They even filmed the priest. It was like a gang of high school hooligans reporting the most marginalized person to the class teacher in order to protect themselves. Had the highest commander of the Northern Expeditionary Force even attacked his own officers
But we have to admit that it is indeed very effective.
With the help of elven magic, Yang Hao could clearly see the infantrymen holding their shields high and rushing into the trenches under the rain of arrows.
Many of them even lost their balance when jumping into the trench and fell to the ground. They didn't even have time to struggle before being trampled to death by the people above.
All the dead believers turned into stone. This special magic created an ever-extending "bridge" for the Northern Expeditionary Force along the middle route of the trench.
Although the stone bridge can only support a hundred people marching in formation at the same time, and although the length of the stone bridge is less than half the width of the trench - it is enough.
Its "construction speed" is faster than the speed at which the elves and ancient trees dig trenches. Once the "bridge" is connected to the other end of the trench, it means that the decisive day for the Northern Expeditionary Force to launch a general attack on itself has arrived.
"It's terrifying. Why would their people be willing to do such crazy things for a god?"
Fen frowned on the side. Before Yang Hao could answer, the nun who was praying silently on the other side sighed:
"After all, hallucinogenic drugs, combined with the whip of faith, and some divine arts such as "courage" - with the blessing of a large number of believers providing huge divine power, even an eight-year-old child has the courage to raise a sword and charge at a dragon."
"Can hallucinogenic drugs really allow humans to do this?"
"Some people even have to rely on other people's men to talk when they eat every day. She can't even quit such a small thing, let alone highly addictive hallucinogenic drugs."
"Hehe... I can understand that. After all, there are people who keep saying they want to abandon the God they believe in."
“Same here.”
There was a flash of lightning between the two women, but Yang Hao just frowned and watched the believers turned into stones on the ground in the rain of arrows, and then the priest lost his believers and was shot to death by the rifleman.
He watched as the priest's body turned into hard stones that were almost indestructible. Then he looked thoughtfully at the northern expeditionary camp in the distance and said:
"It seems that the priest did not die voluntarily, but was forced by someone of higher class and status than him... Theresa? What exactly are those petrification spells? And I want to ask, is there an absolute superior-subordinate relationship in the clergy system?"
"Ah? You're asking that?"
Theresa blinked, a hint of joy and helplessness flashing in her eyes: "If I remember correctly, the petrification magic should be a variant of the high-level magic called "Stone Armor" in the magic system of the "Church of Light" -
However, after usurping the throne, the barbarians did not seem to have fully acquired all the systems of light. Not only did they know nothing about healing magic, they could only use the "Stone Armor Technique" to increase the weight of corpses after improvements. It could be said that it was very rubbish.
However... there are some commonalities. "Stone Armor" is a range-covering group-enhancing divine spell that can only be used by bishop-level clergy in the Bayerzas Empire, and he must have at least 100,000 believers around him to provide him with divine power.
In other words, the one who is now casting the petrification spell on these poor people is also a bishop.
Moreover, this kind of magic not only consumes a large amount of divine power, but more importantly, it will cause huge physical exhaustion to the bishop himself.
When it comes to bishops, we must mention the hierarchy of clergy - although there is no absolute hierarchical relationship in our system, the orders given by senior clergy to junior clergy are highly binding.
To put it in a more popular way, you know you don’t have to obey your mother’s orders, but if your mother asks you to buy apples one day, you still have to pay for a bag of apples out of your own pocket.”
"oh… "
Theresa's explanation made Yang Hao fall into deep thought.
This divine spell can only be released by a bishop. Not to mention the huge cost to the bishop, it is probably flawed as it can only be released on corpses... Is it really that simple
Yang Hao pondered, if he were the bishop of the Northern Expeditionary Force, what would he do when he was leading a group of demoralized and poorly equipped conscripts and was allowed to release the Stone Armor Technique on the "corpses"
What will he do
His Majesty the Regent looked at the army of believers rushing towards him from afar and murmured: This is the seventh batch today.
Then, he suddenly realized something.
Only "corpses" can be subjected to the "Stone Armor" that has been improved by the Church of Light.
So…
"Theresa! Tell me... Divine magic, is there a type of divine magic system that can revive a "corpse"? !"
What if the Church of Light is not developing a new system of divine magic
Instead, they separated the divine arts system from "light" and began to study the "corpse" system? !
