Werewolf wizard

Chapter 414: The Panicked Michael VIII

Inside the simple imperial palace of the Nicomedia Empire.

Michael VIII had publicly punished several church nobles and secular nobles who had betrayed him.

In the imperial palace, he looked at the crowd with a sneer, and when he looked at the loyal secular military nobles standing behind him and the allies he had pulled in, he felt a sense of security in his heart.

Because he had promised to merge the churches, he had received support from the Papal State's guard knights.

To this end, he did not hesitate to convert in order to gain the support of the Order Church.

At the same time, he had received support from a mysterious force in the capital of the Storm Kingdom, and he had paid the Platinum Commercial Republic in advance with trade privileges, so he had even gained the allegiance of many ocean knights.

At this moment, Michael VIII only felt that he was surrounded by allies, and the throne was extremely stable. He looked at the clerics and nobles who were plotting to betray him with a smile.

"So, David Thompson, Adrian Francis, Elmer Ellison, you betrayed me, but have you shaken my throne in the slightest?"

"I'll give you a chance. As long as you re-pledge your allegiance to me, I can let bygones be bygones. But you must identify which rebels are inside the Law Church, because I want to cleanse the church and cleanse those rebels who betrayed the church."

In the past few days, Michael VIII had cleansed the church once. However, when he was cleansing, he only needed the list, but after things calmed down, he needed to find evidence, otherwise, the title of tyrant would be pinned on his head.

Michael VIII was unwilling to be a tyrant, and even more afraid to be a tyrant. The citizen class of the Nicomedia Empire was still very powerful.

In fact, he could still suppress these nobles and churches betraying him.

But if the citizen class betrayed him, he would be in big trouble.

After all, the most important force in the Storm Kingdom is the storm lords, which is different from the Nicomedia Empire.

The most important forces in the Nicomedia Empire are several: one is the military district petty nobles, that is, the military.

One is the citizen class. The Nicomedia Empire has implemented an election system for many years. Even the localities have various councils. The citizens have wealth and manpower, which is unprecedentedly powerful.

If he offended both parties at the same time, Michael VIII would easily be overthrown by the 'mobs'.

Therefore, Michael VIII was eager to find evidence of the church's crimes, to prevent the citizen class from suddenly attacking him later.

On the contrary, the church in Nicomedia has been suppressed by imperial power for many years, so under normal circumstances, imperial power can deal with the church.

In the scene, some nobles had already begun to hesitate. Now that the church had been cleansed and the rebellion had not yet broken out, it had already failed first.

Was it really necessary for them to continue to persevere?

Just as the nobles began to be unpredictable, they suddenly felt an earthquake on the ground.

A soldier rushed into the palace in a panic, running and shouting. "There... demons have invaded us. In an instant, our barracks were destroyed..."

"It was just an instant. Even those distinguished guests invited by His Majesty were destroyed in an instant."

Michael VIII was stunned. He hadn't reacted yet, but many nobles present had reacted.

The nobles who had originally planned to surrender suddenly seemed to have found the backbone, their spines straightened again, and their confidence became tougher again.

When Michael VIII saw the eyes of the arrested nobles, like sharp swords stabbing at him, he immediately understood what had changed.

When he turned his head and found that even the military district nobles of Asia Minor, who had always supported him, were beginning to show different thoughts, he immediately coughed. He looked at the Mountain Guard commander, Taren Griffin, the representative of the Papal State. He was also a legendary knight.

Michael VIII said: "Knight Commander Griffin, the other party should have used wizards to attack my capital. Wizards are enemies of the church!"

Knight Commander Griffin only heard the soldier's report and did not know the specific situation, so he snorted coldly and nodded, saying: "Naturally, our Order Church will stand by your side according to the order of His Holiness Innocent III."

"We will never allow reactionary forces to threaten your rule."

Michael VIII looked at the blind archbishop who was disguised as a human, and Pierre Ocello, the governor of the Platinum Commercial Republic.

The blind archbishop remained calm and pretended to be in the crowd, without revealing any flaws. Only Michael VIII knew a little about his details, and no one else knew at all.

The blind archbishop didn't seem to care at all about the deaths of the three hundred warlocks he had brought.

He showed an expression that everything was under control. "Your Majesty Michael VIII, I express my condolences on behalf of the Storm Kingdom."

"But don't worry, our Storm Kingdom still fully supports you at the moment."

"Currently, except for Sunan Peter, who attacked our capital that night, which surprised me, everything else is under my control. He is too reckless."

"I will make him pay the price for his recklessness."

"Everyone, Sunan Peter is playing with witchcraft, you have all seen it."

Pierre Ocello glanced strangely at the blind archbishop who came here as an envoy of the Storm Kingdom. Everyone knew that the Storm Kingdom and the Nicomedia Empire were mortal enemies.

Before, the Nicomedia Empire almost attacked Storm Keep, but unexpectedly, this time the Storm Kingdom actually intervened in the Nicomedia throne dispute, and Michael VIII really dared to win over anyone, even daring to accept the help of the Storm Kingdom.

Pierre Ocello said: "Our Platinum Commercial Republic will also support you, and provide you with fifty warships..."

Michael VIII relaxed. "With such powerful assistance from you, I can rest assured. We have so many allies, we don't need to be afraid of a lonely swindler who is fighting with me for the throne."

"I have the help of the three great powers, and he only has the help of my country's declining church and weak nobles, hahahahaha..."

Inside the palace, a soldier rushed in quickly. "About a thousand gargoyles have broken into our port and burned all the ships in our port, Your Majesty!"

Michael VIII: "What!"

Pierre Ocello reacted even more violently. After all, he had fifty commercial ships, not small ones, docked in the port.

He grabbed the soldier's collar. "Are you sure all the ships have been destroyed? Are you sure?"

The soldier cowered and said: "Yes...yes..."

The next moment, Pierre Ocello looked up and saw thousands of gargoyles appearing above the Nicomedia Palace.

And those plaster gargoyles all fell from the sky. Each gargoyle contained five bottles of Fire Demon's Wrath. This was a total of five thousand one-ring magic Fire Demon's Wrath's comprehensive coverage attack.

Even several ordinary two-ring wizards could not create such a repeated magic bombardment.

In an instant, those plaster gargoyles all smashed down like countless snowballs.

But these plaster gargoyles did not directly attack the palace, but attacked the barracks behind the palace, where Michael VIII's large army was stationed, that is, the barracks of his most staunch supporters.

Similarly, Sunan confirmed through the werewolf steward Wolf Three that there were many six-star warlocks, even warlocks above six stars, hidden there, and were not in the target of the first round of magic bombing.

It seemed that the blind archbishop had predicted in advance that Sunan would carry out magic bombing, so he deliberately divided his troops.

But he didn't expect that Sunan would let Wolf Three directly sneak into this city, and let all the werewolves attack here, and confirm the final hiding place of the warlocks through the search network formed by hundreds of werewolf stewards.

In an instant, half of the palace (the barracks part) was reduced to ashes.

The earthquake caused even the palace to collapse, and many palaces and gardens were reduced to ruins. And those Fire Demon's Wrath implanted with two-ring wolf poison caused irreversible damage to those high-star warlocks at one time.

The blind archbishop's face changed for the first time. 'I didn't expect that the werewolves still found the location of the warlocks I was hiding. Those warlocks are really useless, they can be discovered.'

'It can't be blamed on them, those werewolves' noses are too sensitive.'

'Fortunately, I hid the third batch of warlocks elsewhere. A cunning rabbit has three burrows, hehehe, it seems that the location of the small number of advanced warlocks hidden in the depths has not been discovered.'