The goal of the Ling people is to rescue their children, and the Kagadi people who plundered their relatives for gold and harvest will eventually pay the price.
However, only a fool would give up resistance. Kagad III was obviously not a fool.
He turned the church into a solid fortress in a very short time, but even so, the stained windows and various corridors that were supposed to show the splendor of the church but now became the enemy's invasion points became the defense gaps that he worked hard to plan.
There must be more people to fill the front line, and we must hold out until reinforcements arrive—
Count Kagaard grabbed the collars of the mage and the remaining priest followers in desperation, forcing them to help stop the stone giant's attack.
But this is not an easy thing to do.
Leaving aside the priest's followers, the mage's tearful situation cannot be alleviated by words.
Just as the Roman Empire understood mages—as the only geniuses who could compete with priests who possessed the power of God, mages relied on "magic power" to release all magic.
Now that the portal has been destroyed and the magic power in Kagad's territory has been almost burned to ashes by the destruction of the portal, the mage is simply unable to provide any help!
"If those antlers were still there, I might be able to use them to control the surrounding magic residues." The wizard struggled with tears in his eyes, trying to get Count Kagad to let go of his hand quickly.
"But the problem is that those antlers have been sold to the parish. There is not a single one left! Even if I restore my magic power as quickly as possible, I still can't cast even one fireball before dawn!"
"What about the priest's followers? What about you? Are you not devoted enough to the God of Light at this moment? Why can't you master the divine power like the priest?!"
"Because not everyone can become a priest!" The priest's followers also looked desperate. "We followers simply cannot master lethal divine arts. To put it bluntly, the believers outside the church are being slaughtered, and our divine power is gradually fading—"
Priest, very powerful.
But the strength of a pastor is built on his followers.
Generally speaking, the range of a priest's spells is proportional to the number of believers around him - the more believers there are, the larger the range of the priest's spells, and the higher the lethality of the spells.
Although the priest's release of divine spells will only consume physical strength and the power of the god he believes in, at most there will be times when he has to stop and rest -
But unless it is in the place where God appears, once the number of believers begins to decline rapidly, even the most powerful leader will not be able to release powerful divine arts.
The wizard relied on magic, and the priest relied on believers. But now, the former had lost their magic, and the latter's believers had lost their priests. Count Kagaard was left with only flesh and blood and swords, and only a few timid guards, policemen, and militiamen holding dung forks were left to fight against the incoming giants.
How should we fight this?! Who is attacking Kagad Town?! Where is their commander
If Earl Kagaard were given a chance, he would surrender immediately, even if it meant turning all the people under Earl Kagaard into slaves. As long as he could surrender and save his life, everything would be fine.
But for Earl Kagaard's people, they will not stop their current atrocities regardless of whether Earl Kagaard surrenders or not.
The stone giant was getting closer and closer to the cellar where the sacrifices were held.
Some tried to escape underground, as the stone giants seemed unable to fit into the narrow space.
Some crazy believers still stubbornly believed that as long as they pulled out the sacrifices and immediately offered them to the God of Light, their great God would then send down his power to slaughter all the stone giants.
But when they rushed to the entrance of the cellar, unlocked the door and pushed it hard, they found that the door was blocked from the inside? !
"Open the door! Open the door! If you don't open the door, we will die outside!"
Some believers pretended to be women in need of refuge. In fact, she was indeed a woman, but the sickle in her hand made her disguise look extremely poor.
"Open the door! Open the door!"
Some believers simply kicked the door with their big feet, but the door was not kicked open. Instead, the action of kicking the door attracted the stone giant who was searching the street not far away.
The stone giant's slow approach made them even more panicked. Instead of begging for mercy, they even took out a big wooden hammer from somewhere and kept hitting the wooden door leading to the cellar.
As a result, just as a gap was created and before they had time to be happy about it, salt and fragments of bowls and chopsticks were thrown out from inside, causing the person in the front to cover his eyes and retreat screaming.
"Fuck you, you beasts!" Doctor Joseph roared in anger from inside, "You shameless bastards! A bunch of ungrateful barbarians, a bunch of beasts who repay kindness with grievances! You just die outside! Don't even think about coming in!"