With cold sweat pouring down his face and his throat dry, Yang Hao knew that he was daydreaming, but what was happening now forced him to guess the worst!
The Church of the God of Light, the God of Light who usurped the power of light—he might not be able to...
We have figured out how to make the best use of corpses!
"well?"
Faced with Yang Hao's roar, Theresa was stunned.
She answered subconsciously: No, it's impossible! Light is the concept of the instinct of living things to move towards a better life. Even if you say that all living things in the world no longer have light in their hearts, the divine power generated by light itself cannot act on a corpse in any way!
Because there is no compatibility at all! There is no compatibility between the concept of light and controlling corpses. This is simply impossible...
…
She suddenly froze.
Theresa suddenly thought that there are three major systems of divine magic.
The first is the concept gods represented by "light". They will have different systems of divine arts according to their own concepts, and there will be differences in the nature of divine arts.
It's just like you can't let the God of Fire release water magic, and you can't let the Goddess of Light release the Night Magic of the Midnight Goddess.
Concept gods have their own "compatibility", and if the compatibility is not consistent, they will never be released. This is the iron law of concept gods.
The second is the usurper represented by the "God of Light". The usurper usurped the power of the concept god, and naturally plundered the divine power of the concept god, which would also give rise to the "compatibility" problem...
Therefore, Theresa believed that in the divine magic system inherited by the Church of Light, it was impossible for something like "resurrecting the dead" to appear.
Because this compatibility is not compatible at all! It is simply impossible to do it!
But Theresa forgot that there is a third system of divine magic.
That is, there is more freedom in the attainment of divine arts.
"'Faith in God'... Damn it... How could I have forgotten?! How many years has the God of Light been believed in?! Even an ant should have become a God of Faith?! How could I have forgotten this—"
"Believe in God."
Believe in God's power of freedom.
Although its power is definitely not as strong as that of the Concept God.
But the advantage of believing in God is that as long as there are believers, they can freely shape their own divine power and create a new divine power system.
Cremation is not allowed in the Church of Light, and those powerful and influential believers will give the generous gift of burial.
In the Church of Light, even if a person is deeply sinful, as long as he can complete the commission of the Church of Light, he can become a devout believer, no longer be held accountable for his past, and be eligible for burial.
The Church of the God of Light preserves the integrity of the corpse as much as possible - under normal circumstances. At the same time, they will do their best to protect the corpse of a powerful warrior.
The Church of Light has one most important [pre-death doctrine]: only those with intact corpses can ascend to heaven.
In contrast, "Light" allows cremation and does not consider the integrity of the "corpse" to be a criterion for providing comfort to the deceased.
In other words…
in other words…
Does the Church of Light place too much importance on "corpses"
No, not too much.
It was because after the usurper of the God of Light became the God of Faith, the divine magic system he created was built with "corpses" as the main core!
No wonder the Church of Light did not inherit the "healing magic" of light! It's not that they didn't inherit it, but because their secret "corpse magic system" would have a severe conflict with the "healing" of light, so the Church of Light simply gave up the existence of healing magic and instead focused on moving the auxiliary magic towards the direction of "corpse"!
The so-called "corpse stone armor" is their latest achievement! In other words, the "corpses" in the central trench are not harmless at all!
They are the trump card of the Northern Expeditionary Force! A group of soldiers made up of corpses!
Thinking of this, Sister Teresa's face turned pale. Who could have thought that the seemingly bright appearance of the Church of Light would reveal such darkness
Even though everyone saw with their own eyes the followers of the God of Light eating people, no one would have thought that their God would be so crazy!
Yang Hao, with a serious expression, ordered the Ling people to control the golems to stop digging the trenches and instead dig out the petrified corpses and discard them.
But this is doomed to be futile, because those corpses are bound and protected by divine magic. When some stones disappear, they will be replenished, making it difficult to just smash them and take them away.
In addition, the corpses were stacked up like twisted and entangled petrified vines, which made the work even more difficult.
In order to quickly destroy the "stone bridge", Finn even ordered the ancient elf tree to use its power to slowly drag the entire stone bridge out from the ground, and used its magic to slowly "push it away" -
As a result, just as she was slowly pushing the stone bridge towards the northern expeditionary army's position, suddenly, the stone bridge supported by the tree roots began to shake.
