The capture of Blackwood City, and the casualties and time it took were much better than Paran's previous predictions, but he still didn't have half a happy place. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

It's not so much that Blackwood City was knocked down by him, but that someone deliberately gave it up.

Ekra's forces, and the Church of the Damned behind him, clearly have no intention of fighting his Sixth Legion here.

In such a situation, what about the capture of Blackwood City? If Ekra was not caught, he must have been taken alive; The Church of the Damned must have other schemes, but now Paran doesn't even know what the Church of the Damned is up to, let alone thwart their plots.

At the cost of more than a thousand people, he laid down a dark city with low strategic value......

Palan reassured himself that it was still useful. At the very least, it can be announced to the outside world that the rebellion of the Fir Lords has been put down, and even the cheeky ones can publicize that Ekra has been killed - of course, whether or not to declare this to the outside world is up to the elites in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to weigh the pros and cons.

As for what to do next, how to deal with the affairs of Ekra and the Cursed Church depends on whether their own intelligence organization is effective or not. After all, if the army wants to act, it must be supported by intelligence, and it cannot be like a blind man touching an elephant.

When he thought of the intelligence organization, Paran remembered one thing: why didn't he see Firmino after he had captured Blackwood City?

Just as he was thinking, a petite female drow elf approached him.

This is Firmino's men, an agent from the Academy of the Black Hand.

"Hello General Palan, the leader of the demon tribulation asked me to wait for you here, I am Xia Cao."

The so-called magic disaster is none other than Firmino. Those of them who came out of the Black Hand Academy usually have a code name on their heads.

"Hello." With a casual greeting, Paran continued to ask, "What about your leader?" ”

"The leader of the demon tribulation traced some clues yesterday morning and has followed him personally. Most of the Black Hand agents in Fir Territory have made their moves, but my team has just finished their mission and is currently on standby for your disposal. We can be under your direct supervision to provide your military with the support you need to report. ”

"Hell......" Palan had a headache.

The female Detective in front of her is indeed a good helper. Not to mention, these spies are far more reliable than the best scouts under him.

But this was just the icing on the cake, and what Paran needed most now was not a great scout, but genuine information.

He wanted to know, where the hell had Akra gone? What the hell is the Church of the Damned doing?

If he couldn't figure out this, he always felt a breathless sense of uneasiness in his heart.

Of course, in the absence of definite information for the time being, Palan could not take any action. What's more, at the moment, he is not without trouble.

On the one hand, after the war just ended, the rotten situation of the fir collar still needs him to deal with; In addition, even the combined forces of Pudri and the Kingdom of Victoria, which came from the southwest, were also a headache.

He didn't want to fight the Holy Alliance in the fir realm, a battle that was pointless to win or lose.

……

While Paran conquered Blackwood City and was busy pacifying the people, tracking down the rebels who had followed Ekra, and cleaning up the mess, Firmino was watching a big show.

Fifteen thousand troops under the banner of the Holy Alliance are about to fall into a shocking trap.

Here's the thing.

Before Palan's main army reached the city of Blackwood, Firmino, who was lurking in the city, sensed that something was wrong. He probed and found that Aekra and the Archmage Deatheye, whom he had been watching, had disappeared from Blackwood City at some point.

He didn't have time to pass on the news to Palan, so he hurriedly followed the clues, leaving only a few of his subordinates.

This clue, as soon as I followed, followed it for a day.

He was southwest of the fir realm, near the border, and found a very vicious trap.

The Church of the Damned slaughtered more than 2,000 people in at least this vicinity, and they used the souls and corpses to set up a giant cursed circle on the spot.

Firmino is not a mage, but to be a secret agent, he must at least have some knowledge of magic.

He couldn't recognize what the effect of this cursed circle was, but from the fluctuations in strength, from the size of the circle, and from the fact that the entire circle needed thirty middle and high-level spellcasters, plus a sixteenth-level archmage to preside over it...... Taken together, he could roughly judge that the effect range of this circle should be very large.

At first, he thought it might be for Paran's army. However, after calculating the location, he found that the circle arranged by the Cursed Church seemed to be ...... It seems that the army of the Holy Alliance is on the way to enter the fir realm.

Firmino was a little confused - they were going straight to the rhythm of the Holy Alliance. But the question is, why?

It stands to reason that letting the Holy Alliance's army run to fight Paran's troops should be the most beneficial thing for Akra and the Church of the Damned, right?

Thinking of this, Firmino's mind turned and he thought about one more thing. The traces of the transformation of the demons left by the Church of the Curse in Blackwood City, as well as those who were killed, are also evidence in themselves. If the Holy Alliance's army is allowed to pass over and confront the Sixth Legion, it is impossible to fight, and it is possible for the two armies to cooperate and eliminate the Church of the Damned at the same time.

But...... Firmino still couldn't figure it out, he still felt that something was not quite right in this matter.

He couldn't make up his mind what to do with this information.

The news was first reported to Paran and the Royal Foreign Ministry, and he was waiting for further instructions from above.

And when the Holy Alliance was only half a day away from stepping into the trap that had been hidden, he finally received instructions from the upper echelons of the kingdom - to warn the Holy Alliance's army.

Is it still too late? Firmino was deeply skeptical of this.

He didn't know how the upper echelons of the kingdom thought about this matter, but all he had to do was follow orders.

So, he sent two of his men, in the name of messengers from the Kingdom of Hindlaire, to the armies of the Holy Alliance to inform them of the trap of the cursed church.

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Yesterday I worked too late overtime, and I went home and lay in bed to rest for a while and then get up to write, and the result was ...... I was woken up by the alarm clock at work early in the morning.

What can I do? I'm desperate!

Wait for another chapter......