Chapter Seventy-One: The Paladins Fight

The heavy rain that came out of it was definitely not a good thing for Yus, who kept the Templars out of the blockade.

The magic leeches she creates are different from the "Curse of Aging" in the dark magic of the curse system. The latter uses dark magic to affect the body's cellular functions, while the former changes the speed of time passing. The moment the object touches the leech, the magic released from the leech accelerates the passage of time of the object, making it come to an end in advance, so the objects that You Shi's magic leeches can affect are not limited to living things, but also inorganic substances such as stones and metals can also be aged. On the ground where the leeches crawled, they left long grayish-white marks, which were the phenomenon of the rock being decayed into powder.

Not only tangible solid substances, but also liquids such as running water can be affected by the acceleration time of leeches. When the rain falls from the sky, the rain on the magic leech triggers the magic power contained in the leech, causing the rain to evaporate into water vapor in an instant, and the magic power in the leech is also exhausted by the rain in advance. Dense magic leeches, after a rainstorm, a large area disappeared out of thin air.

The sudden disappearance of the decaying leeches immediately relieved the Knights Templar, who had been forced to retreat, and even believed that the heavy rain was a gift from the gods of light to help them fight with evil, and their morale was shocked, and they rushed to the vampire line again.

There was no need to maintain such a large number of decaying leeches, and Yu Shi's mana consumption was reduced a lot at once, and her clothes and appearance gradually returned to their previous appearance.

Although he regained his youthful appearance, Yu Shi was not happy, because without the power of decay, the enemy would not be taboo, and the pressure on the defense line would surely increase.

But there was no room for retreat. There were no rotten leeches, and she had other leeches.

More than a dozen giant leeches appeared in front of the defensive line, they were a hundred times larger than ordinary leeches, and they stood taller than a horse.

The appearance of the giant leech frightened the Holy Army soldiers, who had already rushed to the defensive line, and out of fear of the power of decay, they froze when they were one step away from the enemy.

Hesitation on the battlefield is equivalent to putting one's head under the enemy's butcher's knife. The giant leech took the opportunity to pounce and entangled a dozen soldiers one-on-one. These giant leeches had no decaying powers, but their suckers were filled with sharp serrations, tearing through the exposed skin of the soldiers' armor and frantically sucking blood from their bodies.

Within seconds, an adult's blood had been sucked dry. After throwing away the crumpled corpse, the giant blood-sucking leech immediately pounced on the next target. The surrounding soldiers slashed at the giant leeches that attacked their comrades, but the leeches were able to heal their wounds in an instant after sucking blood. Several blood-sucking leeches were injured by Cheng Dù who was faster than they could heal by sucking blood, and simply fused together to become a larger super-giant magic leech. Other vampires also came to the aid at the right time, and instead of freeing up their hands to eradicate the threat of giant vampire leeches, more and more people were killed.

"Whoosh!" a sharp arrow strikes through the air!

The all-silver arrows pointed directly at You Shi, who was manipulating the giant blood-sucking leech. You Shi's eyes were quick, and before the sharp arrow could penetrate him, he jumped up and dodged it, and the two Bloods standing behind him became substitutes for the dead, strung together by silver arrows, and disappeared in the screams.

In order to avoid this arrow, Yu Shi had to temporarily break off the magical connection with the giant magic leech. Losing control of the manipulator's mantra supply, the giant leech's movements become sluggish.

The iron hooves trampled on the mud mixed with blood and water, and the five heavily armed knights rushed forward with their charging spears, concentrating the huge impact generated by the galloping horses on the sharp spear tips, and the spears were inserted into the body of the giant leech, but the man and the war horse did not stop, and directly tore the giant blood-sucking leech from the middle on both sides.

The vampires in the back row saw that the giant vampire leeches had been cracked, and immediately surrounded and killed the five hoplite knights, but the intercepted vampires were rushed to pieces by the five knights.

The victorious five knights, spears aloft, struck a cheering pose in the vampire's position, and before the other vampires surrounded them, they reined in their horses and quickly returned to their own position.

The Holy Army soldiers in the scuffle also followed the five knights back to their positions. This time the Holy Army retreated not because of defeat or fear, but because they saw the dawn of victory.

The Holy Army that had retreated to their own formation reorganized their formation in an orderly manner, and the five knights standing in front of the Holy Army also pulled down their masks one after another. They were not ordinary knights, but five key officers of the "Bright Dignity" Legion, with three Blessing Knights and two Prayer Knights.

The Blessed Knight and the Prayer Knight appeared, and a paladin appeared in the view of the god Yu.

Through the rain curtain, Yuss was convinced that it was the Paladin, Karl Moreth, the Templar Commander, who had attacked her with a bow and arrow, a tall, muscular man holding an empty longbow in his hand. It seems that the commander of the Holy Army, like You Shi, finally couldn't hold back and walked from the command position to the front line to fight in person.

