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Chapter 1299 - 1299 233 The Beginning of Shaking the Royal Power_2

1299: Chapter 233: The Beginning of Shaking the Royal Power_2 1299: Chapter 233: The Beginning of Shaking the Royal Power_2 “Kill!”

With just a few guards, Viscount Petrovich launched the last charge of his life, displaying exceptional bravery.

His strength had unknowingly climbed a notch higher, yet all of this was in vain.

Glancing at the rising sun, Viscount Petrovich fell, and the siege of Aldis Castle came to its conclusion.

As the victor, the Lord of Darkness was busy directing followers to set up the altar.

Without sufficient time to build up strength, toppling the noble’s rule without taking shortcuts was impossible.

The killing throughout the city was the best offering of blood.

While the blood was still warm and the souls not yet dispersed, it was ideal to sacrifice them to the Cult’s worshipped Evil God.

The altar quickly appeared in the center of the city, and the followers who had distinguished themselves in the rebellion approached the stage, awaiting the feedback of power from the Evil God.

However, none of the top leaders of the Church of Ghosts ascended, all stood far below, intently watching the sacrifice ceremony.

If one observed carefully, they might notice a hint of pity in some eyes.

Under the guidance of the Sacrifice Shaman, numerous offerings were made, coupled with the bloodshed throughout the city, soon a Phantom appeared in the sky.

Aside from the Lord of Darkness, everyone else closed their eyes, daring not to look directly at the Evil God.

It was a lesson learned from the past; looking directly at the Evil God resulted in being assimilated by it.

Without any superfluous words, the Evil God and the Lord of Darkness exchanged a knowing glance, then began to collect the city’s offerings.

Immediately a force descended from the sky, enveloping all the followers in front of the altar, and the power feedback ritual began.

The Lord of Darkness slightly furrowed his brows; compared to previous sacrifices, this wave of feedback was a bit stronger.

Accordingly, the followers bearing the Evil God’s power had to pay a greater price.

Some followers with less resolute wills began to have their souls distort, involuntarily moving closer to the Evil God.

“Enough!”

“These people are still useful, I can’t give them to you yet!”

The Lord of Darkness said in a hoarse voice.

Clearly, the relationship between the two was not simply that of followers and a Divine Spirit.

Similar alliances had not just emerged once on the Continent of Aslante.

It was all out of necessity; the Evil God wanted to use his own followers, but alas, those who believed in him were all deviants.

A religion could contain deviants, but they could not all be deviants— at least the leader must be intelligent.

The Phantom slightly furrowed its brow, but soon returned to normal.

The difference between a feast and a regular meal, it could still discern.

“Fine!

But you need to act faster afterward, a great war is erupting in the Abyss, I need a large amount of blood feeding!”

After speaking, the Evil God disappeared from the sky.

Along with the disappearance of the Phantom, the corpses throughout the city also vanished.

However, the corpses below the city walls drenched in gold juice were an exception; evidently, the Church of Ghosts’ worshipped Evil God also had its scruples; it would not collect just any trash.

A brief conversation, yet the information released was far from trivial.

The Church of Ghosts dared to defy the world, rallying various Cult organizations to create chaos while being completely at a disadvantage, with the core reason laid out in the dialogue.

…

As the survivors departed, the news of Aldis Castle’s fall also reached the ears of the Governor of Kingsberg.

The entire province was filled with the Rebel Army.

Just after issuing the suppression order, he received the dire news that an entire district had completely fallen, turning the Marquis of Kingsberg’s anger into worry.

In normal times, losing a strategically insignificant district meant little, but now was different.

The Five Nations Alliance was competing internally.

Since the formation of the Alliance, the Black Forest Kingdom had always prided itself as the second major nation.

Falling from second to last was not just a loss of face but also of speaking rights within the Alliance.

As the individual who triggered all this, how could there be a good end?

The dead need not take responsibility, thus the crime of exposing the Kingdom’s weaknesses naturally fell upon him, the Governor.

The Governor of Kingsberg’s worries were indeed superfluous; it was not a matter of if, but that a major crisis had already happened.

The fall of Aldis Castle was only the beginning, the Church of Ghosts followers who had received the Evil God’s power not only had not been weakened by the raging war, but had instead become even stronger.

The empowered Church of Ghosts large army did not stop its expansion and began to grow like a rolling snowball.

Micia Province was the Rebel Army’s stronghold, but that did not mean it represented the entire Rebel Army.

Nearly at the same time, more than a dozen provinces of the Black Forest Kingdom broke into rebellion.

Gunsmoke enveloped half the Kingdom, as if it had come to the end of the dynasty.

Apart from the Black Forest Kingdom which suffered the most, varying intensities of rebellion occurred throughout the Five Nations Alliance.

However, these rebellions, mostly the last struggles of those who exposed their identities, were not as well prepared as the Church of Ghosts, and thus did not create as significant an impact.

…

In the Mountain Domain, upon receiving the news, Hudson was almost dumbfounded.

Since when had the Cult become so formidable?

To be able to stir up such trouble despite the Five Nations Alliance’s forewarning was ridiculous!

However, upon learning the details, Hudson’s doubts were cleared.

The Five Nations Alliance indeed had preparations, but these were not thorough.

The high-level leaders of each nation did not take the Cult rebellion seriously, and the so-called preparations were just a formality.

In the Northern Continent Two Kingdoms, military reforms were relatively thorough, the strength of local Noble’s Private Armies was relatively strong, coupled with successful external expansions that eased internal conflicts, such procedures naturally posed no issue.