sinovels Chapter 193 The Abyss Descends
Chapter 193 The Abyss Descends
"Old man, you're the current Pope?"
Lin Jianguo walked step by step toward the balcony, step by step, over the pebbles scattered on the ground.
The firelight cast flickering shadows on the dome frescoes inside the church, making the angels in the paintings appear to be weeping.
King Paul VI stood on the balcony, without retreating.
He even took a step forward.
"Lin Jianguo, do you think you've won just by barging in?"
Lin Jianguo paused, raising an eyebrow.
It wasn't because of that sentence, but because he noticed...
King Paul VI is smiling.
A pope who had been attacked and whose knightly orders had been decimated was laughing.
This is very wrong.
"Your Majesty! Charging complete!"
But just then, Karl's voice came from the side.
Upon hearing this news, King Paul VI suddenly felt every pore on his body expand, and finally…
The Eye of Divine Punishment is finally fully charged!
All the sins can end at this moment...
Thinking of this, he suddenly raised the scepter in his hand and slammed it hard onto the balcony floor.
"start up!"
As he finished speaking, the entire church began to shake.
Beneath the floor, a blinding white light rapidly spread along some unseen pattern, illuminating the entire cathedral floor.
Beneath those ancient stone bricks, a massive array was hidden.
The white light grew brighter and brighter.
The ground beneath Lin Jianguo's feet began to crack, and a pure, holy light energy surged out from the cracks.
"The Eye of Divine Punishment—"
Paul VI's voice became frantic.
Rumble rumble rumble—
In the very center of the church dome, the huge ceiling fresco has a crack.
A gigantic eyeball formed from pure white holy light slowly emerged from the crack.
The pupils are golden.
The eyeball moved slightly, and then... locked onto Lin Jianguo.
The moment he was locked on, Lin Jianguo felt a chill run down his spine.
This was only the second time in his life he had felt this way.
The last time was twenty years ago when he faced those self-proclaimed divine messengers from the heavens, the time when his leg was cut off.
And at this moment, he felt that feeling again.
This is genuine holy light, not the holy light found on those imposters before...
How is this possible?
"not good……"
Before Lin Jianguo could think any further, a blinding white light shot out from the giant eye and hurtled straight toward him.
There was no room for maneuver.
The beam of light covered half of the church hall.
"Whoa—"
In desperation, he let out a low roar, and the spiritual power within his body instantly went berserk.
The crimson Qilin fire no longer merely enveloped his body, but exploded completely from within him.
His body began to swell rapidly, his bones emitted a dense cracking and reassembling sound, and scale-like crimson patterns appeared on his skin.
Two curved antlers pierced through the skin and grew out from the forehead.
Qilin. Fully transformed into a beast.
In an instant, he burst open the entire church door, and then the front wall.
In the blink of an eye, he swelled into a crimson Qilin, his four hooves shattering the paving stones as he raised his head to meet the golden pillar of light.
"roar--!"
The Qilin Fire clashed head-on with the Holy Light.
The stained glass windows of the entire church shattered simultaneously, with fragments flying hundreds of meters outwards.
The shockwave knocked King Paul VI off the balcony and sent the surrounding clergy flying.
However, the holy light did not stop.
The golden beam of light poured down continuously, pushing back the Qilin Fire he had unleashed inch by inch.
Lin Jianguo felt his scales begin to crack under the scorching holy light, and the crimson flames were peeled away layer by layer.
pain.
It really hurts.
In his Qilin form, he withstood the attack for a full three seconds.
But the energy output of the Eye of Divine Punishment far exceeded his expectations.
This thing doesn't seem like a man-made weapon; it's more like some higher-level power encapsulated within an array.
His hooves began to slip, and he was forced backward by the beam of light.
His hooves plowed four deep furrows into the ground.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Upon seeing this, King Paul VI revealed a slightly maniacal smile.
"This is the power of God! You are nothing but a beast! How could you possibly resist divine punishment!"
Lin Jianguo ignored him.
It's not that I don't want to curse, it's that I really don't have the energy to curse.
