"...How...how...!" Arthur spit out a mouthful of blood.
What emerged from the tree was an arm. That arm held an extremely sharp dagger, and it stabbed Arthur in the chest!
He was obviously wary, and he could avoid the surprise attack with the help of his clairvoyance, but the careless Arthur was still tricked. Because he never expected that there was a secret hidden in that small tree seed, and someone actually opened it from the tree seed.
He was suddenly assassinated at the exit of the subspace!
"Lord Michael!" "Your Majesty!" "Lord Aslan!" the other three people present exclaimed.
"Well...!" Arthur covered his chest and took a step back. At this time, he had thrown away the tree seeds. The injury on his chest was not as serious as expected. The dagger was thin and sharp, and it penetrated directly through the gap in his ribs.
It pierced into the heart, but Arthur dodged it at the critical moment, so the dagger only scratched the muscle next to his heart, without penetrating the ventricle and causing fatal damage. Moreover, at that moment, Arthur's heart stopped.
He used his will to stop his heart. The heart was neither expanding nor contracting. Therefore, the myocardium was not further damaged by the sharp edge of the dagger, nor was it further torn by the beating of the heart itself.
The next second, due to the healing effect brought by the [King's Sheath], the wound on Arthur's heart had healed to the point where it was not fatal. He allowed his heartbeat to resume and took a breath.
Despite this, the attack just now was still extremely dangerous. If he hadn't hidden well, if Arthur hadn't stopped his heartbeat in time, and if he didn't have an artifact like the King's Sheath guarding him, he might have died.
"Hey hey hey hey hey." A figure slowly emerged from the tree species, and at the same time sneered sinisterly: "The last saint, the holy blood of [Saint in the Stone Aslan] has finally been obtained."
"Pope Eugene IV!" Joan of Arc shouted.
Is that the Pope? Arthur was cursing viciously in his heart, wanting to rush forward and kill Eugene IV with a sword. But there was a literal heartbreaking pain in his chest, and even the slightest movement made his body tremble.
Breaking out in cold sweat, he could only maintain the position of covering his chest and half kneeling on the ground!
At this time, Elaine's idiots were only surprised and did not rush to attack the Pope, and Arthur couldn't help but curse secretly.
The Pope raised the dagger stained with Arthur's blood. The dagger not only contained a small amount of blood, it seemed to have special magic power, extracting a large amount of blood from Arthur's chest. The blood was like jelly.
It solidified and suspended around the dagger. The Pope mixed the blood with the dark red liquid in the bottle in his other hand, and poured it on the tree. The whole process took less than half a second.
After half a second, the whole world began to shake.
"Oh ah ah ah ah! The Garden of Eden is about to open!!" Pope Eugene IV called out in fear.
"You bastard...!" The pain subsided slightly, and Arthur gritted his teeth and drew his sword with his backhand, trying to remove the Pope's head.
However, the Pope, whose upper body was exposed from the portal of the tree species and whose lower body remained in the paradise, seemed to be in an "invincible" state. The sword had clearly cut off his head perfectly, and after the lightsaber swept over, his head
Not only did it not fall to the ground, but it stuck directly to the neck. The scars on the neck healed in less than a tenth of a second!
"It's useless, everything in paradise has eternal life." The Pope smiled proudly: "Then farewell, everyone."
He retracted his upper body, and his entire body was submerged into the subspace portal of the tree species!
"Oops!" Joan of Arc exclaimed: "He has gathered the keys to the paradise, and the entire paradise is his!"
"What will happen?" Arthur asked.
"He can enter and leave the paradise freely without time restrictions and will never be expelled from the paradise." Joan of Arc said anxiously: "No one can stop him!"
Arthur smacked his lips. So this is the Pope's plan? Let Joan and Arthur meet, and let Joan hand over the tree seeds to Arthur. The Pope, who has been hiding in the subspace of "Paradise", at that moment
Make a sneak attack on the King of Knights and get the "blood of the saint" from Arthur.
...completely calculated!
Arthur had worked so hard to attack Skid Plattney's Ark, but he never expected that he would come to "donate blood" to the Pope in this place and at this time!
"So... let's take it, what should we do next?" Elaine asked hesitantly.
"Nothing can be done." Arthur said angrily. If the Pope is already hiding in that "paradise", Arthur and the others can't do anything to the Pope anyway. They have no way to enter the paradise, and there is no way to hurt him.
The Pope in Paradise.
"What we need to do now is to suppress the power furnace of the Ark first. We will talk about the Pope later." Arthur hummed.
"Aren't you going to take [the Seed of Eden] with you?" Joan of Arc asked again.
