In the council hall, the blade took Stephanie into his arms with one hand, and put the hilt of 'Purgatory' with the other.

When he broke into the council hall just now, he only used two fists to make a passage. However, looking at the rebel bandits who followed him and poured into the council hall more and more, he figured that if he wanted to kill again, he would not be able to do it without drawing his sword.

What's more, now he has such a big burden as Stephanie by his side.

"Scar, what are you doing here? This woman is still trying to arrange someone to deal with you today, do you still want to save her now?" Seeing the sudden appearance of the sharp blade, Hughes's face suddenly became extremely ugly.

"It's my business, you don't care. Blade replied lightly.

"Then you mean that one person is going to be the enemy of all the brothers? With so many brothers here, even if you are a ninth-level powerhouse, you can't break into Blackson Castle alone, right?" Hughes sneered.

"Maybe!" Blade didn't refute Hughes's words, but his next words made Hughes's heart tremble.

"But with the meager martial arts skills of you people, if you want to keep me without paying the price of hundreds of casualties, I'm afraid it won't work, right? Who among you wants to be one of the hundreds of people who died?"

When the bandits in the council hall heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other. Yes, even if everyone succeeds in killing the blade in the end, the price paid will definitely be extremely painful! And the most critical question is, who would want to be one of the people who paid the price?

The organising bandit had quietly shifted his steps back, trying to keep himself as far away from the blade as possible.

Hughes's face was cloudy for a moment, and he knew that what Blade said was true. In the entire Blackson Castle, his own side has cultivated to a high-level warrior who has reached the seventh level, and at this time, only he and Enteus are left. Although there were many bandits in the fort, most of them were only low-level warriors with second- or third-level Dou Qi cultivation, and even first-level warriors who had just crossed the threshold of Dou Qi Classification were also very numerous.

And the Blade's Fighting Qi cultivation is said to have reached the ninth level of the peak of the high rank. Although the huge disparity in fighting spirit and martial arts can be compensated by relying on the advantage of numbers, who is willing to risk their own lives to consume the fighting energy of the blade and use their bones to pave the way forward for others?

At least he Hughes won't.

And now that Blade said it so bluntly, if he still ordered his subordinates to attack regardless of losses in such a simple and rude manner, it would definitely chill the hearts of those subordinates.

Just as Hughes was in a dilemma, thinking hard about what to do. Suddenly, there was a loud 'boom', and there was a shaking explosion in the direction of Blackson Castle Square. The explosion was so powerful that even the council hall was deeply affected and shook violently. The bandits in the hall were caught off guard, one of them was unsteady on his feet, and many of them fell to the ground.

Blade and Hughes couldn't help but change color at the same time.

"What's going on?" Hughes turned to look out of the chamber.

"Captain Hughes, something is wrong, the army of the Byzantine Empire is coming to Blackson Castle!" a bandit stumbled in from outside the hall and rushed to Hughes's side, crying and saying, "Magician...... The magicians of the Imperial army have launched a magical attack on us!"

"What's going on? Didn't I already send someone to tell them that I had control over the whole of Blackson Castle, and why did they attack?" Hughes turned grim, and he reached out with both hands, grabbed the bandit by the collar, pulled him in front of him, and yelled loudly.

"Commander, I don't know what's going on!"

"Rudy, you, so you're lying to me!" Hughes wasn't stupid, he quickly came to his senses and understood everything. He let go of the bandit and cursed loudly.

The bandits in the council hall couldn't help but make an uproar when they heard that the imperial army was coming, and they thought that they wanted to destroy the entire 'Nightblade Leopard' bandit group.

"Hughes, didn't you tell your brothers that you had already negotiated with the Empire about recruiting you?, how could this be?" asked Enteus angrily.

"Yes, we just heard that you could join the army, so we followed you against Captain Stephanie!"

"Damn, we've all been lied to by you!"

"I'll fuck you Hughes ancestor!"

......

Hughes's face was decadent and pale, and he looked at the passionate bandits, his lips squirming, but he could not say a word again.

He knew that the bond he had used to keep the bandits loyal to him was broken. Whatever he says now, the bandits will no longer listen. 4E

"Everyone, run for your life!" shouted to the unknown person, and the bandits immediately rushed to the door of the council hall like a torrent of broken embankments.

At this time, Hughes seemed to remember something, his expression perked up, and he tore his throat and shouted: "Don't panic, everyone, Robonia is still in our hands! As long as we escort her to the front of the Imperial Army, we will be able to force the Imperial Army to stop attacking......!"

