After simply settling the matter, Anvis returned to his usual peaceful routine.
In addition to paying attention to Bishop Yanile's situation every day, he is waiting for the Duke to finish dealing with the power dragon.
Soon, as the magical dinner of Pamir College’s year-end celebration quietly ended, the last tail of this year was about to fade away.
It was less than a magic hour before midnight. After sending Fiona back, Avis returned to his residence and at the same time habitually sensed Yanile's movements.
However, as soon as he sensed Yanile's position, he immediately noticed a problem.
Previously, the location of the twisted seed on Yanile's body had always been at the border of the two empires of Gloria and Santa Mecia, as if it was waiting for something.
And now, Yanile's position suddenly appeared near the ruins in Magna Province.
After thinking about it, Anvis took out the encrypted crystal ball and sent a message to Duke Carrot.
"I suddenly have a feeling that unknown changes may be about to occur at the location of the meteorite ruins. Please be vigilant!"
After urgently delivering the news, Anvis put away the crystal ball again. After thinking for a while, he decided to take a temporary risk and connect the seeds in Yanile's body.
Now is a very delicate time, the old year is coming to an end and the new year is about to arrive.
At this time of transition between old and new, the success rate of some special secret rituals will receive additional bonuses. This is something that has been confirmed in occult science.
Anvis suspected that the rituals on Yanile and the other seven people may not have been completely completed, but some key activation steps were still missing.
If the facts are indeed what he thought, then the most likely time for this activation step is at midnight of the new year.
Having made a decision, Anvis directly entered a state of meditation and began to try to connect to Yanile's perspective through the seeds of distortion.
Gradually, Anvis's consciousness entered a highly condensed state. Some vague images began to appear in front of his eyes one after another.
There were some black figures swaying around, and as time passed, these figures gradually became clearer.
At this time, the surrounding environment is located in a secret room.
The walls are covered with special isolation magic inscriptions to prevent the breath here from leaking.
Seven thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven pure white candles are placed on the ground, forming a huge pattern of the Holy Emblem of Light. A huge seven-pointed star pattern composed of white gold inscription lines is engraved on the ground in the center of many candles.
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There is a strange hourglass placed in the center of the star. Above it is a faint white light of sand, and most of it has fallen down.
Including Yanile, the seven bishops stood at the seven pointed corners of the star, bowing their heads in silence, as if they were waiting for something.
On one side of the room, three red-robed archbishops stood calmly, observing the ceremony.
No one spoke, and the air in the room was silent. Countless candles flickered with a milky white light that flickered on and off, filling the room with a strange and solemn atmosphere.
The time at this moment is infinitely close to midnight, and the sand in the hourglass is about to run out.
Finally, in Anvis's eyes, the last grain of white light sand leaked out.
At this moment, all the beating milky white candle flames suddenly stopped for a moment——
Then, a bright white light burst out from the star on the ground!
Just like fire igniting dry wood, when this light touched the seven bishops standing in the sharp corners of the star, the endless light suddenly lit up the bodies of the seven bishops, turning them directly into a ball of dazzling light.
Aggregates!
Anvis felt that the world in front of him went white for an instant, and then, the picture was completely interrupted.
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As the last second of last year passed, the calendar turned another page. The people of Yaer continent ushered in the New Year's Day of the new year.
However, this year’s New Year’s Day is destined to be anything but peaceful.
Year 2461 of the Glorious Calendar, the first day of the new moon, zero o'clock.
Many shocking events broke out simultaneously in the Gloria Empire.
In the Magna Province, where the mysterious meteorite ruins fell, a bright beam of pure white light pierced the night sky and penetrated the zenith wall in the endless sky.
Professionals within a thousand miles radius can clearly see this miraculous beam of bright light.
Pale white light spots like fine snow fall from the dark night sky, and ethereal sacred music echoes in all directions, but if you listen carefully, you will find that this music seems to be playing directly from your mind.
Half a magic hour after the beam of light fell, the Gloria Empire announced that it had entered the second level of combat readiness.
Because the characteristics of this incident were too obvious, Gloria III issued a public statement asking the Holy See to provide an explanation for the previous indiscriminate attacks.
Soon, the Saint Mexia Empire also responded to this matter.
In this reply, the current Holy See Pope, St. Messia III, described the incident as a "regrettable accident" and made no mention of an explanation for the incident.
Regarding the perfunctory attitude of the Holy See, Gloria III only made one response, sending a number of ninth-level and ninth-level extreme professionals to openly go to the border between the two countries.
Not to be outdone, the Holy See also sent four ninth-level red-robed archbishops and five ninth-level trial knight captains to the border to confront the empire's ninth-level professionals.
The situation between the two empires instantly became extremely tense, and it seemed that a devastating war would break out at any time.
In this situation where the energies of the two empires were temporarily entangled with each other, a 'civilian' underground resistance organization [Spark] suddenly appeared and announced its existence to the entire empire in a high-profile manner.
And quickly captured two super large main cities with a permanent population of hundreds of thousands, Yueying City and Luolong City, located in the Frey Province and close to the junction of the Kalras Province.
The original seventh-level professional city lord was directly captured by people from the [Starfire] organization.
Although it had been predicted that the empire would not be able to react at first due to deliberate calculations and unintentional calculations, so it was a matter of urgency to send people to deal with them as soon as possible.
But to be honest, the ability to conquer two cities in succession at an average speed of less than half a magic hour even shocked the leader of the Spark Organization and wondered if it was a scam.
However, it was only discovered when the rebels took over the city and inspected the defense array.
The city's original magic defense array, many of the materials with inscribed lines have aged, and the ability to maintain normal operation is already at its limit, and cannot cope with fierce battles.
As for where the maintenance fees that should have been used to maintain the defense array went, everyone knows.
After all, even if you are a city defense officer, you have to spend money when you need training resources.
Then it’s reasonable to ‘borrow’ some city defense funds, right?
You said that without funds for maintenance, the defense system will age quickly?
Anyway, there won’t be any wars within the empire. If we can only deal with a small beast tide every year, it will be enough as long as the defense array looks bright——