Dark clouds shroud Malvern, the capital of Malvern Province.
To the south of Malvern City is the Iron Wall of Kundun, and to the south of the Iron Wall of Kundun is the Eagle's Beak Peninsula.
The city is very large, with a population of more than 100,000 at its peak.
This used to be a peaceful city, with no special products, and it mainly made money by logistics transfer.
In the past, Malvern City was famous for its abundant train drivers, who traveled around West Elba and then brought their earned wages home to support their wives and children.
Fathers brought their sons, sons brought their relatives, and relatives brought their classmates. Many cities will have the phenomenon of industry clustering and concentration, and Malvern City is such a city.
The locomotive maintenance technology here is also the best in West Elba.
The Church of Kundun has not yet sorted out the railway network of Malvern Province, resulting in train drivers having no work to do.
I heard that the Church of the Trapped will take over all the railway networks and will not need drivers from Malvern. Low-level priests of the Trapped will be train drivers.
If there is no major change, Malvern will no longer be known for train drivers, but will become an ordinary city of the Church of Pain.
Some people fled, some were sacrificed, and a large number of believers were added to the southern continent, so that the city now has 80,000 people.
This city is the forward base of the evil god cult after leaving the Eagle's Beak Peninsula. All supplies and reserve troops are gathered in Malvern.
Rudolf appeared on the outskirts of Malvern.
He passed by Malvern before and looked at the city at the station.
Everything has changed. I don't know if it is the filter brought by the dark clouds. The dark clouds are very low, hundreds of meters high, the buildings are gray, the tallest towers have collapsed, and the half-ruins prove their former glory.
Just a glance, I feel depressed and breathless.
Rudolf used the amplification scepter to cast absolute concealment on himself, improving the effect of absolute concealment, and then slowly walked into the city.
This is the city chosen by Rudolf to complete his promotion ceremony and his level 9 Scorpio Forbidden Spell.
After the evil god cult expeditionary force was destroyed, the Constitution Army recaptured small cities one after another. Ordinary small cities cannot release the accumulated hatred of the Constitution Army. Only this provincial capital can allow the Constitution Army to complete a hearty revenge.
In Malvern, there is a temple of the Church of Pain.
The amplification scepter is worthy of being a magic weapon made of 6 level 9 relics. After he entered Malvern, he did not feel palpitations and there was no pain in his eyebrows, proving that his actions were not discovered by the temple.
The Church of Pain lost the Pope and two cardinal priests. More importantly, a large number of priests died. The loss was huge, causing the strength of this Temple of Pain to be much worse than before.
The more priests and believers there are, the stronger the temple is. The two sides have a symbiotic relationship.
At this time, all the garrison priests were kneeling around the temple.
They did not join the expeditionary army, but consolidated the diocese for the Lord of Redemption. Their main job was to develop all people into believers, then develop divine servants among the believers, and select priests from the divine servants.
They completed their garrison mission very well, and the transformation of Malvern was very thorough.
Not only did the garrison priests kneel on the streets around the temple, but the believers and divine servants left their houses and knelt all over the city.
The speed of information transmission of the evil god cult was very fast. The army led by several popes on the front line was completely wiped out, and this news was immediately spread to Malvern.
If the temple had not released this news, no priest would believe that so many senior priests would die instantly.
The expeditionary army of the Church of Pain suffered a heavy blow, and everyone was waiting for the evil god of pain to descend miracles and the gift of the Lord of Redemption.
I heard from the stationed cardinal priest that the Lord of Redemption would directly appoint him as the Pope and use divine power to directly upgrade the ranks of the priests, creating at least two cardinal priests.
The frontline lost a large number of priests, and the evil god needed to infuse new priests with faith.
The believers knelt on the street, waiting for the end of the temple sacrifice.
Now there are no non-believers as sacrifices, so they have to sacrifice those believers whose faith is not very firm.
As for who has firm faith and who has not, it depends on their relationship with the low-level priests.
Low-level priests are like slaves in front of high-level priests, but in front of believers, they are the masters who decide the life and death of believers with one word.
If believers offer some benefits to low-level priests, then they can be believers with firm faith.
A few days ago, female believers rushed to give whips to priests.
If chosen, female believers can wail, cry, and burst into tears.