"Boom!"

Another loud explosion was heard, completely engulfing Hughes's words. The council hall shook again, and Hughes stumbled under his feet, nearly falling to the ground.

Hughes suddenly heard a 'clang' behind him, and when he looked back, he saw that the gilded bronze plaque engraved with the word 'Juyi' hanging high in the council hall had fallen to the ground. The eye-catching word 'Juyi' on the bronze plaque looks so dazzling at the moment!

Blade glanced at the dejected Hughes and ignored him. With Stephanie behind his back, he leaped and rushed towards the door of the chamber.

When Blade rushed out of the council hall with Stephanie on his back, he was stunned by what he saw.

In the center of Blackson Castle Square, two huge craters with a diameter of 30 meters each and a depth of nearly 5 meters appeared. Around the crater, there were many mutilated charred corpses, which were the corpses of the bandits who had just left them in Blackson Castle Square.

In the sky, another shrill whistling sound was heard.

Blade looked up at the sky.

A huge fireball, trailing a long tail flame, was swooping down towards Blackson Castle.

This time, the fireball no longer landed on the square of the castle, but directly on the castle walls.

In the billowing smoke, the walls of Blackson Castle collapsed and a huge hole was blown out. And the air wave formed by the explosion, along the way, overturned many bandits who fled in all directions. Even the sharp blade, which was quite far away from the location of the explosion, couldn't help but turn its face sideways and squint its eyes to avoid under the impact of the incoming air waves.

"Master, Master!" Ward cried out and ran out of nowhere. When the blade had broken into the council hall, he saw that the bandits were in pursuit, so he did not dare to follow the blade, but found a hidden place to hide.

Ward panted and ran to the blade and said, "Master, let's run away! The army of the Byzantine Empire has been killed, and the 'Night Blade Leopard' is finished!"

"The terrain to the west of Blackson Castle is dangerous, and the Valen River flows through it, which is not convenient for the movement of the army, I think the Imperial army must have the least number of troops to attack the West Gate, and we will see if we can rush out of the West Gate. Ward also had a quick wit, and quickly chose the direction of the breakthrough.

Blade nodded, didn't say much, just said, "Let's go!" and carried Stephanie on his back and rushed to the west gate of Blackson Castle with Ward.

Drums rumble!

In an open area outside Blackson Castle, six thousand-strong phalanxes of Byzantine Empire heavy infantry were slowly but neatly advancing towards Blackson Castle. From time to time, a huge fireball roared across the sky above the heads of the heavy infantry and fell into Blackson Castle, destroying the castle's walls, arrow towers, watchtowers and many other defensive facilities.

When they advanced to the point where they were still about Morish away from Blackson Castle, as the leading officers in the Imperial Heavy Infantry phalanx raised their swords and pointed forward, the six Heavy Infantry Phalanx scattered one after another, turning into six torrents of steel and rushing towards the gap in the wall of Blackson Castle.

At this moment, on a hill two miles from Blackson Castle, a red-robed magician gasped and sat weakly on a chair that had been placed behind him.

After using magic to release seven large fireballs in a row, even Campbell, who was the head of the mage regiment of the Fifth Legion of the Byzantine Empire and had reached the peak of the eighth level of magic, felt a little overwhelmed.

"Master Campbell, you've done a great job. Lieutenant General Rudy said to the magician very politely.

Campbell wiped the sweat from his forehead with his hand, looked back at the tens of thousands of imperial soldiers behind him, turned his head again, and said to Rudy with a smile: "Lieutenant General, what, aren't these soldiers behind you ready to go into battle?"

"Hehe, master, you have completely destroyed the city defense system of Blackson Castle, if under such circumstances, the two elite hoplite brigades of our Fifth Legion and 6,000 hoplites cannot easily eat the bandits of only 4,000 people, then our Fifth Legion can take the initiative to ask the military headquarters to remove the number! Anyway, keeping it will be a laughing stock!" Lieutenant General Rudy said humorously to Campbell.

Campbell laughed again.

Rudy suddenly sighed and said, "Actually, I don't need to bring so many people this time! But if Miss Ravnia has an accident and wants to rescue Miss Ravnia, if I don't make enough noise, if Miss Ravonia really has any accidents, I'm afraid that some villains will go to Marshal Harris and Prince Best to sue me, saying that I don't pay attention to rescuing Miss Ravnia, then I won't be able to argue at that time!"

Hearing Rudy mention Robnia, Campbell's face suddenly became solemn.