Dragging their exhausted bodies, the surviving Black Nightmares quickly left the area.
They still remember the order from the beginning - to hide their identities and get to Coster as soon as possible. Despite such a big change, at this moment, they seemed to have no other choice but to continue with their original plan.
The area near Pearl Lake was empty, with almost no people visible, and their evacuation did not encounter any trouble.
This still surprised them.
"If the church really blew up our tunnel, there should be someone patrolling around here, right? There are also a lot of footprints on the ground. Why...where have all the people from the church gone?"
No one could answer the question, and they had no time to think about it. Since the enemy gave them a chance to survive, of course they took advantage of this opportunity to escape quickly, then disguised themselves as ordinary refugees and flocked to Coster separately.
As for where the church people have gone...
More than ten kilometers north of Pearl Lake, an ice ship flew quickly past under the clear afternoon sky.
"It's really good enough to chase."
Benjamin stood at the stern of the boat, looked back, and said secretly.
"Don't you just want them to catch up? You also deliberately slowed down a little." The system appeared and said lazily, "If they don't chase, how will the people buried underground escape?"
Benjamin held the ice railing at the stern of the boat, took a deep breath, and said nothing.
He just hoped that enough people would survive.
When he arrived at Pearl Lake, the tragic scene almost made him lose his mind. But fortunately... the system suddenly detected life activities underground and informed him. It was then that Benjamin remembered that they had prepared a secret escape route in advance.
The presence of someone in the secret passage means that the Black Nightmare Army has not been destroyed!
This result gave Benjamin a breath of relief, but at the same time, he also began to worry about evacuation. There is no doubt that after the church planned this attack, there must be paladins everywhere around Pearl Lake. It would be too difficult for the surviving Black Nightmares to move.
Someone must divert the church's attention so that the survivors can escape from the secret passage, and this person... besides himself, who else can do it
Therefore, he drove a big ship and appeared in front of Grant in a very high-profile manner, and then forced himself to delay, attracting everyone's attention, and finally turned around and ran away, which opened up a space for the Black Nightmare Army to move.
"How much longer are you going to run?"
While Benjamin was thinking, suddenly, Grant's voice came from not far behind the ice ship.
Accompanying that sound were several streaks of light flying at extremely high speeds.
"Hold him." Benjamin was not surprised, but used mental contact to directly summon the water elemental elf. As soon as the elf appeared, blue light flashed all over his body, instantly blocking those few extreme light strands.
And it itself flew towards Grant in a whoosh.
-During the chase, Grant flew the fastest and caught up with the ice ship several times. However, Benjamin had no intention of fighting him. He directly threw the water elemental elf over and used a wild offensive to force Grant into a fight.
About two minutes later, the water elemental elf will be defeated by the siege of Grat and other bishops, and flee back in a swish. The church's pursuit force will also be delayed for a while, and it will take some effort to catch up.
It was through this method that Benjamin was able to keep the church people hanging behind him without actually being caught up.
"Have you... thought about what to do?"
Morris pushed the wheelchair and came out of the cabin together with all the soldier mages, looking nervously at the dark mass of pursuers behind the ship.
He and the others stayed on the ship from the time the tunnels were blown up until Benjamin began to move the tiger away from the mountain. Benjamin had no time to put them down, and they could only watch everything happen, but could not do anything.
"What else can we do? Get rid of them. There are too many of them. It's impossible to fight them head-on." Benjamin's tone was quite calm, which made Morris and others feel at ease.
While he was speaking, the water elemental spirit also completed its mission again, fled back quickly, and instantly escaped into the consciousness space to recuperate, preparing to delay Grant's pursuit in a few minutes.
"But... how to get rid of them?" Suddenly, the soldier responsible for guarding the princess seemed to have thought of something and became uneasy again, "They have done something to the princess. No matter how we run, they can know our location, right?" ?”
As soon as this was said, everyone's eyes quickly fell on the fainting princess in the soldier's arms.
"Kill her! Avenge our dead brothers!"
Several soldiers who were already emotional quickly shouted out.
Morris quickly advised: "This is inappropriate, you must not act out of emotion..."
"What's the use of keeping her? It was because of her that the real location was exposed. If we continue to keep her now, we will never be able to get rid of the church people!"
"Yes! Kill her!"
"What a princess, she's just a puppet of the church, we can't keep her!"
The collapse of the tunnel had already brought great excitement to these soldiers, and one of the causes of the crime was right in front of them. Under the interaction of the atmosphere, they couldn't help but become a little excited.
Some people even ran towards the soldiers responsible for guarding the princess, stretched out their hands to snatch it, and wanted to end the princess' life with their own hands.
"That's enough! Stop it!"
Benjamin immediately shouted to stop everyone.
The soldiers were stunned and took a few steps back. The commotion immediately subsided.
"Even if she is still alive, I can get rid of the people in the church. You don't have to worry about this." Benjamin took a deep breath, looked around everyone, and slowly said, "I know you are all angry now, but killing her is not It doesn't solve any problem. Directing anger at a defenseless person is a sign of incompetence, and she is not the one we should really be angry about."
As he spoke, he turned around and pointed at the dark mass of pursuers behind the ice ship.
"Did you see it? That's the culprit of everything." Benjamin pointed at the group of people in the church, faced the soldiers, and said decisively, "Now is not the time to start a fight among yourself. I hope you can save this anger. Use it where it really needs to be used!”
"And this is what a qualified soldier should do."
All the soldiers fell silent.
They looked at the church's pursuers, then glanced at the fainting princess, and finally, after a long silence, they nodded towards Benjamin. Benjamin also nodded towards them, so they turned around without saying anything and walked back to the cabin with heavy steps.
Morris looked at their backs and breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, he turned to look at Benjamin: "I'm glad that you didn't lose your mind because of this heavy loss."
"I came from nothing, so this blow is nothing." Benjamin took a deep breath, shook his head, and said, "Besides, the loss is not as serious as it seems. We still have a chance."
Morris was a little surprised: "You mean... you still plan to keep the original plan?"
Benjamin nodded.
"Perhaps we should reconsider." Morris advised. "No matter how many people can escape from the secret passage, the ordnance, materials, grain and grass in the warehouse... I am afraid they cannot be preserved. Without them, we want to defend Koth. It will definitely become very difficult, and perhaps we should hide in the dark again, continue to use guerrillas to accumulate strength, and wait for the opportunity."
"There is no place to hide." Benjamin's expression remained unchanged. "The Warcraft Mountains, the underground passages... Is there anywhere in the Kingdom of Hori that the church cannot search? There is no use hiding anymore. Right now, this place is the limit of guerrilla warfare. , we have reached the time for a head-on confrontation."
"But, can we touch each other?"
Benjamin looked at the pursuers who began to close the distance a little bit again, looked at Grant's gradually enlarging figure in the distance, and nodded.
"...Don't worry, we still have a trump card."