Vatican, the Pope's bedroom.

All the important cadres below the referee Philot stood respectfully before the Pope's throne, and did not dare to make any sound. The Pope nodded slightly, gently patted the handrail of the throne with his slender fingers, and asked in a low voice: "Troy and the others have arrived in Austria, right? Well, with their strength, it is not difficult to deal with those people in the dark controversy."

With a 'plop', Galanti trembled and knelt on the ground, trembling, "Your Majesty... I'm sorry, I, I..."

The pope smiled: "Oh, Galanti, it's okay, it's just a team of Troy and the others. Although you're a little selfish... Skel's Saint Knight is your nephew, right? I can understand this little private behavior. Well, now the Dark Controversy Group should be focusing on that side, right?"

Philot looked at Galanti, who was trembling on the ground and replied respectfully: "Yes, your Majesty, according to our information, a large part of the Dark Controversy Group's hands have been removed from the Austrian mountains. It seems that they want to eat our three Holy Knights, and Mr. Troy and his group of monks."

The Pope laughed: "Well, as long as the top figures of the Dark Controversy Group don't come out, their power will be able to withstand it. Alas, I didn't waste so much time telling me to go and trouble those Chinese people."

Although Galanti was very scared, she raised her head curiously and asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, is it... what you call the Eastern Expedition is fake?"

The Pope looked in a good mood: "How could it be fake? Dear Galanti... I mobilized almost all the power of the Holy See, and it was impossible to just make a noise. However, before the Eastern Expedition, don't you think we should stabilize our rear first? Well, the Dark Controversy Group concentrated a lot of people to the mountains of Austria. This is great. Our troops are now time to set off."

Philot frowned: "Your Majesty, will this not trigger a full-scale war between us and them? If it attracts interference from secular society, I am afraid no one will feel good."

The Pope smiled relaxedly: "It's okay, Philot, it's really okay. Now our Vatican's power still has an advantage. How dare they start a full war with us? Especially when we go to Austria this time, if we can eat their manpower smoothly and then clean up the dark forces in Austria, Switzerland, Germany and other places, they will have to hide more carefully... Haha, then, we will have time to ask for old debts from our friends in the East."

Galanti was trembling all over, and cold sweat dripped from her forehead one by one. Damn it, no wonder she could easily steal the special letter of the handwriting from the Pope's office. No wonder the ascetics he was responsible for mobilizing had less than a team of monks, but no one suspected that the Pope used Skel and the others as bait.

The Pope chuckled softly: "Okay, everyone is ready to go, um, Galanti, don't let me down. Skel should have the ability to protect himself... Even if he is injured, is this a little exercise? Also, if you dare to do something similar in the future, I won't let you go, do you understand?"

Galanti was shocked all over and quickly kowtowed, and squeezed out a few words in extreme horror: "Yes, your Majesty, I will follow your will."

The Pope pondered for a while: "Then, very good. You lead a group of people to launch the first wave of attacks, and give us the 'Judgment of God' to win time... Of course, in order to attract more people from the Dark Conflict Group, you send a stream of people who are enough to attract the other party's attention, but not enough to scare their people to support Skel and the others. Do you understand? Also, for your actions, I will leak to the people from the Dark Conflict Group and roughly inform them of the strength of your people. In this way, they will dispatch a large number of people..."

Galanti nodded repeatedly, and had already made up his mind that he would let those reinforcements protect Skel with all their strength. Humph, what about the others? Just rely on luck.

The Holy See began to take action in full swing. A group of clergy left the Vatican through some secret passages, disguised as various people, etc., and used various means of transportation and various excuses to run to Austria, and intentionally or unintentionally approached the "Sunset" castle. This time, the deacons in the Inquisition were the first wave, so in order not to attract attention, these people who simply hired a large number of local guides and pretended to be tourists.

Near the "Sunset" castle, accompanied by the whistling of a large-caliber sniper rifle bullet, a low-level deacon who was hunting according to Hagen's order was sniped and his head was exploded. Of course, this unlucky killer was also slashed into pieces by several high-level deacons who had arrived.