They may get the promise of the Pain Priest that their faith is firm and they will not be sacrificed.
When the Pain Priest left, they huddled in a corner, looking at the city center with fear.
Alchemists like to popularize education and promote basic education. Only qualified workers can complete the work in the factory.
They were obviously not like this before, but since reciting the salvation scriptures on the stone slab, their spirits have been affected by the power of faith, and their behavior has become more and more bizarre and more and more difficult to understand.
Even they themselves hate themselves.
This is not something they can control. The power of faith and scriptures will affect their spirits, break their self-esteem, and make them like dogs wagging their tails and begging for mercy in front of the priests and the temple.
Male believers offer their wealth. They send all the wealth they can get to the priests, just to pray for a chance not to sacrifice them.
Or, male believers can go to the priest's house to be slaves, or they can say it in a nicer way and pray for a chance to become a servant of God.
The train drivers no longer study steam locomotives, but compete to study the salvation scriptures, repeatedly self-mutilate, face the temple, and pray for more faith to enter their bodies.
Some people with good talents can automatically awaken to become servants of God even without the reward of the priest.
The male believers hate the priests, but they look forward to becoming priests.
If they become priests one day, they must bring whips, enjoy more female believers, and let more male believers be dogs for him.
Compared with the evil god cult, even the knights seem much gentler, and the alchemists are like saints.
In fact, the parish of the evil god cult is the true appearance of being ruled by superpowers.
When the apostles have superpowers, ordinary people without superpowers are worse than slaves.
Slaves still have the opportunity to rebel, but ordinary people have no ability to resist except crying and begging for mercy.
No ability to resist means no value of united front, and there is no need to pay a little benefit or make a little concession to these ants who have no ability to resist.
The sins in the hearts of superpowers are completely released, and this is the hell of ordinary people.
After the notice of sacrifice was issued, Malvern City became such a hell.
Today is the day of sacrifice, and the chaotic hell has become an orderly hell.
The believers with firm faith survived, and the believers with "unfirm" faith will be sacrificed to the Lord of Redemption.
The believers knelt on the ground and trembled.
Some people were relieved. After days of torture, they believed that sacrificing to the Lord of Redemption was really a relief.
Some were trembling with fear. They knew more and understood that after the sacrifice, they would die and would not enter the kingdom of redemption as the priests had advertised.
Low-level priests occasionally shuttle among the believers, looking for believers with unsteady faith as spare sacrifices.
Rudolf wore a cloak, covered his face with a hood, and walked in Malvern City with a radiation staff, walking among the kneeling believers.
Painful believers can make people have a physiological stress response. There is no complete person here. They self-mutilated in front of the temple and left disabled.
This kind of self-mutilation is not a one-time thing. As their faith deepens, their self-mutilation injuries will become more and more serious.
High-level painful priests will create wounds on their bodies that constantly ooze pus, so that they can feel the salvation brought by pain at any time.
They enjoy pus, they show off pus, and they compete with pus.
After walking for more than ten minutes, Rudolf made a judgment that the city was ruined, completely ruined.
Even if the Constitutional Army recaptures this big city, even if the believers here no longer believe in the evil god of pain, they don't have much labor capacity.
It will take a long time for the believers here to restore their normal will.
But who made the Constitutional Army lose this city? This is the responsibility of the alchemists.
As the rulers of the country, they have the responsibility and obligation to restore this place to normal.
Speaking of which, Rudolf seems to have a little responsibility. After all, he is too weak, otherwise this place would not have become a painful parish.
Hatred, Rudolf wants to release hatred here, release hatred for the church, and let the believers get rid of the shackles of faith faster in hatred.
Rudolf walked along the street, and the scepter tapped the ground one after another.
Every time he tapped, a red mark would be left on the ground, and the mark was Rudolf's Scorpio power.
Every time a Scorpio mark was left, it was necessary to get out of absolute concealment.
The omniscience scroll told him a sorcery, faith shielding.
The radiation staff made of several 9th-level scepters of the Pope can shield the faith radiation of the temple. Even the evil god does not know that there is a wizard in his city.
Having partial omniscience gives Rudolf the most important information advantage. The evil god is not as good as Rudolf in some obscure knowledge.
If he wants, if there is still, to detonate an alchemical nuclear bomb here, he can directly send away all the priests and believers.
