Chapter 021 (Light and Darkness)

The darkness forms a relentless prison that imprisons the Qiē around the town.

The battle on the walls was fierce and violent, with undead creatures crawling out of the caverns outside the walls one after another, and then climbing up the walls along the ladders set up on the walls, brandishing their worn weapons and pounced on the humans on the opposite side.

If it weren't for the heroic knights of the Knights of Glory led by Captain Luke the Giant, who defended the walls of Salt Town without fear of life and death, these undead creatures who were tired, wounded, hungry and fearful would have breached this fortified wall.

Although the valiant knights could endure hunger and forget their fears, exhaustion and pain haunted them in flesh and blood.

They are human beings, not gods, and they are not necromancy. Pain and exhaustion are their deadliest enemies at this moment, and this war, which lasted seven days and seven nights, could end at any moment because of exhaustion and pain.

Even Luke Ness, who is invincible in the Golden Lands, will be exhausted and his blood will dry up in the face of so many undead creatures. Many powerful and fearless heroes have either died in one-on-one duels or have been drowned in a sea of enemies.

When the priest Martin, who had climbed the city wall, saw this, he did not hesitate to raise the white staff and chant the spell reverently.

"Lord of Light, Holy and loving Father, listen to my prayers, send down your holy light in my name, let the endless darkness shroud in light, dispel a single evil, and bless your devout believers!"

After just a dozen breaths, I saw a white light sprinkled in mid-air covering the entire city wall. Pastor Martin used half of the mana in his body. A blessing spell was cast on all the warriors on the walls.

The Blessing spell is a white spell. Like the Mass (note 1). This white spell belongs to the normal spells of the church. The effects of the spell are mainly to cleanse and purify, expel ghosts, reduce fatigue, stifle pain, pray and pray for blessings, etc. The scope of application is mainly focused on expelling demons.

Normally, performing such spells requires prayer, the use of holy water, and a blessing in the name of God. There is no mystery in it. And such spells, generally speaking, the effect is average. And even in some cases, it doesn't work at all. For example, exorcism, exorcism, etc., because the object of this spell is mainly people, not objects or space.

When white light shone on Henry Sweet's exhausted body. The 'grizzly bear' was covered in wounds and felt that he was full of strength again. He roared like a beast suddenly, swinging his great axe in his hand like a frenzy, smashing skeleton after skeleton under the walls. A skeletal warrior lunged at him with a shield in hand, and Knight Henry went down with an axe to cut the shield and skeleton in half.

As if the reborn knights had regained the invincibility that accompanied them, they shouted the slogan, "Glory belongs to us, not even the gods can take it from us!" The knights fearlessly brandished their swords and slashed at the skeleton warriors and ghouls around them.

At this time, the Templars led by Father Maurice ascended the city walls. The Templars, who represented justice and light, held their swords in their hands and charged at the undead creatures on the city walls without hesitation, and their mission was to destroy these evil undead creatures.

At this moment, the clones that Brant had changed had disappeared due to the consumption of mana, but with these tall and powerful Templars joining the camp of the city defenders. The shape of the crisis on the city wall has become better, and the attack of these undead creatures has been completely contained on the city wall.

He knew in his heart that the Templars and Priest Martin weren't there to help them defend Salt Town. It was the necromancers outside the walls who angered their scales. These clergy, who represent justice, can never allow undead creatures that symbolize evil to appear before them.

The purpose of the Holy See is to spread the Gospel of light and justice, to drive away pestilences and nightmares of sin, and to destroy evil and dark creatures. And this iron law that all clergy must follow has been in place for thousands of years on the continent of Vialas.

Father Maurice looked at the undead creatures around him with disgust and disgust, and he looked up at the sky and chanted loudly the complicated divine spells:

"All the sins in the world have lost the light, let me and other believers shine the light on the world, the darkness lies ahead, but we believe in the light, in the endless abyss, sing the light of the light, praise you, the light I believe in, you are the hope of my heart, the light of my heart. I will not despair despite the slimness of hope, the sun, moon and stars are the servants of the Father, they shine in all directions and bring hope to us, in the name of the Father, purify the evil souls and destroy the evil ambitions!

Suddenly, all the undead creatures on the city wall disappeared, turning into countless white grains of powder floating in the air, like white snowflakes quietly falling on an autumn night.

As a cardinal, Father Morris is his job to dispel the evil in the world, but this holy light spell consumes more energy than he can bear, which makes him change from a middle-aged man to a pale old man in just a moment. Silvery white hair replaced the original jet-black hair, and wavy wrinkles climbed up his forehead, and gradually crawled all over his face.

Outside the city walls, the eyes of the necromancer Brooke are as if they are soaked in blood, precipitating the depths of the night, and the light of the gloomy owl's eyes is like a bottomless dark abyss, making people sink and unable to extricate themselves, and the depths of the eyes are raging with bloodlust that cannot be concealed.

"Dead who sleep in the depths of the earth, I use the blood of my heart to break your seal, listen to my call, I command you to be my slaves, and listen to my command to destroy my enemies!"

A disgusting rancid smell began to fill the air, and another legion of bones slowly appeared in the night. The legion consisted mainly of hundreds of wolf bones, fierce and cunning creatures that seemed to have lost their living edges, tame in a queue, driven by a wizened human in black robes.

The corpses of more than a dozen orcs were mixed among the wolf bones, and they held rusty weapons in their hands, and they staggered forward with "crunching" steps. In what had once been a window to the soul, there were two dim flashes of fire, looking like ghost fires in a graveyard.

Brooke is a cloaked mystical wizard who, as his name suggests, comes from a clan of unseemly male wizards who can use death and summon magic to control monsters to his advantage, and is adept at using magic that summons the undead. Because he had studied magic in the swamp as a child, his skin resembled that of a dead corpse, and the strangeness of his body and bones made the people look sideways and away from him. But there is no doubt that he is a wizard full of magical powers.

The "quagmire swamp" in the west of the plateau is said to be the base camp of their clan, where they have their own territory and a huge belt of masters and apprentices, but the so-called huge is actually no more than about 30 people, and the talent and requirements required to learn this spell are too high, so no one has ever seen more than ten necromancers appear together, and legends always say that any necromancer can organize an army of death to destroy human cities.

NOTE 1: The Mass, also known as the Eucharist, is a sacred gift to God by the Holy See. The Mass is the most important and most celebrated liturgy of the Holy See. The aim is to consecrate the Body of Communion and blood, to offer sacrifices to God, to show admiration, thanksgiving, supplication and atonement to God. The main religious activities of the Church revolve around the Mass. The Mass is the main body and centre of God's liturgical life, as well as the crown. (To be continued......)