"Please! Those monsters are coming! If you don't open the door, no one will survive!"
A farmer turned around and looked at the stone giant who was less than 50 meters away in despair. He knelt down and kowtowed to the entrance of the cellar: If the people inside didn't open the door and let them in, they would be doomed! "Please - please!"
"You were planning to burn us to death tomorrow. We were already doomed to fail. Now I'm more than happy to drag you down with me!"
Negotiation was impossible. All these lunatics could do was to continue to pick up hammers and try to break down the door.
But how can this be so easy
Even if the wooden door was knocked open, the obstacle of pots and pans inside still allowed only one person to crawl in and out.
Even if someone outside tried to climb in, he would be greeted by a barrage of various farm tools or cooking utensils.
Not to mention that Joseph's clever wife also found a pottery plate in the cellar. After breaking the plate, she combined the cooking utensils with the triangular plate fragments into a pistol, and stood on the side of the cellar entrance.
Whenever someone came in, she would use all her strength to stab the spear tip into the neck or armpit. If there was a chance, she would stab several times in a row to make sure the person was dead, then stop and rest, panting, and let a demon who looked healthier take over.
Having followed her husband in practicing medicine for many years, even as a woman she knew the fatal parts of the human body.
After paying the price of several corpses, a believer of the Church of Light who had been struggling to crawl into the cellar entrance suddenly crashed into the cellar, hit the ground, and was crushed into a meat paste by external force.
Mr. Joseph was unable to dodge and was covered in the scarlet sauce. He didn't understand what happened, but when he turned his head to look at the entrance of the cellar, he saw not those hideous believers, but a huge stone hand.
The demons cried out in joy upon seeing this, and the big hand dug the entrance to the cellar, and soon dug out a path for people to pass normally.
A demon who looked similar to the one next to Mr. Joseph, but had antlers on his head, jumped down from outside.
When she saw her fellow tribesmen, she was delighted at first, but when she noticed the missing things on their heads, the anger in her eyes grew stronger and stronger, and when it seemed that the three humans in the cellar would be affected—
The victims in the cellar were mumbling something that Joseph couldn't understand at all. Just as he and his wife and daughter were trembling and hugging each other, the demon who came from the ground nodded to him and said in the difficult common language:
"You are not bad people. Follow us. Humans..."
"Who... who are you? Who commanded this attack?"
Joseph breathed a sigh of relief, but was still wary of this - it was not his fault, his faith had been torn to pieces by the people he had promised to protect, so how could he trust them unconditionally while bringing his wife and daughter with him
"We are the Ling tribe. We are led by the tribe leader and the humans."
"Human?"
The demon who claimed to be a member of the Ling tribe nodded. After thinking for a while, she said a name that shocked Joseph:
"Her name is Yang Hao. He's a good man."
"Yang, Yang Hao?!"
When he heard the name, Joseph was stunned for a moment.
Then his voice suddenly rose three verses: "Your Majesty?! Your Majesty the Regent?!"
In the entire Roman Empire, there is only one person named Yang Hao.
He really did come back... like lightning!
Joseph hugged his wife and daughter and cried, but he soon calmed down, wiped the sauce off his face with his clothes, and then tidied up his clothes.
"I see. Let's go."
He held his head high, and with his wife and daughter, he followed the Ling people out of the cellar where they had been imprisoned for a long time.
…
After entering the city, Nalujia behind Yang Hao was stunned for a moment, her antlers flashing yellow light.
"The children have been rescued. Three humans were also rescued."
"Three humans?"
Yang Hao just looked at the church in the distance, which was being used as the last bastion to resist.
"How can there be humans?"
"The children said it was a doctor who tried to save them—and he was sent in with his family. Is this someone you know?"
"Perhaps. But now is not the time for a reunion."
He smacked his lips as he watched Golem hurling a huge foundation stone dug out from the ruins of a nearby building like a cannonball.
The stone bullet hit the church tower. With a loud roar, the tower collapsed.
The church's bell tower fell all the way down and finally relied on gravity and weight to smash the inner wall, smashed down the high-rise platform that was still shooting useless arrows, smashed down the internal organ that released a harsh tone, and finally completely smashed down the dome that was crumbling due to the golem's attack, burying almost all the humans inside alive, and then it fell to the ground.
