Chapter 186: Thorn Flower
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This made Louis stunned, how could he be so calm? However, no matter what his emotions, the emperor finally gave in, and the situation was very favorable, presumably the emperor's people and the prince's people were fighting fiercely now.
Audrey listened to Raphael's explanation in the small building, and understood that Louis would not be unfavorable to her, otherwise Louie's strength would not be enough to gain status, so she walked out of the small building with her subordinates and said: "Since the empire is in trouble, it is naturally incumbent on your subordinates, Lord Duke, are you and I still together?"
Audrey also has a total of five thousand soldiers, Louis nodded slightly, and said: "Of course, Marquis Audrey, don't worry, about the assassins, it was just an accident, you and I have no conflict." β
Audrey knew that this was a hint that she was a Dark Charmer, so she smiled and said, "It's good that Lord Duke understands." β
Louis said: "Pile up the corpses together and burn them, put a magic signal, and go!"
At this time, there is no need to hide and hide, they have already been launched, and they have basically obtained Bannik's army, and it will definitely be too late for the imperial princess to gather an army, not to mention that the imperial capital is already in chaos, everyone knows.
After Barnik saw Audella, his body trembled slightly because of excitement and anger, he had no distractions about Odella, glared at Audrey fiercely, and scolded: "Slut... Damn slut... β
Audrey was in the palace chamber, and only used some divine power very slightly to hide her appearance to everyone, but it was the most normal for Barnick and Clarke, she didn't even cover it up, she just showed her original appearance, because Clark was there at the time, and she was afraid of alarming the Holy Light.
Audrey chuckled and said, "You're a slut!" When you were seduced by a woman, you ran out of the palace like an idiot, and there are so many beautiful women in your palace. It's not cheap, what is it?"
Barnik was speechless.
Raphael followed Audrey past the two sisters, and the earth-based veins in his body moved, triggering the newly learned art of soil control, and controlling the magic sign, pushing towards the courtyard.
The two sisters sank into the earth, and the mound moved into the courtyard and into the small building.
Raphael would do this, because he secretly thought that the two sisters were not worth it, and Louis didn't even bother to bury them, although they had been calculating themselves, but looking at their happy smiles, he felt a little pity in his heart.
At least let them sleep together forever.
Louis glanced at him in surprise and said, "What a clever earth magic." β
He didn't see that it was Raphael in the armor, but he just felt that this person almost didn't emit earth-based elemental fluctuations, so he easily did this, which was very clever.
Raphael whispered: "The Duke has praised it, I know that this is the loyal subordinates of the Lord, I admire them, this is the treatment that a warrior deserves." β
Louis nodded slightly, and also said softly: "You are very good!"
Audrey secretly took Raphael's hand, squeezed it, and said softly: "This house will become a small cemetery in the future." β
Raphael smiled slightly, his heart was full of softness, and he also squeezed Audella's little hand, and said softly: "They all want to be like gods, but you want to be human." β
The magic signal had already been cast in the air, and as the team headed towards the palace, soldiers continued to join along the way.
Unbeknownst to Louis and Clark, a large number of troops were pouring into the Imperial City.
After these troops entered the imperial city, the five gates of the imperial city were closed, and a thousand royal guards remained at each gate, and the other royal guards and the troops entering the city merged into one place, like five mudslides, rushing towards the palace.
Except for those who participated in this military mutiny, the rest of the nobles in the imperial city were so frightened that they closed their homes and did not even dare to listen to the news.
Just as Louis was taking control of the Emperor, Clark came to the castle of Thornflower.
There was not a single guard on the bridge leading to the castle, and Clark glanced at the castle wall in confusion.
The gate of the outer wall of the castle was closed, and about five hundred castle guards guarded the wall near the gate, and the princess was also at the head of the city, and behind her was a female mage, it was Vera.
All the people in the fort wore a peculiar crown of wattle vines.
