The pirate leader, Sakru, was at the head of the group, and the fifteen warriors of the clan fanned out behind him.

Along the path of the forest, stepping into the unfrozen earth, the boots stepped on the ice slag and gravel, making a "click" cracking sound.

Sakru suddenly raised his right hand and motioned for his team to stop. He fell to his knees on one knee, half-crouched on the ground, and looked at the puddles of water that had sunken but not yet frozen, and fell into deep thought.

A sudden feathered arrow flew from the bushes of the forest and stuck diagonally into the trunk of a tree less than three meters from him.

"Enemy attack!"

With a low roar, the pirates removed their crosses and shields from their backs, drawing their swords and axes. They lowered their bodies, lowered their center of gravity, raised their shields to their chests, and the warriors in the back stepped forward, and the warriors on both wings spread out sideways, forming an iron triangle of "shield walls" in just a few seconds.

Huggins punched the dirt beneath him hard and looked behind him in annoyance.

A minor soldier in the militia group stared blankly at the bowstring that was still vibrating in his hand, uneasy.

Inexperienced troops, once the nervous and chaotic emotions are ignited by one person, like a drop of ink falling into a glass of clear water, the whole team will instantly lose control.

The sound of bowstrings being released exploded in the militia group, and one arrow after another flew haphazardly towards the pirate's formation.

The arrows arced in the air, and some of them collided with the shields, making an irregular sound of soldiers, like drops of water dripping on the surface of the umbrella on a rainy day, but more of them missed the direction and fell elsewhere.

Half a minute later.

Several rounds of bows and arrows were fired, leaving the pirates with only small holes in the surface of their shields.

Sixteen pirate warriors, not a single one was injured.

The first dominoes have been toppled down.

The group of believers with halberds in their hands jumped out the second one, and under the leadership of the captain, they rushed out of the bushes and formed a nondescript "one-word array" to launch a second round of attacks on the pirates. At the same time, seeing the melees and pirates fighting, the militia group, fearing that they would accidentally injure friendly troops, stopped the attack and looked at each other, but did not know what to do.

Todd was a little dumbfounded, this was completely different from the battle he imagined, and looked sideways at Huggins, he asked uncertainly, "It doesn't seem that this is the tactic discussed in the combat meeting?"

"I made a mistake. Huggins lifted the long sword in his hand and pushed away the bushes in front of him: "A huge mistake!"

The halberd struck the shield, and the sawdust flew sideways, and the sound was earth-shattering.

These Father-inspired, volunteered to join the Church and serve as guardians, but they were not a group of warlike soldiers.

On the surface, the triangular formation of pirate warriors was attacked by the group of believers, and they retreated one after another.

But the gaps in the shield walls are getting smaller and smaller, the positions between the warriors are getting closer and closer, and the pirates' formations are getting closer and closer, while the Cultists, the halberders who have been carried away by the battle, are scattered and disorderly, and their attacks are getting weaker and weaker.

Sakru pressed his left foot against the ground, peering through the gap, observing the situation outside the shield wall. Suddenly there was a loud roar, and the double-edged axe in his right hand struck the shield surface.

Fifteen warriors shouted in unison.

Sixteen shields struck forward from the bottom up, and the members of the Believers who were closest to them were instantly knocked to the ground, and then the long swords and axes that fell from the air were disemboweled, and their bodies were separated.

“Hoim！”

Another roar.

The shield wall moved forward a meter, and another shield strike and slash sent limbs and blood splattered again.

The morale of the group of believers began to decline, some were still holding on, and some were choosing to retreat.

Sensing that the halberd array in front of him had become thin, the pirate leader raised the huge double-edged axe in his hand and slashed horizontally with all his might, and an enemy standing in front of him was split in half from his waist.

The morale of the group of believers completely collapsed, and everyone abandoned their weapons and fled for their lives into the depths of the forest, a move that caused the militia to join the fleeing group.

“Orha!”

Sakru moved his shield to the side, the blade of his axe pointing straight forward.

