The Pope sighed deeply, turned and stepped through the Gate of Light, and vanished.

Richard watched the Pope leave the Gate of Light, not stopping him, and he had no intention of rushing forward to fight to the death. In the other direction, St. Martin was equally calm, watching the Pope leave.

The Gate of Light slowly vanished, and with it the platform in the sky made of Light. The bodies of the bishops lost their support and fell from the air, falling to the ground with a thud. The once noble body was buried in the plaster and dust, just like the lowest soldiers.

Loufeld was among them.

Behind St. Martin, the platform of the Holy Light still exists, and that platform is maintained by the power of St. Martin. The battle on the platform was still ongoing, but it was far from as fierce as it had been before.

There were still hundreds of Paladins attached to the Church above, and they were in an absolute upper hand against an opponent with less than fifty people left. Hold out for another half hour, and St. Martin's men will collapse, and then it will be a one-sided slaughter.

But in the blink of an eye, Michael was defeated and died, all the angels of the Holy War fell, the cardinal body of the Church was swept away, and even the backbone cardinals were killed and wounded. On the ground, St. Thomas has also been slain.

These paladins were suddenly confused, even if they won this partial battle, what could they do? St. Martin and Richard could kill them cleanly as soon as they came.

Richard turned to St. Martin and asked, "Why don't you chase it?"

"Then why don't you chase it?" asked St. Martin with a smile.

Neither of them answered the other's questions, but instead set their eyes on the battlefield where the battle was still being fought.

Of course, Richard would not chase it, the Pope was almost unharmed, and he still had two major artifacts in his hands: the Sage's Robe and the Staff of Radiance. Although I don't know what the strength of the Pope himself is, it is definitely not easy to deal with a guy who dares to intercept his faith and intends to make a god himself, and if he can't get it, he is just one step away from igniting the divine fire.

The Lord of Radiance, judging from the available information, is likely to be the main god with powerful divine power, at least above medium divine power. That's not a weak or even weak divine power, and this is the main god of Norland!

In any case, if the Pope with the two major artifacts in his hands really wants to fight, I am afraid that most of them will be at the level of a super powerhouse.

As for Richard at this moment, he has both the two major configurations of Everything to Ash and Midalon Battle Edition, and has the ruling and moonlight in hand, and at the same time has obtained the heart of the ancient Lord of Akmund, all kinds of conditions add up, Richard feels that he can fight with the super strong.

It's just that there is a battle force, and there is still a considerable distance from winning the battle.

What's more, even if Richard tried to kill the Pope with all his might, what good would it be? After losing both, don't forget that there is another St. Martin next to him. Richard didn't know how much St. Martin's strength had expended, but at least so far, he hadn't been hurt.

Perhaps St. Martin had the same idea in mind and allowed the Pope to leave.

Then St. Martin raised his voice and said, "Believers of the Lord, the traitors have failed. Now, in the name of the Son, I command you to lay down your arms. ”

His voice was heard throughout the battlefield. After the departure of the Pope and the death of Loufeld, St. Martin was the highest figure present in the Church, and the Son always appeared as the incarnation of God and was the spiritual leader of the faithful.

The private armies of the major lords stopped fighting first, and this was not their war at all. And the knights of the church also laid down their weapons one after another, and soon the battle subsided.

Only a handful of St. Thomas's henchmen are still fighting to the death and refusing to give up. But after losing the numerical advantage, they soon found that courage was not enough to make up for the huge gap in strength, and they were completely killed by Richard's knights in the blink of an eye.

Finally, the holy warriors who were steadfast in their faith also laid down their arms and knelt before St. Martin in repentance and submission.

On the ground, the two armies began to disengage, and Richard's troops quickly regrouped, with those still strong to fight on the periphery, and the lightly wounded in the center for protection. In the blink of an eye, another battle formation appeared as neat as new.

On the other hand, on the side of the Holy Tree Dynasty, the troops were in a mess. By the time of the battle, many private army formations had been disrupted, and the warriors were mixed, each looking for his own team according to the banner.

St. Thomas's lieutenant gathered the surviving Church knights and lined up on the perimeter, protecting the chaotic aristocratic private army behind him, watching warily at the army of Akmund on the other side.

At this time, the gap between the knights of the Church and the private armies of the nobles was very obvious, and compared to Akmund, the self-proclaimed elite armies of the Holy Tree Dynasty and the Church of Light were not worth mentioning.

But at this moment, quality is one thing, quantity is another.

So far, Akmund's 30,000 troops have been killed and seriously wounded, more than 10,000, and counting the lightly wounded who have lost their combat effectiveness, only 17,000 people are still able to fight.

