It was almost noon when the waiters discovered that Beta and the others had disappeared the next day.
Looking at the empty floor, the leader of the waiters was almost scared to shit. When the situation was reported to the Pope's Hall, the Pope was arguing with the archbishops at this time, and he, who was already extremely irritable, almost fainted on the spot when he heard the news.
Holding the edge of the table and barely standing up straight, Pope Gus Qing asked with a straight face: "How could it disappear? How did they do it? Our barrier is activated, even if they can break it with brute force, but It should also cause a shock in the barrier. But now the barrier is fine, but their people are gone!"
"Could it be teleportation magic?" A archbishop said: "Beta is very good at teleportation magic, and the large teleportation arrays in our various places in Hollevin are his handwriting."
"Even teleportation magic has to pay attention to the basic principles of magic." An archbishop said: "Magic enchantment can affect space, and teleportation magic will cause obvious waves of time and space and magic power no matter whether it enters or exits the enchantment, as long as it is not an idiot casting spells." , can feel it.”
Gus looked left and right, and said, "He must still be in the city, search, find a way to find him."
Several archbishops nodded at the same time.
In the next two days, Nata City conducted a high-intensity search, but even after turning the entire city upside down, Beta and his three women were still not found.
The Wealth Religion army outside the city has already begun to advance towards Nata City.
"What's going on here?" Pope Gus felt unbelievable: "He should be in our city, but why no one can find him. I even used the little luck technique, but it didn't work."
The so-called little luck technique is actually a kind of causal magic, which can solve some very weird problems, after all, it is about asking people for directions, asking about the future and so on.
Although it is said to be a small luck technique, it is actually a fifth-level magic, which is quite advanced.
The reason why it is called the 'Little Lucky Technique' is because there is also the 'Great Lucky Technique', which can even resurrect the dead. Many cannot learn the 'Great Luck Technique'.
Beta doesn't know the little luck technique, and doesn't have that talent. And Gus became the pope and mastered the little luck technique, but when he used it, he was at the cost of his own life, so he rarely used it.
Two days later, the God of Wealth Sect completed the siege of Nata City, and nearly 10,000 troops were stationed outside the city.
A letter of war was handed over to Pope Gus, to the effect that Pope Beta hadn't contacted them for three days. They suspected that they had been detained by Nata City, so they had to release the Pope as soon as possible, otherwise they would attack Nata City immediately. .
"These despicable bastards." Gus angrily tore the gauntlet to pieces: "They disappeared, it's none of our business! We also want to know where they went. No wonder they disappeared, so it was for this excuse ?”
A group of archbishops stood looking at the distraught Pope Gus.
After a while, Philip still took the initiative to say: "Let's fight, the war has come, and it is useless for us to retreat. Your Majesty the Pope, make a decision immediately. Every day that passes, our soldiers will drop by one point." , if it goes on like this, within ten days, we won't have any power to fight back."
Philip has a high reputation among the archbishops, and his opinions can, to a certain extent, guide the thoughts and concepts of other archbishops.
There was some silence in the house, and Gus' panting was very obvious.
After a while, he gritted his teeth and said, "No matter what, we can't just admit defeat, otherwise how will others think of our Storm God Sect in the future."
The archbishops nodded, no matter what, they had to resist symbolically for five or six days, otherwise they would lose face.
In the space of mansion art, Emma looked at Beta speechlessly: "You are too bad, you hide on purpose and don't let anyone find you, use this method to give your army commander a reason to attack the Temple of Storms .”
Beta smiled lightly: "There is no way, the Storm God Cult and the Zoroastrian Cult have secretly formed an alliance. If we don't settle the Storm God Cult, when we deal with the Zoroastrian Cult, we will have to pay attention to guarding against sneak attacks from behind. .”
Emma thought for a while and asked, "So, how many days do you think the Temple of Storms can last?"
"No more than ten days."
In fact, Beta still overestimated the resilience of the Storm God Cult.
The letter of war was handed out, but the pope was still not seen, and the army of Woking Temple immediately launched an attack in the early morning of the next day.
Huge boulders and giant wooden guns were thrown at the city from three directions. Although they were blocked by the magic barrier of Nata City, people in the city could feel that every stone hitting the magic barrier would cause a huge impact. There was a thunderous sound.
And the continuous throwing of boulders and wooden spears sounded like never-ending thunder.
The God of Wealth Sect was not in a hurry to send soldiers to attack the city. After bombarding the city with giant trees and boulders for almost a day, they temporarily retreated a kilometer and took a rest.
