A little winged demon hovered in the sky, breaking the peace of Pans City.
The news of the defeat of the army of the Ten Thousand Snakes Royal Court spread to the palace and the Ten Thousand Snakes Temple.
The new generation of King of Snakes and the nobles of the royal court came to the Temple of Ten Thousand Snakes one after another, their expressions were anxious and frightened.
Now, except for the leader of the Temple Knights, no one can resolve this situation.
One hundred thousand elites were defeated, not to mention a large number of powerful people among these people, as well as the established Earth Dragon Knights.
That is the most important deterrent force of the Ten Thousand Snakes King's Court.
If the remaining people cannot be rescued and the King's Court of Ten Thousand Snakes suffers such heavy losses, what changes will happen internally?
Can the King's Court of Ten Thousand Snakes still maintain its current stability?
Will those tribes with thousands or tens of thousands of households, large and small, still obey the orders of the royal court as completely as they do now?
No one can imagine it.
Although some of these defeated troops have fled to the Fire Demon Swamp, and some have scattered throughout the wasteland.
They are still fighting sporadic battles with the Elvirs in the Fire Demon Swamp and the Elvirs in the wasteland.
With the strength and strength of the Aiweier people, even though they won the victory, it would be difficult to clear up these defeated troops in a short time.
The Royal Court of Ten Thousand Snakes still has a chance.
Even if we can't make a comeback, we can at least rescue some people.
The most important thing is that the group of Earthly Dragon Knights, powerful people, and temple attendants who are trapped in the wasteland must be brought back.
This generation of the King of Snakes waited under the wall of the siege late at night, shouting to the members of the Knights above the wall.
"Please."
"Save them!"
The people behind the King of Snakes knelt down one after another.
"Your Highness the Saint."
"Your Highness the Saint."
"..."
"Please...save them!"
Although they were calling Her Majesty the Saint, they were not talking to the knights on the city wall, nor were they talking to Her Majesty the Saint, who was still just a child.
But he said it to the knight leader inside.
But in this Temple of Ten Thousand Snakes, its only owner can only be Her Royal Highness the Saint.
When they call Her Majesty the Saint, they are actually calling the Knight Commander in disguise.
They also knew that with the strength of the other party, even though they were separated by thousands of meters and walls, they would definitely know that they were outside and be able to hear what they said.
In the temple.
The leader of the Temple Knights did not wear armor. She just wore a long gown that covered her whole body and looked out the window quietly.
She didn't know if she was looking at the people outside begging her to take action, or if she had already seen the soldiers and knights standing guard in a hurry in the distance.
As soon as he received the letter, the leader of the Temple Knights fell into hesitation.
finally.
She made her decision.
She put on her skirt and armor, adjusted her sword, and inserted it into its scabbard.
She carried the helmet and came to Her Majesty's palace.
The saint was covered with a quilt and sleeping soundly.
The female knight looked at the sleeping form of Her Majesty the Saint, and finally couldn't help but reveal a smile on her face that was originally full of sorrow.
She moved forward and came to the bed.
Called softly: "Your Highness!"
"Your Highness!"
Her Highness the Saint seemed to hear her calling voice, and it took her a while to open her eyes.
Then she turned away and pouted.
"It's not day yet."
"I'm still growing and want to sleep."
"I don't want to get up and study."
The female knight decided to tell her part of the truth: "I am going to war, and the entire Temple Knights will go with me."
"The 100,000-strong army sent by the Royal Court was defeated by Shoeborn, the Elvirian, at the Glacier Fortress. Our people are trapped between the Fire Demon Swamp and the Wasteland. I need to rescue them."
Her Royal Highness the Saint finally woke up and immediately turned over.
She looked at the female knight and asked her quickly.
"Are they going to die?"
The female knight hesitated for a moment and told Her Majesty the Saint: "Many people have died."
Her Royal Highness the Saint was stunned.
She suddenly understood.
The people she knew, the people she grew up with, will never be seen again.
She became sad.
Pouting, then biting his lower lip.
"Those bad guys."
"Why can't we believe in gods properly?"
"Why do we all have to fight?"
The leader of the Temple Knights suddenly became speechless.
She remembered the man yelling at the top of his lungs in front of her not long ago.
"Didn't you force us to do this?"
