Chapter 1444: Chapter 904: The Pope’s Pocket Watch (Part 2)
And then, the attack that shattered the Divine Shield poured down, engulfing the exposed Judgement Knights once again...
The chat channel displayed yet another series of system kill notifications.
When the brilliance of magic and battle skills faded, the Judgement Knights who climbed the walls had decreased significantly.
Seeing this scene, Li Mu’s eyes lit up.
"Alright! Let’s use this method! We’ll eliminate them bit by bit! Everyone, listen to my command! Prepare for the third round of fire!"
His already hoarse voice echoed once more in the battlefield channel...
Passionate and stirring background music played continuously, while the brutal battle erupted on the city walls.
Having found a strategy against the Judgement Knights, the players quickly adjusted and began weakening the enemies on the walls through mass attacks and attrition.
On the other side, although the Judgement Knights at the forefront were submerged in the players’ attacks one by one, the knights in the back never stopped.
They continued to charge towards the walls in successive waves.
The battle was locked in a stalemate.
However, considering the players could infinitely resurrect, and the Divine Shield could absorb the Eternal Church’s power of faith, in the long run, the scales of war... seemed to be tipping towards the players.
"Your Eminence, it seems the church’s army isn’t as strong as we imagined..."
Behind the Eternal Church’s army, the old mage Offnam stood on the hill where the bishops gathered, put down the feathered pen in his hand, retracted his gaze from Chosen City, and smiled towards Pope Benedict II.
His demeanor was as provocatively as ever.
Benedict II remained calm, his gaze on the battlefield ancient and unmoved, showing no concern for the stalemate.
Finally, a Red Archbishop could not bear to watch any longer.
Unable to resist, he looked towards his Pope, bowed slightly, and could not help but remind:
"Your Eminence, it seems that our Divine Shield has been cracked by the Elves..."
After hearing the bishop’s words, Benedict II slowly withdrew his gaze.
He didn’t respond immediately but instead extended his hand to take out a platinum pocket watch from his bosom.
It was a luxurious pocket watch, quite vintage in style, with a sacred sun pattern engraved on it.
However, unlike other pocket watches, its scale was not time, but a counting number from zero to one hundred, with every ten numbers forming one section.
The pocket watch had only one hand, pointing roughly at the 89 position, and if observed carefully, one would notice that as time passes, the hand on the pocket watch slowly moved toward 90.
"It’s about time..."
As the bishop tried to remind him again, Benedict II suddenly spoke.
He gently closed the pocket watch, looked in a certain direction in the sky, performed a half bow, and respectfully said:
"Your Eminence Uriel, the holy war has reached a critical moment. I implore your legion to launch an attack on the Life Church..."
As soon as he finished speaking, platinum brilliance blossomed in the sky, a handsome angel with silver armor, golden hair, and gold eyes slowly appeared.
He bore six wings, astonishingly, a Demigod Level Six-winged Blazing Angel!
He nodded slightly, raised the silver spear in his hand, aimed toward Chosen City, and pointed gently.
The next moment, accompanied by a holy hymn, the Angel Army encircled by Holy Light began to move.
The sky was filled with Holy Angels spreading their wings, drawing weapons, and flying towards Chosen City!
"It’s the Angel Army!"
Watching the emerging Holy Angels in the sky, players on the walls had a change in expression.
The participation of angels was something players had learned from certain intelligence channels at the very beginning of the Great Holy War.
As the Main Divine Army of the Eternal Lord, players involved in the divine-demonic war, especially those who attacked the first layer of Hell, were familiar.
Though they hadn’t directly battled these Holy Angels, players knew well that the power of the Holy Angels was formidable.
At least Gold Rank, and with the augment of faith power, they nearly possessed cross-rank combat capabilities!
Looking across the sky, an innumerable number of Holy Angels; their brilliance even overshadowed the sun.
Feeling the powerful force of the Holy Angels, even stronger than the Judgement Knights, players’ expressions grew increasingly solemn.
Unlike the temporarily enhanced Church Knights, the authentic angel army’s actual strength likely far surpassed the average strength of Lower Gold Judgement Knights.
Moreover, among the angel army, there were likely no less than a hundred Four-winged Angels and dozens of Six-winged Blazing Angels.
Those are Legend and Demigod.
At this moment, the true high-tier forces of the Eternal Church finally mobilized.
On the tower of the city wall, Li Mu’s gaze sharpened.
Such power, even with the support of the Divine Shield, is beyond players’ capacity to resist.
Of course, compared to players with an average strength of Silver Rank, there are more suitable entities to confront the descending angel army...
"Lord Mars..."
Li Mu turned and looked at a majestic Golden Dragon perched on the city head.
Seeing Li Mu’s gaze, the Golden Dragon nodded slightly, roared to the sky, then spread its wings and soared upwards.
Meanwhile, more dragon roars echoed from Chosen City and even the World Tree, one by one, enormous dragons with various colors rose into the sky, appearing in the heavens.
These were dragons from Dragon Island.
These naturally combative giants looked excitedly at the Holy Angels shimmering with light, their enormous Dragon Eyes full of battle intent.
"Fight! Smash these glowing birdmen! RUA—!"
Unknown which excited chromatic dragon howled.
Soon, more dragons roared excitedly and charged towards the Holy Angels...
Meanwhile, with a somber horn sound, deep magic arrays formed around the World Tree.
Then, Heroic Spirit Warriors, with eye sockets flickering in blue flame, clad in black armor, slowly emerged.
It was the Death God’s Heroic Spirit Army.
As they appeared, they wielded weapons, accompanied the flying dragons, charging towards the Eternal Church’s Angel Army...
After a sharp wolf howl, the imposing figure of Demon Wolf Fenrir also emerged.
He rushed alongside Golden Dragon Mars, Silver Dragon Mercury, and Venus towards the Six-winged Blazing Angels within the Angel Army.
In an instant, an even fiercer battle erupted in the sky.
Around the majestic World Tree, dragons, Heroic Spirit Warriors, and Holy Angels flew continuously, pursued continuously, fighting together.
Upon initial contact, the weakest angels were easily shredded by the dragons, patches of white feathers fell from the sky.
At the same time, quite some reckless dragons crashed into the angel formations, surrounded and attacked by angels, struggled for a moment, then fell to the ground with a howl...
Massive shadows slowly moved; they were the players’ airship troops, accompanied by the rumble of cannon fire, intense artillery spewed from the heavy Magic Crystal Cannons suspended on the airships.
The cannon fire fell into the angel formations, supporting the dragons and Heroic Spirit Warriors.
For a while, the pressure on dragons and Heroic Spirit Warriors slightly lessened, and the sky plunged into fierce combat...
"Heh, Your Eminence, the church’s angel army, seems indeed not as mighty as legend..."
Within the Eternal Church’s bishop group, looking at the Holy Angels embroiled in battle, old mage Offnam chuckled softly, continuing his taunt.
Yet, Benedict II remained calm, seemingly untroubled by the protracted warfare.
The dragon’s roar continuously bellowed, the sacred hymn intermittently sung.
Not infrequently, heavily injured dragons fell from the sky, just as Holy Angels were torn apart by dragons, severely wounded by Heroic Spirit Knights.
Blood rain fell, of dragons’ red, as well as angels’ pale gold.
Benedict II once again brought out the pocket watch, the numbers reached 92.