However, nearly a quarter of the internal magic stone reserve of the magic enchantment in Nata City has disappeared.
The bombardment continued the next day.
Although there is no giant wooden gun, things like boulders are very easy to get. The military chaplain can easily make it by "turning mud into stone", and then be thrown out by the trebuchet, saving time and effort. Some priests with extraordinary talents can also "turn mud into stone" to make stone-style giant guns.
Another day of continuous bombardment.
The tactics of the Temple of Fortune army were formulated by Beta himself.
The God of Wealth Sect is very rich, so naturally they will not treat their own people badly in terms of armaments. The guards and priests of the God of Wealth Sect use the best standard equipment, and the logistics are also the best. Not only are there many styles of dry food, but they can also be eaten freely. Most importantly... siege armaments.
Beta stipulates that, except for special forces, any field force must be equipped with breaking crossbows and trebuchets. For every fifty people on average, there must be a trebuchet and a lathe crossbow.
Moreover, both the trebuchet and the bed crossbow have been modified, not only miniaturized, but also disassembled for transportation. Divided into ten parts, each part is only about fifteen kilograms, much lighter than armor, and stronger soldiers can run all over the mountain with their backs on their backs.
Once at its destination, it can be reassembled in three minutes.
Therefore, any field force of the Temple of Fortune has long-range firepower not far away.
Beta's philosophy is: If you can overwhelm the enemy with long-range firepower, you will never engage in hand-to-hand combat.
Based on this idea, the proportion of long-range weapons in the God of Wealth Cult is very high, and he even encourages melee units to carry more simple and easy-to-use long-range weapons, such as hand crossbows.
Reality is not a game, it has professional balance. For example, melee soldiers have higher blood volume and damage, ranged soldiers have higher mobility, and weaker defense.
Maybe the data is scientific to a certain extent, but the reality is really not calculated like this.
There are countless trials and errors in the game. In reality, you only have one life. You can hit others, but others can't hit you. This is an advantage.
All in all, the soldiers of the Wealth God Sect are not expensive, and the military expenditure of each soldier is five to eight of that of other forces.
At the same time, this is also a military training, and it is the first time that the God of Fortune has dispatched such a large-scale army.
Compared with the ease of the Fortune God Religion Legion, the atmosphere in Nata City is quite bad.
Being bombarded by the "barrage" that lasted all day, the amount of magic crystals in the entire city is now less than half, which means... In two days at most, Nata City will be destroyed.
"They might run out of ammo."
"How is it possible! There are stones all over the ground, it's really not possible, and there is no problem in turning them into a pile after casting spells."
"The problem is the catapults. Where did they get so many catapults?"
As we all know, trebuchets are expensive to build, and they are huge and difficult to transport. Only those troops with strong logistics can transport more than a dozen of them to the front line. According to the number of stones thrown by the opponent, there are at least one hundred to two hundred.
This is not counting the bed crossbow that is fired from time to time.
Magic barriers have good resistance to physics and magic, especially to magicians. After all, magicians have limited spiritual power and are scarce in number. It is impossible to compare the magic capacity with a magic circle with a large reserve of magic crystals.
And the physical attack method is relatively weak... Generally speaking, the number of trebuchets and bed crossbows determines the quality of the siege.
Arrow rain...has almost no effect on the magic barrier.
It's just that the army of the God of Wealth is an exception.
An average of 50 people, a miniaturized trebuchet and bed crossbow, does not need a few people to operate it, and it can completely cover the barrage.
"No matter how their trebuchet came about, we still have two days and we have to figure out a way."
The conference room was noisy again.
Gus felt his head ache.
It's a sign of too much stress.
"Is it possible to ask for help from Zoroastrianism?"
"Far water can't save near fire." Philip said in a calm tone: "We have no way out now, Pope, let's fight, at least we can retain our dignity."
Keep your dignity. In other words, Philip no longer has any hope for this war.
Thinking about it, it is indeed true. High-end combat power is not dominant, and the strength of the army is far inferior. There is no way to fight this battle.
It's just that Gus always thought there was some chance.
"I must be able to think of a way out of this situation." Gus pressed his head and continued: "Everyone, please do your best. Let's work together to get out of the current crisis. Any method will do."
"Or, surrender..." Finally, an archbishop uttered the word.
Gus' expression suddenly became extremely cold.
"Rommel, what do you mean by that?" Gus stared fiercely at the archbishop who had spoken just now: "Don't you even want the last dignity?"
"But I think we shouldn't offend the Cult of Wealth too much. They are members of the neutral order. As long as we show sincerity, they won't do anything to us!"