The killers hired by Yi Chen have caused great trouble to Skeel and the others in the past few days. Even those ascetics, except for Troy who could hear the sound of bullets breaking through the air and avoiding them in time, could all be killed by a shot. Therefore, the people of the Holy See could only barely huddle in their barracks and dare not run around.

That is, Hagen was bored and asked those low-level deacons to hunt for him, but he wasted several lives for no reason.

However, Skel and the others were determined to hold on. Anyway, once the killers fired, they would be killed. The lives of several low-level clergymen were not important. Moreover, Skel had already received a letter from Galanti saying that a group of reinforcements had arrived.

Of course, Sakura's subordinates would not make Skel and the others so stable. Every night, there were always a few Tsinger sneaking into the low-level deacons, and often someone would come over there, so every night there would always be a few people missing for no reason. The hatred between the two sides became increasingly greater and stronger, and they were waiting for the duel to arrive and completely cut off.

When there were three days left before the Sun, about two hundred clergymen openly joined Arthur's camp, including forty deacons and five archbishops. As for whether other senior people were hiding among them, geniuses knew.

Yi Chen and the others quickly learned that the other party's strength had been strengthened. After all, the scope of their barracks had been expanded. Dracula frowned and muttered, "It's not easy to deal with now... Although more than one hundred subordinates of my country are still hidden, the people in the Dark Controversy Group are born to suffer losses in the face of the Holy See, which is not a good sign. If they have reinforcements, we can only fight with them in a regular manner. That kind of large-scale battle is not a choice."

However, less than an hour after the Holy See arrived, reinforcements came from Sakura.

More than thirty men with furry and smelly bodies dragged a huge axe and crackled down a large forest. After rectifying several pigpen-like residences, they lay down and rested casually. According to their own words, they came to log wood...

Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen people in black would fall when the wind blew. They arrived slowly like ghosts. They set up small tents, then started to make fires, boil soup, and sat around the stove without moving. They ignored the authentic clergy on the opposite side and openly claimed that they were students from a seminary in Austria and came here for camping.

Then, the three middle-aged man with a polite and virtuous eyes flashed in his eyes, proudly came down from three large helicopters with more than a dozen subordinates, and at the same time brought huge tents that were exaggerated enough, luxury carpets, fine wines, delicacies, and even a generator, a satellite receiving antenna, and a TV...

Dracula walked over respectfully and bowed to the oldest of the three gentlemen: "Ah, Prince Philo, long time no see."

Philo raised his eyebrows and looked surprised: "Oh, praise that damn God, Oh my god, isn't this Mr. Dracula? Oh, my good friend, are you here too? I'm so tired of staying in Vienna. I went out for an outing. I didn't expect to meet you. It's so great. Oh, is that your little friend? Let me know."

Arthur frowned and looked at the arrival of three groups of people from the dark group, saying with some concern: "Damn it, I remembered that the duel was a full moon night. If the duel was delayed until the evening, it would be bad for us."

Troy also frowned: "It's so bad. Prince Philo is a powerful guy. When I was still a Holy Knight, the referee at that time was seriously injured and killed by him... This is a sinister, cunning, vicious guy, a purely extreme blood chauvinist. For him, all humans are slaves... Well, if his power has been improved recently, I'm afraid..." Troy was also a little worried.

Skel whispered: "Don't worry, I can guarantee that these bastards won't live the next day of Duel Day."

Murphy glanced at him quickly and asked in a low voice: "Dear Skell, do we still have it?"

Skel nodded softly and said nothing. Galanti once again went against the pope's intention and secretly leaked some inside information to him, so Skel was very calm. When he saw Prince Fillo and the others, he treated him as dead people.

However, when it was almost night that day, even the few people who came over changed their faces, even the ones who were in their hearts, Gegeus, Fakras and Sfenx, screamed and ran over with five or six ancient necromancers who had given up their human identity. These guys who did not pay attention to saving mana during the day and concealing their traces, according to their words, came to experience the beauty of nature.

Yi Chen was deeply worried that the current situation had completely broken out of his control. Originally, Ying was a child with a little lack of brains. Durcula was very harmonious with Yi Chen for Michelle's division. Yi Chen could completely control this duel and achieve the most favorable result for him. But now there are so many masters on both sides, and anyone can deal with Yi Chen, who cares about him?

