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Regarding the war outside the city, the people in the royal capital were divided into two groups.
The more devout believers prayed from the bottom of their hearts that the messengers of the great Lord would be able to drive out evil and allow the Kingdom of Hadratha to return to the Lord's embrace. The rest of the people fell into panic and confusion.
At the same time, in a courtyard of the royal palace, Lin En and others who were discussing the counterattack plan also received an urgent report from their servants - the punitive army of the Holy See outside the city suddenly launched a large-scale attack. Judging from the posture, all the elite troops, even the priests have been dispatched. Sanchez, who was stationed there, urgently asked them to send more manpower to support, otherwise the city gate would most likely fall.
"They came so quickly. It seems they are getting impatient before we even take any action!" Raphael said with a sneer.
"But it's only been five days. Since Edelweir dared to take action, he must have something to rely on!" Adela frowned and guessed with a worried look.
The previous punitive army suffered a crushing defeat and retreated, leaving behind more than 20,000 corpses. He thought that the enemy would need at least ten days or half a month to rest before launching the second wave of offensive, but he didn't expect it to come so quickly.
"I received news earlier that a support army of about 40,000 people has arrived at the capital and joined the expeditionary army. I think they are planning to launch a general offensive under the cover of night," Lin En murmured.
"In this way, the advantages of our new weapons are weakened..." Everyone present immediately realized the problem.
The range and power of muskets and artillery have always been their basis for easily defeating the imperial army and inflicting an excess casualty ratio. Now that their field of vision is restricted, the musketeers and artillerymen cannot effectively attack the enemy at a long distance.
Once hand-to-hand combat broke out, these temporary signs would show that the musketeers, who had only undergone a few months of training, would have no chance of being a match for the elite troops of the Holy See, and there was even the possibility of them being directly defeated.
Thinking of this, Raphael spoke anxiously. "That means the number of enemies outside the city may exceed 100,000. We must send reinforcements to Sanchez and his men immediately!"
Since Sanchez took the initiative to ask for support, it means that the situation is extremely urgent, and the contingency plans they made are far from enough to deal with the powerful offensive of the Vatican's expeditionary force.
Lynn nodded, looked around the conference hall, and then asked five great wizards including Anthony and Adela to lead two hundred official wizards to go to the city gate for support immediately.
In addition, another 5,000 musketeers and 10,000 guardsmen will be dispatched...
"Isn't this a little too little? I remember there are at least 7,000 musketeers in the royal capital." Adela asked in confusion.
They trained about 30,000 musketeers, of which 18,000 were responsible for defending the city. They were rotated three times a day to ensure that their combat effectiveness could be fully deployed on the battlefield when necessary.
The remaining 5,000 people serve as reserve forces, ready to provide support at any time. These are the personnel that Lin En is now dispatching.
In addition, there are 7,000 people scattered throughout the royal capital, 4,000 people guarding granaries, ammunition depots and various key nodes, and there are still 3,000 people who can be mobilized... or even more extremely, those defensive personnel can also be sent to the battlefield.
The number of enemies may be beyond imagination. Now any strength is very important, and these people can be fully utilized.
"No, we can't mobilize the troops guarding the capital anymore. They need to maintain the stability of the city!" Lin En said firmly. "Also notify Alex and the others to launch the airship to eliminate those arsonist griffin knights and then support the battle on the front line. That should be enough!"
Compared to Raphael and others who were experiencing such a large-scale war for the first time, Lin En remained extremely calm in the face of such a crisis.
Although the Vatican's punitive army was coming with great force, he knew that it would not be easy to capture the royal city from the front!
The wall of the royal capital is eighteen meters high and has been reinforced by magic. There are also hundreds of wizards to assist in the defense. Even if Edwill puts in more strength, he will inevitably suffer a bloody head.
On the contrary, it is necessary to reserve some fresh troops inside the royal capital no matter what. Otherwise, once chaos breaks out internally, it will easily cause a chain reaction, leading to a total defeat!
"Okay, since you insist." Adela shook her head and said nothing more. She immediately stood up with Anthony and others, and summoned a group of wizards to rush for support, not daring to delay for a moment.
Raphael, who stayed behind, was a little worried about whether air combat in the dark would affect the performance of the airship. Although laser transmitters were installed on each airship, how to aim was a problem.
"It doesn't matter. Day and night are the same for them!" Lin En said, but he didn't intend to explain in detail. He then called Alok and asked him to turn on the power equipment in the Alchemy Research Institute.
Of course he had considered the possibility of a night battle, so during the two months since they captured the capital, they had not been idle. In fact, he had ordered people to create a power circulation system covering the entire city, and installed the crude electric lights developed a few months ago in various places on the streets of the capital.
However, since the reserved electricity is not sufficient and it has to be supplied to power-intensive devices such as electromagnetic guns, it has never been turned on. Now that Edelweir is planning to launch a decisive battle, there is no need to save electricity anymore!
