Despite his fears, Kasso-Duna couldn't help but warn the commander not to be overly optimistic: "My lord, I don't think they necessarily ran away. The www.biquge.info guards of the Pavilion have lost more than 6,000 people, and now that their victory is in sight, why should they run away?"

"Victory? Where did they come from? Rebels can never defeat the Empire, and traitors can never desecrate the Sanctuary. They must have been swallowed up by their own power. Elio said coldly to Cassel, causing the latter to shudder.

"If you want to retreat now, you can take your hundred territory knights with you and return to Bailin City now. No one will stop the cowards. The Imperial Prime Minister looked at his lieutenant with a pair of eagle eyes.

At this point, the mage Leon interrupted the argument between the two men, and after the martyrdom of Betsy, he took the command of the Sanctuary spellcaster.

"You have a point in your judgment. I think the enemy is very cunning, and they have repeatedly lured our troops to attack and put us in a quagmire. We should learn a lesson from this. Leon said calmly.

"However, judging from our current reconnaissance, the enemy should have exhausted his mental power and can no longer cast the same destructive evil spell as before. ”

This sentence strengthened Elio's confidence. He was about to speak, but was interrupted by Leon.

"The Prime Minister's strategy is not unreasonable, the fire can wash away all evil, and if there are enemies hiding in the shadows, the fire can also drive them out. Leon concluded.

The Sanctuary Army indirectly agreed with the Imperial Prime Minister's approach, and Elio held aloft the Iris Sun Banner and ordered, "Imperial soldiers, this city has humiliated us, defiled our country, and blasphemed the supreme gods!"

"Let us wash it with fire!"

"Burn it all!"

The Imperial soldiers responded loudly. They lit the torches and held them first to the stake against the gate, and after a long time the flames finally rose from the base of the stake, but in a few moments it turned into a raging fire, slowly encircling the towering pillars.

Smoke billowed up, hot air swirled around the pillar of fire, a red and black cloud rose in the sky, and the Imperial soldiers stood around and shouted, "Long live the Empire!"

At Elio's orders, the Imperial Army finally gave up their fears, smashing every door and storming uninhabited shops and houses, smashing everything they could see.

Wooden chairs and windows were shattered, statues of lords were smashed beyond recognition, and wherever money could be found, the soldiers did not spare it, knocking down all the dilapidated things, rummaging through boxes and cabinets for silver and copper coins, which they put in their pockets.

Finally, they piled hay and firewood together and threw torches into them, and the choking black smoke soon came out, and then the house turned bright red, and the beams and furniture crackled.

The iron furnace was kicked over, and all the iron tools were turned into tools for smashing. The Imperial Army is like locusts, destroying everything they can see.

Books, clothing, and food were thrown all over the streets, and soon the Imperial soldiers took pleasure in the destruction, and they had long since shaken off their fears and become unscrupulous.

Towering tongues of fire provoked one roar after another, barrels were dragged out into the streets, and even the former prime minister ignored orders to march against alcohol.

They have been trapped in tension and trepidation for too many days, and are in desperate need of rough action to vent.

Elio even walked up to a huge barrel, pierced the veneer with his sword, and took his first sip of wine.

The red juice made people even more excited, and they screamed wildly, and poured wine desperately into their mouths as they lit the fire.

In a short time, the city was ablaze with fires, and the pungent smell of smoke filled the air, as well as the smell of alcohol and garbage. The cursing of the soldiers, the sound of glass and wood shattering, the crackling of flames, soon spread from the gates to the end of the city-state.

First around the Avenue of Atonement, then the Lord's Mansion, all fell into a frenzied bright red, and the soldiers rushed into the Lord's Mansion excitedly, knocking over all the furniture that had been in order, and even the mattress was cut a few gaps, but to their disappointment, it seemed to have been looted and nothing of value could be found.

Angry soldiers fought over a few silver candlesticks, and then stuffed the objects they could find slightly more beautiful ones into their pockets.

"In the future, there will be no Larson family, maybe a family crest can become an antique. ”

They even found a bloody wooden crucifixion device, which Carter Larsson had recovered at all costs to crucify his father after he had been stationed in Paliva.

This torture instrument kept the vengeful anger in his heart alive, but now it was used as a tool of amusement by the Imperial army.

"Look, the cross that hanged Duke Larson!" they laughed, urinating on the black blood stain and easily splitting it into pieces with their steel swords.

Patches of land are lit up, as if every house in the city is lighting up their lights and falling into a carnival.

Only Sauron-Duna and the Acolytes remained vigilant.

Sauron insisted on his judgment, believing that the defenders would only need to hold out for a day to drive the exhausted Imperial army away from Paliva, but they did not do so.

The fires that are now spreading everywhere prove that the defenders are not hiding inside the city. It's more like a giant animal cage – the hunter has quietly left, setting up a bow and crossbow not far away, while the prey is still in the cage excited to find food. It gave him the creeps.

He ordered his troops to stay outside the city, showing Elio that he needed to guard the rear when the Imperial army attacked.

Although the Prime Minister mocked him as a disgrace to the Duna family, a coward who was more timid than a rabbit, he did not refute and insisted on his opinion, and in the end his insistence was approved in order to satirize his incompetence, Sauron believed that he had found a way to escape.

And the Sacred Army is just as cautious. They will not be like the Prime Minister, who arrogantly believes that the enemy has abandoned the city and fled. It is more likely that the enemy thinks he has set a trap and lures the Imperial army deeper at great cost, indicating that they are running out of strength.

In order to avoid committing blasphemous crimes, the Imperial Army did not search the Sanctuary and the Inquisition, but the Sanctuary Army would not let these two places go.

This is a gang of heretics who do not fear the gods, and they may even be hiding behind the idol of the god Osiris.

The mage Leon led the team of spellcasters through the Sanctuary and found that the holy spring had dried up, the idol of Osiris had been toppled down, and the ground was in shambles, but they found no trace of the enemy. (To be continued.) )