Creed of the heavens

From the middle of the upper part of the pope's staff, one can clearly see a circular hollow. Lu Xiao speculates that this place should be used to place the Golden Apple of Eden, and only when the two are combined into one can they be combined into a complete key.

"call out"

The sharp whistle from outside the window awakened Lu Xiao, who was a little out of his mind. This was the signal agreed upon by the assassin who was on guard after the break, and it meant that a large number of enemies were coming.

Withdrawing her divergent thoughts, Lu Xiao focused all her attention on the church.

The interior of the Sistine Chapel is very large. Due to the regulations of the Catholic Church, the paladins of the Holy See who were armed to the teeth guarded the periphery of the inner court. Only hundreds of priests and bishops with high status were left in the central chapel.

Only Rodrigo, who is the pope, stood beside two heavily armored warriors on the left and right.

start to act.

Lu Xiao confirmed the situation in the chapel, and gestured to signal Ezio and Federico.

The two young assassins of the Auditore family jumped out from the beam one after the other. Federico, who was the first, threw down the heavily armored guard on the left, and pierced his neck with the sharp Hidden Blade without hesitation.

Ezio, who landed later, ignored the guards on the right, and another group of assassins attacked almost simultaneously, clearing away the last guards in front of Rodrigo.

Rodrigo was in danger. He had already expected that someone would launch an attack in the chapel. When Ezio quickly approached him, the Pope's staff in Rodrigo's hand suddenly fell to the ground.

"Boom!"

The spreading sound waves made Ezio's brain dizzy for a moment, and Federico, who was about to stand up, also staggered a step.

"Well!"

Lu Xiao, who was still squatting on the beam, also felt the dull pain in his head. The Eden Golden Apple hanging on his waist sent a stream of clear water to his brain, which greatly relieved Lu Xiao's discomfort.

The Auditore brothers who had the blood of the first civilization only felt the swelling pain in their brains, and the other three assassins were not so lucky.

The three people who had just killed the guard on the right fell to the ground screaming, and Lu Xiao could clearly see some kind of energy flow on them through eagle eye vision converging towards the Pope's staff that glowed white in Rodrigo's hand .

Absorb life force?

"Assassins who are overconfident, I have already guessed that you will launch an attack today!"

Rodrigo swung the pope's staff horizontally, and the energy ripples spreading from the staff knocked Ezio and Federico into the air at the same time, and the two fell into the monks of the church in a panic.

Not only the three assassins who attacked Rodrigo fell down screaming, but the hundreds of monks present were also writhing on the ground clutching their heads in pain.

Except for Rodrigo, the manipulator of the pope's staff, only Ezio and Federico, who were knocked into the air, could barely move.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Lu Xiao stretched his arm armor forward, and shot the poisonous crossbow arrow in his left hand and the sleeve gun bullet in his right hand at Rodrigo at the same time.

"clang!"

All of Lu Xiao's long-range attacks were blocked by the invisible stance around Rodrigo's body.

However, judging from Rodrigo's panting appearance, even if he absorbed the vitality of more than 100 people present, using the pope's staff would still place a greater burden on him.

Seeing that the long-range attack was useless, Lu Xiao jumped off the beam, and with the soothing effect of the golden apple, helped Ezio and Federico who had fallen to the ground.

"It seems that the pope's staff will have a negative effect on people within a certain range. Only those who hold the golden apple can completely resist its power."

Lu Xiao looked up at Rodrigo, who was panting with his staff: "You two take the others out of the range of the artifact first, and I will deal with Rodrigo."

Ezio and Federico also knew that they would not be useful for the time being, so they endured their headaches to help the three assassin companions up, stepped over the fallen monks and guards, and retreated to the outside of the church.

Rodrigo looked up at Lu Xiao with his staff on his head: "Assassin, the treasure in the secret room belongs to the Templars, hand over the golden apple, and I can spare you."

Lu Xiao shook her head with a smile: "What are you talking about in your sleep? Do you think you have won?"

"Ah." Rodrigo deliberately showed a dazed look: "It seems that you still don't know the true function of the Pope's staff. You don't think it only has the ability to absorb life force?"

"clang!"

Roderick turned the staff around, pointed the head of the staff at the ground and slammed it violently, and the invisible positional fluctuations erupted outwards centered on the staff.

Lu Xiao hurriedly lowered her body weight, and her feet on the bright red carpet slid back about one meter under the thrust of the staff.

"Nice ability."

Lu Xiao narrowed her eyes and looked at Rodrigo, and inspired the Pope's staff to make Rodrigo bend over and cough: "I want to see, do you dare to suck up all the vitality of your subordinates and turn them into attack power?" .”

Lu Xiao's words hit Rodrigo's sore spot.

If all the monks and paladins present died here, Rodrigo's subordinates would be unavailable for a long time, and he would become a bare pope with no authority.

But if he didn't absorb the vitality of the people present, Rodrigo couldn't continue to maintain the power of the pope's staff.

"Make your choice, Rodrigo."

Lu Xiao held the golden apple in her left hand, and pointed Da Vinci's modified sleeve gun at Rodrigo with her right hand.

"Striving to be an empty pope that no one can use and resisting to the end, or putting down the pope's staff and continuing to live a life of prosperity and wealth in the future, the choice is in your hands."

Rodrigo's eyes flickered, obviously this dilemma made him unable to make up his mind for a while.

"Since you can't make a choice for the time being"

"Oh!"

The Hidden Gun fired three shots in a row, and all the pocket bullets flying out along the rifling hit the invisible stand made by the Pope's staff.

Although he failed to injure Rodrigo, the impact of the three bullets further weakened his control. Rodrigo staggered and almost fell to the ground.

Unlike being captured last time, the importance of the Chamber of Secrets to the Knights Templar is by no means comparable to the intelligence of some artifacts of Eden. Even Rodrigo, who is greedy for power, dare not give up on this.

Seeing Rodrigo standing up again with his body braced, Lu Xiao understood his choice.

Recalcitrant to the end? Then don't blame me.

Pulling out the Holy Sword of Eden brought back from France from his waist, Lu Xiao poured almost all his magic power into it, and the surface of the holy sword began to emit a hazy golden light.

Rodrigo looked at the weapon in Lu Xiao's hand with surprise on his face: "Is that the Holy Sword of Eden?!"

"Yes, your resistance will stop here!"

"boom!"

As Lu Xiao held up the holy sword with both hands and slashed down, under the echo of the sacred voice that could be faintly heard, a bright golden energy flow spanned the distance between the two, and hit hard on the invisible barrier created by the pope's staff .

How does it look a bit like the light effect of Excaribur, although the momentum is much weaker.

"jingle"

There was a clear and crisp cracking sound, and the protection built by the pope's staff was like paper, torn apart by the stream of light from the holy sword without hindrance.