Yi Chen began to consider whether he needed to leave as soon as possible.

Sakura had a similar idea. Who would take his duel seriously now? Three members and Prince Philo are now trying to figure out how to eat this group of senior clergy with the smallest casualties. Three Holy Knights and more than twenty ascetics are a force that cannot be underestimated. If they can be killed smoothly, the Holy See will definitely be depressed, and the Dark Controversy Group will take a big advantage.

It seems too funny now. Arthur and Sakura, the main players in the duel, have become spectators. For the strength that both sides have enhanced, the five round table knights left by Arthur now and the more than 200 masters left by Sakura are completely vulnerable. The goals of both sides have become completely killed by the other party.

Prince Philo summoned Sakura. He looked at Sakura proudly and said slowly: "Young Japanese guy, um, Durcula introduced you to me, um, not bad... Your men will cooperate with us, right? Well? Although I don't think your people can cause any harm to those senior clergy, it's better to have them than not. Well, if you can survive this time, I will consider making you an outer member of ours."

Sakura almost had an attack on the spot, but after measuring the strength of himself and Prince Philo, he ate the suffocation. Looking at Sakura's back angrily, Gegeus giggled and said, "Sir Philo, you made this kid angry, hehe... But it doesn't matter, his people are useless. I, Gegeus, don't care about his strength."

Fakras lowered his voice: "The last time we killed in New York, aren't the people we killed just these Japanese ninjas? Hehe..."

The crowd, including Dracula, burst into laughter.

Yi Chen's divine thoughts peeked at all this, and he thought depressedly: "Have you been entangled with the Dark Controversy Group too deeply? This is not a good phenomenon... Well, why did I agree to Ying come over to be a notary? Alas, I just wanted to take the opportunity to kill Arthur, but now everything is out of control."

Jester approached the contemplative Yi Chen and asked in a low voice: "Boss, what are you thinking?"

Chekov said in a corner of the tent: "The boss must be thinking about Phile...hehe...oh." Kane, who was sitting next to him, picked up Chekov with one hand and threw him out of the tent directly. Then, he wiped his pistol as if nothing had happened.

Yi Chen looked at Jester helplessly and said, "Dear Jester, I'm afraid I'm going to be in trouble this time... God, Satan, or any Nordic devil can do it. Who the hell can let me leave here? I don't want to join the Dark Controversy Group like you... Woo."

A gust of cold wind blew in. Gegeus grabbed the black cat from Faklas in his hand, and his paws were desperately pulling the black cat's beard. He giggled and flashed in. After bowing in a very artificial way, he sat in front of Yi Chen with a swagger and said a few times, "Ah, are you Mr. Yi Chen? Well, our Speaker appreciates you very much."

Yi Chen smiled bitterly and said respectfully: "Aha, hello, may I ask you..."

Gegeus waved his hand: "My name doesn't matter, hehe, um, I know you are also in Austria and are the notary of this duel. It's so happy that I don't have to go to London to find you... Lord Speaker is very grateful for everything you have done to Mr. Off. Our dark controversy group will become your friends." Gegeus giggled and stretched out his hand.

Yi Chen quickly held his cold, rough hand claws like a skeleton claw, and smiled reluctantly: "Then, it's my honor."

Gegeus nodded: "Well, that's good, that's good, hehe, oh, this is Jester, right? Ahha... very good, very good." He quickly pulled back his hand, wiped it on the black robe, and whispered: "It's really bad to shake hands with humans... Well, that's it, Mr. Yi Chen, we really hope that you will help us in some aspects in the future. Of course, in return, we will give you certain benefits."

It seemed that he was not used to getting along with humans. Gegeus quickly explained a few words, carrying the poor black cat's tail, and a gust of wind rushed out, and his muttering came vaguely: "Damn it, why am I so close to humans? Abominable humans, annoying humans, the smell on them really makes me feel uncomfortable..." Gegeus seemed to have forgotten that he was once a human being.

Yi Chen smiled and whispered to Jester: "Ahhh, I'm relieved."

