How could two thousand soldiers defend the four large gaps? Not to mention, almost all of them were knights. In some people's words, it was ridiculous to say that all of them were high-level soldiers fighting against new recruits.
Lin Xiao watched the whole battle from the rear. Most of the time, he was paying attention to the changes in the cathedral. He only occasionally paid attention to the battlefield.
With absolute power, there was nothing to see on the battlefield. He didn't even use any powerful divine spells. Only the paladins in the army occasionally used minor divine spells such as healing.
The battle at the four gaps lasted for at least half an hour. The longest was no more than two hours. The defenders in the city had all collapsed. Only the knights of the Holy Church held on for a little longer.
The following street battles only took a little longer. In fact, when the paladin Manda led a team to attack the mayor's mansion, Count Dyson's subordinates had already escaped with the count's family.
Yes, it was Count Dyson's family. Count Dyson had already died in the previous battle.
To be precise, Count Dyson had been hit in the head by a flying boulder during the bombardment of the city gate tower. Half of his head was gone, and he died on the spot. This was beyond Lin Xiao's expectations.
There were five grand knights in the Dale Province, but Count Dyson was not one of them. He was just an ordinary knight with the status of a count.
With Count Dyson's death, the morale of the defenders plummeted. That was why they were able to advance so quickly.
According to Alphonso's orders, the troops immediately attacked the other corners of the city. Only one team was left to guard the entrance of the cathedral. After all the resistance in the city was eliminated, the main forces would gather at the cathedral. Lin Xiao then arrived at the Holy Cathedral under the protection of a dozen paladins.
Looking up at the magnificent cathedral, the thick metal gate, and the large number of ordinary believers guarding the entrance, Lin Xiao waved his hand and ordered the attack.
These were all devout believers of the Holy Church. It was very difficult to convert them. Their minds were firm. Words alone would not be able to make them leave. He had to kill them. He would not be indecisive and soft-hearted.
Ordinary believers would definitely not be able to resist the soldiers who were at least knights. After a massacre, the path into the cathedral was opened.
Alphonso raised his giant sword and stepped forward. He chanted and cast several auxiliary divine spells on himself in one breath. His entire body was enveloped in white light and turned into a figure of light. He raised his sword and slashed down fiercely.
As the hearts of many believers, clergy, and commoners of the Holy Church trembled, Alphonso slashed open the thick doors of Dale's Cathedral, revealing the massive cathedral hall.
There were many devout believers, wealthy merchants, nobles, and clergy members of the Holy Church gathered in the hall. All of them had fearful expressions as they watched the knights charging in.
Lin Xiao was escorted into the cathedral by church knights in exquisite armor. As soon as he entered, he sensed something. His gaze fell upon the statue at the end of the cathedral, which was emitting a faint radiance, and his eyes showed a hint of excitement.
"What a rich power of faith!"
After a thousand years of accumulation, the power of faith contained within would add up to tens of thousands of divine power points.
The Holy Church was the absolute ruler of this plane. There were dozens of kingdoms and empires of different sizes in this plane. Every kingdom had at least a dozen provinces, and some even had dozens of provinces. All of them would add up to tens of millions of divine power points. How exaggerated was this number?
With so much divine power, it would be enough to instantly give birth to a Divine God after the plane's will released its restrictions. It would not be difficult to forcefully ascend to godhood in the future.
Lin Xiao did not know what caused the plane's will to awaken. He guessed that it might be because of him. Through the Tesseract of Fortune, he brought in a large amount of supernatural power that did not belong to this world and stimulated the plane's will.
How could it be so coincidental that the plane's will began to awaken not long after they descended? This was too ridiculous.
But no matter what the reason was, it had already happened. This was a great opportunity, and he had to seize it.
After taking down Dale's Cathedral, the boundless power of faith accumulated by this cathedral would all belong to Lin Xiao.
After dispersing all the clergymen, he directly used the Tesseract of Fortune to take away the statue of the Divine God. He then used the Tesseract of Fortune to strip the power of faith from it. At the same time, he took out another statue and replaced it.
After that, he announced that Dale's Cathedral would be renamed the Cathedral of Life. He sent paladins and knights to spread the news, announcing the end of the Holy Church and the rise of the God of Life and Wisdom.
As for how to deal with the main forces of the Holy Church that rushed back from Hook, that was Alphonso's problem.
Following Count Dyson's death and defeat, Alphonso was now the de facto ruler of Dale Province. Over the past few days, large numbers of nobles and wealthy merchants came to see him.
The nobles surrendered, the merchants donated, and he accepted them one by one. He was extremely busy.
As for the Holy Knights led by Bartos, neither he nor Alphonso paid any attention to them. The battle of Dale City had already proven the strength of the Holy Knights. This Holy Knights' combat strength was only slightly higher than Dale City's, but they were still no match for them.
