Thick dark clouds obscured the sky, and the pitch-black ink seemed to never melt away, and the hue was like the darkness of the abyss, which seemed incomparably deep and oppressive. The bright sunlight of the end of March is completely blocked, making the world under the clouds look like a ghost cave.

Abraham Bridges, King of the Holy City, stood on the brightly lit walls of St. Bruno's Pass, holding on to the battlements and looking at the black and oppressive army outside the pass, his face flickering and darkening, not knowing what he was thinking.

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

At this moment, a sound of the collision of armor leaves came from far and near, and finally stopped behind the King of the Holy City.

"What's wrong?" Abraham didn't look back, just asked lightly.

The knight respectfully put his hand on his chest, knelt down on one knee and said:

"My king, King Bradrick, together with the other seven kings and grand dukes outside the border, sent an envoy saying that he wanted to talk to you."

"Talk?" Abraham chewed on those two words, a sarcastic smile on his face.

"What to talk about? How can I let them into the Origin Mountains? ”

The knight did not reply, the intentions of the kings were not something that he could guess as a low-level lord, although anyone with normal intelligence could guess what their intentions were when they saw this.

"Did they say where they were going to talk?"

This question the knight was able to answer, "My king, they said they wanted to enter the customs. ”

"Entry?" Abraham pouted, "Eighty percent of the time I open the gates, they will command their armies to rush in, right?" ”

The knight's eyes and nose looked at his nose, and his nose looked at his heart, but he didn't say a word.

Abraham turned his head to look at the knight and frowned, he thought the guy was very boring.

"Well, you go and tell their messenger. It's okay to talk, but they can only talk about it themselves. Want to get in? There are no doors! Of course, if they don't dare to come, forget it. ”

"Yes, my king!"

The knight did not hesitate to receive the king's order, and with a word of agreement turned and ran towards the road of the wall.

Abraham looked at his back and pouted, then turned his gaze back to the army a few miles away.

"What a big momentum!" He said sarcastically.

Ten minutes later, eight cavalry squads rushed out from the opposing army, and the members of these cavalry squads were all brightly armoured and tall, riding on horses of good blood, holding high the banners of the royal families of their respective countries, and in each column were clustered a knight in gorgeous armor.

Soon, the eight kings came to the castle.

"Abraham, my brother (a reference to the names between European royal families in real history.) If the other party is a male king, he is called a brother, and if he is a queen, he is called a sister. Break the army press)! We are obviously the most devout believers in the Goddess of Creation, and this time we are leading a large army to come just to bring that pair of forbidden spells into the hands of my Creator God Cult, why do you want to turn us away? ”

King Bradrick, dressed in gilt armor and a bright red cloak, stepped out of the crowd and questioned Abraham in the city with a righteous face.

When the other kings and archdukes heard this, they also drove their mounts out of the procession at a trot, and shouted in response.

"Yes, Abraham, we are only here to spread the gospel of the goddess throughout the world!"

"You only have knights under you, how can we put you on such a heavy responsibility?"

"The heathen of the south have been on the rise again, do you want to put the safety of the Holy City at risk?"

"How can you do such a thing that hurts relatives and enemies are happy?"

"In the past, the infidels attacked, but we sent troops to help you retreat from the enemy!"

“……”

Enjoying the hard work of the eight kings, Abraham, the king of the Holy City, only sneered slightly.

You Bradric are better than monkeys, and you don't know how foolish it is to send an army into the mountains to take the curse? I am afraid that the reason why I have come with so many troops is not to deal with heretics, heretics, and unbelievers, but to intimidate me, right?

Let the Gospel of the Goddess spread throughout the world? It's better to say than to sing, and the mentally retarded know that you are here to take the forbidden spell for yourself, replace it with the Holy See, and become the overlord of the alliance.

It's true that I only have knights under my command, but they are all strong soldiers for the rest of their lives, and even if they fight against your army of war mages, they will not necessarily lose.

As for the infidels coming to invade, you will send troops to help? Shh If there is no Holy See behind the urging, can you send a single soldier? Don't be funny, in that case, how can I betray the Holy See?

Abraham yawned and said helplessly, "My brothers, are you here to talk this nonsense?" If that's the case, I'm sorry! ”

Then he would turn and leave.

"Abraham!" Bradrick shouted angrily.

"What's wrong?" Abraham froze and asked.

"Aren't you afraid that we will attack the city?! You know, there are eight legions of war mages outside the city! Even if the power of the Forbidden Spell against the Army is not enough, if I throw eight of them on your head at a time, I don't believe that the lethality will be much worse than the Forbidden Spell against the City! ”

Is it finally the end of the dagger?

Abraham grinned, how good was it to be like this earlier? It also saves some tongues.

"It's scary, it's scary!" Abraham quickly made a frightened expression, but then his face changed, and he became gloomy and cold.

"However, if you are not afraid of the destruction of the clan, you can try!"

When the kings heard this, their faces darkened, and the fragile ones faintly flinched, and they naturally knew that Abraham was referring to the excommunication of the Holy See.