Vera pressed her staff against the crown of thorns on her head, she chuckled and shouted at Clark under the castle, "You have nothing to do with the Magic Guild, I happened to be here as a guest, if you attack me, it will be against the Magic Guild!"
Clark said angrily, "Captain Vera, you can fly away now, or go up to the terrace at the top of the castle, you are standing here, you are participating in this matter!"
Vera said: "You are really arrogant, this is not your place! But forget it, who called Xiao Sissi is also in the church, I will go to the terrace to watch you fight." With that, she really flew up and went up to the terrace, as if she didn't want to care about it at all.
The holy power in Clark's body fluctuated, and a huge holy sword quickly condensed in front of him and flew towards the gate of the castle.
The fort door burst open with a "boom".
The knights in his hands also raised their crossbow arrows, ready to shoot arrows when they got closer.
Andina seemed to have no determination to resist, and as soon as she saw that the gate of the outer fort was broken, she immediately led her guards along the fort wall and retreated to the inner fort, and after entering the inner fort, they removed the hanging board between the inner fort and the outer wall, and went to the terrace.
Clark yelled, "Attack, kill them all, capture the princess alive." β
The defense of this Jinghua Castle was expected by him, first of all, the imperial concubine looked at this castle with a beautiful mansion, and secondly, in order to prevent the emperor from tabooing, even if the original castle was very strong, after the imperial concubine moved in, it would be very weak.
The cavalry shouted, and they poured into the large garden between the inner fort and the outer wall, and once inside the castle, it would have been too easy to annihilate the five hundred soldiers of the imperial concubine.
No matter how strong the door of the Imperial Princess's Inner Fort is, it is useless, because there are too many windows in the Inner Fort.
On the terrace, Andina's powerful guards attacked the sky with the tower's defensive weapons: magic circles and crossbows, and a dozen or so magisters continued to cast magic to prevent Clark's air riders from approaching the castle.
In order to prevent the emperor from being suspicious, Andina's air riders are mostly placed in the family territory, but she still has two with her, and she also has flying pets herself, if she really wants to escape, it may not be impossible to do it, if Vera, who also has air rides, can help again, it will definitely be easy to slip away.
However, she didn't want to escape at all, the crown of wattles on her head was different from the others, who seemed to have been collected from the branches of the thorn vines on the outer wall, but this one of hers was made of green magic materials that were not gold or wood.
Andina watched Clark's men and horses below in a mess, and after entering the garden, those knights dismounted and organized an offensive formation, preparing to attack the inner fort, and a few guys were already dismantling the stone pillars in the courtyard and preparing to break open the gate of the inner fort, so she giggled and said: "Clark, your time as a cardinal archbishop is too short, you are like a country bun, you don't understand the heritage of the ancient nobles." β
Clarke's heart felt like a blow to the heart, and the concubine's contempt made him particularly uncomfortable, and he roared, "Slut!
The bolts formed a dark cloud of black oppression, enveloping towards the terrace.
The huge magic array on the terrace lit up, and a hemispherical energy shield covered the entire terrace, and the energy shield became thinner and thinner under the impact of the crossbow arrows, but it was still able to withstand this wave of attacks.
Andina giggled, "Yes, it's the slut who shoots the slut." After speaking, she made a small face and said coquettishly: "Family guard!"
The entire castle floor lit up, and through these glowing lines, it was clear that there was a huge magic array on the ground.
The crown of wattles on Andina's head also lit up, turning crystal green, and countless green threads spread out like light throughout the castle.
The surrounding woods and the air were all surging with green energy, and the clouds in the gloomy sky seemed to be converging towards the castle, all of which were surging towards the thorn flower demon vines on the outer wall of the castle.
The earth trembled, and the vines grew wildly, they grew thicker and longer, and the outer walls all crumbled into rubble, and the vines the size of buckets quickly extended and grew into the sky, and then, countless rattans became entangled, forming green giants.
