freenovelworld Chapter 431 The Church's Actions
Chapter 431 The Church's Actions
After conquering half of the northern countries, the Demon King's army under Jiles did not extend its claws to the Kingdom of Life in the southwest as planned.
Instead, all actions were stopped.
Pope Michael seemed to have foreseen that things would turn out this way.
Long before the demons and humans officially went to war, they suddenly launched a sneak attack on the border of the Kingdom of Veratis.
Even though demons continued to appear later, even people within the church hoped that he would stop invading his own people and prioritize fighting the demons.
But Michelle turned a deaf ear to these calls, as if he was not worried at all that the demons would attack his theocracy, and resolutely chose to declare war on Cassius.
Soldiers from the Theocracy invaded on a large scale from the border between the two countries.
Since the Kingdom of Veratis focused on defending against the demons, its western and northwestern borders were quickly captured after being attacked.
Afterwards, Michel did not rush the soldiers forward, but instead assigned them a special task.
In the Kingdom of Veratis, in the capital city of Lari.
Cassius, who had just become king, was tortured by the numerous government affairs and had a splitting headache.
Although Cross had already cleared up many troubles in the kingdom for him, new troubles always came one after another.
Before the deployment for the demon invasion was completed, the soldiers of the Church crossed the border.
Cassius proposed a truce to Michel more than once, persuading him to focus on the demons.
However, no one listened to his advice.
While Cassius unconditionally accepted all refugees fleeing from the northern countries, he also had to deal with Michelle.
The most serious situation was that after the border was invaded, extremely bad rumors began to appear in the Kingdom of Veratis, causing panic among the people across the country.
Now almost all city-states are discussing the identity of Demon King Mis and Cassius's usurpation of the throne.
In particular, some wealthy businessmen and local nobles fanned the flames of these rumors.
Most of them had cooperated with the Church of the Goddess of Life a long time ago and had deep interests in this regard.
After the church was wiped out, they lost a lot of gold coins.
They were already dissatisfied with the new king, so they decisively boarded Michel's ship and became spies of the Theocracy.
The Church used Miss's identity as an important breakthrough point, colluding with spies from both inside and outside to deceive the people.
"The demons have begun to invade the human territory, but Miss, the [Hero], has yet to show up."
They used such statements to make a small number of people doubt Meese's true identity.
The rumor spread more and more widely, and gradually, not only the Kingdom of Vilatis, but also other kingdoms began to question Miss's identity.
The reason why Michel's plan went so smoothly was not only due to the help of the spies, but also due to his own experience thousands of years ago.
At that time, under the order of Tartarus, he used the church's propaganda step by step to promote Avervanxen, who was supposed to be the savior, as the public enemy of mankind and the devil.
With the experience from last time, the means of spreading rumors this time are more sophisticated, the degree of brainwashing is deeper, and the speed of spread has also been greatly improved.
The people who accepted the Theocracy's statement believed that Cassius killed Cross and seized the throne with the help of the Demon King.
As for the Theocracy's sudden declaration of war, it was also subjectively beautified by them.
Shameless aggression turned into righteous protection.
They marched together, claiming that the Theocracy was there to protect them from being enslaved by the Demon King.
Cassius knew well that these rumors came from the western and northwestern borders, and the culprit was Pope Michael, who started the war.
But he had no good way to refute the other party's slander.
Because those words seemed to be true.
Mith is indeed the devil, and Cassius himself was able to become king because of Cross's death.
He had no way to explain it to the people one by one, nor could he explain it clearly.
The only thing he can do now is to eliminate the spreaders of rumors.
challenge.
Cassius, who wanted to lead the army in person, was undoubtedly stopped by Shana.
Compared to staying in Lairui City to handle government affairs for her second brother, Shana prefers fighting.
Under the persuasion of Nobo and others, Cassius had to give in and stayed alone in the capital.
The kingdom's knights, led by Shana, headed to the western border along with a group of court magicians including Nobo.
Mandy, Roxanne, Mel, and all the members of the [Magician] Guild are in the team.
Not only that, in order to protect Miss's reputation and to thank Cassius for taking in the people of the northern countries, the [Nameless] Guild also spared no effort to stand on the side of Veratis.
President Fulesman stayed in the city of Leri to assist Cassius, and at the critical moment he was able to activate the magic circle left by Miss to prevent Michel from attacking Huanglong.
Sosk and other members followed the punitive army led by Baron Mista and rushed to the northern border to quell the war.
When the two expeditionary forces arrived at their destination, they had several brief clashes with the Theocracy's army.
Due to the huge gap in strength between the two sides, the army of the Theocracy could not withstand the attack of the expeditionary force of the Kingdom of Veratis and soon became a mess.
Almost every time they were defeated.
Many soldiers and generals chose to surrender even before the battle began.
The highest level among them is only LV5, how could they actively seek death from LV6?
Shana thought the war would end soon, but unfortunately, an accident happened.
One day, an unidentified strong man appeared in the Theocracy's newly added army.
He wears a pitch-black cloak and a mask of the same style. He is ruthless and cruel, and his strength is undoubtedly at level 6.
The key is that there are more than one or two such strong people.
On the western border alone, Shana discovered more than six LV6s.
Faced with such a powerful enemy, the expeditionary force was no match at all.
Shana immediately ordered to avoid the enemy's attack and move closer to the north to seek support from Mista, Sosk and others.
However, the situation on the northern border is not much better.
Strong men in black also appeared there, six of them at once.
Fortunately, these LV6s did not attack ordinary people, but only slowly forced the punitive army to retreat.
Their real purpose is to recover the black crystal magic mine in the Kingdom of Veratis.
After the two punitive armies joined together, Sosk made a bold guess.
He thought it was impossible for the human race to have so many LV6s.
Shana and the others had expected this. After all, none of these guys who appeared out of nowhere used magic wands.
Everyone was basically certain that these LV6s were all demons, demon generals under Jielais stationed in the northern countries.