Fifteen warriors wiped the blood from their faces, removed the shield walls, stood in a line, and began to charge forward.

The roles of attack and defense were suddenly reversed, and the attacker a few minutes ago became the target of slaughter, and the battlefield was like Shura's purgatory, a mess.

Huggins and the Papal Knights stepped forward.

A knight in plate armor, putting down the mask from his helmet and holding a heraldic shield in one hand and a one-handed hammer in the other, faced the pirate. He fended off his sword's sword with his shield, then kicked him forward, and his steel shin struck the pirate's unprotected knee, causing him to scream and fall to his knees. The knight then flipped the hammer over with one hand and slammed it hard into the wounded man's jaw, smashing the mandibles into the skull. The other party didn't snort, and directly turned into a corpse.

Seeing this scene, Sakuru let out an angry roar, so loud that even Todd, who was a hundred meters away, was shocked to hear it.

I saw the pirate leader take off his helmet and take off his clothes, and his body was covered with scars, glowing with a strange red.

Seconds later, something happened that surprised everyone.

The blood vessels on the surface of Sakru's body became thicker and beating, the muscles of his body expanded rapidly, and his limbs, hands and feet slowly became larger. The originally tall figure actually became larger again, and the originally enlarged version of the double-edged axe seemed to have shrunk to an ordinary size in his hands.

The rest of the pirates retreated in fear, shouting that the fierce god was coming.

Huggins and Todd glanced back, both of them looking incredulous.

The latter uses the clairvoyant ability to look at the pirate's body. Sure enough, a leech-like parasite was entrenched in his adrenal glands, just like little Jerry's case, except that the parasite in the pirate's body was much larger, about thirty centimeters long, and had evolved vertebral spines and tail pins.

Sakru kicked hard with his feet, and the ice on the forest floor, with a huge force carried by his heels, flew into the air.

His body slammed into the knight's shield like a cannonball. The latter was knocked directly into the air, and the shield was also out of his hand. Sakru took a step forward, the giant axe in his hand slashed head-on, and the knight's one-handed hammer was knocked into the distance, and the knight closed his eyes in despair as he saw that the second attack was about to fall again.

A crossbow bolt stabbed the pirate in the chest with the sound of a bolt breaking through the air.

The attack that was supposed to pass through the body was directly stuck in it because of the swollen muscles.

Walton slowly put down the crossbow, looked at the berserk giant in the distance, and said to himself in surprise: "This ...... Is this body still human?"

Dressed in heavy chain mail and holding a two-handed sword, Alfonso de Cavo leaped from the ground in the shape of a goshawk ready to pounce.

The blade of the sword and the blade of the axe collided together, and the sharp and piercing sound of the impact spread throughout the forest, causing the resting birds to flutter their wings and scatter.

Saru turned the handle of the axe, and with a horizontal slash, the wind pressure blowing from the axe body knocked the snow several meters away and fluttered. Alfonso kicked his heel on the trunk of the tree, bending his body in an impossible arc, avoiding the attack in a way that defied the common sense of physics.

The two fought together, every time the blades intersected, sparks splashed, every time the figures staggered, and the ground moved in dust.

Sakrug represents the ultimate in strength, while Alfonso has the perfect skills.

Todd opened his mouth wide and looked at the battle in front of him, and only four words could come to his mind: "Immortals fight." ”

Taking advantage of this gap, Huggins and several other knights resisted the attack of the remaining pirates, and gradually mastered the situation. And those militia regiments and believers who broke up and retreated, watched the balance of battle tip in their favor and returned to the battle.

Eventually, the battle was over.

From the beginning to the end, it lasted a full hour.

The pirates lost six men and ten were captured. Among those arrested was the pirate leader Sakru, who had fallen to the ground after the statute of rage had expired and the parasites had fallen asleep.

Twenty-seven people were killed and eleven seriously wounded. The main casualties were members of the Faithful and the militia, and only one of the Papal Knights was seriously wounded.