Chapter 266: The City Swallowed by Water (Part II)
When Achia and Walbuck first arrived in Akanretia, they were greeted by the war-torn land. The legendary brave Emilia Eustina leads the male adventurers of the Church of Axis in a battle against the Demon King's army.
Listening to the endless shouts of killing in the distance, Akeya's heart was like a knife, because it was mixed with the last shouts of her own followers.
Walbuck joined the battle circle as soon as possible, and with the spirit crystals she got from Yang Han, she unscrupulously used a wide range of magic to support the fierce attacks of the demons on the human side.
But with her alone, she is very different from the demon generalissimo Malacuta, who is extremely good at strategy, and coupled with the opponent's numerical advantage, she still can't save the battle that is about to be defeated.
The battle lasted almost day and night for three days and three nights, and although the Demon King's side suffered countless casualties, in terms of the overall number of people, it was the human side that was defeated. As a last resort, the brave retreated with the last of his men to defend the city in Akanretia, waiting for the other legions to come to their aid.
The whole city was in fear during the besieged days, because no one knew when the enemy would come. Maybe it was late at night, maybe it was early in the morning, in short, it was necessary to tense up at all times, causing many soldiers to faint to death.
However, the enemy's methods do not stop there, they besiege the human beings and attack with their spirits, and at the same time, they also do a very vicious thing - poisoning.
At that time, the hot springs in Akanretia were still there, so the Demon King Army secretly sent scouts who were good at stealth and flying to sneak into the hot springs in the middle of the night and drop poison downward. The poison was incorporated into the hot springs, which then evaporated into water vapor and began to spread, in which they attempted to turn Akanretia into a gas pool.
Perhaps fortunately, Aca's sensitivity as the goddess of water quickly sensed that something was wrong, and she began to work on it. With Akya's purification powers, the poisoned hot springs were quickly purified into boiled water, but because the incident was resolved so quickly, people didn't know what the situation was, and they only saw the hot springs turn into ordinary heated pools.
Originally, because of the war, the belief in the goddess Akya has decreased, and after seeing such a scene, many people began to cry in private and said that "the goddess abandoned us".
Seeing this, Akya didn't know how to make up for it, so she just stood up stunned and announced her true identity as a goddess to everyone. But there is no way to convince anyone, everyone just thinks she is a blasphemous fool.
Some people who are becoming more and more unfavorable because of the situation begin to lose faith and stand by the side of the brave, trying to follow the other side to the battlefield; Some denounced Aca's blasphemous, believing that it was because of her presence that the goddess abandoned them; There are also some people who are confused, but one thing is certain, no one believes that Akya is the legendary goddess Akeya.
The city defense station continued, and Wolbark had to continue to fight during that time, causing the spirit crystal given to her by Yang Han to become more and more dim and shrink, and finally became only the size of a fingernail.
Akeya, who has little combat ability, did not go to war, and to be precise, when facing an enemy who is not an undead creature, she probably went to cause chaos. She began to build a statue of herself in order to prove that she was a goddess, in an attempt to redeem the faith of her followers and prove her true identity.
In fact, you don't need to think about it to know what nonsense this is, in the battle, there is an incomparably magnificent statue of the goddess standing behind you, and the believers will indeed raise some morale, but only if there is! What can I do if I don't have a ready-made product?
When Achia pieced together her goddess statue out of a large pile of disposable milk cartons, the battle was over. Defended by the Brave and Wolbach, Akanretia finally sought reinforcements, and the army of the Demon King, who were short of food and grass, was forced to retreat in defeat.
The Brave's prestige was praised by more people, and she departed, leaving the stronghold of the Cult of Axis with all the strength of the city.
The original group of Axis fanatics changed greatly after that battle, and they began to gradually become good soldiers who relied on their hands to move fearlessly towards the front line, having always believed that "they are not wrong, but the world is wrong".
The goddess who crawled out of a large pile of disposable milk cartons jumped and jumped, that is, she tried to keep them with her clumsiest words, but unfortunately it was all useless.
In the eyes of others, this battle was a beautiful story of humans relying on their own hands to save the world, and as for Akya, who had been clumsily making statues in the rear in an attempt to redeem her faith, she was completely ignored.
Most of the people in the town are gone, only some women and children remain, which is why the city is now full of women, because most of the original believers of the Aksis Sect are fanatics, and many old men in their seventies and eighties have gone to the front line with shovels.
If it weren't for the Brave Man's proposal that "men should fight and women should take care of their families", I am afraid that this city would have become an empty city.
Arkea, who sat in front of the city gate in the way of ducks, looked at the crowd leaving, and finally couldn't help crying loudly, she cried extremely miserably, as if a child whose parents didn't want herself.
Her tears were like a flood bursting the banks, and notice that this is not an exaggerated metaphor, but a real description. According to Wolbark, she had never seen anything like it.
The cry formed a flood, a water more terrifying than any high-level magic, and no one could stop Aquia from crying, because her surroundings were like a whirlpool of the sea, and the violent water erupted so violently that the entire city was gradually swallowed up by it.
It was an apocalyptic scene, and no one could even run away because the water was coming so fast. With the cry of Akya showing no sign of stopping, the sky began to fall like a waterfall, the earth cracked, and a series of water columns broke out, and the departing soldiers looked at their hometown behind them and knelt on the ground one by one, crying to the sky about their mistakes, and repenting of their loss of faith; The old and young women and children in the city hugged each other, hugging the people they knew or didn't know around them and shivering.
However, none of this could stop Akeya, and the water engulfed the surroundings indecisively, and those who left the city had to run farther and farther to avoid being killed by the waves.
Eventually, by the time things had calmed down, a full week had passed, and no one had seen Akya since, not even Wolbach.