At the same time as the church collapsed, a loud horn suddenly sounded in the west of the city, and with the blessing of magic, it spread throughout the war-torn Rhine City.

The herald's voice rang out as well.

"The whole army retreats ——!"

In the sky, the mages had just finished another round of firefighting with the priests' troops. Receiving the order, Joanna could not help but glance regretfully at the enemy—by this moment, the priest's line had become sparse, almost half as many as it had been at the beginning, and the bishop looked a little embarrassed. After crushing countless crosses in quick succession, the light around him had finally thinned, and in ten minutes they might have been beaten to the point of running out of ammunition.

And the mages on Joanna's side even had some room to spare.

It's a pity that I almost killed them all......

However, this was the plan in advance, and Joanna knew that reinforcements from the church would arrive soon. Therefore, they quickly turned around and sped away in the pre-set direction.

At the same time, the army in the city below that was caught in the melee also changed in an instant. The "Black Nightmare" army, which originally had a numerical advantage, now got out of the battle, and from the top down, they retreated from the streets like a tide, rushing towards the breached gate in the west of the city.

Compared to them, the reaction of the Church and the Kingdom Army was obviously much slower.

"We ...... Knocked them back?"

In the sky, the bishop looked at the retreating army in disbelief, and for a while he didn't even have the slightest idea of pursuit, only faintly happy.

The battle with the mage team just now almost crushed his confidence in just ten minutes. I don't know how many years I have been studying divine arts, but I have been completely crushed, if it weren't for the fact that they have the skill of joint spellcasting, the bishop even suspects that he has been incinerated by that terrible flame at this moment.

The strength of this group of mages ...... He had far surpassed the priest they had cultivated, and in terms of upper power, he knew that he would never be able to defeat the witch who controlled the flames.

How many such people are there in the Academy of Magic?

The bishop couldn't stop being terrified. Therefore, when the mages suddenly retreated, he had basically lost his will to fight, and he only felt a sigh of relief, blessed by the gods, and picked up another life.

However, when they landed on the ground and confirmed the battle with the commander......

"Church, church...... Ruined?"

Looking at the pile of ruins on the flat ground, the bishop froze in place, his face full of disbelief. At this moment, he finally realized what the demon had done that had never shown up.

"What should we do? Why did they suddenly withdraw their troops? Are we going to chase them?" On the other side, government officials also quickly rushed over, looked at the bishop, and asked the six gods without a master.

“...... If you don't chase it, what if there's a trap?"

Hearing this, the official nodded and left. But after a while, several paladins arrived, hurried into the bishop's ear, and whispered something. Then the bishop's face changed drastically.

"How is it possible? How do they know? It can't be ......"

His whole face was white, his voice was dusty, and his reaction was much more violent than when the enemy was attacking the city.

The paladin lowered his head and hesitated, "No one knows what to do, but ...... Now that all the workshops have been destroyed, how are we going to explain it to His Majesty the Pope?"

But the bishop froze in place, unable to utter a word.

A few minutes later, a shadow wrapped in holy light suddenly appeared in the sky, and with a dense group of priests, flew in the direction of Havenley.

"His Majesty the Pope ......"

The bishop looked up at the shadow, shivering, his hands and feet cold.

Meanwhile.

"It seems that they have no intention of pursuing. ”

Benjamin retreated with the large army, while cautiously looking in the direction of the Rhine. Through the sentinel's return, the church did not send pursuers, and he also used the water elemental sensing method to clean up the eyeliner that followed.

By this moment, they had moved away from the main road and were hidden in a valley. Benjamin arranged for a team of mages to break off and then clean up their activities along the way, making sure that no one could catch the retreat route.

After all this tossing, the church should not be able to find out where they are.

Benjamin breathed a sigh of relief.

"I advise you not to get complacent too soon. The system seemed to understand his expression, and poured cold water on it, "You retreat to the west, as long as the people of the church think about it, they can think of you hiding in the Demon Beast Mountain Range with their navel eyes." ”

"So what?" Benjamin shook his head and said, "The Demon Beast Mountain Range is so big, they'll have to look for it for at least two months. With this time, we have already moved away, so what is there to be afraid of?"

The system suddenly fell silent.

In this way, after about half a day's march, he returned to the Warcraft Mountain Range with his people and returned to the station to recuperate. The operation was a complete victory, with about 2,000 men lost in their own army, and the mages suffered almost no casualties, and according to them, they even took the opportunity to kill many priests.

Benjamin was satisfied. After arranging the reward, he took the oil painting to the main tent of the logistics unit.

"This is what you want?"

He put the oil painting on the table, and Morris hurriedly pushed his wheelchair over and held the painting in his hand.

“...... That's it. After a moment of careful observation, Morris nodded, and suddenly took out a bottle of purple potion and slowly poured it on the back of the painting. As the potion was impregnated, gradually, dense lines suddenly appeared on the back of the empty object.

After about half a minute, the lines intertwined, and finally formed a pattern that resembled an architectural drawing, but was a hundred times more complex.

Benjamin looked at it and frowned.

"This is the blueprint for St. Peter's Basilicon. "It is rumored that it was designed by more than a dozen masters thousands of years ago, using the most advanced rune technology at the time. Even...... Many people say that there is a room in the church that connects to the divine realm, and the dozen or so masters used their superb skills to make the divine realm a source of power for the entire church, which made it so indestructible. ”

Benjamin touched his chin and didn't say anything.

However, he knew about the divine realm and the secret room of the church. If nothing else, the key to the room is still in his possession!

Did he inadvertently weaken St. Peter's Basilica by taking away the keys?

Therefore, after a moment of hesitation, Benjamin suddenly spoke: "That...... If I told you that the only key to the so-called room that can connect to the divine realm is in my hand, will the situation change?"

“......”

Morris was stunned.

Seeing this, Benjamin had no choice but to take out the specially treated ginkgo biloba and show it to the other party: "That's it." Without it, the people of the church would not even be able to open that door, and they had attacked Ikor for this very purpose. ”

Morris took a deep breath and came to his senses. He looked at Benjamin with an incredulous look and was speechless for a while before he spoke, "...... You're really a monster. ”

Benjamin shrugged.