Inside the ruins of the bell tower, the church bell, which had miraculously remained intact, rang out long notes one after another as it swayed.
The last stronghold of Kagad has been lost.
And now…
It was 11:47 p.m.
Chapter 26: The Massacre at Kagad
When Earl Kagad was dug out of the rubble by a huge stone hand while he was in a daze, there was no living person around him.
Theresa ran away with the two golems and the Ling people to who knows where, and Yang Hao was happy that Theresa left temporarily - because he was going to do something horrible later.
He didn't want Theresa to see what was going to happen. So he was glad that Theresa left.
However, there are still some things that Yang Hao hasn't figured out.
After all, the crime of "massacre" could not be so easily pinned on him.
This must have happened for sure before it would be recorded locally and then be regarded as a crime to be pinned on him.
He could not be accused of a massacre that had not taken place. No one would be so stupid.
In other words, the charge of genocide against him was real, but he was not the executioner—although it didn't matter now.
But Yang Hao felt that he needed to find out. At least he had to know who had massacred the Kagad people before.
Or who the Kagads had slaughtered previously.
…
At the same time, Theresa was humming a song while searching around the church that had turned into ruins with Golem and two members of the Listening Tribe.
She knew that Yang Hao would definitely do something horrible next, so in order not to make things difficult for him, she had to find an excuse to leave.
It's just...
“This man is really... Alas, it was the same when I was forced to leave home by the little witch. Even though he involved me in such a thing, he still thought, "It's okay as long as I didn't see it"
I really don't know whether to call her innocent or stupid... But come to think of it? The little witch of love has been in love with him for so long and she hasn't even kissed him or anything like that? Oh. "
Theresa has been feeling troubled, as Yang Hao seemed to be treating her as someone who "needs care".
Although she was happy about this, Theresa was also very angry: Princess Purple was not such a delicate person! And she didn't want to be the one being pampered.
She wanted to be the one that supported each other.
Because of this, she was extremely troubled. And because of this, she supported all the decisions made by Yang Hao—
Because her man had indeed accumulated too much pressure, not to mention that the Kagadians... had problems to begin with.
(Given their extremely skilled actions of rushing into the forest and robbing the Ling people, who would believe that they had never done something like this before?)
Theresa turned around to glance at the Ling people, and then looked at the corpses scattered around: "In other words, there must have been a "massacre" in Kagad before... But I don't need to worry about this. What I need to worry about now is how to buy time for the next evacuation to the Elf Kingdom."
Only a fool would pin his hopes on the possibility that the enemy's main force hadn't noticed us - what had they done? They had taken a major town in the earldom and probably killed more than 30% of the people there
If the Roman Empire's army does not respond in this situation, then the empire will probably perish within half a year...
Therefore, under the premise of being certain that the enemy will definitely catch up to the door, how to delay the enemy's stay in Kagad Town as much as possible is a good science.
What to do
Theresa was a little distressed. At this moment, she noticed that there seemed to be someone alive not far away.
"Oh?"
Looking closer, they seemed to be followers of the priest of the Church of Light.
Theresa walked forward with interest and squatted about two meters away from the entourage.
She signaled the Ling people to control the golem to pick up the follower, and when the golem approached, the follower who was lying on the ground pretending to be dead began to tremble like a sieve.
"Please, spare me—"
As he was being picked up, the attendant begged, and the dagger he was holding tightly in his hand fell from the sky, but he still did not let go of the holy book that was of vital importance to the clergy.
Theresa looked at the attendant and suddenly realized something.
For the Roman Empire, which is now divided into factions, the "Kajiad Massacre" incident is destined to be a responsibility that no faction will take the initiative to assume.
In other words - if the Roman Empire's army and the parish's crusaders could collide in Kagad Town, and a terrible incident was still happening in the town...
Then the Roman Empire would be filled with endless arguments over "whose fault is this?" and they might not even rescue the survivors in the town because they have to find someone to take the blame first.
This is not a serious matter that can be brushed aside simply by putting the blame on His Majesty the Regent.