At this moment, shatter the dimensional barrier

"Moreover, their reinforcements have arrived." Raiden Shin looked at the long white column that was moving at an extremely fast speed toward the Tokyo Bay coast.

They numbered over a thousand, with several leaders dressed in red, and the one at the very front holding a scepter and wearing a crown of thorns.

Yae no Miko looked over: "The Roman Catholic Church, one of the world's top two superhuman organizations, a religion that follows Lord Tenri, even the Pope has come, but their chances of winning are still very small. Can they really do it?"

Even though that pope wore two divine artifacts, they weren't divine artifacts in essence; they were more like the Celestial Artifacts of Liyue.

Those four monsters, on the other hand, were genuinely top-tier demon god servants who received divine authority.

In her view, the chances of those human superhumans winning were less than 20%, which was no different from an egg hitting a rock.

Chapter 121: Tiamat Falls, Gods Gather Here

"Faster! Everyone, faster!" Pope Francis held his holy scepter, and the thorn crown on his head emitted a pure white light that enveloped the elite members of the 'Papal Priests' behind him.

The Thorn Crown bestowed upon him by the Lord has two abilities: one is to release holy light for area-of-effect healing, and the other is to provide area-of-effect buffs to allies, increasing their strength, reaction speed, power, etc., by an average of 20% to 30%.

He is currently using this ability to increase the speed of everyone in the 'Papal Priests'.

The Holy Scepter has many abilities, but its main ability is to create a field of holy light that suppresses evil life forms within it. In addition, it can gather the power of faith in the Lord to unleash a purifying pillar of light that descends from the sky to judge evil.

boom!

As soon as Francis finished speaking, he saw two buildings in front of him being pierced and collapsed by some force, and dust and smoke enveloped a large area.

boom--

Immediately following, a blinding light burst forth from the dust and smoke, with pillars of flame and blue light shooting diagonally into the sky. The pillars of light illuminated almost the entire surrounding area, and visible white shockwaves spread in all directions from the area where the pillars of light appeared.

Click, click, click...

The glass in a large block was shattered, and under the light, the glass shards looked like raindrops falling on the ground.

This was not the end. Ominous purplish-black light spots appeared in mid-air, emitting blinding light. Four purplish-black beams of light blasted towards the source of the red and cyan beams of light.

boom--

The purplish-black light, accompanied by shockwaves, spread through the city's buildings. Any structure struck by the purplish-black light shattered like a sandcastle, spreading over a vast area from the coastline all the way to the nearest urban district.

More than half of the buildings in a city spanning nearly ten kilometers were destroyed.

Rumble rumble rumble...

It was thanks to Yae no Miko's initial actions that all the urban residents around the Tokyo Bay coastline were evacuated; otherwise, the damage would have been no less than if she had swallowed two little boys.

As Francis looked at the endless piles of crumbling buildings ahead, he felt a pang of guilt: "Oh my God! Has the battle really come to this!"

He has been working as fast as possible to bring back the judges and saints who are carrying out the cleansing of evil around the world to Japan.

Unexpectedly, he still failed to arrive in time; he was truly negligent.

"Priests without stigmata, stay put. The evil we are fighting is no longer ordinary. We, the two deans and vice deans of the Holy See, the twelve judges, and the seventy-seven saints, follow me!"

At Francis's command, he led the charge, and everyone behind him instantly activated their Holy Marks, forming a long dragon of seven elemental lights in an instant.

The battle priest, who had not awakened his holy marks, stood there regretfully.

A blond, unshaven young man behind the Pope exclaimed, "Oh my god! Your Majesty, those two beams of light were the ultimate attacks of the angel and the Knight Commander! To be completely unharmed after taking such powerful attacks, that monster must be at least level five!"

His name is Conrad, the current head of the Vatican's Order of Pastors. His parents were small business owners in Europe and also devout Catholics. Upon reaching adulthood, he took a vow of lifelong celibacy and joined the Vatican as a pastor.