Jester looked at Yi Chen in confusion, and Yi Chen explained: "The Dark Controversy Group doesn't want me to join. After all, people like me are much more useful than being a formal member on the outside... Well, very good, very good, what benefits will they give me? But no matter what, Jester, in the duel in a few days, you are not allowed to take action, we just need to sit and watch the show." Seeing Jester's reluctant eyes, Yi Chen hurriedly said: "Of course, if you have the chance, I don't mind we'll work together to kill some of them, but if you don't have the chance, we must not join, do you understand?"

Jester showed a grim smile and nodded excitedly.

Yi Chen was very happy. Since he could not escape, he would hide in the cracks between two powerful forces and watch the fun. It seems that the dark controversy group will not hurt him, and he and the Holy See also "no resentment or revenge" between him and the Holy See. I think he can watch a good show.

As for Ying... Yi Chen was unable to save him anyway, and Ying was the fuse of the conflict, so let him go. Yi Chen lay easily on his bed and muttered in his heart: "Although it was me who stole the treasures of the British royal family, but this duel was obviously not because of this matter, so I don't have to feel too guilty, it has nothing to do with me."

While thinking, Yi Chen's mind had already sunk into his star core and began to slowly absorb the star power from the outside world. So many masters arrived at the camp, Yi Chen would not dare to absorb it with all his strength, otherwise his body would be full of silver light, ensuring that Arthur would be the first to rush over—

The duel date finally arrived. Ying took her dozens of subordinates to the castle. Yi Chen followed slowly behind with his own people, while Durcula and Prince Philo walked at the back as so-called special guests. The orcs who were 'cutting', the black wizards who were 'camping', Gegeus who were 'outing', sat lazily on the hillside on the side of the castle, applauding and shouting: "Hey, how many more people will die..."

There, Arthur, accompanied by Skell and the other three, walked over with five uninjured Knights of the Round Table, followed by two notaries of Arthur and a senior Vatican.

Seeing Ying and Arthur greeting each other politely outside the gate of the castle, Yi Chen yawned boredly and whispered: "It's true, although I proposed to let Ying challenge Arthur, he actually accepted this ancient way of solving problems. It's really..."

Prince Philo gently pushed Yi Chen behind his back and said in a deep voice: "It's time for the notary to come on stage. Damn it, can't they move faster? Take out the sword and kill each other, let's have fun with these bastards in the Holy See..."

Yi Chen walked forward with a bitter smile, and happened to hear Ying and Arthur's agreement: "No matter what the result of today's duel is, you are not allowed to provoke and seek revenge from the other party afterwards." Ying and Arthur looked at each other, and a ridiculous feeling arose. The duel is no longer important, and the people on both sides are still watching the excitement. It would be strange if they can be happy.

Then, both parties introduced their notary. Needless to say, the two dukes have a considerable reputation in London, but they can both be notarized. After I issued a vow that seemed to be completely unnecessary in Yi Chen, Arthur and Ying waved their swords respectively...

Notaries such as Yi Chen and the people behind them all retreated one after another, retreating a hundred meters away. This is not an ordinary knight fight...

Arthur greeted Sakura with a standard knight's greeting, and Sakura bowed 90 degrees solemnly, and raised his "killing moon" slanted. Arthur asked in a deep voice: "Mr. Sakura, the duel is sacred. Can you swear that the treasures of the British royal family are stolen really have nothing to do with you?"

Sakura frowned: "I said that I wouldn't be interested in your royal family...that's not what our Great Japanese Imperial Warriors would do."

Arthur looked at Sakura deeply, nodded and said, "Then, the last question is, if one of us falls, our subordinates, if they have conflicts..."

Ying shook her head gently, "Killing Yue" had already started to tremble strangely, Ying showed a warm smile: "Do we need to care about this? No matter what, our subordinates will take action. Besides, if one of us falls, we will not be able to control our subordinates, right? Besides, how many people can we control so many?"

Ying smiled, "Killing Moon" had already swung out like a black stream of light. Taking the steps of "Thousands of People Slashing", a thick black mist appeared on Ying's body, and the sword light was like water, covering Arthur's radius of more than 20 meters. Immediately afterwards, Ying's sword momentum changed, and a crisp sound of "bang" was made in the air. Thousands of swords gathered into a lightning, slashing towards Arthur head-on.