These giants were twenty meters tall, a full hundred, and each giant had a hundred or so vine arms with sharp giant thorns, like huge tentacle monsters, and there were many huge wattle buds on their bodies.
The soldiers who attacked the castle looked at the giants in horror and did not know what to do.
As soon as Clark saw that the outer walls and gates of the outer fort were gone, and that he and his soldiers had surrounded the giants, he shouted, "Defend in formation, release the holy arts!"
He mobilized his holy power and unleashed a wave of holy dragon flame on a giant.
The Holy Dragon Flame Wave was like a white meteor, and the front end of the meteor was a hideous dragon head, and the dragon head bombarded into the body of the thorn vine giant, making a big hole in the giant's chest, but many vines soon spread and stretched out in this hole.
Suddenly, countless white flames lit up, and one after another all kinds of holy arts and fighting qi flew towards those thorn vine giants.
In the sky, an air rider also unleashed a large burst of fireball and hit a vine giant, and the vine giant's body not only burst out of a large hole, but also caught fire in many places.
The viscous green liquor on the vines tumbled, and those magical flames that were not easy to extinguish were instantly extinguished after encountering a large amount of green liquid, leaving only a trace of green smoke.
The vine giants would not be stupidly attacked like targets, and in the splendor of the holy light, they moved, and countless spiked rattans were like huge whips, with a terrible whirring wind, and they continued to draw towards these knights like windmills.
Especially the soldiers who attacked the gate of the inner fort, almost each of them had to face two or three rattan arms, which not only volleyed, but also entangled, plus those sharp thorns comparable to alloys also had a paralyzing effect, which was extremely terrifying.
The screams rang out.
A hundred thorn giants, ten thousand thorny giant arms, fortunately, these giants could not all attack in front of the inner fort, but even so, Clark's soldiers were crushed at once, they prayed for the mercy of the Most High God, crying, screaming, dying and struggling, and the front of the inner fort was like hell.
If it weren't for the fact that these thorn giants couldn't move around, Clark even suspected that only these giants would be able to easily capture the palace.
Clark regretted rushing into Castle Blossom, if he was outside, he would have the time and the means to take out these things.
One of the one-eyed pterosaur riders in the sky suddenly exerted a force, and it dodged the attacks of the Terrace Magister and the Long Crossbow Demon Crystal Cannon, and swooped down towards the Imperial Princess.
One-eyed pterosaur, scarce in number, extremely rare, its huge body, triangular wingspan is no less than that of a dragon, extremely fast, the same triangular head and tail wings, so that it can turn very dexterously.
Don't look at the one-eyed pterosaur only has one eye, its one-eyed eye can have compound eyes, so the one-eyed pterosaur not only has very good eyesight, but also its compound eyes see moving things, all of which have a slowing effect, which is why it can avoid magic.
Vera chuckled, and a blue water whip was instantly generated, and the whip rolled towards the one-eyed pterosaur with a strange arc, and the space vibrated slightly.
"Smack!"
The one-eyed pterodactyl hissed, and was whipped away like a bird, falling into the thorns under the inner fort.
Clark's soldiers and sorcerers hurriedly unleashed their sorcerers to stop the thorns from attacking and rescue the empty rider.
"Vera!" Clark yelled.
Vera still leaned lazily on her staff, and said lazily: "I obeyed your words and went up to the terrace, but your soldiers attacked me, those crossbow arrows are really terrible, if it weren't for the princess's magic array, I would be very dangerous." β
"Slut!" Clark scolded again in exasperation, but scolding was useless.
Watching the soldiers organize a phalanx in an embarrassed way to resist the rattan arm volley, watching the soldiers fall down by spikes, watching the soldiers being dragged away by the vines, Clark knew that things were in trouble, so he would not be as naΓ―ve as Louis and thought that Andina would give in.
