The cardinal's expression darkened as he stared at the empty wall. His heart slowly sank.
They sent Ivan flying and kept brushing me off, it must be for this painting.
Damn it, I think this painting was given to Madame Punta by the king.
To show off her relationship with the king, Madame Punta hung this painting in the banquet hall. It wasn't until recently that she put it back in the showroom.
The king was a playboy, so he often gave some souvenir items to the noblewomen. This painting was only one of the countless items, so no one would think there was anything wrong with it.
But now, someone came specifically for this painting.
Then it's hard to say what's going on here.
What secret is this painting hiding?
Why didn't I notice anything wrong from the start?
The Cardinal suddenly let out a roar and whipped the whole showroom into smithereens.
"Your Excellency!" the Holy Church's military officer heard him and stood at the door.
"Go! Quickly notify everyone, that Zhang Ren Jia might be related to the king's matter, we can't let him get away no matter what! "the cardinal breathed heavily and shouted.
The king's matter!
Hearing that, the military officer panicked and hurriedly replied: "Yes!"
"That's right, that Zhang Ren Jia is wearing a light golden armor, he's very easy to recognize!" the cardinal quickly added.
"Yes!"
"Quickly go, quickly go, notify everyone!"
The military officer hurriedly replied and quickly left.
At the same time.
The Holy Church.
The Pope was sitting on her throne, holding a paintbrush in her hand as she focused on drawing something on the drawing board.
She suddenly put her brush down and sighed.
"I can't get rid of this feeling …"
She stopped hesitating and called out: "Come"
Very quickly, a nun came in and knelt down in front of her.
"If I remember correctly, you're an orphan taken in by God" the Pope stared at her and spoke.
"That's right, if God didn't take me in, I would've already frozen or starved to death" the nun sincerely answered.
"Is your faith firm?"
"Regardless of life or death, I will serve you, serve God"
"Do you have anyone else in your heart?"
"No, my heart has always been pure and clean"
"Now that the sacred moment has arrived, are you willing to sacrifice everything for the Saint?"
The nun looked up with a fanatical expression: "For God, for you, I am willing to sacrifice everything I have"
"Hmm, not bad."
The Pope nodded in satisfaction and tore a piece of paper from the drawing board.
She stretched out her hand and threw it.
The piece of paper silently flew above the nun and sucked her in.
The Pope waved her hand and the paper flew back to her.
The Pope lightly caught the paper and shook it in his hand.
The paper turned into a card.
On the card, it was the nun from before.
Her pale face was flushed with excitement. She clasped her hands together and prayed devoutly.
Two lines of words appeared on the card.
"A pious nun."
"This is a pure and devout believer who is willing to sacrifice everything for his faith, including his own soul."
The Pope silently looked at this card.
After a while, she put the card on her body and said softly, "Cancel."
An incomparably shrill scream burst out from the surface of the card.
As she screamed, the nun card turned into a holy white flame.
A jet-black chain appeared from the Pope's body, wrapped in white flame.
In a split second, both the nun card and the black chain turned into grey-white dust that scattered all over the ground.
The Pope silently stared at this.
Suddenly, she chuckled.
"Hah, what a fool" she said.
"Next, there are two more seals of fate …"
"Come"
Another devout nun came in.
"If I remember correctly, you are an orphan adopted by God in this world" the Pope asked again.
"Yes, everything I have belongs to the Saint" the nun answered.
"The sacred moment has arrived, are you willing to sacrifice for the Saint?"
…
After a desperate scream, the Pope once again released another seal of fate.
"Soon …"
Feeling the relief from being released, the Pope's uneasiness slowly faded away.
Suddenly, she froze, as if she saw something strange.
"— — ah, where did Ivan go?"
The Pope was surprised and reached her hand into the void of space in front of her.
Nothing came out.
"Too far? How did that happen!? "
The Pope's tone was a bit surprised.
Although Madame Punta's manor was located on the outskirts of the capital, it wasn't that far.
The Pope originally didn't care, but now she couldn't help but take it seriously.
She recalled a bit and muttered: "Ivan went to the banquet … that's right, I told him to go in my place …"
"At the time … I was busy peeking at the path of fate"
The Pope went silent.
"Hurt!" she suddenly stood up and called out.
"I'm here!"
Hurt quickly walked in and knelt down on one knee.
On the other side.
Gu Qing Shan was quickly flying on the road leading to the capital.
His body suddenly shook as he took off his golden armor and put it away in his Inventory Bag.
After that, Gu Qing Shan formed a hand seal.
The improved version of the Super Presence Concealment Technique was activated. His presence completely disappeared.
Gu Qing Shan's movements were fast and stealthy, quickly arriving at a lake.