He then spent his time in asceticism throughout Europe, becoming a rare monk who helped many people. After the disaster, he traveled all over the world helping the suffering people. He used all the money his parents had saved for him as a businessman to help the victims.

After the events in Britain, he obtained the 'Stigmata', and then his focus shifted from helping the suffering people to killing monsters. He believed that once all the monsters were gone, the people would no longer suffer.

It was around that time that he was summoned by the Pope and became the first saint of the Papacy. After establishing the 'Sect of Priests', he traveled around Europe, and his strength continued to grow until he reached the fifth rank when the Xia Kingdom and the Papacy cooperated.

Moreover, according to Xia Guo, he was the first non-'near-god' to reach the fifth rank.

The knight's lance he carried on his back was also made with the help of the Xia Kingdom.

A middle-aged man whose eye had been blinded by a dark mark said, "It seems that only those at the fourth rank or above can participate in the fight against monsters of that level. Those below the fourth rank will be instantly killed."

He is the Vice-Chancellor Abelard. Before joining the Vatican, he was a well-known journalist and internationalist fighter in Greece, dedicated to exposing injustices around the world. As a result, he was hunted down by countries all over the world. It was only thanks to obtaining a stigmata at a crucial moment and being protected by the Vatican that he has come this far.

One of the adjudicators had a grim expression: "So, only adjudicators like us who have reached the fourth rank can join the battle to defeat monsters?"

The Pope said, “No, I have been inspired by the Lord that in addition to those high-level monsters, there are many enhanced monsters. The Chief Justices and Inquisitors deal with the high-level monsters, and the Battle Priests go to support the warriors of various countries.”

"Attention everyone! We have entered the battlefield! Begin the battle!"

The Papacy's forces charged into the smoke-filled battle zone like a long dragon formed from seven-colored elemental energy, with visibility less than fifty meters under the smoke.

The ear-piercing sounds of air tearing apart, steel clashing, elemental forces exploding, buildings being destroyed, and warriors roaring all mingled together.

Within the smoke, the light of elemental energy flickered at an extremely fast speed, covering a distance of several hundred meters in the blink of an eye.

"Heroes from all over the world! Believers of the Lord! We, the Holy See, have come to your aid!" Francis raised his holy scepter high.

hum~

The power of faith and the water element instantly shone with dazzling light.

"Holy Light Domain!" Francis shouted.

A holy light instantly spread out from Francis, appearing from a distance like a rapidly expanding white hemisphere that enveloped most of the city, which was the battlefield.

Within the Holy Light Realm, all evil monsters will be suppressed to a certain extent; however, the scepter is at most equivalent to a sixth-tier weapon, and its suppressive effect on higher-tier monsters is not that significant.

The scepter contains only skills woven from 'divine knowledge', and even with the addition of the power of faith, it can only suppress up to 10% of the power of a seventh-tier being.

But that wasn't all; at the same time, the crown of thorns atop Francis's head also began to shine.

"Atonement Domain!" Francis shouted, and another beam of holy white light spread in all directions, illuminating the dust-filled area even brighter.

"I am Francis, God's chosen spokesperson on earth! All evil will be destroyed under the Lord's holy light!"

Two fifth-rank priests and twelve fourth-rank judges charged into the battlefield without hesitation.

The remaining seventy-seven battle priests headed towards the coastline.

Don't be fooled by the large number of Stigmata members the Vatican possesses; these are drawn from among the two billion believers worldwide. While not all of them have joined the Vatican, it's roughly one in a million believers.

boom!

A purplish-black light and a cyan light collided in mid-air. The cyan light transformed into a meteor and crashed to the ground, followed by one purplish-black ball of light after another.

boom--

The purplish-black orb of light exploded at the spot where the cyan meteor had fallen, and the ominous purplish-black light spread out, causing the ground to tremble continuously.

"Damn demon! Courage erupts!" Gavin, engulfed in flames, transformed into a fiery meteor and charged toward the god-level Rahmu, who was flying in mid-air, constantly shooting energy balls from his wings.