The Church and dynastic armies outnumbered Akmund in casualties, with nearly 70,000 casualties. However, their remaining strength was still more than 250,000, and the lead over Akmund had only widened.

The heaviest losses were the knights of the church, and of the ten thousand knights brought out by St. Thomas, only three thousand were now left standing on the battlefield. On Richard's side, more than 30 of the 200 Constructed Knights were killed in battle.

On the Holy Light Platform, the holy warriors who were still fighting to the death are now united in their beliefs and have once again become the same camp.

The atmosphere on the battlefield suddenly became heavy, and the people who were still noisy gradually quieted down, and even the wounded seemed to feel something, and they endured the pain and stopped moaning.

Silence suddenly came, just as before a storm, and it was uncomfortably oppressive.

Martin was looking at Richard, and Richard was looking at Martin.

The balance of power on the battlefield has quietly changed. Now Martin has become the orthodox of the Church of Light, with an army of 250,000 and hundreds of powerful holy warriors at once. In contrast, Richard's forces were pitifully weak.

If at the beginning of the war, Richard was still confident that he would defeat St. Thomas in a series of sports battles, then seeing the current balance of power, Richard knew that he had only one choice: to sacrifice all the troops and wounded who could not run fast, as well as the brood knights, and let the constructed knights and the elite Akmund knights evacuate.

Of the 17,000 warriors, no more than 3,000 will be able to return to Yashan alive.

But Richard did not give any order, nor did he let the troops retreat, but stood on the earth, beside Michael, the Celestial Force, and looked quietly at St. Martin. He didn't even mean to run away.

St. Martin suddenly smiled and glanced at the three Midalens who were still floating in the air.

The three Midalen stood quietly, each with a sword, faintly defending Richard in a ring. It's the arch, not the encirclement. In fact, the three Paladins who were inside Midalen could not move at all, and their bodies had become tools to supply Midalen's energy.

Martin smiled and said, "Richard, it looks like you're ready for a long time." ”

Richard said, "Well-prepared is not a bad thing at least, is it?"

Martin took a look at Michael, sighed, and said, "If I could now have the power to surpass Michael, maybe it would be different." ”

"No one can control a qiē, and no one can foresee a qiē. Richard replied calmly.

Martin suddenly showed a bright smile: "That makes sense! So, the war is over?"

Richard also smiled: "If you think the war is over, then it is over." ”

"Good, good!" Saint-Martin began to rub his hands excitedly, "Now that the war is over, it's time for the joy of dividing the spoils, right?"

Richard was stunned, completely unaware that this holy son would change in the blink of an eye.

The next step is to clean up the battlefield and renegotiate the division of interests.

Of course, before that, Richard had Semir evacuate with the Constructed Knights and the Akmund army, leaving only 2,000 men to clean the battlefield and take care of the seriously wounded. Semir had actually been seriously wounded in the battle with St. Thomas, and he had no strength to fight again, so it was useless to stay.

Moreover, as soon as these Akmund warriors left, Richard became more relaxed. If a legendary mage is determined to escape, even the super strong may not be able to keep them.

What's more, Richard also fully demonstrated the power of Midalen's combat version, the super fifth-order build is extraordinary, just being able to completely control the three Midalen, and completely suppress Michael, let it override all the fifth-order builds.

In addition, Midalen's battle version reproduces the battle posture of the Angel King Midalen, which means that the Church of Light's divine power-based attacks can't exert their due power in front of Midalen, not even half of it. As long as Richard put on the Midalen Battle Edition and escaped, St. Martin had nothing to do with him.

So as St. Martin said, the war is indeed over.

Then St. Martin began to divide the spoils with Richard in earnest. The stolen goods consisted mainly of five sets of Heavenly Weapons and the Sword of Sacred Flame that Michael had brought down from the Celestial Realm.

After some equal, friendly, and back-and-forth discussions, in the end St. Martin was to take four sets of Holy War Angels, and Michael and his Sword of Sacred Flame belonged to Richard.

Richard was interested in Michael's helmet, which is said to have been handmade by the Lord of Radiance, and the Sword of the Holy Flame could be used as a weapon to complement Midalen's combat version.

However, in this way, Richard received far more than St. Martin, so as to compensate, Richard needed to repair four sets of jihadist angels for St. Martin. At the same time, a scaled-down version of a set of Michael in St. Martin was also to be delivered. That is, the helmet is reduced to a level of the same level as the other components.

Although this will greatly reduce Michael's power and no longer the demeanor of the archangel, it will also greatly reduce the requirements for users. St. Martin's Paladin Master is fully usable and no longer needs to be driven by true celestial people.

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