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At midnight arrived the warriors of Kristos Lucifer in front the ancient capital of the
Hermics; two Knights carry the pennants of France and of the Church. Nicholas Conti guided
them to a door in the wall that has been opened from inside and all rush to the scream of: «Die
Boniface! Long live the King of France!». The horsemen, followed by the infantry, are deployed
in many groups by the narrow and declivitous carriageway. They go right whither are erected
the sumptuous palaces, that belonged to the Cardinals and the Pope, and many Churches of
splendid ornamentation. The commandant of the papal guard joins, with a part of his own, to
the intruder forces and the siege to the palace of Boniface VIII begins, who scarcely disposes of
a few men to resist. For one time, the history was inverted: the argument is the same, the
personages similar; is the fight of the Spirit against the Potencies of the Matter, the King of the
Blood against the Golem Priests, of the representatives of the Pact of Blood against the ones of
the Cultural Pact; but this time the King of Blood is who triumphs over the Golem Priest, over
the exterminators of the Pure Blood, over the Crusade proclaimers against the Hyperborean
Wisdom. Inside of the sumptuous residence, the pride of Boniface collapses. See him there,
trembling and crying as a woman, the Golem Demon who pretended to prevail over the
charisma of the King of the Blood! Perhaps he is not crying because of the tragedy but for the
future punishment that his Lord will impose him, the Supreme Priest Melchizedek, and the
Masters of the White Fraternity.
The dwellers of the Anagni, to all this, arouse with the surprise that their city is been
occupied by troops of the King of France. Someone makes the bell tolls calling to reunion and
all the families run towards the town square of the market; the news are overwhelming: Sciarra
Colonna has come with a battalion provided by the King of France and surely he will kill the
Pope. Godfrey Busso has passed to the enemy side and the City has remained unprotected.
Rapidly, in the midst of a great confusion they name chief to Adenulfo Conti. He,
accompanied with some neighborhoods, previously elected amongst the followers of the
Colonna’s and the Conti’s, leaves to parley with the raiders. He talks with Reynold Supino and
returns immediately; he assures with vehemence that would be impossible to resist the
«Frenchs», who have already looted the palaces of the Cardinals: only rests the possibility to
join them and to share the booty. Desperate, the Guelphs begins the pillage, stealing beside the
Ghibellines the Cardinal and papal palace. There, artworks of incalculable value would
disappear, treasures of the antiquity, a rich crockery of gold and silver; each one takes what
they want and can take with them. Some of them discover the warehouses, in charge to satisfy
the exquisite palates of the cardinals and to calm their inextinguishable thirst, and promptly
the bottles pass from hand to hand. During the day, few would be the anagnians who have not
stolen or get drunk; no one dares to walks through the streets and the city remains under the
total control of the scarcely men of Nogaret.
While the nocturnal pillage took place, and the population was being entertained in that
barbarous task, a feverous warrior activity emerged in the surroundings of the palace of
Boniface, who, conscious that with his reduced guard could not resist for a long time, tried to
arrange an agreement with the besiegers; his legacy received the conditions: to surrender
without capitulation, to lift the excommunication of Philip the Fair, to rehabilitate the
Colonna’s, and to concur as prisoner to France to be judged in the Council. When Boniface
received the terms, he refuses to accept and he remained plunged in desperation: he just
dressed with the Golem papal investiture and awaited his enemies seated in the Throne.

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