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Chapter 399

After the elite troops of the Sun Shadow church calmed down, they began to unleash various divine techniques. The divine techniques that carried the aura of extreme heat were hard to deal with even with the help of Samit's ability, the group of Awakened Evil Souls were unable to deal with them.

Fortunately, they weren't the main force.

"Everyone, let us perform the Divine Technique [Sunlight] together, cleanse these sinners of their sins" an Archbishop among the group spoke up.

The main reason why the priests of the Sun Shadow church were able to work together to perform divine techniques was due to the way they used their divine techniques. Through faith, they had constructed the brand of Eternal Heat within their souls, allowing their souls to constantly approach him.

For this reason, the priests and knights of the Sun Shadow church shared certain parts of their soul structure, which allowed them to use the same soul structure to perform divine techniques together.

Some powerful divine techniques couldn't be performed by a single person, so several or even several dozen groups of priests were required to perform them together.

There were no issues with this Archbishop's suggestion, and so the 7-8 priests who were closest to him all worked together. Physical contact allowed their souls to approach each other, and their faith allowed them to approach each other like never before, so the damage they could inflict was even more severe.

Even the heads of the priests who came in contact with each other exploded at the same time, sending red and white matter flying everywhere. Even their souls were destroyed in this explosion. Meanwhile, the Archbishop who suggested to work together to perform divine techniques also bled from every orifice on his face, but his expression was one of madness as if he wanted to destroy everything.

"Archbishop Ryan, what did you do?" Someone asked in disbelief. Ryan was an old member of the Sun Shadow church, countless priests had been taught by him, and his faith in God had always been firm, so why would he suddenly betray the church? The faith of God should have protected his soul, making it impossible for him to be bewitched by other spells.

"Just as I thought, the so-called Eternal Heat, he doesn't care about us at all, he's only a false God" Ryan's body couldn't help but tremble, perhaps due to the aftereffects of the previous attack, or perhaps due to his excitement.

"Over the long years, I had accumulated too many doubts, but no matter how much I prayed, I couldn't receive a response from God. It was then that I understood, he was nothing more than a powerful Evil God, and the so-called divine techniques of faith were nothing more than a variant of axle magic" Ryan excitedly explained. Clayon poured out his emotions. He was like a fanatic who had witnessed the destruction of his idol's halo.

Churches were all like that. They would always place the God they worshiped at too high a pedestal, and in truth, there was too great of a gap between a Path Combatant like Eternal Heat and humans. No matter how high or low the gap was, it was still too great, which was why it didn't matter to most believers.

However, Clayon seemed to have received some help. His horizons were raised a little, but not too high, which caused his faith to waver. Coupled with the fact that Eternal Heat didn't really care about the faith of these humans, he went crazy.

Hearing Clayon's words, the Pope's face sank. Although he knew that there were parasites within the Church, he didn't expect that even the Archbishop, who was considered a high-ranking person, had turned into parasites.

"Your Holiness, I think …" Not far from the Pope, a knight dressed in red seemed to want to say something, but before he could finish, he suddenly pointed his sword at the Pope, ignited all of his life force, and launched a desperate attack.

Burning all the vitality in his body to launch an attack, this kind of hatred was no longer a matter of wearing a green hat or two, this was hatred that made him feel as if the sky was above his head.

"The Church of Dawn sends their regards to you!" This knight's burning aura was becoming hotter and hotter, and his faith was also becoming more and more devout. He still believed in Eternal Heat, but he believed the Sun Shadow church to be blasphemers.

When Negri first arrived in this world, he bewitched a knight of the Church of Dawn, Raymond, who provided Negri with quite a bit of help during his attack on the cathedral hill. This knight who betrayed the church didn't die during the pursuit and instead founded a new church, the Church of Dawn, which continued to worship Eternal Heat.

It was also because he was a knight of the Sun Shadow church that he was able to easily plant a member of the New Church within the Sun Shadow church and become close to God. People of the same faith but different churches were the hardest to distinguish when they infiltrated a church, and there were two other knights here who were also members of the Church of Dawn.

The Pope wasn't the most powerful person in the church, but the fact that he was able to become the Pope meant that his faith wasn't weak at all. For a member of the church, faith was power.

The knight's attack was blocked by the divine barrier around the Pope's body, but even more chaos ensued. The Archbishop of Lohr and his followers had actually withdrawn from the battle. For the sake of reformation, this Archbishop had allowed Negri to grow, and after Negri grew up, this had become a thorn in his side.

To make matters worse, he later discovered that the members of the church were secretly collaborating with the Impure Hermit Order, which made him even more suspicious of whether or not his reformation of the church was correct. Not too long ago, someone had informed him of the inside story of this attack, so he chose to withdraw from this conflict. The church was no longer the church that he knew, or rather, he had never truly known the true face of the church.

There were also some church members who found out that the so-called God Offering Vase was composed entirely of the souls of their believers. Their loved ones, their companions and friends who had fought alongside them, their souls would all return to the God Offering Vase after death instead of going to Heaven. Furthermore, after learning that their souls would all be used as fertilizer for the so-called Fruit of Origin, these people's faith had also collapsed.

In just a split second, the strength of the Sun Shadow church's forces had been greatly reduced. The Pope's expression became a bit sorrowful. So the church actually had so many traitors? This caused the Pope to feel a sharp pain in his heart.

"Fortunately, there are still people who support the church" The Pope retreated. To his relief, Counier raised his knight's sword and stood in front of him to protect him. On the other side, Green and Chromie were leading the Night Watchers and Saint Hunters to defend against the group of Awakened Wicked Souls.

If the entire upper echelon of the church, other than himself, were either traitors or traitors, the Pope felt like he would go insane, his faith would definitely collapse. If that happened, would this still be the Sun Shadow church of God? They might as well change their name to the Church of Snitches.

Other than the group of Awakened Wicked Souls, more people joined the battle. Although they were all concealing themselves, it wasn't hard to tell that they were members of other churches.

The God Offering Vase was in the Pope's hands, so these people's target was naturally the Pope. He was a priest, so although his body had been nurtured quite well by divine techniques, he still couldn't compare to a knight.

Amidst the chaos of the battlefield, there was no one in front of him … Bah, only Counier who was in front of him was emitting a scorching heat. He was a Divine Knight, and the scorching light that still shone on his body symbolized that there was no problem with his faith. So the Pope gave the Sacrificial Vase to Counier so that he could take it away, and he could freely cast divine arts.