Haysas City.

It is not yet the harvest season, but the residents of Haisas are as excited and happy as a festival every day.

The city boiled over as the well-armoured, dignified paladins escorted the rattling prison cart through the streets.

Witch...... It turns out that this is a witch!

Ever since the invasion of the Envik plane by otherworldly witches, the Zambis Empire has been plagued by witches.

They looted mines, looted high-level resources, and treated the entire Enwick plane as if it were their own backyard. Sometimes, even in order to punish some places where witches were denied access, they also unleashed plagues there, without any regard for the casualties of ordinary people.

It is precisely these bad deeds and terrible crimes in the past hundred years that make the people of Zambes hate these foreign witches to the core, and they are filled with endless hatred from the bottom of their hearts.

So when the paladins, who were the embodiment of light and justice, succeeded in capturing the terrible witch from the dark forest, stuffing her into a cage in a prison cart and wandering through the streets of the town, all the inhabitants of Hythas poured into the streets, welcoming the witch with tattered leaves, cold dirty water, and sharp stones.

The people chased after the prisoner cart, cheering and throwing stones at the shivering witch hiding in the wooden cage. It can be seen that this witch was also once an unusually beautiful woman, with a proud figure and a delicate and perfect face.

It's a pity that the bitter hatred has made her suffer at the hands of the paladin, and now she is locked in a cage like a beast by the other party to be spittled upon, attacked and insulted by the common people.

This extreme damage and fear of death made Rena no longer as glamorous and graceful as before. His hair was scattered, and the cloth robe on his body was torn into locks of rotten cloth, and he couldn't cover his body at all.

The exposed skin was covered in dense scratches and bruises, and the once smooth and white skin had begun to wither, showing wrinkles and scabs like dead tree bark.

Rena wore her hair loose and numbly glanced at the cheering crowd around the cage, letting the tattered leaves and sharp rocks fall on her, but she didn't even have the slightest intention of covering or dodging.

"Burn her ......"

"Burn her at the stake......"

Every time a similar shout erupted from the crowd, Rena's body couldn't help but twitch violently.

Her heart was filled with hatred, and her heart was filled with boundless hatred.

Unfortunately, she still has a terrible Demon Prison Shackle on her wrists and ankles, made of metal, made of special magic metal, which is difficult to destroy by corrosive spells such as acid. And on the inner edge of the shackles, there are countless fine metal spikes piercing into the flesh, and the slightest movement will cause a sharp pain like tearing the heart.

A special mouth shield was placed on Rena's cheek, and an egg-sized metal walnut was tucked into her mouth. With this, Rena lost the ability to chant spells and gesture to guide spell casting, even without guards.

As for those instantaneous low-level sorcery, it could not be performed in this wooden cage painted with all kinds of strange runes. Although the Envik plane is a low-magic world, the study of magic has not relaxed at all.

This kind of anti-magic enchantment with holy light as the source of power, they can still research it!

The cage where Rena was held was sent directly to the Chapel of Light in Hyshas City, where more and more paladins arrived from all directions, and there were as many as five Golden Knights of the 3rd Order alone.

Of course, so many golden knights are not to guard a rookie witch who is only 2nd order, but to protect the core materials of the witch array that have been searched from Rena.

The attack on the Witch Tower in Dabire Heights has been going on for half a year, and although the Zambis Empire has suffered heavy losses, the witch side is also at the end of its power. According to the current trend, the paladin coalition with a powerful empire on its back could break through the Witch Tower in three or four months, as long as they grit their teeth and not be afraid of the necessary sacrifices.

If the Witch Tower is allowed to obtain this batch of witch array materials at this time and repair the interdimensional teleportation witch array inside, it means that the huge casualties promised by the Zambis Empire in the past year will be sacrificed in vain. Therefore, even if the front-line battle was so tight, the coalition of the Paladins and the Empire still sent back three powerful Golden Knights to join the Paladins near Hyshas City to protect this witch and those witch array materials.

And the fourth-order Holy Knight Ad Kale, who was heading to the northern part of the empire, also began to turn around and head west, rushing to join the paladins in Haysas City. Once they have the 4th Order Holy Knight Pressing Array, they will be able to draw enough manpower to escort the witches and materials directly back to the Imperial Capital.

Only in the imperial capital, there is nothing to worry about in terms of safety!

Therefore, on the third day after Lena Witch was escorted into Hayshas City, seven days before the arrival of the 4th Order Holy Knight, Grim, disguised as also mixed into Hyshas City with the flow of people.