His speed is also quite fast; with the help of his skills, it's almost approaching supersonic speed.

"Ha!" Gavin roared as he unleashed a barrage of crescent-shaped flames from his holy sword. Each strike was over ten meters long and capable of cleaving a skyscraper in two.

Rahmu stopped attacking Eleanor, accelerated, and exceeded the speed of sound. The air tore in front of him with a piercing sound, dodging all the fiery crescent slashes, and rushed towards Gavin. His scythe-like forelimbs had transformed into thin cleavers.

when!when!when!when!

In his 'Courage Burst' state, Gavin's reaction speed is about the same as Rahmu's, except that his movement speed and explosive power are not as good as Rahmu's.

With his hands gripping the holy sword, Gavin collided with Rahmu's forelimbs, and was instantly slammed to the ground by the powerful force and impact.

boom--

A 30-meter-wide crater was smashed into the ground, and Rahmu pinned Gavin down in the crater, his cleaver-like forelimbs relentlessly slashing at Gavin.

Those below the fifth rank couldn't even clearly see the afterimage of Rahmu's forelimbs.

"Aaaaaah..." Gavin lay on the ground with his back to the ground, his hands constantly waving the holy sword to block, barely managing to block each attack.

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang...

However, the impact caused him to suffer direct damage. Blood kept flowing from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, while cuts and slashes quickly spread all over his body. In almost two seconds, he was covered in blood.

"Bless the angels—"

Irene transformed into a blue meteor and flew up from the deep crater in the ground, quickly replenishing her skills. Everything in front of her was shaking, her body was trembling, and even the hand holding the holy sword seemed to have lost all feeling.

She knew she was nearing her limit, maintaining a massive healing field while battling a demon.

Healing ability is not an infinite power; in addition to consuming angelic power, it also consumes her mental energy.

She might snap her mind and faint completely at any moment.

"I have to keep going. If I fall, everyone will collapse." Eleanor's vision gradually cleared, and she rushed down to Gavin, who was being beaten bloody in the deep pit by the demon.

"what!"

He swung the holy sword at Rahmu, and a beam of wind elemental light, a meter thick, formed and shot straight towards him.

boom!

Rahmu was hit directly in the upper body and knocked back several meters in one direction. Gavin took advantage of this opportunity to roll out.

"A tenacious insect." Rahmu, struck but unharmed, transformed his forelimbs, which had been cleavers, back into scythes and, mimicking a human, clasped them to his chest.

Boom! A Rahmu fell from the sky, its tongue lolling out as it watched Irene fall from above.

Gavin gritted his teeth, his eyes bloodshot: "Damn demon! That attack shattered its shell, and it just regenerated in the blink of an eye!"

"Even if they are worn down, they will not die. They possess something that we cannot understand at all. Is it divine knowledge or power?"

“It’s power, and it’s also rules.” Irene bit her lip. Only rules can fight against rules; you can’t wear them down by exhaustion.

Just then, a holy white light enveloped the entire world, and a clear sound came from afar.

"The Pope! The Holy See has arrived!" Gavin was overjoyed, and at the same time, he felt that his strength, speed, reaction ability, and explosive power had all increased.

"The bugs are here again. Bugs are so hard to kill, so hard to kill!" The god-level Rahmu also felt the oppressive force on his body and looked in the direction of the glowing light.

The other Rahmu spoke up: "So annoying, so annoying, Mom is coming soon, we have to kill them all."

Crunch, crunch, crunch—

"Ah! Ouch! Ugh!"

The two Rahmu bodies began to writhe, as if something was wriggling inside them.

"What's wrong with them..." Gavin's muscles suddenly surged with power, and he was about to rush forward but stopped, his expression turning grim.

Click!Click!

Rahmu's exoskeleton on his shoulders and ribs split open, and two pairs of sickle-shaped forelimbs grew out, making him look like a spider in an instant.