Chapter 10: Faith
In the midst of the corpses strewn across the ground, a man full of majesty stood. He was dressed in bright red robes, holding a scepter inlaid with white crystals in his hand, and his whole body radiated a rich radiance of divine power.
Even if he didn't look at the iconic red short beard, Richard knew the identity of the man in front of him. He is the presiding officer of this temple, the twelfth level priest Essin!
Under the protection of the divine arts, Essien was not harmed. He raised his scepter, pointed at Richard from afar, and shouted angrily: "Devils of the Otherworld! you will suffer never-ending pain for your greed and boldness......
The entire temple resonated with Essien, and his voice became loud and loud, as if a thousand people were shouting in unison. At this time, the originally tilted idol slowly moved, and it began to return to its original position!
An indescribable sense of fear came over Richard, and the quicksand behind him screamed, "Don't let him finish!
Splash stepped away from one of the Templars and pounced on Priest Essian, Richard yelled, "Splash!
Two fireballs flew out of Richard and Reilly's hands, one left and one right, and landed behind Essien, but did not explode immediately. They swirled, their devastating energies confined to flickering orbs that grew more violent with the passage of time.
It's a time-lapse fireball again!
Essien's pupils shrank, but his body did not move, and the angry rebuke in his mouth did not stop. The power that had been hidden in the temple for an unknown number of years was being drawn by him little by little, converging to the top of the scepter.
At this moment, a third fireball flew out of Richard's hand and landed in front of Essien. Three fireballs form an equilateral triangle that frames Essien in the middle!
Essien's eyebrows were raised, his heart seemed to stop beating for a moment, and his wide open mouth was long gone. Everything in the temple seemed to be engulfed by the swirling balls of magical energy.
With a bang, three waves of fire erupted almost at the same time, and the scorching air swept through the entire temple, and the two Templars who were relatively close were directly swept away, and Richard, who was standing at the door, was also blown and narrowed his eyes.
A thick pillar of light exploded in front of the altar, extinguishing all the surrounding waves of fire. Esin held his scepter alof, his majestic figure like the embodiment of the god of courage!
However, when the priest looked at Richard angrily, another huge fireball gradually enlarged in his eyes, eventually taking over the entire field of vision!
It's Reilly's Fire Blast!
With a loud roar, the idol of the god of courage fell to the ground completely. From the scattered dust and rubble came Esin's staccato voice: "I...... Curse you!"
Richard and Reilly glanced at each other, and they could see the surprise in each other's eyes: "It's still alive!"
The lethality of the Flame Explosion Technique ranks among the top three in the same level of magic, and the strength of Rayleigh's spells has completely exploded most mages of the same level, and Esin was first blown up by Richard's "Fireball Array", and then hit Rayleigh's Flame Explosion Technique, and he actually has the strength to curse! Richard finally has a new understanding of the life-saving ability of high-level priests.
After Essien fell, the remaining six Templars were quickly killed. Gangde and the others also suffered some injuries, and although they were treated by quicksand's magic magic, she was still suppressed very badly. Without the Book of Time, the Divine Favor wouldn't even be able to heal minor injuries.
Without waiting for Richard's orders, Shui Hua and the others spontaneously began to search for the remnants of the enemy, and in the blink of an eye, they eliminated more than a dozen knights' followers. Instead of stopping, they rushed out the back door of the temple and flanked the Templar garrison, which was still unresolved.
As the two knights set up Esin, the dust fell back to the ground. A bright light emanated from the altar and caught Richard's attention. After the idol collapsed, a pile of rubble crushed the altar, almost burying it entirely, and what shone was a piece of exposed paper.
Richard's heart moved, and he walked over and swept away the rubble piled up on the altar, revealing what was pressed underneath. Originally, there was a complex magic array carved on the altar, but now it had been destroyed by continuous bombardment, and it had completely ceased to function. Richard found a large piece of paper of unknown material in the center of the magic circle. It was straight and neat on three sides, but it was a little jagged on one side, like a page torn from a book, but there was not half a word on it.
After the bombardment by Richard and Reilly, even the statue of the god of courage has collapsed, but the page is intact. Just by looking at its material, you know that it is a valuable treasure.
Richard didn't think much about it, grabbed the page on the altar, folded it casually, and wanted to stuff it into his arms. But as soon as he released it, the page returned to its original state of its own accord, leaving not even a single crease. This page is more than twice the size of the quicksand's Book of Time, and it is inconvenient to grasp it directly in your hand. In desperation, Richard simply rolled it up and stuffed it into his arms.
When Richard walked out, the battle at the Templar garrison was nearing its end, and Gonde's trademark roar could be heard in the distance, and under his hungry and thirsty axe, the Templars were becoming like reptiles, and the servants were even more ineffective.
At a glance, the first to come into sight was still Gangde, who was crisscrossing the deserted battlefield, and the power that seemed to be about to split all obstacles was more obvious than in the previous battles. The muscles of the Earth Warrior's body protruded, and he had already activated his bloodline ability. The Templar's heavy sword slashed at him, leaving only a few deep wounds, and when Gonder's hungry axe slashed through, his opponent had to spit out at least a mouthful of blood.
The Minotaur, Triple, and Tiramisu are also three killing machines, and they don't really need any extra special abilities at all, and their own strength is enough to make their opponents desperate. In particular, the heavily armored Minotaur and Santau roamed the battlefield like tanks, crushing to death every enemy who dared to stand in their way.
On the other side, the Templars, who had just risen from their beds, didn't have time to put on their armor, and some didn't even have time to pick up a weapon.
After a round of unprovoked slaughter, the remaining knights retreated to the camp, trying to use the terrain to stall for time. However, they did not know that Richard had natural assassins like Gore and Splash in his ranks.
After the battle, Quicksand began to treat the injuries of his comrades. Although she had three times the mana of an ordinary priest, after dealing with everyone's injuries, the divine servant was also tired and pale.
The Templars were far superior to Baron Fosa's army, but not because of their rank, but because they fought to the death and were not afraid of pain!
In the end, all thirty Templars were killed in the battle, most of the nearly 100 Followers were killed and wounded, and only five or six young men who had lost their fighting spirit surrendered.
Richard was deeply shocked by the horrors of the battlefield, and he was even more awe-inspiring by the tenacity of the Templars and their servants in the face of desperation.
Standing beside Quicksand, looking at the Templar Knights who were holding their weapons until death, Richard sighed deeply and said, "This battle has been fought a little hard. ”
"It's normal. "Quicksand is so weak that he can't stand on his feet. She leaned on Richard and said in a natural tone: "A person who truly has faith will neither feel tired nor painful. ”
After the fighting in the temple subsided, the corner returned to calm.
At the moment when the alarm bell rang, the Baron's Castle had already put away the drawbridge, showing its determination to persevere to the end with practical actions.
During the battle, hundreds of city guards were gathered in the barracks of the city guards, and the knight who was responsible for leading the security of the city sat in the main building, without the slightest intention of attacking. It was also suggested that he come to the aid of the temple as soon as possible, so the knight asked the person who made the suggestion to set out first to investigate the enemy.
Some of the first few people who went out, some of them came back, and some of them didn't, so no one made such a suggestion again.
When the city guards assembled in the barracks approached two hundred, a large fire suddenly broke out in the direction of the temple, illuminating half of the city. Baron Fosa stood on the top floor of the castle, looking at the temple in flames, his face cloudy.