People are in Type-Moon, but they practice science

At the same time he tried to mobilize the Divine Right.

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"This..." Looking at Kirshtalia's tired look and the increasingly dignified sky, Ergo said distressedly, "Can we delay for another 5 minutes?"

Kirshtalia probably guessed something and glanced at Ergo's motionless right shoulder. "No, it will be too late then."

Without stopping, Kirshtalia left quickly.

On the throne, Piageo looked at Kirschtalia with a playful look, "The genius of the Clock Tower's astronomy department, how does it feel to face the 'celestial sphere curtain' I specially prepared? Ha, now that I can't use that amazing celestial magic, what else can I do now?"

Piageo pointed to the sky.

An endless and magnificent starry sky unfolded, first yellow, then red, blue, and finally green. Various elements constructed a celestial phenomenon of strange colors. These layers of sky scenes, combined with Piageo's spell, expanded rapidly in the night sky like layers of veils.

The Star of Bethlehem is like a planetarium in the center of this huge sky.

"It is what it is... That's enough."

Kirshtalia murmured as she looked at this scenery that could never appear in nature.

"what?"

"Given my current state, I am capable of completely destroying you and this entire ceremony."

"what?"

Kirshtalia recalled the Celestial Gifting Ceremony she had used to deal with Typhon. In the concept of celestial magic, the world is a triple world. The first layer is the world of elements, the second layer is the world of celestial bodies, and the third layer is the world of wisdom. When a creature in the natural elemental world is born, its inner structure is the spirit taken from the universe. This spirit is the tool to obtain the bridge to the world of wisdom (the upper world).

In fact, Christianity also has something in common with Christianity. For example, the combination of the Son of God and the throne in front of us is actually based on the judgment of the Father in heaven. According to the Trinity theory, the Son of God originally came from the Father and came to the lower level of reality with the help of the Holy Spirit. The top-down relationship of the Father → Holy Spirit → Son of God is in common with the Triassic world.

Even Eastern Buddhism has the connection between Dharmakaya → Sambhogakaya → Nirmanakaya.

Then what he has to do is to reverse this process, using the new celestial magic that he has perfected in time acceleration, and by reversing the ritual of astronomy, he will be able to send the real Star of Bethlehem back to heaven in a bottom-up order.

Kirshtalia looked at the "heaven" full of destructive elements above her head. According to the order of phenomena in the Book of Revelation, the true heaven would appear and the innocent believers would ascend to it after Chapter 21 (and would God respond to this ceremony? Kirshtalia remained skeptical). The long process of destruction before her eyes had only reached the content of Chapter 8.

So he did not break the rules of the ritual, he just brought forward the last part.

There is absolutely no problem with the process. The only limitation is that no matter how much Kirshtalia improves celestial magic, the necessary star power is indispensable.

"But it doesn't matter--" Kirshtalia had already decided to use the 'Star of Bethlehem' under her feet as her target.

"What are you talking about...?"

Piageo couldn't understand what this man was doing in vain.

Suddenly, he found that the Star of Bethlehem under his feet was shaking. Looking up, Kirshtalia was performing some ritual under the floor. Thea was pulling Ergo to leave.

"What the hell are you doing!?"

The shaking was noticeably more intense. The altitude began to rise.

The Star of Bethlehem is becoming a literal star, a shooting star in reverse.

The restless air currents whistled across the ritual site, and the elemental flow of destruction became denser as it rose into the air. The situation of the Star of Bethlehem became increasingly dangerous.

After a while, the only people left at the ceremony were Kirshtalia, who was maintaining the ritual, and Piageo, who was struggling to support his body due to the rapid increase in altitude, with a piece of parchment tightly clutched in his hand.

"Hoo—stop it!"

Piaggio spoke with difficulty in the storm, completely losing his composure. If this continued, the ritual would be completed ahead of schedule, but it would also fail. More importantly, his body would be shattered the moment it came into contact with the elemental flow canopy.

But Kirshtalia just smiled back.

'Doesn't this person know that he too will die?'

Kirshtalia certainly knew this, but in order to maintain this celestial ritual, he chose to stay and let Thea take Ergo away first.

"I reject."