The so-called "excommunication" is a form of sanction imposed by the Church of Creation God, that is, the exclusion of a person from the fellowship of believers, the exclusion of him from the sacraments of the Church, the deprivation of his right to be a member of the Church, and the deprivation of his current membership in the Church. It is a major punishment for clergy and believers. According to the teachings of the Cult of Creation, the person who is divided here cannot return to the arms of the goddess after death.

And for the monarchs of the Western Continent, who can only be crowned by the Pope and have legitimacy on the throne, the excommunication is not hesitant to destroy it. Those who are excommunicated will not only lose their throne, but will also rebel against their relatives, and even their lives can no longer be saved.

After all, knights, war mages, and nobles of all sizes owe only the rightful king.

Hmph, looking at their cowering virtues, Abraham smiled contemptuously in his heart, and said in his belly: Sure enough, they are all some fierce and introverted guys!

But at this moment, King Bradrick reminded in a loud voice: "As long as you get that pair of city forbidden spells, what about the Holy See's excommunication?" With this thing, as long as your subordinates are not stupid, they know how to choose! ”

The monarchs exchanged glances with each other and realized that Bradrick was indeed wrong, that religious beliefs were one thing, and personal ambitions were another. After capturing the Forbidden Spell, his subordinates will choose to betray themselves and renew their allegiance to a new king, and become a minor lord of one of the 33 Kingdoms in the Western Continent for the rest of their lives. Or will they choose to remain loyal to themselves and become the great nobles of the overlord country in the north of the Western Continent, or even the hegemonic country of the entire world?

It's really intriguing......

"Don't talk nonsense with this loyal dog, let's go back!" One of the kings proposed.

If it weren't for the fact that the Holy City was once attacked by the infidels in the south a hundred years ago, and the Constantine family, the king of the previous Holy City, was all wiped out in the war, how could it be the turn of David Bridges, the head of the Knights Templar under the command of the Holy See, to take over?

Moreover, after the brutal millennium war, the territory near the holy city has long been beaten into the most barren scorched earth in the Western Continent, with withered people's livelihood and backward economy. Not even a hundred-man war mage could be put together, and he relied purely on knights to support the portal. Why should such guys be on an equal footing with them and call them brothers? The kind words of persuasion just now are enough to give him face, since he is shameless to give face, then don't blame everyone for not reading the same religion!

"That's right! Since he won't let us go, then we'll bombard his city! ”

The kings immediately clamoured.

Bradrick sneered proudly in his heart, the reason why he proposed this meeting was to completely eliminate the slightest luck in the hearts of other monarchs. Now there is no doubt that his purpose has been achieved.

The cold sweat on Abraham's head immediately fell, he had to guard St. Bruno for three months until reinforcements from the Holy See's War Mage Regiment arrived! At this time, if these guys really ignored the order of their subordinates to throw a bunch of forbidden spells, no matter how tall and strong his fortress was, he would not be able to withstand it!

And he doesn't want to die here.

"Damn Carl Douglas!" Abraham thought with hatred that if this man hadn't insisted on taking the curse with only his subordinates, and didn't even trust himself, how could things have gotten to such a point?!

Fortunately, now he has no news of Karl, but the Eight-Nation Alliance has forced himself to his doorstep, and at the behest of Bradrick's conspirator, he has to throw a forbidden spell on his head, staging a good show of roommates.

This is such a tmd pit man!

"My king, do you want to order the Hellfire Knights to prepare for the attack?" At this moment, a bold and majestic man's voice suddenly sounded behind Abraham.

Abraham was stunned for a moment, then turned his head to look.

It was a knight with a burly figure and a resolute face with short blond hair. At this moment, he was standing behind him with his sword in his hand, wearing a set of fiery red full-body plate armor. His back was as straight as a fine lance, and he exuded an unstoppable majesty.

"Well, go ahead!" Abraham nodded, and at the end he added, "Sean, I'll take care of your wife and children." ”

This person was none other than Sean Sterling, the head of the Hellfire Knights, one of the three ace knights under the command of the King of the Holy City, who had been listening in the nearby tower just now, when he found that the negotiations had broken down, he immediately hurried out and came to ask his king for his life.

After listening to the promise of his own king, he just nodded silently, and without hesitation, he turned and dismounted.

A moment later, a flame rose from below the city, soaring to a height of more than six zhang. If it weren't for the fact that the fortress of St. Bruno Pass was eight feet high, it would definitely have been discovered by the Eight-Nation Alliance outside.

Abraham knew that it was Captain Stirling who unleashed his elemental armament, which was different from ordinary Dou Qi, after reaching the level of Dou Qi at level ten, Dou Qi would take on various elemental forms, which was elemental armament.

This kind of armament is much more powerful than the armament condensed by ordinary energy state fighting energy, not only has the defensive power that does not lose to the former, but also can swing an attack with elemental attributes like a magician, which is the pinnacle of fighting qi armament.

It's just that Abraham knows that even if Sean is so powerful, he is still far from enough when facing the eight royal war mage legions.

It would be good if he could lead his knights to break through the enemy's two mage formations before the enemy reacted.

As for coming back alive, that's impossible......