"Hmm------" The King of Knights squinted at the tree species on the ground. He didn't dare to touch that thing, and other people present were even more afraid to touch it. God knows if the Pope will suddenly pop out of the tree species again.
It would be too dangerous to stab them and approach that tree species rashly.
But it is true that we cannot leave the tree seeds here. If more Pope Knights run into [Paradise] and join the Pope, an extremely troublesome force will be formed inside, and it will be more difficult to eliminate this force in the future.
.
We can neither leave the tree species here nor touch it, so what should we do?
"Lei, Renault?" The Platinum Lion took action without permission. Elaine asked curiously: "What do you want to do?"
"Ouch!" The big lion grinned at the fat man, then went over and bit the tree species.
He planned to swallow that tree seed directly!
"You------!" Goff was shocked and planned to stop him.
"No, let him swallow it!" Arthur interrupted.
Gudu. It was too late to stop it. The Holy Spirit Platinum Lion swallowed the tree seed in one gulp without even chewing it.
"This might be the best solution." Arthur said.
The Holy Spirit cannot be killed. Even if the Pope really pops out of the tree to stab someone, he can't hurt the Platinum Lion. And as long as the Holy Spirit Platinum Lion carries that tree seed, others can't use it to invade.
That [Paradise]. This can be said to be the best of both worlds ------ at least it seems so for now. Although Arthur cannot fully trust the Holy Spirit created by the church's technology until now, he has to admit that,
This lion is really doing a great job!
"Ouch!" the platinum lion roared again, seeming to have determined the location of the power furnace.
"Do you know where the power furnace is? Take us there quickly." Arthur said. This sentence was more likely to be addressed to other people besides the Platinum Lion.
Unexpectedly, the platinum lion not only did not lead everyone out of the room, but instead ran towards an unusually large tree in the center of the green area, and then slapped the tree with its palm.
"What are you doing?" Arthur looked confused.
However, the answer was soon revealed. After the platinum lion slapped him several times, the giant tree gradually collapsed, revealing a dark thing inside the hollow trunk.
This is a portal...?
In other words, it should be something like a space crack. In short, it can function as a portal.
Arthur gradually got a clue. The power room of Skid Plattney's Ark might not have been displaced, but was just hidden in another space. Although he didn't know how it was done, in ancient times
The technology of the gods and humans is already at a level that is far beyond the comprehension of humans.
Before others could react, the Holy Spirit Platinum Lion jumped into the space crack.
"Reno! Don't, don't walk so fast!" Elaine was anxious and jumped in too.
"I have seen a lot of strange things in my life, but I have seen more strange things in the past few days than I have seen in my entire life combined..." Goff also sighed and jumped in after Elaine.
"That power furnace... can it stop the church's plan after it stops?" Joan of Arc was still hesitating whether to jump into that inexplicable space crack. She turned to ask Arthur.
"What exactly is the church's plan, and does it have anything to do with you?" Arthur asked back: "Greenville, it's time for you to wake up by now, right? You said you would stay in this era to save France, you
You did it. France has won the War of Independence and signed a peace treaty with England. Your historical mission has been completed, and Joan of Arc is no longer needed in this era. So what are you going to do next? Destroy the church? Purge humanity.
All the evil in the world? You can't save everyone in the world, Greenville. You don't belong to this era, and you have interfered enough with this era. When this is over, you should go home with me.
."
Jeanne showed a troubled expression.
"Then promise me. Even if there is no way to expel the Pope from Paradise, at least we must prevent the tree seeds from falling into the hands of the Son of Man. This is the most important task we must complete before we leave." She sighed:
"That is not the [paradise] that humans should have. If we leave it alone, I am sure that humans will destroy themselves because of this."
"I understand. I will get the tree seed back. I will seal it in a place that humans cannot reach. Then you are satisfied." Arthur said, jumping into the space crack.
So hot.
As soon as he crossed the space rift, Arthur felt an inexplicable burning sensation.
The power room of Skid Plattney's Ark was indeed in front of Arthur, but it looked different from the power room in Arthur's imagination and memory. It was surrounded by a gray, almost infinite area.
space.
The so-called hadron fusion power furnace is running at an astonishingly high speed. The flywheel on it rotates so fast that it is almost impossible to catch it with the naked eye. It emits dangerous and dazzling bright light all the time.
"Your Majesty...this, this is?" Elaine asked in a low voice.
"The power furnace is out of control." Arthur groaned: "And its overloaded and out-of-control state seems to have been going on for quite a long time."
The King of Knights took a deep breath: "This thing is very unstable and will explode at any time. It is a miracle that it can continue to run for such a long time." (To be continued)