Book 9: Chapter 36: Relics
“Relics?” Qin Lun’s eyes flickered lightly as he swiftly calculated in his mind.
The trade offered to him by Anpu, the husband of the young couple, was actually a piece of information. Before the Battle of London began, the Vatican’s Papal Chamber still had a cooperative relationship with the British, as both belonged to the Allied Forces camp.
Anpu and his wife belonged to the Grimm Academy story faction, while Tietuo’s group was part of the Vatican faction. In truth, the main missions of these two teams were also competitive. Tietuo’s group needed to protect Buckingham Palace. Anpu and his wife, however, were acting on Vatican orders to join forces with the Mobile Crusaders and break the British’s last line of defense.
Of course, after receiving news of the Reincarnator invasion, the storyline missions of all the Apostles became irrelevant; they now faced a more direct enemy. There were quite a few Vatican agents like Anpu and his wife hidden in Buckingham Palace and Hyde Park, mostly spies and cannon fodder deployed by the Papal Chamber before the battle.
After entering this world, Anpu and his wife had also completed several smaller tasks to be included in the Vatican’s invasion plan. To the Vatican, they were merely pawns. To Anpu and his wife, it was just a routine Apostle mission.
However, even as disposable pieces, the couple learned some valuable intelligence inaccessible to outsiders. For this Ninth Crusade, the Papal Chamber deployed not only three major Superhuman knight orders in terms of military strength, but also brought in some Ascetic Monks from the Chamber of Thorns to join the fight.
The Ascetic Monks of the Chamber of Thorns represented the Vatican’s elite combat force. Anpu and his wife learned through various pre-war sources that, to secure ultimate victory, the monks had also brought two or three Relics this time.
The leaders of the Papal Chamber understood that attacking Britain under these circumstances would provoke hostility from other Superhuman organizations. They might even face direct confrontation from the Avengers Alliance and the Grimm Academy during the war.
Therefore, these Relics were their final trump card. If the war could end swiftly, nations worldwide would still tacitly accept the Vatican’s victory. After all, to the international community, the Vatican’s war against London was not secular, but a religious conflict.