It was a small shake at first.
But then, there was a violent shaking. The petrified bodies broke apart and ended their connection. They fell from midair into the depths of the trench, twisting and stiffening on the ground like patients suffering from epileptic seizures, trying to get up.
The demons who came to help were caught off guard and stunned by the scene before them. They subconsciously used their swords and axes to chop at the corpses that were beginning to move again, but the axe blades broke when they hit them, and the cracks on the corpses were still slowly healing.
—Is it because of the start of the activity that the stone recovery speed has slowed down
Yang Hao ordered the messenger to blow the horn.
Because it is accompanied by the activities of the zombie soldiers.
In the distance, the flags of the Northern Expeditionary Army appeared in front of the Monster Forest Defense Line along with the sunset.
More than half of them were militiamen armed with dung forks and farm tools. But for some reason, those militiamen were covered with a thick layer of stone armor.
Priests and crusaders were scattered throughout the legion, holding up their own flags. In the legion, those soldiers who had not been turned into zombies, with the help of drugs and divine arts, were beating their shields with their weapons and roaring like wild beasts.
There was also a group of griffin knights in the sky. They were wearing armor, holding huge crossbow launchers, and also had spears and war hammers specially used for close combat.
These chosen ones wearing white robes and shouting the name of our Lord are the pride of the parish, and when they appear on the battlefield, it also means that the decisive battle has arrived.
"A bunch of fucking lunatics!"
The nun at the side cursed with a look of defeat. She was a clergyman, so she saw it more clearly than Yang Hao.
Those believer conscripts were not actually “corpses”. The reason they seemed to be more agile than the guys in the trenches was because they were “half dead”.
Is this the true divine magic system of the Church of Light
Theresa gritted her teeth and left the front line, because she knew that she should return to her position and fulfill her duties.
Finn glanced at Yang Hao, then smiled bitterly and said, "If this most disgusting war the elves have ever experienced can be won, would you be willing to invite me to walk around?"
"Let's talk about it after we win."
"hehe… "
She teleported away. She also returned to her post, where she would personally coordinate the work of the elf commander and command the elves to resist the attack of the crazy enemy in the distance.
Yang Hao stood there and looked at the sedan chair in the distance.
He knew that this cruel scene was orchestrated by the bishop in the sedan chair.
He was confused, and he was thinking - could this be the "heaven" that the Church of Light hoped to reach
"Is this the God you believe in, Cecilia?"
Yang Hao drew out his command sword, raised it high and then slashed it fiercely.
There was a rumbling sound of cannons behind them. Under the illumination of the evening sun, the "rain of fire" rose into the sky with an orange-red trail and fell towards the vanguard of the Northern Expeditionary Force.
…
Bishop Stephen looked at everything in front of him expressionlessly. Through the perception of divine arts and faith, he probably knew that the "stone bridge" had been discovered in advance and then destroyed by the enemy.
He sighed, thank goodness for his extraordinary intelligence and the true divine power of the God of Light that allowed him to create the most courageous and selfless soldiers - look, these half-corpses of believers who could neither die nor live were his most perfect masterpieces.
At first, Bishop Stephen was still hesitant. If he planned to create zombie soldiers, would he be able to maintain the current supply of divine power
After all, dead believers are no longer believers, and the dead cannot provide themselves with divine power, so Bishop Stephen was very careful at the time.
He was afraid that if he created too many corpse soldiers, his divine power would be reduced, and he would lose control of his soldiers.
But soon—Bishop Stephen suddenly had an inspiration.
Since the "corpse soldiers" are dead and cannot provide divine power, and the fighting power and morale of the living "believers" are too low—
Then can we make a compromise between the two and create half-corpse soldiers [whose combat effectiveness is not that strong, but whose morale and faith supply are no longer a problem]
I have to say that Bishop Stephen is a genius.
As the only bishop in the diocese who had a military career and commanded large troops in battle, he quickly realized that half-corpse soldiers were feasible.
But how to turn a living person into a half-zombie soldier specifically becomes another good question.
At first, Bishop Stephen couldn't think of any good solution. After all, the definition of "dead and living" is a rather vague concept.
But one day, when he learned that some believers seemed to have completely lost their minds because of eating too much human flesh and could only smile foolishly day and night, he took these believers back to the tent to conduct an experiment with the idea of giving it a try.