"This is …"
Their subordinates lowered their heads and prayed.
On the other side, their faces turned pale with shock. Even Gulda was stunned for a moment before shouting:
"How is this possible? How can you use extraordinary power? "
Lin Xiao floated in the air, the light wings on his back flapped slowly. He looked down at Gulda and did not answer. Instead, he raised the Angelic Sword and activated the divine spell attached to the Angelic Wings – Angelic Transformation.
In an instant, infinite holy light exploded with him as the center. The dazzling holy power made people unable to look at it directly. Even if they closed their eyes, they could feel the dazzling sun in the sky. Lin Xiao's subordinates below felt the holy power and became even more fanatical. On the other hand, the subordinates opposite felt the miraculous power and their morale plummeted. Many of them directly knelt down and gave up resisting.
A few seconds later, when the white light in the sky slowly shrank inwards, finally revealing a huge Angel of Light. As the holy Angel's wings flapped slowly, the light of life drifted away.
The spiritual impact of this miraculous scene on the mortals was unprecedented. The moment the angel appeared, all the subordinates brought by Gulda lost their will to fight.
Without extraordinary power to show the miracle, his believers' faith level was not high. There were only a few true believers and only a few shallow believers. Most of them were pan-believers. When they saw the real angel descending, almost all of them lost their will to fight.
Gulda's expression changed back and forth. After being stunned for a few seconds, he suddenly jumped up and prepared to escape.
Of course, this was just wishful thinking. Lin Xiao's strength was not inferior to his. Now that he had the divine spell of Angelic Transformation and could fly, how could he let him escape?
In fact, he did not even do it himself. Instead, he took out a few scrolls and tore them one by one.
[Law – Shock]!
[Law – Imprisonment]!
The Angelic Sword slashed down. Gulda, who was shocked and imprisoned, was beheaded without any resistance. He died in an extremely aggrieved manner.
Therefore, the battle that was supposed to be intense ended abruptly. With Gulda's death, the remaining troops were all captured. Next, they would have to be slowly subdued.
Although most of them were militia, there were also seventy to eighty knights, cavalrymen and professional soldiers. This was an extremely strong combat force.
Half a month later, Alfonsol took down Viscount Makedon's castle and announced the demise of the Makedon family.
Not long after annexing a Viscount's family, Alfonsol met Count Dyson's messenger. He scolded him and ordered him to hand over the Makedon family's land to other members of the Makedon family.
This was a big problem for Alphonso. If he didn't handle it well, Count Dyson might intervene.
However, Lin Xiao didn't have the time to deal with this matter. He was currently considering how to deal with the Holy Church.
How could such a huge commotion caused by the Angel's Incarnation be concealed? As soon as the war ended, no less than ten spies from the Holy Church came to Fore Village.
He couldn't hide it any longer, but he couldn't back down either. There was only one outcome, he had to face the colossus that was the Holy Church.
Of course, he wasn't afraid of the competition of faith. With supernatural powers in his hands, the Holy Church that hadn't had any miracles for decades definitely couldn't compete with him in this aspect. As long as he had time, it wouldn't take long for him to erode the faith of the Holy Church. He was very confident about this.
But before that, he would definitely face the fierce retaliation of the Holy Church.
After ruling the entire plane for so many years, the Holy Church's foundation wasn't small. Moreover, the Holy Church definitely had a group of elite church forces. These were all carefully selected soldiers that had been raised from a young age. Summoning the Angel like just now was useless against them. He had to use absolute force to defeat them.
The current Church of Life and Wisdom definitely couldn't defeat the Holy Church, but he wasn't facing the entire Holy Church. He was only facing the forces of the Holy Church in Count Dyson's area.
According to Alphonso's information, the Holy Church had a group of Holy Knights in the Dale Province where Count Dyson was located.
This force was stationed in Count Dyson's main city, Dale City Cathedral. There were a total of five hundred of them. The weakest were professional soldiers, and about twenty percent of them were elite soldiers. Every team of twenty was led by an official knight. Including the senior commander, this group of Holy Knights had over twenty knights and two grand knights.
This force was second only to Count Dyson in the Dale Province, and could easily sweep through any viscount in the province.
Of course, they couldn't go all out. They had to leave some behind to defend their home. It wasn't as if the Holy Church didn't have enemies.
But no matter what, they had to send out sixty to eighty percent of their forces, which was around three hundred to four hundred. When the main force of the Holy Knights arrived, he would have to face even more enemies. A large number of the Holy Church's devout believers and nobles, or perhaps some opportunistic nobles and merchants, would take the opportunity to divide up the Gibson family.