She didn't know how to explain it to Her Majesty the Saint.
This war was started by them from the beginning.
They destroyed the country of the Aiweir people, and now the other side has come to take revenge.
The female knight just leaned over the bed and said goodbye to Her Royal Highness the Saint.
"Your Highness."
"I'll bring them back."
"Don't worry, everything will be over soon."
The entire Temple Knights mobilized and left Pans City and headed north——
In a house in Glacier Fortress.
Shoeburn was looking through the "Book of Shoeburn" written by himself. His fingers rubbed against the cover for a long time, his expression was complicated and solemn.
There was water everywhere outside, and even many places inside the fortress were flooded.
Fortunately, this is a fortress and the people in the city are all soldiers.
The Aiweier soldiers were busy inside and outside.
Some are repairing the fortress, while others are collecting corpses and cleaning the battlefield.
Some are reorganizing their troops and preparing to pursue the defeated troops who fled.
After arranging tasks outside, the apprentice of the Divine Attendant hurriedly came to this room.
Shoeborn put away the book calmly, but the disciple of the Divine Attendant said excitedly as soon as he came in.
"We won, a great victory."
"Lord Shoeburn."
"Those people from the King's Court of Ten Thousand Snakes can't stop your power at all, nor can they stop the Evel people's determination to take revenge."
Shoeborn is not as optimistic as the disciple of the Divine Attendant: "No, we haven't won yet."
But the disciple of the Divine Attendant said: "With you here, we will definitely win."
Shoeborn looked at the disciple of the Divine Attendant: "How do you think we can truly end this war? And then win a future for the Evel people?"
The disciple of the Divine Attendant was stunned and couldn't say anything for a long time.
Shoeburn was much older than him and was willing to teach him.
He stood up and walked outside while speaking to the disciple of the Divine Attendant.
"The King's Court of Ten Thousand Snakes is too huge, much bigger than us."
"Even if we can defeat him once, can we defeat him twice or three times?"
"But they can accumulate the strength to take revenge on us again and again."
"And this time we used strategy and their arrogance to defeat them. Can this happen again next time?"
"finally."
"We will be tired of dealing with their invasions again and again, and eventually we will perish."
Shoeborn's words frightened the disciple of the Divine Attendant, and he asked quickly.
"Lord Shoeburn."
"Then what should we do?"
Shoeborn looked into the eyes of the disciple of the Divine Attendant: "But it is precisely because of its huge size that it is full of contradictions inside."
"We want to win."
"Evel people want to win the future."
Xiuben's voice became solemn: "We must fight to the death with the King of Ten Thousand Snakes, and we must completely defeat the King of Ten Thousand Snakes."
"This is difficult, or it was impossible before."
"So in order to achieve this goal, I prepared a plan, which is divided into three steps."
"The previous generation of King of Snakes has died, and the new King of Ten Thousand Snakes no longer has enough prestige. He can only rely on war and victory to subdue his subordinates, so when I kill the previous generation of King of Snakes, my first choice is
The first step plan has been achieved.”
"With this defeat, the Royal Court has lost its core strength, which will definitely shake the entire Ten Thousand Snakes Royal Court. My second step of the plan has also been accomplished."
"Next."
"I want to implement the third step of my plan."
Shoeborn's expression changed: "First, the king of snakes of the previous generation is gone, and then the power to subdue many animal herding tribes is gone."
"you say."
"If there is no Pansi City, what will happen to the King's Court of Ten Thousand Snakes?"
Shoeborn opened his arms, feeling hope and the future for the first time.
"They will completely lose the power that originally united them as one, and will split into the same shape they were more than a hundred years ago."
"Their fragmentation will give us the opportunity to grow stronger."
"And the city of Ewell will completely get rid of its shackles and become a real city-state and a powerful country."
"In the future."
"Maybe even become a kingdom more powerful than Suinhor."
An era without the King's Court of Ten Thousand Snakes, a world without the King's Court of Ten Thousand Snakes.
Only Aiweier people can truly win the future.
The apprentice of the Divine Attendant looked at Shoeborn in shock: "Lord Shoeburn, what do you want to do?"
Shoeborn: "Long before, I had arranged for the fleet to arrive at the mouth of the Shepherd's River and established a temporary station there."
"I am going to lead the fleet to attack Pens City directly from the Shepherd's River."