After handing over the affairs of Dale City to Alphonso and his other subordinates, Lin Xiao stayed alone in the hall of the Holy Church's underground sanctuary. He communicated with the Tesseract of Fortune with his will. The space in front of him distorted slightly, and soon, several sparkling and translucent energy crystals of different energy appeared in his hand.
Holding four incomparably pure energy crystals, he placed them at the tip of his nose and took a deep breath. Strands of four-colored light representing the energy of the four major elements flew out and spiraled into his nose.
Along with these four elemental crystals, there were also traces of the power of faith purified by the Tesseract of Fortune.
Gradually fusing the four elemental crystals and the purified power of faith, Lin Xiao's consciousness sank into his soul. He saw the shadow of an ancient golden tree. The four elemental energies mixed with the purified power of faith turned into a chaotic aura and poured into the ancient golden tree. The shadow's leaves swayed gently.
With the continuous influx of energy, a light at the bottom of the shadow of the ancient golden tree gradually brightened.
Yes, Lin Xiao was currently lighting up the first talent of his totem talent tree — Energy Conversion.
Although he was collecting the power of faith, he couldn't go down the path of becoming a god through faith in this world. He had to go down the path of totems.
Normally, lighting up totems required Mental Energy. He didn't have it now, but he could use the power of faith to replace it.
Mental Energy was essentially a pure and special spiritual energy purified from the soul energy of strange demons and monsters. The power of faith was also the spiritual energy of all living beings. The two had certain similarities.
Normally, the two were different in nature and couldn't be used together. However, the power of faith was different. This kind of pure spiritual energy of believers could replace Mental Energy after it was completely purified.
Why did the totem lords gather the power of faith? It was because the totem lords could absorb the power of faith and gradually become stronger.
Totem lords were essentially no different from players in the Divine Dominion.
Normally, only official totem users could try to absorb the power of faith, and the conversion rate was very low. It might not even be one-tenth, which meant that ninety percent of the power of faith would be wasted.
Lin Xiao wasn't even an official totem user now. In theory, he couldn't even sense the power of faith, let alone absorb it.
However, he had the Tesseract of Fortune, which could contain the power of faith, purify it, and absorb it.
After the purification and absorption of the Tesseract of Fortune, he could completely absorb the purified power of faith. Although there was still a lot of loss and he couldn't completely absorb it, it was much better than other apprentices who couldn't sense it. Moreover, his absorption rate was higher than a normal totem user.
He silently estimated that his effective absorption rate was about one-third. It was quite a high digestive efficiency. A normal totem lord might not be as efficient as him.
As the four energy crystals mixed together with a large amount of purified power of faith were absorbed, the first talent node of his Golden Ancient Tree Talent Tree, 'Energy Conversion', lit up.
The moment the talent was lit up, Lin Xiao felt his perception change. He couldn't feel any energy around him, but when the talent tree was lit up, his consciousness swept across like a light wave. Heaven and earth seemed to come alive, and he could feel the existence and flow of energy between heaven and earth.
It felt like a paused movie was pressed to play, and the whole world started moving.
At this moment, Lin Xiao felt the existence of energy. When his will touched the energy, he had a feeling that he could control it.
With a thought, he reached out his right hand and rubbed his thumb and middle finger together. A ball of fire lit up between his thumb and index finger.
Lin Xiao's eyes lit up as the fire lit up. He didn't use the power of any tools just now. He just ignited the fire with his own power.
"The Transcendent has really recovered!"
If the plane's will hadn't awakened and the elements hadn't caused a tide, even if he lit up this talent, he wouldn't have been able to mobilize the solidified elements to light up this small flame. Now that he had lit up this small flame with his own power, it was enough to prove that the spirit qi had indeed recovered, and the plane's restrictions were gradually loosening.
"I have to speed up and take the initiative!"
He could feel the recovery of spirit qi, and the other Descenders could also feel it. Perhaps someone would suddenly discover this abnormality.
After lighting up the first talent, Energy Conversion, the Golden Ancient Tree Totem could freely convert any energy in the world. It could continuously absorb the energy in the void to strengthen itself. This strengthening speed would continue to increase as his strength increased.
Now that he had just lit up this talent, the amount of energy he absorbed every moment was extremely small. It could be said that it was like a drop in the bucket.
But as long as he was strong enough, the absorption speed would become faster and faster. In theory, when he reached a certain point, he could absorb the energy of a plane in a short period of time.
Of course, this was a matter for a long time. Putting this aside for now, Lin Xiao began to check the second talent of his Golden Ancient Tree Totem, called 'Seed of Life'.
This talent was very simple. After lighting up this talent, the Golden Ancient Tree Totem could produce seeds that contained powerful life force, or rather, fruits.
Since they contained powerful life force, they naturally had powerful healing effects.
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