Werewolf wizard.

Chapter 414: Michael VIII in Panic
In the simple palace of the Nicomedia Empire.

Michael VIII openly punished several ecclesiastical and secular nobles who had betrayed him.

In the palace, he looked at everyone with a sneer. At the same time, he looked at the loyal secular military nobles standing behind him and the allies he had brought together, and his heart suddenly felt at ease.

Because he promised to merge the churches, he received support from the Knights of the Guard of the Papal States.

To this end, he even went so far as to convert his religion in order to gain the support of the Order Church.

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

At this moment, Michael VIII felt that he was surrounded by allies and his throne was extremely stable. He smiled and looked at the priests and nobles who were plotting to betray them.

"How about this, David Thompson, Adrian Francis, Elmer Allison, you betrayed me, but have you ever shaken my throne in the slightest?"

"I will give you one chance. As long as you pledge allegiance to me again, I will forgive you for what happened. But you must identify the traitors within the Church of the Law, because I want to cleanse the church and purge those traitors who betrayed the church."

Michael VIII purged the church in the past few days. However, he only needed a list of names when he was purging. After things calmed down, he needed to find evidence, otherwise he would be labeled a tyrant.

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

In fact, it was easy for him to suppress these nobles and the church who betrayed him.

But if the middle class betrays him, he will be in trouble.

After all, the Nicomedia Empire is different from the Storm Kingdom. The most important force in the Storm Kingdom is the Storm Lords.

There are several most important forces in the Nicomedia Empire, one of which is the small nobles in the military district, that is, the military.

One is the citizen class. The Nicomedia Empire has implemented an electoral system all year round, and even local governments have various parliaments. The citizens have wealth and manpower and are unprecedentedly powerful.

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

Therefore, Michael VIII was anxious to find evidence of the church's guilt to prevent the citizens from suddenly attacking him in the future.

On the contrary, the church of Nicomedia was suppressed by imperial power for many years, so under normal circumstances, the imperial power could deal with the church.

At the scene, some nobles had already begun to hesitate. Now that the church had been purged, the rebellion had already failed before it even broke out.

Do they really need to continue to persevere?

Just as the nobles began to have evil thoughts, they suddenly felt a big earthquake on the ground.

Soldiers rushed into the palace in panic, shouting as they ran. "A...devil has invaded us. In an instant, our camp was destroyed..."

"It was just a moment. Even the distinguished guests invited by His Majesty were destroyed in a moment."

Michael VIII was stunned. He had not yet reacted, but many nobles present had reacted.

The nobles who had originally planned to surrender suddenly seemed to have found their backbone. They straightened their backs again and became confident again.

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

When he turned around, he found that even the military nobles of Asia Minor who had always supported him began to show different thoughts. He immediately coughed. He looked at the commander of the mountain guards representing the Papal States, Tarren Griffin, who was also a legendary knight.

Michael VIII said: "Captain Griffin, the enemy must have used wizards to attack my capital. Wizards are enemies of the church!"

Knight Commander Griffin had only heard the soldiers' report and did not know the specific situation, so he snorted coldly and nodded, saying, "Of course, our Order Church will stand by your side according to the order of His Majesty Innocent III."

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

Michael VIII looked at the blind archbishop disguised as a human, and Governor Pierre Othello of the Platinum Commercial Republic.

The blind archbishop was calm and composed, and had been disguising himself among the crowd without revealing his true identity. Only Michael VIII knew a little about his background, and the others knew nothing at all. The blind archbishop did not seem to care at all about the death of the more than 300 warlocks he brought with him.

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

"But don't worry, we in Storm Kingdom still fully support you at the moment."

"At present, except for Sunan Peter, who attacked our capital immediately that night, which surprised me. The rest are under my control. He was too reckless."

"I'll make him pay for his recklessness."

"Everyone, Sunan Peter is playing witchcraft, you all saw it."

Pierre Othello looked at him strangely, and came here as the envoy of the Storm Kingdom to see the blind archbishop. Everyone knows that the Storm Kingdom and the Nicomedia Empire are mortal enemies.

As we saw before, the Nicomedia Empire almost invaded Storm Castle, but unexpectedly, this time the Storm Kingdom actually intervened in the fight for the throne of Nicomedia, and Michael VIII really dared to win over anyone and even accepted help from the Storm Kingdom.

Pierre Othello said: "We, the Platinum Commercial Republic, will also support you and provide you with fifty warships..."

Michael VIII relaxed. "I feel relieved to have your powerful support. We have so many allies. We don't need to be afraid of a lone impostor who is competing with me for the throne."

"I have the help of three powerful countries, while he only has the help of my declining church and weak nobles. Hahahahaha..."

Soldiers rushed into the palace quickly. "There are about a thousand stone statues that broke into our port and burned all the ships in our port, Your Majesty!"

Michael VIII: "What!"

Pierre Othello, reacted more violently, after all, he had fifty commercial ships, not small ones, docked in the port.

He grabbed the soldier by the collar. "Are you sure that all the ships were destroyed? Are you sure?"

The soldier shrank back and said, "Yes... yes..."

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

And those gargoyles made of plaster all fell from the sky. Each gargoyle had five bottles of Fire Demon's Wrath in its body. This was a total of five thousand times of comprehensive coverage attack by a first-ring magic Fire Demon's Wrath.

Even several ordinary second-ring wizards cannot perform such repeated magic bombardments.

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

But these plaster gargoyles did not attack the palace directly. Instead, they attacked the barracks behind the palace where Michael VIII's large army, that is, his most die-hard supporters, were stationed.

Similarly, through the werewolf butler Lang San, Sunan determined that there were many six-star warlocks, and even warlocks above six stars, who were hiding there and were not among the targets of the first round of magic bombing.

I think the blind archbishop had predicted in advance that Sunan would launch a magic bombing, so he deliberately divided his troops.

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

In an instant, half of the palace (the military camp part) turned into ashes.

The earthquake caused even caused the collapse of the imperial palace, and many palaces and gardens were reduced to ruins. The Fire Demon's Fury implanted with the second ring of wolf poison caused an irreversible blow to those high-star sorcerers at once.

The blind archbishop's expression changed for the first time. "I didn't expect that the werewolves would find the location of my hidden warlocks. Those warlocks are really useless. They were discovered."

'You can't blame them, those werewolves have very sensitive noses.'

"Fortunately, I have hidden the third group of warlocks somewhere else. A cunning rabbit has three burrows. Hehe, it seems that the small number of high-level warlocks hiding in the depths have not been discovered."

(End of this chapter)