Lin En was thinking carefully about whether there was anything he had missed, and suddenly he remembered something. "By the way, where are the speakers? It's been a few days, and they haven't arrived yet?"
He remembered that before leaving the wizard land, Harof had promised him that they would rush to Hadhrat after they finished dealing with the affairs of the council.
After all, after the Holy See learned that the fall of the kingdom was related to the land of wizards, it is very likely to dispatch legendary forces. Unless these great wizards attack together, it will be difficult to compete with them.
"I heard that two Speakers have left the Wizarding Land, but I don't know why they haven't arrived yet!" Raphael said hesitantly.
Were you delayed? Or was there something else that delayed you?
Lin En thought to himself, could it be that the Holy See sent another army to attack the wizard's land at the same time?
Even so, they should have received some news...
But since Harov and others haven't arrived yet, they can only rely on themselves tonight!
Chapter 356 Glenn: Let them see the speed of light!
In the royal capital, the chaotic situation was spreading rapidly. The griffin knights that descended from the sky had no intention of setting fire this time. Instead, they swooped down directly with the cover of night and the advantage of vision, attacking the guards below with their claws or divine arts, and then flew freely into the sky before the counterattack came.
"Aim, everyone! Shoot down those damn griffins!" The non-commissioned officer leading a team of musketeers was furious. He could only passively command the musketeers to aim at the sky and fire continuously.
However, they could only use the little light from the crescent moon to barely see the terrifying beasts that suddenly fell from the sky. After a round of shooting, not even a griffin feather was knocked off.
Just as the musketeers began to reload ammunition, a sharp dagger emerged from the darkness and instantly cut the sergeant's throat.
Afterwards, the elite dark guards took advantage of the chaos created by the griffin knights in the city and quickly eliminated the guards stationed in this area, but soon they started a street fight with the reinforcements that came over. The two sides fought each other, and screams, roars, and wails echoed in the dark night.
With the harassment of the Griffin Knights and the cover of night, the dark guards had almost an absolute upper hand. The musketeers could only kill a few enemies with the first round of concentrated fire, and then they could only wave their bayonets in a bloody battle with the dark guards who rushed up.
Corpses fell on the street one after another, and bright red blood slowly flowed down the blade, soon dyeing the ground red.
The citizens of the royal capital could only huddle in their houses, praying that the battle would not affect them.
Haydn was one of them.
However, unlike most believers who devoutly hope that God's messengers can defeat "evil", Haydn does not want to return to his past life.
This is because since those wizards occupied the royal capital, they have set up many new things called workshops, recruited a large number of workers, and are willing to provide extremely generous treatment.
At first everyone speculated that these so-called workshops must be a lie of the devil, a complete scam, but Haydn, who had nothing, didn't care. He only knew that the kings had blocked the capital and would not allow them to go out hunting, and they would starve to death without food!
So Haydn entered the workshop with the mentality that he would die anyway. The result was different from what they all expected. It was not a place for wizards to experiment with evil magic. Their job was to burn and process various ores. In addition to providing lunch, the workshop also paid them 6 kingdom silver coins every month...
When Haydn actually got the money, he was confused. In just two months, he had completely bid farewell to the hard days of having no food to eat in the past, and he began to doubt what the pastors said.
Are those witches really the devil’s minions, spreaders of plague and the embodiment of fear?
You must know that after capturing the royal capital, these people did not rush into their own houses to steal their property, nor did they massacre the believers of God.
In the battle five days ago, the messenger of God flying in the sky set fire to their houses and even burned to death several believers who came out to kneel and worship in joy. On the contrary, the "minions of the devil" were willing to help them repair the house after the disaster.
Thinking of this, Haydn began to pray to an unknown being that the wizards could win this battle.
Perhaps his prayers worked, or perhaps it was due to other factors, the dim outside of the house suddenly lit up, and it was getting brighter and brighter. It was not the red and scorching light of a fire, but a soft white light, as if night had turned into day in an instant...
The changes in the outside world were even more obvious. A soft white light first appeared in one area, and then spread to the entire capital as the electricity was transmitted...
Those secret guards who had been hiding in the darkness and shadows and relying on sneak attacks to quickly deal with various areas were forced to stand in the light under the light brought by electricity...
The musketeers, who had been completely suppressed, immediately cheered and began a real counterattack. They were not afraid of fighting with the enemy.
"What kind of magic is this?" Wade, who was leading the Griffin Knights in the sky, noticed the abnormality on the ground at the first time.
The entire capital seemed to light up and turned into a huge luminous body. What kind of magic could cover such a huge area?
Could it be that the legendary wizard took action?
Wade's expression became a little solemn, but fortunately he soon realized that these lights were emitted from the round bubbles hanging on the streets. They should be some kind of strange witchcraft props. As long as they were destroyed, the magic would naturally stop!