"Take away everything in the Ten Thousand Snakes King's Court, take away the foundation, craftsmen, scholars, and knowledge they have accumulated for a hundred years, and let them completely fall apart."
The disciple of the Divine Attendant was completely shocked. He suddenly thought of something.
"Our fleet of nearly ten thousand people has not moved. I thought you didn't want these soldiers who are proficient in navigation to die in the war on land."
"did not expect."
"Lord Shoeburn, you have planned everything long ago."
The last time Shoeborn dared to sneak into Pans City, his plan was extremely bold.
If you don't pay attention, your life may be left there.
But this time, his plan was crazy.
Shoeborn's plan made the disciple of the Divine Attendant excited. He really felt the bright future of the Aiweier people through Shoeburn's narration.
If they can obtain the wealth, craftsmen, knowledge, etc. of the Ten Thousand Snakes King's Court, the Aiweier people will directly plunder the most essential things of the Ten Thousand Snakes King's Court, and they can use this to develop rapidly.
But the disciple of the Divine Attendant was still a little worried, and he said to Xiuben.
"But if the one from the Temple of Ten Thousand Snakes is here, how can we defeat her?"
He heard Shoeborn himself say how powerful the female knight was, as if she had transcended the boundaries of mortals.
Shoeborn shook his head: "I was never prepared to defeat her from the beginning. I am not her opponent."
Shoeborn frankly admitted the other party's strength.
"But with so many soldiers and temple attendants, the knight is trapped in the wilderness."
"I think she will definitely come to save them."
"In the King's Court of Ten Thousand Snakes, they won't be able to assemble such a huge army again for a while, and only she can save these people."
The disciple of the Divine Attendant suddenly realized: "So you did not rush to pursue those defeated soldiers, but instead divided and surrounded them."
"But will the Knight Commander of the Temple of the Ten Thousand Snakes really be fooled?"
"and."
"You killed the King of Snakes in Pans City last time. Will they be prepared this time?"
Shoeborn: "Who would have expected that I would leave the army alone and give up the opportunity to destroy an army of 100,000 people."
"I don't think they would think of it."
"but."
"I don't know whether the knight leader of the Ten Thousand Snakes Temple will be fooled. The key is to see if the other party really values these people."
"It just depends...whether the other party gives me a chance."
At this time, a ghost suddenly appeared in front of Xiubeng.
He said to him: "Early this morning, all members of the Knights of the Temple of the Serpents have left Pans City."
This is a magical technique that only existed in the previous era. It was created by the Queen of Stars and can transmit messages remotely.
The Aiweier people obtained the method of performing this divine magic through sacrifices.
Shoeborn turned around, with a look of surprise on his face.
He exhaled a long breath: "Now."
"Everything is in place."
Last time Shoeburn was alone.
But this time, the entire city of Pans has been completely evacuated.
There is no more leader of guards, no more fire demons, no more temple knights.
For Shoeburn, it is like an undefended empty city.
At this moment.
The disciple of the Divine Attendant was extremely impressed by Shoeborn. He opened his mouth wide and looked at Shoeborn with longing eyes.
Shoeborn had no intention of staying any longer, and he was ready to take the next step resolutely.
"I'll leave the divine attendant here to you, and send a message to His Majesty Sidi."
"If you encounter a strong enemy, you don't have to defend."
"Retreat into the jungle, rely on the swamps, and the terrain will resist layer by layer."
"In Ewell City, I have also sent people to disperse into the surrounding villages and mountains, so there is no need to worry about others coming in."
"Just preserve your strength and wait for news from Pans City and me."
The disciple of the Divine Attendant was very excited, and he looked at Xiuben with admiration.
"Lord Shoeburn, this time we must make the people of the Ten Thousand Snakes Palace feel the same despair as we felt that day."
"Kill Pans City."
"We can capture their temples and capture their cities."
The expression of the Divine Attendant Apprentice became extremely fanatical, and he said loudly.
"Pass the faith of the God of Truth and Knowledge to this land."
"Let everyone believe in Him and let everyone know that there is a god in this world who truly protects and bestows blessings on mortals."
"Let it be known that He is better than..."
Shoeborn suddenly stopped and looked at the disciple of the Divine Attendant with complicated eyes.
"You are... resenting the gods."