The genius of the astronomy department said so. His eyes were fixed on the magnificent sky, and his mind flashed back to the time when he was so destitute that he was hunted by his father. He thought of the mortals who tenaciously struggled to survive in this world day after day. They should not be cold numbers sacrificed for some seemingly grand vision of salvation.

In this regard, the desperate Biageo did not care about being polite, "After all, they are still heretics! Damn heretics, you, and that guy, the scientists, the magicians, and those fools who refuse to convert..."

"—Do you think they should be sacrificed?"

"Of course! Only believers of my religion are qualified to be selected as citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven!"

It turns out that Piageo is a person who does not regard non-Christians as human beings.

"Ah..."

Kirshtalia was too lazy to argue, and suddenly saw him holding a parchment and writing something with his hands. "What else are you going to do?"

"Hey, let's not do anything." Piageo spread out the entire paper, revealing the true appearance of Document C. "It will fail anyway, so the last bit of ritual field magic power... let's use it to activate 'Fish for Dinner'!"

Piageo looked up at the sky. The four-colored elemental sky was so close at hand. He had no way to survive.

So he just wrote down the words "The culprit is the leader of the scientific side", and then launched Document C to force all believers to hate the scientific side. In this way, the "Fish for Dinner" will be amplified billions of times and will send a huge heavenly punishment attack to the target.

Chapter 467: Five Calming Minds! Aleister's Death!

The ritual was doomed to fail. So the one-time effect of Document C—writing the content on it and then connecting the faith base to make believers all over the world believe in the content unconditionally—became a backup measure that had to be activated.

Originally, Piageo's real body (Cardinal Laurentius) was ready to activate Document C in the Vatican, and the content originally planned to be written was roughly "Laurentius succeeds to the throne as the new Pope", so that the old man occupying that position would immediately withdraw.

Although Matthew Leese is very old, it seems that he can live another 30 years without any problem.

Of course, there is no hope now. Even inciting America to start a war and holding ceremonies at great cost have not achieved decisive results. Even if he forcibly ascends the throne, he will only end up with a mess.

The only way to produce greater results is to launch the "fish for dinner".

The composition of this technique is very simple, it is an attack constructed by using the legend of thunder and divine punishment. Basically, all kinds of magic systems have similar versions. However, the conditions for launching it are more complicated. First, it needs the approval of the Pope and 128 cardinals, and second, it needs the common hatred of billions of believers around the world.

The former has been accomplished by Laurentius in the Vatican, and the latter is achieved by Document C's forcible distortion of the believers' will.

The process of its activation is based on the above conditions, integrating the will of billions of people to strengthen magic power and function, forming a huge cannon with an output of billions of times.

The only uncertainty was the target. If the leader of the scientific side could be killed successfully, it might bring about a great turnaround in the war situation. It would be even better if the scientific side could be split.

Piageo never believed that such a huge organization was completely united. It was just that they had a common mysterious enemy and a strong leader who centralized power, so they chose to ignore minor contradictions. Even if the war situation did not turn around, it didn't matter. As long as there were no enemies on the scientific side and no unified leadership, all kinds of monsters would naturally emerge.

In the sky ritual field covered with scattered rain of fire, violent storms, and elemental turbulence, Piageo completed the final ritual activation procedure alone, and looked forward to it.

'Nun, I hope you have now found the leader of the scientific side who has never appeared in public.'

——The Star of Bethlehem was still rising rapidly, and was about one kilometer away from the "Elemental Sky Curtain".

"..."

Kirshtalia raised a hand. He only heard the name "Fish for Dinner" and didn't know the details of the spell. But this didn't prevent him from deciding to stop Piageo. No matter what the enemy wanted to do, he just had to prevent him from doing it.

"Hiss..." He felt a tearing sensation in his muscles, and Kirshtalia felt as if his body was in severe pain after a long period of hard work. This was probably caused by the overload of combat in recent days. He had not experienced this feeling for a long time since he became a 'genius in astronomy'.

——The altitude increased rapidly, and the distance to the elemental sky was 500 meters, which could be said to be very close. Although the storm could not be separated physically, the barrier power of the Star of Bethlehem was still able to withstand the elemental storm with its last remaining strength.

