Fula City in Lanzhou is heavily guarded today. All city guards have gathered, all city gates are closed, and all kinds of war machines are turned on.
From a distance, Fula City looks like an alert hedgehog, exposing all its weapons to the outside world while simultaneously protecting itself.
Various city crossbows, bed crossbows and even trebuchets, as well as individual bows and arrows, made the city wall almost impossible to approach.
In the city, there are many knights patrolling around the city, always paying attention to any danger.
The safest place in Fula City is an ancient castle. This castle is the aristocratic castle of the first generation lord of Fula City, and Fula City relied on this castle to be built.
Now the castle is also well-defended. The castle is surrounded by a deep moat. Man-eating fish are kept in the river, so those who dare to enter from the water become food for these fish.
The only entrance to the castle is a drawbridge, which has been raised.
The closed door was covered with an iron sheet, and there were countless iron nails on the iron sheet, making the door even more solid and difficult to break through.
In fact, since the castle was built, it has been an invincible castle that has never been conquered.
Within the walls and courtyards of the castle, all the guardians are paladins.
These are the paladins arranged by the Holy Light Empire to protect Priest Connor. There are a hundred of them. In addition to the ten paladins brought by Priest Connor himself, there are as many as ten high-level paladins here. number.
For the safety of Priest Connor, and because he was worried about the hidden power of the Wizards Guild in the Orchid Continent, all the nobles, servants, and original guards of this castle were driven away.
Fula City is the closest big city to where several priests have disappeared. It is for this reason that Emperor Harvey arranged for a hundred paladins to be brought in, and to make up the number of senior paladins to ten.
With such strength, it can sweep almost any force currently in Lan Continent, let alone just protect the priest Connor.
Of course, so many Paladins are not just to protect Priest Connor. They also have a more important task, which is to find the attackers and kill them if they can't capture them alive.
Priest Connor was a little restless, a mentality that had almost never appeared since he became a priest.
But today, after he saw the Paladin who came to protect him and learned the reason, he felt a strong sense of uneasiness.
If it weren't for Emperor Harvey's order, he would have the urge to leave Fula City.
"Lord Connor, don't worry, if the attacker comes, he won't be able to escape!" Priest Connor's senior guardian paladin said softly from the side.
Having fought against the wizard, he had absolute confidence in fighting the wizard. The wizard's originally terrifying 'teleportation' lost its effect in front of the senior paladin's 'holy freeze'.
At least until the wizards didn't come up with the aura halo to deal with this kind of range-wide freezing slowdown, the senior paladin could suppress any wizard in Lan Continent.
The high-ranking wizard is now like a rat crossing the street.
In his opinion, the lost priests were just a helpless revenge for the escaped wizards from the Wizards Guild. Because they could not really harm the Holy Light Empire, they took it out on the priests scattered all over the place.
This situation may still be successful if the Holy Light Empire is not prepared. Once prepared, the incoming wizards will die.
"Then it's all up to you!" Priest Connor couldn't help but feel better after hearing the comforting words. He said with a smile.
But just as he finished speaking, he saw all the paladins in the entire hall kneeling on the ground, not just in the castle hall, but also in the castle courtyard and on the castle walls.
Then from the darkness of the hall, two hooded wizards walked out.
"Yes, separating ordinary people saves me a lot of trouble!" Naturally, it was Abel and Frankenstein who came here, Abel said with a smile.
He noticed on the War Fortress that his target was in the castle, and that all the defenders in the castle were paladins, whose numbers were much higher than the clergy he had encountered before.
He knew in his heart that the Holy Light Empire probably knew about his attack and was waiting for him.
It is not easy to conceal the attack by the clergy unless he kills all the relevant people in the city who know about the clergy every time he goes to a city.
He is not a person who is easy to kill, especially these ordinary people.
Besides, there is no difference to him whether there are more Paladins or less Paladins.
"Who are you? Did you kill all those priests?" Priest Connor asked loudly.
Although he screamed loudly, his trembling voice showed that he lacked confidence.
As soon as the two hooded wizards appeared, all the paladins lost their ability to act independently and could only kneel on the ground, not even daring to raise their heads. This ability was beyond his imagination.
"The Holy Light Empire should not betray the Wizards Guild or the world!" Abel said in a deep voice.
He stretched out his hand and a white electric arc flashed in his hand, and 'telekinesis' was activated, heading towards the head of Priest Connor.
But at this moment, a figure flashed out from behind Priest Connor, and the knight's sword in his hand slashed at Abel with the power of the fire element.
Abel did not dodge or stop the telekinesis in his hand, and there was a crisp sound from the head of Priest Connor.
At this time, the 'Revenge' combat skill in the hands of the senior paladin who suddenly appeared was already in front of Abel. Just when he was about to attack Abel, a hand stretched out and grabbed the knight's sword.
A horrified look flashed in the eyes of the senior paladin. He never thought that anyone could catch the attack of the knight's advanced combat skill 'Revenge' with his hands.
Even if the wizard in front of him used 'teleportation' to get out of the way, or used defensive spells to stun him, nothing like this behavior surprised him.
"Interesting, it's another research object!" Abel looked at the senior paladin with a smile, as if he was looking at an experimental object with interest.
The senior paladin tried hard to take back the knight's sword, but found that the power in that hand was far beyond his. Even though he tried hard several times, he could not make the knight's sword move at all.
He immediately let go and stepped back, and at the same time the 'Holy Freeze' on his body was turned on. Facing such a terrifying enemy, he just wanted to use 'Holy Freeze' to slow it down. As long as he rushed to the teleportation circle of the castle, he would be able to do it. Get away from here.