The holy light began to erode his body; the burning sensation wasn't on his skin and flesh, but directly on his soul.
The Qilin Fire was rapidly being consumed, and large areas of its scales shattered, revealing the charred skin beneath.
Just as he gritted his teeth, preparing to fight to the death...
"Old Lin, do you need any help?"
A lazy voice came from the direction of the church door.
Lin Fan walked in slowly, hands in his pockets.
He looked up at the giant golden eye on the dome, then at his father, who was being forced back by the pillar of light, and clicked his tongue.
"You know, at your age you still want to show off, now you've run into trouble, haven't you?"
Upon seeing Lin Fan, King Paul VI's pupils constricted sharply.
Another one?
"Kill him!"
He yelled at the clergy who were still standing around.
But there were no knights around who could move.
Lin Fan ignored King Paul VI's howls. Instead, he communicated with the Great Crow in his mental space.
"It's your turn to make your appearance. Remember to bring your horde of undead minions too; we're raiding this place!"
Having said that, he released his mental energy, letting the giant crow take control of itself.
Suddenly, a dark vortex appeared above the church.
But this time, the vortex did not stop expanding.
It's getting bigger and bigger.
Three meters, five meters, ten meters, thirty meters—
Until the black vortex completely covered the entire area.
Then, a huge black shadow descended from the vortex.
Those aren't tentacles.
That was the phantom of the Great Crow.
A colossal existence beyond description, casting its shadow upon the material world.
Tens of thousands of eyes opened in the shadows, each emitting a faint, eerie green glow.
A dark shadow enveloped the entire church.
No.
It almost enveloped the entire Vatican.
The golden beam of light emitted by the Eye of Divine Punishment stopped the instant the phantom of the giant crow appeared.
No, it hasn't stopped.
Instead, it was sucked away by the giant crow!
That holy light energy, powerful enough to scorch the soul, vanished silently into the darkness before the Great Crow, like light being swallowed by a black hole.
Lin Jianguo felt the pressure on his body suddenly disappear, and he almost stumbled and fell to the ground.
He took a few deep breaths, slowly returned to human form, and glanced back at his son.
"...You little brat, you come all this way and still make sarcastic remarks, do you really want me dead?"
"Didn't you say a real man faces things head-on? I thought I'd give you a chance to prove yourself, but I didn't expect you to be so useless!"
Lin Jianguo: "..."
As the father and son joked around, the golden pupil of the Eye of Divine Punishment on the dome trembled wildly.
It continued to output energy, but all the holy light was indiscriminately devoured by the phantom of the Great Crow.
Meanwhile, Da Wu was also busy.
Within the spreading black vortex, undead skeletons kept falling, looking like dumplings being dropped into a pot from a distance.
At the same time, Da Wu also launched his own spiritual pollution, covering the entire church.
In an instant, all Vatican personnel were contaminated.
That feeling wasn't pain, nor was it fear.
But...
Saw.
Every surviving clergyman, every Templar Knight still breathing, had the same image simultaneously crammed into their minds.
abyss.
An endless abyss.
And there are countless eyes watching them from within this abyss.
Those eyes meant no harm.
But it is precisely because there is no malice that it is even more terrifying.
Because that kind of gaze is the indifference of a superior towards an ant.
"Aaaaaaahh ...
Screams echoed throughout the church and its interior.
The Templar Knights dropped their weapons and rolled on the ground, clutching their heads.
Several clergy members foamed at the mouth and fainted.
But some people didn't faint.
An elderly cardinal knelt on the ground, trembling as he looked up at the enormous black shadow that loomed over the sky.
Blood and tears streamed from his eyes, yet he kept muttering something under his breath.
"God... has descended... the true God..."
He kowtowed, his forehead hitting the gravel and drawing blood.
"We haven't been serving God...this is...this is the real..."
More clergy members began to kneel.
It's not fear.
It means kneeling in worship.
King Paul VI watched this scene, feeling as if all his strength had been drained away.
He staggered back two steps and slammed his back against the wall.
His faith, his authority, everything he had... were nothing in the face of that shadow.
"No...it's impossible..."