There was a large boulder by the lake, almost as tall as three people.
As Gu Qing Shan glanced over the boulder, he suddenly stopped.
He walked in front of the boulder, swung the Earth sword and cut a hole in the boulder like it was tofu.
Looking at this hole, Gu Qing Shan was very pleased.
After cutting the hole, it was just enough to fit a single person.
Not to mention how careful Gu Qing Shan was, the entire boulder that he cut out didn't have a single crack on it, nor did any stones fall off. As long as he cut out a part of it from the inside, he could easily put it back.
Just like that, a very ingenious hiding spot was created.
Without hesitation, Gu Qing Shan quickly finished dealing with the inside of the boulder and put the outside back in.
Time slowly passed.
A dignified voice resounded across the night sky.
This was the voice of a Saint.
"Seal off the road, seal off the lake, do not allow anyone to enter or leave, violators will be killed!"
Following this voice, a vast white light covered the sky.
A cluster of light came from afar, landed on the surface of the lake, and silently floated there.
As the light faded away, a handsome man wearing a black robe appeared.
The strongest Saint of the Holy Empire, the strongest person in the Holy Church aside from the Pope, the Great Holy Apostle Hurt.
He's finally here.
Among the 7 Holy Apostles, he was the only one who could use his vast holy power to float in the air.
As soon as he found out about the situation, Hurt immediately came here, but it was too far that he only arrived now.
Pure white holy light surrounded him, forming a pair of wings of light on his back.
He lightly hovered in the air, circling around and searching.
— — -when he found out that Ivan was sent flying, he felt his blood boiling.
Someone actually dared to offend a Holy Apostle like this on this land!
His little brother was beaten to the point where he couldn't even find the enemy.
That idiot Kid didn't even manage to capture him.
Kid doesn't even know what he wants that painting for!
This was an unprecedented humiliation for the Holy Apostles.
I can't let that person escape, I have to catch him and return this humiliation to him a thousand times over!
The Great Holy Apostle flapped his wings and flew around in irritation.
According to the military's report, that person couldn't be found anywhere else.
It's very likely that he's hiding nearby.
But this guy is very sly, Hurt had to search for a long time before he found this place.
Hurt's specialty isn't tracking, but fighting.
Patiently looking for the enemy's traces bit by bit like this, he couldn't hold back his anger anymore.
"Damn bastard, wait until I find you, I'll make you taste all the punishments in the world!"
Hurt couldn't help but roar.
Suddenly, Hurt stopped in midair, his gaze focused on a certain spot.
Slowly and silently, he arrived in front of a huge rock.
That's right … it's this feeling.
This is Ivan's holy mark, although it's already very weak, it's still occasionally giving off a faint ripple.
Well done, Ivan!
Hurt held his breath and carefully checked the mark on the rock.
Just as I thought.
If it weren't for the mark's guidance, he wouldn't have been able to find this place.
He continued to carefully observe the large rock.
Although the enemy hid it very well, the thin line that cut the rock was still found by Hurt.
Looking at the thin line, Hurt couldn't help but praise it.
To be able to cut a rock like this, not only does it require an extremely sharp sword, but it also requires a high level of swordsmanship.
The fact that Ivan was sent flying and still hasn't been seen even now, seems like it wasn't because he was careless, but because the enemy really is very strong.
Such an enemy shouldn't exist in this world.
After confirming that there aren't any other suspicious presences nearby, Great Holy Apostle Hurt breathed in deeply.
"Very well, I'll make you regret ever being born" Hurt silently swore in his mind.
A beautiful and dignified holy pattern appeared under his feet.
The Holy Church's Mystic-type God's Chosen Skill, the king of all God's Chosen Skills, [Heaven's Judgement]
This is an extremely powerful combat-type God's Chosen Skill.
Without any pleading or beating around the bush, without any room for negotiation, Hurt decided to go all out and send the enemy to the abyss of pain in one go.
Following the holy pattern's appearance, around Hurt, countless black holes appeared in the air.
Randomly picking one of them, Hurt reached his hand in and pulled out a person who was about to die.
Looking at that person, Hurt's body was suddenly covered in white flames.
The flames extended all the way to the person's body. In a split second, all that was left was a skeleton.
At the same time, the white flames on his body abruptly expanded.
Hurt muttered to the skeleton: "Rejoice, the situation is urgent, I don't have the time to slowly torture you"
Putting the skeleton back into the hole, he smirked and stood in front of the large rock.
"Begin judgment" he said.
"I judge all living beings here to be evil"
Following his words, all the black holes floating in the air gathered together, turning into a large black gate.
"Because of their heavy sins, evil shall receive divine punishment" Hurt said.
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