At this moment, a strong suppressive force came from Abel, and the rule wizard's aura instantly enveloped the senior paladin. The newly formed 'holy ice' aura of aura disappeared as soon as it took effect. .
Abel looked at this senior paladin with a level of 19, and he was full of curiosity. This senior paladin was like the priest, unable to form a channel of faith with him.
This prevents him from using the 'Crystal Angel Statue' to directly affect it. Of course, the ability hidden behind Priest Connor is probably some special method of Lan Dalu.
This did not make him too surprised. Many great nobles had this secret method. In order to protect important people, the guards could be completely hidden in the darkness without disturbing the life of the protected person.
Abel's mental power scanned the senior paladin and found that it had obvious traces of God's gift.
If it were someone else, they might not be able to accurately find out whether it was a gift from God, but he had many experiences of being gifted by God, so he could naturally tell that it was a gift from God.
It turns out that after being gifted by God, the Paladin will not be affected by non-God-given people, even if the non-God-given person is a god.
This result made him very happy, because in this case, his two thousand paladins will only be his paladins. Even if the demons from outside wake up, they will only kill them at most, but not affect them.
This 19th-level senior paladin is the first batch of paladin of Emperor Harvey. Emperor Harvey sent him here because he has special hiding methods.
It can deliver the most unexpected and fatal blow to the enemy when needed.
"By the way, deal with these!" Abel was about to take the senior paladin away, but then he thought of the paladin kneeling on the ground all around.
He lightly snapped his fingers with his right hand, and the Paladins who were kneeling on the ground fell directly to the ground, losing their life breath.
Although the senior paladin could not move, he could still see what was happening in front of him, and his eyes were full of disbelief.
This kind of control over life chilled him, knowing that the one who died was a paladin who he thought could be stronger than the wizard.
You must know that when the Paladin attacked the wizard's guild headquarters, the wizard's counterattack was not very strong, which made him think that the Paladin is the most powerful profession in the world.
But right before his eyes, the life of the professional paladin he considered to be the most powerful died with a snap of his fingers.
Abel nodded towards Frankenstein, and then his spiritual power enveloped the senior paladin and disappeared from the castle.
The 'telekinesis' in Frankenstein's hand flashed, and he put away the 'light stones' left behind after the death of one hundred and ten paladins in the castle.
Then he continued to draw the 'Meteorite' spell with both hands at the same time. He cast dozens of 'Meteorite' spells in succession, and then disappeared into the castle without looking at the results.
The knights patrolling Fula City and the residents of the city saw a scene that looked like the end of the world.
Dozens of huge 'meteorites' fell from the sky, hitting the castle with a long history.
Frankenstein, a rules wizard who has mastered the rules of the fire system, when using the strongest attack spell of the fire system, with the bonus of the rune language equipment on his body, his attack power is more powerful than that of a level 23 rules wizard.
At the same time, dozens of 'meteorite' spells were cast, and after hitting the castle heavily, they exploded quickly, and the flames engulfed the entire castle.
The flames ignited everything in the castle at the same time, and the so-called unbreakable castle was swallowed up by the flames.
The soulless corpses of the Paladins left in the castle were also burned to ashes by the flames.
Abel returned to the War Fortress. Looking at the souls of one hundred and ten more paladins and a book of inheritance in the 'Crystal Angel Statue', he felt that the harvest from this trip was very good.
He looked at the senior paladin who was brought back to the war fortress. He had not studied the torture information and was not good at it.
"Tell me, Harvey's current location?" he tried to ask.
Sure enough, even though the senior paladin was frightened by what he had just done, he kept his mouth tightly shut and did not say a word.
At this time, Abel thought of many torture methods, some of which he had heard of, and some of which he had watched TV in his previous life, but he was just thinking about it. It would be difficult for such a believer to ask anything from his mouth.
Although he doesn't know the location of Emperor Harvey now, he thinks that he will naturally find out as long as he asks the druid soul to check the content of the believers' prayers.
And if Emperor Harvey is killed now, then his men will flee in all directions. Do they need him to go one by one in cities and regions to find him
"It's better to find all the clergy first, and then go to Harvey!" Abel thought.
Since the high-level paladin has no purpose of existence, the last experiment is to kill it.
A flash of lightning flashed in Abel's hand, and the 'lightning' spell hit the senior paladin. The defenseless senior paladin was directly turned into charcoal by this 'lightning' spell.
He looked at the soul of the senior paladin flying up from its charred corpse and wanted to fly away, but how could the 'Crystal Angel Statue' that was so close to the soul let it go.
Yizuer stopped praying again, and with a wave of his hand, the soul that wanted to fly away was called into the 'Crystal Angel Statue'.
Abel's mental power swept through the soul of the senior paladin in the 'Crystal Angel Statue', but there was no way to find his memory.
Regarding the 'Crystal Angel Statue', his control ability is still too low-level, and even the souls who have become his followers cannot retrieve all the memories of his lifetime.
He originally thought that this senior paladin would be special because he was a god-given senior paladin, but in fact he still couldn't find it.
This high-level paladin is just like the soul of the paladin in the 'Crystal Angel Statue', there is no difference.
Abel could only collect the 'Light Stone' from the corpse of the senior paladin and destroy it. Although it was the corpse of a 19th-level senior paladin, it did not reach the level of a fanatical knight, so its corpse had no effect on him.
At this time Frankenstein also returned to the war fortress and handed over the harvest to him.
Abel looked at the burning castle below the war fortress and shook his head. These paladins were actually poor people. They didn't know what the gods they believed in meant to the world.
The war fortress then flew over the temple's construction site. In the chaos, no one saw the inexplicable disappearance of precious materials.
In the chaos of Fula City, the War Fortress flew towards the next target point. Abel knew that the Holy Light Empire was already prepared and he was going to speed up.