Realizing this, Wade immediately prepared to call on the Griffin Knights to disperse and use divine magic to destroy these light sources. However, before they could make any move, they saw huge monsters appearing in the sky above the royal capital. They looked extremely majestic under the moonlight and were galloping towards them.
"Haha, I didn't expect these cowards to have the courage to come out!" Wade laughed and stopped his previous actions, instead leading the Griffin Knights to meet the airship.
It is obviously more important to resolve these threats in the sky. In short, these strange and huge alchemical creations must not be allowed to reach the front battlefield!
In comparison, the trouble on the ground was nothing. The role of these secret guards was just to assist and create chaos. When the Divine Punishment Knights led by Lord Edelweir arrived, all the rebels would be nothing more than a bunch of chickens and dogs...
"Everyone, keep a distance of fifty meters. No close combat allowed. Use divine attacks!" Wade raised the war hammer in his hand and shouted loudly.
This was the optimal distance he had arrived at based on the lesson from the last time. Fifty meters was neither too far nor too close. They could use divine magic to attack the airship, control the griffins under them to avoid the opponent's aim, and prevent the enemy from adopting a strategy of mutual destruction.
This time is his time for revenge!
At this moment, inside the airship, the captain, Alexander, was looking at the approaching Griffin Knights with great nervousness. A few days ago, he witnessed with his own eyes a friendly ship being destroyed in front of him, so he was naturally well aware of the threat posed by these Griffin Knights.
"Lord Glenn, aren't we taking action now?" Alex looked at the wizard beside him and asked anxiously.
"Don't worry! Let them get closer. According to Dean Linn's intention, we must completely destroy these Griffin Knights this time!" Glenn shook his head and told Alex to be patient. Then, as if he had thought of something, he asked with a smile. "By the way, have you ever seen the speed of light?"
Chapter 357: This is the power of laser magic, the destruction of the Griffin Knights!
The speed of light?
Alex shook his head blankly, he only knew that daylight was everywhere and could illuminate every corner of the world. Couldn't this thing reach there instantly and have speed?
"The speed of light is 299,500 kilometers per second, which is enough to circle the continent eight times!" Glenn explained while casting his gaze towards the griffin riders galloping in the distance.
Flying at high speed and under the cover of night, we could only see figures looming in the darkness, making it difficult to aim...
But Glenn was not worried, and quickly activated the third-ring magic - [Heat Perception]!
The whole world changed in Glenn's eyes in an instant. The surroundings were still dark, but the flying griffin knights were extremely eye-catching and turned into red dots of light.
This heat-sensing technique is the latest achievement of their research on light. It allows the caster to see something named infrared by the magic star...
The identities of hunter and prey changed at this moment. Glenn raised his hands, and a scorching ball of light immediately appeared around him. Then a circular reflective layer appeared around the ball of light, blocking all the light...
At this moment, the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer. The leading Wade could even clearly see the uniformed figures on the airship, and also sensed the fluctuations of magic power.
"Is it a wizard?" Wade thought to himself, but he didn't show any fear.
Their agility in the air is not comparable to that of the devil's followers. Although the opponent's magic is powerful, as long as they can't hit them, they will be living targets!
A sneer appeared on the corner of Wade's mouth, but the next moment a warning suddenly appeared in his heart. Then a powerful beam of light as thick as his index finger shot out from the airship not far in front of him. It was much faster than his reaction limit, and it instantly penetrated the divine protection that he had set up before, drawing a gorgeous arc in the air...
What a fast light… This thought flashed through Wade’s mind before his entire body was cut in two, along with the severed head of the griffin…
The same scene was played out in various places in the sky above the royal capital. One hundred and fifty airships were intentionally arranged into a semi-circular array, and then a massacre ensued!
Strong beams of light lit up on each airship. Before the Griffin Knights could sense the danger, the dense beams of light had already reached them...
The attack came so fast that in a flash, hundreds of griffin knights had their bodies chopped off and fell from the sky with looks of confusion or joy on their faces.
It was not until their companions were attacked that the remaining griffin knights reacted, but they were thrown into disarray for a moment.
Some griffin riders witnessed their companions, who were fine just now, being beheaded after the lasers passed by. They were so scared that they wanted to flee in all directions, but the beams soon swept towards them.
After accumulating strength, the effective killing range of the laser magic is about 120 meters. Ali and others at the center of the circle are like holding a 100-meter-long sword in their hands, which is weightless.
According to the arc length calculation formula, the laser only needs to be moved one degree to sweep across a large area. Not to mention that there is more than one airship in the sky. One hundred and fifty laser beams interweave with each other to form a beam grid covering the entire area...
The previously mighty overlord of the sky was now completely like a bird in a net, with nowhere to escape. Screams and roars came one after another. Under the baptism of the light beam grid, the entire area turned into a Shura field. Countless griffin knights were chopped into pieces, and blood spilled all over the sky.