Now that the city of Hayshas is under martial law, the Chapel of the Holy Light is tightly guarded by paladins who have arrived from all directions. The perimeter guard and check-in are in charge of the Hayshas City Guards, but there are still squads of paladins at key locations such as city gates and passes.

In order to prevent the witches' companions from infiltrating the city of Hysas, military control has been imposed here, and the gates are extremely strict, and ordinary caravans and convoys are denied entry, and can only temporarily rest in a few nearby towns.

Grim, who had just arrived from the Dark Forest, had to intercept a Rank 1 Black Iron Knight halfway, then put on the armor of the Paladins, rode a tall horse, and swaggered to the gate of Hayshas.

Seeing the signature paladin armor on Grim's body, the city guards who gathered at the gate of the city to strictly check the entry and exit of the people immediately saluted, and some people quickly ran to pass on the paladins who were stationed here.

In a few moments, three paladins with a dozen apprentice knights poured out of the hole in the city gate and walked quickly to the Grim horse.

"The light is with us! This brother from afar, I don't know which chapel you come from?" The three paladins led by him were all first-order black iron knights, and the leader was nearly middle-aged, with a full beard, and enthusiastically kowtowed to Grim's chest.

Grim jumped off his horse and bowed to his chest in return, "The light is with us!" Hello, my name is Jedrik, from the city of Bardan on the edge of the Avili Mountains, and I am traveling near the Dark Forest. I heard that Haisas was summoning the power of the Holy Light here, so I rushed over, hoping to contribute my meager strength!"

"I came from Avili, I said why does it look so raw, welcome, brother, welcome to Hyshas!" asked the head paladin with a smile on his face, "My name is Hellett, and I am on duty at the city gate today. By the way, I remember that the host on Baldan's side was Christopher Sr., and I used to drink with him. How's it going, he's okay now?"

Grim shook his head and smiled as he slowly walked towards the city with the other party, "Your Excellency Christopher is too old, and he has already returned to his hometown of Winterspring Valley five years ago. Now in charge of everything in Bardan is His Excellency Allamand Grethorne, but seven months ago he also rushed to Dabirei with a large number of his brothers......"

Grim, who had already obtained the key information from the memory fragments of the paladin, could not be deceived by the other party's small words and tricks, and in a few words, he resolved the other party's suspicions and put the other party at ease.

After sending Grim into the inner city, the chief knight smiled regretfully and said, "I'm sorry, brother, I can only send you here." I also need to be here to host the Holy Light Brothers from all over the world. Let Totti take you to the Chapel! Once there, you'll need to report to the Garrison Commander Ansela, who will assign you a specific task!"

The two kowtowed again, and Grim, led by a midshipman, Totti, slowly walked to the most majestic chapel of the Light in the city.

Although the city of Hashas is under martial law, there are still nearly 60,000 residents in the city, so the lively and noisy atmosphere on the streets is no less bustling than usual. However, when two paladins in bright armor walked by, all the inhabitants flashed to the side of the road and bowed.

Grim could see that they were genuinely admiring and revering the followers of the Light. There is no element of compulsion in their respect, it is all from the heart and from the heart.

It can also be seen from this that in the Enwick plane, the strange power of the Holy Light has indeed penetrated into the hearts of the people and has become the embodiment of light and justice!

The sincere admiration and reverence from the people also infinitely stimulated the sense of professional honor of the apprentice knight Totti, and he walked beside Grim, his young and immature little face was full of excitement that could not be concealed, and the eyes that secretly looked at Grim's delicate and gorgeous armor were also more enthusiastic and envious.

As a cadet knight, Totti wore ordinary steel armor with no intricate runes of light carved on it. The paladins above the 1st rank are wearing the holy armor blessed by the power of the holy light, and every time they condense the power of the holy light, the holy armor will merge with the power of the holy light and intersect with each other, thus forming a kind of holy light protection.

Grim has tested that the Tier 1 Black Iron Knight Holy Light Protection is probably able to resist elemental magic damage of about 140 degrees. When Grim was still a Tier 1 wizard, the strongest single burst fireball that could be excited was only about 115 degrees.

This also means that a Tier 1 Black Iron Knight can completely rush to his side and cut him down with Grim's fireball attack. Of course, the longest time for Grim to cast a Tier 1 burst fireball is only 3 seconds. Therefore, if a Tier 1 wizard and a Tier 1 Black Iron Knight are fighting, there is undoubtedly a greater advantage for the Paladin in a small indoor space.

However, if the field is open enough and the Tier 1 wizard has great mobility, the Black Iron Knight will be killed by a kite. After all, no one wearing dozens of pounds of heavy armor can fly as fast as a thief!