"Have you resented the Mother of Life?"
The disciple of the Divine Attendant did not speak, but he could feel it.
He hates God.
He could never forget that night, when he was helpless and trembling as he watched the disciples who grew up with him and his friends being killed one by one.
They have been taught from an early age that the Mother of Life will protect them and that they are the beloved children of the Mother of Life.
But at that time, they realized that everything was just self-deception.
He raised his head and looked at Shoeburn.
"Lord Shoeburn."
“Do you resent God?”
If it were before, Shoeburn would not know how to answer this question.
But recently, with each victory, I have taken control of my own destiny.
He has a new idea.
"I've been thinking about it for a long time recently, and I want to..."
"I understand somewhat."
"It's not that we understand the existence of gods, but that we understand ourselves."
Shoeburn: "We always think that He is like our mother, who will take care of us and protect us."
"And so we believe in Him, and therefore we believe that He is the most merciful man in the world."
Shoeborn shook his head, with a hint of helplessness.
"But, He really left."
"Maybe it's because of the betrayal of the Mother of Snakes, or maybe it's because this world is not worthy of His care."
Shoeborn put his hand on the shoulder of the divine disciple and told him seriously.
"The mistake is that we place everything on the gods."
"Because we are weak, we place everything on the gods."
"Because we are weak, we long for God's help."
"Because we are weak, when we encounter disaster, we complain that God did not help us."
"Because there is nothing we can do except for the hand of God."
"We don't have to hate the gods."
"What we really resent is actually our own weakness and powerlessness."
Shoeborn looked at the disciple of the Divine Attendant: "Become stronger."
"Become... stop praying for mercy from the gods."
"Perhaps at that time, the faith born in our hearts is the real faith."
"Our choice is the truly bright choice."
Shoeborn's expression became a little sad, and he forced a smile.
"Weak people are not qualified to choose faith."
"I am not qualified to choose the right and bright path."
After saying that, Shoeburn set off,
He stepped into the sky, disappeared from the world, and appeared in front of the door of truth.
The apprentice of the Divine Attendant quietly raised his head and looked at the sky, thinking about what Xiuben had just said.
Shoeborn means that faith should not be mixed with any external factors.
We believe in gods, but we still need our own power to save ourselves.
Powerless people and nations.
In the end, even deciding one's own beliefs and deciding one's future path became a luxury.
But when it fell into the ears of the apprentice of the Divine Attendant, it became.
"Become strong enough."
"Lord Shoeburn is saying."
"Aren't gods and beliefs important?"
The disciple of the Divine Attendant raised his head and murmured——
Under the mountain of the origin of life.
The Shepherd's River surrounding Pans City is the largest river in the Shepherd Plain. You can see groups of tooth beasts and other animals gnawing ferns along the river. Some tooth beasts and animals will also rush into shallow water.
, take a bath in the water.
This river is nearly a thousand meters wide, and the rolling water flows down from a distance, passing under the mountain of the origin of life, like a belt wrapped around it.
This is because the herders and tribes in the Pastoral Plains all depend on this river for survival and migrate along the main veins and tributaries of this river.
Therefore, this river is also called the River of Shepherds.
now.
Whirlpools suddenly rolled up in the Shepherd's River, and dozens of boats, large and small, suddenly emerged from the water and suddenly appeared outside Pans City.
The shepherds grazing on the plains were all shocked, wondering how there could be so many things in the Shepherd's River that was empty just now.
Some shepherds by the river were frightened by the sudden giant objects floating in the water and fell to the ground, then got up and ran away.
The leader of the fleet is Shoeburn's ghost ship.
On the other ships behind him, one ghost after another was attached to the sails of these ships.
The divine brand of water formed a small bubble that just covered the people on the deck.
As the boat surfaced, the small bubble dissipated immediately.
Shoeborn's ghost ship then guided the fleet forward, heading towards Pans City under the Mountain of Origin of Life.
As the fleet rides the waves, it gets closer and closer to Pens City.
People in the city also noticed something was wrong.
The soldiers at the top of the city and at the city gate were the first to see the huge shadow coming from the river in the distance and screamed in surprise.
"what is that?"
"Boat."
"There's a boat outside."
People's first reaction was to be stunned, not understanding how these big ships could appear here.
