Chapter 226: Blasphemy
The explosion sounded in the quiet river valley. Although according to the intelligence from the church, this so-called "sanctuary" gathered heretics from several surrounding towns, most of them were just ordinary mortals. Except for a heretic high priest in charge of the "sanctuary" and less than a hundred priests under his command, there were only less than a regiment of rebellious crusaders who could be regarded as an obstacle to the Principality's troops.

But even so, the Principality's troops still brought a large number of heavy weapons.

The catapults are throwing iron balls filled with gunpowder and metal fragments into the valley. The magic array engraved on the surface of the iron balls will detonate the gunpowder inside when they hit the ground. In this way, each iron ball can have a power close to that of a fire explosion, but the cost is much lower. All it takes is enough level 2 mages or above and some skilled blacksmiths to produce a large number of such iron balls.

The only drawback is that it cannot control the trajectory to a certain extent like the magic of the mage, and it also requires a heavy weapon like a catapult to launch it. It is not a big threat to those who are truly strong.

But there are not many truly strong people in the valley. For those ordinary heretics, the iron balls falling around them represent that he is about to return to the embrace of the sun.

The soldiers of the Principality blocked all the exits from the valley. They formed an array and waited silently.

Except for the occasional three or five heretics who were avoiding the bombing and fled in their direction, and then were shot to the ground by crossbows a hundred steps away, the soldiers remained silent in front of their formation.

They had not yet received orders to advance.

No one knows what else these heretics have in their hands, and even the church doesn't know much about them.

What kind of power the newly rising sun can project onto his believers, what form his power will take, and how much power he is willing to expend to protect his believers are all unknown.

The troops of the principality were still waiting, waiting for the priests behind to finish their work. They were praying to their gods, hoping that the sun would protect the soldiers of the principality and reduce the damage caused by the heretical magic.

At the same time, they will also sense the movements of the heretical clergy not far away. Their beliefs are fundamentally the same, and the clergy of the church can vaguely sense the movements of those heretics through deliberate adjustments.

However, this kind of operation can easily make the clergy of the church lost in those crazy whispers. It can only last for ten minutes at most, and then they have to be rotated.

"The crazy mumbling is increasing."

A priest tapped his fellow priest on the shoulder, awakening him from prayer, and he heard the not-so-good news.

The two suns in the sky were still engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, with balls of fire exploding between them. Even on the ground, they could feel the horrible situation between the two suns in the sky.

"That new sun is still growing stronger."

The awakened priests looked up at the sky worriedly. With the attacks of the monsters, more and more people turned to the heretical faith.

After all, the sunlight emitted by the newly rising sun can really make ordinary people breathe a sigh of relief in the early morning and temporarily escape the fear of being hunted by monsters.

“We have to speed up the process.”

The priest said to himself that if those heretical clergy did not take any further action, the church would advise the Duchy's troops to advance.

Those iron balls could not kill all the heretics in the valley. According to the general experience of the Principality’s troops, after these iron balls caused 20 to 30 percent casualties among the heretics in the valley, continued bombing would only cause a few casualties.

The remaining survivors will know how to find cover and how to minimize the damage caused by the iron balls falling around them.

At times like these, the swords and arrows of the Principality's troops were needed to eliminate the remaining heretics one by one within sight range. "Almost."

The deacon who led the priests took one last look at the sun and was about to walk towards the commander of the Principality troops, but a scream came from beside him.

The priest who was praying and learned about the heresy screamed. The pendant with the emblem of the sun god that he was holding in his hand fell to the ground, and rays of blazing light burst out from his seven orifices.

The deacon walked up to the priest and stabbed a dagger engraved with divine runes into the priest's heart.

“May you find peace in the sunshine.”

As the warm sunlight set, the light bursting out from the priest's body was suppressed. After rushing left and right, it gradually dissipated and dissolved in the warm sunlight.

The priest opened his mouth, and crazy and chaotic mutterings came out of him. The mutterings of the heretic sun were still echoing in his mind.

"Feel sorry."

The deacon drew his dagger, thrust it into the priest's mouth, pierced the priest's skull, and pinned him to the ground.

The priest, whose tongue, throat and vocal cords were shattered by the dagger, could no longer make any sound. He could only look at the deacon in front of him and wait for the life to completely drain out of his body.

But the crazy mumbling in the deacon's ears did not stop.

The mumbling voice no longer needed the help of a priest. The power of divine magic vibrated in the air, so that even if the deacon did not pray, he could still hear the crazy mumbling coming from the newborn sun.

"Those heretics are taking action. Prepare the Duchy's troops to meet the enemy."

The priest at the side trotted towards the commander of the Principality's troops, and then the drums sounded.

"Get ready to meet the enemy!"

"Get ready to meet the enemy!"

The sound of drums and human voices passed the order down level by level until every soldier at the lowest level raised their weapons. Then, in their sight, one "monster" after another appeared.

Every soldier of the Principality who saw these "monsters" could tell at a glance that they were human beings. They had only undergone some very drastic "changes". They still retained the basic characteristics of humans, but their limbs had undergone huge mutations, or their torsos had grown countless limbs and organs. Some of the "monsters" surrounded by the "monsters" seemed to be observing and directing, and had several heads with the same appearance.

Although their shapes are different, these "monsters" all have one common feature: they are bathed in the scorching sun, and their bodies are constantly undergoing various changes.

"What a blasphemy."

Under Morari's governance, almost all believers in God were eliminated from the Principality's army. However, even for these soldiers who had no real faith in God, when they saw these "monsters", the first word that came to their minds was still "blasphemy".

(End of this chapter)