After walking around the periphery twice, Rudolf finally drew the outer double rings of the Scorpio Nine-pointed Star.
Next, he will go deep into the interior of Malvern City and draw the internal pattern of the nine-pointed star.
After going deep into the city, Rudolf saw more dense believers, more dense servants of God, and more priests. Rudolf couldn't even put his feet here.
He saw other priests of evil gods, even Kundun, Bai Mo and other priests were kneeling in the Temple of Pain in the city center. It seemed that the death of the Pope and the Cardinal Priest had caused a lot of mental trauma to these priests.
Without the 9th-level Pope, these priests would not even have the chance to return to the southern continent.
A priest was lying on the ground, and he suddenly heard a dull sound beside him, like someone's cane fell to the ground.
He turned his head quickly and found nothing.
However, a red spot appeared on his side, and he was very sure that there was no such spot here before.
He looked up in the direction of the temple, hoping that the new Pope would appear as soon as possible. He had hallucinations. It must be the weakness of the church that made his faith unsteady, and he had hallucinations that he shouldn't have.
I don't know if it was because of my eyesight, but at a certain moment, he suddenly saw the back of a person.
The street was full of people kneeling, and the person standing was so abrupt.
In just a moment, the man's back disappeared, leaving only a dull echo on the silent street.
With the drawing of the nine-pointed star, Rudolf came to the city center.
There is a large fountain square in the city center, which has been transformed into the Temple of Pain.
The image of the evil god's pain is described as a savior who is full of nails in the mud and suffers for the world.
Only when he saw the Temple of Pain did Rudolf realize that the description was wrong.
That is not mud, but pus.
The main body of the temple is a pool, and the pool is not mud, but pus flowing from the central tumor.
The pus is sticky and smelly, and bubbles ferment inside, which looks like mud.
The tumor can be roughly seen as a human figure, with a disproportionately small head and a body that looks like many people's different organs put together.
To offer sacrifice to pain, the sacrifice cuts off a part of his body, and then the remains of the sacrifice gather together to form an ugly tumor.
Pus is constantly flowing from the joints of the remains, emitting a foul smell.
Rudolf walked around the temple and carved marks on the outer periphery of the temple.
As expected of the omniscient scroll, the witchcraft given was very powerful, and he was not exposed even around the temple.
After completing the drawing of the Scorpio Nine-pointed Star, Rudolf looked at the painful tumor for a while and turned away.
Ugly, disgusting, and nauseous, this is the biggest impression that the evil god pain gave Rudolf.
Outside the city, Rudolf stood on the edge of the Scorpio Nine-pointed Star.
This wizard array is so huge that it covers the entire city.
He raised the scepter and three consecutive purple fireballs flew into the sky.
This is a signal for action, a signal for counterattack.
More than 400 airships fell from the sky and broke through the clouds.
The priests looked up at the sky in horror. The height of the clouds was only a few hundred meters. Why did the temple have no reaction?
Isn't the radiation range of the temple's faith as high as more than 9,000 meters?
However, they discovered that the background of the sky turned red!
The whole city seemed to be shrouded in some strange red, which gave people an ominous feeling.
Is it this red light that shielded the radiation of the temple?
What level of power can suppress the temple?
Perhaps the temple had already discovered the approaching Constitution Army, but the temple believed that it could defeat the Constitution Army.
A deep voice resounded throughout Malvern City.
"Forbidden Scorpio Spell! Bone-Eroding Revenge!"
The Scorpio witchcraft that can affect tens of thousands of people and resonate with tens of thousands of people, the only thing Rudolf can think of is the Scorpio witchcraft - hatred.
Under the attack of the evil god cult, Xierba retreated step by step, lost the Eagle's Beak Province, lost the Malvern Province, and lost the Gillen Province.
Countless Xierba people were sacrificed to the evil god, and each sacrifice required at least 10,000 sacrifices.
Each sacrifice would destroy 10,000 families.
After the sacrifice, the evil god cult would capture many people and force them to brainwash into believers.
South of Xierba, three provinces and half of the Garon region were destroyed.
This also means that half of the Garon region, no, the entire Garon region, has a deep hatred for the evil god cult.
At this moment, Rudolf wants to release this hatred, to magnify this hatred, to let the people of Sierba feel the joy of revenge!