The change happened quite suddenly, and the female mage Joanna's laughter was very strange, which shocked everyone. Therefore, the guards at the gate had no time to react and could only let the fireball fly over and hit them both in the chest.
However, unexpectedly, just when the magical flames were about to turn them into ashes, the cross used to detect the mage in their hands suddenly shattered on its own, opening up a shield of holy light to help them block it. Down these two fireballs.
"how come… "
Seeing this scene, the fireball, Joanna and Andy were stunned, and they forgot to rush towards the door.
Originally, in their expectation, these two fireballs should directly kill the two guards. But what they didn't expect was that the cross in their hands was so versatile. Even if they checked the mage, it could automatically block a blow for others.
This was something they had not expected at all.
The shield blocked the fireball and then dissipated on its own. At this time, the soldiers at the gate also reacted. They looked at the two mages, a man and a woman not far away, looked at each other, turned around immediately, and ran away, as if they were preparing to return to the gate to ask for help.
However, just as they were about to run back, the businessman Wallis, who had been negotiating a deal with them just now, suddenly jumped forward and firmly hugged the thighs of the two soldiers.
"Help, help! It's a mage! Save me quickly, don't let them hurt me! I can't die!"
The soldier suddenly panicked and almost tripped and fell to the ground.
"What are you doing...you, let me go."
Although Wallis didn't look strong, his hands were extremely strong and he grabbed the legs of the two soldiers tightly. The soldiers wanted to kick Wallis away, but in their haste, they couldn't do it no matter how hard they kicked.
Then, the few people pushing grain carts behind Wallis also came up and crowded at the door of Crusad Gate. Originally, the doorway here was relatively spacious, but no matter how spacious it was, it couldn't hold seven or eight people, five or six carts, and more than a dozen large bags of food all crowded in.
In this way, the entire doorway was blocked, everyone struggled together, and the two soldiers were squeezed so hard that they could not move at all.
"Put your hands down! A mage is coming, we have to close the door first!"
"Don't, don't squeeze! My waist! My waist!"
"No, don't lock us out, people will die!"
"Where are you touching? Stop touching and take your hands away!"
"Ah! My foot, who stepped on my foot!"
“…”
The scene was very chaotic.
Standing about ten meters away from the door, Joanna and Andy - even as the initiators of the entire attack, they couldn't help but feel a little confused when they looked at the scene in front of them.
"Um... do we still want to take action?"
"... It might accidentally hurt them. I think it's better to wait and see for a while."
Soon, other guards on duty at the gate were also attracted by the noisy situation. When they came here, they couldn't help but be stunned when they looked at the gate blocked by soldiers, Wallis, people pushing grain, bags of grain after bag after bag of grain, and a mess of grain carts.
This was probably the most chaotic scene they had ever seen in their lives.
After a brief moment of astonishment, they stepped forward and tried to save the two soldiers. However, they underestimated how chaotic this group of people... oh no, this thing was. They couldn't pull the person out at all, and even took a new soldier in.
"What happened? What are you doing?" The soldier who was not involved quickly hid far away and asked.
"There is, there is a mage attack, please close the door!"
Hearing this, a soldier immediately walked to a handle on the edge of the aisle and wanted to turn the handle and close the door. However, as soon as he squatted down, he hesitated again.
"No, you have blocked the door. If you let the door down, you will all be crushed to death."
After a brief silence, someone in the chaotic crowd immediately replied: "Then bring us all in!"
However, after hearing this, all the soldiers stopped what they were doing. No one closed the door or pulled anyone in.
"What's wrong...why are you standing there?"
The newly arrived soldiers looked at each other in shock, but no one spoke.
Outsiders may not be able to understand their hesitation, but as members of the same group, several soldiers in the crowd immediately understood.
They can't pull people in—that's their job. If someone is let in without checking, if the bishop or captain finds out, they will definitely be punished.
However, there are mages attacking outside now. If they don't close the door quickly, they will definitely be punished. Under the contradiction between the two, they were all low-level soldiers, so they naturally became at a loss.
"One person will call the priest, and the others will help pull us in! Hurry! The mage from outside is about to come in! By then, we will be completely finished!" At this moment, people crowded in the crowd Wallis suddenly spoke and shouted, imitating the voice of one of the soldiers.
The situation at the gate was chaotic and crowded, and no one noticed who said this. The soldiers on the side didn't know what to do, and coupled with the huge pressure of "the mage was about to come in", they naturally had no choice but to follow the advice of this sentence and take action quickly.
At this time, all they need is actually an order.
Just like that, they all rushed up and tried their best to pull all the things blocking the door in.
At the same time, the soldier closest to the side door of the corridor quickly opened the side door and ran all the way in, intending to find the only priest remaining in the door and ask him to come out to deal with the mage's attack.
After about five minutes of hard work, the pile of strange things blocking the door finally fell apart. The soldiers, people, jammed carts, and more than a dozen large bags of grain that were crowded together rolled and crawled to the ground. Fell into the aisle of Crusad Gate.
They fell to the ground, screaming in all kinds of pain, and for a while they couldn't even stand up.
Snap!
The soldiers on the side turned the handle, and then, the steel door blessed by various magical arts fell, and with a loud bang, the entire Crusad gate was sealed.
The priest also came here after being notified. Looking at the mess on the ground, he couldn't help but frown deeply and asked:
"Can anyone explain to me what is going on here?"
Immediately a soldier replied: "There was a mage attack outside, there were two fireballs, and two crosses were destroyed!"
"I already know this." However, the priest shook his head, pointed to the food and the messy people on the ground, and said, "What I'm asking is, what happened to these people? Who are they, and why did you let them go? Come in?"
"This..." The soldier suddenly hesitated, not knowing how to explain.
Just then, Wallis dusted himself off. He stood up from the ground, walked to the priest, and bowed to the priest in a somewhat embarrassed manner.
"Let me explain." He held the priest's hand, gasped, and said with unusual sincerity, "Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Wallis, a businessman in the town. You have placed an order with me. We were just about to deliver these grains to you, but as a result, we were attacked by a mage at the door. Everyone tried to escape in a panic, but it ended up like this, which is really embarrassing."
"Food? Wallis?" The priest showed an unhappy expression and wanted to withdraw his hand. However, he suddenly seemed to have thought of something, and his expression changed drastically, "You are, you are the one..."
Unfortunately, before he could finish the second half of his sentence, he was quickly interrupted by Wallis - he took over the priest's words and said with a smile:
"Yes, I am that mage."
At this moment, the priest was speechless.
Without anyone noticing, Wallis suddenly took out a dagger from his sleeve. While the priest's expression changed dramatically, he kept this smile on his face and before anyone could react, he stabbed the dagger into the priest's chest.
Time seemed to have stood still.
"Lord Benjamin is indeed right." Suddenly, the priest heard Wallis whispering in a hazy state, "As long as you use unenchanted weapons and conduct close attacks, you can avoid those who are trying to save your life. Automatic triggering of the cross.”
Hearing this, the priest opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something. Unfortunately, he didn't say anything.
After saying that, Wallis also moved away his hand. Then, the priest, who was still standing high just now, fell straight to the ground.
His eyes were wide open, his expression focused on a slight degree of shock. It was as if even at the moment before his death, his consciousness had not come back to his senses, and he had completely dissipated from this world before he even had time to feel the shock.
Blood gurgled out from his chest that was pierced by the dagger, like some kind of blood-red vine. After the seeds fell to the ground, they spread in all directions, full of life.