Arthur and Joan quickly rushed to the entrance of the cave, only to see countless torches scattered sparsely scattered on the hillside, and dozens of torches moved in the direction of the cave where Joan and the others were.

Joan's face changed immediately, "How did they find this place?"

"They didn't know where we were, they were just searching in a scattered way, and they figured out that we couldn't get far with the badly injured Spence. ”

"You carry Spence on your back, and we'll kill you right away. Joan was ready to do it.

Arthur stopped Joan, "Don't be impulsive, these searchers are just the private army of the local nobles, and the purpose is to wait for us to rush out on our own initiative." ”

"If you don't rush out, you'll be found out quickly. ”

Arthur's brain spun rapidly, "We don't clash with them head-on, I'll use the black fog to cover the transfer first." ”

Joan was a little worried, "Wouldn't that completely expose your dark magic?"

"Now that the Church has decided that I am involved with the dark mage, there is no point in hiding it any longer. Use dark magic to draw the attention of the church here, and we'll figure it out from somewhere else. ”

Arthur returned to the cave and re-examined Spence's bandaged wounds, and then carried him on his back despite his objections.

Then Arthur began to release magical black mist at the mouth of the cave, and Arthur, who was already at the peak of fourth-level dark magic, quickly created a black mist covering a large area around him.

Spence was also surprised to see the black mist surging around him, he didn't expect Joan's friend to be a dark mage, but he didn't say anything.

"Hopefully, none of these searchers will have the church's Pastor of Light, and this black fog will buy us a lot of time. Arthur muttered in a low voice, turning and climbing higher to the top of the mountain.

Arthur was still gambling this time, after all, the dark mage had disappeared from the ordinary world for many years, and if it weren't for the Light Priest, who often dealt with the dark mage, it would be difficult to contact the dark mage in the first place after entering this black fog.

After only a short stay, Arthur and Joan set out on the run again, but there was an unexpected Spence on the way.

......

Black Rock Town Tavern.

The bustling tavern was closed at this time because of the turmoil in the evening, and a row of punitive knights stood outside the tavern.

The lights in the tavern were dim, a cold woman in a red robe was leaning on the bar with a wine glass in her hand, and an old man with hanging eyebrows and hooked nose was slowly pacing in front of the bar with his hands behind his back, and there were only two people in the entire bar.

"Pastor Fast, there is no news yet, can I go back to sleep, for the sake of the two imps, I actually made the Flame Saintess wait for a night. "This woman is none other than the Flame Saintess, one of the two saints of the Church of Light.

The deaths of Reverend Thorn and the two Captains of the Knights of Punishment, Ingersoll and Froome, have greatly reduced the high-end combat power of the Inquisition. The Pope had no choice but to send the Holy Maiden of Fire to temporarily assist the Inquisition in the hunt for Arman and the Archmage of Austin, and transferred Bishop Fast from the Inquisition of Isaac to become the head priest to hunt down the Dark Mage and Arthur.

Fast had seen this woman's fiery temper back then, and hurriedly smiled: "Hard work saintess, if it's just those two little ghosts, naturally they don't dare to bother the saint, but I don't know how these two people got involved with the city guard rebel Spence again, and seriously injured one of the dragon scale guards outside this tavern in the evening, so we don't dare to be careless." ”

The Flame Saintess yawned, "Okay, don't explain any more, do you know how much it hurts a woman to stay up late?I don't care about Spence, I'm only interested in the royal archmage who is also a fire type, don't bother me in the future until Arman's exact whereabouts are gone." ”

After speaking, the Flame Saintess ignored Fast's reaction, threw the wine glass in her hand casually, and pushed the door away.

Fast smiled bitterly and shook his head, except for the Pope, I'm afraid that anyone can't do anything about this flame saintess.

Fast continued to pace in front of the bar, but his eyes flashed with coldness, "Where the hell did Arthur go? You won't be able to run away this time." ”

The tavern door was suddenly pushed open at this moment, "Report, Chief Priest, a large area of dark magic has been found on the barren mountain outside the town. ”

......

The Terran civil war has been going on for half a month, and even though Locke and Rouge have pressed all their armies to the front, they are still being beaten back by Isaac and Kildan's armies.

Counting the annihilated Bardos, the armies of the three central countries have not experienced a war with other races for too long, and the gap between individual combat power and military strength is extremely obvious after the start of the war. Even though all the kingdom's armies resisted desperately to defend the land, they still lost nearly a third of their land in just half a month.

The Empire of Light had to mobilize the Imperial Western Legion and the Southern Legion to support Locke and Rouge respectively, and urgently recruited 200,000 private troops of the Imperial nobles. Only by pushing all these 400,000 troops to the front line of the battlefield can the situation be stabilized.

To add insult to injury, the situation in the south and west had only just stabilized, and the Norman kingdom followed Isaac and Kildan. At this time, the empire only had 100,000 troops left in the Eastern Army that could be mobilized. The Northland Legion was broken up in the rebellion of His Highness and had not yet been rebuilt, and the City Guard and Praetorian Army were responsible for guarding Arantis, which could not be easily mobilized.

At the behest of the Emperor, the new Emperor Grantham had no choice but to turn to the Kingdom of Hollow to help the Empire defend against the Norman invasion. The price paid by the Empire was to officially recognize half of Bardos' territory as belonging to Holo, and to bear all the later supplies and military expenses of Holo's troops.

The most militarily powerful of the nations, the Holo army, entered the battle, immediately blocked the Norman offensive, and with the cooperation of the Eastern Army, the Norman army was firmly suppressed on the border line.

Seeing that the battle of the Six Nations turned into a long tug-of-war.

Imperial Palace, Fengluan Pavilion.

The emperor and queen should be the queen mother now, sitting leisurely on the phoenix chair and drinking tea.

Grantham, who had become the emperor, still sat respectfully at the bottom of his mother, and unlike the queen mother's leisure, Grantham's face was full of anxiety.

The Queen Mother looked at Grantham's appearance and frowned, "You are now the emperor, you have to learn to be happy and angry, if even the emperor is panicked, what will the courtiers below think, how to do it?"

"The queen mother blames, but the situation is like this, isn't the queen mother in a hurry at all?"

"Why are you in a hurry?" the Queen Mother asked unexpectedly.

"Isaac, Kildan, and the Norman rebels, and if they are defeated under the city of Arantis, the Empire of Light handed down by the first emperor may be destroyed in the hands of the children. ”

The Empress Dowager sneered, "The Bright Empire was destroyed in the 'Rebellion of the Thirteen Princes' two hundred years ago, and after that, more than two hundred years have just been empty and lingering. I ask you, you are now the emperor, if you put down the rebellion of the Three Kingdoms, where do you want to take the empire?

The Queen Mother's words stunned Grantham.

The Empress Dowager sighed a little disappointed, "Go back and think about it, this war is not necessarily a bad thing for the empire, the war consumes not only the strength of the human race, but also the strength of each kingdom." If you can't use this war to thrive the empire, it doesn't matter if it's dead entirely. ”