"But even if there is only a little bit of power, it would be great."

"what--"

At this moment, Kirshtalia hoped very much that his body could squeeze out a little extra magic and spirit to stop Piageo's unknown ritual, but the ritual was equally important and could not be abandoned halfway. His physical condition was almost reaching its limit, and this celestial magic that destroyed the Star of Bethlehem was almost his last step in the ritual.

Kirshtalia was ultimately unable to make an effective stop in the shortest possible time.

With the activation of "Fish for Dinner", the magic power reserves of the ritual field finally ran out, the barrier failed to function, and the blessing of the old people's principles gradually lost their effectiveness, like water without a source and a tree without roots. The entire Star of Bethlehem was completely exposed to the impact of the elemental turbulence.

——The elemental sky curtain is only 100 meters away. The degree of elemental riot caused by this altitude difference is almost the same as if it had directly collided with it.

Because this is a shock ten thousand times stronger than the rising airflow, dense flames roll down like the source of a lake of sulfur fire, and the crazy lightning strikes make people's hair stand on end, resounding through the sky. The riot of elements fills the Star of Bethlehem in an instant.

Rumble, rumble——

The floor and columns of the ceremony venue were like fragile toys in a child's hands, or like chalk marks on a blackboard, and were crushed to pieces in an instant.

"Is this the end...?"

Before everything turned into elemental nothingness, Kirshtalia looked at the approach of death and the unprecedented fury of the air currents of heaven and earth, and his mood was unexpectedly calm. At the same time, he also caught a glimpse of Piageo's position.

Rather than destroying the heretic Kirshtalia, the four-colored elements of heaven seemed inclined to welcome the white throne of the Son of God first. So the moment the barrier was broken, raging flames poured in and directly "flooded" the white throne and Piagio. Almost at the same time, the high-pressure impact and heavy elements crushed the figure to pieces.

Kirshtalia caught a glimpse of the enemy of the church, but she didn't even get to see him for the last time. She didn't have time to learn about and stop the so-called "Fish for Dinner" ritual.

But there was no other way, and what followed was his death.

But suddenly, a flash of light appeared in this completely chaotic elemental world, or something moving at nearly the speed of light. In short, it was a light that Kirshtalia had no time to react to.

Compared to the speed of light, these air currents and elements were almost still. What was even more unreasonable was that the light shone on Kirshtalia as soon as it appeared.

"That is..."

A familiar figure.

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The windowless building at the Academy City headquarters.

The biomass solution life support cabin where Aleister was located made a slight noise from time to time, as if some great abnormality had occurred inside.

Gulp... Gulp...

The solution pool was shaking for no reason. Aleister's body should have been lying inside. But at this moment, an increasingly intense symphony sounded, as if there were many bodies crowded together and pushing each other, making a noisy sound.

But when I got closer and looked, it seemed that there was only one person.

At this moment, a beautiful woman's hand, with a flower finger and fair skin showing a lovely blush, stretched out from the shadows, and then whispered softly:

"Nammo Samantabhadra, Nammo Samantabhadra... Om Ke Ye Ke Ye Saha, Om He Ke Ye Saha, Om Ke Ye Ke Ye Saha—"

Jixiangyuan Kiara chanted Buddhist mantras, and no one knew how she appeared here, and there was no machine or equipment to detect her presence. She seemed to have entered the building directly without any help.

——Five Contemplations to Calm the Mind.

Kihara Kishoin was chanting a spell to influence Aleister in the life support cabin. After causing anomalies that reached a certain level, the intelligent program linked to the life support cabin detected the anomaly, and the branches of the tree designer grew, instantly taking over the technological equipment and non-Euclidean barrier core in the building.

The next moment, important devices such as cable lines, radiators, biomass solution pools, power generation equipment, etc. were rearranged by the space barrier and disappeared in the building, but they were still able to operate normally while being staggered and far away from each other, as if they were placed in different phases with the help of four-dimensional space-time.

The cramped and dark environment in the building disappeared after complex and chaotic changes, and the water-blue planet floated away, and the starry sky was dark but sometimes bright.