Arthur moved left quietly, and just avoided Ying's attack. Then he shouted in a low voice, raised his sword to stab Ying's heart, and a white light roared out from the tip of the "Sword in the Stone". Ying's figure flashed left and right, and also avoided the attack.

With a loud bang, Sakura's sword light shattered a large forest more than a hundred meters away from Arthur, and Arthur's sword light shot through it, intentionally or unintentionally at Gegeus. Gegeus snorted coldly, slapped Arthur's sword light impatiently, and whispered: "Little bastard, don't play with these tricks... Hehe, there's something fun for you later." The sound was not loud, but the tragic words made everyone hear it, especially Arthur, who only felt a sharp awl stabbed his head hard, and the "buzzing" sounded in his mind.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Troy sang in a low voice. A gentle breeze emanated from him, dispelling Arthur's discomfort in a quiet manner.

However, Gegeus's small movement had already created a chance for Sakura. His figure suddenly disappeared into the air. Then, lightning was flying in the sky, and countless sword energy slashed at Arthur like a storm. Arthur frowned, and the "Sword in the Stone" was flying very quickly. Thick holy lights enveloped his body, blocking the attacks like waves of angry seas.

Skel exclaimed: "Oops."

Hagen looked at Skel in confusion: "Why is it bad? Didn't Arthur defend it very firmly?"

Skel's forehead was filled with cold sweat: "We ignored one thing, the gap between the sword technique of the West and the East... That Sakura, his sword technique, is so terrifying..."

Hagen shook his head and muttered: "Sword technique? What's the use of sword technique? As long as I use the tower shield to cover it, no sword technique can do to me... Humph, unless their strength is far better than me." Hagen angrily stroked his wounds. If Troy hadn't rescued it in time, he would have probably been dead now, right? But now, his arms are still rarely waving.

Skel no longer cared about explaining anything to Hagen, so he could only pay attention to the duel in the field.

Sure enough, when the Western regular swordsmanship encountered Sakura's strange swordsmanship, he suffered a lot. Arthur's normal chop, block, block, and stab. If the opponent is also a knight like him, such defense can effectively protect himself. But Sakura is an Eastern warrior, and his swordsmanship is much more gorgeous than Arthur's.

Black shadows with lightning stabbed Arthur from incredible angles. "Killing Yue" now seemed to be a soft sword, wrapping around the "Stone Sword" from time to time. Then the sword forward turned his head quickly and slashed towards Arthur's body along the "Stone Sword"'s body. Occasionally, several sword lights would shoot out from the ground and head towards Arthur's lower body.

Arthur gradually found it difficult to defend against such a intensive attack, and sweat dripped from his forehead and retreated cautiously.

Sakura's shout came from the air, and then a small blood flower bloomed in the air. It was Sakura who bit his tongue and sprayed blood on the sword of "Sha Yue". "Sha Yue" screamed strangely, and a strange force filled it. The sword seemed to be moving. At this moment, it was not Sakura who was using "Sha Yue", but "Sha Yue" began to slash Arthur wildly with instinct.

A series of strange black arc-shaped electric lights appeared in the air, and they slashed towards Arthur hundreds of times more intense than the attacks made by Sakura just now. The "ding-ding-dang-dang" sound was loud and finally turned into a long and harsh sound.

Four crisp sounds of ‘Shit and Shit and Shit and Shit sounded, followed by a dazzling white light flashing. Sakura suddenly showed her figure and flew back more than ten meters one foot from the ground.

A bloodstain appeared on Arthur's left and right chests and on both arms, and a trace of black mist slowly floated out from the wound. Arthur looked at Sakura with a strange look and whispered: "You Eastern samurai, such a powerful swordsman." Arthur said his sincere words. He did not suffer because his strength was not as good as Sakura, but because Sakura's swordsmanship was too fast and weird, and Arthur could not even keep up with Sakura's pace and could not find his figure. Under pure defense, Sakura finally broke through his defense line.

Sakura was also sweating heavily and giggled, "Go awards, too awards. You Western knights are actually a bit of advantages. However, your swordsman is really ugly." Sakura smiled and gently tapped the sword body of the 'Killing Moon'.
To be continued...