Alfred, the new court strategic advisor to the King of Thessaloniki and a close confidant of Bernifascius himself.

A former Norman pirate who studied at the Military Academy of the Holy Solomon Empire, Alfred possessed both a Norman sense of cunning and a mastery of various Shinra tactics and strategies.

Therefore, when the intruding mage assassin was not caught, Bernie Faxiu handed over the personal guard directly to Alfred to take command, and he left the stronghold in a hurry, escorted back to Thessaloniki by the guards.

"The enemy's strengths and weaknesses are obvious." Inside the command building, Alfred stood in front of the sand platform, on which a rough map of the town's topography and buildings had been sketched.

"The arcane abilities of fire, and the ability to control things like minds, desires, or dreams, make it almost impossible for this assassin to handle one-on-one situations."

"However, she must lack the means of defense against a large-scale attack, otherwise she wouldn't have to hide like this, hunting down our knights everywhere - just kill them."

"In other words, as long as everyone refrains from acting alone, the other party will not have any chance to attack."

"All the teams involved in the search, with one Power Armor Knight and two Knight Servants as the smallest unit, conducted a clockwise search centered on this building. I've already set all the routes, and you must follow this information to set up your patrol routes. ”

"Every minute that passes, all teams must report their location and the progress of the search, and if they find something unexpected, they will report immediately."

"Understood!" The knights saluted in unison.

Soon, the patrol route of the knights in the stronghold changed, like a spread cobweb, seemingly messy and disorderly, but hidden murderous motives.

"A new commander? All keep the group action? Behind the wall, Medusa looked at the squad of knights who were passing through in full gear and vigilance, reading the information from their shallow consciousness.

"So, let me see how you grow." She stared at the three enemies, secretly manipulating their desires.

The knight squad was moving forward, and one of the servants suddenly felt a little sore in his neck, so he twisted his neck bone and turned his head.

The moment he met Medusa's gaze, his mind and body immediately fell, and as if his limbs were not manipulative, he grabbed the fireproof asbestos cloth on the armor of the knight next to him, and quickly tore it off.

The move came so unexpectedly that the knight and the other servant didn't even react. Next, a huge flame engulfed the power armor.

Inside the rapidly heated steel armor, the knight's flesh was charred almost instantly. The remaining two servants fought each other together, and were easily ignited by the flames thrown by Medusa.

"That's all." Looking at the two servants who were constantly struggling in the flames, Medusa sneered.

"What, I'm exposed?" She suddenly muttered to herself in confusion, "Medea, my flame manipulation is very precise, and they haven't been able to send any signals out from the beginning to the end......"

Medusa quickly rushed into the nearby building, and saw two squads appear on both sides of the street at the same time, running towards the burning corpses.

"Bodies were found in area G15 and were burning." They appear to be communicating with the command center via radio.

"Yes, immediately follow the latest route."

Medusa, who was monitoring the outside through the window, saw two teams of knights outside, one stationed in place to monitor the entire street, and the other team began to search the nearby buildings.

So she walked to the back of the store, intending to escape through the back door, while talking to Medea in her mind:

"How was it exposed?"

"You say, it's because I killed these knights?"

Leaving the building through the back door, she suddenly noticed from her psychic vision that dozens of mental bodies were approaching this side, and quickly dodged behind the garbage heap.

"With the help of communication channels, the enemy has arranged a spider-like defense system, and each patrol team is equivalent to a spider on it, maintaining regular contact with the commander at any time."

"As soon as I kill one of the spiders, the whole web will immediately be alarmed, and all the small spiders in the vicinity will gather in this direction."

"This will undoubtedly make it much more difficult for me to conceal myself, and I will have to avoid killing any patrol team if I want to escape from the encirclement unharmed."

"Otherwise, every successful killing is in fact exposing and refreshing my own position."

"But my own abilities must be based on the pain caused by the killing."

"Understood, Medea. It seems that if you want to break the situation, you can only start by destroying the entire patrol system. ”

She stared at the ranks of knights hurrying by outside, quietly activating her psychic abilities, quickly flipping through their shallow thoughts.

"I see, just kill their commander, right?"

Ten minutes later, Medusa quietly avoided several patrols and quietly approached the Crusader's command center.

It is a low two-storey villa with exquisite little garden and swimming pool.

The gate was guarded by two heavily armed knights, and crusaders were constantly coming and going. From a distance, Medea could see two men talking on the balcony on the second floor of the villa.

In the bedroom behind the balcony, there seemed to be more figures shaking.

She took a deep breath and began to summon the surging flame power throughout her body.

A few seconds later, a cyan flame burst from a distance of several hundred meters towards the heavily guarded double-storey garden villa.

The flames first washed in front of the main entrance, melting and burning through it in less than half a second, and then rushed into the ground floor hall with terrifying force.

As the caster's hands waved, the flames swept up like a giant python, and everywhere they passed, whether it was furniture, tables, chairs, or walls made of concrete, they were either melted or vaporized in an instant under the terrifying heat of the flames.

In a matter of seconds, the load-bearing walls and columns on the ground floor were completely destroyed, so that the upper layer collapsed under a tilt, and all the victims inside fell into the burning fire.

"What a lot of painful emotions!" Medusa covered her cheeks in intoxication, "There are at least twenty people here, and their screams and wails in the flames are constantly replenishing my strength......"

In the next second, her face turned pale. A huge amount of malice without any disguise swept towards her from all directions.