As the location of the incident, the bishop of Dale Province would definitely order Alphonso to send out troops. If Alphonso refused, he would most likely be considered a heretic who believed in a false god. At that time, he would be attacked together.
This was the goal of these speculators. With the current territory of the Gibson family, they could carve out two viscounts, four or five barons, or even ten knights' territories. With so many new nobles being born in one go, there were plenty of speculators who were willing to take the risk.
"Oh! Looks like it's time to face them head on. "
He sighed lightly and sent a paladin to deliver a letter to Alphonso.
Three days later, Lord Alphonso of Gibson issued an order, announcing the expulsion of the Holy Church in four towns and more than thirty villages in his territory. He also announced that the God of Life and Wisdom would be the legal church in his territory.
Three missionary groups led by two paladins, each consisting of five paladins and ten professional soldiers left the village of Fuer, heading towards the other three towns under Alfonso's rule to replace the void of faith left by the expulsion of the Holy Church.
After that, all the soldiers under Alphonso's command were gathered, including more than two hundred militia, fifty professional soldiers and elites, and six knights.
They had a certain fighting strength, and with the fifty or so professional soldiers of the church, the hundred or so trained militia, and the addition of the Gibson territory, they would be able to gather a force of more than four hundred soldiers.
After gathering all the forces, they began to train together.
In order to raise their morale, several instructors constantly used divine power or magic to shake their hearts and souls during training to increase their faith and devotion.
This was a crucial point. Their opponent was a huge church that had ruled this plane for thousands of years. The Holy God was deeply rooted in people's hearts, and if they didn't get rid of the remnant faith in their hearts, it was easy for them to change sides on the battlefield. He couldn't allow this to happen.
Fortunately, he still had some time to prepare. Going to war wasn't a game, and just the preparations would take months, not to mention the lazy and corrupt Holy Church that probably hadn't fought in a hundred years. Just gathering food and gathering would take a long time, and there was also the dispute over the distribution of benefits from the opportunists joining the holy war.
In any case, Lin Xiao had been training for a month, and the scouts he left in Dale City reported that the Holy Church's punitive knights hadn't left the city yet.
They hadn't come yet, and instead, there was news of a second Descender in the Dale Province.
In the northernmost part of the Dale Province, there was a barony called Hook at the border with the Tassan Province. It was occupied by an unknown force, and the church in the territory was destroyed. All the clergy were killed, and the lord, Baron Joren Hook, and his entire family were killed. Only an illegitimate son escaped and spread the news.
When this news reached Lin Xiao, he also received news from Dale City. A group of opportunistic nobles received the news and directly left Dale City for Hook.
Their goal was naturally to get rid of the unknown force and inherit Hook.
According to the unspoken rules of the nobles, when a family's official direct descendants were all killed, it meant that the family had been removed from the list of nobles, and illegitimate children wouldn't be recognized.
At this time, a piece of land and a baron title would be vacated.
At this time, a new baron lord would be born, and it would naturally attract these opportunists to rush over.
The Gibson Territory was still uncertain, while the other side was already vacated. It was obvious what these opportunists would choose.
What made Lin Xiao the happiest was that the unknown force had directly destroyed the church and killed all the clergy. To the Holy Church, this was a far more severe provocation and a far more frightening threat than Lin Xiao's side.
After all, he had only expelled the clergy, while the other side had directly killed them. The severity of the matter was on a completely different level.
Thus, after waiting for over a month, he finally received news that the Dale Great Church's Holy Knights had changed their target to attack Hook.
Although he was happy, his preparations didn't stop. He wouldn't stop just because the Holy Church had changed their target, and he continued to train and reorganize.
This time, Lin Xiao directly expanded the scale. He picked out able-bodied youths from the three towns and over thirty villages in the Gibson Territory. He trained them every day and brainwashed them, while his real body in the outside world prepared potions and equipment for them.
When they were more or less trained, and most importantly, their faith had reached the level of a true believer, he began to choose the most outstanding ones and bestow them with potions to strengthen them in batches. Their strength was between that of an elite soldier and a knight.
Then, from the original elite soldiers or knights, devout believers were chosen to be promoted to the second rank.
Even if they weren't chosen, as long as they passed the training, they would be given a set of standard armour. After wearing it, they would be equivalent to an elite soldier.
After a few months, a total of 24 paladins and priests were strengthened. Including the original six, there were exactly 30.
In total, 80 new paladins were strengthened. Adding the original 28 paladins, there were 108 paladins in total.
After deducting these, there were still 280 people left. After a few months, all of them had become true believers. Lin Xiao wasn't stingy, and gave each of them a set of standard equipment forged by the Crimson Furnace Race. They all had the strength of an elite soldier.
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