Morethm hung his longbow back in the right saddle, and then lifted a charge spear from the left saddle, and there were not only these two weapons hanging on his horse, but also two rows of throwing knives, a short crossbow, and a short sword, in addition to a saber and a knight's saber on each of his left and right waists, and a pair of short spears tied to his back.

Behind Moresm were eight knightly attendants, each riding a mule—a cross between a horse and a donkey, stronger than a donkey, and a horse-lifer, but infertile. On the backs and mounts of these squires were several racks full of weapons, meteor hammers, two-handed heavy swords, nailhead cones, spears, fighting spears, war hammers, horsewhips, scimitars, wheel blades, battle axes, daggers, heavy crossbows, hooked scythes, shark tooth blades, iron rods, soft iron fishing nets, tridents, long and short arrows, slings, throwing hooks...... All kinds of weapons, light and heavy, far and near, everything.

That's the best feature of Paladin Morethm. He was an all-round warrior, proficient in the use of more than a hundred weapons and combat skills in hand-to-hand combat, and every time he entered the battlefield, he would bring all the weapons he could use, and one squire could not carry so many weapons, so he had to use eight squires to share the burden.

The battlefield was very quiet, only the sound of rolling thunder and raindrops was heard, and there were no exhilarating shouts, no passionate mobilization, and no restless shouting. Paladin Moresm rode out of front of the formation, followed by eight squires and mules, and the five knights just now also came to Moraism's side, standing side by side with the legion leader.

The six charging spears were raised in unison, the final preparations of the knight before he charged......

"Keep order, children first, go inside first......"

Sophia's sweat and rain were combined, soaking wet, and she worked for more than three hours without a minute of rest, but she still stood in the midst of the storm and thunder and lightning despite her fatigue, calmly directing the evacuation of the refugees.

Illuminated by the divine radiance emanating from her body, coupled with her beautiful countenance, the vast majority of refugees were willing to obey Sophia's command and lined up in an orderly manner to enter one of the sanctuaries, the Great Church of St. Sejof, one of the seven sanctuaries.

Before parting ways with the Vampire Prince, Sophia clearly pointed out on the map several places that were not in the path of the Blood's march as shelters for refugees, and the Bloods were never allowed to set foot in them, nor were they allowed to bring battles to the vicinity of these shelters. The Prince of Vampire also agreed.

The Great Basilica of St. Sejof is the fourth sanctuary she has built tonight. After making sure that all the citizens in the vicinity had entered the shelter, Sophia set up a protective barrier on the perimeter of the Great Temple, and when this was done, she immediately rushed to the next area to evacuate the citizens.

However, any self-aware army will have undisciplined black sheep, and the Blood Army is no exception.

Two lone vampires, suspected of awakening their bloodthirsty instincts by killing red eyes or sucking too much human blood during the battle, lost their self-control and rushed into the Great Chapel of St. Sejof before Sophia's protective barrier was fully established! The Vault was in panic and chaos.

Shocked, Sophia rushes into the Great Sanctuary and stops the two vampires by force, knocking them out of the street.

"Get out of my sight forever! If you dare to attack the citizens again, I will destroy you myself. Sophia looked down at the two vampires who had fallen to the ground and warned sternly.

After being beaten up, the two vampires finally came to their senses. Of course, they knew the origin of this weak-looking human girl in front of them, and even the Prince of Vampire was her defeated subordinate, and of course the two of them did not dare to touch this moldy head.

After driving away the two vampires, Sophia returned to the Great Church, calmed the frightened refugees and the families of the dead and wounded, and then continued to set up protective barriers around the perimeter of the Great Church.

Finally, Sophia breathed a sigh of relief when the protective barrier was arranged, but as soon as she turned around, she met the eyes of a middle-aged man. Sophia was startled, how did this man come behind her without a sound, apparently she didn't realize that she was too devoted to her work.

"You are obviously a priest of the God of Light, why are you in adultery with the vampire wolf Bèi?" the middle-aged man frowned, his face was full of anger, and he asked Sophia in the tone of a teacher asking for sin.

"What? I'm in cahoots with the vampire wolf, no way!" Sophia couldn't stand being snapped into. Not long ago, she almost died at the hands of a vampire.

As Sophia defended herself, she stared into the other person's eyes, but she had a feeling that the other person was familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had met him for a while.

"I have watched you for a long time and seen your efforts to evacuate the masses, and I hope that you will prove your innocence with your actions, however, in the end, you let me down too much. The middle-aged man shook his head and sighed, "If you had nothing to do with vampires, you would have killed those two guys just now instead of warning them." It seems that His Majesty the Pope is not wrong, you are indeed a vampire's comrade. ”

"Pope, are you ......?"

"Tell me, what is your purpose in infiltrating the Holy City?" Without giving Sophia a chance to defend herself, the middle-aged man continued to ask.

At this time, Sophia noticed what the middle-aged man was wearing. He was undoubtedly wearing a paladin's armor. But isn't there not a single paladin in the Holy City now?

Seeing Sophia's silence, the paladin thought she was out of reason.

"Well, since you won't say it, I'll take you back for interrogation. William Mano drew his sword pinned to his waist.

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