"What ship? That's the enemy. Hurry up and close the city gate." But someone soon reacted, shouting for people outside the city to enter the city immediately, and began to close the city gate.
"It's the ship of the Ewels." As the ship approached, someone recognized the sign on the sail.
"Enemy attack, enemy attack."
"Dong dong dong."
As soon as the bell on the city wall rang, the atmosphere in the entire city of Pans became completely different.
Everyone in the city looked back in the direction where the bell was ringing.
Immediately afterwards, news of the Aiweier attack spread into the city.
At this time, Pens City was unprecedentedly empty.
Shoeborn brought the entire fleet and nearly ten thousand people here, bringing an unimaginable sense of oppression to the King's Court of Ten Thousand Snakes.
The ghost ship went up the river, rolling up the water and rushing into the channel up to 100 meters wide.
The ship didn't stop at all and directly broke through the city wall and sluice gate, and rushed into the city along the canal.
At this time, the entire city of Pans was completely without any defense.
The people in the Ten Thousand Snake King's Courtyard in the city looked at the terrifying ghost ship and the fleet that rolled up the water.
His defenses were also completely torn apart.
"The Ewell people are coming."
"They stormed into the city."
The whole city of Pans was in chaos.
There were people closing the city gate just now, but now someone opened the city gate and fled out of the city.
Some people also began to organize a counterattack, hoping to drive the opponent back.
However, there were not many guards in the city, and they were immediately defeated by nearly 10,000 elites who had been prepared and hundreds of ghosts summoned by Shoeborn.
Those Aiweier soldiers rushed down from the ship like ferocious wolves and tigers; the ghosts roared and rushed down from the heights, taking away the lives of one guard after another.
The guards in the city couldn't resist at all, leaving only corpses on the ground.
Only street fighting broke out everywhere.
In such a street fight, the young King Alpanz failed to turn the tide of the battle and had to escape alone.
How could these ordinary soldiers in the city change the situation?
In the end, they had no choice but to turn around and run away. Some fled towards the outside of the city, while others hid in various corners and shivered.
Shoeborn gave the order, and the soldiers rushed down to various important facilities in the city as planned, seizing control of every street and key entrance.
They broke into the palace and kidnapped the nobles and royal family members in the palace.
They kidnapped the craftsmen in the workshops one after another and released the slaves in the workshops. These slaves turned around and plundered with the Aiweier people.
Everything changes in the blink of an eye.
Just now, the people in Pance City felt that the war was thousands of miles away, but in a moment, it had already fallen on them.
Temple of the Ten Thousand Snakes.
A girl who served as a divine servant ran back from outside, climbed into the hall of the Ten Thousand Snakes Temple, and shouted loudly.
"It's over, it's over."
"The Aiweier people are coming."
Everyone in the hall stood up in fear, because most of the people left behind were people with little fighting ability.
Either she is a young girl who has not yet learned the basic magic skills, or she is very old.
"They are already coming this way. They kill everyone they see. They will kill us too."
"The leader is not here, what should we do?"
"Hurry up and run away with the saint!"
"Her Royal Highness the Saint can fly, let her leave quickly!"
"Where is Her Majesty the Saint?"
Her Royal Highness the Saint had already heard what they said in the corner, and she was also a little scared.
She heard the soldiers burning, killing and looting outside, and heard the horror and misery described by the disciples of the Divine Attendant.
When she raised her head, she could still see the thick smoke from the fire in the distance, and could even faintly hear shouts of death and screams and wails.
She also heard the sound of banging on the door, which was the gate of the Temple Urn City.
She took her calves and ran to the statue of the Mother of Life.
This is a statue of a god made of gold.
For the first time, she knelt on the ground and spoke to the god with a pious and serious expression.
"If you are really the supreme god."
"If you were the Creator."
"Please answer me!"
"Save us, save this city!"
Her Royal Highness the Saint spoke loudly. For the first time, she was so eager for the gods to appear——
A group of soldiers came towards the Temple of Ten Thousand Snakes, and they saw this building that looked like a city within a city from a distance.
Just by looking from a distance, you can feel its prosperity and richness.
The divine attendants inside closed the gate, drew their bows and arrows on the city wall, and made a show of defending.
But these soldiers set fire to the city gate and beat the gate with wood.
