Chapter 342: War against Church
The trio decided to pitch in the spiritual stones to transport the remaining people.
They might seem like doing a good deed, but there are some reasons for that, first one is they have to use the same space gate and the second one is they couldn't just enter Usaine sect's territory.
They don't know if the Beast faction has put a huge bounty on their heads and the six major powers although have some rivalries, in situations like this, they would help one another.
So, they decided to transport as many people as possible so that they can blend in with the people from this nation and since the Usaine sect will not care enough to inspect each and every one of the people that came, they have a higher chance of hiding.
So, the trio, Sam and the crown prince all five of them are at the Space-gate formation, making preparations to transport all the citizens.
The orders of the emperor are executed rapidly. All the troops assembled and are given a briefing about the weird qualities of the people from the church.
Everyone is a full-on war mode.
Even the mercenaries joined the fray and started making preparations. Only people at the Grand realm stage or above are stationed.
For some reason, the emperor felt that even this is going to be futile. So, they started sending people one after another. They completely crossed out the idea of defending or victory. Because, from what the trio explained, the emperor felt that the whole country is already within the Church's control.
Their nation is smaller than the western continent, only about one-third. But still, the number of people the church might have taken into control is not small, there is no way the emergency troops can take on that.
So, all these preparations are for only one thing, to buy enough time to take all the people away.
Two days later, almost all of the citizens are taken away, there are only troops are some more citizens left. Another two hours later, they could start evacuating the troops too.
But at this moment, there are some tremors on the ground and their hearts resonated with it.
All the citizens started to run towards the Space-gate and if not for the fact that the troops are present, there would have been real chaos.
The Emperor looked through the balcony he was in and got rooted to the spot.
There is an enormous crowd in the streets of the Imperial capital, all wearing white. There is a feeling of worship in everyone's eyes as they followed the person in the lead.
Many people in the group are wearing white masks and from what Emperor could see, they seemed to be normal cultivators, only people without masks are giving off a weird vibe.
The person in the lead is also wearing a mask, but it is not a white mask-like other, it is a golden mask with some patterns on it.
He is also a normal cultivator and he seemed to be a transcendent cultivator at that. The Emperor turned solemn as he looked at the advancing group.
After the crowd reached a few hundred meters away from the Palace, the one in the lead started speaking loudly.
"I am the Priest, who serves the 'Guide'. The Guide is the only one who can show the path of truth for us.
The Guide is the only one who can lead us to a fair world.
The Guide is the only one who can lead us to a just world.
The Guide is the only one who can lead us to a truly liberal world.
I am here representing the guide and asking you to join us on this great journey."
He spread his hands as he spoke. His voice is majestic and has some divine effect on it.
The crowd standing behind him started cheering as soon as he finished his small speech.
When the people in the Palace heard this, they didn't dare to slack off, they sped up the process of loading the spirit stones as the space gate was activated.
The Priest looked at the Emperor who is standing on the balcony of the palace and said one more time.
"Everyone, who doesn't join the Guide, will be considered a sinner and everyone, who is a sinner must be cleansed. So, please rethink and choose the path of truth."
This time, he even pointed at the emperor directly.
The rest of the crowd also pointed their fingers at the emperor and started calling him out.
"Sinner."
"Sinner."
"Sinner."
As the situation started to get rowdy, the troops are all on guard ready to fight.
The Priest is smirking behind his mask as he heard the chants of the crowd.
This is just him asking the emperor to surrender directly.
As for the guide and the truth, well it is great to use the higher ground to take the other party down.
After more than an hour of standby, the Priest once again spoke.
"I already gave you an excess of time, it seems like your hearts are completely rooted with evil, today, we will take this chance to eradicate the sinners within you by cleansing."
As he said that, he pointed towards the troops that are stationed at the front lines, and just like that the people in the white robes came running.
They don't have any order or any form of discipline.
They are like an extremely angry mob without any form of training.
"We shall cleanse."
"We shall cleanse."
"We shall Cleanse."
They started chanting as they made their move.
The Priest and the Emperor also came forward as they started making their own move, there was an extremely large empty space cleared just for them, the normal troops didn't even dare to stay in the vicinities.
Although there is no chance of winning for the troops with their numbers, their main aim was buying time and they are doing it perfectly.
But they are having an extremely hard time reducing the enemy numbers, their abnormal recovery rate and extreme suicidal attacks are a real threat to them.
"Nice to meet you again." The Priest said to the Emperor with a smile, although the emperor couldn't see that smile through the mask, he can still feel it.
"Are we acquainted?" Emperor frowned.
"Acquainted? More than that, I would say." He took off his mask for a second and when Emperor saw his face, he felt like the world lost all meaning.
"How are you guys capable of doing this?" He asked in an extremely tense tone.
"Hahahaha.." There is a lot more than we can do and you can do nothing to stop it."
With that, the fight between the Transcendent stage cultivators, both of them happened to be warriors and both of them wielded sabers.
The two transcendent stage cultivators, hacked at each other as the battle went on.
Meanwhile, the last batch of the citizens is just sent through the space gate. Philip sent a fire ball into the sky as a signal to the emperor.
"All troops, defend, and retreat."
The Emperor commanded and the troops started retreating carefully.
"Hahaha, where can you go, even if you decided to retreat? Do you think you can escape to the Usaine sect? I am sure that they wouldn't let all the troops with you.
Even if you go there, so what? We are going to take over the whole world and nobody can stop us, not even the six major powers.
We are going to take over the world. Hahahahahahaaaa…." He madly started laughing at this.
The Emperor suddenly took a step back and swung his saber at the white-robed mob who are engaged at the front line, a large saber ray cut straight through them as a gap appeared between them and the troops.
At this exact moment, the defensive formations activated immediately and the white-robed mob is a restricted entry into that.
The troops immediately ran towards the space-gate.
The space gate was being used a maximum capacity and luckily for them, it is a large space gate compared to the one at Orion.
The Priest was in a daze for a second, he really didn't expect that the emperor went on a full defensive mode.
He thought that he might have estimated wrongly and the Usaine sect might have accepted their refugee already.
That is because, he has no idea about neither the space gate that was connected to the island, nor does he know anything related to the island which was presented to the emperor by the Usiane sect.
If he had known this earlier, he would have definitely made enough preparations.
The Emperor took the core of the formation under his control as he made sure that no one will be able to cross the restrictions and come inside. He would need to halt them for at least four hours for the troops to leave this place.