. The goddess might even find the half plane.
After dealing with all these, Salin issued an order to the entire army. Their target — Holy City.
The soldiers on the floating city weren't much. They were mainly Manipulators. Because some demons had the opportunity to train in the Temple of the Gods, the Manipulators on the floating city could already cast Level-13 spells.
The magic net of the floating city was also the most powerful of all the magic nets Salin had built. That was because the Weave God was there to coordinate all the attacks. If the God of the Weave were to fight alone, he wouldn't be able to display much of his power.
Salin's powerful army, with the exception of the Insectoid Angel Warriors, were all stationed at Boder's Gate. As long as Salin sneaked into the Holy City, he could instantly set up Boder's Gate and send an army to kill in the city.
Salin did not find it difficult to conquer the city. What he needed to prevent was an attack from the Inquisition. The Inquisition did not participate in the defensive battle. Moreover, the location of the Inquisition was close to the sea. Salin's Navy did not fight with the Inquisition. Black Prison Island was silent.
The Warden did not seem to care about the destruction of the Holy See. To Black Prison Island, they were very eager to break away from the Holy See.
It was Salin's first time in the Holy City. He looked down and found that the construction of the Holy City was very strict. The entire city was a huge Divine Rune Formation.
Countless buildings were organized into straight lines, arranged in a pentagram pattern. Every church was the core of the Divine Rune Formation. It had the function of strengthening and supporting it.
Salin tried to use magic cannons to attack a few times, but they were all blocked by the white divine light.
It seemed that it would be quite difficult to conquer the city.
Salin was not anxious. The Holy See had already fallen apart internally. They could not even elect a Pope. Now that there was a strong enemy outside, they united to deal with him.
Hehe. Fortunately, he had already learned from Nicholas that there were not many true believers in the Cardinal Institution. The worst result of the Holy See's thousand years of internal strife was that true believers could not enter the Cardinal Institution.
Gods still hoped that their believers were simple. Only then would the Power of Faith be pure enough. Therefore, the teachings of any God would not allow their believers to act recklessly. Even some Gods who mainly killed would change their faces to be neutral when they preached in various dimensions. The internal strife of the Holy See not only decreased the cohesion of the Holy See, but also made it harder and harder to obtain Divine Power. For a thousand years, although the Holy See had a lot of savings and wealth, it had not developed.
Salin used the Thunder Chain Explosion skill from high up in the sky and shouted, "Listen up, the people below. The Goddess of Nature has been resurrected and has passed down the Oracle. It is not too late for you to change sides. The first person in the Cardinal Institution to surrender will be the next Pope of the Natural Religion! "
His words were crude, but they were very provocative. There were many people in the Holy See who wanted to change sides. However, no one was willing to take the first step. They were even more afraid of being purged by the Holy See.
Now that Salin had mentioned such tempting conditions, even if they were not the first to surrender, they could at least get some benefits, right?
It was said that the God of Light's clone had descended, but did not do anything to this Magician. If they continued to resist, everyone would die here.
These people did not think that Salin would dare to forge the Oracle.
Everyone knew that the Natural Religion was founded by Salin. How could such a person do something blasphemous to the Gods?
Salin did not care. When a divine beast returned to the Goddess' side, more secrets would be revealed. If the Goddess could not tolerate him forging the Oracle, then it was fine. She would just fall out with him early. If he really could not do it, he would escape to the King of the Abyss.
What Salin was most afraid of was the contract between him and the Goddess. After the Goddess was resurrected, the contract would disappear, and Salin did not feel so pressured. As for facing Gods, he had experience. Gods were just more powerful creatures.
The Goddess Myers definitely had her own desires and would not act recklessly on this continent. If Myers did not want to get rid of him, she would tolerate his methods. Moreover, Myers had personally passed down the Oracle that he could rule all the territories that the Natural Religion had conquered. This meant that the Goddess was still on his side for the time being.
Salin's words shook the hearts of many people in the Sacred City. About six seconds later, a white light suddenly lit up in a church.
Salin was overjoyed. More than thirty large Thunder Dragon Spears shot out at the same time. Huge lightning and icicles tore through the defenses and destroyed all the divine runic formations around the church.
This white light was a result of a mage secretly releasing a part of the seal, allowing the stored divine power to leak out.
This was a betrayal. There was no doubt about it. Then, hundreds of magic cannons fired in this direction. Inside the church, the traitorous mage was scared out of his wits. He immediately realized that these attacks were aimed at the defensive facilities, not him.
The traitor had a stroke of luck. He grabbed his best equipment and flew into the sky.
The dome of the church had already shattered. As he flew, some of the more stubborn believers immediately realized that the archbishop of this church had betrayed them. Hundreds of divine lights attacked at the same time, but they were destroyed by even more magic falling from the sky.
Under the control of the God of the Weave, the attacks of more than a hundred thousand Necromancers seemed to be one.
Raphael rushed down from the floating city with the metal angel to meet the traitor. She despised people like this, but Salin's actions were not wrong. This would prevent the loss of her own soldiers.
The defenses of the entire holy city were very complete. Even if this mage had betrayed them, the gap would be quickly filled.
But this was an extremely dangerous example. With the first traitor, there would be a second.
In the cathedral of the holy city, without the Pope, there were more than ten cardinals of the Cardinal Council. They naturally saw what happened, but looked at each other, unable to do anything.
There were still many mages above level 10 in the holy city, but without a leader, these mages fought on their own. No one knew what they were thinking.
In the past, everyone had been too happy to seize power and money. Most of them worked together based on profit. Now that the enemy had come to their door, everyone remembered Dionisio's kindness.
If Dionisio was still here, how could this happen?
The holy city could not be destroyed as long as everyone worked together.
Everyone was thinking, why don't I betray them too?
The floating city desperately attacked one point to provide support for Raphael. Raphael swooped down, grabbed the flying mage in her hands, and directly returned to the floating city.
Raphael carried the mage to Salin and threw him to the ground.
Salin glanced at the mage. A level 10 cardinal in his thirties. He should be a promising person in the Holy Church. It was difficult to betray such a person. Thinking of this, Salin asked, "What's your name?"
"Faleau, Your Highness. It's an honor to meet you." This mage called Faleau, who was thrown to the ground by Raphael, did not look aggrieved at all. He happily prostrated in front of Salin, without the slightest hint of flattery on his face.
It was an art to be able to flatter someone openly and not make people feel disgusted.
"Faleau, did you betray for the position of the next Pope of the Druidic Order?" Salin asked casually.
"Of course, Your Highness." Faleau's answer would have been shameless if it had been anyone else, but his face just happened to be somewhat holy.
What a talent!
Salin thought. Only such a person was suitable to preach religion.
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