Seeing that the gate of the Wengcheng of the Ten Thousand Snakes Temple was crumbling and about to be broken open.
Shoeborn suddenly appeared here and said to these soldiers.
"This is the palace of the gods, what are you doing?"
"Did I let you move here?"
"Leave quickly."
"There are several pottery and iron smelting workshops over there. We must capture all those craftsmen and bring them back."
Wherever the soldiers dared to disobey Shoeburn's orders, they obeyed immediately.
Shoeborn's plan was just to kidnap the nobles and royal family members of the Ten Thousand Snakes' Court, along with craftsmen, scholars, books, treasures and other things.
He had no intention of forming a deadly feud with the leader of the Temple Knights.
In his opinion, the other party is a believer in the Lord of Life.
As long as the Holy Lady and the Temple of Ten Thousand Snakes are there, that's fine.
Whether the Ten Thousand Snakes King's Court is present or not is actually not important to such a powerful person who is almost beyond the ordinary world.
Without the royal family and nobles, the King's Court of Ten Thousand Snakes will also be gone.
Naturally, this person has no reason to fight or be hostile to the Aiweier people.
But if they touch the Temple of Ten Thousand Snakes, the situation will be completely different.
Shoeburn stood alone in front of the Temple of the Ten Thousand Snakes, looking at this magnificent temple that far exceeded the city of Ewell.
Looking up, you can see the sacred torch through the tall city wall.
Looking further back, we can see the mountain of the origin of life that penetrates the sky and sea of clouds.
This can be said to be the place closest to the master of life.
The Lord God once was here and left His footprints.
He created the Snake People here, and the Snake People began their civilization here.
"The place where life originated."
Shoeborn himself didn't know why, but he walked towards it by accident.
He is obviously no longer a godly servant of the Lord of Life. He has long since given up his faith and turned to worship another god.
But I still couldn't help but want to go in and take a look.
His body became insubstantial, and the gate could not stop him at all.
Shoeborn's sudden appearance, a transparent form like a ghost, frightened the people on guard behind the door.
The sharp arrow pierced through Shoeburn's body, but it seemed as if it had hit the air.
It has no effect at all.
Shoeburn climbed up step by step, while the people in the Temple of Ten Thousand Snakes kept retreating until they reached the main hall.
at this time.
A childish voice came from high up, and it clearly felt like it was spoken by a child, but Shoeborn felt in his heart that the voice had an indescribable majesty.
"Are you the bad guy?"
"That murderous Shoeburn."
In front of the temple, a little girl looked at him angrily, clenching her little fists tightly.
It seemed like he was about to come up and beat him.
The divine attendant on the side firmly stopped the little girl, fearing that Xiubeng, the murderous man who killed the king of snakes and defeated an army of 100,000, would hurt her.
They knew that the person in front of them was a third-level powerful person.
In the eyes of ordinary people, this is already the peak power of a mortal.
In the absence of the leader of the Temple Knights, no one in the Temple of Ten Thousand Snakes can deal with this vicious man.
"Am I a bad person?"
"No one is qualified to say such things, you all snakes..."
Shoeborn thought it was funny, and only a child could say such a thing.
As he spoke, he raised his head.
Then he saw the saint.
His original expression of shaking his head and smiling bitterly turned dull for an instant.
If we say that Snake people have beautified and modified their offerings and statues to the Lord of Life, they look older, more majestic and more like gods.
Then the records of the Trileaf Sky Temple are almost close to reality.
The face of the girl in front of her is almost exactly the same as the one on the left side of the throne in the Sky Temple.
Shoeborn was so frightened that he was instantly out of his body.
His expression was horrified, and his body went from virtual to solid.
Then.
He fell from the top with a somersault.
"Mother of Life?"
"God?"
"How is this possible? How is this possible?"
It could be seen that Shoeborn was completely paralyzed by fear. He, a powerful third-level man, lay on the ground for a long time without being able to get up again.
He lay on the ground under the steps and kept retreating, pointing at the little girl in front of the temple and letting out a sharp scream that seemed to come from the depths of his soul.
"No!"
"No!"
"Who are you?"
"who are you?"
Shoeborn never thought that he was just missing his past, the days when he was the chief divine attendant in the temple of the Mother of Life.
He just wanted to come in and see what the temple under the mountain of the origin of life looked like.