What should I do in the future? After getting the emperor's men, and then gather all the triage knights and princesses of the empire to fight on a large scale? Will the people of the church support it?
Clark was troubled, but now was not the time to think about it, and after he cast a holy healing on the one-eyed pterodactyl, he gathered the holy magicians together and attacked only one giant.
This really had some effect, one of the vine giant's vine legs was completely broken and fell down, but after all, the vine giant is not a real person, it is falling, and it can still attack.
Clark looked helplessly at the Fort Inner Fort Gate, where the rattan arm defense was undoubtedly the densest, he gritted his teeth and said, "Concentrate on attacking the terrace!"
He waved his arms and gestured to the sky.
Hundreds of holy spears, holy flames, and various shaping spells flew towards the inner castle terrace, and the magic circle on the terrace activated again, but this time, it couldn't stop it, and the semicircular cover shattered like glass.
The soldiers on the terrace hid behind the breastwork, relieved of the aftermath of the magic.
In the chaos of rocks and the explosion of magical power, Andina, Vera and some mages easily used their elemental shields to block the impact of energy turbulence.
At this time, three huge shadows in the sky shrouded them, but instead of attacking the imperial princess, they rushed in the direction of Clark, which surprised everyone on the terrace, and the crossbow arrows and magic all failed.
However, the Thorn Giant attacked the three massive flying beasts.
Like a chrysanthemum gathering its petals, the thorn arm shrouded the three empty horsemen in the center of the encirclement, and at the same time spewed out thorns one by one.
The three air horsemen couldn't dodge the attacks of so many thorn arms at all, and the flying demonic beast fell to the ground.
Clark roared, and all the holy magicians unleashed their holy spells and attacked the thorn arms that attacked in the sky.
A sky-high white light emerged from the center of the thorn arm chrysanthemum, and countless thorn arms were hit by the surging energy, and scattered like a chrysanthemum blooming, and a figure rose up with the white light, dodging the spikes shot out of the thorn buds, escaping the range of the thorn giant, and going away in embarrassment.
This is exactly what Clark took advantage of this attack, used flying skills, rode the recovered one-eyed pterodactyl, and relied on the quick reaction of the one-eyed pterodactyl to successfully get out of the encirclement.
Vera yawned lazily and said, "Andina, your family guard is not very good, let this bastard escape!"
Andina Sapphire's eyes widened, and she said, "I was going to let him go, killing the cardinal archbishop has no benefit, it will make the Holy See very faceless, so I won't have to pretend." β
Vera said, "Kill all the guys down there, and let the thorns of the guardian giants let go quickly, it's fun." β
Andina controlled the vines and shouted, "Listen to the people below, Clark has already run away, surrender and don't kill." β
Vera was surprised and said, "Why are you soft-handed? Could it be Raphael's idea?" Vera knew that Raphael did not burn the Rhine Fortress, so he thought that Raphael was soft-hearted.
Andina asked her subordinates to wear the crown of thorns, just because these vines are too laborious to control, and those who wear the crown of thorns, the vines will not attack, and she has now spent a lot of effort to control the vines, of course, not softly.
Andina rolled her eyes and said, "Is Raphael, this bastard so cowardly? This was Raphael's idea, but it wasn't soft-hearted. I can't expel the Church of Light, so I have to keep these bastards in the castle, use the obedient ones for my use, and kill the disobedient ones. β
Vera laughed and said, "Ever since you met Raphael, you've become less and less dignified. β
Andina said angrily, "I'm enlightened! Honor is useless to some bastards! Just like you!"
Clark slipped away, and where did the church soldiers in front of the inner fort who were surrounded by thorn giants still have the heart to resist? The wave of thorns attacking Clark was especially chilling, they saw that the giants had suspended their attacks, and the countless buds were facing them, so they threw away their weapons and crawled on the ground.
A privy deacon, with a long white beard, trembled, and cried out: "We have surrendered, and we will never resist, in the name of the Most High God!"