And what makes all this happen, climbing and winding between different phases of space, are branches and leaves.

"Nammo Samantabhadra, Vravana, the warrior Maharusala, Sapta, Moo, Taraja, the warrior..."

The Sanskrit mantra continued to sound. Standing here, Kisshoin Kiara seemed to be unaffected by the spatial transformation, and she also succeeded in not letting anyone notice the abnormality.

The branches and leaves then operated at a higher power. From an ordinary perspective, they were rioting, growing thicker and more numerous as if time had been accelerated. The spatial phase parameters controlled by them became increasingly complex, and countless colorful, bubble-like miniature spaces were still being formed. The tree was like a computing device that could grow and evolve autonomously.

[Okay, stop.]

Said a complex voice inside the cabin equipment.

Yes, it was Aleister's voice. This voice was not like the previous one, but a strange voice that sounded like countless people speaking together.

[The one who just interfered with my mind, was it you? Who are you? ]

"My secular identity is not important. I am a Buddhist nun. If Your Majesty insists on an identity, you can treat me as a Catholic named 'Jixiangyuan Qihuang'... And this time, I came here just to fulfill my human duties and end my worldly ties."

[Your Majesty? What is the relationship between you and me? ]

Aleister knew that this was a respectful title for Buddhist practitioners such as high monks, but did it have anything to do with him?

"I heard that Your Majesty had a connection with the Buddha, the Enlightened One, so I called you that." Strictly speaking, Jixiangyuan Qihuang is a demon who has the same qualifications as the Enlightened One as a savior, but is hostile to him. His original body (Qin Xuan) obtained the qualifications of a savior after passing the trial of the Enlightened One, which is why there is such a connection between them.

[Are you from the Cross Sect? Why are you using Eastern Buddhist techniques? You seem to be trying to read my spirit.]

"This is the bond between us. I once converted to Christianity and promised to help the Western priest complete a task..." Unexpectedly, Jixiangyuan Qihuang did not intend to keep it secret, but spoke it out openly. Or maybe she did not care about such things. "In short, for the Western priest's task, I had to take an extra step to get involved in the secular world, which was to kill His Majesty."

When Kihara Jixiang said this, her eyes drooped, as if she wanted to lower her posture and reveal her beautiful figure under the nun's uniform, but this posture combined with her words had an indescribable sense of weirdness and insolence.

[Hehe, I don't intend to surrender, okay? ]

Seeing that the nun disclosed these trivial matters and ignored the question just now, Aleister did not continue to ask Kishouin Kiara what kind of spell she used. While initiating the conversation, he had already confirmed the impact of the 'Five Calming Minds' -

Scriptures kept ringing in his ears, even if the nun was not reciting them. And as if affected by this, his possibilities, male, female, adult, child, saint, sinner - countless him, him in various forms, rioted, like a balloon, the scale exploded, the number was as countless as the grains of sand in the Ganges, and it seemed endless. Although it was still confined in this one human body, it seemed to have reached a critical state.

Aleister in the cabin did not intend to parse the Sanskrit, but directly connected the artificial intelligence to the auditory system to compare and verify the pronunciation of the scriptures.

It took less than a second for the data results to pop up directly——

【After Sanskrit voice recognition, keyword review and corpus comparison, it was confirmed that the text is highly consistent with the "Contemplation of Dependent Origination" and "Contemplation of Realms" in the Buddhist "Five Contemplations to Calm the Mind", which explains the visualization of the twelve links of dependent origination and the six realms. It contains direct excerpts from the Buddhist scriptures "Sutra on Dependent Origination" and "Four Teachings", "Ignorance leads to action, action leads to consciousness, consciousness leads to name and form, name and form lead to the six sense organs, the six sense organs lead to touch..."】

'Five Contemplations...' Aleister quickly analyzed the contents in his mind. The theory of dependent origination discusses the impermanence and emptiness of things, while the theory of the different elements emphasizes the impermanence and interdependence of all things in the world through the 'combination of the elements'. In simple terms, it is the universal connection of things in dialectics.

I see. This seems to break the degree of cohesion of Aleister's possible clones, but at the same time it also adds a rope that connects many possibilities.